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Item Ships From: USA
Danseuse (Cramer 68; Reuße 656; Mourlot 259), Le Ballet
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.48 x 8.82 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonne references: Picasso, Pablo, et al. Pablo Picasso Litho...
Category
1950s Cubist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Livre du cœur d'amour épris, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Livre du cœur d'Amour épris...
Category
1940s Fauvist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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The Songs of Songs, Hand-Signed Lithograph Poster after Marc Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marc Chagall, After, Russian (1887 - 1985) - The Songs of Songs, Year: 1975, Medium: Lithograph Poster, signed in color pencil lower right, Edition: 8500, Size: 30 x 20.25 in. (7...
Category
1970s Modern USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Miró, Composition (Cramer 102; Mourlot 428-449), Derrière le miroir (after)
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Notes: From the folio, Derrière le miroir, N° 151-152, 1965. Published by Aimé Maeght, Éd...
Category
1960s Surrealist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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The Conversation 1979 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
By Romare Bearden
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist: Romare Bearden
Title: Conversation
Year: 1979
Print - Lithograph on Somerset Paper
Paper size: 22'' x 30'' inches
Edition: signed & numbered in pencil, HC 5/15
Image Size ...
Category
1970s Abstract USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Tête, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Henri Matisse
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Art...
Category
1930s Fauvist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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'Drop of Life' — from 'Solitude' for Henry David Thoreau's 'Walden'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Naoko Matsubara, 'Drop of Life' for the portfolio 'Solitude', color woodcut, 1971. A fine impression with fresh, vivid colors, on cream laid Japan paper, the full sheet with margins,...
Category
1970s Modern USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled from In the Bottom of My Garden (Plate 17)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Untitled (Plate 17)
Portfolio: In the Bottom of My Garden
Medium: Offset lithograph and watercolor on paper
Date: 1956
Frame Size: 15 3/4" x 18 3/8"
Sheet ...
Category
1950s Pop Art USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Plate X, from Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Plate X, from Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel
Medium: Lithograph in colors on Japon paper
Year: 1973
Edition: 209/250
Sheet Size: 29 3/4" x 21"
Imag...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Night Shadows
By Edward Hopper
Located in Storrs, CT
Night Shadows. 1921. Etching. Levin 82. 7 x 8 3/8 (sheet 10 x 13 7 1/16).s Series: Six American Etchings: The New Republic Portfolio, 1924. Edition approximately 500-600. Illustrate...
Category
1920s American Modern USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$48,000 Sale Price
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Jacqueline à l'étamine (Cramer 115), Diurnes
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné reference: Goeppert, Sebastian, et ...
Category
1960s Cubist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$796 Sale Price
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Paradis II (Mourlot 230-77; Cramer 42)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Mourlot, Fernand. C...
Category
1960s Expressionist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,276 Sale Price
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Confident - In Celebration of Pride Month
By Mikio Watanabe
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
Mikio Watanabe created "Confident", a side view of a sensuous female nude, exclusiv...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
original lithograph
By Yasse Tabuchi
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 at the atelier of Clot, Bramsen et Georges and published in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist ...
Category
1960s USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Light Up!
By Carla Sutera Sardo
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Category
2010s USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Picasso, 8.10.64. VIII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Picasso, 8.10.64. X (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Anadyomine 1969 Signed Limited Edition Etching
By Barbara Kwasniewska
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Name: Barbara Kwasniewska
Title: Anadyomine
Year: 1969
Medium Type: etching
Size-Width Size-Height: 22.5'' x 30" inches
Signed Edition Size: Signed, Titled, and Numbered 5...
Category
1960s Abstract USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 by Clot, Bramsen et Georges and issued in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist Times -- a radical...
Category
1960s USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, 8.10.64. I (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Picasso, 20.5.64. VIII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Picasso, 8.10.64. XVII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Place de la Concorde (Cramer 23; Mourlot 83), Verve: Revue Artistique
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and F...
Category
1950s Expressionist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,436 Sale Price
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Pastorale, Surrealist Etching and Aquatint by Salvador Dali
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989) - Pastorale, Portfolio: Historia de Don Quichote de la Mancha, Year: 1981, Medium: Etching and Aquatint on Arches, signed and numbered in penc...
Category
1980s Surrealist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Pablo Picasso, Le Repos du Sculpteur II, from La Suite Vollard, hand signed
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Pablo Picasso
Le Repos du Sculpteur II, from La Suite Vollard
Hand signed by Picasso in pencil in the lower right, Watermark "Vollard"
Reference: Bloch 172; Baer 325
Original etching...
Category
1930s Modern USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Picasso, XII (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Picasso, 8.10.64. X (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Original 1966 poster Harlequin Museo Picasso Palacio Aguilar Barcelona Spain
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Miami, FL
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
'Museo Picasso. Palacio Aguilar.', 1966
Original four-color offset printing on paper
30 x 21.5 in. (76 x 54.5 cm.)
Unframed
Ref: PIC2001-P011
Co...
Category
1960s Expressionist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
original 1971 poster Paintings-Drawings show in Sala Gaspar Barcelona Spain
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Miami, FL
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
'Pintura - Dibujo. Sala Gaspar', 1971
lithograph on paper
39.6 x 20.4 in. (100.5 x 51.7 cm.)
Unframed
Ref: PIC2001-P003
Conservation: Not previo...
Category
1970s Abstract USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Diving Lesson
By Jessica Brilli
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Jessica Brilli (Sayville, NY 1977) has been drawing and painting sin...
Category
2010s USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Magritte, Ma Mere l'Oye (after)
By René Magritte
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph in Colours on Vélin d'Arches paper. Edition: 350, plus proofs. Signed in the plate by the artist; hand signed in pencil by the printer, Fernand Mourlot. Good Condition; ne...
Category
1960s Surrealist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$15,996 Sale Price
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Original Andy Warhol Brillo Pasadena Art Museum serigraph vintage poster
By Andy Warhol
Located in Spokane, WA
Original serigraph: Andy Warhol Brillo soap pads. Artist: Andy Warhol. Size 26" x 30" Year: 1970. Archival linen-backed original serigraph ready to frame.
Warhol's Billo ...
Category
1970s Pop Art USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Figure, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire
By Georges Braque
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 14 x 10.25 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Verve: Revue Art...
Category
1930s Cubist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Picasso, Composition, La Comédie Humaine, Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin des Papeteries du Marais paper. Paper Size: 10.25 x 14 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, La Comédie Humaine, Suite d...
Category
1950s Cubist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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'Body and Soul' — Mid-20th Century Surrealism
By Federico Castellon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Federico Castellon, 'Body and Soul', 1938, lithograph, edition 30, Freundlich 3. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked, atmospheric impression on cr...
Category
1940s Surrealist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
original lithograph
By Max Ernst
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference Spies/Leppien 202. Published in 1971 by XXe Siecle. Sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (310 x 238 mm). Not signed.
Category
1970s Surrealist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, 8.10.64. II (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Hope - Progress, Pop Art Screenprint Diptych by Steven Gagnon
By Steven Gagnon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Two silkscreen prints by Steven Gagnon from 2011. Political commentary in pop art style imagery with a farcical tone. Unframed, hand signed in lower right corner.
Artist: Steven Ga...
Category
20th Century Pop Art USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me, The 1st Commandment Lithograph Signed/N
By Kenny Scharf
Located in New York, NY
Kenny Scharf
Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me (The First Commandment), 1987
5-Color lithograph on Dieu Donne handmade paper with deckled edges
24 × 18 inches
Hand signed, date...
Category
1980s Pop Art USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
KEITH HARING 'THE STORY OF RED AND BLUE - 1990, L. pp. 128-13, SIGNED & NUMBERED
By Keith Haring
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Keith Haring
Title: Plate 5 from Story of Red and Blue (L. pp. 128-133)
Medium: Screen print in colors on wove paper
Sheet Size: 22 x 16.5 inches
Frame Size: approx 28.5 x 22...
Category
1980s Pop Art USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Self Portrait, Drawing at the Window
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Rembrandt Van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
Title: Self Portrait, Drawing at the Window
Year: 1648
Medium: Etching
Paper: Verge paper
Image (plate mark) size: 6.35 x 5.25 inch...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Figure in Movement
By (after) Francis Bacon
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an original offset lithograph poster created for the 1985 Francis Bacon exhibition at Marlborough Gallery, featuring the haunting and visceral work Figure in Movement.
Kno...
Category
1980s Modern USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Vision de Paris (Cramer 43; Mourlot 287), The Lithographs of Chagall
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.216 x 9.875 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Catalogue raisonné references: Cain, Julien, and Fernand Mourlot. Chaga...
Category
1960s Expressionist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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original lithograph
By Samuel Buri
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1967 by Clot, Bramsen et Georges and issued in an edition of 2500 for "Les Temps Situationistes" (The Situationist Times -- a radical...
Category
1960s USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
God Save the Queen, Signed work on wood panel, AP aside from edition of 6
By Shepard Fairey
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique proof, aside from the edition of only 6 on wood panel
(there was a separate larger edition of paper - this is the rare wood panel example):
Shepard Fairey
God Save t...
Category
2010s Pop Art USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Wood Panel, Screen
Blackfeet Indians, Great Northern Railway 14 prints
By Winold Reiss
Located in Spokane, WA
A group of 14 Blackfeet Indians prints created by the artist Winold Reiss. The Great Northern Railway printed and released these prints in c. 1940. This is for the entire group...
Category
1940s American Realist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$576 Sale Price
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'North Bank of the Chicago River' — WPA Graphic Modernism
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'North Bank of the Chicago River', color woodcut, c. 1935, edition 50. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, with...
Category
1930s American Modern USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
False Start
By Jessica Brilli
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Jessica Brilli (Sayville, NY 1977) has been drawing and painting since her childhood. Working in a style that encompasses American realism and 20th century graphic...
Category
2010s USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Photographic Paper
Chagall, Die Zauberflöte (Mourlot CS. 38), The Metropolitan Opera (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairfield, CT
Title: Die Zauberflöte (Mourlot CS. 38), The Metropolitan Opera
Year: 1973
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Size: 39.5 x 25.75 inches
Notes: From the opening of Mozart's 'The Magic F...
Category
1970s Expressionist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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David Hockney, The Rake's Progress 100% Silk British Pocket Scarf in bespoke box
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney
The Rake's Progress Silk Pocket Scarf, ca. 2020
100% silk scarf made in Italy and printed in the UK, held in the original presentation box
16 1/10 × 16 1/10 inches
Bear...
Category
2010s Pop Art USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Silk, Screen
Young Man in a Velvet Cap (Ferdinand Bol) by James Bretherton, after Rembrandt
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on heavy cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches (96 x 83 mm), narrow margins. In very good condition with some minor surface soiling.
[Björklund's second state ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Composition (ULAE S13), Jasper Johns, Screenprints, Jasper Johns
By Jasper Johns
Located in Southampton, NY
Silkscreen on Patapar printing parchment paper. Paper Size: 10.125 x 10.125 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Jasper Johns, Screenprints...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$4,796 Sale Price
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Affiche Exposition Zurich, Mourlot 841 (framed hand signed lithograph)
By Joan Miró
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors on Arches wove paper. Hand signed lower right by Joan Miro. Hand numbered HC lower left (there was also a main edition of 150). Sheet size: 30.3 x 14.8 inches...
Category
1970s Surrealist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$7,462 Sale Price
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"Le Sacre Du Printemps" original lithograph
By Marino Marini
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1973 for the art revue XXe Siecle and published in Paris by San Lazzaro. Size: 12 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (310 x 238 mm). Not signed.
Category
1970s USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
My Mother Bridlington, Hand Signed Tate Gallery print, Ed. of 250 w/official COA
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney
My Mother (Bridlington), 1988
Four Color Lithograph on T.H. Saunders Waterford 250 gram paper. Hand signed. Also accompanied by a separate signed Certificate of Authent...
Category
1980s Pop Art USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Paresse, Art Nouveau Etching by Louis Icart
By Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950) - Paresse, Year: 1925, Medium: Etching, Image Size: 15 x 18.75 inches, Size: 23.5 in. x 27.5 in. (59.69 cm x 69.85 cm)
Category
1920s Art Nouveau USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Together' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Together', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1946, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '22/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 7/8 to 5 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (149 x 124 mm); sheet size 15 x 11 1/8 inches (381 x 283 mm).
Collection: Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945 and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions.
“The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.”
—Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature.
Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research.
Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June.
Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages."
In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking.
Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...
Category
1940s Surrealist USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Margit Smiles
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
signed and numbered lower image
edition 7/40
Catalogue raisonné 00269
Internationally recognized painter and printmaker Alex Katz was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. Over a thir...
Category
1990s Contemporary USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
$30,000
Mass Card for Andy Warhol's Funeral issued at St. Patrick's Cathedral Limited
By (after) Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
This is a rare, two-sided mass card from Andy Warhol's memorial mass, which was held on April 1, 1987 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. The front of the card depicts Warhol's 1...
Category
1980s Pop Art USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Gay Sexuality
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The lithograph titled "Gay Sexuality" by Kees Ruyter, measuring 33 x 23.25 inches, explicitly addresses themes related to gay sexuality, as indicated by its title. While specific det...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary USA - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$240 Sale Price
40% Off