Maine - Prints and Multiples

Avery, Milton. YOUNG GIRL NUDE. Lunn 7. Drypoint, 1935. Edition of 100. Signed, dated, and numbered 12/100 in pencil. 10 x 4 1/4 inches (plate), framed to 19 x 14 inches.Provenance H...

Barnet, Will. WOMAN AND CATS. Cole 134. Lithograph in colors, 1969. Edition of 100, titled and signed in pencil. Printed on Arches by Mourlot, NY. 21 x 22 1/2 inches. In excellent co...

Ross, John American, (1921-2017), BROADWAY, Color Woodcut, 1957, Ed. 9/10, signed, titled dated and numbered in pencil, on a cream japan paper. 15-1/8 x 19-1/8 inches (image), 18 1/4 x 23 3/8 inches (sheet). A fine impression with strong, fresh colors, but with thin spots and adhesive residue in the left and right margins, well away from the image, resulting from careless removal from an earlier mount. This is one of Ross's most effective and striking prints, presenting New York City at night, under a moon and clouds...

Dine, Jim (American, born 1935). YELLOW CALLA LILLIES. D'Oench and Feinberg 19. Etching, soft-ground, drypoint, photogravure and electric tools, with hand-...

Junichiro Sekino (Japanese, 1914-1988). CALMNESS. Color woodblock print, 1954. Edition size not known. Signed in pencil and with the artist's chop. 13 x 17 inches (image), on a large...

Nason, Thomas. ON THE ISLAND. BPL 213. Wood engraving, 1937. Inscribed "Ed. 80" and signed and dated in pencil. 5 3/8 x 10 inches (image), 10 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches (sheet). In excellen...

Whistler, James A. M. THE LITTLE COURT CLOTH FAIR. Spink 22. Lithograph, 1887. A lifetime impression, one of 12 printed by Way and signed in pencil with the Butterfly. Printed on Ivory colored wove paper without watermark. The sheet 11 9/16 x 6 inches. In very good condition with slight discoloration from the mat in the areas outside the mat window. Provenance: Collection of Otto Gerstenberg (see below) with his collectors stamp, Lugt 2785, the Secretary Montag's "M" and the inventory numbers 61248 KO5182 all on the verso; Horizon Gallery, Rockport, MA, with its label and annotations on the frame backing. Framed. Very rare. The following are translations from the entry on Gerstenberg in Lugt: Lugt 1921: O. GERSTENBERG (born 1848), director of the Insurance Company "Victoria", lives in Berlin. Old and modern prints. Otto Gerstenberg, born in Pyritz, studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Berlin. After having been employed at the Prussian Statistical Office, in 1873 he entered the insurance company "Victoria" in Berlin as a mathematician-calculator, and became its director in 1888. He developed it in the following years and brought it up. to its present importance. Around 1900 he began to collect prints of which he now has a very large cabinet; as elders especially Schongauer, Dürer and Rembrandt, then Lucas de Leyde, Hirschvogel, van Dijck, Ostade and the French portrait painters. As modern it is necessary to point out, among the Germans »Greiner, Klinger, Leibl, Liebermann, Menzel, Stauffer-Bern; among the French, Corot, Daumier, Degas, Forain, Lepère, Manet, Meryon, Toulouse-Lautrec; among the English, Bone, Dodd, Goff, Haden, Strang; then an important work by Whistler and Goya and leaves by Rops and Zorn. Also has beautiful paintings. Lugt 1956: During the 1914-1918 war, the collectort had his collection transported to Switzerland and, when the war was over, he decided, quite reluctantly, to sell it. In the spring of 1922 the sale was concluded in Zurich with the merchants Gust. Mayer, of Colnaghi & C ° of London, and Mr. A. MacDonald, then a partner of Harlow & C ° of New York, who bought the set at a price corresponding roughly to the total prices paid by Gerstenberg. This was a large sum, because he had acquired several of his finest pieces in the big sales between 1900 and 1914 against the big enthusiasts of the time such as Morgan, Gutmann, Rothschild etc. It was Gaiser, of the firm H. G. Gutekunst in Stuttgart, who had generally carried out his orders in the sales. MacDonald believed he had a buyer for the set in America, but when the collection arrived there those hopes were dashed by a change in economic conditions. He then sold the parts separately. We will get an idea of ​​the importance of this collection by the following enumeration of the most beautiful pieces: among the Dürer, the Adam and Eve (from the Buccleuch and Hubert collections), the Saint-Eustache, the Mélancolie (from the collection Behaim, Dumesnil and Scholtz), the Knight of Death (from the Barnard and Hubert collections) and the Life of the Virgin series (from the St. Aubin collection); Dürer's work was almost complete. Quite remarkable was the Rembrandts' series, in which we note the Piece aux cent florins, sur Japon (collection Weber and Hubert), the Three Crosses, 1st state and 2nd state (collection Artaria and Hubert), the Little Tomb ( coll. John Wilson) and another proof on Japan, Death of the Virgin in Irstate (Josi coll.), St. Jerome, B. 103, unstead (Josi, Aylesford, Buccleuch and Hawkins coll.), the St. François (coll. Theobald); the series of portraits by Rembrandt was superb: Rembrandt himself drawing, B. 22, Ir état (from the Worlidge, Brit. Mus., Dighton and Theobald collections) and the same in the second state on Japan (Morrison collection), all the states of Clement de Jonghe, Jan Asselijn, Irtat (Josi, Aylesford, Buccleuch and Hubert coll.), old Haaring, 2nd state (same sources) and the young, 2nd state in Japan (Brodhurst and Lanna collection) , the Lutma in 1st state on japan (Josi, Aylesford, Baccleuch and Hubert collection) and a superb 2nd state (from the Firmin-Didot and Hubert collections), the Six in 3rd state (Ploos van Amstel collection); in landscapes: the three Trees (coll. Theobald), the three Chaumières (coll. Morgan and Lesecq des Tournelles), the Landscape with the tower, Ir état (coll. Aylesford, Holford and Hubert), the Campagne du peseur d ' gold, on Japan (Barnard, Holford and Theobald collection) and a State of Landscape with the drinking cow, on Japan (Theobald collection). Then a series of 51 Schongauer, including several of the first order, 8 of Hirschvogel, the portraits by van Dijck himself in first states (except D. 10 and 15, the most beautiful of the collection Theobald), beautiful series by Claude and van Ostade. The purchase included neither the important modern prints that Gerstenberg owned, nor his beautiful prints by Goya, nor a few drawings by the latter and Rembrandt. Gerstenberg was an enthusiastic collector who passionately loved his collection. When in 1922 the buyers announced their decision to acquire his old prints at the agreed price, he could not contain his tears. He later consoled himself by developing his series of watercolors and drawings of the French school of the nineteenth century, and he managed to own a magnificent set of Delacroix, Daumier, Degas, Monet and, in general, the Impressionists. . We do not know, at the present time, what happened to this part of his collection, but it is feared that part of it was lost or destroyed in the offices of the insurance company "Victoria" in Berlin or in its property in Silesia during the Russian invasion in 1945. The Toulouse-Lautrec which had been evacuated to Denmark were sold out of court after the war from 1939 to 1945. Gertstenberg died ,very old in 1935. The mark reproduced by us in L.2785 has rarely been used, but the origin of the prints is more easily recognized by the initial M, followed by a number (see L.1840c...

Pellew, Claughton (British, 1890-1966). THE RETURN. Ashmolean 17. Wood engraving, 1925. Edition of 25. Initialed in the block, and titled, signed, dated and...

Whitehead, Buell (American, 1919-1993) DEATH VALLEY SUNSET. Lithograph in colors, 1946. Edition size not known. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right. I...

Hayter, Stanley William. SARGASSO SEA. B&M 264. Etching, Scraper, Scorper and Roulette, in color, 1961-62. Edition of 50 (there were also 5 artist's proofs, and several trial proofs ...

Arms, John Taylor (American, 1887-1953). MEMENTO VIVARE, NOTRE DAME, EVREUX. Fletcher 407. Etching, 1947. Number 47 of the French Church Series. This is Proof No. ii of four Trial Pr...

Bumbeck, David. DANCER. Etching and aquatint, 1983. Edition of 65, titled, numbered, signed and dated in pencil. 8 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches, 220 x 245 mm. In excellent condition, and nicely framed. Born in 1940, David Bumbeck received his B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A. from Syracuse University. For the last 20 years, he has been a professor at Middlebury College...

Blackburn, Morris Atkinson (American 1902-1979). RADAR AND EXHAUST. Etching and aquatint, c. 1958. Edition size not known. "Signed Morris Blackburn per ETB," thus likely an estate s...

Muench, John (American, 1914-1993). COUPLE BY THE SEA. Color Lithograph, 1967. An Artist's Proof aside from an edition of unknown size, but likely about 20. Signed in pencil and annotated "Artist's Proof." 16 1/2 x 22 3/8 inches. with labels showing exhibition at the "Graphic Arts Annual Show," and the "Priscilla Hartly Gallery...

Horter, Earl. UNTITLED (STREET MARKET, NEW ORLEANS). Etching. Signed in pencil. 7 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches. In excellent condition.

Buhot, Felix (French, 1847-1898). UNE JETEE EN ANGLETERRE. B & G 132, State two of eight. Etching with drypoint, aquatint and roulette, 1879. Signed in pencil, and with the red owl...

Benson, Frank. DUSK. P.34. Etching on zinc, 1914. Edition of 50, signed and numbered 47/50 in pencil. 9 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches, plate, framed to 17 x 21 inches. This atmospheric image, ...

Soyer, Raphael. PASSER-BY. Etching, 1935 (Cole 40,). 9 5/16 x 6 7/8 inches; 237 x 175 mm. Edition of 2 or 3, per Cole, "about three" per Gettings, "Raphael Soyer Sixty-Five Years o...

Clark, Roland (American 1874-1957). JACK SNIPE. Etching, 1928. Edition of 70. Signed in pencil. 8 1/2 x 12 inches. In excellent condition.

Dufy, Raoul. LA PECHE (FISHING). Woodcut, c. 1925. From "The Pleasures of Peace." Edition of 220 stamped with the estate stamp "Atelier Raoul Dufy." 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (image) 1...

Ackermann, Max (German, 1887-1975). DIE SCHAUSPIELERIN HILDE KORBER. Etching, 1928. A proof before, or in addition to the edition of 200. Signed and dated "Max Ackermann 1928" in pen...

Frasconi, Antonio (American, born Uruguay, 1919-2013). LA SALUTE. Color Woodcut, 1967. Edition of 20, Titiled, inscribed 10/20, signed, and dated, all in pencil. 22 1/4 x 34 1/2 inch...

Cassatt, Mary. BEFORE THE FIREPLACE. NO. 1. Breeskin 64. Soft-grpund etching and aquatint, c. 1882. State 2 (of 3) with the light tone added, and the profile still indistinct. Si...

Schanker, Louis CARNIVAL. Color woodcut, 1948. Edition of 30. Signed, titled and numbered 24/30 in pencil. 14 1/4 x 21 inches (image), 18 x 24 inches (sheet). Hinging residue, verso,...

Meissner, Leo. FOOTBRIDGE - PERKINS COVE. Wood-engraving, not dated. Edition of 60. Numbered 40/60, titled and signed, all in pencil. 9 x 6 inches, 229 x 152 mm. Framed to 16 3/4 x ...

Sloan, John. SEEING NEW YORK. M.188. Etching, 1917. Signed, titled, and inscribed "100 Prrofs," all in pencil. Edition of 100, of which only 85 were printed. The image is of live ch...

Nadelman, Elie (Born Poland, 1882, Died in New York, 1946). WOMAN'S HEAD (WOMAN'S HEAD WITH RIBBON). Drypoint, 1920. 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches, 106 x 69 mm., plus margins. Unsigned, as us...

Pearlstein, Philip. NUDE ON STRIPED HAMMOCK. Field 59. Etching with aquatint, 1974. Edition of 100, signed, titled and numbered 59/100 all in pencil. Printed on Copperplate Paper at...

Bumbeck, David (American, born 1940). WINDOW II. Etching and aquatint, 1966. An Artist's Proof aside from the edition of 35. Ttiled, inscribed "Artist's Proof," and signed and dated,...

Etching and aquatint on paper, nicely matted and framed. Edition 28 of 90, signed and dated in pencil lower right. Cubist work featuring a girl and her guitar. Ossip Zadkine 1888 ...

Hayter, Stanley William. PERSONNAGE VIRTUEL. BM182. Engraving, soft-ground etching and scorper, 1947. Edition of 70, signed, dated, and numbered 42/70, all in pencil. 11 3/4 x 8 7/8...

Frost, Sir Terry (English, 1915-2003). RED AND BLACK ON GREEN. Screenprint in colors, 1968. Edition size not known. Signed and dated in pencil and inscribed "Artist's Proof." Printed...

Gwathmey, Robert (American, 1903-1988). END OF THE DAY. Williams 4. Screenprint in colors, 1944. Edition size not known. Signed in ink, lower right, within the image. 12 1/4 x 14 ...

Villon, Jacques (French, 1875-1963) LE POTIN (GP E96) Drypoint and aquatint printed in green, 1904, Edition of 50. Printed on Arches paper, signed and numbered 32 in pencil. Publishe...

Pappe, Carl. CALLE EX CONVENTO, TASCO. Woodcut, c.1940s-60s. Edition unstated. This print is one of a series of 16 images, all of scenes in Taxco, distinguished by the strength of the carving and the richness of the blacks. 12 x 14 1/4 inches (image), 13 1/2 x 15 3/4 (sheet). Titled and signed in pencil. In excellent condition. Carl Pappe...

Pearlstein, Philip. NUDE. Etching, 1976. Edition of 30, signed, dated and numbered 26/30 all in pencil. 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 (plate), 14 1/8 x 11 1/8 inches (sheet). In excellent condition.

Cohen, Arthur Morris (American, 1928-2012). SELF - TIEMANN PLACE. Etching, not dated. Edition of 25, numbered 1/25, titled and signed, all in pencil. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (plate), 4 ...

Tice, CLara (Amrican, 1888-1973). ELEVEN ETCHINGS. Etchings on paper, not dated, but 1930s. Each c. 6 x 4 1/2 inches on a sheet c. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. Each signed in the plate. Fr...

MASSIMO CAMPIGLI 1895-1971 Florenz 1895-1971 St. Tropez (Italian) Title: L'Ecuyere, 1954 Technique: Original Hand Signed and Dated Lithograph in Colours on BFK Rives Wove Paper Th...

Sloan, John (American, 1871-1951). FRANKIE AND JOHNNIE. or HIM Morse 236. Etching, 1928. Edition of 100 (but only 50 were printed, by Platt). Dated and Titled in the plate, and Signed in pencil by Sloan and inscribed "100 Proofs," and also signed by Peter Platt. With tack holes and deckled edges. 5 x 8 inches, 126 x 203 mm. (plate), 8 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (sheet). In excellent condition. From Morse: " A small chorus singing 'Frankie and Johnnie' crowds the tiny stage of the Provincetown Players Theater in MacDougal Street. An episode from E. E. Cummings' intelligent and entertaining production, HIM." (Sloan writing in 1945). "HIM" is about as thrilling an evening's entertainment as I have ever experienced. I liked it thoroughly -- I do not claim to understand it -- I do not believe that a work of art can be, nor need be understood, even by the maker. It seemed to me to be a glimpse inside the cranium of an artist-poet." (Sloan in a letter to James Light, the director of the play) Though Morse says the stars were Hemsley Williams and Goldye Steiner, it was actually Hemliey Winfield (1907 - 1934), the founder of the New Negro Art Theater Dance Group. This company was very successful and highly regarded. It appeared in the Metropolitan Opera's premier of Louis Gruenberg's setting of Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor...

Frasconi, Antonio. SIX SOUTH AMERICAN FOLK RHYMES ABOUT LOVE. South Norwalk, CT., 1964. Edition of 2000, of which this is one of 100 numbered and with a signed woodcut frontispiece. ...

Boyer, Ralph L. (American, 1879-1952). CENTRE HARBOR, N.H. Etching, not dated. Number 12 of the edition of 60. Signed in pencil and inscribed "imp rlb" just below the image. Further inscribed in the lower margin with the Title, the edition size and number, and the artist's name and "Westport, Conn." where he lived and worked. 9 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches (plate), 13 x 10 1/2 inches (sheet). Tape residue at the upper corners, else in very good condition. Boyer was well known as a sporting artist. Derrydale...

Grooms, Red (American, born 1937). FALL OF JERICHO. Etching, 1971. Edition of 100. Signed, titled, and numbered 92/100, all in pencil. 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (plate), 12 3/8 x 12 3/8 i...

Soyer, Raphael. THE TEAM. Lithograph with hand coloring, 1932 (Cole 23). 14 3/4" x 11." Edition of 25 published by Asociated American Artists, NY. A unique, or one of a few colored b...

Meryon, Charles. LE STRYGE. D.23, S.27. Etching, 1853. 6 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 171 x 130 mm., with wide margins. Schneiderman's Seventh, Delteil's Sixth state (of 10), or possibly an i...

Canot, P.C. (French, worked in England, 1710-1777), after Willem van de Velde and Ludolph Bakhuizen. "A BRISK GALE" and "A MODERATE GALE," engravings, ...

Gornik, April. UNTITLED. Aquatint, 1994. Edition of 75, from the Portfolio "Six Couples - Twelve Prints" published by Parasol Press, Portland, Oregon, 1996. Numbered 27/75, and sign...

Braque, Georges. DERNIERES MESSAGES - GALERIE MAEGHT POSTER. Color Lithograph, 1960. 27 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. In excellent condition.

Barton, John Murray. PORTRAIT OF A VASE. Color Woodcut, 1959. Edition of 100. Titled, numbered 1/100, signed and dated in pencil. 23 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (image), 11 1/2 x 27 inches (s...

Calapai, Letterio. ROCKWELL KENT'S STUDIO. Wood engraving, 1980. Titled, numbered 7/75 and signed in pencil. 6 x 8 7/16 inches, 153 x 216 mm. In very good condition. Framed.

Barnet, Will. AWARENESS OF DAWN. Szoke 101, Cole 99, Johnson 85. Color Lithograph, 1951. Edition of 18, titled and signed in pencil. Printed on Arches paper by Barnet and Robert Blackburn. Estate of the artist via Swann Galleries...

Barnet, Will. YOUNG COUPLE. Szoke 146, Cole 141. Etching in colors, 1971. Edition of 225. Titled, Numbered 122/225 and signed in pencil. 17 1/4 x 15 1/2 i...

Hayter, Stanley William. EXPANSION. B&M 334. Etching and soft-ground etching, in color, 1969-70. Edition of 100 (there were also 20 artist's proofs, and several trial proofs in other...

Harvey, Florence D. MALLARDS. Etching 6 3/4 x 5 in. Titled and signed in pencil.

Sloan, John. SHINE, WASHINGTON SQUARE. Morse 206. Etching, 1923. Signed, titled and inscribed "100 proofs," and further inscribed "Peter Platt imp." Morse says that 80 were print...

Villon, Jacques (French 1875-1963). MONSIEUR PATRELLE. Etching, 1932. G&P E356. 3rd State of three. Edition of 50. Signed in pencil and numbered 8/50. In excellent condition.

Marsh, Reginald GIRL WALKING - PILLAR - SOLDIER. S. 219. Engraving, 1942. State II of II. One of two proofs in this State, annotated "State II, 1/2" and signed by Marsh in pencil. Sa...

Buhot, Felix. THE VICTORIA CLOCK TOWER, LONDON. BG 184. Lithograph, 1892. 9 x 6 3/8 inches; 230 x 163 mm., image; sheet 15 x 11 inches; 381 x 279 mm. Signed in the stone "Felix Buhot...

Born in Paris in 1849, French painter, printmaker, etcher and illustrator Auguste Lepère apprenticed under British wood engraver Joseph Burn Smeeton in Paris at the age of thirteen. ...

Phelan, Ellen. UNTITLED. Aquatint, c. 1994. Edition of 75, from the Portfolio "Six Couples - Twelve Prints" published by Parasol Press, Portland, Oregon, 1996. Numbered 27/75, and s...