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Size: Miniature
Waiting, Itzchak Tarkay
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Itzchak Tarkay (1935-2012)
Title: Waiting
Year: Circa 2000
Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper
Size: 13.5 x 10.75 inches
Edition: 750, plus 100 Remarques
Condition: Excellent
In...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
"Desert Attack, aka Ice Cold in Alex", Lobby Card, USA 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a dramati...
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1950s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Color
"Desert Attack, aka Ice Cold in Alex", Lobby Card, USA 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, and Harry Andrews. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a tense s...
Category
1950s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Color
"Desert Attack, aka Ice Cold in Alex", Lobby Card, USA 1958
Located in Cologne, DE
Original lobby card for the film "Desert Attack" (1958) featuring John Mills and Sylvia Syms. This vintage cinema memorabilia piece captures a tense scene between the characters port...
Category
1950s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Color
"Angel Heart", Lobby Card, USA 1987
Located in Cologne, DE
Angel Heart, USA 1987, Director: Alan Parker, Cast: Robert de Niro.
The lobby cards would have been displayed inside the cinemas at the time of the film's release.
Angel Heart is a...
Category
1980s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Color
Dan Flavin, A Sketch of The Diagonal of May 25, 1963 in Fluorescent Light
By Dan Flavin
Located in Hamburg, DE
Dan Flavin (American, 1933-1996)
A Sketch of The Diagonal of May 25, 1963 in Fluorescent Light, 1974
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions: 18.5 x 31.5 cm
Edition of 45: Hand-s...
Category
20th Century Minimalist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Antique Indian Kundalini Hindu Sanskrit Chakras // Set of 2 Anatomical Prints
Located in Hamburg, DE
Set of two antique Hindu / Indian anatomical prints, emphasizing the seven chakras with Sanskrit text.
Original handmade prints on antique paper.
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Endless Summer, Still Life Art, Contemporary Floral Art, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Endless summer is a Limited edition hand coloured collograph print by Vicky Oldfield. Each print is individually painted, making every one unique.
Vicky Oldfield is available online ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Paper
"City Market" Juarez, Mexico El Paso Texas Artist extrememly detailed etching
By Lewis Teel Jr.
Located in San Antonio, TX
Lewis Teel Jr. 1913-1995 El Paso Artist Image Size: 9 x 7 Frame Size: 16 x 14 Medium: Etching Circa 1930s "City Market" Juarez, Mexico
Biography
Lewis Teel Jr. 1913-1995
Lewis Woods...
Category
1930s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Etching
Small St Paul, Clare Halifax, Affordable Art, London Art, Cityscape Prints
Located in Deddington, GB
Clare Halifax
Small St Paul
Limited Edition 8 Colour Silkscreen Print
Edition of 50
Image Size: H 15cm x W 21cm
Sheet Size: H 18cm x W 23cm x D 0.1cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
En passant (Passing by)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En passant (Passing by)
Drypoint, 1909
Unsigned (as issued in the deluxe portfolio)
From the album "Les Bars" (8 plates plus cover illustration)
Edition: 30, this state with remarque
Published by Gustav Pellet, Paris
A very rich impression wwith burr
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 9 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches
Reference: Arwas 391a (remarque)
Exteens 277 i/II
IFF 148 (portfolio)
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906.
Life
Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops.
Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all."
Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine.
Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891.
In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes).
Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others.
He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion.
Books illustrated
de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905.
Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint
"Winch" British Linocut Grosvenor School Machine Age 1930 Woman Artist Print
Located in New York, NY
"Winch" British Linocut Grosvenor School Machine Age 1930 Woman Artist Print
"The Winch" 1930. 7 3/4 x 11 (sight) inches. Linocut in colors on tissue...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
The Burning Tower, American Modernist Abstract Etching
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Robert Birmelin became a professor of fine arts at Queens College in New York, and is known for paintings that magnify through texture the realism of natu...
Category
20th Century American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Etching
UNTITLED (INV# NP2233) by Ken Price
By Ken Price
Located in Morton Grove, IL
UNTITLED (INV# NP2233)
Ken Price
silkscreen on Arches 88 paper
14.875 x 12.375”
1981
edition of 150
stamped by Ken Price, SOMA Fine Art Press and Arabesque Books
Ken Price (1935 - ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Screen
"James Bond 007 - From Russia with love" Original Lobby Card, UK 1963
Located in Cologne, DE
Original UK Lobby Card of Terence Young´s movie "James Bond 007 - From Russia with love", UK 1963. Actors: Sean Connery and Daniela Bianchi
Keywords: James Bond, 007, action, Thrill...
Category
1960s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Color
Book on Chair /// Contemporary Pop Art Screenprint Interior Flowers Colorful
By Dan May
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-)
Title: "Book on Chair"
*Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left
Year: 1989
Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded white wove paper
Limite...
Category
1980s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Screen
Book on Chair (Black) /// Contemporary Pop Art Screenprint Interior Home Plant
By Dan May
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Dan May (American, 1955-)
Title: "Book on Chair (Black)"
*Signed and numbered by May in pencil lower left
Year: 1988
Medium: Original Screenprint on unbranded white wove pape...
Category
1980s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Screen
"Le café de la Nouvelle Athènes" French Impressionist Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
"Le café de la Nouvelle Athènes" French Impressionist Etching
Etching of the bustling Café de la Nouvelle Athènes by Jean-Louis Forain (French b. 1852 d. 1931.) A row of men in top...
Category
1870s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
„Lady and the Tramp“ Original Lobby Card of Walt Disney’s Movie, USA 1955.
Located in Cologne, DE
Original American Lobby Card of Walt Disney’s Movie „Lady and the Tramp“, USA 1955.
A Group/Family picture with a lot of dogs ans cats from the hood and the babys.
Keywords: Animati...
Category
1950s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Color
In the cafeteria - Figurative Drypoint Print, Colorful, Polish Art
Located in Warsaw, PL
CZESLAW TUMIELEWICZ (b. 1942)
In 1968, he studied at the Architecture faculty of Gdank, before continuing his course at the Technical University in the same city, and then he taught ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Paper, Drypoint, Watercolor
Loie Hollowell, Cascade: Porcelain Plate, Contemporary Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Loie Hollowell (American, b. 1983)
Cascade, 2020
Medium: Porcelain plate
Dimensions: 10 7/10 in diameter (27.3 cm diameter)
Edition of 175: Signed in plate
Condition: Mint (sold in i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Ceramic
The Great Depression 3, dramatic, black
white, noir, mystery, genre
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Monotype, Archival Paper
House by the River, dramatic, black
white, noir, mystery, genre
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Monotype
Ed Ruscha, Sweet Taters - Limited Edition Plate, Pop Art, Conceptual Art
By Ed Ruscha
Located in Hamburg, DE
Ed Ruscha (b. 1937)
Sweet Taters, 2021
Medium: Fine bone china plate
10 7/10 in diameter 27.3 cm diameter
Edition of 250: Printed signature and edition details on verso
Condition: E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Interior Prints
Materials
Porcelain
Jonas Wood, Bball Studio - Etching incl. Book and Bag, 2019, Signed Print
By Jonas Wood
Located in Hamburg, DE
Jonas Wood, Bball Studio from 2019 depicts the studio that Wood rented from Ed Ruscha from 2007-2017. This limited edition encompasses an etching in a cardboard case, a hardback edit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Kiss of Death, night scene, interior, black and white, dramatic narrative
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
Gareth Jones, Diamond - Signed Print, Abstract Art, Contemporary Art
Located in Hamburg, DE
Gareth Jones (British, b. 1965)
Diamond, 1999/2000
Medium: Offset lithograph
Dimensions: 26 x 21 cm
Edition of 100: Hand-signed, numbered and dated in pencil
Condition: Excellent
Category
20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
UNTITLED (INV# NP2230) by Ken Price
By Ken Price
Located in Morton Grove, IL
UNTITLED (INV# NP2230)
Ken Price
silkscreen on Arches 88 paper
14.875 x 12.375”
1981
edition of 150
stamped by Ken Price, SOMA Fine Art Press and Arabesque Books
Ken Price (1935 - ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Screen
The New Great Depression 5, dramatic, black
white, noir, mystery, genre
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
Carcere ascura
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Carcere ascura
Etching, 1743
Signed in the plate bottom left corner
From: Prima Parte, 1743
Second edition: 1750-1778
Watermark: R 37-39
A lifetime impression printed during Piranesi’s life, before the plates are moved to Paris by his sons in the 1790’s
This image foretells Piranesi's famous set, Carceri (Prisons) which is his next creative effort.
Condition: Horizontal crease midway in the sheet associated with the manufacture of the paper.
Visible watermark verso
Small printer crease in the bottom right below the caption plate.
Image size: 14 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches
Reference: Robison 3 iii/VI
Piranesi In Rome: Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive
"Although Piranesi studied architecture in Venice, he never was able to find work in the field other than a few jobs involving remodeling in Rome. While Piranesi was struggling to support his architectural endeavors upon his arrival in Rome in 1740, he spent a short period of time in the studio of master painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) in addition to his apprenticeship with Giuseppe Vasi. The first production of Piranesi’s early years in Rome and a culmination of his training under Vasi, Tiepolo, and his uncle, was the Prima Parte di Architetture e Prospettive (1743). The Prima Parte was a collection of twelve etchings of imaginary temples, palaces, ruins, and a prison. During this time, Piranesi was still developing the unique style of etching he is known for today, and as such the Prima Parte differs significantly in technique compared to later works. In the Frontispiece of the Prima Parte, Piranesi’s lines are definite and exact with very little flow to them, designed in the form of traditional etching. The detail is immaculate, and yet perspective of the piece is oddly simple and familiar to the viewer. Piranesi’s technique employs miniscule markings and lines, intricately woven together to create a stippling effect. The Prima Parte, described as “rigid” by art historian Jonathan Scott, came to be seen as a stark contrast to his later sketches, which were much lighter and freer. Influenced by the style of Tiepolo, which epitomized the lightness and brightness of the Rococo period, Piranesi adopted some of the more painterly techniques of the masters he apprenticed under. Piranesi made the medium of etching appear as though it was a sketch or a painting, hence a “freer” and more fluid design in his later works. For example, the frontispiece of the Prima Parte read as an etching to Piranesi’s audience, but in his later vedute, the style of etching almost appears to be made of brushstrokes. Moreover, at the same time Piranesi was working on the Prima Parte, he aided the artist Giambattista Nolli. There is a small section of Nolli’s map...
Category
1740s Old Masters Interior Prints
Materials
Etching
Middle Ages, French antique 19th century Racinet art design lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Middle Ages - Moyen-Age - Mittel Alter'
Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris.
Albert Racinet's 'L' ...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bernard Buffet - House of Cards - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Bernard Buffet - House of Cards - Original Lithograph
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Edition : 6000
Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, Draeger, 1979,
Unsigned and unumb...
Category
1970s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Adolf Dehn, The Big-Hearted Girls (The Last Veil), 1932, burlesque lithograph
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Dehn's, lithograph about burlesque, The Big Hearted Girls #2 (also known as The Last Veil), is filled with dancing girls and fabulous costumes. That central figure is a marvel!...
Category
1940s American Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Sacristan
By Harry Morley
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image shows a cleric seated in a church sacristy surrounded by religious statues, croziers, various saints, statues and chalices. It is an origina...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
$356 Sale Price
40% Off
Bad Dream - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1932
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print from the Series "Der vreeselijke avonturen vas Scholastica" (The Terrible Adventures of Scholastica).
Edition of 300, published by A. J. van Dishoeck.
Unsigned, ass i...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
THE SMITH’S YARD
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEIL WHISTLER (1834 – 1903)
THE SMITH’S YARD 1895 (Spink, Stratis & Tedeschi 124)
lithograph, 1895, on wove paper, from the edition of 3000, published by
The Inter...
Category
1890s Impressionist Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Three 19th C. Engravings of Classical Italian Bronze Architectural Elements
Located in Alamo, CA
A grouping of three engravings depicting classical Italian architectural features held in the National Museum of Naples, entitled "Bronze Hydria", "Marbre Naissance de Bacchus" and "...
Category
1880s Other Art Style Still-life Prints
Materials
Engraving
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
L
examen (The Examination)
Located in Middletown, NY
Heliogravure on light weight Japan paper, full margins. Titled in pencil in the lower right margin. In good condition with some minor handling creases, dog-eared lower right corner, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Prints
Materials
Photogravure
The Jacobite Tartan, Scottish Scotland art design lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
The Jacobite Tartan
Chromolithograph. 1886. From 'The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland', by James Grant, 1886.
365mm by 265mm (sheet).
Accompanied by a sheet of descriptive text.
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Middle Ages, French antique 19th century Racinet art design lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Middle Ages - Moyen-Age - Mittel Alter'
Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris.
Albert Racinet's 'L' ...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Colorful Bouquet - Original Lithograph - Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Charles CAMOIN
Colorful Bouquet, 1946
Original lithograph
Signed in pencil bottom right
Numbered / XX
On Lana Vellum 26 x 36 cm (c. 10.2 x 14 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Pink Floyd, ca. 1967
Located in Cologne, DE
Pink Floyd are an English rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic groups, they were distingui...
Category
1960s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Color
William P. Hicks, Circus
Located in New York, NY
William P. Hicks has drawn everything about the circus that will fit in the plate. The main figure is an aerial act with a woman balancing on rope held by a figure on the floor. Ther...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
IL CASANOVA "Il Teatro de Dresda" Signed Lithograph, 1976 Italian Film, Theater
By Federico Fellini
Located in Union City, NJ
''Il Casanova - il teatro de Dresda'' (Casanova in the Theatre of Dresden)
'Il Casanova–il teatro di Dresda,' is a fine art limited edition color lithograp...
Category
1980s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Curé de Cucignan
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely, dark impression with excellent provenance.
Paris: Lemerre, 1880.
Etching, drypoint, aquatint (dust ground and spirit ground), spit bite, and roulette in black on cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (170 x 112 mm), full margins. Third state (of 4). An illustration from Alphonse Daudet's, Lettres de mon moulin, Paris, 1880. In very good condition with some light uniform toning and two areas of paper tape at the top right and left corners on the verso (from a former mount). With the 1921 J.H. de Bois circular ink stamp in green ink in the lower right margin on the recto (Lugt L.733).
[Bourcard 112]
A note regarding the provenance:
J. H. de Bois was a well known late-19th century modern art...
Category
1880s French School Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint, Laid Paper
Small Earth, Pigment Print, Contemporary Art, 21st Century, Photorealistic Art
By Robert Longo
Located in Hamburg, DE
Robert Longo (American, born 1953)
Small Earth, 2012
Medium: Pigment print on Epson paper
Dimensions: 43.2 x 43.2 cm
Edition of 30: Hand-signed and numbered
Condition: Excellent
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Monstrosities of 1822; Plate 5
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Thomas McLean, 1835. Third Edition. Etching with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 9 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (240 x 348 mm), full margins. With light, fresh color....
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
The Bath
— Meji Era Cross-Cultural Woman Artist
By Helen Hyde
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Helen Hyde, 'The Bath', color woodblock print, edition not stated, 1905, Mason & Mason 59. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Numbered '96' in pencil in the image, lower left. The artist's monogram in the block, lower left, and 'Copyright, 1905, by Helen Hyde.' upper right. A superb impression with fresh colors on tissue-thin cream Japanese paper; the full sheet with margins (7/16 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 16 1⁄4 x 10 1⁄8 in. (413 x 260 mm); sheet size: 19 1⁄4 x 11 1⁄8 in. (489 x 283 mm).
Literature and Exhibition: Back cover illustration of the catalog of the artist’s prints, 'Helen Hyde', Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990; 'The International Block Print Renaissance, Then And Now, Block Prints In Wichita, Kansas, A Centennial Celebration — 1922-2022', Barbara J. Thompson, Wichita Art Museum, 2022 (back cover).
Impressions of this work are held in the following collections: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (De Young), Harvard Art Museums, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Terra Foundation for American Art, University of Oregon Museum of Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Helen Hyde (1868-1919) was a pioneer American artist best known for advancing Japanese woodblock printmaking in the United States and for bridging Western and Japanese artistic traditions. Hyde was born in Lima, New York, but after her father died in 1872, her family relocated to Oakland, California, where she spent much of her youth.
Hyde pursued formal art education in the United States and Europe. She enrolled in the San Francisco School of Design, where she took classes from the Impressionist painter Emil Carlsen; two years later, she transferred to the Art Students League in New York, studying there with Kenyon Cox. Eager to expand her artistic repertoire, Hyde traveled to Europe, studying under Franz Skarbina in Berlin and Raphael Collin in Paris. While in Paris, she first encountered Japanese ukiyo-e prints, sparking a lifelong fascination with Japanese aesthetics. After ten years of study, Hyde returned to San Francisco, where she continued to paint and began to exhibit her work.
Hyde learned to etch from her friend Josephine Hyde in about 1885. Her first plates, which she etched herself but had professionally printed, represented children. On sketching expeditions, she sought out quaint subjects for her etchings and watercolors. In 1897, Hyde made her first color etchings—inked á la poupée (applying different ink colors to a single printing plate)—which became the basis for her early reputation. She also enjoyed success as a book illustrator, and her images sometimes depicted the children of Chinatown.
After her mother died in 1899, Hyde sailed to Japan, accompanied by her friend Josephine, where she would reside, with only brief interruptions, until 1914. For over three years, she studied classical Japanese ink painting with the ninth and last master of the great Kano school of painters, Kano Tomonobu. She also studied with Emil Orlik, an Austrian artist working in Tokyo. Orlik sought to renew the old ukiyo-e tradition in what became the shin hanga “new woodcut prints” art movement. She immersed herself in the study of traditional Japanese printmaking techniques, apprenticing with master printer Kanō Tomonobu. Hyde adopted Japanese tools, materials, and techniques, choosing to employ the traditional Japanese system of using craftsmen to cut the multiple blocks and execute the exacting color printing of the images she created. Her lyrical works often depicted scenes of family domesticity, particularly focusing on women and children, rendered in delicate lines and muted colors.
Through her distinctive fusion of East and West, Hyde’s contributions to Western printmaking were groundbreaking. At a time when few Western women ventured to Japan, she mastered its artistic traditions and emerged as a significant figure in the international art scene.
Suffering from poor health, she returned to the United States in 1914, moving to Chicago. Having found restored health and new inspiration during an extended trip to Mexico in 1911, Hyde continued to seek out warmer climates and new subject matter. During the winter of 1916, Hyde was a houseguest at Chicora Wood, the Georgetown, South Carolina, plantation illustrated by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith in Elizabeth Allston Pringle’s 1914 book A Woman Rice Planter. The Lowcountry was a revelation for Hyde. She temporarily put aside her woodcuts and began creating sketches and intaglio etchings of Southern genre scenes and African Americans at work. During her stay, Hyde encouraged Smith’s burgeoning interest in Japanese printmaking and later helped facilitate an exhibition of Smith’s prints at the Art Institute of Chicago.
During World War I, Hyde designed posters for the Red Cross and produced color prints extolling the virtues of home-front diligence.
In ill health, Hyde traveled to be near her sister in Pasadena a few weeks before her death on May 13, 1919. She was buried in the family plot near Oakland, California.
Throughout her career, Hyde enjoyed substantial support from galleries and collectors in the States and in London. She exhibited works at the St. Louis Exposition in 1897, the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo in 1901, the Tokyo Exhibition for Native Art (where she won first prize for an ink drawing) in 1901, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition in Seattle in 1909 (received a gold medal for a print), the Newark Museum in 1913, a solo show at the Chicago Art Institute in 1916, and a memorial exhibition in 1920, Detroit Institute of Arts, Color Woodcut Exhibition in 1919, New York Public Library, American Woodblock Prints...
Category
Early 1900s Showa Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
French Neoclassical Design Engraving for Braziers
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Copper-line engraving. C1768.
Delafosse was a French decorative designer, engraver and architect. Apprenticed for a time to a sculptor, by 1767 he styled himself an 'architect and professor of design'. He published the first volume of his most important work, 'Nouvelle Iconologie Historique' in 1768, containing 110 plates of his designs for furniture, decorative arts and architectural...
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Late 18th Century French School Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving
Russian, French antique 19th century Racinet art design lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Russian - Russe - Russisch'
Late 19th century interior design chromolithograph, from Racinet’s ‘L’Ornement Polychrome’, 1887. Published in Paris.
Albert Racinet's 'L' Ornement Pol...
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Late 19th Century French School Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Concert: the Conductor - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Fernand SIMEON (1869-1931)
Concert: the Conductor, 1920
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the blind stamp of the edi...
Category
1920s Art Deco Interior Prints
Materials
Woodcut
A Japanese Temple – English School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
18th century image of a priest presiding over a traditional Japanese nuptual ceremony.
One plate from A new and complete collection of voyages and travels containing all that have b...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Interior Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
MacDonald of the Isles and Slate (Tartan), Scotland art design lithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
MacDonald of the Isles and Slate (Tartan)
Chromolithograph. 1886. From 'The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland', by James Grant, 1886.
365mm by 265mm (sheet).
Accompanied by a she...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rustics of Japan – English School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
A Method of Riding as Practised by the Rustics of Japan.
One plate from A new and complete collection of voyages and travels containing all that have been remarkable from the earlies...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Interior Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Engraving
Moka with Lemons by Kenny Harris
By Kenny Harris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Moka with Lemons by Kenny Harris
archival giclee print of an original painting
printed with archival pigment inks on cotton rag paper
11 x 14 inches
signed & numbered edition of 50
...
Category
2010s Still-life Prints
Materials
Giclée, Digital Pigment
Moka with Stripes by Kenny Harris archival giclee print of an original painting
By Kenny Harris
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Moka with Stripes by Kenny Harris
archival giclee print of an original painting
printed with archival pigment inks on cotton rag paper
9 x 12 inches
signed & numbered edition of 50
...
Category
2010s Still-life Prints
Materials
Giclée, Digital Pigment
Leaden Hall Market, London, colour aquatint, 1809, after Thomas Rowlandson
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour aquatint by JC Stadler after Thomas Rowlandson and Auguste Pugin.
From the series 'Microcosm of London', published by Rudolf Ackermann, the great Regency publisher of fine c...
Category
Early 19th Century Naturalistic Interior Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Mosque of the Sultan Bayazid, Constantinople — Vintage Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Conrad Rosenberg, 'Mosque of the Sultan Bayazid, Constantinople', etching, 1927. Signed in pencil. Initialed and dated in the plate, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Jean-Honore Fragonard-L
Occasion Rococo Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Drawings by French Masters of the XV-XVIII Centuries. From a selection of 40 reproductions of the originals preserved in the Albertina Collection in Vienna. With an introduction and...
Category
1930s Rococo Interior Prints
Materials
Offset
Gloria Hendry in "James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973
Located in Cologne, DE
Guy Hamilton´s movie "James Bond 007 - Live and let die", UK 1973.
Actors: Roger Moore and Jane Saymour, Gloria Hendry
Keywords: James Bond, 007, action, Thriller, Great Britain, a...
Category
1970s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Silver Gelatin





