Thomas French Fine Art

Lumber Workers (Cuidad del Carmen, State of Campeche) Color lithograph on wove paper, c. 1945 Signed lower right in pencil From: Mexican Art - A Portfolio of Mexican People and Place...

The Pleasure of Being Alone Lithograph, 1931 Signed lower right (see photo) Very rare early suurealist lithograph Edition: 15 (15/15), numbered lower left (see photo) Impressions of...

Academic Study of Female Nude, Seated Facing Right Charcoal on L.Berville/Lalanne watermark laid paper, April 11, 1890 Unsigned Dated in pencil: "April 11 '90" Holman was born on Pri...

Academic Male Nude Drawing, Arm Raised Charcoal on L.Berville/Lalanne watermark laid paper Unsigned Dated 1892 lower left Holman was born on Prince Edward Island in 1866 and moved to...

Academic Drawing of a Standing Male Nude with a Staff Charcoal on L. Berville/Lalanne watermark laid paper, 1892 Signed with the artist's initials within a square cartouche lower ri...

Standing Male Nude Academic Study Charcoal on L. Berville/Lalanne watermark laid paper, Jan 6-10, 1890 Initialed upper right corner "L.A.H." (see photo) Dated Jan 6-10/90 (see photo)...

Standing Female Academic Nude Drawing Charcoal on Berville-Lalanne watermark paper, Jan 25, 1894 Unsigned Condition: Excellent Sheet/Image size: 22 x 18 inches Provenance: William Gr...

Academic Male Nude Study Charcoal on MBM Arches laid paper, Feb 15, 1889 Signed in the upper left corner (see photo) Annotated lower left: "First Figure from Life" (see photo) Condit...

Vitrioleuse (Vitriol-thrower) (The Acid Thrower) Lithograph with 5 hand stenciled colors, 1894 Signed, dated and inscribed in pencil lower right (see photo) The Bon a Tirer (BAT) im...

Landforms #50 Lithograph printed on Rives wove paper, 1969 Signed and editioned lower right corner (see photo) Chiron (Printer) blindstamp lower right corner (see photo) Published by...

Untitled (Aztec heads in profile) A Prelimimary Study for a Mural watercolor, goucahe, ink and colored pencil on paper, 1943-1946 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Kiriki Metzo (his daughter) Fletcher Gallery (her agent) Inspired by the artist's trip to ancient Aztec Mexico with fellow surrealist artist Carlos Merida (1891-1985) Influence of Carlos Merida interaction with de Diego How Carlos Mérida's Mayan-inspired modernism and Mexican folk motifs specifically transformed Julio de Diego's surrealist compositions and color palette in the 1940s Carlos Mérida’s Mayan inspired modernism pushed Julio de Diego’s 1940s surrealism away from purely European, dream like imagery toward hybrid, flatter, more patterned compositions built from stylized “Mexican” motifs, while situating his use of color within the vibrant, abstract field and pattern approach associated with modernized Mayan art—even though surviving texts describe Mérida’s palette much more explicitly than de Diego’s. Mérida’s Mayan modernism: form and color • Mérida is described as a key modernist who fused Surrealism, Cubism, muralism and European abstraction with pre Columbian Mayan...

Untitled (Surrealist composition) Wax resist monotype with scraffito, 1947 Signed in scraffito in the image lower right (see photo) Unique image, part a of series of similar works i...