Robert Azensky Fine Art Prints and Multiples

Rare early 19th Century lithograph laid on india paper, hand colored aquatint print, titled "Beech Trees in the Grounds of St. Leonards Hill, Berks, Seat o...

Color etching of modernist scene made up of layered images of a keyhole and entryway in Venice, Italy by California artist Katherine Chang Liu (American, 20th century). Signed "K "Li...

"Saddle Bags", Limited Edition Mixed Media Modern Pop Art Collotype, 4/6 "Saddle Bags", a unique limited edition mixed media collotype on paper and machi...

Cinema cityscape, an aquatint print and hand painted watercolor by Leon Kroll (American,1884-1974). Signed lower left vertical "Leon Kroll '68". Edition one of six, 1/6. Unframed. 15...

Vintage abstract figural "Embrace", a lithograph by Patricia Ann Way (American, 20th Century). Signed "Patricia Way" and dated "76" lower right. Slight crease to lower center and s...

Beautiful figurative giclée and watercolor limited edition print titled "The Aunties", a homage to the classical figurative sculpture The Three Graces, by Anne Ormsby, a Aptos, Calif...

Study of a female nude in the Baroque style, by acclaimed California artist Ben Messick (American, 1891-1981). Signed "Ben Messick 40" in plate and pencil lower left, by the estate. Unframed. Image size, 4.75"L x 10.5"H; overall mat size is, 16"L x 20"H. Some foxing to over-mat. The following is submitted by Jim Lafferty whose sources include the autobiography of the artist: William Washington Messick married Sarah A. Bristow January 2,1889 and from this marriage a son, Benjamin Newton Messick was born on January 9, 1891 on a farm near Strafford, Missouri. His art talent was apparent from the time he was a child and later recognized by his commanding officer in World War I. He completed his training in Los Angeles at Chouinard in the late-1920s and is well-known for his Regionalist scenes and Modernist paintings. He was an instructor at Chouinard through the 1950s & influenced a generation of LA Modernists. Little is recorded in his autobiography about Messick's life from his teen years and service during the War. He enrolled at Chouinard Institute in the Fall of 1925, and was given a three-year scholarship by Mrs. Chouinard. In 1925 he won a cash award at the Los Angeles County Fair for a group of pen and charcoal drawings done in the parks and streets of Los Angeles. These works give the appearance of being spontaneous and fluid. In 1930 Messick left Chouinard as a full-time student and rented an apartment on West Eighth Street to use as a studio and living quarters. He had his own ideas on what he was trying to accomplish in art. "If you should ask what is the message of my drawings, I should say that they may explain themselves or may be just a technical exercise." By the mid 1940s, Messick's position in the art world had been well established as a teacher, painter, printmaker, writer and critic. Over his life time he had over 400 shows and exhibitions. Starting in 1939 he produced a number of stone lithographs that appear to the untrained eye as original drawings. To Messick the image was the most important aspect of his lithographs, and his signature in the plate was sufficient. Hand signing each lithograph did not seem necessary to him. He exhibited prints widely including the Albany Print Club and the Metropolitian Museum. To further substantiate the authenticity of Messick's prints the Eclectic Gallery under the authority of the Messick family posthumously pencil signed each estate-acquired stone lithograph. Messick had a childhood fascination with the circus and started drawing and painting the circus in 1935. His circus work, especially his clown studies, and his lithographs became his trademark work for in the 1940s and 1950s. A critic for ART REVIEW described his Big Top work this way: "His circus canvases...

Expressive vintage silkscreen on black paper by Alice Aycock (American, 20th Century). Hand signed and dated "Alice Aycock 1990" with hand written ...

Penny's Rainbow Lane - Vintage 1960's Abstract Psychedelic Pop Art Poster Take a trip down rainbow lane with this bold and beautiful authentic 1967 P...

A striking woodcut landscape print from Edgar Dorsey Taylor's series of prints depicting his adventures in Baja California in 1963 (American, 1904-1978). Also, the book titled "Baja ...

Stunning figural abstract silkscreen titled "Rock" by Dean Snyder (American, b. 1953). Artist's Proof 1990. Titled, signed and dated lower edge. Presented in mat, unframed. Image Si...

Joyful image of a woodcut print of a Reindeer pulling a Laplander Sami in his Pulk (small toboggan), a traditional scene in Lapland folklore and history by Yuri Mot. Signed indistinc...

Geometric limited edition etching, hand painted abstract of an orange and blue figure inside of a circle by Pierre Brisson (French, b, 1955). Signed "Brisson" lower right and "720/75...