1930s Figurative Prints

Le Corbusier (1887-1965) Man and Shadow, 1938 Original lithograph Signature printed in the plate Dated in the plate On light vellum 21 x 27 cm (c. 8 x 11 inch) Very good condition,...

Adam and Eve is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La...

Il Revoit le Thabor Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958) Woodcut, initialed in the block Size: 12 x 8 in. (30.48 x 20.32 cm) Frame Size: 18.5 x 14.5 inches

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...

Lithograph and stencil on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the volume, Le Peseur d'âmes, précédé d'un frontispice et suivi de hui...

Black and white original artist proof etching by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Marked “Arist Proof” lower left in pencil. Signed by the artist lower righ...

Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh, 'de Young Mansion – San Francisco', lithograph, c. 1937, edition 25. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impr...

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...

A wartorn composition of a soldier on the left, a Jewish blacksmith in the middle and a little shepherd on the right. This is a lithograph pastel and colored pencil on paper. Saul Rabino (1892-1969)Best known for his paintings and drawings of Jewish culture, Saul Rabino was a Russian-bornartist who spent most of his life in Los Angeles. Born Saul Rabinowitz in 1892 in Odessa, Russia,Rabino studied art at the Russian Imperial Art School. During a brief stay in Paris, he continued hiseducation at the École des Arts Decoratifs. After mastering techniques in painting, sculpture, andlithography, Rabino moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a WPA printmaker during the1930s. He stayed in Los Angeles for the rest of his life, making work about political turmoil and theJewish community. During the 1940s, he drew allegorical images of war and the plight of Jewsin Eastern Europe. These political works, usually drawings or prints, are dramatic, symbolic, andemotionally rousing. He also made art portraying the scholars and religious leaders of the Jewishcommunity, including portraits that are more delicate than his political pieces and express anobvious admiration for the leaders of his community. Before he died in 1969, Rabino exhibitedat the World’s Fair New York in 1939, the Los Angeles Museum Historical Society of Art, and theLaguna Beach Art Society. His work is in the collection of the Los Angeles Public...

This exquisite heliogravure after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Fruits, from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 4, originates from the 1938 issue published by Edi...

Vol. In-Folio 45,2x34,2 cm., 205 pp. Edition of 220 copies including a xylographic vignette, 14 xylographic illustrations (on heads and footers of chapters) and 22 original lithograp...

Marc Chagall (1887-1958) Bible : Aaron and the Candle (Menorah), (Aaron et le chandelier), 1939 Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm (c. 1...

The Horse and the Dancer is an original etching realized by Théodore Strawinsky in 1932. Hand signed and dated in pencil on the lower right margin, edition of 15 prints. Very good co...

Louis Icart, After, French (1888 - 1950) - Stepping Up from La Dame aux Camelias, Year: 1938, Medium: Hand-Colored Etching, Image Size: 5 x 3.5 inches, Frame Size: 20.5 x 17 inches

Andre DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC Divine : Young Girl Hidden by the Curtains, 1930 Original stone lithograph Unsigned On Arches vellum 28 x 22 cm (c. 11 x 9 inch) Excellent condition

This exquisite linocut by Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967), titled Les trois graces (The Three Graces), from the album XXe siecle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue Valette (5e), Directeur G. di S...

Yves ALIX Under Observation, 1930 Original stone lithograph Unsigned On Arches vellum 28 x 22 cm (c. 11 x 9 inch) Excellent condition

Edgar DEGAS (after) Whorehouse Scene : Champagne Before Love Etching and aquatint On Rives vellum 25 x 32 cm (c. 10 x 13 inch) In the early 1920s, Ambroise Vollard (the great art se...

Wuanita Smith, 'Humming Birds and Orchids', white-line color woodcut, circa 1930, edition 50. Signed and titled in pencil. Annotated '50 edition', 'no 5'...

Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 V. Inscribed 'J. F. note paper', in pencil, in the artist’s hand; with the Feininger estate stamp and catalog no. 'W 859' in pencil. Annotated 'W.290 V state 3609' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce. Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 5/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; NY, NY. ABOUT THE ARTIST Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public. Still, he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892. After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin. One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...

An Ohio native Witonski made his home in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and this subject may well be a Chelsea scene. But mostly it is a homage to intaglio printmaking. It...

Adriaan Lubbers, 'Skyline from Jersey Heights', lithograph, 1930, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '4/XXV' in pencil. Dated 'Paris 1930' in pencil. A fine impression, on crea...

Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Dix Reproductions, 1933. Published by Editions ...

Original Fortune Magazine 1938 vintage cover. Archival linen backed in very fine condition; ready to frame. Artist: Miguel Covarrubias (1904 – 1957) This is an Original Letter Press...

Raoul DUFY Woman with Funny Hat, 1930 Original stone lithograph Unsigned On Arches vellum 28 x 22 cm (c. 11 x 9 inch) Excellent condition

'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 ...

The dimensions are for the image; there are large margins. This lithograph is signed in pencil. A native New Yorker, Ann Nooney (1900-1970) recorded the urban scene while on the Wo...

Arthur Kolnik was born in Stanislavov, a small town in Galicia, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, who was originally from Lithuania, worked as an accoun...

Les Amants is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La F...

'Girl and Cat', lithograph, 1935, edition 33, Fine and Looney 121. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '5/33' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression...

Herschel Levit 'Duet', lithograph, c. 1937. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 x 2 inches)...

Benton Spruance, 'Slack Rope Artist', lithograph, 1930, edition 30, Fine and Looney 35. Signed and titled in pencil. Numbered '2' in the bottom right margin. A fine impression, with ...

Evidently, Cherry Kobler was a woman who composed songs and sang them while accompanying herself on the piano. Why she chose a fruity dessert as a stage name is anyone's guess. According to the French files of Columbia Records...

Armin Landeck, 'Studio Interior No. 1', 1935, drypoint, edition 100, Kraeft 56. Signed in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream laid pap...

The Lunchtime is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s. Good conditions. Paul Baudier, (born October ...

(after) Alexander Calder "Calder's Circus" offset lithograph on wove paper after drawings by the artist Published by Art in America and Perls gallery in 1964 (from drawings done in t...

Edouard Goerg, 'Le Paradis Terrestre' (Paradise on Earth), etching, 1931, edition 40. Signed, titled, and numbered '3/40' in pencil. A fine richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream w...

This exquisite lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Le Livre blanc (The White Book), precede dun fronti...

Friends is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s. Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner. Good conditions. Édouard Chimot (26 November 1880 – 7 J...

Edgar DEGAS (after) Mimes des Courtisanes de Lucien: one plate Etching and aquatint On Rives vellum 25 x 32 cm (c. 10 x 13 inch) In the early 1920s, Ambroise Vollard (the great art s...

Le Rêve  is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La Fon...

This exquisite lithograph by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Le sommeil d'Alice (The Sleep of Alice), from the folio Les aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles (Alice's Adventu...

This exquisite lithograph and pochoir with hand coloring by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Le Livre blanc (The White Book), precede dun fronti...

The Courtship is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by L...

The Blindfold is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi(Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by La...

Ex Libris - Memento Vivere is a colored woodcut print created by Michel Fingesten. Hand Signed on the lower right margin. Good conditions. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a ...

Lithograph on vélin d'Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the folio, Dix Reproductions, 1933. Published by Editions ...

After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #25, Baby; black & white collotype after the 1917 painting in oil on canvas. GUSTAV KLIMT EINE NACHLESE (GUSTAV KLIMT ...

Original poster: Pulitura Pavimenti, Italian stone lithograph; size: 39" x 55"; archival linen backed in excellent condition; really fun poster. ready to frame. There is slight foxing on the outer edges of the poster; otherwise, it is in very fine condition. Original Italian Pulitura Pavimenti Vetri - Ambient poster. This linen-backed original features four men who look almost like intimate twins with large push brooms. The bright yellow background with red accents sets off the black work clothes. It is a very fun and rare mint-condition original. Lavori, Riordimo, Abbonamenti, Milano These vintage posters served as advertisements and decorative pieces, capturing the essence of the time period and providing insight into its design aesthetics and cultural values. This antique Italian poster...

Etching and drypoint realized by Paul Emile Colin in 1930s. Edition of 3/50. Hand signed and numbered. Very good condition.

Absorbing black and white woodcut of a nude female figure in the water surrounded by sea life and small figures by French artist Colette Pettier, 1936. Signed, dated and numbered 49 ...

Water Polo from "Joies du Sport." Original pochoir print from a limited edition of 750 copies. Paris, 1932. Sheet size: 16 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.

Swimming under waterfalls is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short S...

Original German vintage poster: International Leipzig Trade Fair Leipziger Messe in NYC. Beginning Feb. 28th, 1937. Held in New York City. Th...

This exquisite heliogravure after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled La Main et le pinceau (The Hand and the Paintbrush), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 4, or...

David Feintstein is a master draughtsman working in the genre of everyday life in New York City. His style is highly original, especially in this work. Here he's used Visitors' Day (...

The revelation is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi(Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” by L...

Classic American Depression-Era subject meets the French landscape? Clearly Guyer was looking at both Jean-Francois Millet and Vincent Van Gogh, who together informed this image. And...

An excellent impression of this large color aquatint. Numbered in pencil 99/175. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Published by Vollard, Paris. Catalogue reference: Chapon/Rouault 141; ...

 The sweet awakening  is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949). Illustration for “Tales and Short Stori...