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Period: Mid-20th Century
Composition, Éloge de André Lhote
By André Lhote
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition with centerfold, as issued. Notes: From the volume, Éloge de André Lhote, 1960. P...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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God and the Four Evangelists ("Fool
s Concert") - 1943 Linocut on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
God and the Four Evangelists ("Fool's Concert") - 1943 Linocut on Paper
Leopoldo Méndez (Mexico City, Mexico, 1902–1969) "Fool's Concert" (from the portfolio "25 Prints of Leopoldo ...
Category
Symbolist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut, Printer s Ink, Laid Paper
Leonor Fini, Untitled, from Parallelement, 1969
By Leonor Fini
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph, titled Sans titre (Untitled), by Leonor Fini, from the folio Parallelement (Parallel), Illustre de lithographies originales de Leonor Fini (Illustrated wit...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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" Chèvre-Pied Broutant "
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963 )
" Chèvre-pied broutant "
signed and dated Jean Cocteau 1958 .
marked and numbered Edition originale de jean Cocteau
Atelier Madeline- jolly 4/30 (under...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Ceramic
Marino Marini, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1955
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marino Marini (1901–1980), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, No. 5 (double), Juin 1955, originates from the 1955 e...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Salvador Dali - The Golden Age - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Golden Age - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Ballon.
SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali.
LIMITED : 197 copies.
EDITION : Number 136
SIZE ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Miro, Woman and Bird VIII/X, from Women, 1965
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite heliogravure by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Femme et Oiseau VIII/X (Woman and Bird VIII/X), from the folio Joan Miro, Femmes (Women), originates from the 1965 editio...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,756 Sale Price
20% Off
Origiinal Piedmont "Take Off and Paint the Town" vintage airlines travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Piedmont, Take Off and Paint the Town vintage airlines travel poster. Archival linen backing in very good condition, ready to frame. This is a serigraph, so it features rich...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Tulips in a Vase
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Tulips in a Vase" 1995 is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Gary Bukovnik, born 1947. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 169/200 in...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Trois Hommes se Disputant une Femme Devant un Emir-Etching by Pablo Picasso-1966
Located in Roma, IT
Trois Hommes se Disputant une Femme Devant un Emir is an original artwork realized by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso in 1966.
Black and white etching on wove paper. Fine proof edited...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jack McClain, (Evening in the City) (NYC)
Located in New York, NY
A moody evening in New York City. The buildings capture the quiet that New York sometimes achieves.
Signed and dated in pencil.
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Chute de Barcelone" [The Fall of Barcelona]
By Le Corbusier
Located in Astoria, NY
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Swiss/French, 1887-1965), "Chute de Barcelone" [The Fall of Barcelona], Lithograph in Colors on Wove Paper, 1960, from "Cortege."
Unsigned,...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Girlfriends II" collotype print
Located in Palm Beach, FL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #1, Die Freundinnen II; multi-color collotype after 1916/17 painting in oil on canvas which was destroyed by fire in May 1945 at Immendorf Castle Lower Austria.
Eisler’s choice to begin his 1931 portfolio of works by Klimt with Girlfriends II was both bold and prescient. Just 14 years later, the painting was tragically destroyed in a fire. With such a loss, this rare and exquisite image is all the more valuable by virtue of having been made in color. In works from his late period, Klimt continued his fascination with exploring female dynamics and their various forms of love. Girlfriends II is a fine example of how space, color and ornament play a noticeable role in the evolution of his symbolic language. Wide swaths of space in the background as well as the two female forms create the structure. Klimt’s strong brushstrokes show a painterly quality and a new move toward abstraction which feels very far away from his earlier work. Nor should Klimt’s economy of line be overlooked. His draughtsmanship is what infuses the female bodies with movement, emotion and a profundity of life. Both women confront the viewer’s gaze unselfconsciously, as if they are modern-day Viennese women stepping out of a Klimtesque ukiyo-e print. Characteristic of this late period, Klimt uses ornament...
Category
Vienna Secession Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
A Morning in May
— Ashcan School Social Realism, New York City
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Reginald Marsh, 'A Morning in May', etching, 1936, edition 100 (Whitney, 1969), Sasowsky 169. Unsigned as published; numbered '89/100' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, ...
Category
Ashcan School Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Pin-Up - Telephone Call linen backed vintage pinup girl.
Located in Spokane, WA
Behold the original lithographic Petty Pin-up, a unique vertical-format piece. The see-through bathing suit she wears seems to make her glow, especially with her red hair peeking fro...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Early Marshes
— Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Early Marshes', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1943, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '37/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (2 5/8 to 7 inches), in excellent condition.
With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 x 5 7/8 inches (127 x 149 mm); sheet size 15 x 11 inches (381 x 279 mm).
Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945 and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions.
“The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.”
—Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature.
Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research.
Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June.
Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages."
In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking.
Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Marc Chagall, Untitled, from The Lithographs of Chagall, 1969
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album The Lithographs of Chagall, Volume III, originates from the 1969 edition published...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Rathaus in Vienna
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Rathaus in Vienna" c. 1960 is an original color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The plate mark...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Little Old Man with a Mask - Original Lithograph (Mourlot)
Located in Paris, IDF
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973),
The Little Old man with a Mask, 1954
Original lithography (Mourlot workshop)
Unsigned
Printed date in the plate
On paper 26 .5 x 35.5 cm (c. 10,2 x 13.7 ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Disastrous War - Woodcut Print by Paul Baudier - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Disastrous War is a woodcut print on ivory-colored paper realized by Paul Baudier (1881-1962) in the 1930s.
Good conditions.
Paul Baudier, (born October 18, 1881 in Paris and d...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Boy Hidden in a Fish, 1969 - David Hockney Print, Edition of 400
Located in Kingsclere, GB
David Hockney is an English painter, printmaker, photographer, designer and dog-lover.
Perhaps the most popular and versatile British artist of the 20th century, Hockney made appa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Robert Rauschenberg Test Stone #6 Booster
7 Series, Foster, 45, G:33 Signed/N
Located in New York, NY
Scarce and coveted 1960s Pop Art print:
Robert Rauschenberg
Test Stone #6 (Blue Cloud) from the Booster and 7 Studies Series (Foster, 45, G:33), 1967
Lithograph on domestic etching ...
Category
Pop Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adolf Dehn, Lake Tarryall, 1941 mid-century lithograph of Colorado mountain lake
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Lake Tarryall, a 1941 lithograph by Adolf Dehn (1895-1968) was made while he was teaching in Colorado. A native of Waterville, Minnesota, Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Francisco Mora, Zapata, hero of the Mexican Revolution
By Francisco Mora
Located in New York, NY
The Mexican artist Francisco Mora (1922-2002) studied in Mexico City at La Esmeraida, with Diego Rivera. He joined the Taller de Gráfica Popular, a grap...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Paris : Dantzig
s street - Original lithograph, HANDSIGNED, 1959
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand Léger
Dantzig's street, 1959
Original lithograph (Atelier Mourlot)
Signed with the artist's stamp
Limited to 180 copies (Here numbered 160)
On Arches vellum 66 x 50.5 cm (c...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Saut de la Rivière (Steeplechase horses)
By Louis Claude
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: Sidney Lucas & The Paris Etching Society, c1970.
Lithograph with colors on smooth cream wove paper, 20 x 25 3/4 inches (508 x 654 mm), full margins. Signed and inscribed i...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Henri Matisse, The Dance, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1938
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled La Danse (The Dance), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. I, No. 4, originates from the 1938 issue publish...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,596 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall, The Bride, from Derriere le miroir, 1951 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled La Mariee (The Bride), from the folio Derriere le miroir, Sur Quatre Murs, No. 36-37-38, originates from the 1951 edition published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, and printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1951. The composition captures Chagall’s poetic vision of love and mysticism, blending dreamlike imagery and radiant color into a lyrical meditation on devotion and imagination.
Executed as a lithograph on velin paper, this work measures 15 x 11 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. The edition exemplifies the superb craftsmanship of Mourlot Freres, Paris.
Artwork Details:
Artist: Marc Chagall (1887–1985)
Title: La Mariee (The Bride), from the folio Derriere le miroir, Sur Quatre Murs, No. 36-37-38
Medium: Lithograph on velin paper
Dimensions: 15 x 11 inches (38.1 x 27.9 cm)
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Date: 1951
Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris
Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the folio Derriere le miroir, Sur Quatre Murs, No. 36-37-38, published by Maeght Editeur, Paris; printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1951
About the Publication:
Derriere le miroir (Behind the Mirror) was one of the most important art publications of the 20th century, created and published by Maeght Editeur in Paris from 1946 to 1982. Founded by the visionary art dealer and publisher Aime Maeght, the series served as both an exhibition catalogue and a work of art in its own right, uniting original lithographs by leading modern and contemporary artists with critical essays, poetry, and design of the highest quality. Printed by master lithographers such as Mourlot Freres and Arte, Derriere le miroir became synonymous with the artistic vanguard of postwar Europe. Each issue was devoted to a single artist or theme and published to accompany exhibitions at the Galerie Maeght in Paris, featuring works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall, Alexander Calder, Fernand Leger, and Alberto Giacometti, among others. The publication reflected Maeght's belief that art should be both accessible and elevated—an ideal realized through its luxurious production values, meticulous printing, and collaboration with the greatest creative minds of its time.
About the Artist:
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was a Belarus-born French painter, printmaker, and designer whose visionary imagination, radiant color, and deeply poetic symbolism made him one of the most beloved and influential artists of the 20th century. Rooted in the imagery of his Jewish heritage and the memories of his childhood in Vitebsk, Chagall's art wove together themes of faith, love, folklore, and fantasy with a dreamlike modern sensibility. His unique style—merging elements of Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Surrealism—defied categorization, transforming ordinary scenes into lyrical meditations on memory and emotion. Influenced by Russian icon painting, medieval religious art, and the modern innovations of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Georges Braque, Chagall developed a profoundly personal visual language filled with floating figures, vibrant animals, musicians, and lovers that symbolized the transcendent power of imagination and love. During his early years in Paris, he became an integral part of the Ecole de Paris circle, forming friendships with Amedeo Modigliani, Fernand Leger, and Sonia Delaunay, and his creative spirit resonated with that of his peers and successors—Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray—artists who, like Chagall, sought to push the boundaries of perception, emotion, and form. Over a prolific career that spanned painting, printmaking, stained glass, ceramics, and stage design, Chagall brought an unparalleled poetic sensibility to modern art, infusing even the most abstract subjects with human warmth and spiritual depth. His works are held in the most prestigious museums around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate, and the Guggenheim, where they continue to inspire generations of artists and collectors. The highest price ever paid for a Marc Chagall artwork is approximately $28.5 million USD, achieved in 2017 at Sotheby's New York for Les Amoureux (1928).
Marc Chagall La...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Le Cirque Chinois
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Le Cirque Chinois
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed
EDITION NUMBER: 166/175
MEASUREMENTS: 26.25" x 21"
YEAR: 1965
FRAMED: No
CONDITION: Excel...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Bible : Joshua and the stone of Sichem, 1939 - Original Etching
By Marc Chagall
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1958)
Bible : Joshua and the stone of Sichem (Josué et la pierre de Sichem), 1939
Original etching
Printed signature in the plate
On Montval vellum, 44 x 33.5 cm ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Proelium Magnum in Caelo - Lithograph - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Proelium Magnum in Caelo is a Color lithograph on heavy rag paper realized in 1964 by Salvador Dalì, It is part of Biblia Sacra vulgatæ edition is published by Rizzoli-Mediolani betw...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Melancholic Muses II
Located in London, GB
'Melancholic Muses II', one of a poignant set of six signed artist proof lithographs by the celebrated Spanish artist from Barcelona, Vicenç Caraltó (circa 1960s). This collection of...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$877 Sale Price
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Triumph of The Sea
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Triumph of The Sea
MEDIUM: Lithograph
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Sidney Lucas, New York
EDITION NUMBER: 12...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Apocalypse of John the Evangelis - Etching by Giorgio De Chirico - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
Apocalypse of John the Evangelist is an original black and white etching realized by Giorgio De Chirico in 1941.
Hand signed on the lower right margin.
Numbered on the lower left. ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Zapata, Modern Lithograph by David Siqueiros
Located in Long Island City, NY
Zapata
David Alfaro Siqueiros (After), Mexican (1896–1974)
Date: Printed 1966 of original: 1913
Lithograph, signed in the plate
Image Size: 18 x 13.5 inches
Size: 23 x 17 in. (58.42...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
After PABLO PICASSO "Tête de Femme au Chapeau"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PABLO PICASSO (AFTER)
Tête de Femme au Chapeau.
Color lithograph
1956
Sheet size 650x540 mm; 25⅝x21¼ inches, full margins.
Proof before letters, aside from the published poster e...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Waiting for Rehearsal"
By Paul Cadmus
Located in Astoria, NY
Paul Cadmus (American, 1904-1999), "Waiting for Rehearsal", Etching on Paper, signed in pencil lower right, titled and numbered edition "138/175" lower left, and blind stamped "Pelav...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Jean Cocteau, Scene XXXIII, The Eagle with Two Heads, from Theatre, 1957
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Scene XXXIII, L'Aigle a Deux Tetes (Scene XXXIII, The Eagle with Two Heads), originates from the 1957 album Jean Cocteau...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Financial District
, New York City — American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Financial District', lithograph, 1931, edition 75, Duffy 155. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (2 3/4 to 5 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 13 5/16 x 10 3/8 inches (338 x 264 mm); sheet size 23 x 16 inches (584 x 406 mm). Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Literature: 'American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy Collection', the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., 1987.
Collections: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980) was one of the best-known of the second generation of artists who moved to Taos. A native of Massachusetts, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Woodstock Art Colony. Beginning his association with Taos in 1926, he became a resident of the community in the 1930s. During his career, he received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected an Academician in the National Academy of Design. He earned a national reputation as a painter, muralist, and printmaker.
Cook’s work in the print mediums received acclaim early in his career with one-person exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum (1927) and the Museum of New Mexico (1928). He received numerous honors and awards over the years, including selection in best-of-the-year exhibitions sponsored by the American Institute of Graphics Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Society of American Etchers, and the Philadelphia Print Club. His first Guggenheim Fellowship took him to Taxco, Mexico in 1932 and 1933; his second in the following year enabled him to travel through the American South and Southwest.
Cook painted murals for the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 and the Treasury Departments Art Program in 1935. The latter project, completed in Pittsburgh, received a Gold Medal from the Architectural League of New York. One of his most acclaimed commissions was a mural in the San Antonio Post Office in 1937.
He and Barbara Latham settled in Talpa, south of Taos, in 1938 and remained there for over three decades. Cook volunteered in World War II as an Artist War Correspondent for the US Navy, where he was deployed in the Pacific. In 1943 he was appointed Leader of a War Art Unit...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Desnudo de Frida Kahlo, Signed Lithograph by Diego Rivera
By Diego Rivera
Located in Long Island City, NY
This portrait depicts Rivera's second wife, the artist Frida Kahlo (1907-54), sitting on a bed wearing stockings and shoes and fastening rows of beads around her neck. An accident wh...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Carmen
By Marc Chagall
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Color lithograph on Arches wove paper. This work is hand-signed by Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887–Saint-Paul, 1985) in black crayon in the lower margin. Numbered 114/200 in the lower ri...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$135,000
Original
la Baule, le Midi de la Bretagne
vintage French travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original La Baule le Midi de le Bretagne, small format vintage French travel poster. Plage de Sable Fin: 20 Clubs de Culture Physique. Tennis: 50 courts ; casino, golf sur le Pouliguen. Printed in Paris. Professional, acid-free, archival, linen-backed, mint condition, ready to frame. Jean-Denis Malclès - with accent marks.
Paris Boasting France’s longest beach, running no less than eight kilometers, La Baule is an ever-popular destination for seaside amusements. Here, there are 20 health clubs, 50 tennis courts, a casino, and golf courses, which are promoted below, while a fantasy world of costumed dandies, curvaceous sunbathers, equestriennes, theatrical performers, and the general haute monde wander the perfectly preened paths along the shore.
This La Baule - de la Bretagne is an Original Vintage Poster, not a reproduction. This poster is conservation-mounted, linen-backed, and in excellent condition.
The artist is also known for his famous French Beauty and the Beast poster...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
The Dance of Herodias Daughter, 1967 Salvador Dali lithograph Bibila Sacra
Located in Paonia, CO
The Dance of Herodias Daughter, 1967 is a colored lithograph from the gouache original on heavy rag paper from Salvador Dali’s five volume Biblia Sacra Suite published in Rome...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Miro, Bird Before the Sun, from Derriere le Miroir, 1961
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Oiseau devant le solei (Bird Before the Sun), originates from the April 1961 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 125-126, published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, under the direction of Aime Maeght, and printed by Imprimerie Arte, Paris, 1961. The composition exemplifies Miro’s poetic use of symbolic imagery, where the bird and sun function as elemental forces within his visual language. Through gestural line, saturated color, and spatial freedom, the work reflects Miro’s fusion of cosmic imagery, instinctive mark making, and lyrical abstraction.
Executed on velin paper, this lithograph measures 33 x 15 inches (83.82 x 38.1 cm), with bifold, as issued. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. The edition reflects the refined technical standards and craftsmanship of Imprimerie Arte, Paris.
Artwork Details:
Artist: Joan Miro (1893–1983)
Title: Oiseau devant le solei (Bird Before the Sun), from Derriere le Miroir, No. 125-126, April 1961
Medium: Lithograph on velin paper
Dimensions: 33 x 15 inches (83.82 x 38.1 cm), with bifold, as issued
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Date: 1961
Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris
Printer: Imprimerie Arte, Paris
Catalogue raisonne reference: Miro, Joan, et al. Joan Miro Lithographe. Maeght, 1972–1992, illustration 1722
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the April 1961 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 125-126, published by Maeght Editeur, Paris
About the Publication:
Derriere le Miroir (translated as "Behind the Mirror") was an iconic French art periodical published from 1946 to 1982 by Maeght Editeur, one of the most influential art publishers of the twentieth century. Founded by Aime Maeght in Paris, the publication was conceived as a visual and literary collaboration between leading modern artists, poets, and critics. Each issue functioned as both an exhibition catalogue and an autonomous work of art, featuring original lithographs printed directly from the artists stones or plates alongside essays, poems, and critical texts. Over more than three decades, Derriere le Miroir produced over 250 issues and presented an extraordinary range of artists including Henri Matisse, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Fernand Leger, Pierre Bonnard, Alberto Giacometti, Eduardo Chillida, Ellsworth Kelly, Francis Bacon, Antoni Tapies, Pierre Alechinsky, Pol Bury, Bram van Velde, and many others. Printed by master ateliers such as Mourlot and Arte, the series established new standards of excellence in modern lithography and graphic design. Closely linked to exhibitions at Galerie Maeght, each issue served as a lasting document of postwar modernism, uniting image, text, and philosophy into a uniquely influential publication that remains among the most important and collectible achievements in twentieth century art publishing.
About the Artist:
Joan Miro (1893–1983) was a Catalan painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist whose visionary imagination and lyrical abstraction made him one of the most influential and beloved artists of the twentieth century. Born in Barcelona, Miro drew inspiration from Catalan folk art, Romanesque frescoes, and the luminous landscapes of Mont-roig del Camp, developing a deep connection to nature that infused his work with vitality and symbolism. After formal training at the Escola d'Art in Barcelona, he absorbed the lessons of Post-Impressionism and Cubism before moving to Paris in the early 1920s, where he became a leading figure in the Surrealist movement. There, Miro forged a personal visual language of biomorphic shapes, floating symbols, and radiant color harmonies that reflected both spontaneity and spiritual depth. In creative dialogue with peers such as Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, he helped revolutionize modern art by dissolving the boundaries between abstraction and dream imagery. Miro's inventive approach extended far beyond painting, embracing sculpture, ceramics, and monumental public commissions that redefined how art could interact with space and emotion. His expressive freedom and gestural abstraction profoundly influenced later artists including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Antoni Tapies, and Joan Mitchell, inspiring generations who sought to merge instinct, color, and imagination. Today, Miro's work remains a cornerstone of modernism, prized by collectors and celebrated in major museums worldwide. His highest auction record was achieved by Peinture (Etoile Bleue) (1927), which sold for approximately 37 million USD at Sothebys, London, on June 19, 2012.
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