Madrid - Prints

Michelangelo Pistoletto "Corrado Rava Quartet", 1980 Technique: Mirror paper serigraph Signed: Pistoletto. Measurements unframed: 30 x 30 cm. Framed measurements: W 41 x D 5 x H 42 ...

UMBERTO BRUNELLESCHI (1879-1949) Four mixed techniques on paper. Signed. Dim.: 19 x 12 cm Umberto Brunelleschi (21 June 1879 - 16 February 1949) was an Italian artist. He was born in Montemurlo, Italy, studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence and moved to Paris in 1900 with Ardengo Soffici where he soon established himself as a printer, book illustrator, set and costume designer. He worked for Le Rire as a caricaturist (often under the pseudonym's Aroun-al-Raxid or Aron-al-Rascid) and was a contributor to many of the deluxe French fashion publications including Journal des Dames et Des Modes, La Vie Parisienne, Gazette du Bon Ton and Les Feuillets d'Art. Brunelleschi was also the artistic director of the short lived but significant La Guirlande d'art et de la littérature 1919-1920. After serving in the Italian Army during the First World War[citation needed], he returned to Paris. In the 1920s he diversified into set and costume designs for the Folies Bergère, the Casino de Paris, the Théâtre du Châtelet and theatres in New York City, Germany, and in his native country. In Italy, he worked for Opera Houses such as La Scala in Milan, and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence. He created costumes for Josephine Baker. He is also noted for his design of the Martial et Armand c. 1923. His illustrated books include Voltaire (Candide, 1933), Charles Perrault (Contes du temps jadis, 1912), Musset (La Nuit vénitienne), Goethe, Diderot (Les Bijoux indiscrets, etc.), Les Masques...

Pair of Italians prints depicting Classic Vases, Ponte Vecchio edition Dimensions: 93x70 cm with the frame from engravings by Giovan Battista Piranesi...

A beautiful set of six professionally framed, hand-colored copperplate engravings originally produced to illustrate the influential 17th century book "La Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux" (approx. "The Method and New Invention of Training Horses") by William Cavendish Duke of Newcastle, (1592-1676). Cavendish was a military commander who fought for the Royalists during The First English Civil War. After various defeats, he left England to settle in Antwerp, Belgium where he established a riding school, refining his wartime cavalry experiences into a style now known as dressage. The first edition of the book was published in Antwerp during the 1650s, and detailed Cavendish's novel methods of horse training. It was profusely illustrated with engravings based on work done by the artist and disciple of Rubens, Abraham van Diepenbeeck...

Colored engravings couple in Directoire style with classical scene. Original frames.

Collection of 18 colored engravings of different species of trees. Edited by J. Rothschild

Decorative collection of thirty engravings of famous men. Are divided in two big frame wich fifteen prints for framework.

Pair of 17th c. Italian architectural prints "Humility and Prudence". With antique frames

Original silkscreen. Signed by Daniel Verbis 2007. Edition 39/60.

Original acquatinta by Daniel Verbis. Signed and dated in 2005. 25/30

Originai acquatinta by Daniel Verbis. Signed and dated in 2005. 25/30

Original acquatinta by Daniel Verbis. Signed and dated in 2005. 25/30.