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Art Subject: Text
Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)
By Edgar Degas
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, 1945, this work reflects Degas’s sensitive mastery of line, movement, and intimate observation, capturing the grace, poise, and psychological immediacy that define his iconic ballet imagery. In Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), Degas reveals gesture and inner emotion through economical contour and lyrical nuance.
Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 17 x 13 inches (43.18 x 33.02 cm). Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, one of the notable American ateliers specializing in fine art lithography during the mid-20th century.
Artwork Details:
Artist: After Edgar Degas (1834–1917)
Title: Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), from Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, 1945
Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper
Dimensions: 17 x 13 inches (43.18 x 33.02 cm)
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued
Date: 1945
Publisher: The Studio Publications, Inc., New York
Printer: Albert Carman, City Island, 1945
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York
Notes:
Excerpted from the album, Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas lived, and surely loved the life of that city during most of his years. These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used them as models, he must have had an especial admiration for the ballet girls who followed a profession that at the time brought none of the glory and prosperity which attend it today. New aspects of the human body, revealed in movement, fascinated him. But his occupation with the simply anatomical side of his subjects never resulted in a cold interpretation. On the contrary there is a warmth and sympathy that pervades all of his work. The drawings here represent the painter in one important phase of his multi-sensitive view of life; and permit an insight which a more ambitious work might not do-into the operation of the creative process, the artist's transformation of reality as it passes through the mesh of his sensibilities. The Edition of this Portfolio is limited to MMMD examples. Rendered by Albert Carman.
About the Publication:
Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published in 1945 by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, stands as one of the most elegant and scholarly mid-century American fine art folios devoted to the ballet imagery of Edgar Degas. Conceived as a high-quality interpretive portfolio, the album presents a series of lithograph-and-pochoir renderings based on Degas’s original drawings, executed with exceptional attention to tonal subtlety, contour fidelity, and the emotional interiority that defines the artist’s draftsmanship. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman on City Island, the publication embodies an American postwar effort to restore and celebrate European masterworks through meticulous handcraft and artisanal color application, honoring Degas’s distinctive line and the atmospheric delicacy of his studio-based studies. Produced in a substantial edition of MMMD examples, the portfolio offered audiences rare access to Degas’s private working drawings—images rarely seen outside institutional collections—while exemplifying the technical refinement and interpretive care characteristic of Carman’s workshop. Today, Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches remains a sought-after historical publication, valued for its craft, fidelity to Degas’s aesthetic, and its role in preserving and disseminating the artist’s intimate ballet imagery in a beautifully executed mid-century fine art format.
About the Artist:
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking fusion of classical draftsmanship, modern experimentation, and psychological depth helped define the trajectory of Western art, positioning him as one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; renowned for his depictions of ballet dancers, racehorses, theater scenes, cafe life, domestic interiors, milliners, laundresses, and women at their toilette, Degas reimagined observational realism through radical compositional innovation—employing extreme cropping, asymmetrical framing, oblique viewpoints, and dramatic lighting that anticipated photographic and cinematic language long before these technologies shaped visual culture, and although associated with Impressionism, he rejected plein-air spontaneity in favor of studio-based discipline rooted in the linear precision of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the expressive chromaticism of Eugene Delacroix, and the modernity of Edouard Manet while also drawing inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, classical sculpture, and early photography; his independent artistic philosophy resonated with and helped shape the innovations of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whose explorations of movement, form, dream logic, abstraction, and conceptualism all find antecedents in Degas’s investigations into seriality, temporality, and the fragmented figure, and his pioneering use of pastel, monotype, and wax sculpture fundamentally transformed each medium, influencing artists from Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Giacomo Manzu to Paula Rego, contemporary realists, experimental photographers, and choreographers; his works are held in nearly every major museum collection worldwide—including the Musee dOrsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Courtauld Institute, and the National Gallery, London—affirming his central place in the history of art, and the highest auction record for Degas was achieved at Sothebys London on February 3, 2015, when Danseuses en Bleu sold for 37,033,000 GBP, cementing his status as one of the most sought-after and enduringly significant artists of the Western canon.
Edgar Degas lithograph...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall, Sun Over the City, from XXe siecle, 1973
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Soleil sur la ville (Sun Over the City), from the album Chagall Monumental Works, Special Issue of the XXe Siecle Review...
Category
1970s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Mexican Art: A Portfolio of Mexican People and Places
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Ten lithographs in excellent condition, with portfolio cover. The ten artists included in the 1946 portfolio "Mexican Art: A Portfolio of Mexican People and Places" include: Ángel Bracho / Francisco Mora / Fernando Castro Pacheco / Raúl Anguiano / Alberto Beltrán...
Category
1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,500 Sale Price
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David Hockney, Letter L, from Hockney
s Alphabet, 1991
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by David Hockney (born 1937), titled Letter L, from the folio Hockney's Alphabet, Drawings by David Hockney, originates from the 1991 edition published by A...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Jean Cocteau, The Mourning Tie, from Bulls, 1965 (after)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled La cravate de deuil (The Mourning Tie), from the folio Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau (Bulls, Lithographs by...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Argentinean signed limited edition original art print silkscreen 27x19 in. n9
Located in Miami, FL
Justo Barboza (Argentina, 1938)
'17 huellas', 1995
silkscreen on paper Guarro Geler
27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.)
Edition of 20
Unframed
ID: BAR1437-009-025
Hand-signed by author
Category
20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Engraving, Screen
“To Do A Common Thing Uncommonly Well Brings Success, 1966” Signed Nun Pop Art
By Corita Kent
Located in Yardley, PA
An exceptional, scarce serigraph by Corita Kent from 1966-67 titled “To Do A Common Thing Uncommonly Well Brings Success”.
Like many of Kent’s works, this image features a famous qu...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
Phil, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, Chuck Close
By Chuck Close
Located in Southampton, NY
Printer’s ink from rubber stamp on vélin Strathmore 3-ply paper. Paper Size: 8 x 8 inches. Inscription: Unsigned, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Rubber Stamp Portfolio, 1977. Publ...
Category
1970s Minimalist Figurative Prints
Materials
Printer s Ink
$5,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Jean-Michel Basquiat Downtown 81 / New York Beat 1980
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat Downtown 81 / New York Beat 1980:
Basquiat created this impossibly rare printed flyer to advertise a band performance within his feature acted film: Downtown 81 ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Henri Matisse, Ballerina, from Derriere le Miroir, 1952 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Ballerine (Ballerina), originates from the 1952 folio Derriere le Miroir, No. 46–47, published by Maeght Editeur, Pa...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Fernand Leger, Plate 111, from Circus, 1950
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Fernand Leger (1881–1955), titled Planche 111 (Plate 111), from the album Cirque, Lithographies Originales (Circus, Original Lithographs), originates fro...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
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Marc Chagall, The Flying Fish, from Color of Love, 1958 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Le Poisson Volant (The Flying Fish), from the folio Couleur amour, 13 Aquarelles, Gouaches, Lavis (Color ...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$7,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Argentina : From my Window - Vintage exibition poster (Carmen Martinez Gallery)
Located in Paris, IDF
Antonio SEGUI
Argentina : From my Window, 1978
Original vintage exhibition poster
For the artist exhibition at Carmen Martinez Gallery in 1978
On pa...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Dos Villancicos (Two Carols)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Dos Villancicos
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (text) Artemio Rodríguez (linocut)
Printed at Taller Martín Pescador, Mexico
Published by El Tercer Milenio / Artes de México
Signed and nu...
Category
Early 2000s Portrait Prints
Materials
Linocut
At the Fun Gallery
, Hand Signed by Haring, Subway Drawings, New York, Pop Art
By Keith Haring
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Hand signed by Keith Haring in felt pen, upper center, 'K. Haring' for Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990) and dated 1983. A trimmed, print magazine advertisement for the artist's ina...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset, Paper
$1,837 Sale Price
25% Off
Pablo Picasso, The Pike II, from To the Bulls with Picasso, 1961
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), titled La Pique II (The Pike II), from the album A Los Toros Avec Picasso (To the Bulls with Picasso), originates from the 196...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
The Journals of Susanna Moodie 57/100 - original, illustrated book of poems
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A rare and original illustrated boxed folio of The Journals of Susanna Moodie, arguably Margaret Atwood’s finest work of poetry. In it, she adopts the ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper
Jean Cocteau, Frontispiece, from The Horsemen of Shadow, 1956 (after)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Frontispice pour Les Cavaliers d’Ombre (Frontispiece for The Horsemen of Shadow), from the album Les Cavaliers d'Ombr...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled, from Three Lithographs (framed hand signed lithograph)
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in black and red, on BFK Rives paper. Hand signed and dated lower right by Keith Haring. Hand numbered 59/80 lower right (there were also twenty artist's proofs). Sheet...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Keith Haring coloring book 1986 (Keith Haring Pop Shop 1986)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring coloring book 1986:
A highly collectible 1980’s coloring book illustrated by Keith Haring and sold at his Pop Shop throughout the mid/late 1980’s. This unique, playful ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Argentinean signed limited edition original art print silkscreen 27x19 in. n11
Located in Miami, FL
Justo Barboza (Argentina, 1938)
'17 trazos', 1995
silkscreen on paper Guarro Geler
27.6 x 19.7 in. (70 x 50 cm.)
Edition of 20
Unframed
ID: BAR1437-011-025
Hand-signed by author
Category
20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea
By Tracey Emin
Located in London, GB
2012
Offset lithograph in colours on wove paper
80 x 60 cm
Signed in black in by Tracey Emin
Published by Turner Contemporary
Accompanied by a gallery Certificate of Authenticity
Tr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
Horse - Etching by Enotrio Pugliese - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Horse is a drypoint and etching, realized by Enotrio Pugliese in the 1970s.
Limited edition of 2/8 prints, numbered and Hand-signed by the artist on the lower.
Good conditions.
En...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Saul Steinberg Lithograph c.1970
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Saul Steinberg Lithograph c.1970 from Derrière le Miroir:
Lithograph in colors.
11 x 14 inches.
Very good overall vintage condition.
Unsig...
Category
1970s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Keith Haring Andy Warhol 1986
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring, Andy Warhol 1986:
Rare, highly sought-after oversized 1986 folding announcement card / poster illustrated by Keith Haring & Andy Warhol ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Paul Klee - Vintage Exhibition Poster - Offset Print after Paul Klee - 1979
By Paul Klee
Located in Roma, IT
Paul Klee - Vintage Exhibition Poster is an offset print realized in 1979.
Good conditions except for some foldings.
The poster is realized for an exhibition in Rome in Palazzo Pal...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Alphabet 1982, Erté
By Erté
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Erte, Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990)
Title: Alphabet
Year: 1982
Medium: Offset lithograph on archival paper
Size: 36 x 24 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed in in...
Category
1980s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
$476 Sale Price
20% Off
And then and then... (pink) Limited Edition (print) by Takashi Murakami, signed
Located in Hong Kong, HK
And Then and then and then and then and then (Pink), 1999 by Takashi Murakami
Offset print, in silver ink signed and numbered by the artist
26 4/5 × ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
David Hockney, Letter H, from Hockney
s Alphabet, 1991
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by David Hockney (born 1937), titled Letter H, from the folio Hockney's Alphabet, Drawings by David Hockney, originates from the 1991 edition published by A...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Keith Haring Exhibition Poster for Tony Shafrazi Gallery
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring
Exhibition Poster for Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1988
Offset color print
25 x 34 in.
Framed: 29 1/8 x 38 1/4 x 1 in.
Signed and dated in plate at bottom
A Keith Haring exhi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Wild Raspberries FS IV.126-143 (Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board Stamped)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Wild Raspberries FS IV.126-143
The complete book, comprising 18 offset lithographs, 3 with hand-coloring, (one of which is a double plate), printed title page and two blank pages (as issued), with recipes by Suzie Frankfurt...
Category
1950s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
And Then Red
Located in Greenwich, CT
And Then Red is a screenprint on paper from the edition of 50, 15.75 x 15.75" image size, signed and dated 'Takashi '99' and numbered 45/50 in pencil verso. Framed in a custom, gold-...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen, Paper
The Village, from: Chagall: Jacques Lassaigne - French Russian Village
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
This original lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist ‘Marc Chagall’ at the lower right margin.
It is also numbered from the edition 27 of 90 at the lower left margin.
It...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Courtesan Kashiwagi and the Kamuro Wakano - Japanese Woodblock Print
Located in Soquel, CA
The Courtesan Kashiwagi and the Kamuro Wakano - Japanese Woodblock Print
Original Toyokuni III/Kunisada (Japanese, 1786 - 1864) Japanese Woodblock Print
"The Courtesan Kashiwagi and...
Category
1820s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Printer s Ink, Rice Paper, Woodcut
Abstract Torso with Bow Collage, Intaglio Etching by Omar Rayo
By Omar Rayo
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Omar Rayo, Colombian (1928 - )
Title: Untitled I
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Intaglio Etching with Collage on handmade paper, signed in pencil
Edition: 50, AP
Paper Size: 30 x ...
Category
1970s Minimalist Figurative Prints
Materials
Intaglio
MORTE D
ARTHUR
Located in Portland, ME
Malory, Thomas. MORTE D'ARTHUR. J. M. Dent, London, 1893. First Edition thus.
Edition of 300 printed on Dutch handmade paper, this copy Numbered "72." (There was a "regular" editi...
Category
1890s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
"Snoopy Architectural" - Acrylic on paper
By Gary John
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Gary John has been a street artist since 1985, originally from Seattle Washington, then moving to Venice Beach selling his art on the boardwalk for 10 years before exploding onto the...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Jean Cocteau, Questioning, from Bulls, 1965 (after)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Interrogation (Questioning), from the folio Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau (Bulls, Lithographs by Jean Cocte...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
David Hockney, Letter O, from Hockney
s Alphabet, 1991
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by David Hockney (born 1937), titled Letter O, from the folio Hockney's Alphabet, Drawings by David Hockney, originates from the 1991 edition published by A...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Winter Serenity
—from
Solitude
for Henry David Thoreau
s
Walden
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Naoko Matsubara, 'Winter Serenity' for the portfolio 'Solitude', woodcut, 1971, edition 100. Signed and numbered '58/100' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream laid J...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
And Then. . . (Aqua Blue), hand signed lithograph
Located in Aventura, FL
Offset lithograph in colors on smooth wove paper. Hand signed lower right by Takashi Murakami. Hand numbered 176/300 lower right. Artwork size 26.75 x 26.75 inches. Frame size 34 x 3...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph, Offset
$4,462 Sale Price
25% Off
Marc Chagall, The Offering, from Color of Love, 1958 (after)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled L'Offrende (The Offering), from the folio Couleur amour, 13 Aquarelles, Gouaches, Lavis (Color of Love, 1...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$7,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Henri Matisse, Three Heads. To Friendship, from Apollinaire, 1952
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite aquatint by Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Trois têtes. A l'amitié (Three Heads. To Friendship), from the album Apollinaire, Henri Matisse (Apollinaire, Henri Matisse), originates from the 1952 edition published by Editions Raisons d'etre, Paris, and printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, April 24, 1952. The work captures Matisses lyrical line and expressive minimalism, paying tribute to the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire through a synthesis of portraiture and calligraphic grace.
Executed as an aquatint on velin a la forme des papeteries d'Arches paper, this work measures 12.99 x 9.84 inches (33 x 25 cm). Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. The edition exemplifies the superior craftsmanship of Mourlot Freres, Paris.
Artwork Details:
Artist: Henri Matisse (1869–1954)
Title: Trois têtes. A l'amitié (Three Heads. To Friendship), from the album Apollinaire, Henri Matisse (Apollinaire, Henri Matisse)
Medium: Aquatint on velin a la forme des papeteries d'Arches paper
Dimensions: 12.99 x 9.84 inches (33 x 25 cm)
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Date: 1952
Publisher: Editions Raisons d'etre, Paris
Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris
Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Duthuit, Claude. Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonne des ouvrages illustres. Editions Claude Duthuit, Paris, 1988, illustration 31.
Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium
Provenance: From the album Apollinaire, Henri Matisse (Apollinaire, Henri Matisse), published by Editions Raisons d'etre, Paris; printed by Mourlot Freres, Paris, 1952
Notes:
Excerpted from the album (translated from French), Printing of this album was finished on April, Twenty-Four, M.CM.LII for the Editions Raisons d'etre, 2 rue des Beaux-Arts in Paris, was produced by Fernand Mourlot, based on the models of Henri Matisse. The eight original lithographs were shot on the presses of Mourlot Freres who also printed the cover and case composed by the artist. The stones were erased after drawing. The text and letrins engraved by Henri Matisse were drawn by Coulouma S.A., printer in Paris. Justification of the draw— XXX examples on large velin d'Arches a la forme, signed by the author and the artist, accompanied by a series of original lithographs numbered from I to XXX; CCC examples on velin d'Arches a la forme numbered from XXXI to CCCXXX; XX examples of non-commerce collaborators numbered from I to XX and in addition a few nominative examples on Grand Velin.
About the Publication:
Apollinaire, Henri Matisse (Apollinaire, Henri Matisse), published by Editions Raisons d'etre, Paris, in 1952, stands among Matisses most intimate artist’s albums, conceived as a visual homage to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, whose friendship and creative influence had profoundly shaped the avant-garde in the early 20th century. The album unites Matisses mastery of line with his reverence for literature, pairing portraits, decorative initials, and typographic designs engraved in his own hand. Printed by the esteemed atelier Mourlot Freres, the volume exemplifies the peak of French postwar printmaking, merging literary refinement with visual purity. Each print reveals Matisses poetic sensibility—his ability to render emotion through the economy of contour and rhythm.
About the Artist:
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was a French painter, sculptor, draughtsman, and printmaker whose revolutionary vision redefined modern art through his daring use of color, line, and form. Celebrated as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, Matisse led the Fauvist movement and devoted his life to the pursuit of balance, beauty, and emotional expression in visual art. His early works burst with vibrant hues and liberated brushwork, while his later “cut-out” compositions achieved a poetic simplicity that transformed the relationship between color and space. Deeply influenced by the work of Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat, as well as by the rhythmic patterns of Islamic art, Byzantine mosaics, and Japanese prints, Matisse forged a new visual language that celebrated joy, movement, and serenity. He was part of an extraordinary generation of artists who shaped the evolution of modernism, maintaining lifelong dialogue and friendly rivalry with contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, Andre Derain, Albert Marquet, and Raoul Dufy—peers who, like him, sought to expand the expressive potential of color and composition. Matisses influence extended across generations, inspiring modern and contemporary masters including Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, each of whom drew upon his fearless experimentation and refined visual harmony. His paintings, sculptures, and works on paper are held in the most prestigious museums in the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Tate, and the Hermitage Museum, where his art continues to symbolize the essence of creativity and human emotion. The highest price ever paid for a Henri Matisse artwork is approximately 80.8 million USD, achieved in 2018 at Christies New York for Odalisque couchee aux magnolias (1923).
Henri Matisse Trois têtes. A l'amitié (Three Heads. To Friendship) Apollinaire, Henri Matisse (Apollinaire, Henri Matisse) 1952, Matisse Editions Raisons d'etre, Matisse Mourlot Freres, Matisse aquatint...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,196 Sale Price
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$ (QUADRANT) FS II.284
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 5/60 (there were also 10 artist's proofs). Unique screenprint on Lenox Museum Board. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New ...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Board, Screen
Jean Cocteau, Hermetic Measure, from Bulls, 1965 (after)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Mesure hermetique (Hermetic Measure), from the folio Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau (Bulls, Lithographs by J...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Love I, Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Peter Max (1937)
Title: Love I
Year: 2001
Edition: 453/500, plus proofs
Medium: Lithograph on Lustro Saxony paper
Size: 6 x 5 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed ...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$912 Sale Price
20% Off
BATHOS / Tail PIece
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLIAM HOGRATH (1767- 1764)
THE BATHOS / Tail Piece 1764 (Paulson 1989: 216 I/I Paulson 1965/70: 216 I/I)
Engraving Plate 12 7/8 x 13 3/8, sheet 17 ¾ x 18 ¾ Designed & Engrav’d by Wm Hogarth at left and Published according to Act of Parliam’t March 3, 1764 at right. Good condition on thick laid paper Small bit of tape on the left & right sheet edges small stan lower sheet edge all on recto.
This Hogarth’s last print is fascinating as it is prophacy about death.
Various institutions have interesting commentaries - to wit:
Chicago Art Institute: Hogarth created The Bathos toward the end of his life. It is considered one of the bleakest artworks of the 18th century because it depicts the Apocalypse without an afterlife. The Angel of Death even collapses in exhaustion after having destroyed the world. In his hand is an execution decree and around him lies a mass of broken objects.
Princeton: Hogarth’s last print, The Bathos,….. is filled with all manner of images denoting the end of life as we know it. Entry no. 216 in Ronald Paulson’s catalogue raisonne Hogarth’s Graphic Works, 3rd revised edition says “This print is the culmination of such pessimistic images . . . . [taking] his general composition, the configuration of objects, and some of the particular items, from Dürer’s engraving, Melancholia; but he also recalls Salvator Rosa’s Democritus in Meditation (which derives from Dürer’s print) with a scroll at the bottom of the etching: ‘Democritus the mocker of all things, confounded by the ending of All Things’ (Antal, p.168).”
Newfields (Indianapolis Museum of Art): Hogarth intended this engraving to serve as the tailpiece to bound volumes of his collected engravings and, appropriately, it proved to be his last engraving. Father Time has died and his last will and testament has been witnessed by the three Fates. He is surrounded by a landscape of death, decay, and ruin. Hogarth aimed this print at dealers in “dark” Old Masters paintings who promoted the idea that ruins evoked sublime feelings in viewers—a sentiment, Hogarth wrote, that was reducing the world to ruin.
British Caricature...
Category
1760s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Manet, Composition, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin Foreign Affairs paper mounted on Foreign Affairs museum board, as issued . Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Édouard Manet, Letters with Aquarelles, 1944. Published by Pantheon Books, New York; rendered and printed by Raymond and...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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PORTFOLIO OF WOLF SAUSAGE, KING BRAND, DOG LEG STUDY AND UNDISCOVERED GENUIS
Located in Aventura, FL
Conceived in 1982-1983 and printed in 2019. Screenprint in colors. Each stamped and signed on verso by Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveaux, the artist’s sisters and administrators ...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
"Surfing Snoopy" Acrylic and Collage on Korean newsprint
By Gary John
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Gary John has been a street artist since 1985, originally from Seattle Washington, then moving to Venice Beach selling his art on the boardwalk for 10 years before exploding onto the...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Acrylic, Newsprint
Untitled
By Knox Martin
Located in Kansas City, MO
Knox Martin
Untitled
Offset lithograph
Year: 1977
Size: 21 x 14 in
Edition: 1,500
Signed in the plate
Publisher: HMK Fine Arts, New York
COA provided
Ref.: 924802-924
Knox Martin (born February 12, 1923) is an American painter, sculptor and muralist.
Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, he studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1946 till 1950. He is one of the leading members of the New York School of artists and writers. He lives and works in New York City.
Collections:
Martin's work is included in the collections of Whitney Museum of American Art,[15] Museum of Modern Art,[16] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[17] Art Students League of New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Academy of Design,[18] National Arts Club, New York University, Addison Gallery of American Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Baltimore Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum, Blanton Museum of Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Chrysler Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Denver Art Museum, Hand Art Center, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Heckscher Museum of Art, Hofstra University Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art,[19] Ithaca Museum, Lowe Art Museum, George Washington University, Montclair Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts,[20] Newark Museum, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Provincetown Art Association and Museum,[21] Reading Public Museum, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Springfield Art Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,[22] Toledo Museum of Art, University of Kentucky Art...
Category
1970s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
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"Profil" from the Espace Portfolio
Located in Kansas City, MO
Georges Braque (after)
Title: "Profil" from the Espace Portfolio
Year: 1957
Year of Original: 1952
Medium: Pochoir (pigment print) on Richard de Bas, signed in the plate
Edition: 26...
Category
1950s Impressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Pigment
$1,600 Sale Price
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Keith Haring Help the Homeless 1989 (Keith Haring 1989 announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring 1989:
Keith Haring illustrated announcement card, NY, 1989. Published on the occasion of a 1989 fundraiser to help the homeless.
Off-set printed, 1989.
Measures: 5 x 7...
Category
1980s Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
The Olympics, Signed Modern Art Screenprint by Romare Bearden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Romare Bearden, American (1911 - 1988)
Title: The Olympics
Year: 1976
Medium: Serigraph on BFK Rives, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200
Paper Size: 40 x 25 in. (101....
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Jean Cocteau, Flamenco, from Bulls, 1965 (after)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), titled Flamenco (Flamenco), from the folio Taureaux, Lithographies de Jean Cocteau (Bulls, Lithographs by Jean Cocteau), ori...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Ceiling plan of Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate Street
Located in Middletown, NY
Robert Wilkinson, 1816.
Copperplate engraving on buff wove paper with hand coloring in watercolor, 10 7/8 x 13 /4 inches (275 x 336 mm), full margins. In good condition with some sc...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Watercolor
Portrait of Cardinal - Woodcut after Albrecht Durer - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburgr is a Woodcut print on cream-colored paper. realized after Albrecht Durer, a reproduction of the early 20th...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
David Hockney, Letter B, from Hockney
s Alphabet, 1991
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by David Hockney (born 1937), titled Letter B, from the folio Hockney's Alphabet, Drawings by David Hockney, originates from the 1991 edition published by A...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
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Ahava, Pop Art Offset Lithograph after Robert Indiana
Located in Long Island City, NY
Robert Indiana, After, American (1928 - 2018) - Ahava, Portfolio: Master American Contemporaries II, Year: 1995, Medium: Offset Lithograph with Poetry, Image Size: 7 x 7 inches...
Category
1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
David Hockney, Letter K, from Hockney
s Alphabet, 1991
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by David Hockney (born 1937), titled Letter K, from the folio Hockney's Alphabet, Drawings by David Hockney, originates from the 1991 edition published by A...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,196 Sale Price
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