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Original AIRS DE CHANCE Loterie Nationale original French lottery poster
Located in Spokane, WA
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The Last Supper, Etching on Paper Modern Artist A. Ramachandran "In Stock"
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A. Ramachandran
Etching on Paper
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Paper Size - 11 x 15 inches, 2011
( Unframed & Delivered )
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Original Joint Show, First Edition 1967, untrimmed vintage psychedelic poster
Located in Spokane, WA
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Mini gummy bear, Limited Edition, Gummy Bear Art, Sweets
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Located in Deddington, GB
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Union Station (Blue Dog for President)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: George Rodrigue
Title: Union Station (Blue Dog for President)
Medium: Silkscreen
Year: 1996
Edition: 36/150
Framed Size: 31" x 42"
Sheet Size: 18" x 30"
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Plate 4, from Derriere le Miroir # 212
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder
Title: Plate 4
Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #212
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1975
Edition: Unnumbered
Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 17 1/4"
Sheet Size: 15" x 11"
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La Mère et les Enfants
Located in New York, NY
Signed by Picasso in pencil lower left. Numbered 32/50 in pencil lower right.
Catalogue raisonne references: Bloch 739; Mourlot 239; Reuße 625.
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Ladies, Wildwood, New Jersey - American Interior Pink Color Photograph
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Original Haller Fine Chocolate
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Origiinal Biere Mosellane (Everyone drinks Mosellane Beer) vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
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Philip Guston "Studio Corner" Lithograph, Brooke Alexander Gallery
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Philip Guston (1913-1980)
Marking(s); notes: signed, blind stamp; ed. 39/50; 1980
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Original Blame it on the Movies Betty Grable Broadway vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Blame It On The Movies!. The Reel Music of Hollywood. Theater performance of Blame it on the Movies! Acid-free archival linen-backed original; ready to frame. ...
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Stolen Kiss, Color Photograph, Archival Pigment Ink Print, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
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Original "Post Office Savings Bank, Save for Supremacy" vintage British poster
Located in Spokane, WA
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Post Office Savings Bank
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Original "The Chateaux of the Loire, Go by Train" vintage poster
By Jean Jacquelin
Located in Spokane, WA
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Woman Circus Rider
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Woman Circus Rider
Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir: 10 Ans d'Edition
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1956
Edition: 2000
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Lied Dement, from Poesies Antillaises
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Lied Dement
Portfolio: Poesies Antillaises
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1972
Edition: 250
Sheet Size: 14 7/8" x 11 1/8"
Image Size: 14 7/8" x 11 1/8"
Signatu...
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Death and Life / - United in Laughter -
By Hans Frank
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Frank (1884 Vienna - 1948 Salzburg), Death and Life, 1911. Lithograph, 18 cm x 31 cm (depiction), 25.5 cm x 38.7 cm (sheet size), signed “H.[ans] Frank” in pencil lower right and inscribed “Tod und Leben” lower left.
- darkened, remains of an old mounting on the verso
- United in Laughter -
Here, Hans Frank refers to the skull as a vanitas motif. In Renaissance and Baroque portraits, this motif symbolizes the transience of the sitter, whose head has become a skull over time. Penitents, such as St. Jerome, often hold skulls in melancholy contemplation. Here, however, the boy stands up for life itself. He boldly grabs the skull and laughs at the absurdity of life and death. The laughter of death joins the laughter of life, and vice versa. The child's thumb penetrates the skull's cheekbone to illustrate the inseparable connection between death and life.
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Death as a servant / - Concise congeniality -
Located in Berlin, DE
Alfred Rethel after (1816 Diepenbenden - 1859 Düsseldorf), Death as a servant, around 1920. Color woodcut by Oskar Bangemann after a drawing by Rethel created around 1845 on handmade...
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Profile and Red Child, from Mourlot Lithographe I
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Profile and Red Child
Portfolio: Mourlot Lithographe I
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Framed Size: 18 1/2" x 15 1/2"
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Hier, de tes Doights d
Or Pale, from Poesies Antillaises
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse
Title: Hier, de tes Doights d'Or Pale
Portfolio: Poesies Antillaises
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1972
Edition Size: 250
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Sunburst Marilyn
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Robert Indiana
Title: Sunburst Marilyn
Medium: Screenprint in colors on wove paper
Year: 2001
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Ruth Gleaning
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Ruth Gleaning
Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/...
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Smith Brothers Restaurant
Located in Milwaukee, WI
An original color silkscreen print by Ruth Grotenrath. A lovely assortment of different foods both vegetable and animal alike. The photos do not do this piece justice. The dark color...
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Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985.
The Village
Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work.
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The Beehive
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Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
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Flight
After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research.
Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion.
With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way.
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Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
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