Renzo Biasion was born in Treviso in 1914, he moved to Venice, where he graduated from the local art school and taught drawing in secondary schools. In 1940, when Italy entered World War II, he fought on the Greek-Albanian front as a second lieutenant in the infantry and began writing a war diary that would then be lost. After the Greek campaign, he was transferred, with the German troops, to Crete. With the announcement of the armistice of 8 September 1943 and the disbanding of the Italian army, he was taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to concentration camps first in the Netherlands, then in Poland and Germany. During his imprisonment, he made drawings of the lager and portraits from the life of Italian and German soldiers, he also began writing a prison diary. In 1944, he managed to escape and returned to Italy. After the war, Biasion resumed teaching and exhibited some works in a Venetian art gallery, arousing the appreciation of the poet and essayist Sergio Solmi. The tragic experiences of war and imprisonment are transfused in writings, drawings, paintings and engravings. He also began composing a series of stories, equally inspired by the memories of war, which would give life to Sagapò, a novel that Elio Vittorini had printed in Einaudi's I Gettoni collection in 1953. And it is in Sagapò (in Greek I love you), his most famous literary work, that the Mediterranean film inspired to, directed in 1991 by Gabriele Salvatores, winner of the Oscar for the best foreign-language film in 1992. There are numerous collaborations as an art and literary critic in periodicals such as Il Verri, Le Vie d'Italia, newspapers: Gazzetta del Popolo, Il Resto del Carlino, Corriere d'Informazione. In the weekly paper Oggi, he edited an art column for 35 years. Renzo Biasion and the etching: Renzo Biasion's etchings have been made since the 1960s and the dominant features of all his art are visible in them. With a sober language, he represents interiors and landscapes immersed in the silence that is stillness is not solitude.
The Palace - Etching by Renzo Biasion - Mid-20th century
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
The Palace is a beautiful black and white etching on paper, realized at the middle of the 20th century by the Italian artist Renzo Biasion (Treviso, 1914 - Florence, 1996). Hand-si...
Etching
Landscape - Original Etching by Renzo Biasion - 1960s
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 10.2 x 10.8 cm. Landscape is a black and white etching on paper, realized after 1960 by the Italian artist Renzo Biasion (Treviso, 1914 - Florence, 1996). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right margin and monogrammed on the reverse and on plate (lower-right corner) This original print represents a natural landscape with a little and peaceful town in the distance (maybe it is Urbino) with a sober language and a delicate sign. With an excellent inking on a straw-yellow background, this contemporary artwork is in excellent conditions, including a cream-colored passepartout, cm 39.8 x 30.2 Renzo Biasion (Treviso, 1914 - Florence, 1996) Born in Treviso in 1914, he moved to Venice where he graduated from the local art school and taught drawing in secondary schools. In 1940, when Italy entered World War II, he fought on the Greek-Albanian front as a second lieutenant in the infantry and began writing a war diary that would then be lost. After the Greek campaign, he was transferred, with the German troops, to Crete. With the announcement of the armistice of 8 September 1943 and the disbanding of the Italian army, he was taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to concentration camps first in the Netherlands, then in Poland and Germany. During his imprisonment, he made drawings of the lager and portraits from life of Italian and German soldiers, he also began writing a prison diary. In 1944, he managed to escape and returned to Italy. After the war, Biasion resumed teaching and exhibited some works in a Venetian art gallery, arousing the appreciation of the poet and essayist Sergio Solmi. The tragic experiences of war and imprisonment are transfused in writings, drawings, paintings and engravings. He also began composing a series of stories, equally inspired by the memories of war, which would give life to Sagapò, a novel that Elio Vittorini had printed in Einaudi's I Gettoni collection in 1953. And it is in Sagapò (in Greek I love you), his most famous literary work, that the Mediterranean film inspired to, directed in 1991 by Gabriele Salvatores, winner of the Oscar for best foreign language film in 1992. There are numerous collaborations as an art and literary critic in periodicals such as Il Verri, Le Vie d'Italia, newspapers: Gazzetta del popolo, Il Resto del Carlino, Corriere d'Informazione. On the weekly paper Oggi, he edited an art column for thirty-five years. Renzo Biasion and the etching: Renzo Biasion's etchings have been made since the 1960s and the dominant features of all his art are visible in them. With a sober language, he represents interiors and landscapes immersed in the silence that is stillness is not solitude. The artist himself writes about the magic art...
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Flowers - Original Etching by Renzo Biasion - 1970 ca.
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
Flowers is an original etching on paper by Renzo Biasion. Signed. Numbered, Edition 32/100. Passpartout: 34 x 49 The artwork represents Flowers in a well-balanced composition wit...
Etching
Questo Silenzio (This Silence) - Etching by Renzo Biasion
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
Mariateresa Maschio, Renzo Biasion, Questo silenzio, Bologna, Editart. Original etching, hand signed and numbered. Very touching poem by Mariateresa Maschio , with an original etchi...
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Landscape - Original Etching by Renzo Biasion - Mid 20th Century
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 17.7 x 14.6 cm. Landscape is a beautiful black and white etching on paper, realized at the middle of the XX century by the Italian artist Renzo Biasion (Treviso, 1914 - Florence, 1996). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right margin. This artist proof represents a natural landscape with some houses in the distance and a railway running along a pathway with a strong and sure sign and an excellent inking. In very good conditions. Renzo Biasion (Treviso, 1914 - Florence, 1996) Born in Treviso in 1914, he moved to Venice where he graduated from the local art school and taught drawing in secondary schools. In 1940, when Italy entered World War II, he fought on the Greek-Albanian front as a second-lieutenant in the infantry and began writing a war diary...
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Dachau - Etching by Renzo Biasion
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
Mariateresa Maschio, Renzo Biasion, Dachau, Bologna, Editart, cm 50.5 x 35, in Italian Very touching poem by Mariateresa Maschio concerning the theme of holocaust, with an original...
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Nel Cavo delle Mani - Etching by Renzo Biasion
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
Mariateresa Maschio, Renzo Biasion, Dachau, Bologna, Editart, cm 50.5 x 35. Original etching hand signed and numbered. Very touching poem by Mariateresa Maschio concerning the them...
Etching
The Artist's Studio - Original Etching by Renzo Biasion - 1960s
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 6.5 x 24.2 cm. Artist's Studio is a beautiful black and white etching on paper, realized at the middle of the XX century by the Italian artist Renzo Biasion (Treviso, 1914 - Florence, 1996). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right margin. Numbered in pencil on lower left margin. From an edition of 100 prints. This original print is really interesting and represents an important place for the artist: his atelier at the same time in order and on the mess, with all the tools of the trade: it is a little step in the every day life of the artist. With a superb hatching and a full mastery of the technique, vibrant blacks and a balanced composition, this is a little dimension but precious contemporary artwork absolutely to collect jealously! In excellent conditions. Renzo Biasion (Treviso, 1914 - Florence, 1996) Born in Treviso in 1914, he moved to Venice where he graduated from the local art school and taught drawing in secondary schools. In 1940, when Italy entered World War II, he fought on the Greek-Albanian front as a second-lieutenant in the infantry and began writing a war diary...
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A Day on the Hill - Etching by Renzo Biasion - 1966
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.4 x 34.7 cm. Una giornata in collina is a beautiful black and white etching on paper, realized in 1966 by the Italian artist, Renzo Biasion. Titled on plate on higher margin at the center, dated and signed on plate on higher right margin with autograph notes in Italian etched on plate. Numbered in Arabic numerals and in pencil on lower left margin. From an edition of 100 prints. Hand-signed in pencil on lower right margin. Representing some big poppy and the fauna of the hill and etching with full mastery of the technique, this original print, in excellent conditions, is a very nice piece to collect at home or to present! Renzo Biasion (Treviso, 1914 - Florence, 1996) Born in Treviso in 1914, he moved to Venice where he graduated from the local art school and taught drawing in secondary schools. In 1940, when Italy entered World War II, he fought on the Greek-Albanian front as a second-lieutenant in the infantry and began writing a war diary...
Etching
$795
H 12 in W 9 in D 0.01 in
Alex Katz - "Plate 23" From GLORIA Portfolio (Original Etching, 2005) Ed 100
By Alex Katz
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This print is priced fairly, offered at the same wholesale discount extended to our partner galleries and private dealers. We strongly encourage prospective buyers to compare our lis...
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Arch Beach, California
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Arch Beach, California" c.1910 is an original etching on Wove paper by American artist Harley DeWitt Nichols, 1859-1939. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 6.5 x 9.5 inches, framed size is 13 x 17 inches. it is custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with off white matting. It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age. About the artist: Born in the small rural Wisconsin town of Barton, Harley lived a peripatetic life. As a young child, he accompanied his family to Lincoln, Nebraska where he found great excitement in the roaming herds of buffalo and Native Americans. It was in these years that a talent for drawing was discovered. In 1870, after several years of hardship, his father moved the family back to Wisconsin. At the age of 11 he became a water boy...
Etching
$4,050
H 27.25 in W 31.25 in
20th century drypoint etching figurative animal print horses sketch signed
By Claude Weisbuch
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Combat Equestre" is an original lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. The artist signed the piece lower right and wrote the edition number (24/100) in the lower left. This piece depicts mu...
Drypoint, 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
$6,000
H 8.8 in W 12.8 in
Pablo Picasso, "Untitled" from 23 novembre 1966 II, etching
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
An original etching created by Pablo Picasso in 1966 . It is stamp signed and numbered from the edition of 50. This piece measures 8.8 x 12.8 inches and the framed dimensions are 1...
Etching
$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
Untitled Aquatint (THE GUITAR PLAYER ED.3 OF 3 A.P) Bernard Stern
By Bernard Stern
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Other Subject: Portrait Medium: Aquatint Eching Print Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions w/Frame: 30" x 22" The artist Bernard Stern illustrates the figure of a...
Etching, Aquatint
$17,000
H 8.94 in W 11.82 in
'Soaring New York' — 1930s American Modernism, New York City
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Soaring New York', aquatint, soft-ground etching, roulette, 1931-32, edition 25, Duffy 165. Signed, dated, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmosp...
Etching, Aquatint
$4,350
H 18.375 in W 21.25 in
20th century etching figurative landscape city street black and white signed
By Edgar Chahine
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Venise" is an original etching and chine colle by Edgar Chahine. This is an artist's proof, the third state of the etching, and the artist signed the piece in pencil lower right. Th...
Etching
$1,400
H 13 in W 10 in D 0.1 in
Chas Laborde - Paris - Capucine's Boulevard - Original Etching
By Chas (Charles) Laborde
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Chas Laborde - Paris - Capucine's Boulevard - Original Etching Dimensions : 13 x 10". Paper : Rives vellum. Edition : 225 copies. 1927 From Tableaux de Paris, Emile-Paul Freres, Paris Chas LABORDE Charles Laborde was born in Buenos Aires on August 8, 1886. He was the youngest of the five sons of Adolphe-Sylvestre Laborde-Pinou, a Basque-Bearne millionaire who had made a fortune selling spirits to the Indians and luxury goods imported from France to wealthy Argentines. The family returned to France when Charles was six months old. His mother died when he was two. He spent his childhood at their family château d’Escout outside Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the Pyrenees. His brothers went to a boarding-school, his father was often in Paris on business, and little Charles was left to his devices. Though it was a lonely childhood, he was a darling of his generous and magnanimous father. Charles got his early drawing skills from a village artist and found support in his brother Jean-Felix. Charles frequently accompanied his father visiting artisans and helped him choose de luxe objects to be sold in Argentine. He first attended the Rollin college in Paris, then a lyceum in Pau, where he lived with full board and lodging after his father’s death in 1901. From childhood Charles wanted to be an artist and tried several pseudonyms for himself: Ch. Laborde, Carlos Laborde,Carlos Edrobal and Carl Lab. He started wearing a velvet suit and a large hat. At 17, the timid shortsighted teenager wearing big glasses was expelled from college for smoking and drinking alcohol and went to Paris into the custody of his elder brother Jean-Felix, who carried on his father’s business. Charles enrolled in the prestigious l’Académie Julian, studying under Henri Royer and Marcel Baschet. Simultaneously he was a pupil of William Bouguereau and Luc-Olivier Merson at l’École des Beaux-Arts. The latter was famous for being the designer of the 50 and 100 franc banknotes, and he believed that he was teaching a “little Daumier”. In England, where he went every year from 1905 to 1914 with the family of his friend Cooper, a classmate at l’Académie Julian, he found not only his pseudonym Chas (short for Charley), but also the land of his dreams. Peculiarities of London and its inhabitants were reflected in drawings of William Hogarth and Thomas Rowlandson, whose album The Microcosm of London (1808) prompted Charles to make his London Streets Scenes (1928). Owing to those trips Charles took a liking to the atmosphere of England and its reserved and terse humor. In 1905 the château d’Escout and the Buenos Aires Commercial Fund were sold. After coming into inheritance, Laborde became financially independent and obtained an atelier in Montmartre at 11 bis Rue des Saules. His neighbors were de la Butte, Francis Carco and Pierre Mac Orlan, who sympathized with the easy-going young man with a positive attitude to life. His friend Pierre Falke...
Etching
untitled (horseman)
By Maximino Javier
Located in Palm Springs, CA
This whimsical and surreal etching by Mexican artist Maximino Javier, dated 1984, embodies his unique visual language that blends fantasy, folklore, and satire. Executed with intrica...
Etching
Portrait of James McBey.
By Walter Tittle
Located in Plano, TX
James McBey. 1931. Drypoint. 8 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 9 ). An extremely rich impression with drypoint burr, printed by the artist on cream wove paper. Signed in the plate lower ...
Drypoint, Etching
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H 13.78 in W 19.3 in D 0.04 in
Nude - Original Etching by Renzo Biasion - 1972
By Renzo Biasion
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original etching on paper realized in 1972 by Renzo Biasion. Hand-signed on the lower left in pencil. Numbered, edition of 58/100 prints. In very good conditions. The artwork represents a lying down nude through confident and strong strokes. Renzo Biasion and the etching: Renzo Biasion has made his etchings since the 1960s and the dominant features of all his art are visible in them. With a sober language, he represents interiors and landscapes immersed in silence that is stillness not solitude. The artist himself writes about the magic art...
Etching