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Style: Modern
Medium: Engraving
Composition, Portrait de A. Decaris, Albert Decaris
Located in Southampton, NY
Engraving on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Portrait de A. Decaris, 1953. Published by Editions d'Art Manuel Bruker, Paris; printed by Ateliers Rigal, Paris, January 30, 1953. Excerpted from the volume (translated from French), The present portrait of Albert Decaris was completed to print on January 30, 1953 for typography by Zichieri; for engraving by Rigal. The edition has been set at 250 on vélin de Rives. The first twenty examples are suites on annam of all the engravings.
ALBERT DECARIS (1901-1988) was a French artist, engraver, painter and Olympic Gold Medallist. Decaris was the first illustrator of luxury art books such as Le Chant de Mon Voyage vers la Grèce by Léon Cathlin, Combourg by Chateaubriand, Les Discours des Misères de ce Temps by Ronsard and Les Destinées by Alfred de Vigny. Decaris joined the infamous group called FVHJ at age 24.
In the 1930s, Decaris began engraving postage stamps, resulting in more than 500 such designs, for various postal services, notably French and African. Stamp collectors...
Category
1950s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$716 Sale Price
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Untitled (Portrait of a young woman - wife of the artist)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a self portrait of a young woman who is the wife of the artist.
Francisco Souto was born in Venezuela, and received a BFA from Herron School of Art and a MFA from The Ohio ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$375 Sale Price
25% Off
The Fair
Located in Storrs, CT
The Fair. 1895-96. Lithograph. Way 92, Levy 144, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 135 state ii. Image 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 (sheet 13 x 9 5/8). A fine impression printed on antique cream-laid paper. Way lists 15-lifetime impressions (Goulding printed...
Category
Late 19th Century American Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,450 Sale Price
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Interiors I: Family Reunion — A penetrating scene with a hidden homage to Eadwea
By Peter Milton
Located in Middletown, NY
Interiors I: Family Reunion
1984
Resist ground etching and engraving on BFK Rives wove paper, 20 x 36 inches (501 x 913 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 49/175 in pencil, lower margin. In excellent condition with minor mat tone. A luminous, rich, and well-inked impression of this haunting image, with astonishing detail and depth. Framed handsomely under museum grade glass with archival materials in a solid wood frame with silver finish. [Milton 107]
Intended to be a stand alone image in its inception, Family Reunion ended up spawning seven additional images, and became a sort of Primo Pensiero in the sprawling, masterpiece suite now known as Interiors. The suite took eight years to complete, and consists of works of varying format, psychological intensity, and subject matter. The thematic darkness in the eight images waxes and wanes, and Milton intentionally included several interlude works to lighten the tension he felt while composing several of the darker images. The first two in the series, Family Reunion, and Hotel Paradise Café, were meant to be companion pieces. The equilibrium of each composition is anchored on a central brooding figure; a man (perhaps based on a Thomas Eakins portrait of the American anthropologist Frank Hamilton...
Category
1980s American Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Interiors VII: The Train from Munich
By Peter Milton
Located in Middletown, NY
Interiors VII: The Train from Munich
Robert E. Townsend, 1991.
Resist ground etching and engraving with hand refinement in charcoal, pencil, stabilo, and eraser on BFK Rives white wove paper, 20 x 36 inches (507 x 914 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 51/175 by the artist in pencil, lower margin. A brilliant, inky impression with luminous light and gradient tones. In excellent condition with one extremely minor and superficial spot of light tan adhesive residue on the verso, unobtrusive and not visible on the recto, with no other visible defects. With the blind stamp of the printer, Robert E. Townsend in the lower left margin. An especially fine impression in superb condition. [Milton 113].
When asked about this work in particular, Milton expressed that his favorite images were his darkest images, in theme, mood, and in ink. Milton, who has said that his work is infused with a postmodern awareness of the past, has focused here in a deeply personal way on a segment of history that continues to haunt us all. The work, published in 1991, evokes one of the darkest periods of European history, the eroding and erasing of European culture under fascism, and the eventual total loss of humanity. The Train from Munich is an especially relevant and emotional work for Milton, who created the piece for his wife, Edith, who escaped Munich in 1939 as a child on the fabled Kinderstransport. The Kinderstransport was a desperate rescue effort on the part of the British government to save as many Jewish children as possible by railway before borders closed on the precipice of the Second World War. Children left their parents behind, and boarded the trains alone, leaving the impending doom of Nazi Germany, they arrived in Great Britain as refugees. More than 10,000 children escaped the holocaust via the Kinderstransport. In Train from Munich, the image itself holds an almost immeasurable amount of symbolism; each inch of the matrix is a successful effort to confront this history in a way that is poignant through a series of motifs. We see the Café disappearing into a ghostlike memory of the past, an allegory to the disintegration of culture, while through the windows we can see a rampant, snarling dog; a portrait of Hitler's shepherd, Blondi. Blondi isn't the only notable figure in the composition. Milton has pointed out that the fading figure of the doorman at the Hotel Metropole is modeled after the artist and intellectual Marcel Duchamp, and the face of the young girl peering...
Category
1990s American Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Charcoal, ABS, Engraving, Etching
Henri Matisse, Mask of a Young Boy, from Alternation, 1946
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Masque de jeune garcon (Mask of a Young Boy), from the album Alternance (Alternation), originates from the 1946 edition pu...
Category
1940s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$2,796 Sale Price
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Erotic Scene - Etching ad Drypoint by A. Doré -1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is a fun and pleasant drypoint realized by the French painter, illustrator, and writer Amandine Doré around the mid-20th century.
The state...
Category
1950s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Politics
Located in Storrs, CT
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
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The Doorway.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Hardie/Carter 244. 8 1/16 x 6 3/8 (sheet 10 1/4 x 8 1/4). Edition 80, #52. Illustrated: Guichard, British Etchers, 1850-1940; ; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Warrington Colescott, Your Day in Court mixed media graphic signed Artists Proof
Located in New York, NY
Warrington Colescott
Your Day in Court, from the portfolio Wisconsin Graphics, 1971
Drypoint, etching, aquatint, woodcut, & soft-ground etching, w roulette, vibrograver, letterpress ...
Category
1970s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Woodcut
Little Girl
— American Modernism
By Milton Avery
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Milton Avery, 'Little Girl', drypoint, 1936, edition 60, Lunn 11. Signed, dated, and numbered '22/60' in pencil. A superb impression, in warm black ink with delicate overall plate tone, on off-white wove paper, with wide margins (2 5/8 to 4 1/8 inches); hinge stains on the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 8 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (222 x 121 mm); sheet size 14 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches (378 x 333 mm).
Collections: Cantor Arts Center, National Gallery of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
"I never have any rules to follow; I follow myself."
"I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight."
—Milton Avery
'His is the poetry of sheer loveliness.'
—Mark Rothko in his 1965 eulogy to Avery.
Milton Avery (1885-1965) is recognized as one of America's foremost modernist artists, renowned for his uniquely expressive style, evocative use of color, and captivating compositions.
Growing up in a working-class family in Altmar, New York, Avery's early life was marked by the struggles and realities of rural New York. Despite lacking formal artistic training, he displayed an innate talent for drawing from an early age. In 1905, his family relocated to Hartford, Connecticut, where he worked various odd jobs while developing his artistic skills through self-study and experimentation. In 1915, he enrolled at the Connecticut League of Art Students, where he received formal instruction and began to refine his distinctive style.
In 1918, Avery transferred to the School of the Art Society of Hartford and worked in the evenings so that he could paint during the day. He became a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts in 1924. That summer in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he met the artist Sally Michael...
Category
1930s American Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Harvest in Switzerland by Alexandre Mairet - Engraving 26x36 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame from Alexandre Mairet
Category
1910s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$480 Sale Price
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The Workshop (Stirling)
Located in Storrs, CT
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
$1,000 Sale Price
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Joseph - Burin Print after Lucas van Leyden - 19th century
By Lucas van Leyden
Located in Roma, IT
Joseph interpret his dream to Jacob is an original artwork realized after Dutch artist Lucas van Leyden (1494 –1533). Later reprint, probably of the e...
Category
19th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig;...
Category
1910s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
$665 Sale Price
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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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint
The Smithy
Located in Middletown, NY
A warm composition, in theme and tone; the creaky timber interior of a 19th century Scottish blacksmith's shop.
Etching and drypoint on cream laid Japan paper, 8 x 10 inches (202 x ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
1910s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
$665 Sale Price
30% Off
Market Square, 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. In good condition with minor mat t...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, 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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
$455 Sale Price
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The Passing Gondola
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,000 Sale Price
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Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
1910s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
$665 Sale Price
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Ludgate Hill
Located in Storrs, CT
Ludgate Hill. 1921. Etching, aquatint, and drypoint. Dickins 69. 5 5/8 x 5 1/8 (sheet 13 5/8 x 9 3/4). A fine proof with plate tone, printed on 'J Wha[tman] cream wove paper. Edition of 275 for the UK and 125 for the US. Signed in pencil.
Ludgate Hill is a street that runs west from St. Paul's Churchyard to Ludgate Circus (built in 1864), and from there becomes Fleet Street. The Ludgate Hill railway station, between Water Lane and New Bridge Street, is a station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. It was closed before World War II and the railway bridge and viaduct between Holborn Viaduct and Blackfriars stations was demolished in 1990 to enable the construction of the City Thameslink railway station in a tunnel. This also involved the regrading of the slope of Ludgate Hill at the junction. About halfway up Ludgate Hill is St Martin, Ludgate church. This was physically joined to the Ludgate.
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
$400 Sale Price
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Fructidore (Fruit being carried is hard to distinguish from the woman
s body)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
In Anne Dykmans' "Fructidore", a well endowed woman uses her plaid apron to carry a bunch of fruit. Parts of her body clothed in plaid seem to suggest the same fruit she is carrying...
Category
1970s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
En Pension.
Located in Storrs, CT
En Pension. 1929-30. Drypoint. Appleby 142. 8 1/2 x 12 1/8 (sheet 11 1/2 x 18 5/16). Edition 100. A rich impression printed on cream wove paper with wide margins. Signed in ink. H...
Category
1920s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Windy Night, Stockholm.
Located in Storrs, CT
Windy Night, Stockholm. 1935. Drypoint. Dodgson 457.x. 11 7/8 x 7 5/8 (sheet 15 1/2 x 10 7/8). Edition of 80 in this state (total 93 in 10 states). Illustrated: Guichard, British Etc...
Category
1930s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,600 Sale Price
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Sexual Encounter - Original Etching ad Drypoint by A. Doré - Late 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Sexual Encounter is a beautiful drypoint made by the French painter, illustrator, and writer Amandine Doré in the second half of the 20th century. The st...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Engraving 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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Thames and the Tower of London
Located in Storrs, CT
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$975 Sale Price
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Bus Stop
By Zavel Silber
Located in Middletown, NY
Circa 1950.
Etching with aquatint on cream wove paper, 6 x 4 3/4 inches (151 x 119 mm), full margins. Signed "Zavel" and numbered 2/55 in pencil, lower margin. In good condition wit...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching
Charing Cross - The Statue of Charles I.
Located in Storrs, CT
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
$780 Sale Price
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Colosseum (First State)
Located in Middletown, NY
Copper plate engraving on cream wove paper, 18 1/4 x 13 3/8 (462 x 338 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right. Edition of 20. First state (of 2). Minor uniform toning, and ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving
The Figure - Original Etching and Drypoint by Pietro Guccione - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
The Figure is an original Etching and Drypoint realized by Pietro Guccione in 1964.
Hand-signed.
Numbered, 41/50.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well-balan...
Category
1960s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching
Swing (The swing of the bat from #27 a right handed hitter. Play Baseball!
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Play Ball! No. 27 unleashes a mighty swing at the ball. Both umpire and catcher are in their huddled crouch. "Swing" is an exclusive publication of Stone and Press Gallery by Art We...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Gris, Composition, Du cubisme (after)
By Juan Gris
Located in Southampton, NY
Etching, Engraving on vélin du Lana Papiers Spéciaux pure rag paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Du Cubisme, 1947. Published by Compagn...
Category
1940s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
$6,716 Sale Price
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Edward Bawden, Modern British art, Kew Gardens
Located in Harkstead, GB
A wonderful image by one of the great modern masters of English art, depicting a whimsical pastiche of Kew Gardens.
Edward Bawden (1903-1989)
Kew Gardens
Signed, titled and numbered 36/40
Engraving
17 x 10.5 cm
Edward Bawden was a watercolourist, illustrator, designer, printmaker and teacher, born in Braintree, Essex, the county in which he spent much of his life, finally living in Saffron Walden. Studied at Cambridge School of Art from 1919, then at Royal College of Art, 1922-5, on a scholarship, in the design school being taught by Paul Nash. Soon began on commercial work for Poole Pottery and Curwen Press, then in 1928-9 with Eric Ravilious and Charles Mahoney did decorations for Morley College. Bawden went on studying engraving and bookbinding at Central School Arts and Crafts after leaving the Royal College and himself taught there, the Royal Academy Schools and Goldsmiths' College School of Art. First one-man show at Zwemmer Gallery in 1934, after which he showed extensively including RA, being elected RA in 1956. Work poured from Bawden's studio in the 1930s, for companies such as Shell-Mex; book illustrations such as Good Food, 1932, and The Week-end Book, 1939; and a mass of often ephemeral work which evinced a wonderful wit, economy and aptness to subject. Official War Artist in World War II, much of his output being in the Imperial War Museum. Tate Gallery and many other public collections hold his work. Bawden did decorations for the SS Orcades and Oronsay and for the Unicorn Pavilion for the Festival of Britain of 1951. His son was the artist Richard Bawden...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Louis Marcoussis, Rimbaud, from XXe siecle, 1939
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite burin etching, engraving by Louis Marcoussis (1878–1941), titled Rimbaud, from the album XXe siecle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue Valette (5e), Directeur G. di San Lazza...
Category
1930s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
$716 Sale Price
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Techtite
Located in Kansas City, MO
Leonard Marchant
Techtite
Messotint Engraving
Year: circa 1980
Size: 13.6x14.75 on 31x23in
Edition: 70
Signed, inscribed and numbered by hand
Drystamp lower left
COA provided
Ref.: 9...
Category
1970s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$722 Sale Price
34% Off
Composition, Portrait de A. Decaris, Albert Decaris
Located in Southampton, NY
Engraving on vélin de Rives paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Portrait de A. Decaris, 1953. Published by Editions d'Art ...
Category
1950s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Posing Nude - Original Etching and Drypoint - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Posing Nude 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 through...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Walking Shadow - Original Etching and Drypoint - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Walking Shadow 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 thro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Moralist - Etching by William Nutter - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Mezzotint and etching with hand-colouring on paper realized by William Nutter (1750-1802) after J.R. Smith.
Not signed, as issued.
Very good condition.
An elderly clergyman or mor...
Category
Late 18th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Mezzotint
Les Arcades, Dieppe France (the arches along coastline of a town in Normandy)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The image show a panoramic view of the architectural arches and the boats in the harbor of Dieppe in Normandy France. Dieppe was occupied by German naval and army forces after the f...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Tool drypoint: Weed puller 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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Model - Etching by G. De Nittis - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Charming original drypoint on ivorycoloured plate realized by Giuseppe De Nittis between 1870 and 1880. Signed on plate lower left margin, not numbered and in perfect conditions. Inc...
Category
1870s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Figures - Drypoint by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Mid-20th Century.
Hand-signed in the lower right part.
Numbered. Edition 1/12.
Good conditions.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 1924-Rome, June 16, 1989) was an Italian writer, painter, engraver and journalist, winner of the Feltrinelli Prize for Painting in 1963 and first winner of the Forte dei Marmi Satira Prize in 1973.After completing his secondary education, he enrolls in university. An interventionist like many young people of his time, he took part in the Great War at the age of nineteen as a field artillery officer. At the end of the conflict he resumed his university studies in Siena and in 1920 he graduated in law. In 1924 he was called by Angiolo Bencini to take care of the printing of the magazine Il Selvaggio, openly uncompromising fascist, revolutionary and anti-bourgeois, where his first engravings were published. After a few years of coexistence between work at the newspaper and the law firm, at the beginning of 1926 he left the legal profession to take over the direction of Il Selvaggio which he would hold until 1942. In 1928 he was the author of the small book published by Vallecchi (Florence), Il Trastullo di Strapaese (little songs and engraved woodwinds) which collected fascist songs (the same book was seized several times from Antonio Gramsci during his detention). With the transfer of the editorial staff of the Selvaggio in 1925 from Colle di Val d'Elsa to Florence, Maccari collaborated with Ardengo Soffici, Ottone Rosai and Achille Lega. In the meantime, between 1927 and 1930, he made himself known to the general public as a painter by participating in various national exhibitions. Also in 1930 Maccari works in Turin at La Stampa as editor-in-chief and has the writer Curzio Malaparte as director. His presence in the cultural and editorial world of the fascist regime is very intense, he writes and collaborates with various magazines: Quadrivio, L'Italia Letteraria, L'Italiano and Omnibus by Leo Longanesi; then, during the war, in il Primato di Bottai and, subsequently again, in Il Mondo di Pannunzio (from the first number, in 1949), up to Documento by Federigo Valli. His graphic production is also vast, ranging from the Album of Vallecchi (1925), Il trastullo di Strapaese (1928) to Linoleum (1931). Maccari illustrated in 1934 La vecchia del Bal Bullier by Antonio Baldini and in 1942 he published the Album folder, followed by Come quando fuori Piove and Il superfluo illustrata.For his pictorial work full of evident chromatic accentuations and fast brushstrokes, the violent drawing combined with the lively stroke of the graphic sign of his engravings, he is recognized by critics as a complete artist. In 1962 he was also entrusted with the presidency of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome and managed to obtain a personal exhibition at Gallery 63 in New York. His production of drawings, watercolors, temperas, etc. is endless, sometimes in collaboration with prestigious publishing houses; it is worth mentioning, just as an excellent example, the 32 b/w and color drawings with which he illustrated Il gusto di vivere, a volume that collects writings by Giancarlo Fusco, edited by Natalia Aspesi and published by Laterza in 1985. Maccari, Sienese and great contradaiolo della Torre, painted the Palio...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint, Etching
New Rochelle - Before the Wind
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'New Rochelle - Before the Wind', drypoint, 1931, edition 30 (only a few impressions printed), Rose l.163. Signed, dated '1932' and numbered '1 – XXX' in ...
Category
1930s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Hillside - Etching by Eugène Burnand - Late 19th century
Located in Roma, IT
Hillside is an original etching realized by Eugène Burnand (1850-1921) in the Late 19th century.
Signed on the plate.
Good conditions with foxing.
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Category
Late 19th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
A Curious Place : What Happens Here ? - Original etching - 1951
By André Derain
Located in Paris, IDF
Andre DERAIN
A Curious Place : What Happens Here ?
Original drypoint etching
Stamp signature of the artist
On vellum 45 x 34 cm (c. 18 x 14 in)
Excellent condition
Category
1950s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Evening, Port of Genoa
Located in Storrs, CT
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
From Rues et Visages de Paris - 1920s - Drypoint/Etching - Modern
By Chas Laborde
Located in Roma, IT
Illustrated Plate, from Rues et Visages de Paris is a hand-colored etching and drypoint by Chas Laborde. This original print is hand-colored with tempera and watercolor.
In excellent...
Category
1920s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor, Drypoint, Etching
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
1910s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
$665 Sale Price
30% Off
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 Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$3,090
The Dance of Death. 1914-1918
Located in Storrs, CT
The Dance of Death. 1914-1918. 1921. Portfolio of 7 etchings with drypoint. Sheet: 18 1/2 x 15 1/2. Edition 100. Title page annotated in ink by the arti...
Category
1910s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Figures - Drypoint by Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Figures 1945 is an original drypoint realized by Mino Maccari (1945).
The artwork is in good conditions, except for worn paper on the margins. Image Dimensions: 20x18.8 cm.
Hand- ...
Category
1940s Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint
Abstract Composition - Original Etching and Drypoint - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Abstract Composition is an original print in etching and drypoint on white color paper, realized by an anonymous artist of the Mid-20th Century.
In very good conditions.
The artwor...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Engraving Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
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