1940s Figurative Prints

Aquatint, Drypoint, Burnisher and Roulette. Image dimensions: 58x41 cm Monogram on plate - final state on 5. Edition of 450 prints, belonging to the suite “Miserere”, considered as ...

Image dimensions: 19.5 x 15.8 cm. La Finestra del solitario is an original artwork realized by Luigi Bartolini in 1940. Original etching on paper. Titled, numbered and hand-signed...

Erotic Scene is an original xilography artwork realized by Mino Maccari in 1944. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right, in the pseudonym of "Jean Barbe" which is the artist's signature in 1944-45 ca. in erotic series artwork...

Robert Riggs, 'Psychopathic Ward', 2-color lithograph, c. 1940, edition c. 50, Beall 60, Bassham 78. Signed, titled, and numbered '14' in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A ...

Original I'LL CARRY MINE TOO! ORIGINAL VINTAGE WWII POSTER. Artist: Valentino Sarra. Size: 22" x 28". Year: 1943. Original U. S. Government World War II vintage poster. Professional archival linen backing; ready to frame. Original WWII fold marks restored during linen backing. (All WWII U. S. Government posters were folded - this is not a defect.) During World War ll conservation was a major part of the war effort. In this image we see the lady carrying her own groceries home and thereby saving wear and tear on trucks and tires as well as aiding the troops. Each citizen was encouraged to do their part in helping in the allied war effort. This is an Original Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction. A fun World War 2...

Wake on the Ferry. 1949. Etching. Morse catalog 313. state v. 5 x 7 (sheet 8 3/4 x 11 7/8). Edition of 350: 200 for the Art Students League and 150 for the artist. A fine impression ...

This exquisite lithograph by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Lithographie IV (Lithograph IV), from the album Repli, Gravures de Henri Matisse (Repli, Engravings by Henri Matisse), ...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Kathe Kollwitz, Ten Lithographs. Published by Henry C. Kleemann and...

Carl Ashby, Pensive Lady, 1942, ink and watercolor, retains fresh, clear color. A native of New Mexico, Carl Ashby (1914-2004) moved to New York City in 1938 following a stint with ...

Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor). Printed in 1944 at the Rene Kieffer atelier and published by Rombaldi in an edition of 300 for the rare "La Varende" portfolio. Size: 9 1/2 x ...

Original horizontal “Resilio Scotchspun” vintage fashion poster. Archival linen backed and presents in excellent condition. “A Bonnie Heila...

Sidney Chafetz (1922-2013) is an outstanding American printmaker whose career stretched from the 1940s through the twentieth century. A Rhode Island native, Sidney Chafetz attended ...

This exquisite lithograph by Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled Le Moqueur (The Mocking One), from the album Georges Rouault, Divertissement, originates from the 1943 edition publis...

Circonvallazione Clodia is an original modern artwork realized by Leonardo Sinisgalli and Antonio Donghi. Black and white lithograph realized by Antonio Donghi and a text by Leonard...

Sitting in an armchair, the woman with a heart-shaped torso is rendered with simple rectangular shapes outlined by cobalt blue and bright yellow. Set against a soft pastel background...

This exquisite lithograph by Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled La Roussalka (The Water Nymph), from the album Georges Rouault, Divertissement, originates from the 1943 edition publ...

Robert Riggs, 'Children's Ward', 2-color lithograph, c. 1940, edition c. 50, Beall 11, Bassham 76. Signed, titled, and numbered '14' in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A su...

Isaac (sometimes Isac) Friedlander's large wood engraving, My People, 1944, reflects his genuine social interest. After a youth of extreme hardship, including incarceration in a czar...

Bernard Brussel-Smith, 'City Scene I', wood engraving, 1949, edition 100. Signed, titled, and numbered '93/100' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on white wove paper, wi...

ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893 – 1980) WE’RE OVER THR MOUNTAIN (Wir sind überm Berg) (A68, D2718) Lithograph over tinted ground, signed in pencil and in monogram in the stone. Image, 14 ½ x 19 1/4. Large full sheet with watermark and deckle edge, 24 ½ x 19 ¼. In very good condition. The A. Paul Weber Museum was inaugurated in Ratzeburg in 1973. Andreas Paul Weber died on 9 November 1980. This important German lithographer, draughtsman and painter bequeathed a comprehensive œuvre, in which critical satirical works figure prominently. THE WEBER MUSEUM HAS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND A BIOGRAPHY The following is a biography taken from the prominent German auction house KETTERER /KUNST: Andreas Paul Weber attended secondary modern school in Arnstadt between 1903 and 1910 before briefly attending the School for the Decorative and Applied Arts in Erfurt. In 1908 Weber joined the 'Jungwandervogel', a movement which sought to develop a new, modern lifestyle based on walking and living close to nature. At the same time Andreas Paul Weber began experimenting with lithography and worked as a commercial artist. When the first world war broke out, Weber served as a railway engineer on the Eastern Front, where he worked for the army as a draughtsman from 1916. After the war Andreas Paul Weber illustrated numerous books, including Till Eulenspiegel, Reineke Fuchs and the critical contemporary work Der Zeitgenosse by Hjalmar Kutzleb, which were Weber's first successes. In 1925 Weber founded the 'Clan-Presse' ['Clan Press'], where he and his son Christian printed...

Original WWII poster: A British "Commando" raid on a German-held port in Norway. Back Them Up! Linen backed and ready to frame. Printed in England...

Andre DIGNIMONT Nude Styling Herself Original etching Printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 30 x 25 cm (c. 12 x 10 inch) Printed in Haasen w...

Sidney Chafetz (1922-2013) is an outstanding American printmaker whose career stretched from the 1940s through the twentieth century. A Rhode Island native, Sidney Chafetz attended ...

Artist: Henri Matisse Medium: Linocut on Arches vellum Title: Plate 14: Ténèbres de moi-meme, je m'abandonne à vous (Darkness of Myself, I Surrender to You) Portfolio: Pasiphae Year:...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie E, var. 8 (Series E, Variation 8), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Gwathmey, Robert (American, 1903-1988). END OF THE DAY. Williams 4. Screenprint in colors, 1944. Edition size not known. Signed in ink, lower right, within the image. 12 1/4 x 14 ...

Original SPAIN; vintage European antique travel poster. Size: 24.5" 38.25". Year: 1943. Artist: Delpy. Archival linen-backed vintage lithograph, ready to frame. Print...

Intimate circumstance is a beautiful black and white linocut on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by the Italian artist, Mino Maccari. Hand-signed with the pseudonym "Jean Barbe...

This exquisite etching by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Jeune femme et son fils (Young Woman and Her Son), from the album Antares, eaux-fortes originales de Marie Laurencin (An...

Federico Castellon, 'By the Arks', 1941, lithograph, edition 250, Freundlich 10D. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower left. A fine, atmospheric impression on cream, wove pap...

William Bertrum Sharp (1924-1984) served in the Armed Forces during World War II and is considered among the first artists to attend art school under the GI Bill. He studied (proba...

Lithograph on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12 x 9 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, View, Surrealism in Belgium, vol. VII, n°2, D...

Ian Hugo, 'Forest Woman', engraving, 1945, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '5/50' in pencil. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack E...

Hand Signed. Edition of 100 prints plus 5 prints in Roman Numerals. From the portfolio: "Dieci Litografie (Numerus, Mensura, Pondus)". Very rare print in perfect conditions. This a...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie K, var. 1 (Series K, Variation 1), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Hand Signed. Edition of 100 prints plus 5 prints in Roman Numerals. From the portfolio: "Dieci Litografie (Numerus, Mensura, Pondus)". Very rare print in perfect conditions. This a...

This exquisite silkscreen after Paul Klee (1879–1940), titled Figur des Orientalischen Theaters (Figure of the Oriental Theater), from the album Paul Klee, Paintings Watercolors 1913...

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...

Etching on cream laid paper with a deckle edge and with an unidentified watermark with an "AL" inside an ovoid cartouche with a garter and buckle (likely English 19th century), 9 1/2...

This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), titled Man with Pipe, from the folio Picasso, Fifteen Drawings, 1946, originate...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie D, var. 5 (Series D, Variation 5), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Owen Weiri (also Wiiri, 1916-1974) was a Finnish-American who served in the Spanish Civil War and then, during World War ll, in the American armed forces as a marine. Industrial sub...

Original vintage poster: "Map of the United States as Californians See It". 1947, artist: Oren Arnold. Size: 16.5" x 20.5", R. H. MOEBUS COMPANY This poster is not linen-backed. This poster is in very good fine condition, ready to frame. A humorous satirical pictorial map from 1947 with the golden sun on the upper left, gives a detailed depiction of California, its relative size to the rest of the United States, showing Florida as "Death Valley", the rest of the United States as "Unexplored" 'Unimportant anyway, not in California". The image has your Mexican singer; bikini-clad bathers and others set in the image. Shows rivers, lakes, harbors, landmarks, parks, recreational activities, and local people. This map shows Los Angeles’ city...

Numerus Mensura Pondus is an original lithograph realized by the Italian artist Felice Casorati (1883-1963) in 1946. Not signed. Title present on the same lithograph. In very good ...

Abstract Composition is an original etching artwork realized by Ivan Mosca in 1949. Hand-signed on the lower right. numbered, edition 31/50 good conditions. Passpartout included: 26 x 19.5 The artwork representing an abstract composition,in a well-balanced composition through confident and strong strokes. Ivan Mosca (Parma, 1915 - Rome, 2005) was an Italian artist and painter. He moved to Milan where he attended the School of Book and the Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche in Monza. He was interested in abstract art and met the artists of the Gallery "Il Milione", such as Osvaldo Licini, Manlio Rho...

Original artist proof etching by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Marked “AP” lower left for artist proof in pencil. Signed by the artist lower right in pen...

'I'll Be What I Choose: Vanity of Ambition', color lithograph, 1949, edition 40, Fine and Looney 281. Signed, titled, and numbered '23/40' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower ri...

This exquisite lithograph by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Lithographie IX (Lithograph IX), from the album Repli, Gravures de Henri Matisse (Repli, Engravings by Henri Matisse), ...

Sexual Desire is a black and white linocut on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1945 by Mino Maccari. Hand-signed with the pseudonym "Jean Barbe" and numbered in pencil on lower marg...

This exquisite lithograph by Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled Pierrot Noir (Black Pierrot), from the album Georges Rouault, Divertissement, originates from the 1943 edition publis...

This exquisite heliogravure after Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled Clair de lune (Moonlight), from the album Georges Rouault, Stella Vespertina (Evening Star), originates from the...

This exquisite lithograph by Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled Margot (Margot), from the album Georges Rouault, Divertissement, originates from the 1943 edition published by Editio...

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie O, var. 1 (Series O, Variation 1), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

Louis Lozowick, 'Winter Fun', lithograph, 1940, edition 20, 250 (1941). Flint 188. Signed in pencil, with the artist’s monogram in the stone, lower left. A...

Medium: Lithograph and stencil on vélin Polifilo paper Year: 1947 Paper Size: 10.24 x 13.78 inches Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio, I...

'Tropical Wash Day', aquatint, edition 100, 1946. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy cream wove paper, with full...

This exquisite lithograph by Georges Rouault (1871–1958), titled Petit Page Rouge et Or (Little Page in Red and Gold), from the album Georges Rouault, Divertissement, originates from...

Benton Spruance, 'Girl with Hands to Face', two-color lithograph, 1940, edition 30, Fine and Looney 180. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 30' in pencil. A superb impression, on cr...

This exquisite lithograph by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Lithographie III (Lithograph III), from the album Repli, Gravures de Henri Matisse (Repli, Engravings by Henri Matisse)...

Original WWII vintage poster: FOR THEIR FUTURE - BUY WAR BONDS. Original vintage WWII poster by the artist Munsett, 1943. U. S. Government printing: 1943-0-513138. Archival l...