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Medium: Drypoint
City Hall Tower, Rothenburg, Germany.
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (270 x 190 mm), full margins. Signed, inscribed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Some small, scattered light spots...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Riva San Giuliano
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 7 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches ( 200 x 334 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 27/100 in pencil in the lower margin. With two ...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Palazzo dell
Angelo
Located in Middletown, NY
Palazzo dell'Angelo
1931
Etching and drypoint on cream-colored, handmade laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (185 x 171 mm), edition of 100, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered "Ed. 100" in pencil, lower margin, second state (of three). Printed by Henry Carling, New York. Extremely minor mat tone and some inky residue in the top right corner, all unobtrusive and well outside of image area. An exquisite impression of this intricate image, with astonishing detail, and all the fine lines printing clearly. The image represents the first print which Arms printed on his own handmade paper. Framed handsomely with archival materials and museum grade glass in a wood gilt frame with a flower and garland motif.
Illustrated: Dorothy Noyes Arms, Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy, p. 180; Anderson, American Etchers Abroad 1880-1930; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth and Printmaking in Venice, 1900-1940, p. 116.
[Fletcher 233]
Born in 1887 in Washington DC, John Taylor Arms studied at Princeton University, and ultimately earned a degree in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1912. With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etching in 1919. His first subjects were the Brooklyn Bridge, near the Navy Yard, and it was during his wartime travel that Arms created a series of extraordinarily detailed etchings based on Gothic cathedrals and churches he visited in France and Italy. He used what was available to him, namely sewing needles and a magnifying glass, to create the incredibly rich and fine detail that his etchings are known for. Upon his return to New York after the war, Arms enjoyed a successful career as a graphic artist, created a series of etchings of American cities, and published Handbook of Print Making and Print Makers (Macmillan, 1934). He served as President of the Society of American Graphic Artists, and in 1933, was made a full member of the National Academy of Design.
In its most modern incarnation, Palazzo dell'Angelo was constructed in or around 1570. The building, which has a rich and storied history, was erected upon the ruins of an earlier structure which predates the Gothic period. Some remnants of the earliest features of the residence were most certainly still visible when Arms visited, as they are today. Having a background in architecture, there's no question that Arms was moved by the beauty, history and ingenuity represented in the physical structure. One thing specifically gives away Arms's passion for the architecture, and that is the fact that he focused on the building's Moorish entranceway, balustrade, and two mullioned windows, and not on the curious Gothic era bas-relief of an angel nestled into the facade of the building, after which the structure is named. The sculpture itself doesn't appear in Arms's composition at all, despite the fact that it is the feature of the building that is most famous in its folklore. Arms instead focuses on the oldest portion of the architecture, even documenting some of the remnants of a fresco, and a funerary stele for the freedman Tito Mestrio Logismo, and his wife Mestria Sperata (visible above the water level, to the left of the door, behind the gondola), which was first described in 1436.
Among the many notable bits of history regarding the Palazzo, it has been documented that Tintoretto painted frescos of battle scenes on the facade of the building. The paintings have been lost to time and the elements, but not entirely to history. The empty frame...
Category
1930s American Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Man with a Basket, from: My Life - Russian French Berlin Autobiography Surreal
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
This original etching and drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 110, at the lower left margin.
There were 84 impressions on laid paper and a further 26 impressions on Japan paper.
It was printed by Pan-Presse, Berlin in 1922 and published by Paul Cassirer, Berlin in 1923.
Note: The work was part of Chagall's important and renowned series "Mein Leben...
Category
1920s Surrealist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Composition (Reinz 208-222), Voyages Fantastiques, Bernard Buffet
Located in Southampton, NY
Drypoint etching on papier de Rives B.F.K. pur fil paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Voyages fantastiques aux États et empires de la l...
Category
1950s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$3,036 Sale Price
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Ruff
s Farm
Located in Middletown, NY
A nostalgic image of a bucolic farmyard and thatched cottage, hearkening to a bygone era.
c 1920. Etching with drypoint on laid watercolor paper with deckle edges, and an indiscerni...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Politics
Located in Plano, TX
Politics (Tonnere de Brest). 1926. Drypoint. Appleby 108. 7 x 9 (sheet 10 1/2 x 15 1/2). A rich impression printed on cream wove paper with full margins. Illustrated: Salaman, Modern...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
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Salvator Rosa. Original etching: Warrior with Mace and Shield. 17th century.
Located in Firenze, IT
Salvator Rosa (Naples, July 20, 1615 - Rome, March 15, 1673)
Warrior with Mace and Shield
Etching and engraving, ca. 1650-1652
Second state (final)
Plate: 14 × 9.5 cm - Sheet: approx...
Category
17th Century Baroque Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
LE POTIN
Located in Portland, ME
Villon, Jacques (French, 1875-1963) LE POTIN (GP E96) Drypoint and aquatint printed in green, 1904, Edition of 50. Printed on Arches paper, signed and numbered 32 in pencil. Publishe...
Category
Early 1900s Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Le Curé de Cucignan
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely, dark impression with excellent provenance.
Paris: Lemerre, 1880.
Etching, drypoint, aquatint (dust ground and spirit ground), spit bite, and roulette in black on cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (170 x 112 mm), full margins. Third state (of 4). An illustration from Alphonse Daudet's, Lettres de mon moulin, Paris, 1880. In very good condition with some light uniform toning and two areas of paper tape at the top right and left corners on the verso (from a former mount). With the 1921 J.H. de Bois circular ink stamp in green ink in the lower right margin on the recto (Lugt L.733).
[Bourcard 112]
A note regarding the provenance:
J. H. de Bois was a well known late-19th century modern art...
Category
1880s French School Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Laid Paper
Don Kichote attacking. Figurative Drypoint Etching Print, Colorful, Polish Art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Colorful figurative drypoint print by Polish artist Czeslaw Tumielewicz. Artwork depicts two people kissingDon Kichote on a horse, attacking a surreal windmill. They are shown in rat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint
Woolworth Building, New York
Located in Middletown, NY
A rich and tonal image of an icon of Manhattan architecture.
Etching with drypoint, 11 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (300 x 186 mm), full margins. Edition of 100. Signed in pencil, lower right...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
The Automobilist, from: My Life - Russian French Berlin Autobiography Surrealism
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered 49 in pencil from the edition of 110, at the lower left margin.
There were 84 impressions on laid paper and a further 26 impressions on Japan paper.
It was published by Paul Cassirer, Berlin in 1923.
Note: The work was part of Chagall's important and renowned series "Mein Leben...
Category
1920s Surrealist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Le Marché aux Puces
Located in Middletown, NY
Published in Paris by Chalcographie Louvre around 1910. Drypoint etching on buff wove paper, 7 x 11 inches (175 x 278 mm) full margins. With the "Musée Louvre Chalcographie" blind st...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
The Punt
By Rosamond Tudor
Located in Middletown, NY
A dynamic football image from the 1920s by a female artist known for her sports scenes.
Etching with drypoint on exceptionally fine laid Japon paper with a double watermark, 10 7/8 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
La Mort du Chat Murr - Etching by Jean François Raffaëlli - 1875
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on laid paper
Signed in plate lower left: Jean François Raffaëlli.
Published by Cadart & Luquet, Éditeurs, 79 Rue Richelieu, Paris
With the blindstamp of the Société des Aqua...
Category
1870s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Tool Drypoint: Paintbrush by Jim Dine, black and white tool still life sketch
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine drew the plate for this image in the same period as his “Thirty Bones of My Body” 1972 portfolio of drypoint tool images. Crisbrook paper (30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 56 cm.) and p...
Category
1970s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
In the Café. [Man in a Top hat in front of a Coffee House Window...]
By Lesser Ury
Located in London, GB
This original etching and drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "L. Ury" at the lower left margin.
It was published in an edition of 110 hand signed impressions by Propyläe...
Category
1920s Impressionist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
![In the Café. [Man in a Top hat in front of a Coffee House Window...]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/lesser-ury-1861-1931-german-prints-works-on-paper-in-the-cafe-man-in-a-top-hat-in-front-of-a-coffee-house-window-for-sale/a_180/1755691178169/11829_01_master.jpg?width=240 "Lesser Ury - In the Café. [Man in a Top hat in front of a Coffee House Window...]")
Les Vieux (The Elders)
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely, dark impression with excellent provenance.
Paris: Lemerre, 1880.
Etching, drypoint, aquatint (dust ground and spirit ground), spit bite, and roulette in black on cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (170 x 112 mm), full margins. Fourth state (of 5). An illustration from Alphonse Daudet's, Lettres de mon moulin, Paris, 1880. In very good condition with some light uniform toning and two areas of paper tape at the top right and left corners on the verso (from a former mount). With the 1921 J.H. de Bois circular ink stamp in green ink in the lower right margin on the recto (Lugt L.733).
[Bourcard 113].
A note regarding the provenance:
J. H. de Bois was a well known late-19th century modern art...
Category
1880s French School Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
The Workshop (Stirling)
Located in Plano, TX
The Workshop (Stirling). 1905. Etching and drypoint. Rinder 369 state .ii/iv.Image: 8 3/16 x 12 (sheet 8 5/16 x 12). No published edition. A rich impression with drypoint burr printe...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
$1,000 Sale Price
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Hillside Town
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching in brownish black ink on J. Whatman watermarked cream laid paper. 7x12 1/4 inches (177 x 312 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 36/75 in pencil, lower margin. In...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching, Drypoint
Man Unveiling a Woman, 1931 (Vollard Suite, B.138)
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Man Unveiling a Woman" is a drypoint from Picasso's Vollard Suite, image size 14.5 x 11.5 inches, signed 'Picasso' lower right and framed in a Spanish-style, closed-corner, black an...
Category
20th Century Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint
Washington Assumes Command - Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Washington Assumes Command - Etching in Ink on Paper
Historical engraving by Ralph Ludwig Boyer (American, 1879-1952). George Washington is shown holding a sword, with an army stand...
Category
1930s Impressionist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint, Lithograph
La Marchande des Quatres-Saisons
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream wove paper, 11 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches (297 x 347 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil and numbered 32/40, lower margin. Minor mat tone and several small lo...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Rag Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Tool Drypoint: Wrench by Jim Dine, black and white tool still life sketch
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine drew the plate for this image in the same period as his “Thirty Bones of My Body” 1972 portfolio of drypoint tool images. Crisbrook paper (30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 56 cm.) and p...
Category
1970s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Orpheus. Drypoint print, Black
white, Blue, Polish artist
By Ewa Kutylak
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative monochromatic mezzotint print by Polish artist Ewa Kutylak. Print depicts a wanderer with a lantern going down the road. On the left there is a mysthical crea...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint
Portrait of Whistler with the Monacle.
Located in Plano, TX
Portrait of Whistler with the Monacle. 1897. Drypoint. 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 (sheet 16 3/4 x 11 5/8). A carefully wiped impression with plate tone, from the cancelled plate (there were onl...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$1,600 Sale Price
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Street in Marblehead, Massachussets
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching on white, buff laid paper with deckle edges, 8 13/16 x 12 inches (224 x 305 mm), full margins. One of only 25 proof impressions. In superb condition with excellent i...
Category
1930s American Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Composition (Reinz 208-222), Voyages Fantastiques, Bernard Buffet
Located in Southampton, NY
Drypoint etching on papier de Rives B.F.K. pur fil paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Voyages fantastiques aux États et empires de la l...
Category
1950s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$3,036 Sale Price
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Fourteenth Street Oriental
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: Associated American Artists, 1950. Drypoint and aquatint on white wove paper, 5 7/8 x 3 15/16 inches (150 x 100 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil in the lower margin. Pri...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Mosque of the Sultan Bayazid, Constantinople — Vintage Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Conrad Rosenberg, 'Mosque of the Sultan Bayazid, Constantinople', etching, 1927. Signed in pencil. Initialed and dated in the plate, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression...
Category
1920s American Realist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Le Nid de Pauvres, Vendee (shelter for the Poor, Vendee)
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 7 3/4 x 8 inches (195 x 200 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 8/35 in pencil, lower right margin. Laid down to non archival board, mat ...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Charing Cross - The Statue of Charles I.
Located in Plano, TX
Charing Cross -- The Statue of Charles I. 1919. Etching with aquatint and drypoint. 3 5/8 x 4 7/8 (sheet 9 1/8 x 11 3/8). A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream-wove paper. Signed in pencil.
Charing Cross is located at the junction of the Strand, Whitehall, and Cockspur Street in Central London, England. The name originates from the Eleanor cross installed by King Edward I as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile at the former hamlet of Charing. Since 1675, the cross site has been occupied by a statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse. The pedestal is thought to be designed by Wren and carved by Grinling Gibbons.
Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England. Inside the Grade I listed building, there is seating for 400 people. There is a memorial plaque to the author Henry James (1843–1916) who lived nearby on Cheyne Walk. To the west of the church is a small public garden containing a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein.
When he was seventeen,William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
$780 Sale Price
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Erotic Scene - Etching by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is an Etching and Drypoint realized by Mino Maccari in the Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed in the lower part.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Sniggling for Eel
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint in black ink on antique laid paper with various large watermarks, 6 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (172 x 132 mm), full margins with deckle edges on two sides. Signed, date...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
The Spirit Of Dutchess County Extending Her Blessings (Edition 6/15)
By Margaret Harris
Located in New York, NY
Margaret Harris (American) " The Spirit Of Dutchess County Extending Her Blessings" Edition 6/15, Figurative Etching/Drypoint/Aquatint signed and numbe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Capturas
Located in New Orleans, LA
4 individual drypoint engravings sold as a grouping that forms the whole. There are only 5 sets. This is #2 of 5. Paper size is 30 x 32 cm. Paper is Grabado, Punta seca.
We are ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
$455 Sale Price
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"Bees" Original Bay Area Environmental Aquatint
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Bees are Dying" Original Bay Area Environmental Aquatint with Drypoint
Etching with environmentalist commentary by Maria Bennett (American, 20th century.) This piece features a...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint, Aquatint
Plage de Villerville
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1856.
Drypoint etching on cream laid paper, 4 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (124 x 245 mm), full margins. In good condition with light uniform age tone. Fourth s...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Vieille Masken, La Servante Anversoise
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with engraving and drypoint printed in brownish black ink on cream laid paper with a partial heraldic A and fleur-de-lis watermark, 5 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches ( 341 x 107 mm), full...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Drypoint, Etching
Composition (Reinz 208-222), Voyages Fantastiques, Bernard Buffet
Located in Southampton, NY
Drypoint etching on papier de Rives B.F.K. pur fil paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Voyages fantastiques aux États et empires de la l...
Category
1950s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$3,036 Sale Price
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Evening, Port of Genoa
Located in Plano, TX
Evening, Port of Genoa. 1915. Drypoint. Dodgson 337.i/v. 7 5/8 x 9 15/16 (sheet 9 1/8 x 14). Edition of 45 in five states. An exceptionally rich impression with drypoint burr, printe...
Category
1910s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$760 Sale Price
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Matinée Avenue de Clichy
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching on buff wove paper, 9 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (240 x 271 mm) full margins. Signed in the image, lower left. With the "Musée Louvre Chalcographie" blind stamp in the lowe...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Composition in Red - Original Etching and Drypoint - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition in Red is an original print in etching and drypoint on white paper realized by an anonymous artist of the mid-20th Century.
In very good conditions.
The artwork created...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Fantasia Americana, 1880
— Mid-Century American Surrealism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches.
Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
Category
1940s Surrealist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$680 Sale Price
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Portrait of Adolph Menzel - Etching by Giovanni Boldini - 1897
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Adolph Menzel is a magnificent drypoint realized by Giovanni Boldini in 1897.
Reference:
Buzzoni / M. Toffanello, Museo Giovanni Boldini, G...
Category
1890s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Rainy Day / Fifth Avenue in New York
By Levon West
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a rare New York image by Levon West.
Levon West, who also used the name Ivan Dimitri, was born on February 3, 1900 in Centerville, North Dakota....
Category
1930s Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,200 Sale Price
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English Bar
Located in Plano, TX
English Bar. 1908. Etching and drypoint. Exsteens catalog 275 state ii. 8 1/8 x 5 5/8 (sheet 17 3/8 x 12 1/4). Series: Les Bars. Edition 65 in this state (total edition 95). Printed ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$800 Sale Price
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London Bridge.
Located in Plano, TX
London Bridge, London. 1924. Etching and drypoint. 6 3/8 x 14 3/4 (sheet 9 7/8 x 17 1/4). Mat line; otherwise fine condition. A rich impression with dryp...
Category
1920s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$975 Sale Price
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Wheelbarrow Race
Located in Plano, TX
1925-26. Drypoint. Appleby 114. 8 9/16 x 12 (sheet 12 x 17). Edition 100, #10. An excellent impression with burr, printed with plate tone on the full sheet of 'VGI' laid paper with ...
Category
1920s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
My Daughter
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching on buff wove paper, 9 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (250 x 322 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. Some general age tone, and minor mat tone around the pe...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
René de Laudonnière Sablais (de Burdigale). After Crispjin van de Passe I
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: 1861
Etching, drypoint, and engraving on cream laid paper, 6 x 4 1/4 inches (152 x 108 mm), full margins. Dog-eared left corner, extending 3-inches into the sheet, but well ou...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Drypoint, Etching
Bassin d
Apollon, Versailles (Fountain of Appollo, Versailles).
Located in Plano, TX
Bassin d'Apollon, Versailles (Fountain of Appollo, Versailles). Drypoint. Menpes 364. 7 1/8 x 9 1/8 (sheet 8 13/16 x 10 7/8). A very rich impression with drypoint burr and plate tone...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$400 Sale Price
20% Off
View of Venice - Etching by Alcione Gubellini - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint realized by Alcione Gubellini in the mid-20th Century.
Edition of 16.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Excellent condition.
Category
1930s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Matador.
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
The Matador. 1911. Drypoint. Hardie 109. 6 7/8 x 10 7/8 (sheet 7 7/8 x 12). Edition 15. A few scattered foxing marks and slight mat line; otherwise fine o...
Category
1910s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,200 Sale Price
27% Off
The Berry Pickers
Located in Middletown, NY
Drypoint etching on cream laid paper with an oak leaf watermark, c 1935. 7 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches (183 x 241 mm), full margins. Signed, titled and inscribed in pencil, lower margin. A b...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
The Passing Gondola
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
The Passing Gondola. c. 1926. Etching. Edition 80, #18. Hardie/Carter 230. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 (sheet 11 1/4 x 13). Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1927. Printed on antique wove pap...
Category
1920s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Ma fille! Monsieur Cabanel - Drypoint by Félicien Rops - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Etching Héliogravure and drypoint. Signed with artist's monogram. Hand titled. Second state.
Good condition.
Ref. Rouir 905; Exteens 411.
Category
1850s Surrealist Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Model
Located in Roma, IT
Charming original drypoint on ivory coloured plate realized by Giuseppe De Nittis between 1870 and 1880. Signed on plate lower left margin, not numbered and in perfect conditions. In...
Category
1870s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$3,116
The Thames and the Tower of London
Located in Plano, TX
The Thames and the Tower of London. 1924. Etching and drypoint. 6 3/8 x 14 3/4 (sheet 10 1/4 x 17 1/4). Mat line; otherwise fine condition. A rich impr...
Category
1920s Modern Drypoint Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$975 Sale Price
22% Off
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