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Actresses in Their Dressing Rooms
By Edgar Degas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Actresses in Their Dressing Rooms
etching & aquatint, 1879-1880
Unsigned as usual for all canceled plate impressions
Reference: Delteil 28, Shapiro 50 vi/vi with the cancelation line...
Category
1870s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Aquatint
On Christmas Day
By Gene Kloss
Located in Fairlawn, OH
On Christmas Day
Drypoint and aquatint, 1979
Signed lower right: Gene Kloss (see photo)
Inscribed lower left:
"Artist's Proof", and titled "On Christmas Day"
An "artist's proof" imp...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Red Mountain
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Red Mountain
Three color lithograph, 1986-7
Signed, titled and dated in pencil lower right
Annotated "B.A.T." for Bon a Tire lower left corner
This example is the printers guide for printing the editon of 40
Printed on BFK Rives paper
Printed at Derriere L'Etoile Studios, New York
Printer: Maurice Sanchez
Condition: Excellent, never framed
Image/Sheet size: 45 1/4 x 30 inches
Louisa Chase came to prominence in the 1980's as one of the outstandingNeo-Expressionist painters. Her work then was characterized by bold colors and brush strokes, often incorporating natural elements and fragments of the figure. Louisa Chase's works have been featured in gallery and museum shows in Cologne, Nurnberg, Luzem, Switzerland, Toronto, and Tokyo, and various galleries and museums throughout the US. She has also been featured at the American Pavillion at the 1984 Venice Biennale. Also in 1984, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston organized as travelling exhibition of her work. In 1997, the Madison Art Center organized a retrospective of her prints, Louisa Chase: Prints, 1981-1996. She has been a featured artist at the University of Wisconsin's Tandem Press and at the Tamarind Press; ahe was also invited to do a print for Lincoln Center in New York City. The recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chase's works are in the permanent collections of such museum as The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), The Brooklyn Museum of Arts, The Corcoran Gallery and The Library of Congress (Washington D.C.), The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Art, and the Chazin Museum of Art of the University of Wisconsin, Madsion and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (Madison WI).
Bibliography: Elizabeth Armstrong, Painters who print (Minnapolis: Walker Art Center, 1984); Ruth S...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Baby, Baby
By Louisa Chase
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Baby, Baby
Etching & aquatint printed in colors, 1991
Signed, dated, titled & numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 35 (4/35) plus 10 AP
Condition: Excellent, colors fresh
Image...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Before Day Light
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Before Day Light
Drypoint, c. 1940
Signed lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis.
In the 1930’s...
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
untitled (Duck taking to flight, flushed by a dog)
By Paul H. Winchell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Duck taking to flight, flushed by a dog)
Drypoint & Aquatint, c. 1940
signed lower right
Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis, after his ...
Category
1940s American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
The Swan
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Swan
Etching and soft ground intaglio, 1957
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled and numbered lower left (see photo)
From the second edition of 75 impressions, printed...
Category
1950s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Intaglio
The Jolly Corner. A portfolio of 21 etchings.
By Peter Milton
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portfolio of 21 photosensitive etchings and engravings on Rives Heavyweight Buff
Signed by the artist in pencil on frontispiece
Plate No. II:2; Signed by the artist
Numbered 27/150 in pencil on the colophon page along with chop marks of artist/printers Robert E. Townsend and Gretchen Ewert, and the chop of Impressions Workshop, Boston
Edition: 150
References And Exhibitions:
A portfolio edition of Henry James' ghost story first published by "The English Review" in December, 1908
Principal Portfolio Edition
Published by Aquarius Press Baltimore, MD
Reference:
Kneeland McNulty, Peter Milton: Complete Etchings 1960...
Category
1970s Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Etching
L'Angellus (The Angel)
By Alfredo Müller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'Angellus (The Angel)
Etching, engraving and acquatint on Arches paper, 1908
Signed lower right by the artist (see photo)
This is a first state impression printed in a brown/black ink
There was also a color edition of 50 impressions published by Sagot
Reference: Wurzer 27
Provenance: Edmund Sagot, the publisher
Sagot Heirs
Condition: Rich impression. Verso: print has staining. Printer's crease visibile from verso only.
Image/Plate size: 19 1/4 x 15 1/2" (48.9 x 39.37 cm)
Sheet size: 24 x 17 3/8 inches
From the British Museum:
"Colour etcher. Born in Livorno from a family of wealthy Swiss cotton merchants, studied with Giuseppe Ciaranfi and Michele Gordigiani in Florence. In 1886 exhibited with Fattori, Achille Lega and Tommasi in the Prima Esposizione delle Belle Arti in Livorno. In 1888 he and his family moved to Paris, where he studied first with François Flameng until 1892 and later with Carolus-Duran. Müller remained in the French capital until the outbreak of the First World War, taking French citizenship in 1913. He worked in the countryside at Barbizon, Suresnes and elsewhere, but also made frequent visits to his native country, where he exhibited regularly in Florence with the Promotrice Fiorentine. His early work was indebted to Fattori and Plinio Nomellini, but he soon became interested in the Impressionists and was credited by the critic Mario Tinti with introducing the luminism of Monet into Italian art.
Müller was a member of the Société des Artistes Indépendents and exhibited regularly in the Paris dealer...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La Grande Cascade de Saint Cloud
By Alfredo Müller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Grande Cascade de Saint Cloud
Color aquatint on watermarked Arches J Perrigot paper, 1905
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right. (see photo)
Edition: 100. Numbered "39" in pencil lower left.
Titled in pencil verso
Published by Edmund Sagot, Paris, his dry stamp lower right below signature.
Image: 23-1/8 x 17-3/8" (58.7 x 44 cm.)
From the British Museum:
"Colour etcher. Born in Livorno from a family of wealthy Swiss cotton merchants, studied with Giuseppe Ciaranfi and Michele Gordigiani in Florence. In 1886 exhibited with Fattori, Achille Lega and Tommasi in the Prima Esposizione delle Belle Arti in Livorno. In 1888 he and his family moved to Paris, where he studied first with François Flameng until 1892 and later with Carolus-Duran. Müller remained in the French capital until the outbreak of the First World War, taking French citizenship in 1913. He worked in the countryside at Barbizon, Suresnes and elsewhere, but also made frequent visits to his native country, where he exhibited regularly in Florence with the Promotrice Fiorentine. His early work was indebted to Fattori and Plinio Nomellini, but he soon became interested in the Impressionists and was credited by the critic Mario Tinti with introducing the luminism of Monet into Italian art.
Müller was a member of the Société des Artistes Indépendents and exhibited regularly in the Paris dealer George Petit's annual exhibitions of colour prints. He made his first print in 1896, a lithographic portrait of the poet Paul Verlaine in the Café Procope. The following year Müller made his first colour aquatints. Among them were a series of illustrations to Dante's Divine Comedy. In style his etchings and aquatints were influenced by Manuel Robbe. Very occasionally he combined drypoint or soft ground etching with aquatint. Müller's principal publisher was Pierrefort, who also issued prints by Toulouse-Lautrec. After 1903 he largely abandoned aquatint for pure etching. Fourteen of his colour etchings were reproduced over a number of months in the weekly magazine 'Le Courrier français'. Müller also made a small number of colour lithographs, some of which were published by the Parisian print dealer Sagot. A single monotype of Mallarmé done in 1911, thirteen years after the poet's death in 1898, is recorded. Müller made a few landscape prints and a couple of etchings of fishing boats, but his principal subject was young women in long dresses. Often there is an aura of fin-de-siècle wistfulness. When he returned to Italy, he lived first in Taormina, then in Florence, and finally settled in a villa at Settignano. Müller largely abandoned printmaking after 1914. Only three more prints by him made in 1920, 1925 and 1933 are recorded after he moved back to his native country. Müller was a regular exhibitor in Florentine exhibitions, the most significant of which was the 1922 Primaverile Fiorentina. He returned to France in 1930 where he died in 1939. (Text by Martin Hopkinson)"
Said to rival the fountains at Versailles, La Grande Cascade is still turned on for a few hours every Sunday in June. The Grande Cascade, constructed in 1664-1665 by Antoine Le Pautre has survived.
The château was expanded by Phillipe de France, duc d'Orléans in the 17th century, and finally enlarged by Marie Antoinette in the 1780s. Napoleon I and Napoleon III also used the palace, which was a U-shaped scheme of three sections, open to the east. Destroyed by fire (with the exception of a few outbuildings and its majestic garden) in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War. The burned-out shell stood until 1891, when it was demolished. The gardens were replanned by André Le Nôtre...
Category
Early 1900s French School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
Woman's Head
By Elie Nadelman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Edition of 50 printed by Charles White in 1951 for the estate
Bibliography:
Lincoln Kirstein, Elie Nademan (New York: The Eakins Press, 1973),, 20
Elie Nadelman
Born 1882, Warsaw...
Category
1920s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Automne
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Automne (Autumn)
Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, 1927
Signed, titled, and annotated in brown ink (see photos)
Condition: Good
Signature and inscrption fade...
Category
1920s French School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Derriere Le Miroir-Page 6-7
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Derriere Le Miroir-Page 6-7
Color lithograph, 1973
Unsigned (as issued)
From: Derriere Le Miroir, No. 201, January 1973
Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris
Printer: L’Imprimerie Arte, Adrien Maeght
Edition: Large (unspecified)
There is also a deluxe edition of this issue of DLM, signed and numbered on the justification page, edition 150
Condition: Fresh colors
a few spots of foxing near the centerfold, appropriate to it's age
Sheet/Image size: 15 x 22 inches
Derriere le Miroir (Behind the Mirror)
The art...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Terrazza
By Jeanette Pasin-Sloan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Terrazza
Lithograph, 1987
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Published by Kandfall Press, Chicago (their stamp verso)
Landfall drystamp recto lower left
Edition 125 (92/125)
Provenance: Stanley Yulish, Cleveland, Ohio
Reference: Szoke 23
Condition: Excellent, never matted ir framed
Image size: 19 3/4 x 15 1/2"
Sheet Size: 27" x 22"
"Jeanette Pasin Sloan's paintings, drawings, and prints display technical feats of virtuosity. The artist uses a photo-realistic style to depict reflective objects set against patterned backgrounds. However, she subverts both genre and style, infusing the traditional genre of still life painting with highly abstract tendencies. Closely-cropped, and set in carefully manipulated compositions, the subject matter of Pasin Sloan's work takes second stage to its formal intensity.
Pasin Sloan was born in Chicago in 1946. She graduated from Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York, and received an MFA in graphic arts from the University of Chicago...
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Engraver's Tools
By Armin Landeck
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Engraver's Tools
Engraving, 1974
Signed and annotated in pencil by the artist (see photos)
This a "Trial Proof" impression with graphite additions
Regular Edition: 100
References And...
Category
1970s American Modern Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
Minneapolis at Dusk
By Richard Haas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Minneapolis at Dusk
Etching & aquatint printed in colors, 1993
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 65 (19/65)
Condition: Excellent
This image depicts the Wells Fargo Center designed by Cesar Pelli
Richard Haas (American, b.1936) is a practitioner of the trompe l'oeil artistic style, a technique that uses realistic images in a way that tricks the eye into perceiving the painting in three dimensions. Haas has painted hundreds of murals that incorporate trompe l'oeil methods in the depiction of the architectural features of the building. He was born in Spring Greene but grew up in Milwaukee, WI. He graduated in 1959 from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Bachelor in Art. Instructors for his courses included Joseph Friebert (American, 1908–2002) and Robert Von Neuman (German, 1888–1976).
Haas returned to his birthplace to work as a helper for his stonemason uncle, and he had an opportunity to view the work of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867–1959). He spent several years as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan before he moved to New York City in 1968. Haas spent 10 years teaching at Vermont's Bennington College, splitting his time between the school and New York. Haas worked for many years as an Abstract painter who used traditional canvas media. He later developed an interest in drawing and etching the details of late 19th century and early 20th century New York City buildings.
The artist’s first outdoor mural, a commission to paint the cast iron façade at the corner of Prince Street and Greene Street, was completed in 1975. His other notable murals include Fort Worth, Texas' Homage to Chisholm Trail...
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Pyramus and Thisbe
By Augustus Edwin John
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pyramus and Thisbe
Etching, c.1906
Signed along bottom edge in pencil "Augustus E John"
Edition: 25
Reference: Dodgson 91 ii/II
Condition: Excellent
Plate: 5 1/8 x 4" (13.02 x 10.16 ...
Category
Early 1900s Young British Artists (YBA) Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Dejeuner sur l'Herbe
By After Paul Cezanne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dejeuner sur l'Herbe
Lithograph, c. 1914
Edition: c. 100
Unsigned as issued by Vollard
References And Exhibitions:
Commissioned from Cezanne by Ambrose Vollard in the late 1890s
Prin...
Category
1910s French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Trio
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Trio
Color aquatint, 1938
Edition 250 printed on Montval wove paper with Maillol watermark
From: Les Fleurs de Mal III (12 color aquatints)
Published by A...
Category
1930s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Boys Sledding
By John Sloan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Boys Sledding
Etching, 1920
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist below image (see photos)
Annotated in pencil by the artist "100 proofs"
Signed and dated in the plate lower left...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Tug Boat in New York Harbor
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Tug Boat in New York Harbor
Screen print, c. 1942
Signed in the screen lower right (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 16 x 20 inches
Published by Li...
Category
1940s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Deux Antillaise (Deux Négresses)
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Deux Antillaise (Deux Négresses)
Edition: Proof on Van Gelder paper
Unsigned (as usual for this image)
Edition: unknown
Published by Ambrose Vollard, Paris (?)
References: Johnson 25...
Category
1920s French School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate I
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate I
Color lithograph, 1976
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 99 (6/99)
From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buque Fantasma
(The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship (1868), 12 illustration by Wilfredo Lam
This one of an edition of 99 from the delixe edition of the book of the same title
There was an additional edition of 200 books, signed and numbered on the justification page
Publisher: Poligrafa, Barcelona
Printer: Poligrafa, Barcelona
The Gabriel Garcia Marquez/Lam book is an illustrated version of the short story, a man recalls the night during his boyhood when an enormous passenger ship went aground in his small town on the shores of the Caribbean. It is considered a Latin American masterpiece of surrealism and transculturation. (See below analysis of the story)
Reference: Lam-Tonneau-Ryckelnck CR 351
Condition: very good, slight scuffing on reverse from previous hinges
About the author and the storyline of the book by Marquez:
Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927, he is a famous Colombian writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. In 1982 he received the Novel Prize for Literature. He is an author sometimes inherently related to magical realism and his best-known work is the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude in which we find this literary genre.
Summary of "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" (1868):
The novel by Gabriel García Márquez, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, written in 1968, is written in a single great sentence, which tells the surprising and amazing adventure that has changed the existence of a child living in a coastal town with a small port sunny, almost forgotten by civilization. The days are peaceful, the nights are silent and illuminated only by the rotating beacon that, every fifteen seconds, transforms the town into a lunar camp with phosphorescent houses. During one night in March, the boy saw an immense afterlife ship that sails through the seas with all the dead crew and sometimes appears to the living, silently crossing the deserted sea, a huge and unexpected mass whose trajectory suddenly it seems to drift, and then runs aground on the reefs. This cataclysm is accomplished without disturbing the night's silence, and the next day the boy found no traces of the shipwreck and no one believed it, not even his mother. Time passes, and the same shipwreck occurs again, every year, on the same night in March; the adolescent...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate IV
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Fairlawn, OH
El Ultimo viaje del buque fantasma, Plate IV
Color lithograph, 1976
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
From: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, El Ultimo viaie del buque Fantasma
(The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship (1868), 12 illustration by Wilfredo Lam
Edition: 99 (6/99)
This one of an edition of 99 from the deluxe edition of the book of the same title
There was an additional edition of 200 books, signed and numbered on the justification page
Publisher: Poligrafa, Barcelona
Printer: Poligrafa, Barcelona
The Gabriel Garcia Marquez/Lam book is an illustrated version of the short story, a man recalls the night during his boyhood when an enormous passenger ship went aground in his small town on the shores of the Caribbean. It is considered a Latin American masterpiece of surrealism and transculturation. (See below analysis of the story)
Condition: slight yellows (aging) of paper
small paper scuffs verso from previous hinges
Sheet size: 22 x 29 7/8 inches
About the author and the storyline of the book by Marquez:
Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927, he is a famous Colombian writer, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist. In 1982 he received the Novel Prize for Literature. He is an author sometimes inherently related to magical realism and his best-known work is the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude in which we find this literary genre.
Summary of "The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship" (1868):
The novel by Gabriel García Márquez, The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship, written in 1968, is written in a single great sentence, which tells the surprising and amazing adventure that has changed the existence of a child living in a coastal town with a small port sunny, almost forgotten by civilization. The days are peaceful, the nights are silent and illuminated only by the rotating beacon that, every fifteen seconds, transforms the town into a lunar camp with phosphorescent houses. During one night in March, the boy saw an immense afterlife ship that sails through the seas with all the dead crew and sometimes appears to the living, silently crossing the deserted sea, a huge and unexpected mass whose trajectory suddenly it seems to drift, and then runs aground on the reefs. This cataclysm is accomplished without disturbing the night's silence, and the next day the boy found no traces of the shipwreck and no one believed it, not even his mother. Time passes, and the same shipwreck occurs again, every year, on the same night in March; the adolescent...
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait De Cezanne
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait De Cezanne
Lithograph, 1914
Unsigned (as issued in 1914)
Edition: Either 100 (per Roger Marx) or 400 impressions on various papers
Published in, Cezanne, Bernheim Jeune, 1914
Reference:
Roger-Marx 51 ii/II, printed in greenish-grey ink on laid paper
Condition: Excellent
Image: 9 1/2 x 9"
Sheet: 14 3/4 x 11 1/8"
Edouard Vuillard
French, 1868 - 1940
Vuillard's work straddles two centuries: he was a major post-impressionist in the 1890s, as well as a participant in the renewal of decorative art before and after 1900. Vuillard was one of the central figures of "Les Nabis...
Category
1910s French School Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Still Life No. 5
By William H. Bailey
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Still Life No. 5
Lithograph, 1978
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 50 (24/50)
Published by Solo Press, New York, 1978
Printer: Judith Solodkin, first femal ...
Category
1970s American Realist Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Still Life)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Still Life)
Etching, aquatint and soft ground, 2001
Signed in pencil (see photo)
Edition: 260
Published by the Print Club of Cleveland, Publication 80, 2002
Printed by Felix Harlan at Harlan and Weaver, New York
William Bailey, Modernist Figurative Painter, Dies at 89
He swathed his nudes and still lifes of eggs, vases, bottles and bowls in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery.
The painter William Bailey in 2009. He was never given a career survey in a major museum, but his influence, particulary on students at Yale, was deep.Credit...Ford Bailey
By William Grimes for the New York Times
April 18, 2020
William Bailey, whose pristine, idealized still lifes and female nudes made him one of the leading figures in the return of figurative art in the 1980s, died on April 13 at his home in Branford, Conn. He was 89.
His death was confirmed by his daughter, Alix Bailey.
Beyond his painting, Mr. Bailey influenced generations of students in his many years as a teacher at the Yale School of Art.
In some of his best-known work, Mr. Bailey arranged simple objects — the eggs, bowls, bottles and vases that he once called “my repertory company” — along a severe horizontal shelf, or on a plain table, swathing them in a breathless, deceptively serene atmosphere heavy with mystery.
His muted ochres, grays and powdery blues conjured up a still, timeless world inhabited by Platonic forms, recognizable but uncanny, in part because he painted from imagination rather than
“They are at once vividly real and objects in dream, and it is the poetry of this double life that elevates all this humble crockery to the realm of pictorial romance,” Hilton Kramer wrote in The New York Times in 1979.
Mr. Bailey’s female figures, some clothed in a simple shift or robe and others partly or entirely nude, are disconcertingly impassive, implacable and unreadable, fleshly presences breathing an otherworldly air.
The critic Mark Stevens, writing in Newsweek in 1982, credited Mr. Bailey with helping to “restore representational art to a position of consequence in modern painting.”
But his version of representation was entirely idiosyncratic, seemingly traditional but in fact “a modernism so contrarian,” the artist Alexi Worth wrote in a catalog essay for the Betty Cuningham Gallery in 2010, “that it feels, despite its historical sophistication, almost like a brand of outsider art.”
William Harrison Bailey was born on Nov. 17, 1930, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. His father, Willard, worked in radio advertising and moved the family from city to city in the Midwest. Bill was in his early teens when his father died. His mother, Marjorie (Cheyney) Bailey, was a homemaker who later worked as an accountant for her second husband, Fred...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Peintre et Son Modele
By Hans Erni
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Peintre et Son Modele
Color lithograph on BFK Rives paper
Numbered and signed in pencil by the artist
Edition 200 (77/200) printed in color...
Category
1960s French School Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Arising
By Alessandro Mastro-Valerio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arising
Mezzotint, 1942
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Publisher : Issued by the Miniature Print Collectors Society.
Edition: 200
Condition: Mint
Archival framing with Museum Glass
Image/Plate size: 2 3/8 x 2 7/8 inches
Sheet size: 3 3/4 x 4 5/8 inches
Archival Framed: 17 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches
Mastro-Valerio was educated at the Salvador Rosa Institute in Naples, Italy (1906-1912), and came to the U.S. in 1913. He settled in Chicago, and after a brief period as a commerical artist, established a portrait studio near the Loop. Among his patrons were the industrialists Harvey S...
Category
1940s American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Three Lilies
By Joseph Goldyne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three Lilies
Monotype on Arches wove paper, 1980
Signed, titled and dated in pencil by the artist
Dimensions: 13 x 18-5/8" (33 x 47.2 cm.): Sheet dimensions are sight size; Plate: 11...
Category
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Monoprint
Female Nude - Standing Female Nude (Havard)
By Elie Nadelman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Female Nude - Standing Female Nude (Havard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned, as issued in the portfolio
No signed impression are known to exist
From: The Drypoint...
Category
1920s American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Woman's Head - Woman's Head in Profile (left) (Havard)
By Elie Nadelman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman's Head - Woman's Head in Profile (left) (Havard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned (as issued)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from th...
Category
1920s American Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
En passant (Passing by)
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En passant (Passing by)
Drypoint, 1909
Unsigned (as issued in the deluxe portfolio)
From the album "Les Bars" (8 plates plus cover illustration)
Edition: 30, this state with remarque
Published by Gustav Pellet, Paris
A very rich impression wwith burr
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 9 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches
Reference: Arwas 391a (remarque)
Exteens 277 i/II
IFF 148 (portfolio)
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906.
Life
Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops.
Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all."
Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine.
Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891.
In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes).
Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others.
He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion.
Books illustrated
de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905.
Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint
La Negresse (The Negress)
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Negresse (The Negress)
Etching & drypoint, 1909
Unsigned (as issued in the portfolio)
From the album "Les Bars" (8 plates plus cover illustration)
Editi...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Interior Prints
Materials
Etching
A L'Ombre (In Shadow)
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A L'Ombre (In Shadow)
Etching & drypoint, 1905
Signed with the red stamp of the publisher Pellet (see photo)
Edition: 50 on velin paper, signed and numbered
Publisher: Gustav Pellet, Paris (his red stamp lower right, recto; Lugt 1193)
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 5-7/8 x 8-5/8" (14.8 x 21.8 cm.)
Sheet size: 11 5/8 x 17 1/8"
Reference: IFF 119
Exteens 229
Arwas 256 v/V
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906.
Life
Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops.
Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all."
Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine.
Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891.
In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes).
Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others.
He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion.
Books illustrated
de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905.
Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
L'Aieule (The Grandmother)
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'Aieule (The Grandmother)
Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1904
Signed with the red stamp of the publisher, Gustave Pellet, Lugt 1193 and numbered (see photo)
Edition: 100 (81/100)
Reference: Arwas 202 iv/IV
IFF 98
Condition: Excellent, the sheet aged as usual
Image size: 14 1/4 x 18 5/8"
Sheet size: 16 15/16 x 24 1/4"
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906.
Life
Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops.
Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all."
Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine.
Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891.
In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes).
Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others.
He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion.
Books illustrated
de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905.
Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
La Toilette
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Toilette
Drypoint, 1908
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Edition: 65 this state (35/65)
Published by Gustave Pellet (1859-1919),...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Danseuses s'habillant (Laurence adjusting her hair and Mignon adjusting clothes
By Louis Legrand
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Danseuses s'habillant (Laurence adjusting her hair and Mignon adjusting hre clothes)
Drypoint & aquatint, 1893
Signed in the plate (see photo)
After the division of the plate into A. 81 (as here) and A. 82 Divant la glace
Editon 100 printed on velin paper
Issued by Pellet in the set, Les Petites du Ballet, Gustave Pellet editeur, 1893
(13 plates), second state (b) without remarque
Reference: Arwas 81, top portion of the plate vii/VIII
Plate/Image size: 6 x 8 7/16 inches
Condition: excellent
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906.
Life
Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops.
Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all."
Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine.
Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891.
In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes).
Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Red to Green Portal
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Red to Green Portal
Aquatint, 1979
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: 95 (84/95), see photo
Provenance:
U.S. Representative James A. Leach
Condition: Excelle...
Category
1970s Op Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Aquatint
America's Mom II (Small Leticia)
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
America's Mom II (Small Leticia)
Lithograph, 2016
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist
Series: America's Family II (Four images)
Edition: 40, of which 20 were retained by the artist
This imp 33/40
Printer: James Reed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait de petite fille, en buste, cheveux sur les epaules (Ellen 14 ans)
By Paul César Helleu
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Portrait de petite fille, en buste, cheveux sur les epaules (Ellen 14 ans) Portrait of a little girl, bust, hair on shoulders)
Drypoint, 1902
Signed lower right corner
Very small edition
Portrait of the artist's daughter Ellen, at age 14.
Title inscribed into the plate upper left
Brilliant impression full of burr
No stated edition, proofs only, less than 10 imps
Unidnetified collector's mark verso: Initials "PH", not in Lugt
Reference: Laran, IFF No. 390
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate eize: 14 3/4 x 12 5/8 inches
Sheet size: 25 x 16 inches
"Paul César Helleu was born in Vannes, Brittany, France. His father, who was a customs inspector, died when Helleu was in his teens. Despite opposition from his mother, he then went to Paris and studied at Lycée Chaptal. In 1876, at age 16, he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts, beginning academic training in art with Jean-Léon Gérôme. Helleu attended the Second Impressionist Exhibition in the same year, and made his first acquaintances with John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Claude Monet. He was struck by their modern, bold alla prima technique and outdoor scenes, so far removed from the studio. Following graduation, Helleu took a job with the firm Théodore Deck Ceramique Française hand-painting fine decorative plates. At this same time, he met Giovanni Boldini, a portrait painter with a facile, bravura style, who became a mentor and comrade, and strongly influenced his future artistic style.
When he was 18 years old, Helleu established a close friendship with John Singer Sargent, four years his senior, that was to last his lifetime. Already becoming established, Sargent was receiving commissions for his work. Helleu had not sold anything, and was deeply discouraged almost to the point of abandoning his studies. When Sargent heard this, he went to Helleu and picked one of his paintings, praising his technique. Flattered that Sargent would praise his work, he offered to give it to him. Sargent replied, "I shall gladly accept this, Helleu, but not as a gift. I sell my own pictures, and I know what they cost me by the time they are out of my hand. I should never enjoy this pastel if I hadn't paid you a fair and honest price for it." With this he paid him a thousand-franc note.
Helleu was commissioned in 1884 to paint a portrait of a young woman named Alice Guérin (1870–1933). They fell in love, and married on 28 July 1886. Throughout their lives together, she was his favourite model. Charming, refined and graceful, she helped introduce them to the aristocratic circles of Paris, where they became popular fixtures.
On a trip to London with Jacques-Émile Blanche in 1885, Helleu met Whistler again and visited other prominent artists. His introduction to James Jacques Tissot, an accomplished society painter from France who made his career in England, proved a revelation. In Tissot, Helleu saw, for the first time, the possibilities of drypoint etching with a diamond point stylus directly on a copper plate. Helleu quickly became a virtuoso of the technique, drawing with the same dynamic and sophisticated freedom with his stylus as with his pastels. His prints were very well received, and they had the added advantage that a sitter could have several proofs printed to give to relations or friends. Over the course of his career, Helleu produced more than 2,000 drypoint prints.
Soon, Helleu was displaying works to much acclaim at several galleries. Degas encouraged him to submit paintings to the Eighth Impressionist Exhibition in May and June 1886. The show was installed in a Paris apartment at 1 rue Laffitte, which ran concurrently with the official Salon that year to make a statement. Although 17 artists joined the famous exhibit that included the first Neo-Impressionistic works, Helleu, like Monet, refused to participate.
Paul Helleu Sketching with His Wife (1889), by John Singer Sargent, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
In 1886, Helleu befriended Robert de Montesquiou, the poet and aesthete, who bought six of his drypoints to add to his large print collection. Montesquiou later wrote a book about Helleu that was published in 1913 with reproductions of 100 of his prints and drawings. This volume remains the definitive biography of Helleu. Montesquiou introduced Helleu to Parisian literary salons, where he met Marcel Proust, who also became a friend. Proust created a literary picture of Helleu in his novel Remembrance of Things Past as the painter Elstir. (Later, Helleu engraved a well-known portrait of Proust on his deathbed.) Montesquiou's cousin, the Countess Greffulhe, enabled Helleu to expand his career as a portrait artist to elegant women in the highest ranks of Paris society, portraits that provide the basis for his modern reputation. His subjects included the Duchess of Marlborough, the Marchesa Casati, Belle da Costa Greene, Louise Chéruit, and Helena Rubinstein.
Looking for new inspiration, Helleu began a series of paintings and color prints of cathedrals and stained glass windows in 1893, followed by flower studies and landscapes of parks in Versailles. Helleu took up sailing, owning four yachts over his life. Ships, harbor views, life at port in Deauville, and women in their fashionable seaside attire became subjects for many vivid and spirited works.
In 1904, Helleu was awarded the Légion d'honneur and became one of the most celebrated artists of the Edwardian era in both Paris and London. He was an honorary member in important beaux-arts societies, including the International Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, headed by Auguste Rodin, and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
On his second trip to the United States in 1912, Helleu was awarded the commission to design was the ceiling decoration in New York City's Grand Central Terminal. He decided on a mural of a blue-green night...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Miss Taylor
By Paul César Helleu
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Miss Taylor
Drypoint, c. 1900
Signed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Small edition, about 10
Very rich impression, full of burr
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 21-1/4 x 13-1/4"
Sheet size: 25 3/8 x 18 5/8"
Reference: Montesquiou XII
Paul César Helleu was born in Vannes, Brittany, France. His father, who was a customs inspector, died when Helleu was in his teens. Despite opposition from his mother, he then went to Paris and studied at Lycée Chaptal. In 1876, at age 16, he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts, beginning academic training in art with Jean-Léon Gérôme. Helleu attended the Second Impressionist Exhibition in the same year, and made his first acquaintances with John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, and Claude Monet. He was struck by their modern, bold alla prima technique and outdoor scenes, so far removed from the studio. Following graduation, Helleu took a job with the firm Théodore Deck Ceramique Française hand-painting fine decorative plates. At this same time, he met Giovanni Boldini, a portrait painter with a facile, bravura style, who became a mentor and comrade, and strongly influenced his future artistic style.
When he was 18 years old, Helleu established a close friendship with John Singer Sargent, four years his senior, that was to last his lifetime. Already becoming established, Sargent was receiving commissions for his work. Helleu had not sold anything, and was deeply discouraged almost to the point of abandoning his studies. When Sargent heard this, he went to Helleu and picked one of his paintings, praising his technique. Flattered that Sargent would praise his work, he offered to give it to him. Sargent replied, "I shall gladly accept this, Helleu, but not as a gift. I sell my own pictures, and I know what they cost me by the time they are out of my hand. I should never enjoy this pastel if I hadn't paid you a fair and honest price for it." With this he paid him a thousand-franc note.
Helleu was commissioned in 1884 to paint a portrait of a young woman named Alice Guérin (1870–1933). They fell in love, and married on 28 July 1886. Throughout their lives together, she was his favourite model. Charming, refined and graceful, she helped introduce them to the aristocratic circles of Paris, where they became popular fixtures.
On a trip to London with Jacques-Émile Blanche in 1885, Helleu met Whistler again and visited other prominent artists. His introduction to James Jacques Tissot, an accomplished society painter from France who made his career in England, proved a revelation. In Tissot, Helleu saw, for the first time, the possibilities of drypoint etching with a diamond point stylus directly on a copper plate. Helleu quickly became a virtuoso of the technique, drawing with the same dynamic and sophisticated freedom with his stylus as with his pastels. His prints were very well received, and they had the added advantage that a sitter could have several proofs printed to give to relations or friends. Over the course of his career, Helleu produced more than 2,000 drypoint prints.
Soon, Helleu was displaying works to much acclaim at several galleries. Degas encouraged him to submit paintings to the Eighth Impressionist Exhibition in May and June 1886. The show was installed in a Paris apartment at 1 rue Laffitte, which ran concurrently with the official Salon that year to make a statement. Although 17 artists joined the famous exhibit that included the first Neo-Impressionistic works, Helleu, like Monet, refused to participate.
Paul Helleu Sketching with His Wife (1889), by John Singer Sargent, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
In 1886, Helleu befriended Robert de Montesquiou, the poet and aesthete, who bought six of his drypoints to add to his large print collection. Montesquiou later wrote a book about Helleu that was published in 1913 with reproductions of 100 of his prints and drawings. This volume remains the definitive biography of Helleu. Montesquiou introduced Helleu to Parisian literary salons, where he met Marcel Proust, who also became a friend. Proust created a literary picture of Helleu in his novel Remembrance of Things Past as the painter Elstir. (Later, Helleu engraved a well-known portrait of Proust on his deathbed.) Montesquiou's cousin, the Countess Greffulhe, enabled Helleu to expand his career as a portrait artist to elegant women in the highest ranks of Paris society, portraits that provide the basis for his modern reputation. His subjects included the Duchess of Marlborough, the Marchesa Casati...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Seven
By Robert Indiana
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Seven
Screen print, 1968
Unsigned (as issued)
Edition: 2500
From: Number (10 plates), with poems by Robert Creeley
Printer: Domberger KG, Stuttgart
Publisher: Edition Domberger Stutt...
Category
1960s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Old Houses in Amsterdam
By T.F. Simon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Old Houses in Amsterdam
Drypoint, 1909
Signed and dedicated in pencil lower right.
"A Mr. H. A. Webster, bien sympathiquement, T.F. Simon, Paris 26/10"
Simon...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint
Figure Study (From Interior: Evening)
By Stone Roberts
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and numbered by the artist
Edition: 25
Printed on Hahnemuhle paper
Published by Neptune Fine Arts
Condition: excellent
Plate/Image size:
Sheet size:
"Stone Roberts’ luminous still lifes, private interiors, and large-scale panoramas of figures in motion invite us to look—and then look some more—and relish in the sensuality of the three-dimensional world. While Roberts’ varied influences include Greek Mythology and Roman Classicism, Dutch and Spanish Old Masters, Fantin-Latour, Ingres, and Balthus, his subjects are decidedly of today. From Grand Central Terminal to his wife gardening in Stonington, Connecticut, Roberts paints people and places from his personal surroundings into formal compositions that often appear to have mythical, literary, or psychological elements. Roberts received his B.A. from Yale University, New Haven, CT, where he studied painting with William Bailey, and his M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, and Rome.
Roberts' work can be found in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, including the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louis-Dreyfus Family Collection, New York.
A solo exhibition of Stone Roberts’ work was held at the Museum of the City of New York in 2012 entitled Stone Roberts: New York City Paintings." Courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Modern
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Sydney and Walda Besthoff
Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC
Mrs. Robert Carroll
Mr. and Mrs. Willam Cecil
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN
Jerald Dillon Fessenden
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Ms. Barbara Goldsmith
Mrs. Paul Gottlieb
Mr. and Mrs. Graham Gund
Mr. and Mrs. Arie L. Kopelman
Alex S. Jones
William Louis-Dreyfus
Mr. and Mrs. James C. Marlas
J.D. McClatchy and Chip Kidd
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Menschel
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mrs. Stephen Paine
Mr. and Mrs. W.J.W.J. van Roijen
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald II
Mark Singer
Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa
Stephens Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas
Woodberry Forest...
Category
20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Cluster of Grapes in Folded Napkin
By Stone Roberts
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cluster of Grapes in Folded Napkin
Etching, 2006
Signed and numbered by the artist (see photo)
Edition: 25 (8/25), see photo
Printed on Hahnemuhle pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Girl's Head - Woman's Head (Harvard)
By Elie Nadelman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Girl's Head - Woman's Head (Harvard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned (as issued)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from the original zinc and copper plates, 1952
Published by Curt Valentin, New York
Edition: unknown
Printed by Charles S. White, master printer
Printed on Van Gelder Zonen laid paper with armorial watermark
A complete portfolio is in the collection of Harvard Art...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Profile Bust of a Girl - Woman's Head in Profile (Havard)
By Elie Nadelman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Profile Bust of a Girl - Woman's Head in Profile (Havard)
Drypoint, 1920
Unsigned (as issued)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, proof from ...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Toro and Horse
By Ralston Crawford
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Toro and Horse
Lithograph, 1957
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.
Titled in pencil lower left.
Edition: 25 (24/25)
Printer: Ravel, Paris
Reference: Freeman L57.11
'Toro and Horse' was inspired by Spanish bullfighting...
Category
1950s Cubist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
America's Daughter
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
America's Daughter
Lithograph, 2016
Signed in pencil lower right
Edition: Edition: 40 (15/40)
From: America's Family (Five Images)
Published by: Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Dallas, Texas and Thomas French Fine Art, LLC, Fairlawn, Ohio.
Printed on Arches paper by James Reed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
America's Son
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil lower right
Edition: 40
From: America’s Family (Five Images)
Published by Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Dallas, Texas and Thomas French Fine Art, LLC, Fairlawn, Ohio.
Printed on Arches paper by James Reed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Thirsty: The Appearance of a Town Geisha - a So-Called Wine-Server - in the Anse
By Taiso Yoshitoshi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Thirsty: The Appearance of a Town Geisha - a So-Called Wine-Server - in the Ansei Era
Color woodcut, 1888
Signed; Seal: Taiso (see photo)
Plate 22 from the series "Thirty-two Aspects...
Category
1880s Showa Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Le Clown Blanc (The White Clown)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Clown Blanc (The White Clown)
Lithograph, 1964
Unsigned (as issued by DLM)
From: Derriere le Miroir Chagall: Dessins et Lavis, Exposition...
Category
1960s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Irish Fair
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irish Fair
Lithograph, 1923
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photo)
Titled "Irish Fair" by the artist in pencil
Edition: 84
Housed in an archival frame with acid free...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Infant Christ and St. John Playing with the Lamb, after Peter Paul Rubens
By Christoffel Jegher
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Infant Christ and St. John Playing with the Lamb,
after Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Woodcut, trimmed and tipped to support
Initialed in the block bottom ...
Category
1630s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Woodcut
The Forge
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Forge
Drypoint, 1861
Signed in the plate lower right (see photo)
Published as part of the Thames Set, 1871
Printed between 1894 and 1896 when the plate was canceled. This impress...
Category
1860s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Barges, Dordrecht
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Barges, Dordrecht
Etching, c. 1886
Signed in the plate with the butterfly
Edition: One of 10 known impressions of this image. VERY RARE
Provenance:
Frederick Keppel & Co. with their ...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Shoe Box (D)
By Allen Jones
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Shoe Box (D)
Lithograph printed on BFK Rives
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
From: Shoe Box-Exotic (Sculpture and seven original li...
Category
1960s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Shoe Box (C)
By Allen Jones
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Shoe Box (C)
From: Shoe Box-Exotic (Sculpture and seven original lithographs)
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
Lithograph printed on ...
Category
1960s Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Shoe Box (Title Page)
By Allen Jones
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Shoe Box (Title Page)
From: Shoe Box-Exotic (Sculpture and seven original lithographs)
Published by the artist and Peterssburg Press
Edition: 200 of which thi...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen