Harold Altman Conversation Panoramic Mid-Century Modern Etching

Excellent etching entitled "Yomiuri Shimbun" by Christine Amarger. Pencil signed and numbered, 101/150. Yomiuiri Shimbun is one of Japan's national newspapers founded in 1874. The fr...

Astrid Fitzgerald, (Born: 1938 - Wil-St. Gallen, Switzerland), is known for geometric abstraction and printmaking. The pair of serigraphs are signed,...

A comfortable compact sexy little accent chair. Great in any spot in the home or office. Freshly upholstered with new cushioning. Upholstered in a sweet durable, period style fabric....

A wonderful pair of streamlined Mid-Century Modern lounge chairs. Re-upholstered in a dark gray nubby fabric. Featuring a cozy contoured shape, bow tie stretcher base with tapered wo...

A fine set of five screen print Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Circa 1950. Lautrec was attracted to the seedier side of the bohemian Parisian lifestyle. His Post-Impressionis...

Antoni Clave (1913-2005), . Pencil signed, Clave, lower right and number edition, 92/100. Oeuvre Gravee French paper. Circa 1950-60. Good condition with one minor tear in the upper...

A contemplative vintage modern lithograph on paper titled “Seated Man” by Harold Altman. Hand signed in pencil bottom right, annotated Artist...

1960's original etching of "The Search" by Alberto Giacometti. The Collector's Guild Ltd. Certificate of Authenticty attached to back of frame. Plain wood frame with slightly raised bevel; no mat. "Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901-January 11, 1966) - The son of Swiss impressionist painter Giovanni Giacometti, he was born in Stampa in the Bregaglia Valley. He displayed a talent for painting art and sculpture at an early age and with his father's guidance he made his earliest drawings, paintings and sculpture using his family for models. By age ten he had progressed from a simple illustration of Snow White to a detailed copy of Rembrandt's Good Samaritan. His first bust, made when he was just thirteen, was of his younger brother, Diego, who would become his lifelong assistant. Alberto spent six months when he was eighteen as a student at the Ecole Des Arts et Metiers in Geneva. He visited Venice with his father where he first experienced paintings by Tintoretto. He stayed a short period in Italy, where he studied Byzantine Mosaics and Baroque architecture. On the way home they visited a church in Padua filled with frescoes by Giotto where he had his first experience with an almost hallucinatory vision giving him a challenge to portray the world according to his own desires rather than the conventional ones. He went to Paris in 1922 to study with Rodin's pupil Bourdelle and settled in the tiny Montparnasse studio where he worked the rest of his life. He allied with the surrealists, until he wearied of creating what he called "these mental reconstructions." He sought, through his sculpture, to probe for the essence of life, but was never satisfied with the search. During this period he started the usual figures and busts at typical sizes and after several months of work the figures had shrunk to the size of a pin. One of the great bohemians, Giacometti loved to haunt cafes until late at night. His dingy studio, lit by a dusty studio window and bare light bulbs, heated by a potbellied stove, was strewn with cigarette butts. He traveled little, except to Switzerland at Christmas and New Years. He left Paris in December 1941 for Switzerland, but Diego stayed behind in Paris to take care of the studio. Giacometti's extremely personal conception of space and figuration matured after the Second World War and he developed still further his elongated and isolated figures with a suggestion of existentialist tragedy, skeletal and emaciated groups which created their own spatial environment in a unique way. Between 1940 and 1945 he produced works on a miniature scale which nevertheless created a symbolic impression of magnitude. It was during the years in Geneva that he met Annette Arm. She moved in with him and abided by his request that she not change the way he lived. She became his model, his muse and after a few years, his wife. He continued to make nocturnal visits to cafes and to use prostitutes for his models. His personal life has been described (perhaps wrongly) as dealing with impotence, a foot fetish...

This rare and exquisite view depicts the strategic Dardanelles strait, the narrow passage between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara with the distant cityscape of Istanbul. Part of th...

Circa 1970's abstract color etching on paper by Tony Bass ( b.1943) Texas. Signed, titled Bucket Rider and numbered 17/50 in pencil along lower margin. Abstract surreal figure in red...

Circa 1970's abstract color etching on paper by Tony Bass ( b.1943) Texas. Signed, titled Anagram artist proof in pencil along lower margin. Abstract surreal figures in red balck, an...

Etching on paper by Lee Long Looi (b. 1942) New York/Malaysia. Group of women in patterned robes. Signed and numbered 24/60 in pencil along bottom margin...