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Item Ships From: Switzerland
Salvador Dali - The Giant Beliagog
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Giant Beliagog - Original Etching
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Edition: 125
1970
Signed in pencil.
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
Category
1970s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Alberto Giacometti - Original Lithograph
By Alberto Giacometti
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Alberto Giacometti - Original Lithograph
1964
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
From the journal Derrière le Miroir No. 148, 1964
Edition: Foundation Maeght at Saint Paul
Alberto Giacometti...
Category
1960s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
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1930s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
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Etching
Max Ernst - Abstract Birds - Original Lithograph
By Max Ernst
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Max Ernst - Birds - Original Lithograph
Birds, 1962
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Lovers - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Lovers - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris
Unsigned ...
Category
1960s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Nails on Nude
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nails on Nude - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 390
1967
On Rives Vellum
References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lopsinger 174 to 187.
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Pablo Picasso - Seated Woman - Original Etching
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso - Seated Woman - Original Etching
Signed and dated in the plate
1943
Edition: 200
Dimensions: 18.5 x 28 cm
Platemark size : 13.2 x 24.5
Material: LaFuMa paper, watermark on the lower right
Reference: Bloch 362; Baer 689Bb; Cramer 39;
Elliott, Picasso on Paper, National Galleries of Scotland, 2007, illustrated p.84
Pablo Picasso
Picasso is not just a man and his work. Picasso is always a legend, indeed almost a myth. In the public view he has long since been the personification of genius in modern art. Picasso is an idol, one of those rare creatures who act as crucibles in which the diverse and often chaotic phenomena of culture are focussed, who seem to body forth the artistic life of their age in one person. The same thing happens in politics, science, sport. And it happens in art.
Early life
Born in Malaga, Spain, in October of 1881, he was the first child born in the family. His father worked as an artist, and was also a professor at the school of fine arts; he also worked as a curator for the museum in Malaga. Pablo Picasso studied under his father for one year, then went to the Academy of Arts for one year, prior to moving to Paris. In 1901 he went to Paris, which he found as the ideal place to practice new styles, and experiment with a variety of art forms. It was during these initial visits, which he began his work in surrealism and cubism style, which he was the founder of, and created many distinct pieces which were influenced by these art forms.
Updates in style
During his stay in Paris, Pablo Picasso was constantly updating his style; he did work from the blue period, the rose period, African influenced style, to cubism, surrealism, and realism. Not only did he master these styles, he was a pioneer in each of these movements, and influenced the styles to follow throughout the 20th century, from the initial works he created. In addition to the styles he introduced to the art world, he also worked through the many different styles which appeared, while working in Paris. Not only did he continually improve his style, and the works he created, he is well known because of the fact that he had the ability to create in any style which was prominent during the time.
Russian ballet
In 1917, Pablo Picasso joined the Russian Ballet, which toured in Rome; during this time he met Olga Khoklova, who was a ballerina; the couple eventually wed in 1918, upon returning to Paris. The couple eventually separated in 1935; Olga came from nobility, and an upper class lifestyle, while Pablo Picasso led a bohemian lifestyle, which conflicted. Although the couple separated, they remained officially married, until Olga's death, in 1954. In addition to works he created of Olga, many of his later pieces also took a centralized focus on his two other love interests, Marie Theresa Walter and Dora Maar. Pablo Picasso remarried Jacqueline Roque in 1961; the couple remained married until his death 12 years later, in 1973.
Work as a pacifist
Pablo Picasso was a pacifist, and large scale paintings he created, showcased this cry for peace, and change during the time. A 1937 piece he created, after the German bombing of Guernica, was one such influential piece of the time. Not only did this become his most famous piece of art work, but the piece which showed the brutality of war, and death, also made him a prominent political figure of the time. To sell his work, and the message he believed in, art, politics, and eccentricity, were among his main selling points.
Conflicting with social views
Many things Pablo Picasso did during the 1950s, conflicted with the general public. Viciousness towards his children, exaggerated virility towards women, and joining the Communist party, were some of the many scandals which he was involved in during his lifetime. Although most of the things he did were viewed negatively by a minority of the general public, admirers of Pablo Picasso turned a blind eye, and still accepted him as a prominent figure in their society. Following the end of WWII, Pablo Picasso turned back towards his classic style of work, and he created the "Dove of Peace." Even though he became a member of the Communist party, and supported Stalin and his political views and rule, Pablo Picasso could do no wrong. In the eyes of his admirers and supporters, he was still a prominent figure, and one which they would follow, regardless of what wrongs he did. He was not only an influence because of the works he created, but he was also an influential figure in the political realm.
Influence outside of art
Although Pablo Picasso is mainly known for his influence to the art world, he was an extremely prominent figure during his time, and to the 20th century in general. He spread his influences to the art world, but also to many aspects of the cultural realm of life as well. He played several roles in film, where he always portrayed himself; he also followed a bohemian lifestyle, and seemed to take liberties as he chose, even during the later stages of his life. He even died in style, while hosting a dinner party in his home.
Collection of work
Pablo Picasso is recognized as the world's most prolific painter. His career spanned over a 78 year period, in which he created: 13,500 paintings, 100,000 prints and engravings, and 34,000 illustrations which were used in books. He also produced 300 sculptures and ceramic pieces during this expansive career. It is also estimated that over 350 pieces which he created during his career, have been stolen; this is a figure that is far higher than any other artist throughout history.
Sale of his works
Pablo Picasso has also sold more pieces, and his works have brought in higher profit margins, than any other artist of his time. His pieces rank among the most expensive art...
Category
1940s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Arp (after) - Composition - Pochoir
By Jean Arp
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Arp (after) - Composition - Pochoir
1958
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art revue XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1930s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Salvador Dali - Brother Ogrin, The Hermit - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Brother Ogrin, The Hermit - Original Etching
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Edition: 4/125
1970
Signed in pencil.
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 70-10 (p. 60-61)
Category
1970s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Pablo Picasso - The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Signed and dated in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
This artwork is a lithograph in colors on wov...
Category
1950s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Henri Laurens - Ocean - Original Color Linoleum Cut
By Henri Laurens
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Henri Laurens - Ocean - Original Color Linoleum Cut
1938/1959
Medium : Color Linoleum Cut on Montgolfier Canson vellum
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
XXe siècle
Henri Laurens was born in Paris in 1885. Impaired by tuberculosis when he was only 17, he is leg-amputated seven years later. First a stone cutter, he then becomes sculptor. In 1899, he studies drawing. Henry Laurens...
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1930s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - The Laurels of Happiness - Original Signed Engraving
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Laurels of Happiness - Original Signed Engraving
Handsigned in pencil and Numbered
Edition: F195/195
- Printer: Atelier Rigal.
- Paper: Rives vellum ; each etchi...
Category
1970s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall - Revolution - Original 1960s Poster for Galiera Museum
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Marc CHAGALL (1887 - 1985)
Poster for "Les peintres témoins de leur temps Musée Galiera" 1963
Created by Charles Sorlier after Chagall's 1937 painting...
Category
1960s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
Category
1930s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall - Colorful Bible - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours
Year: 1956
Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet)
Published by: Édit...
Category
1950s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso (after) - Two Nudes - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after) - Two Nudes - Lithograph
1946
Publisher: Albert Carman
Dimensions: 48 x 33 cm
From Picasso Fiften Drawings
Category
1940s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Les Songes Drolatiques - Handsigned Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Hand-Signed Lithograph by Salvador Dali
Japan Paper
Title: Pantagruel's Dreams
Signed in Pencil by Salvador Dali
Dimensions: 76 x 56 cm
Edition: EA
1973
References : Field 73-7 (p. 1...
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1970s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
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Etching
Henry Moore - Original Lithograph
By Henry Moore
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Henry Moore - Original Lithograph
1977
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1970s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Woman on Horse - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Woman on Horse - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12"....
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
After Georges Braque - Oiseaux - Pochoir
By Georges Braque
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Georges Braque
Oiseaux
Color Pochoir on Paper
Published in the deluxe art review, XXe Siecle (issue number 11 "Les nouveaux rapports de l'art et de la nature")
1958
Dimensions:...
Category
1950s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso
The Human Comedy - Lithograph after an original drawing, as published in the journal "Verve"
Printed signature and date Dimensio...
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1950s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Gaze - Original Lithograph
By Enki Bilal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Enki Bilal - Gaze - Original Lithograph
Publisher: Amis du Livre
Edition: 240
2012
Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm.
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
2010s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pigment
Théo Tobiasse - A train - Original Lithograph
By Théo Tobiasse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Théo Tobiasse
Title: C'est un train portant un parfum d'odalisque
Signed and Numbered
Dimensions: 57 x 76 cm
Information : Edition of 175
Condition : E...
Category
1980s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Femininity - Lithograph
By Jules Pascin
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Jules Pascin
Title: Femininity
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
from the edition of 250 as issued in Warnod, Andre, "Les Peintres mes amis" (Paris: Les Heures Claires, 1965)
Jules Pascin, born Julius Mordechai Pincas, was a Bulgarian Jewish painter sometimes referred to as "the Prince of Montparnasse."
He was born on March 31, 1885 in Vidin, Bulgaria to a Spanish-Sephardic Jewish father and a Serbian-Italian mother, the eighth of eleven children. The Pincas family moved to Bucharest, Romania in 1892 and Pascin was raised there until he left for boarding school in Vienna in 1896.
While briefly working for his father’s grain merchant firm in Bucharest at fifteen, Pascin spent much of his time completing his earliest drawings in the local bordello, where he was residing under the Madame’s protection. In 1902, at the age of seventeen, Pascin moved to Vienna to study painting. The next year, he studied at the Heymann Art School in Munich. There, he supported himself by selling satirical drawings to Simplicissimus and other German magazines. Pascin would contribute drawings to a Munich daily through 1929.
Pascin’s contributions were widely recognized for their wit and insight, and upon his arrival in Paris in 1905 he was welcomed at the Gare Montparnasse by an international group of artists and writers who gathered at the Café du Dôme, which Pascin soon began to frequent regularly. The group included Grossman, Grosz, William Howard, Levy, and Emil Orlik. Pascin was also a close friend of Amadeo Modigliani.
Upon his arrival in Paris, Julius Mordechai Pincas changed his name to Jules Pascin and soon became the symbol of the Montparnasse artist community. Always in his bowler hat, he was a witty presence at Le Dôme café, Le Jockey club, and the others haunts of the area’s bohemian society, and was known for hosting legendary all-night parties. In his story, A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway wrote a chapter titled With Pascin At the Dôme, recounting a night in 1923 when he had stopped off at Le Dôme and met Pascin escorted by two models. Hemingway's depiction of the events of that night is considered one of the defining images of Montparnasse at the time.
In 1907, Pascin had his first solo exhibition at Paul Cassirer Gallery in Berlin. Three years later, Cassirir commissioned Pascin to illustrate Heinrich Heine's Aus den Memoiren des Herrn von Schnabelewopski. In 1911, Pascin exhibited his work at Berlin Secession and a year later at the Sonderbund-Aussstellung in Cologne. The artist’s first exhibition in the United States was at the Armory Show in New York, where he exhibited twelve of his works.
Upon the outbreak of World War I, Pascin left Paris for London in order to avoid conscription in the Bulgarian Army. In October 1914, he immigrated to New York, where he stayed through 1920 and would later return again in 1927. Pascin was immediately welcomed into an artists circle based around the Penguin Club and became acquainted with John Quinn, an important art collector. A short time after his arrival in New York, Pascin was given a one-man show by the Berlin Photographic Company, a Madison Avenue gallery. While in New York, Pascin became associated with several progressive painters, including Walt Kuhn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Max Weber. Many of these painters were influenced by Pascin’s unique style, in which he combined elements from Expressionism and Cubism with his own personal view of his environment.
Pascin used his time in the United States to travel extensively, especially in the southern states and the Caribbean islands, recording his travels in sketches that were widely acclaimed. Pascin married Hermine David in 1918. In 1920, Pascin was awarded American citizenship with support from Alfred Stieglitz and Maurice Sterne. He returned to Paris in October of that same year and met his future mistress, Lucy Krohg, the wife of the Norwegian painter Per Krohg...
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1960s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wassily Kandinsky - Composition - Woodcut
By Wassily Kandinsky
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Wassily Kandinsky - Composition - Original Woodcut
Condition: excellent
32 x 24 cm
1959
Published by XXe siècle, San Lazzaro
Printed signature (monogram) in the plate
Unnumbered as i...
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1960s Abstract Geometric Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Théo Tobiasse - Abraham Sacrifice - Original Lithograph with collage
By Théo Tobiasse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Théo Tobiasse
Title: Le Sacrifice d'Abraham
Signed and Numbered
Dimensions: 57 x 76 cm
Information : Edition of 175
Condition : Excellent
Category
1980s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Nausicaa - Original Lithograph
By Enki Bilal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Enki Bilal - Nausicaa - Original Lithograph
Publisher: Amis du Livre
Edition: 240
2012
Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm.
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
2010s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pigment
Enki Bilal - Mermaids - Original Lithograph
By Enki Bilal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Enki Bilal - Mermaids - Original Lithograph
Publisher: Amis du Livre
Edition: 240
2012
Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm.
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
2010s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pigment
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Women's Love - Original Etching
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a Faun.
Unsigned and unnumbered as ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Unsigned, as published in "Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II"
Edition of several thousand
Condition : Excellent
M...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso
The Human Comedy - Lithograph after an original drawing, as published in the journal "Verve"
Printed signature and date
Dimensi...
Category
1950s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Eduardo Arroyo - French Freedom - Original Lithograph
By Eduardo Arroyo
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Eduardo Arroyo - French Freedom - Original Lithograph
1984
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 495
Dimensions: 37,3 x 58 cm
Editions: Trinckvel
Category
1980s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Women's Love - Original Etching
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a Faun.
Unsigned and unnumbered as ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Théo Tobiasse - Jerusalem Inside - Original Lithograph with Collage
By Théo Tobiasse
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Théo Tobiasse
Title: Jerusalem roule le long de ma gorge
Signed and Numbered
Dimensions: 57 x 76 cm
Information : Edition of 175
Condition : Excellent
Category
1980s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Antoni Clavé - Original Lithograph - For Pushkin's Queen of Spades
By Antoni Clavé
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Antoni Clavé - Original Lithograph - For Alexander Pushkin's Queen of Spades
Dimensions: 325 x 247 mm.
1946
Original lithograph of Antoni Clavé
Edit...
Category
1940s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Surrealist Portraits - Handsigned Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Surrealist Portraits
Original Lithograph
Handsigned
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums.
Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931.
Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy,
very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy.
In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture...
Category
1970s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Max Ernst - The Soldier - Original Lithograph
By Max Ernst
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, La Ballade du Soldat, Pierre Chave, Vence, 1972
Colour lithographs on Arches paper
1972
Edition : 199
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
Refe...
Category
1970s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Arp - Original Etching
By Jean Arp
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Arp - Original Etching
1954
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1950s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Happiness - Original Etching
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a F...
Category
1920s Impressionist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso (after) - Harlequin and Boy - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after) - Harlequin and Boy - Lithograph
1946
Publisher: Albert Carman
Dimensions: 48 x 33 cm
From Picasso Fiften Drawings
Category
1940s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Jeu des Acrobates, original lithograph from "Chagall Lithographe II"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
As published in Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II.
Unsigned, as issued, from the edition of several thousand
Condition : Excellent
Reference: Mourlot/Gauss 401
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...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Leonor Fini - Red Cats - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving
Mme.Helvetius' Cats
Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF).
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 100
Support: Arches paper.
Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm
Editions: Moret, Paris.
Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums.
Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931.
Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy,
very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy.
In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture...
Category
1980s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall - Moses Striking Water from the Rock - Original Handsigned Etching
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall - Moses Striking Water from the Rock - Original Handsigned Etching
1958
Printed by Tériade
Dimensions: 54 x 39 cm
Handsigned and numbered
handcolored
Edition: 100
Reference: Cramer 30.
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...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - The Crown - Original Etching on Silk
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Crown- from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Original Etching
From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34
Dimensions: 38,5 x ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Zoran Music (after) - Composition - Pochoir
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Zoran Music (after)- Composition - Pochoir
1959
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1950s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
Category
1930s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Pietro Consagra - Composition - Original Etching
By Pietro Consagra
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pietro Consagra - Composition - Original Etching
1959
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1950s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Sadness - Original Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Sadness - Original Lithograph
The Flowers of Evil
1964
Conditions: excellent
Edition: 500
Dimensions: 46 x 34 cm
Editions: Le Cercle du Livre Précieux, Paris
Unsigned...
Category
1960s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pablo Picasso (after) - Table Before Winfow - Lithograph
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after) - Table Before Winfow - Lithograph
1946
Publisher: Albert Carman
Dimensions: 48 x 33 cm
From Picasso Fiften Drawings
Category
1940s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Enki Bilal - Ulysses and Penelope - Original Lithograph
By Enki Bilal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Enki Bilal - Ulysses and Penelope - Original Lithograph
Publisher: Amis du Livre
Edition: 240
2012
Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm.
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
2010s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pigment
Domergue - Française - Original Signed Lithograph
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Title: Française
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 31 cm
1956
Edition of 197
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio "La Parisien...
Category
1950s Impressionist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
after Jean Dubuffet - Personnage - Pochoir
By Jean Dubuffet
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Jean Dubuffet
Personnage
Pochoir on paper
1956
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Edition: G. di San Lazzaro.
From the art revue XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1950s Modern Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Enki Bilal - Cyclops Eating - Original Lithograph
By Enki Bilal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Enki Bilal - Cyclops Eating - Original Lithograph
Publisher: Amis du Livre
Edition: 240
2012
Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm.
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
2010s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pigment
Enki Bilal - Cyclops - Original Lithograph
By Enki Bilal
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Enki Bilal - Cyclops - Original Lithograph
Publisher: Amis du Livre
Edition: 240
2012
Dimensions: 42 x 30 cm.
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
2010s Contemporary Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pigment
Domergue - Sublime - Original Signed Lithograph
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Title: Sublime
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 31 cm
1956
Edition of 197
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio "La Parisienne...
Category
1950s Impressionist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Lady Leaf - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Lady Leaf - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : Field 68-6 (...
Category
1960s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
François Desnoyer - Free Child - Handsigned Original Lithograph
By François Desnoyer
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
François Desnoyer - Free Child
Original Lithograph
Handsigned
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
François Desnoyer was a French visual artist who was born in ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
after Jean Arp - Pochoir
By Jean Arp
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Jean Arp - Pochoir
1957
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1950s Surrealist Switzerland - Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
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