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The Book of Ah!
By Julio de Diego
Located in Fairlawn, OH
String bound booklet (portfolio) with six hand colored woodcuts, signed in pencil by the artist, tipped in the book Provenance: Estate of the artist By descent to his daughter Kir...
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1960s American Modern Nude Prints

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Woodcut

The Infant Jupiter Nursing from the She-Goat Amaltheia (The Birth of Jupiter)
By Luigi Quaini
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Infant Jupiter Nursing from the She-Goat Amaltheia (The Birth of Jupiter) Red chalk and wash on off-white paper, c. 1700 Unsigned Attribuuted to Quaini by Dwight Miller, the sch...
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18th Century and Earlier Baroque Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Chalk

Untitled (Martha Jackson Gallery Poster)
By Walasse Ting
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Martha Jackson Gallery Poster) Lithograph, 1960 Signed and dated in red crayon by the artist Edition 90 (63/90) 1st state before letters for the poster created for the Martha Jackson Gallery, Ting Exhibition, April 23-May 31, 1960 Printed on wove paper with a ”JAPAN' watermark Edition: 90 Provenance: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York Anderson Gallery David K. Anderson Collection (label) Walasse Ting (Chinese: 丁雄泉, 13 October 1929 – May 17, 2010)[1] was a Chinese-American visual artist and poet. His colorful paintings have attracted critical admiration and a popular following. Common subjects include nude women and cats, birds and other animals. He was born on 13 October 1929 in Shanghai, left China in 1946 and lived for a while in Hong Kong, then settled in Paris in 1952.[2] There, he associated with artists such as Karel Appel, Asger Jorn, and Pierre Alechinsky, members of the avant-garde group CoBrA. Ting started his career as an artist in Paris in the 1950s, where he became friends with artists such as Sam Francis and Pierre Alechinsky. His early works were influenced by the CoBrA group, a European art movement known for its use of expressive, childlike imagery. In the 1960s, Ting moved to New York City and became associated with the Pop Art movement. Ting is perhaps best known for his series of paintings featuring women, which he called "Cat Women...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Omar’s Cup
By Bernard Childs
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Omar’s Cup Power drypoint engraving, 1958 Printed in red, black with gold leaf highlights Annotated in pencil on detached bottom margin: “Printed by the artist’s own press at 4 rue d’universite, Paris, Sept. 1958” Signed and dated lower left: "Childs '58" Edition: 10 (8/10) Condition: Excellent Plate: 7 3/4 x 4 1/4" Sheet: 23 3/4 x 19 9/16"; (See photo) Dedicated in pencil by the artist: “For Alice and Albert Turner...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Drypoint

Symphony in White No. 2, The Little White Girl
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Clifford James (active 1900-1930) After James Abbott NcNeill Whistler (1834-1903) Symphony in White No. 2, The Little White Girl Color mezzotint, 1922 Signed in pencil by James (see ...
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1920s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint

Hells Angel on his Hog
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Hells Angel on his Hog Pen and ink on paper, 1969 Signed 'Longstreet' lower right (see photo) Titled and dated upper right Condition: excellent Image/Sheet size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches Pr...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1 Pochoir, 1934 Unsigned as issued in Cahier's edition Published in Cahier's d'art, 1934 Unsigned Edition of 1200 There was also a pencil signed...
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1930s Surrealist Abstract Prints

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Stencil

Couple Embracing in Street at Night
By Ito Shinsui
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sumi ink drawing, c. 1928 Signed in the lower right corner (see detail) Original illustration for the novel "Gunmo" (Hoi Polloi or Blind and Foolish Masses), volume 4 in the "Complete Works of Burafu Nakamura." Nakamura, a popular Japanese novelist and playwright, lived from 1886-1949. Framed in acid free rag matting, OP3 Acrylic and a rounded corner metal leaf frame Sight size: 6-3/4 x 5-3/8" Frame size: 14-5/8 x 12-5/8 x 3/4" Shinsui Itō...
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1920s Edo Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Sumi Ink

Soleil rouge (Red Sun)
By Raoul Lazar
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Soleil rouge (Red Sun) Etching and embossing, c. 1974 Signed and editioned in pencil by the artist (see photos) Condition: Paper has yellowed. There is a white square at top of shee...
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1970s Abstract Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Merieanna
By Almery Lobel-Riche
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Merieanna Etching and aquatint, c. 1900 Signed by the artist in pencil lower right Titled in pencil lower right corner of sheet Annotated "4" lower left below image Publisher's dryst...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Prints and Multiples

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Aquatint

Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Fabric Design Gouache on paper, 1920-1935 Signed with the Atelier Stamp verso (see photo) Numbered with the Atelier Litt Archive number verso (see photo) No. 05535 ...
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1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Fabric Design Gouache on paper, 1920-1935 Signed with the Atelier Stamp verso (see photo) Numbered with the Atelier Litt Archive number verso (see photo) No. 37365 ...
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1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Fabric Design Gouache on paper, 1920-1935 Signed with the Atelier Stamp verso (see photo) Numbered with the Atelier Litt Archive number verso (see photo) Condition: E...
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1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Untitled Fabric Design
By Arthur Litt
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Fabric Design Gouache on paper, 1920-1935 Signed with the Atelier Stamp verso (see photo) Numbered with the Atelier Litt Archive number verso (see photo) No. 24680 Co...
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1930s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Couverture pour Douze Lithographies en Couleurs, ou Passage et Interieurs
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Couverture pour Douze Lithographies en Couleurs, ou Passage et Interieurs Color lithograph, 1896-1898 Unsigned (as issued) From: Douze Lithographies en Couleurs, ou Passage et Interi...
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1890s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Conversation
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Conversation Lithograph, 1893-1894 Signed and numbered in pencil lower left (see photo) Edition: (57/100) 100 Printed on wove paper Published by Edouard Kleinmann An early Nabi schoo...
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1890s French School Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled (Plate 4) DLM
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 7) DLM Color lithograph, 1963 Unsigned (as issued) From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141 Edition: 1500? Published by A. Maeght, Paris Condition: Mint Sheet/Image size: 1...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Portrait de femme en buste, de profil a gauche, un tres large ruban noir du cou
By Paul César Helleu
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait de femme en buste, de profil a gauche, un tres large ruban noir du cou, Mme Marthe Letellier Drypoint, 1900-1901 Signed in pencil lower left (see photo) Titled in pencil low...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Drypoint

Femme assise nue avec un bras levé au-dessus de sa tête Seated female nude ...
By Henri Lebasque
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Femme assise nue avec un bras levé au-dessus de sa tête Seated female nude with an arm raised over her head Ink and watercolor on paper, n.d. Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)...
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1930s French School Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Wire Haired Girl and Cat
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Wire Haired Girl and Cat Pen and ink with watercolor, c. 1930 Signed with the Estate stamp "B" Provenance: Estate of the Artist By descent to his son Edward ...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Untitled (Study for The Aerialists)
By John Steuart Curry
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Study for The Aerialists) Graphite on paper, 1932 Signed lower right in pencil: "John Steuart Curry" Dated: 1932 in pencil Exhibited: Schroeder Romero & Shredder, NYC (label), Master Drawings, Oct. 13, 2011-Nov. 12, 2011 (see photo of label) Arkansas Arts Center (label), 44th Collector Show & Sale, Nov. 30-December 30, 2012, Offered at $22,000. (see photo of label) This drawing is closely related to a painting by Curry entitled The Aerialists, 1932, once in the Erskine Collection, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It is part of a group of preliminary drawings and three finished paintings executed by Curry around 1932 which were based on The Flying Cadonas. The painting The Flying Cadonas is an icon of American art purchased by the Whitney Museum of Art and now on permanent exhibition. There are other know studies for these works, nos. 199 through 222 and in John Steuart Curry: Rural America, page 32 (Mongerson Wunderlich, Chicago, 1990. Provenance: Mrs. Kathleen Curry (artist’s widow), included in the estate schedule of works Treadway Toomey Auction, Oak Park, Illinois, 2009 Don Joint, New York An important American Regionalist drawing. Like Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, John Steuart Curry was a major American scene painter of the 1930s. His subjects were taken from American history and his most famous mural, The Tragic Prelude...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

The White Scarf (Self Portrait of the Artist)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The White Scarf (Self Portrait of the Artist) Oil on board, 1894 Signed and dated lower left: E M Heller '94 (see image) Framed in a metal leaf Whistler style frame, Frame: 23 x 18-...
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1890s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Full Bloom
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Full Bloom Oil on canvass, 28 x 21 1/2 inches Signed lower right: Robert Hallowell Provenance: Estate of the artist Marbella Gallery, New York Illustrated in Ma...
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1930s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil

Preliminary drawing for a sculpture
By Seymour Lipton
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Preliminary drawing for a sculpture Black crayon on paper, 1959 Signed and dated middle right (see photo) A rare 1950's AbEx drawing. Provenance: Estate of the artist Michael and Ala...
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1950s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Crayon

Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Getting Ready for the Revolution - Learning How to Ride in the Subway Litho crayons on illustrator’s board, c. 1932 Signed: Adolf Dehn (VED) lower right corner (signed by Virginia Dehn, the artist’s widow) Tilted along the upper edge of the recto in pencil by the artist Verso inscriptions: “VF 3168.D” in a circle, also annotated in red pencil “32” in a circle and “699 Provenance: Mary Ryan Gallery, exhibition entitled Adolf Dehn Lithographs, 1927-1940, Nov. 16 to Dec. 12, 1982. The original exhibition notice us affixed to the backing board of the frame Note: A drawing intended or used in the publication Vanity Fair, for whom Dehn worked in the mid 1920’s to the 1930’s. Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968 Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art. In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art. If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques. Early Years, 1895-1922 For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil Crayon

Bull Ring Brass - Mexico City
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bull Ring Brass - Mexico City Watercolor, pen and ink on paper, 1955 Signed in ink, dated and titled in pencil (see photos) Condition: 1'' repaired tear left edge, along with other minor tears. Tape stains from previous matting visible in the four corners Image/Sheet size: 19 3/8 x 15 5/8 inches Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, friend and patron of Longstreet Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002) The artist’s own grandchildren attempt to fathom the real life and nature of Stephen Longstreet, prolific author, artist, screenplay writer, and jazz aficionado. Born Chauncy Weiner (sometimes spelled Wiener) in New York City in 1907, Longstreet reinvented himself on a regular basis. Changing his name first to “Henry,” then “Henri,” he started his career as a commercial artist for a department store. In various public biographies he claimed to have studied in New York, London, and Paris, and said he was a student of cartoonist Ralph Barton (1891-1931). Facts that can be documented are that he was art editor for Golfer and Sportsman magazines, and was a contributor to various other magazines including The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, Life, and Hooey, among others. He wrote sketches for NBC radio and the Rudy Vallee Show. In the 1930s, Longstreet worked and wrote under the names Thomas Burton, David Ormsbee, and Paul Haggard...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink, Watercolor, Pen

Untitled (Three Ducks Taking to Flight)
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Three Ducks Taking to Flight) Drypoint, c. 1940 Signed lower right Provenance: Estate of the Artist Winchell Heirs by descent Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 10 5/16 inches Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis, after his tenure of being an instructor at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the 1930's. Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris Anisfeld...
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1940s American Realist Animal Prints

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Drypoint

Richard Wagner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Richard Wagner Etching, c. 1880 Signed in the plate (see photo) Edition: c. 200 impressions Condition: mint Image/Plate size: 6 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches Sheet size: 14 3/8 x 10 7/8 inches ...
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1880s Academic Portrait Prints

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Etching

Untitled
By Henri Goetz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Engraving, drypoint & carborundum, c. 1960's Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos) Edition: 25 (9/25) Printed by the artist Condition: Adhesive residue on the verso to...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Engraving

Fille dite de joie (They Call Her Daughter of Joy)
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Fille dite de joie (They Call Her Daughter of Joy) Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922-1927 Unsigned (as issued) From: Miserere (Have Mercy), 58 plate...
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1920s French School Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Father Stefan Fridolin, "Schatzbehalter" (Treasury of the True Riches of Salvation): The 30th Figure - Astrological Diagram with Scene of the Nativity Woodcut, 1491 Unsigned, as issued Published by Anton Koberger Diagram has Zodiac signs on outer ring, planets in the lower registers, and Nativity in the center. Condition: Very good for a 15h century woodcut, with the usual slight age stains Sheet size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Wogelmut was the teacher of Albrecht Durer and employed young Durer in many project of the last decade of the 15th century. Michel Wolgemut Biography Wolgemut trained with his father Valentin Wolgemut (who died in 1469 or 1470) and is thought to have been an assistant to Hans Pleydenwurff in Nuremberg. He worked with Gabriel Malesskircher in Munich early in 1471, leaving the city after unsuccessfully suing Malesskircher's daughter for breach of contract, claiming she had broken off their engagement. He then returned to his late father's workshop in Nuremberg, which his mother had maintained since Valentin's death. In 1472 he married Pleydenwurff's widow and took over his workshop;[3] her son Wilhelm Pleydenwurff worked as an assistant, and from 1491 a partner, to Wolgemut. Some consider Wilhelm a finer artist than Wolgemut, however he died in January 1494, when he was probably still in his thirties. Wilhelm's oeuvre remains unclear, though works in various media have been attributed to him. Woodcuts Michael Wolgemut, Danse Macabre, 1493 Two large and copiously illustrated books have woodcuts supplied by Wolgemut and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff; both were printed and published by Germany's largest publisher, the Nuremberger Anton Koberger, who was also Dürer's godfather. The first is the Schatzbehalter der wahren Reichthumer des Heils (1491); the other is the Historia mundi, by Schedel (1493), usually known as the Nuremberg Chronicle...
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15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Tea at the Ritz, New York
By Paul César Helleu
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Tea at the Ritz, New York Colored chalk, 1912 Signed with the estate stamp verso. (see photo) Authenticated by the artist's daughter, Mme Paulette Johnston. Image size: 10 5/8 x 10 1...
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1920s Art Nouveau Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Chalk

Nude, arms raised
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Matchstick and ink drawing heightened with conte crayon c. 1925 Signed with the Estate Stamp "B" Provenance: Joseph A. Erdelac (1914 -2005), Cleveland Acqu...
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1920s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

The Draped Figure, Seated
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Draped Figure, Seated Lithograph on fine japanese paper, 1893 Signed in pencil with the butterfly (see photo) Signed in the stone with the butterfly on the sofa (see photo) Numbe...
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1890s American Impressionist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Avril
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Avril (April) Color aquatint and etching, c. 1906 Signed in pencil lower right Edition: c. 100 Excellent impression, fresh colors Reference: Merrill Chase Volume 1, No. 9 Condition: ...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints

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Aquatint

Untitled
By Laddie John Dill
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Watercolor on paper, c. 1971 Unsigned From the collection of Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007) Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles artist, had his first solo exhibition in New York C...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Persephone
By Virginia Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Persephone Oil on canvas, 1952 Signed lower left (see photo) Titled reverse "Persephone" Signed "V. 52" Exhibited: Columbus Gallery of the Arts label "71/30 Bt. 2", see label Condition: two very small flakes of missing paint Canvas size: 20 1/8 x 16" Frame size: 20 7/8 x 16 3/4" Provenance: Estate of the artist Dehn Heirs An important painting by the artist. Virginia Dehn From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Virginia Dehn (1922-2005) Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections. Life Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered. Early career Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut. Virginia and Adolf Dehn The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work. The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India. Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies. Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
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1950s American Modern Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Words and Deeds
By Ben Wilson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Words and Deeds Oil and collage on wood panel, c. 1990 Signed recto lower right (see photo) Verso: See photo Signed, verso: Ben Wilson Dated: c. 1990 Titled: Words and Deeds Condition: Excellent Image/panel size: 23 1/4 x 19 inches Frame size: 26 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches To gain exposure to a wider range of styles, he also studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Educational Alliance. Admired by critics throughout his long career, Wilson was singled out as a “discovery” by the New York Times art critic Edward Alden Jewel even before his rst one-man show at the Galerie Neuf in 1946. His paintings of the ’30s and ’40s were expressionistically rendered, often Biblical parables, lled with what he called “the grief of the intolerable” and reecting an acute awareness of the agony of the time, from the Holocaust to the Spanish Civil War. A WPA artist who identied strongly with the plight of the Jews in Europe, he relentlessly explored themes of war, torment, and futility in his early decades of painting. When times changed and social pressures subsided, Wilson’s mood lifted. He spent 1952-54 in Paris working at the Academie Julien. During the ’50s his involvement with specic imagery persisted but became more psychological and mythic in orientation. Inuenced by Cubism, he created a vocabulary of interlocking shapes and bold, sweeping gestures that served as a transition between his early gurative expressionism and his later abstract constructivist concerns. Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.” By 1960, inuenced by the Russian Constructivists, Mondrian, and Abstract Expressionism, Wilson turned to abstraction. Reexamining the basic elements of painting, he evolved his own personal vocabulary and structure, fusing the cerebral and the emotive. He became increasingly experimental, using house paint, sand, and other unorthodox materials in paintings that he worked from all directions, dripping, spraying, stenciling, and collaging. He employed elements of disjunction, repetitions of geometric motifs, linear networks, and complex overlays to create the transparent, multi-layer development of space that characterizes his later paintings. A consummate draftsman, Wilson lled notebook after notebook with drawings that he amplied in his paintings. Eschewing popular movements, Wilson was always one to pursue a personal aesthetic. Despite more than 30 one-man shows and 50 years of teaching, he increasingly withdrew from the gallery scene but continued to paint daily until his death at age 88 in 2001 in Blairstown, New Jersey, where he and his sculptor wife Evelyn Wilson...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Spanish Beauty (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
By Abel Warshawsky
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Spanish Beauty (Portrait of the Artist's Wife) Oil on canvas, c. 1940's Signed upper right "A.G. Warshawsky" (see photo) According to the daughter-in-law of the artist, this painting...
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1940s Abstract Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Untitled
By Shoichi Ida
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled molded mud-dried paper with collage elements, 1996 Signed and dated lower edge (see photo) Annotated and titled verso Sheet size: 24 x 7 inches Provenance: Ralph Drake, fir...
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1990s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Mixed Media

Un Debarquement en Angleterre (A Disembarking in England)
By Félix Hilaire Buhot
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Un Debarquement en Angleterre (A Disembarking in England) etching, drypoint, aquatint, roulette and spirit ground, 1879 Signed with the artist’s red owl stamp, Lugt 977 (see photo) ...
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1870s Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Drypoint

L’Angelus (The Bell Tower)
By Félix Hilaire Buhot
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L’Angelus (The Bell Tower) etching & drypoint, c. 1876 Signed in the plate with the artist's initials (see photo) Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 5 7/8 x 4 1/4 inches Sheet s...
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1870s French School Landscape Prints

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Etching

La Fête Nationale du Boulevard Clichy
By Félix Hilaire Buhot
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Fête Nationale du Boulevard Clichy Etching, drypoint, and aquatint, 1878 Signed lower left in the plate (see photo) Printed chine collee, mounted on white wove paper Upper plate m...
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1870s French School Figurative Prints

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Etching

Un plaideur auquel manquent malheureusement
By Honoré Daumier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Un plaideur auquel manquent malheureusement les pieces les plus importantes, les pieces de cent sous. (A litigant who unfortunately doesn't have the most important details to success..dollars and cents) Series: Croquis par Daumier, No. 1 As published in Le Charivari, Paris, October 20, 1865. Croquis (Sketches by Daumier) is a series of 4 prints...
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1860s Romantic Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Composition rouge orangé
By Arthur Luiz Piza
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Composition rouge orangé Etching, Aquatint, and Engraving, 1990 Signed "Piza" lower right corner (see photo) Edition: 99 Numbered 96/99 lower left corner (see photo) Publisher blinds...
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1990s French School Abstract Prints

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Aquatint

Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Acrylic paint on paper, c. 2005 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Condition: Excellent Image size: 9 7/16 x 7 7/16 inches Support Sheet size: 17 x 14 inches Peter Marks (1935 -2010) Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A lifetime New Yorker, Marks graduated from the High School of Music and Art in 1952 and Amherst College in 1956. After a brief stint as a graphic designer in publishing, Marks became a private art dealer and opened his gallery Peter Marks Works of Art, Inc. in 1960. During this time he specialized in the sale of Southeast Asian and Islamic antiquities and made many contributions to the field both as a dealer and an advocate of his profession. Above all, Marks was motivated by a strong desire to find great art and make it available to large audiences. After retiring from art dealing in 2002, Marks transformed his Manhattan gallery space into a studio where he drew prolifically and painted large non-objective canvasses. This time in his studio was a happy one for Marks, who viewed this period of his life not as retirement, but rather fulfillment, a fact that is confirmed by passionate artistic output in the years leading up to his passing in 2010. In 2012, Thomas French Fine Art acquired a large number of works by Peter Marks and now represents the estate. Works by the artist are in the Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute and the Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Acrylic and gold leaf collage on canvas, 2005 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Condition: Excellent Image size: 10 13/16 x 8 5/8 inches Support Sheet size: 17 x 14 ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Circles) Graphite on wove paper, 2007 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Condition: Excellent Sheet/Image size: 16 15/16 x 14 inches Peter Marks (1935 -2010) Pete...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

No Footprints Show, Where the Flowers Grow Deep
By Shiko Munakata
Located in Fairlawn, OH
No Footprints Show, Where the Flowers Grow Deep Woodcut, 1961 Unsigned (as isssued) From: The "Way" of the Woodcut, three woodcuts, 1961 Publisher: Pratt Adlib Press, Brooklyn, New Y...
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1960s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Kataoka Nizayemon(?)
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Exceptional, brilliant impression and colors from the extremely rare 1st edition Kataoka Nizayemon(?) Color woodcut, 1860 From the series: "Contemporary Brocade Mirror Portraits" Pub...
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1860s Portrait Prints

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Woodcut

Poplar Tree B
By Shiko Munakata
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Poplar Tree B Lithograph, c. 1959 Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photo) Artist's red stamp lower left margin (see photo) Edition: 50 (20/50) Printed by Arthur Flory...
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1950s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Composition
By Umberto Mastroianni
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Composition Original carborundum engraving, c. 1970 Signed: Mastroianni in pencil lower right (see photo) Edition: 100 (76/100) (see photo) Printed on a heavy laid paper Condition:...
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1970s Modern Abstract Prints

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Etching

New York Bouquet
By Childe Hassam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
New York Bouquet Lithograph, 1917 Edition: 93 Signed with the artist's cipher in pencil lower right (see photo) This lithograph is inspired by Hassam's oil painting of the same title...
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1910s American Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Drei Grazien (Three Graces)
By Lovis Corinth
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Drei Grazien (Three Graces) Etching and drypoint, 1920 Signed and titled in pencil (see photo) Total Edition 100: 30 on Japan and 70 on Butten paper as here Published by von Wohlgemu...
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1920s Expressionist Nude Prints

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Drypoint

Untitled
By Dennis Ashbaugh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Mixed media on paper, 1981 Signed and dated 1981 lower left (see photo) Provenance: Knoedler Gallery, New York (label) Charles Cowles Gallery, New York The Collection of Jan...
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1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media, Gouache

Untitled (Plate 1) DLM
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 1) DLM Color lithograph, 1963 Unsigned and unnumbered (as usual) From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141 Published by A. Maeght, Paris Image/sheet size: 14 7/8 x 11 inches...
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1960s American Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso)
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Deco Woman (recto) Standing Male Model (verso) Graphite on paper, 1925 Signed with the artist's initials "PW" and dated 1925 Created while the artist was studying at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1925. This is a preliminary drawing to a series of class assignments. From a sketch book Image/Sheet size: 7 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches Condition: Excellent Slight syrface dirt Provenance: Estate of the Artist Winchell Heirs Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

Bicentennial Dawn
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bicentennial Dawn Silk screen and gold foil collage element, 1976 Signed and dated lower right in gold foil (see photo) Edition 100 (57/100) original label attributes this image as b...
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1970s Contemporary Still-life Prints

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Screen

Die Bettler (The Beggars)
By Max Beckmann
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Die Bettler (The Beggars) Lithograph, 1922 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) From: Berliner Reise Series, Plate 7 Printed on wove paper Edition: 100...
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1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Untitled (Plate 3)
By Terry Haass
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From: Happy Pentagone (6 plates) Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 100 (37/100) Printer: Lacouriere et Frelaut Imprimeur, Paris Paper: BFK RIVES watermark on some sheets from th...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Etching

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