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Item Ships From: Continental Europe
Circassian - Lithograph by Auguste Wahlen - 1844
Located in Roma, IT
Circassian is a lithograph made by Auguste Wahlen in 1844.
Hand colored.
Good condition.
At the center of the artwork is the original title "Circassien".
The work is part of Suit...
Category
1840s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$219 Sale Price
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Les Amants - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
By Umberto Brunelleschi
Located in Roma, IT
Les Amants is a color lithograph on ivory paper, realized by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949).
...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Disastrous War - Woodcut Print by Paul Baudier - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Disastrous War is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s.
Good conditions.
Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Paris and d...
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$157 Sale Price
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The Trajan's Column - Offset by G.B. Piranesi - 1990s
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Roma, IT
A beautiful reproduction of one of the most celebrated Piranesi's masterpieces, realized in a limited edition of a few hundreds in 1990s.
The Trajan's Column is the last remaining n...
Category
1990s Old Masters Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,578 Sale Price
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Dancers - Original Etching and Drypoint by Robert Naly - Mid 20th Century
By Robert Naly
Located in Roma, IT
Dancers is an Original Etching and Drypoint realized by Robert Naly (1900-1984)
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Edition of 3/25.
Hand-signed and numbered on the lower margin.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Adam & Eve. Limited edition print, Surreal, Established Polish artist
By Rafał Olbiński
Located in Warsaw, PL
Size of sheet is ca. 21 x 29 cm (A4)
Contemporary figurative giclee print by Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. Print is signed, numbered and has a stamp of an artist's atelier. It comes...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
The Lion and the Church - Vintage Offset Print by Franco Gentilini - 1970s
By Franco Gentilini
Located in Roma, IT
The Lion and the Church is an original vintage offset print on ivory-colored paper, realized by Franco Gentilini ( Italian Painter, 1909-1981) in 1970s.
The state of preservation o...
Category
1970s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
Landscape - Etching by Étienne Fessard - 1771
By Etienne Fessard
Located in Roma, IT
Étienne Fessard is a Etching print realized by Étienne Fessard in 1771.
Good conditions.
The artwork id depicted through confident strokes in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1770s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La Folie des Grandeurs II -20th Century, Surrealist, Lithogr, Figurative Print
By (after) René Magritte
Located in Sint-Truiden, BE
Color lithograph after the 1948 oil on canvas by René Magritte, printed signature of Magritte and numbered from the edition of 300.
The lithograph features the dry stamps of the Mag...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Diurnes: Jacqueline's Eye View - Original Collotype and Stencil (Cramer #115)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973)
Diurnes: Jacqueline's Eye View, 1962
Original collotype and stencil (Jacomet workshop)
Unsigned
Limited to 1000 copy
On paper 40 x 30 cm (c. 15.7 x 11.2 i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Window - Lithograph by Leo Guida - 1970s
By Leo Guida
Located in Roma, IT
Window is a contemporary artwork realized by Leo Guida in 1970s.
Mixed colored lithograph.
Hand signed and numbered on the lower margin: 2/3
Artist's proof.
Original title: Fines...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$307 Sale Price
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Bathers in Capri - Etching by Felice Casorati - 1950s
By Felice Casorati
Located in Roma, IT
Bathers in Capri is an original etching realized by the Italian artist Felice Casorati (1883-1963) in 1950s.
Hand-signed on the lower left "F. Casorat...
Category
1970s Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,228 Sale Price
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Shunga - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1850s
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Roma, IT
Shunga is an original artwork realized in the 1850s by Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865).
Making love in the winter on a terrace, behind the couple stone sculpture of the Jizo-Bosatsu.
...
Category
1850s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$649 Sale Price
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Man To Man . VINYL . VINTAGE
By Keith Haring
Located in CANNES, FR
Keith Haring . Original vintage Vinyl .
1987 , Mint Condition
Category
1980s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Vinyl
$561 Sale Price
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Monica with Tulips
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Malmo, SE
Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) Monica with Tulips (1989)
Signed and numbered AP 4/12 (aside the edition of 100) signed in the lower right
Screenprint in colours on Museum Board.
Publ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Board, Screen
Nude - Original Lithograph by Oscar Gallo - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original lithograph on greenish paper realized in 1946 by the italian artist Oscar Gallo (1909 - 1994).
Signed on the lower left and dated.
The state of preservation is ...
Category
1940s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$219 Sale Price
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Opposite of sentimental... . Limited edition print, Surreal, Established artist
By Rafał Olbiński
Located in Warsaw, PL
Size of sheet is ca. 21 x 29 cm (A4)
Contemporary figurative giclee print by Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. Print is signed, numbered and has a stamp of an artist's atelier. It comes...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
Cyclist - Original Etching by Giuseppe Viviani - 1955
By Giuseppe Viviani
Located in Roma, IT
Original title: Il Ciclista
Cyclist is an original etching realized by Giuseppe Viviani in 1955. Hand signed and dated in pencil on lower right margin "G. Viviani 955", edition of 200 prints. It represents a cyclist who is riding along a tree-lined road. Very good conditions except for foxings and faded paper.
- Published on “Giuseppe Viviani Catalogo Generale” cured by Silvio Guarasci Pisa, Editore Saletta d’Arte Viviani s.a.s. Pisa, p.216.
Giuseppe Viviani (1898-1965) is a popular Italian artist and engraver. His figures are characterized by stylized silhouettes, big and sad eyes...
Category
1950s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,184 Sale Price
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Smoker in White - Etching by Giacomo Porzano - 1972
By Giacomo Porzano
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, dated and numbered by artist with pencil. Etching and aquatint.
Edition of 90 prints plus 15 prints in Roman Numbers and 5 Artist's Proofs.
Excellent condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jason and the Argonauts - Vintage Offset Print by Giorgio de Chirico - 1962
By Giorgio De Chirico
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset print realized after a watercolor by Giorgio de Chirico in 1962.
From the rare portfolio "Greek Mythology" realized for IRI and printed by Stab Salomone.
Excellent c...
Category
1960s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Mute Swan - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Mute Swan is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917) .
Woodcut print, hand colored, published by London...
Category
1870s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Pablo Picasso – Colombe Volant – hand-signed Lithograph on Arches paper - 1952
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Varese, IT
Colombe volant ( à l’Arc-en-ciel ) ( Flying Dove in a Rainbow ) (Bl. 712, M. 214)
color lithograph on Arches paper, Edited in 1952
Limited edition of 200 copies
Current copy numbere...
Category
1950s Academic Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Uses and Customs - Indian Rajah - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Indian Rajah is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the gov...
Category
1860s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$175 Sale Price
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Landscape - Original Etching by Paulette Humbert - Mid-20th Century
By Paulette Humbert
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original etching on paper realized by Paulette Humbert.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil. Numbered, edition of 8/25 prints. on the lower left in pencil.
The...
Category
20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Allegory of Spring - Original wooodcut, Handsigned & Numbered
Located in Paris, IDF
MORIN-JEAN (1877-1940)
Allegory of Spring, 1923
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /125
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of the editor 'Ima...
Category
1920s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Painter and the Model - Original Lithograph by Mario Russo - 1988
By Mario Russo
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 40x60 cm.
The painter and the model is an original colored lithograph on paper realized by the Italian artist Mario Russo (1925-2000)
A beautiful original print representing the painter portraying an elegant woman with a big hat (she has something of the Fellinian actress) and remembering the academy lesson of drawing and the Classical Greek examples of beauty, is hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the lower right margin. Realized with a fresh line and transmitting the natural fascination towards the female beauty and world, this lithograph is numbered in pencil on lower left margin, a fine specimen from an edition of 150 prints.
In very good condition and demonstrating a good inking, except for a light foxing along the margins, this is a really fine contemporary artwork able to adapt to each kind of furniture!
Mario Russo (1925 - 2000)
The Neapolitan artist moved to Rome, Trastevere, in 1950: in these years began to exihibit in Italy and abroad. In 1953 he stays in Paris, in 1960 in London with his own exhibition. Another exhibition in Monaco of Bavaria in 1965: three years later, in 1968, held two exhibitions in New York and accepted the invitation to exhibit his works at the Royalton College in 1970 Vermont. In 1970 he is enchanted from Sardinia and then decide to live there four months every year.
His master is conquered by the sense of beauty, which is synonymous of female body pervaded sensuality. In 1977, during a stay in Canada, obtains new ideas on the man-machine relationship, always inherent in his paintings. In 1979 he was invited by the Italian Institute of Culture of Toronto to exhibit his works at Sudbury University. In 1981 in Florence, he is impressed by the Riace...
Category
1980s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$280 Sale Price
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Wise-men. Figurative etching print, Black &white, Polish artist
By Leszek Rózga
Located in Warsaw, PL
LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015)
He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (later: Academy of Fine Arts)...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Letter Z - Lithograph by Rafael Alberti - 1972
By Rafael Alberti
Located in Roma, IT
Letter Z from Alphabet series is an original lithograph realized by Rafael Alberti in 1972.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower margin.
Numbered on the lower margin. Edition 10/99...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$245 Sale Price
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The Moon. Paris. Limited edition print Surreal Established Polish artist
By Rafał Olbiński
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary colorful figurative surrealistic print on paper by Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. This print shows a woman sitting on chair with her feet on a Moon. There is parisian arc...
Category
2010s Surrealist Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
1910s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
$701 Sale Price
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Letter U - Lithograph by Erté - 1970s
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Letter U - from the suite Letters of the Alphabet is a contemporary artwork realized by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Lithograph and Screen Print.
The artwork i...
Category
1970s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,491 Sale Price
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La Prière - PhotoLithograph by Bettino Craxi - 1996
By Bettino Craxi
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 22.5 x 19 cm.
Editions of 50 pieces (XVIII / L).
Published in the Portfolio "La Prière".
Signed and numbered on bottom left in pencil.
Category
1990s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$482 Sale Price
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Return (Art Nouveau - Woman, Greyhound and Boat) - Original lithograph, 1897
By Georges De Feure
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges de FEURE (1868 - 1943)
Return,1897
Original lithograph
Printed signature, as issued
1897/98
Printed on paper Vélin (wove)
Size 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12")
INFORMATION : Publis...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tribute to Design - Original lithograph (Atelier Michel Cassé), 1964
By Le Corbusier
Located in Paris, IDF
Le Corbusier
Tribute to Design, 1964
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
Limited to 250 copies
On vellum 42.5 x 35.5 cm (c. 16.5 x 13.7 in)
Edited by Forces-Vives (P...
Category
1960s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Passion Flower - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
Category
1870s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Combat pour Andromède entre Persée et Phinée - From "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide"
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Roma, IT
Etching from the portfolio "Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide"publised by Skira in Lausanne, in 1930.
On Arches paper.
Printed by Louis Fort, Paris.
Catalogue Bloch Vol. I n. 108.
Edition of...
Category
1930s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Lovers with a Tiger - Lithograph, Maeght 1977
By Richard Lindner
Located in Paris, IDF
Richard LINDNER
Lovers with a Tiger
Original lithograph, 1977
Printed signature in the plate
On heavy paper 76 x 56 cm (c. 30 x 22 inch)
Created for the artist exhibition in Maeght ...
Category
1970s American Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mejor es Holgar from Los Caprichos - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1799
By Francisco Goya
Located in Roma, IT
Mejor es holgar from Los Caprichos is an original artwork realized by the artist Francisco Goya and published for the first time in 1799.
Etching and a...
Category
1790s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
ROBY DWI ANTONO - Epic Fight (Deluxe) Limited edition Contemporary Modern
By Roby Dwi Antono
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Roby Dwi Antono - Epic Fight (Deluxe)
Date of creation: 2021
Medium: Fine art print on Canson Aquarelle Paper with deckle edges
Edition: 50
Size: 106.6 x 76.2 cm
Condition: In perfe...
Category
2010s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Screen
$4,771 Sale Price
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Sonia Delaunay - Composition - Original Lithograph
By Sonia Delaunay
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Sonia Delaunay - Composition
Original Lithograph
1972
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Revue XXe Siècle
Cahiers d'art published under the direction of G. di San Lazzaro.
Sonia Delaunay was known for her vivid use of color and her bold, abstract patterns, breaking down traditional distinctions between the fine and applied arts as an artist, designer and printmaker.
Born Sarah Stern on November 14, 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine, she was adopted in 1890 by her maternal uncle, Henri Terk, a lawyer in St. Petersburg, where she grew up, exposed to music and art, and learning several foreign languages. In 1903, she moved to Germany to study drawing with Ludwig Schmidt-Reutler (1863–1909) at the Karlsruhe academy of fine arts; Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer-to-be, was among her classmates there. In 1905, she traveled to Paris where she attended art classes at the Académie de la Palette, learned printmaking from Rudolf Grossman (1889–1941), and met Amédée Ozenfant (1886–1966), André Dunoyer de Segonzac (1884–1974), and Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883–1943). Sonia spent much of her time at exhibitions and galleries in Paris, which showed works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, and Edouard Vuillard, as well as Les Fauves, Henri Matisse and André Derain. She did, however, maintain contact with Germany, exhibiting at the Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, in 1913, 1920 and 1921.
During her first year in Paris, Sonia met the German collector and art-dealer, Wilhelm Uhde (1874–1947), whom she married on December 5, 1908, and whose Montparnasse gallery, the Galerie Notre-Dame des Champs, showed her first solo exhibition. Through Uhde, Sonia encountered many painters, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Maurice de Vlaminck, and Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). In 1910, Sonia divorced Uhde by mutual agreement, married Delaunay that same year, and gave birth to their son, Charles, in January 1911.
Together Sonia and Robert Delaunay pursued the study of color, influenced by theories of Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). Sonia’s interest in simultaneous contrast, as evidenced in her early collages, book bindings, small painted boxes...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Spanish fly - XXI Century Abstract Etching Print with Watercolor, Figurative
By Leszek Rózga
Located in Warsaw, PL
LESZEK RÓZGA (1924-2015).
He studied painting at Maria Skarbek-Kruszewska private atelier in 1945-46. In 1948, he began studies at the art school in Łódź (later: Academy of Fine Art...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Etching
Fallen Rider - Etching by Max Klinger - 1881
By Max Klinger
Located in Roma, IT
Fallen Rider is a modern artwork realized by Max Klinger in 1881.
The artwork belongs to a series of prints called Intermezzi realized by Max Klinger, published by Nurnberg: Stroef...
Category
1880s Symbolist Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Tracey Emin, Choose Love - Signed Lithograph, Abstract Figuration, British Art
By Tracey Emin
Located in Hamburg, DE
Tracey Emin (born 1963 in Croydon)
Choose Love, 2024
Medium: Lithograph on paper
Dimensions: 76 × 60 cm (29 9/10 × 23 3/5 in)
Edition of 100: Hand-signed, numbered and titled in penc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Young British Artists (YBA) Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Lovers in the Countryside - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
By Umberto Brunelleschi
Located in Roma, IT
The Lovers in the countryside is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949).
Illustration for “Tales and Sho...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Repetitive sensations of Yves Klein Blue II
By Yrjö Edelmann
Located in Malmo, SE
The final print
Shortly before his sudden and
very sad passing in March this year,
Yrjö Edelmann made this beautiful print,
Repetitive sensations of Yves Klein Blue...
Category
2010s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée
Flower Pot - Lithograph by Paul Butin - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flower Pot is an artwork realized by Paul Butin (20th century) in the middle of the 20th century.
Lithograph.
Not signed.
Good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$350 Sale Price
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Piramide - Porta S.Paolo - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 18th century
By Giuseppe Vasi
Located in Roma, IT
Piramide - Porta S.Paolo is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi.
Signed and titled on plate lower margin.
Good conditions.
Giuseppe Vasi (Corl...
Category
18th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall - Homage to Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
1969
From the revue XXe Siecle, edition of 12,000
Unsigned, as issued
Dimensions: 32 x 24
Condition : Excellent
Reference: Mourlot 572
Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985.
The Village
Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work.
At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well.
Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged.
The Beehive
Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period.
Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come.
War, Peace and Revolution
In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos.
To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia.
In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good.
Flight
After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research.
Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion.
With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way.
Haunted Harbors
Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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1960s Surrealist Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
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Les Masques Scandalisés - Etching by J. Ensor - 1895
By James Ensor
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed, also signed on plate.
Passepartout included : 49 x 34 cm
Image Dimensions : 8 x 12 cm
Catalogue Deteil n. 99.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legisl...
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1890s Post-Impressionist Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
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Etching
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Salomon - Plate from The Bible I - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Salomon - Plate from The Bible I is an original artwork realized by Marc Chagall in 1960.
Mixed colored lithograph.
Mourlot 131
The artwork is from the series "The Bible".
In 19...
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1960s Surrealist Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$605 Sale Price
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Double Sunflower - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...
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1870s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Le Dragons des Mers - Vintage Book Illustrated by L.T. Foujita
By Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita
Located in Roma, IT
"Le dragon des mers" is an illustrated book realized by Tsuguharu Foujita and Jean Cocteau in 1955 and published by Georges Guillot Editions, Paris.
The sheets are engraved with ill...
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1950s Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
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Etching
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The Cactaceae - Lithograph by Vincenzo Tenore - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph hand watercolored.
Plate from "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration of notable p...
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1870s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Sweet is the Voice whose Powers can Move- Etching by Thomas Rowlandson - 1817
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and aquatint realized by Thomas Rowlandson in 1817. Plate from "The Dance of Life" by William Combe.
Very good condition.
Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) was an english artis...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
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Etching
Via Veneto, Rome - Offset Print by Fausto Battelli - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Via Veneto, Rome is an original modern artwork realized in the half of 20th century.
A mixed colored offset depicting one of the most famous street in Rome...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
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Offset
Don Quixote and the Windmill - Etching and Drypoint by Wladyslaw Jahl - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
Don Quixote and the Windmill is an etching and drypoint print on ivory-colored China paper, realized by Wladyslaw Jahl in 1951.
It belongs to a limited edition of 125 specimens.
Go...
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1950s Contemporary Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
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Etching
Marcelle Lender en Buste - Lithograph after H. de Toulouse-Lautrec - 1970s
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Roma, IT
Marcelle Lender en Buste is a lithograph realized after the homonymous work by Toulouse-Lautrec of 1895.
Limited edition of 1.000 specimens.
Very good conditions.
Henri de Tolous...
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1970s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
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Paper, Lithograph
$175 Sale Price
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Salvador Dali - The Winged Demon - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Winged Demon - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12"....
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1960s Surrealist Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
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Etching
after Henri Matisse - Sleeping Blue Nude - Lithograph
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Henri MATISSE
Edition of 200
with the printed signature, as issued
76 x 56 cm
With stamp of the Succession Matisse
References : Artvalue - Succession Matisse
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1950s Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Rire - Vintage Comic Magazine - 1896
Located in Roma, IT
Le Rire is a vintage Comic Magazine published on September 1896 with illustrations by Hermann Paul.
Good condition on a yellowed paper, except some torn paper...
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19th Century Modern Continental Europe - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$261 Sale Price
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