Signed Leon Dolice Etching "La Ballerina, " circa 1930

Antique circa 1930's pencil signed etching by Leon A. Makielski titled "Huron River," showing a landscape view of the Huron river lined with trees. Beveled wood frame, white mat. "Leon A. Makielski (1885 - 1974) was active/lived in Michigan, Illinois. Leon Makielski is known for Landscape, portrait and still life painting, mural. Leon was born in Morris Run, Pennsylvania in 1885 and grew up in South Bend, Indiana. In the early 1900's he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago where by 1908 he became an instructor and was awarded the Institute's highest honor, the John Quincy Adams Traveling Scholarship. For the next four years Makielski studied in Paris and its environs. He was enrolled in the Academie Julian and the Grand Chaumiere both in Paris. He was a pupil of Henri Martin, Richard Miller, Lucien Simon and R. Menard. He exhibited in the Paris Salons of 1910 and 1911 and spent much of his time painting the countryside around Paris, especially Giverny and Versailles. "Undins's Pool", "Luxembourg Palace" and "Wildflowers, Giverny" are wonderful examples of his work during this period. William Gerdts cites Makielski in Monet's Giverny: "An Impressionist Colony" (Abbeville Press, 1993) as one of the most traditional of the second generation colonists who followed the lead of Theodore Robinson and other first generation Americans at Giverny. Makielski's training might have been earlier influenced by the Hoosier Impressionists active in Chicago during his training there, but the European experience clearly brought forth a style of its own. Makielski returned to South Bend in...

Fine aquatint / etching by noted artist Edith Nankivell, pencil signed, framed and matted. The print depicts the Manhattan skyline from the Brooklyn side, probably from Dumbo, before...

Yves Diey, Art Deco etching after the painting "Jeune Femme" (1935), circa 1940, signed.

Yves Diey, Art Deco etching, signed, circa 1940.

Original etching on bistre paper Signed lower right Numbered VII/X lower left Dry stamp of the artist lower right History: Apollo Edition for Georges Weill, including a serie o...

Energetic, 1988 etching created by French painter, sculpture and photographer Jean-Paul Turmel, (b. 1954). Using large strokes Turmel translates his love of 3 dimensions into a 2 dim...