McNaught Fine Art Abstract Prints

Signed lower right, "Maxon" for John Maxon (American, 20th century) and created circa 1995. Additionally titled, verso, 'White Flower'. Monotype with additional hand-painted detail. ...

Signed lower right, 'D. Hansen' for Diana Hansen (American, born 1942) and dated February, 1977; titled, lower left, 'Metamorfosi', with number and limita...

Signed in pencil, lower right, 'Jacques Villon' (French, 1875-1963) and with number and limitation, '19/150', lower left. Additionally signed in plate, lower left, 'Jacques Villon', ...

Signed, lower right, 'Estève' for Maurice Estève (French, 1904-2001) and inscribed, lower left 'E d'A' for Epreuve d'Artiste. Provenance: Collection of Ann and Norman Bikales, Pebble Beach, California. Maurice Estève was born May 2, 1904 in Culan in the Cher where he spent his childhood with his grandparents. In 1913, he joined them in Paris, where he discovered the Louvre Museum and was particularly impressed by Uccello's Battle of San Romano...

Initialed lower right, 'CRS' for Charles Ralph Strong (American, 1938-2013) and dated, lower left, '1989'. One of the youngest members of the San Franc...

Signed lower left, 'Roger Bezombes' (French, 1913-1994) and titled, 'Poisson bleu' with number and limitation, lower right, '25/150'. Roger Bezombes first attended the Ècole des Beaux-Arts (1934) and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including the Grand Prix de Rome...

Signed lower right, in pencil, 'Ross Wetzel' (American, 1917 - 2013), titled lower left, 'E Pluribus Unum' and with number and limitation, '118/300'. Paper dimensions: 14 x 21 inches. Born in Chicago, Ross Wetzel was an avid art student through high school, and then enrolled- with his future wife and fellow artist, Janice- at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He was soon working for Walt Disney Productions, taking lead production roles in the creation of such Disney classics as Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi. During the Second World War, he served with the Motion Picture Unit of the First Army Air Corp under Ronald Reagan, creating training films for fighter pilots and bombers and working beside actors including Alan Ladd and Clark Gable. After the War, Ross and Janice started a serigraphy business, which came to be known as Ross Wetzel Studios creating animated commercials and print advertisements for companies such as Kellogg's, Kleenex and Continental Airlines that featured such characters as Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam. Ross was also hired to illustrate one of the first renderings of Smokey the Bear...

Signed lower right, 'Hiroyuki Tajima' (Japanese, 1911-1984) and dated 1979 with limitation and number, '100-10', lower center and titled lower left, 'Section of Landscape'. Paper dimensions: 19.75 x 12.5 inches An elegant abstract comprising juxtaposed vertical, rectangular forms in variegated shades of turquoise blue and copper. Engraver and printmaker, Hiroyuki Tajima was born in Tokyo in 1911 and graduated from Nihon University in 1932. In 1934, he graduated from the Tokyo School of Arts with a specialization in western-style painting. Tajima later studied fabric dyeing under Hirokawa Matsugoro (1889-1952) and woodblock printing with the Sosaku-Hanga artist, Nagase Yoshiro (1891-1978), a founder of the Japan Print Association (Hanga Kyokai). In 1946, inspired by Dada and Surrealism, Tajima joined Bijutsu Bunka Kyokai, a group dedicated to exploring and reviving the abstract and surrealist painting ideals that had been suppressed during WWII. Tajima exhibited widely and with success, including with Tokyo's Modern Art Association (Prix du Nouveau Venu, 1962), the Japanese Engraving Association, the Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition in Tokyo (1962), the Northwest International Print Exhibition (1962-1964) and the Tokyo International Print Biennale (1964). His work is held in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Portland Art Museum (Oregon), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (British Columbia), the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), the Carnegie Museum of Art, the National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO) and the British Museum in London. In describing Tajima's work, Frances Blakemore...

Signed lower right in graphite, 'Shoichi Hasegawa 長谷川 彰一' (Japanese-French, born 1929), titled lower center, 'le chapiteau et la guitare', with number...

Signed lower right outside of block, 'Hiroyuki Tajima' (Japanese, 1911-1984) and dated 1973 with limitation and number, '50-4', lower center and titled lower left, 'The Rain'. Paper dimensions: 19.75 x 12.5 inches An elegant abstract comprising overlapping forms in deep ruby, coral and jade. Engraver and printmaker, Hiroyuki Tajima was born in Tokyo in 1911 and graduated from Nihon University in 1932. In 1934, he graduated from the Tokyo School of Arts with a specialization in western-style painting. Tajima later studied fabric dyeing under Hirokawa Matsugoro (1889-1952) and woodblock printing with the Sosaku-Hanga artist, Nagase Yoshiro (1891-1978), a founder of the Japan Print Association (Hanga Kyokai). In 1946, inspired by Dada and Surrealism, Tajima joined Bijutsu Bunka Kyokai, a group dedicated to exploring and reviving the abstract and surrealist painting ideals that had been suppressed during WWII. Tajima exhibited widely and with success, including with Tokyo's Modern Art Association ( Prix du Nouveau Venu, 1962), the Japanese Engraving Association, the Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition in Tokyo (1962), the Northwest International Print Exhibition (1962-1964) and the Tokyo International Print Biennale (1964). His work is held in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Portland Art Museum (Oregon), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (British Columbia), the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), the Carnegie Museum of Art, the National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO) and the British Museum in London. In describing Tajima's work, Frances Blakemore...

Signed lower right, 'Miklos Pogany' and dated '1987'; titled lower left, 'Flight to Byzanthium'. Additionally signed verso, dated, titled and inscribed 'Monotype printed at Don Farnsworth's Magnolia Editions. Oil, litho ink on paper'. Sheet dimensions: 31.25 x 42.5 Inches. Hungarian-born Maine resident, Miklos Pogany, is a prolific artist with an impressive exhibition history and work in the permanent collections of many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. A master of multiple media, Pogany creates vivid works based on nature and the built environment, exploring and pushing the parameters of each medium. The artist describes his motivation as follows: "I react to wonder, desires, conflicts, meanings, memories, revenge, sexuality, love and death. I gather all these fragments and make some personal sense of it all." Education: 1964 - BA, St. Procopius College, IL 1965 - MA, University of Chicago, IL 1972 - Ph.D. University of Chicago, IL Museum Collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France New York Public Library Print Collection, New York, NY Boston Public Library Print Collection, Boston, MA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT Harvey Littleton, Greenville, NC Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University, NJ Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT Selected Awards: The Connecticut Vision, Mattatuck Museum Prize 1990 Prints International, Silvermine Galleries, CT Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Bellagio, Italy International Graphic Arts Foundation, Sigma Gallery, New York Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award Connecticut Commission for the Arts SECA Award for Painting, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Selected Exhibitions: 2019 Danese Corey, New York, NY 2012 Fort Point Arts Community, Boston, MA 2008 Harvard University Owl Club, Cambridge, MA 2004 Kantar Fine Arts, Newtonville, MA 1998 J. Leighton Gallery...

Signed lower right, 'J. Bedwell' and inscribed lower left, 'Ed/5'; additionally inscribed verso 'Serigraph by Jeanette Bedwell' and titled 'Leaves'. Accompanied by an original galler...

Signed lower right, 'J. Bedwell' for Jeannette Bedwell (American, 20th century) additionally inscribed verso, 'Serigraph by Jeanette Bedwell' and titled 'Leaves' and created circa 19...

Signed lower right, 'Bolin' for Gustav Bolin (Swedish, 1920-1999) and dated 1972; blind stamp lower left 'Editions du Damier - Paris' and inscribed lower left with number and limitat...

Signed lower right, 'Ynez Johnston' (American, b. 1920) and dated 1964; additionally inscribed 'imp' lower right, titled lower center 'Tribal Coast' with number and limitation, 198/210', lower left. Framed Dimensions: 21.25 H x 26.5 W x 1.5 D Inches Born in Berkeley, California, Johnston first studied drafting, painting and printmaking at the University of California with Worth Ryder, Erle Loran and Margaret Peterson...

Signed lower right, "Ryonosuke Fukui" (Japanese, 1923-1986), a listed artist, and created circa 1965. An artist's proof, hand-colored etching compris...

Signed lower right, 'Douglas McClellan', dated 1988 and titled lower left, 'Cretan View'; additionally signed, titled, dated and media noted as 'monotype with collage' on verso. A ...