Early 20th Century Figurative Prints

The King is a lithograph on paper realized by Hégésippe Moreau in 1838. The artwork is in good conditions. Hégésippe Moreau (1810-1838) was a French lyric poet. The romantic myth w...

The Girl and Mouse is a lithograph on paper realized by Hégésippe Moreau in 1838. The artwork is in good conditions. Hégésippe Moreau (1810-1838) was a French lyric poet. The roman...

Bishop, Isabel. IN FRONT OF THE 42ND STREET LIBRARY. Teller 3. Etching, 1927. 4 x 3 inches; 100 x 75 mm. Signed in pencil. One of only a few lifetime impre...

Ex Libris - Maria Hortensia Mealhacosta is an Artwork realized in 1978. Color Lithograph print on paper. Dated on the back. The work is glued on ivory cardboard. Total dimension...

Henri Matisse Arabesque 1924 Lithograph on Chine paper, Edition of 50 Paper size: 62.2 x 46 cms (24 1/2 x 18 1/8 ins) Image size: 48.3 x 32 cms (19 x 12 1/2 ins) HM15834

Lon Megargee 1883-1960 "The Bronc" Wood block print Signed in plate, lower right Image size: 9 x 10 inches Frame size 21 x 21.5 inches Creator of Stetson's hat logo "Last Drop from his Hat" Lon Megargee 1883 - 1960 At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg, Arizona where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar R. . . and after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook of the T.T. Ranch near New River. By 1906, Megargee had learned his trade well enough to be made foreman of Cook’s outfit. Never shy about taking risks, Lon soon left Cook to try his own hand at ranching. He partnered with a cowpuncher buddy, Tom Cavness, to start the El Rancho Cinco Uno at New River. Unfortunately, the young partners could not foresee a three-year drought that would parch Arizona, costing them their stock and then their hard-earned ranch. Breaking with his romantic vision of cowboy life, Megargee finally turned to art full time. He again enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and then the Los Angeles School of Art and Design during 1909 – 1910. The now well-trained student took his first trip to paint “en plein air” (outdoors) to the land of Hopi and Navajo peoples in northern Arizona. After entering paintings from this trip in the annual Territorial Fair at Phoenix, in 1911, he surprisingly sold his first oil painting to a major enterprise – the Santa Fe Railroad . . . Lon received $50 for “Navajos Watching the Santa Fe Train.” He soon sold the SFRR ten paintings over the next two years. For forty years the railroad was his most important client, purchasing its last painting from him in 1953. In a major stroke of good fortune during his early plein-air period, Megargee had the opportunity to paint with premier artist, William R. Leigh (1866 – 1955). Leigh furnished needed tutoring and counseling, and his bright, impressionistic palette served to enhance the junior artist’s sense of color and paint application. In a remarkable display of unabashed confidence and personable salesmanship, Lon Megargee, at age 30, forever linked his name with Arizona art history. Despite the possibility of competition from better known and more senior artists, he persuaded Governor George Hunt and the Legislature in 1913 to approve 15 large, historic and iconic murals for the State Capitol Building in Phoenix. After completing the murals in 1914, he was paid the then princely sum of roughly $4000. His Arizona statehood commission would launch Lon to considerable prominence at a very early point in his art career. Following a few years of art schooling in Los Angeles, and several stints as an art director with movie studios, including Paramount, Megargee turned in part to cover illustrations for popular Western story magazines in the 1920s. In the 1920s, as well, Lon began making black and white prints of Western types and of genre scenes from woodblocks. These prints he generally signed and sold singly. In 1933, he published a limited edition, signed and hard-cover book (about 250 copies and today rare)containing a group of 28 woodblock images. Titled “The Cowboy Builds a Loop,” the prints are noteworthy for strong design, excellent draftsmanship, humanistic and narrative content, and quality. Subjects include Southwest Indians and cowboys, Hispanic men and women, cattle, horses, burros, pioneers, trappers, sheepherders, horse traders, squaw men and ranch polo players. Megargee had a very advanced design sense for simplicity and boldness which he demonstrated in how he used line and form. His strengths included outstanding gestural (action) art and strong figurative work. He was superb in design, originality and drawing, as a study of his prints in the Hays collection reveals. In 1944, he published a second group of Western prints under the same title as the first. Reduced to 16 images from the original 28 subjects, and slightly smaller, Lon produced these prints in brown ink on a heavy, cream-colored stock. He designed a sturdy cardboard folio to hold each set. For the remainder of his life, Lon had success selling these portfolios to museum stores, art fairs and shows, and to the few galleries then selling Western art. Drawing on real working and life experiences, Lon Megargee had a comprehensive knowledge, understanding and sensitivity for Southwestern subject matter. Noted American modernist, Lew Davis...

Blackpool Sands is an etching realized in the Early-20th Century by J.C.Armytage. Signed in plate. The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.

Blackpool is an etching realized in the Early-20th Century by J.C. Armytage. Signed in plate. The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.

Born Julius Pincas in 1885 in Bulgaria, the artist adopted the name Jules Pascin under which his paintings are known. Pascin studied in Vienna and Munich, and traveled and painted regularly in Paris and Berlin. Pascin came to the United States in 1914 and in 1920 became a US citizen. He returned later...

Ex Libris - Joseph Plana Dorca is a Modern Artwork realized in 1904, by the Spanish Author Joseph Plana Dorca. Ex Libris. B/W woodcut on ivory paper. The work is glued on card...

Brinton, D. UNTITLED [GENTLEMAN OBSERVING BILLIARDS GAME]. Drypoint, n.d. (c. early to mid-20th Century). 8 x 6 inches (image), 11 1/2 x 8 inches (sheet). In excellent condition, wit...

Ex Libris - J. Sigale's is a Modern Artwork realized in 1911 s. by José (Josepe) Viola. Ex Libris. B/W woodcut on paper. The work is glued on ivory cardboard. Signed on plate an...

"Manege rue Caulaincourt ou Le Petit Manege Aux Chevaux De Bois" is an original etching and aquatint signed by Jacques Villon. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This is an artist proof in brown & black on arches paper. This piece depicts a number of figures on a horse-drawn carousel going through the street. 21 7/8" x 28 1/2" art 29 1/4" x 33 1/2" frame Jacques Villon (French, 1875 - 1963) French painter, printmaker and illustrator. The oldest of three brothers who became major 20th-century artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, he learnt engraving at the age of 16 from his maternal grandfather, Emile-Frédéric Nicolle (1830-94), a ship-broker who was also a much appreciated amateur artist. In January 1894, having completed his studies at the Lycée Corneille in Rouen, he was sent to study at the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris, but within a year he was devoting most of his time to art, already contributing lithographs to Parisian illustrated newspapers such as Assiette au beurre. At this time he chose his pseudonym: Jack (subsequently Jacques) in homage to Alphonse Daudet’s novel Jack (1876) and Villon in appreciation of the 15th-century French poet François Villon; soon afterwards this new surname was combined with the family name by Raymond. Marcel Duchamp and their sister Suzanne Duchamp...

Cupid and Motifs is a woodcut print realized by the Anonymous artist in the early 20th century. Good conditions with slight foxing. Beautiful tiny and deli...

George Biddle (1885-1973), Coffee Huskers, 1928, lithograph, signed, titled and numbered [also inscribed ’43/Biddle/1928 in the plate]. Reference: Pennigar 77, Trotter 43. From the edition of 100, on Rives cream wove paper, with the Rives watermark. In excellent condition, probably never framed or matted, the full sheet, 13 1/4 x 9 3/4, the sheet 16 x 11 1/2 inches, archival mounting (mylar non-attached hinging between acid free boards glassine cover). A fine black impression. Biddle wrote of this lithograph, in 1943: “After scraping the tusche away…I worked back with a pensil (sic) and again with diamond. This all adds to the richness of texture and color.” This work produces a very sophisticated lithographic look, akin in some ways to drypoint work in etching. After Groton, Harvard College and Harvard Law (and several breakdowns) Biddle concluded that a conventional career in law was not for him; he decided on art, went to Paris, worked with Mary Cassatt and familiarized himself with modernist currents in art (as well as more traditional European art). After serving in WWI, and the dissolution of his marriage, he became interested in working outside of the European tradition (although his travels continued to include Europe, and he spent a period working under the influence of Jules Pascin in Paris in the mid-‘20’s). Coffee Huskers, like many of the Mexican and Haitian prints...

The Mask is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Light is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Portrait is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Portrait is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Woman is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Nude is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

Woman is a woodcut print print on paper, realized after Jean Paul Sauget for Maurice Magre's Les Soirs d'Opium. Published in 1921. Good conditions.

La Première Conscience Du Chaos is a phototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon. They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henr...

Ange Déchu is a prototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon. They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923. Tit...

Le Rêve-from "Le Croquis du Front Italien" is an Artwork, Drypoint, realized by the Italian Artist Anselmo Bucci, in 1917. Hand signed on the right margin . Edition n. 18/100 specimens on Hollande paper. From the collection: “Croquis du Front Italien” , published in Paris by D'Alignan editions. Good conditions, except for a light yellowing of the paper and some foxing. Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955) was an Italian painter and printmaker. He took part in the Salon des Indépendants from 1910 on. He enlisted in the Volunteer Cyclist Battalion in 1915 and he became one of the most famous Italian war...

Anémone Humaine Fleurs is a lithograph realized after a watercolor by Odilon Redon. It belongs to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felur...

Man Sitting is a Lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by Luc Albert Moreau. The artwork is in good condition. Hand-signature on the lower right corner, numbered on the left. Luc-Albert Moreau (1882-1948) is a French painter, engraver, lithographer, and illustrator, close in his early days to the group known as the Black Band, then to the Golden Section.

Elegant Man is a Lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by Luc Albert Moreau. The artwork is in good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (50x32.5 cm). Not signed. Luc-Albert Moreau (1882-1948) is a French painter, engraver, lithographer, and illustrator, close in his early days to the group known as the Black Band, then to the Golden Section.

This color pochoir by Kees Van Dongen was done on arches paper No. 738/750. Two nude women outlined by purple cover their faces with a white sheet. Archivally framed with 12k white...

A color pochoir on arches paper by Kees Van Dongen titled "Couple Conversing" from the La Garconne Series "Un Couple Parle Ensemble." Two figures are surrounded by an aura-like pink ...

The Smoker is a Lithograph realized by Gérarde Cochet (1888-1969). Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner, numbered on the left. Good conditi...

Two Figures is a Lithograph on ivory-colored paper realized by Luc Albert Moreau in 1927. The artwork is in good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (50x32 cm). Hand-...

Drinkers is an Etching realized by Georges Jeanniot in 1914. Signed on the lower, titled. Good condition.

Waiting Man is a woodcut print on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1926. Hand-signed on the lower in pencil Good conditions with minor foxing. Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian writer, painter, engraver, and journalist, winner the Feltrinelli Prize for painting on 1963. For his pictorial work rich in evident chromatic accentuations and quick brushstrokes, the violent drawing combined with the living line of the graphic sign...

Old Man Giving News is a woodcut print realized by Louis Jou in the Early 20th Century. Editor G. & A. Mornay. Good conditions. Louis Jou (Gracia, 1882 - Baux, 1968), the twentieth-century etcher and wood engraver, was a prolific illustrator of a large number of books in France, authored by big names like Andre Gide...

Portrait Of Charles Nodier is an Etching realized by Constant Le Breton in the early 20th Century. Good conditions. Monogrammed on plate. The art...

Ballerinas is a photolithograph print on ivory-colored paper, glued on a greenish Passepartout realized in the early 20 century After Constantin Guys Good conditions. The critical ...

Waiting Hyenas is a woodcut print on paper realized by French artist in 1900s G. Berger. Signed on the plate on the lower right. The state of preservation is very good. The artwo...

The Warrior is a woodcut print on paper realized by French artist in 1900s G. Berger. Signed on the plate on the lower right. The state of preservation is good with slight foxing. ...

La Lutteuse Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958) Date: 1928 Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 15/50 Image Size: 12 x 9 inches Size: 20 x 13 in. (50.8 x 33.02 cm)

French in Africa is a woodcut on ivory-colored paper realized by an anonymous French artist in 1903. Signed on the plate on the lower right, illegible. Good Conditions with slight foxing. The artwork is created in a realistic style...

Decorative Motifs - Byzantine Styles is a print on ivory-colored paper realized by Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower. Vintage Chromolithogra...

This advertising calendar poster dated from 1920 for the "Chinese and Western Medicine Pharmacy" melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. Compared to other Western influenced advertisements of the era featuring seductive women, posters like this one captivated consumers with the latest fashion trends. We see a woman with a Western hair cut...

The Artist in Fine Art Academy is an original etching realized by Albert Decaris in the mid-20th Century. In good conditions with some foxing. The artwork is presented through def...

La Fede des Vendanges à Naple is aprint realized by Auguste Lepere in the early 20th Century. Lithograph on paper. Signed on the plate on the lower margin. Good conditions with di...

Departure is an artwork realized in the Early-20th Century. Original print in etching technique. Hand-signed (illeggibile). Good conditions. This artwork is depicted through sof...

Decorative Motifs - Chaldean-Assyrian Styles is a print on ivory-colored paper realized by A. Mestica in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower. Vintage Chromolit...

Decorative Motifs -Japanese, Chinese, Indian Styles is a print on ivory-colored paper realized by A. Mestica in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower. Vintage C...

Figures is al woodcut print on paper realized by Charles Sterns in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced composit...

Smoking Cavalier in 1818 is a woodcut print on brownish color paper print on paper realized by Charles Sterns in the early 20th century Good conditions. The artwork is represented...

Smoking Gentleman in 1856 is a woodcut print on brownish color paper print on paper realized by Charles Sterns in the early 20th century Good conditions with a small cut on the marg...

Decorative Motifs - Chinese Styles is a print on ivory-colored paper realized by Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower. Vintage Chromolithograph...

Christian Primitive Decorative Style is a print on ivory-colored paper realized by Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower. Vintage Chromolithogr...

Christian Primitive Decorative Style is a print on ivory-colored paper realized by Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower. Vintage Chromolithogr...

Primitive Christian Decorative Style is a print on ivory-colored paper realized by Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower. Vintage Chromolithogr...

Byzantine Decorative Style is a print on ivory-colored paper realized by Andrea Alessio in the early 20th Century. Signed on the plate on t...

Farmers is a woodcut print on paper realized in the Early 20th Century by Raphael Drouart (1884-1972). The artwork is in good conditions on passepartout: 39 x 30 cm The artwork rep...

Tequila Siesta Lon Megargee Archival Pigment Print 100% 300 gram cotton rag paper Size: 22.5 x 27 inches Paper size: 24 x 28.5 inches Creator of the iconic logo for the Stetson Hat Company, " Last Drop From his Stetson", still in use today. Fine Art Estate of Lon Megargee At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar Ranch . . . and, after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook...

Ex Libris PF is a woodcut print by Michel Fingesten, realized in 1936. Hand signed, included a white cardboard passpartout (30x24 cm). In excellent conditions: As good as new. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech painter and engraver of Jewish origin. He is considered one of the greatest Ex Libris artists in history. From an Austrian weaver father and a Jewish mother...

Loi, Bible, Dogme is a woodcut print realized by in 1903 by Louis Willaume (1874-1949). Signed on Plate. Good condition. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-bal...