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Bullfight
By Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bullfight
Lithograph, 1928
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Numbered lower left (see photo)
Edition: 41 (22/41)
Reference: Davis L37
Printed chine applique on wove ...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Prelude de Lohengrin (2e planche) (The Appearance of the Holy Grail)
By Henri Fantin-Latour
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Prelude de Lohengrin (2e planche) (The appearance of the Holy Grail)
Lithograph, 1898
Signed and dated in the stone lower left (see photo)
Printed on chine collee paper
Condition...
Category
1890s Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Corinne
By Maurice Réalier-Dumas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Corinne
Color lithograph, 1898
Signed in the stone lower left (see photo)
Published in L’Estampe Moderne with their blindstamp lower right corner, Lugt 2790 (see photo)
Edition 2000
...
Category
1890s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, ...
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, the taste of bitterness)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922
Unsigned as ...
Category
1920s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Jugentud (Youth)
By Jorge Dumas
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jugentud (Youth)
Color lithograph, 1975
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 250 (67/250)
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Published by Circle Gallery Ltd...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Irving Place Burlesk
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irving Place Burlesque
Etching, 1930
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edition)
Numbered in pencil lower left
Blind stamp of the Whitney Museum (WM) lower right
From: Reginald Marsh...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Heureux age! (Happy Age!)
By Victor Mignot
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Heureux age! (Happy Age!)
Etching and aquatint. c, 1900
Signed lower right in pencil
Edition; 50 (14/50)
Published by Edmund Sagot, Paris
Sagot blindstamp, Lugt 2254, lower right
Con...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
The Barker
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Barker
Etching, 1931
Unsigned (as usual for the Whitney edition)
Numbered in pencil lower left
Blind stamp of the Whitney Museum (WM) lower right
From: Reginald Marsh, Thirty Etc...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Four End Girls
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lithograph, 1930
Edition: 20; this print numbered 9/20
Printed by Meister Schulz, Berlin
Excellent condition
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Cr...
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, ...
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, the taste of bitterness)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922
Unsigned as ...
Category
1920s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
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 ...
Category
1920s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench)
By James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench)
Mezzotint and engraving on cream chine collé laid down on ivory wove paper, 1883
Signed in the plate (see photo)
Condition: Brilliant impression...
Category
1880s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Bacchanal
By Giovanni Andrea Podestà
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bacchanal
Etching, 1649
Inscribed in the square left: "Magnificentis/simo Principi/Paolo lorda/no. II Bracci/ani Duci/Aud. P.DDD/1640; Inscribed on right: Rome apud Franciscsum Saluucium
Condition: Usual centerfolds from paper manufacture
Plate: 10 3/8 x 15 1/2"
Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/2";
References:
Bartsch XX.4
Sopher Plate 145
An impression of this image is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art, Washington
An exceptionally rich impression in excellent condition.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Putti as Allegory of Music
Giovanni Andrea Podestà or Giovanni Andrea Podesta (1608 - c. 1674) was an Italian painter and engraver who was principally active in Rome. His principal subject matter is children playing in landscapes with classical objects. His works show the influence of Poussin's Arcadian landscapes and bacchanals, which were ultimately derived from Titian's bacchanals.
Life
Giovanni Andrea Podestà was born in Genoa. He was formed in Genoa with Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari and Domenico Fiasella according to the information provided by the contemporary Genoese biographer Raffaele Soprani. He is also recorded as an apprentice of Giovanni Battista Paggi in 1627.
His presence is documented from in 1634 in Rome where he made drawings after the statues and ancient reliefs at the famous Giustiniani collection. These were subsequently engraved for publication in the 'Galleria Giustiniani'. The artist's career ran a course similar to that of the young Domenico Fiasella. In Rome his art evolved in contact with the works of Poussin, Andrea di Leone, Pietro Testa...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
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...
Category
1890s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
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...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
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...
Category
1920s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
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...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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: ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
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...
Category
1870s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
L'ACTEUR . . . . - On voit bien qu'il fait chaud . . . . . . . trois spectateurs
By Honoré Daumier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
L'ACTEUR . . . . - On voit bien qu'il fait chaud . . . . . . . trois spectateurs dans la salle ..... faut-il commencer ? . . . .
LE DIRECTEUR .- Et encore un des trois est le vendeu...
Category
1850s Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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 faded to brown
Image size: 17 x 22 1/4 inches
Sheet size: 21 5/8 x 28 1/2 inches
This is the second of three version of this image (a aquatint/heliogravure (1927, this lithograph (1933) and a color aquatint (1938).
Reference:
Francois Chapon and Isabelle Rouault, Rouault Oeuvre Grave (Monte Carlo: Editions Andre Sauret, 1978), 364 viii/VIII, third edition of 175 printed in 1933.
There is also a etching/heliogravure as well as a color aquatint version of this image. It is considered to by an important image in Rouault's work and recognized as a famous print...
Category
1920s French School Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
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...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Peintre et Modele
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Peintre et Modele
Etching and aquatint on Rives wove paper, 1966
Signature stamp lower right (see photo)
Annotated in pencil lower left: "epreuve avant acierage" (see photo)
One of t...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
The Hold Up, First State
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil by the artist lower right
Titled "Hold Up" by the artist in pencil.
Signed by the printer Bolton Brown lower left.
Edition: 42 in this state
Note: In The Hold Up, se...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Plate 12
By Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate 12
From: 10 Origi, 1942
Signed in the block with the artist's initials lower left (printed)
From: 10 Origin
Not from the First edition 100, published by Allianz-Verlag, Zurich,...
Category
1970s Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
In Search of New Beginnings
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
In Search of New Beginnings
Screen print, 2021
Signed in pencil with the artist's initials lower right
Titled lower right
Numbered lower center
Condition: Mint
Sheet size: 11 3/16 x 10 inches
Edition: 20
Printed by Rebekah A. Wilhelm, Cleveland, master printer
This screen print is related to the artist's first public sculpture commission, created for the Cleveland Public Library...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
America's Mom
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
America's Mom
Lithograph, 2016
Signed lower right (see photo)
Numbered lower left
From: America’s Family (Intended suite of five Images, only four produced)
Edition: 40, (20 of which...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Morita Kanya XIII As Genta Kagesue in the play Genta Kando
By Natori Shunsen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Morita Kanya XIII As Genta Kagesue in the play Genta Kando
Color woodcut, 1928
Signed and stamped middle right edge
Natori stamp lower left image edge
Series: Collection of Creative...
Category
1920s Showa Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
By Manuel Robbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Tasse de The (The Cup of Tea)
Color aquatint and etching, c. 1906
Signed in pencil in the image (see photo)
Edition: c. 100
Reference: Merrill Chase, Volume 1, No. 85
Condition: F...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
St. Valentine's Day -- The Old Story in All Lands
By Winslow Homer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
St. Valentine's Day -- The Old Story in All Lands
Wood engraving, 1868
Published in: Harper's Weekly, February 22, 1868
Titled and signed in the block
Image size: 13 5/8 x 9 inches
C...
Category
1860s Hudson River School Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Olympian Games
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Olympian Games
Engraving, 1957
Signed, dated, titled and numbered (see photos)
Edition: 25 (7/25)
From the first and only edition, probably less than 8 impressions printed
Printed by the artist
Condition: Excellent
soft fold in upper left margin
Image size: 15 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches
Sheet size: 18 1/2 x 22 3/8 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Martha A. French Revocable Trust
Item Reference
LU14013763732
Crucifixion, color etching, 1947
Item Reference
LU14013160582
The Web, engraving, 1950
Item Reference
LU14011892032
The Swan, mixed media (etching & soft ground), 1957
Item Reference
LU1404294651
Snowy Egret, engraving, 1954, third edition c. 1990, printed by the master printer Jon Clemens
Item Reference
LU1402253433
Debris, color etching, c. 1940, printed by the artist at the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana
Item Reference
LU140331242
Crucifixion, engraving, 1958
Item Reference
LU140145330
Strange Animals, engraving, 1947
Item Reference
G130708140172
The Gull, engraving, 1955
Item Reference
LU14012448972
Moon Rays...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Der Kuss The Kiss (plate facing page 116)
By Peter Behrens
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Der Kuss The Kiss (plate facing page 116)
Color lithograph, 1898
Signed with the artist's initials in the image (see photo)
Published in Pan, Volume IV.2 (Jul-Aug-Sept 1898)
Publishe...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Foreign Soldiers from Five Countries at the Port of Yokohama
By Utagawa Yoshitora
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Foreign Soldiers from Five Countries at the Port of Yokohama
Color woodcut triptych, c. 1860's
Signed in the block lower left corner Signed: "Ichimosai Yoshitora ga"
Condition: Mounted to a rose colored silk backing (stable)
Staining (visible) in the joining of the right and center sheets
Colors very slightly faded
Image size: 15 3/8 x 31 3/8 inches (triptysch sheets joined to make one print)
The 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa opened Japan to the West. Curiosity about the never-before-seen foreigners spurred a market in Yokohama-e (Yokohama prints), named for the area to which foreign dignitaries and merchants were confined. Yoshitora became one of the best known and most active artists of the Yokohama-e school.
Utagawa Yoshitora (歌川 芳虎) was a designer of ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock prints and an illustrator of books and newspapers who was active from about 1850 to about 1880. He was born in Edo (modern Tokyo), but neither his date of birth nor date of death is known. However, he was the oldest pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi who excelled in prints of warriors, kabuki actors, beautiful women, and foreigners (Yokohama-e). He may not have seen any of the foreign scenes he depicted.
Yoshitora was prolific: he produced over 60 print series and illustrated over 100 books. In 1849 he produced an irreverent print called Dōke musha: Miyo no wakamochi ("Funny Warriors—Our Ruler's New Year's Rice Cakes"), which depicts Oda Nobunaga, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Crucifixion
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Crucifixion
Engraving, etching, and ground printed in colors, 1947
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
From the second printing by Jon Clemens, master printer in the 1990's
Done while the artist was at the Iowa Print Group, MFA Program, University of Iowa .
Condition: excellent
Image/Plate size: 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H...
Category
1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Plate X, Le Cocu Magnifique
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate X, Le Cocu Magnifique
Etching & aquatint, 1968
Unsigned
Edition: From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions printed on Rives BFK paper
There is also a signed edition of 30 im...
Category
1960s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Arashi Rikan II in an Osaka Kabuki Scene
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arashi Rikan II in an Osaka Kabuki Scene
Color woodcut, c. 1827
Signed middle left (see photo)
Titled upper left (see photo)
Format: oban
Publisher: Honsei
The actor, in character, d...
Category
1820s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Inari Kozo Tasaburo- Kabuki
By Utagawa Toyokuni
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Inari Kozo Tasaburo- Kabuki
Color woodcut, c. 1820
Signed: ‘Toyokuni’
Publisher: ‘Yamamoto Heikichi’
Censor: Hama and Magome
Very good impression and color
Sheet/Image size: 15 1/2 x...
Category
1820s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Coquette
By Victor Max Ninon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Coquette
Pochoir (silk screen) printed in colors, c. 1923-1925
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right; numbered in ink on the image, (see photo)
Edition: 250 (100/250) in pencil in image (see photo)
Image size: 10-1/2 x 12-3/4"
The artist won a gold medal in Paris in 1925 for his porchoirs
Victor Max Ninon (Vittorio Accornero de Testa, Italian, 1896-1982)
Biography
Vittorio Accornero de Testa was born in Casale Monferrato in 1896. He completed his first studies at the "Leardi" institute, but was forced to interrupt them due to the war events of the First World War . At 19 he was second lieutenant of the Alpine troops and in 1916 he took one of the first pilot's licenses. During the war he knows the bitterness of shooting down in air combat (for which he is decorated), but also the good fortune to stay alive, albeit with a disability. His art blossomed in the postwar period, first signing his works simply Ninon and then, probably at the suggestion of a French publisher, under the pseudonym of "Victor Max Ninon" (Victor and Max indicate strength and masculinity, Ninon boyhood) .In 1919 and 1924 he made illustrations for theGiornalino della Domenica , also together with his first wife Edina Altara , for Ardita and La Lettura . In 1923 he won the cover competition organized by the magazine El Hogar of Buenos Aires and in 1925 with his pochoirs he imposed himself in Paris at the international exhibition of modern decorative and industrial arts , obtaining a gold medal. In the same year he made two covers for the US magazine The Smart Set . In the 1920s he made numerous series of art deco style postcards for the Milanese publishing house Degami . On June 4, 1929, aGenoa embarks on the Conte Grande together with his wife Edina Altara , for New York . The two stayed in the American metropolis for a few months: in this period Accornero worked on the creation of theatrical sets and created some covers for Country Life magazine . Accornero gets awards and prizes, but the great economic crisis of the time and the nostalgia for Italy convince the two to return to their homeland, where they resume their activity as illustrators.
In 1934 Accornero moved to Milan, separated amicably from his wife and continued to dedicate himself to the illustration of children's books, abandoning the pseudonym Victor Max Ninon. It illustrates about 60 books, from the fables of Andersen , Perrault and Grimm , to the tales of Poe , as well as the famous Pinocchio and Cuore published by Mondadori, Mursia, Hoepli, Martello. Several books illustrated by Accornero have been published in French, Spanish, German and English. In addition to the periodicals already mentioned, he collaborates on the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Boys , Mondadori, and with the Italian magazines Lidel , Il Secolo XX, The Italian Illustration , Fantasies of Italy , The Woman , Cordelia , For You Lady , Grace , Metropolis , La Domenica del Corriere , The Corriere dei Piccoli .
In 1936 enters the world of cinema, creating sets and costumes for Wedding Vagabonde of Guido Brignone and The White Squadron of Augustus Genina . From 1935 to 1950 he also devoted himself to the theater, taking care of sets and costumes for numerous operettas, ballets and performances at the Scala in Milan and for the Milanese theaters Manzoni, Lirico and Olympia. Stages Marcello di Giordano, Nina pazza d'amore by Paisiello, I cantori di Nurimberga by Wagner, La Bohème by Puccini and other works. For this activity he is also cited in the Theater encyclopedia.
In the 1940s and 1950s he wrote and illustrated six books for children for Mondadori: Tomaso (1944), Giacomino (1949), Tomaso Cacciatore (1950), Zio Stefano (1950), In Campagna che delizia! (1953), Tomaso, dear Tomaso (1955). His illustrations of Perrault's Tales published in those years by Hoepli are famous.
His art in the fifties evolves towards hyperrealism . There are many personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including those at the Gallerie Gussoni (1959) and Bolzani (1963 and 1966) in Milan and Walcheturm (1962) in Zurich. Eminent critics praise his work, from Orio Vergani to Enrico Piceni, from Reto Roedel to De Chirico himself. On the Domenica del Corriere , the journalist, writer and painter Dino Buzzati...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Robe Grise
By Victor Max Ninon
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Robe Grise
Pochoir (silk screen) printed in colors, 1923
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
The artist won a gold medal in Paris in 1925 for his pochoirs
Condition: Two spots in the upper left corner associated with the printing.
Victor Max Ninon (Vittorio Accornero de Testa, Italian, 1896-1982)
Biography
Vittorio Accornero de Testa was born in Casale Monferrato in 1896. He completed his first studies at the "Leardi" institute, but was forced to interrupt them due to the war events of the First World War . At 19 he was second lieutenant of the Alpine troops and in 1916 he took one of the first pilot's licenses. During the war he knows the bitterness of shooting down in air combat (for which he is decorated), but also the good fortune to stay alive, albeit with a disability. His art blossomed in the postwar period, first signing his works simply Ninon and then, probably at the suggestion of a French publisher, under the pseudonym of "Victor Max Ninon" (Victor and Max indicate strength and masculinity, Ninon boyhood) .In 1919 and 1924 he made illustrations for theGiornalino della Domenica , also together with his first wife Edina Altara , for Ardita and La Lettura . In 1923 he won the cover competition organized by the magazine El Hogar of Buenos Aires and in 1925 with his pochoirs he imposed himself in Paris at the international exhibition of modern decorative and industrial arts , obtaining a gold medal. In the same year he made two covers for the US magazine The Smart Set . In the 1920s he made numerous series of art deco style postcards for the Milanese publishing house Degami . On June 4, 1929, aGenoa embarks on the Conte Grande together with his wife Edina Altara , for New York . The two stayed in the American metropolis for a few months: in this period Accornero worked on the creation of theatrical sets and created some covers for Country Life magazine . Accornero gets awards and prizes, but the great economic crisis of the time and the nostalgia for Italy convince the two to return to their homeland, where they resume their activity as illustrators.
In 1934 Accornero moved to Milan, separated amicably from his wife and continued to dedicate himself to the illustration of children's books, abandoning the pseudonym Victor Max Ninon. It illustrates about 60 books, from the fables of Andersen , Perrault and Grimm , to the tales of Poe , as well as the famous Pinocchio and Cuore published by Mondadori, Mursia, Hoepli, Martello. Several books illustrated by Accornero have been published in French, Spanish, German and English. In addition to the periodicals already mentioned, he collaborates on the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Boys , Mondadori, and with the Italian magazines Lidel , Il Secolo XX, The Italian Illustration , Fantasies of Italy , The Woman , Cordelia , For You Lady , Grace , Metropolis , La Domenica del Corriere , The Corriere dei Piccoli .
In 1936 enters the world of cinema, creating sets and costumes for Wedding Vagabonde of Guido Brignone and The White Squadron of Augustus Genina . From 1935 to 1950 he also devoted himself to the theater, taking care of sets and costumes for numerous operettas, ballets and performances at the Scala in Milan and for the Milanese theaters Manzoni, Lirico and Olympia. Stages Marcello di Giordano, Nina pazza d'amore by Paisiello, I cantori di Nurimberga by Wagner, La Bohème by Puccini and other works. For this activity he is also cited in the Theater encyclopedia.
In the 1940s and 1950s he wrote and illustrated six books for children for Mondadori: Tomaso (1944), Giacomino (1949), Tomaso Cacciatore (1950), Zio Stefano (1950), In Campagna che delizia! (1953), Tomaso, dear Tomaso (1955). His illustrations of Perrault's Tales published in those years by Hoepli are famous.
His art in the fifties evolves towards hyperrealism . There are many personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including those at the Gallerie Gussoni (1959) and Bolzani (1963 and 1966) in Milan and Walcheturm (1962) in Zurich. Eminent critics praise his work, from Orio Vergani to Enrico Piceni, from Reto Roedel to De Chirico himself. On the Domenica del Corriere , the journalist, writer and painter Dino...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Bathing at Long Branch-“Oh, Ain’t it Cold”
By Winslow Homer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bathing at Long Branch-“Oh, Ain’t it Cold”
Wood engraving, 1871
Signed in the block with the artist's initials "WH", see photo
Published in: Every Saturday, Aug. 16, 1871
Condition: ...
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1870s Hudson River School Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Feast of Lights: Hanukkah
By Abraham Rattner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Feast of Lights (Poster)
Signed in the stone
17 color lithograph
Published by Kennedy Galleries
Edition: Unknown edition, signed in the stone
There was also a pencil signed edition o...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Eurybia and Eros
By George Braque
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Eurybia and Eros
Etching, 1932
Printed on BFK Rives paper
Unsigned (as issued by Vollard)
Published by Ambrose Vollard, Paris
From the suite of 16 illustrations for Hesiod's Theogony...
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1930s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Lola De Valence
By Édouard Manet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lola De Valence
Etching, 1862
Signed in the plate lower left: “Ed Manet”
Printed on chine collee paper, without watermark
From the first edition, published by Cadart and Luquet, Paris, before the removal of the inscription “ Ed. Manet sculpt”
From the 1863 edition, before the 1874 Portfolio, 1890 Portolio. 1894 Dumont edition and the Strolin edition of 100 in 1905
Pencil inscription with title below the plate in the lower margin
Conditiono: Excellent
Image size: 10 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches
Plate size: 18 3/4 x 13 inches
Reference: Harris-Manet 33 iii/III
Guerin-Manet 23 vi/VIII
The painting that this etching is inspired by is in the collection of the Musee d'Orsay, Paris.
"Lola de Valence is a painting by the painter Édouard Manet in 1862 . The canvas represents a dancer dressed intraditional Spanish clothes...
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1860s Impressionist Figurative Prints
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Etching
WARNING! Register*Vote, INFLATION means DEPRESSION
By Ben Shahn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
WARNING! Register*Vote, INFLATION means DEPRESSION
Photo lithograph, 1946
Signed in the image lower left
Published by CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) before their merger w...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Daureen, II
By Nell Blaine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Daureen, II
Etching, 1969
Signed in pencil lower right
Edition: 28 (17/28)
Condition: Excellent
Two hinges from previous matting
Blaine studied etching at Atelier 17 in New York and considered one of their distinguished alums.
"Blaine was foremost an abstract painter, first a student of Theresa Pollak...
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1960s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Napoleon a Bautzen
By Hippolyte Bellangé
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Napoleon a Bautzen
Lithograph, 1822
Signed in the stone (see photo)
From: Arnault, A. V.
Vie Politique et Militaire de Napoleon (120 plates)
Published, Paris, Librairie Historiquem 1...
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1820s Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Napoleon Standing
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Napoleon Standing
Lithograph, 1822
Signed in the stone lower left corner of image (see photo)
From: Arnault, A. V.
Vie Politique et Militaire de Napoleon (120 plates)
Published, Paris, Librairie Historiquem 1822
Printed by C. Motte, Paris
Considered to be the major pictorial treatise on Napoleon and his military conquests.
Image size: 14 x 9 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 23 5/8 x 17 3/4 inches
Condition: Very good
Horizontal prints...
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1820s Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Memory and Metaphor, The Art of Romare Bearden
By (after) Romare Bearden
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Original glossy poster, Published for the Studio Museum, Harlem, for the exhibition, April 14 - August 1, 1991.
Note: This poster was created for the national touring exhibition org...
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1990s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Dutiful Youth of Mino Province Collecting Wood to Warm His Old Father
By Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Dutiful Youth of Mino Province Collecting Wood to Warm His Old Father
Color woodcut, c. 1842-43
Signed and sealed lower right (see photo)
From the Series: "Honcho nijushi-ko" (Tw...
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1840s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Man Sounding Horn (Psalm 150)
By Ben Shahn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Man Sounding Horn (Psalm 150)
Lithograph, 1969-1970
Estate signed: "Ben Shahn/by B.B. Shahn" in pencil lower center
Stamped signature lower right (see photo)
Signed by Mourlot Lith. in pencil lower right (see photo)
Edition: 125 (67/125) see photo
Psalm 150, "A Hallelujah Chorus"
Published by Kennedy Graphics, Ltd., New York, NY
Printed by Mourlot Graphics, Ltd., New York, NY
Reference: Prescott 255
Kennedy Galleries, The Kennedy Graphics, 380, reproduced
Condition: Very good
Image/sheet size: 20 1/8 x 25 3/8 inches
A posthumous print
"This was the final project completed by Ben Shahn (1898-1969), leading American realist painter and muralist widely recognized for his socially conscious works. Born in Lithuania to Jewish parents, Shahn emigrated to the United States in 1906 and became a popular and versatile artist who worked in a variety of media and on a range of projects. His credits are as varied as assistant to muralist Diego Rivera, photographer for the Resettlement Administration (alongside the likes of Dorothea Lange and his friend, Walker Evans), maker of posters for the Office of War Information during WWII, and commercial artist for CBS. He is best known, however, for artwork depicting left-leaning political ideals and highlighting social concerns, such as his series of gouache paintings known as "The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Isaiah's Prayer
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Isaiah's Prayer
Etching, c. 1931-1939
Signed in the plate (see photo)
Plate No. 99
From: La Bible. L'Ancien Testament (105 plates)
Edition of 275 unsigned (there were an additional 2...
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1930s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Meditation and Minou
By Will Barnet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Meditation and Minou
Color lithograph and serigraph, 1980
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photo)
Printer Styria Studio, Inc. New York
Publisher: Harry Abrams...
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1980s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Bare Arms (The Practice #2)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bare Arms (The Practice #2)
Drypoint on Aluminum, 2019
Signed with initials lower right
Edition: 8 impressions (all uncolored), this “6 out of 8”
There are also 4 AP, 2 with hand coloring
Printed on Twinrocker all purpose paper
Published by Thomas French Fine Art...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
La Naissance d’Annette (Birth of Annette)
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Naissance d’Annette (Birth of Annette)
Color llithograph, 1899
Unsigned (as usual)
Edition: 100
Publisher: Ambrose Vollard
Printer: Auguste Clot, Paris
Condition: Excellent with f...
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1890s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dames charmante et charmante a tous egard
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
(A charming lady chatting with a lady perfect in every possible way)
Signed in the plate. No pencil signed impressions are existent.
Edition: 368 (including 50 imps on japan) includi...
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1920s French School Figurative Prints
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Etching
Plate I, Le Cocu Magnifique
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate I, Le Cocu Magnifique
Etching, 1968
From: Le Cocu Magnifique
Unsigned as issued in the portfolio
The set of 12 etching & aquatints is signed by Picasso on the justification pa...
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1960s French School Figurative Prints
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Etching
Untitled
By Larry Rivers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Picasso)
Screen print, 1974
Signed, numbered and dated in red pencil lower right (see photo)
from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso)
Publisher: Propyläen-Verlag, Berlin
...
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1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Claude Renoir, la Tete Baisee (Claude Renoir, Head Lowered)
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Claude Renoir, la Tete Baisee
(Claude Renoir, Head Lowered)
Lithograph, 1904
Edition 1,000, this one of 950 on wove paper with the stamp signature (there were also 50 impressions pri...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph