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Item Ships From: San Francisco
Sugar Cane Day, Hawaii
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sugar Cane Day, Hawaii" c.1985, is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and numbered 404/425 in ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Lovers with Bouquet, cover of Lithographe I
By Marc Chagall
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian/French) (1887-1985)
Title: Lovers with Bouquet, Front Cover of Chagall Lithographe vol 1
Date: 1960
Medium: Color Lithograph
Sheet size: 12 7/8 x 10 ¾ i...
Category
1960s Abstract San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Bridge
By Arnau Alemany Batalla
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Bridge" c.1980 is an original color lithograph by noted Spanish surrealist artist Arnau Alemany Batalla, 1948-2020. It is hand s...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Anesthesiologist
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Anesthesiologist c.1975 is an original etching by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed, titled and numbered H.C. IIV in pencil b...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Leopard
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "leopard" c.1990 is an offset lithograph by noted animals wildlife artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is hand signed and numbered 366/750 in...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Luna Tortilla (Moon Tortilla)
By Francisco Toledo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Francisco Toledo
Luna Tortilla (Moon Tortilla), 2014
Poster
35.40 x 23.60 inches
Edition of 33
This poster is part of a series called "No a los Transgénicos” - a visual arts campaig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Color
Racoon
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Racoon" c.1990 is an offset lithograph by noted animals wildlife artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is hand signed and numbered 442/750 in ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pineapple Hill, The old Day, Kapalua Maui.
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pineapple Hill, The old Day, Kapalua Maui" 1986, is an original color lithograph on paper by noted French artist Guy Buffet, 1943-2023. It is hand signed and num...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chess Game (15/100)
By Gustavo Montoya
Located in San Francisco, CA
A Mahatma Gandhi-like person is seating over a chess game and the reflection is seen on the individual’s reading glasses. This color lithograph by Mexican artist Gustavo Montoya was ...
Category
1980s Contemporary San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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La Collana II
By Massimo Campigli, 1895-1971
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "La Collana II" 1952, is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by renown German/Italian artist Massimo Campigli, 1895-1971. It is hand signed and numbered 15...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Frankfurt, Germany
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Frankfurt, Germany" c.1930 is an original color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower center. The plate mark (ima...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Justice Dept (Department)
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Justice Dept (Department)" c.1980 is an original etching by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 227/300 in pencil...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Araf Omne Vivium
Located in San Francisco, CA
Arturo Rivera
Araf Omne Vivium
Serigraph
36.61 x 22.44 in
Edition 5 of 100
Serigraph by Mexican artist Arturo Rivera. Edition 5 of 100. Certificate of authenticity included. This pr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
The Prophet Daniel With The Lions
By Marc Chagall
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985)
Title: "The Prophet Daniel With The Lions"
Publication: Verve, no. 33-34
Year : 1956
Medium: Original col...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
J.P
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "J.B" c.1970 is a lithograph on paper by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is signed and titled in the plate as issue. The image (Stone mark) size is 5 x 8 inches, framed is 15.35 x 12 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden brown frame, with off white matting. It is in very good condition, paper is slightly toned by age.
About the artist.
Charles Bragg was born in St. Louis, Missouri to two Vaudeville performing parents that he traveled with throughout his childhood. He attended New York’s High School of Music and Art in Harlem and ran away with his sweetheart when he turned 18.
He studied at the Art Students League in New York and later resided in Los Angeles. Before he decided to truly pursue painting, Bragg was a cab driver, a truck driver, a stand-up comedian, and a factory worker. When he arrived in California, he began painting for the wealthy and even gave lessons. It was during this time that he began to develop satirical feelings for the upper-class he was painting.
Considered the foremost social satire artist in America, Charles Bragg is highly acclaimed for his cryptic and humorous portraits. Bragg is a spiritual descendent of Bosch, Brueghel and Daumier
His work is found in the collections of at least 20 international museums, including thePushkin Museum, Moscow, USSR - Galleria d' Arte, Moderna de Milano Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland - Dayton Art Museum, Ohio - DowneyMuseum of Art, California - Long Beach Museum of Art, California - Wichita State University Collection - Roswell Museum Collection, New Mexico - Canton Art Institute, Ohio - Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando Florida - University of Wyoming Museum of Art - The Albrecht Museum of Art, St Joseph, Mo - St Lawrence University, Canton, NY - Gibbes Art Center, Charleston, SC - Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan ¬University of Judaism, Los Angeles, Ca - Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska - Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas - Joseph Hirshhorn Collection, National Gallery of Design...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
l'Inspecteur des Beaux-Arts (The Fine Art Inspector)
By Louis Legrand
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "l'Inspecteur des Beaux-Arts (The Fine Art Inspector)" 1901, is an original color etching and aquatint by renown French artist Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand, 1863...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Downington/Inglesham
By Denis Paul Noyer
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Downington/Inglesham" c.1970 Is an original colors lithograph by noted French artist Denis Paul Noyer, b.1940. It is signed and numbered 15/375 in pencil by the artist....
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Fete a Honfleur
By Fanch (Francois Ledan)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, "La Fete a Honfleur" c.1980 is a original colors serigraph on Wove paper by French artist (Fanch) Francois Ledan, born 1949. it is hand signed an...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
"Melisande" from the suite "At the Theater"
By Erté
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: (Romain De Tirtoff) Erte (Russian, 1892-1990)
Title: Melisande
Year: 1983
Medium: Color serigraph
Paper: Arches
Edition: Numbered 175/300 in pencil
Image size: 22.5 ...
Category
1980s Art Nouveau San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
"Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera
By Oskar Kokoschka
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Bal Masque" Giuseppe Verdi Opera, 1967 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by renown Austrian expressionist artist Oskar ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bridesmaids
By Pati Bannister
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Bridesmaids" 1995, is a color off set lithograph by British/American artist Pati Bannister, 1929-2013. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 41/950 in pencil by the artist. Published by Masters Publishing INC, New York. The image size is 18 x 22.5 inches, sheet size is 23.25 x 26 inches. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Pati Bannister was born in Highgate, England, overlooking London in 1929. Growing up, both of her parents were artists. Her mother painted watercolor landscapes, while her father painted portraits. To help further her natural talents, she took art lessons as a young girl and ultimately went to work for J. Arthur Rank, the movie maker, as an animator.
At 22 years old, she came to the United States as a governess for a family in Connecticut. Later she became a flight attendant in Florida where she met her future husband, Glynn. Little did she know, he would become the strongest influence in her life as he inspired her to pursue and share her artistic abilities with the public.
In 1958, Pati and Glynn moved to New Orleans and she started painting portraits in Jackson Square. Eventually, she opened two art galleries located in the French Quarter. In the late 1960's, they moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast...
Category
Late 20th Century Romantic San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paris, La Tour Eiffel
By Urbain Huchet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Paris, La Tour Eiffel" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by French artist Urbain Huchet, 1930-2014. It is hand signed and numbered 180/25...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paris, Le Chatelet
By Urbain Huchet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Paris, Le Chatelet" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by French artist Urbain Huchet, 1930-2014. It is hand signed and numbered 175/250 i...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Hirschhorn, Germany
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork depicts the town of Hirschhorn, a resort town in Germany on the River Neckar near Heidelberg. It is an original color etching by Austrian/American artist Tana Kasimir Ho...
Category
1930s Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Color
Vintage Framed Lithograph by Honore Daumier
By Honoré Daumier
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Framed Lithograph by Honore Daumier
Signed in the plate
Numbered - Possibly estate signed
Vintage framed lithograph
Dimensions 9" x 12"
Th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Horses #II
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "titled "Horses #II" 1974 is an original color lithograph, with embossing by French/Vietnamese artist Hoi Lebadang, 1922-2015. It is hand signed and numbered 32/275 in p...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Pastoral"
By Jacques Villon
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jacques Villon (French, 1875-1963)
Title: "Pastoral" From the suite "Les Bucoliques"
Year: 1953
Medium: Color lithograph
Paper: Japan nacre
Image size: 8 x 19 inches
Sheet size: 22.25 x 18.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Edition: From the edition of 245
Publisher: Scripta and Picta
Printer: Fernand Mourlot, Paris
Condition: Excellent
Frame: Unframed
About the artist.
Jacques Villon was born Gaston Duchamp on July 31, 1875, in Damville, Normandy. His family is one of remarkable artistic repute; he and his three siblings Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Horses #V
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "titled "Horses #V" 1974 is an original color lithograph, with embossing by French/Vietnamese artist Hoi Lebadang, 1922-2015. It is hand sign...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
l' Avare Qui a Perdu son Tresor, From the suite Les Fables De La Fontaine
By Marc Chagall
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Marc Chagall (Russian, 1887-1985)
Title: l' Avare Qui a Perdu son Tresor
Year: 1927
Medium: Original etching
Edition: fom the unumbered edition of 200
Paper: Montval Laid paper
Image (plate mark) size: 11.5 x 9.5 inches
paper size: 14.85 x 11.15 inches
Signature: Signed in the plate as issue
Publisher: Teriade, Paris
Printer: Maurice Potin
Condition: Excellent
Frame: Framed in a custom wooden black and silver frame, with silver color bevel and fabric matting. Framed size is 25 x22.75 inches
Description: From the suite les Fables De La Fontaine...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Smoker and the Drinker
By Adriaen van Ostade
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Adriaen Van Ostade (Dutch, 1610-1685)
Title: The Smoker and the Drinker
Year: 1650
Medium: Etching
Paper: Laid paper
Image (plate mark) size...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Rabbis Singing
By Jacob Steinhardt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jakob Steinhardt (German/Israeli, 1887-1968)
Title: Rabbis Singing
Year: Circa 1960
Medium: Color woodcut
Paper: Wove
Image size (Block mark): 9.60 x 14 inches
Sheet size...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Chinese Girl
By Edna Hibel
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Chinese Girl" c.1970, is a colors lithograph on Japan nacre paper by American artist Edna Hibel, 1917-2014. It is signed and inscribed Artist Proof in pencil by the art...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Seebenstein Castle Courtyard, Austria, large color etching
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Seebenstein Castle, Austria" 1920 is a color etching on watermarked Kasimir Vienna paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist's estate at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 15.75 x 22.25 inches, the sheet size is 23.25 x 29.5 inches. with full margin. it is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the artist.
Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand.
Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Passeggiatrici
By Massimo Campigli, 1895-1971
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Passeggiatrici" 1957, is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by renown German/Italian artist Massimo Campigli, 1895-1971. It is hand signed and numbere...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Windmill
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Windmill" 1641 is an etching on paper After Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1606-1669, plate engraved By French renown engraver Charles Armand Durand, 1831-1905. Signatu...
Category
17th Century Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Rouen Cathedral
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork depicts the Rouen Cathedral c.1920. It is an original etching by Austrian/American artist Tana Kasimir Hoernes, 1887-1972. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The...
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Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Atlantic City
By David Rosenthal
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: David Rosenthal (American 1876-1949)
Title: Atlantic City
Year: c.1930
Medium: Color Etching
Image (Plate mark) size: 9 x 13 inches
Sheet s...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Cannes, La Croisette
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cannes, La Croisette" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on watermarked Arches paper by noted French artist Jean Claude Picot, 1933-2020. It is hand signe...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paris, Place De La bastille
By Urbain Huchet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Paris, Place De La Bastille" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by French artist Urbain Huchet, 1930-2014. It is hand signed and numbered ...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dolores
By Emil Ganso
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dolores" c.1940 is an original soft ground etching and aquatint by noted German/American artist Emil Ganso, 1895-1941. It is hand signed and numbered 6/100 in pe...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Salzburg Main Square
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Salzburg Main Square" c.1935 is an original color etching by Austrian/American artist Tana Kasimir Hoernes, 1887-1972. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist....
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Mid-20th Century Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
"Elephant Family" Large original serigraph.
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Elephant Family" 1983 is an original large color serigraph on paper by noted American artist Leroy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 63/300 in pe...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Saint Moritz, Switzerland
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Saint Moritz, Switzerland" 1922 is an original color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower center by the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Grinzing
By Robert Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Grinzing" 1954, is a color etching on wove paper by noted Austrian artist Robert Kasimir, 1914-2002. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower center by the artis...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Acrobats
By Mihail Chemiakin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Acrobats" c.1990, is an original colors lithograph by renown Russian artist Mihail Chemiakin, b.1943. It is hand signed and numbered 283/300 in pencil by the art...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Schubert's House, Vienna
By Robert Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Schubert's House, Vienna" c. 1970 is a color etching on wove paper by noted Austrian artist Robert Kasimir, 1914-2002. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower c...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Un Vase de Fleurs (Flowers in a Vase)
By Frederic Menguy
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Un Vase de Fleurs (Flowers in a Vase)" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on watermarked Arches paper by noted French artist Frederic Menguy, 1927-2007. It is han...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toast
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Toast" c.1990, is an original color serigraph by American artist Rickey Jewell Hohimer, 1946-2021. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 98/300 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 23.75 x 9.5 inches, framed size is 30.25 x 16.25 inches. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is slightly damaged, and will be replaced by a new similar black frame when sold. This will bring the over all condition to excellent.
About the artist:
Although formally trained with a MFA in painting, Rickey Jewell Hohimer has used the styles of Van Gogh and Gaughin to reach for the spontaneity and simplicity of today's folk art. Hohimer creates figures which are not photos of reality; they are romantically stylized to encourage straightforward emotional responses both to the colorful images and to the situations in which they find themselves. Each of Hohimer's paintings lays out a basic story line to which viewers add their own details. "I want the viewer to become personally involved. My paintings offer a change from those which encourage extensive intellectualizing about what the artist is trying to convey. I want viewers to smile -- to enjoy the whimsical nature of what they are experiencing -- to feel it, not to analyze it. His jazz paintings are stories on canvas of inspired musicians spontaneously making music of the moment. Life in the jazz age is clubs and nightlife beckoning to musicians to produce jazz art...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Paysage de Normandie
By Maurice Levis
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Paysage de Normandie" c.1910 Is an original color aquatint by noted French artist Maurice Levis, 1860-1940. It is hand signed and numbered 245/350 in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 17.5 x 24.85 inches, sheet size is 19.75 x 26.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age of the piece.
About the artist:
Born in Paris on 11 November1860, Maurice Levis was an accomplished landscape and genre painter for nearly sixty years. His career spanned not only the early years of modernism, but also the twentieth century developments of cubism and surrealism. Levis' artistic education began in the late 1870s at the Académie Julian where he studied with Jules Lefebvre. He also studied with Henri Harpignies and with Pierre Billet...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Paris, Notre Dame
By Urbain Huchet
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled " Paris, Notre Dame" c.1980, is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by French artist Urbain Huchet, 1930-2014. It is hand signed and numbered 150/250 in...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Michigan Avenue, Chicago" 1930 is a colors etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed at the lower center in pencil by the artist. The plate ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Brothers
By Don Hatfield
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Brothers" 1991 is an original color serigraph on heavy Coventry paper by noted American artist Donald (Don) Hatfield, b.1947. It is hand signed and numbered 115/...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Ancient Civilization
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Ancient Civilization" 1996, is an original color serigraph on thin rice paper taped to a sheet of wove paper for stabilization by noted ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Arcadia
By Ruth Leaf
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Arcadia" c.1990, is an original colors etching with aquatint on Wove paper by noted American artist Ruth Leaf, 1923-2015. It is hand signed, titled and numbered ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Les Petit Rats, Ballerinas II
By Graciela Rodo Boulanger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Les Petit Rats, Ballerinas II" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by noted Bolivian artist Graciela Rodo Boulanger, b.1935. It is hand signed and numbered XLII/C in pencil by the artist. The image size is 22.5 x 18 inches, framed size is 36 x 30.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold leaf frame, with off white matting and gold color spacer. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Born in La Paz, Bolivia in 1935, Graciela Rodo Boulanger was raised in an artistic environment. Her mother, a concert pianist, and her father, a businessman and art connoisseur, nurtured her talents. She studied the piano and at age 11 enrolled in the School of Fine Arts. At 17 she went to Vienna to study both art and music, and at 22 shetravelled to Argentina for the stimulating artistic environment of Buenos Aires. Continuing to study both piano and painting...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Fantastic Scene)
By Michael Bowen
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled, Fantastic Scene" c.1975 is an original color etching with aquatint on wove paper by American surrealist artist Michael Bowen, 1937-2009. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 14.85 x 18 inches, sheet size is 21.5 x 26 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the subject:
Nowhere is the intertwining of metaphysical, biographic and social narratives more evident than in the Café Life series painted in the 1980’s. Though the “series” was done in the 80’s, the pieces really revive the spirit of the Beat café scene, which began in the mid-1950’s and which was so instrumental to the particular spiritual and social vibe of the counter culture. And his Café Life observations continue over his artist life with scenes, such as the ones here, from Los Angles, Bolinas, Mexico and Italy.
About the artist:
Michael Bowen (December 8, 1937 – March 7, 2009) was an American fine artist known as one of the co-founders of the late 20th and 21st century Visionary art movements. His works include paintings on canvas and paper, 92 intaglio etchings based on Jungian psychology, assemblage, bronze sculpture, collage, and handmade art books. An icon of the American Beat Generation and the 1960s counterculture, Bowen is also known for his role in inspiring and organizing the first Human Be-In in San Francisco. Chronicled in books and periodicals reflecting on the turbulent 1960s, Bowen's historical impact on both the literary and visual art worlds is well documented. He remains influential among avant-garde art circles around the world. He started his art career at age 17, when he joined the American installation artist Ed Kienholz in his Los Angeles studio. There he met and joined with other influential Beat Generation artists including Wallace Berman, John Altoon, and Dennis Hopper. Bowen participated in the construction of the Ferus Gallery and Now Gallery created by Ed Kienholz and curated by Walter Hopps. Bowen attended the Chouinard Art Institute for several years during his formative artistic experiences in Los Angeles. In the late 50s and early 60s, Bowen continued his spiritual training and research. He investigated and practiced a variety of occult topics, Eastern philosophies, and mysticism, and his artwork reflected these themes. Bowen is often referred to as a mystic artist. As a lifelong student of the Bhagavad-Gita, Bowen's entire career has emulated the spiritual warrior archetype of Arjuna, fighting for the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution. Michael Bowen moved to San Francisco in the late 1950s, and along with fellow artist comrades Arthur Monroe...
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Late 20th Century Surrealist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Vienna Opera House
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Vienna Opera House" 1922 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is estate signed in pencil at the lo...
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Early 20th Century Realist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Left Bank Cafe, Paris
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Left Bank Cafe, Paris" 1987 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered H.C 166/175 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 26 x 38 inches, sheet size is 32.25 x 44 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, two small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back.
About the artist:
Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival.
Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes.
Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions.
When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union.
In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars.
Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care.
Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out."
His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995.
LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather.
He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess.
As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid."
After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war.
On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s.
When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint.
While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine.
In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician.
Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation.
In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter.
Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world.
"Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962.
Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him.
A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters.
Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS.
Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
The Songs of Songs of King Salomons
By Théo Tobiasse
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Teo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012)
Title: "The Songs of Songs of King Solomons"
Year: 1975
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Numbered LVII/C in pencil
Paper: Jap...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Cirque (The Circus) IV
By Camille Hilaire
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Cirque (The Circus) IV" is an original colors lithograph on Arches paper by noted French artist Camille Hilaire, 1916-2004. It is hand signed and inscribed I/...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist San Francisco - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph