Jean-Baptiste Valadie

The Dancer - Original handsigned lithograph - Ltd 300

Beautiful lithograph by the great postwar Italian artist Francesco Messina. Depicts in a beautiful pose a nude of a woman "Lying Model" Very rare "Artist's Proof Hors Commerce" wit...

Artist: (after) Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) Title: "Galerie Louise Leiris (The Painter & His Model)" Year: 1972 Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove pa...

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...

Milan: c1970. Aquatint in colors on white wove paper with an unknown watermark, 19 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (495 x 317 mm); sheet 20 x 24 1/4 inches (508 x 615 mm), full margins. Signed ...

Jan Matulka (1890-1972), Three-Quarter View of Nude Bathing Seated Near Lamp, lithograph, 1925, signed and dated in pencil lower right. Reference: Flint 9...

An original lithographic poster of a seated nude in the rust color of conte crayon by French artist Andre Derain printed for Galerie Maeght in the atelie...

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, 'Dancing', lithograph, 1928, edition 30, Davis L-29. Signed, dated, and numbered '8/30' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, printed on cream chine appliqué on heavy off-white wove backing; the full sheet with wide margins (1 3/8 to 4 7/8 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by Desjobert, Paris. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Impressions of this work are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi Museum (Japan). ABOUT THIS WORK The French economy boomed from 1921 until the Great Depression reached Paris in 1931. This period called 'Les années folles' or the 'Crazy Years', saw Paris reestablished as a capital of art, music, literature, and cinema. Paris in the 1920s and 1930s was the home and meeting place of some of the world's most prominent painters, sculptors, composers, dancers, poets, and writers. For those in the arts, it was, as Ernest Hemingway described it, "A moveable feast". Paris was home to an exceptional number of galleries, art dealers, and a network of wealthy patrons who offered commissions and held salons. Pablo Picasso, perhaps the most famous artist in Paris, shared renown with a remarkable group of others, including the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, the Belgian René Magritte, the Italian Amedeo Modigliani, the Russian émigré Marc Chagall, the Catalan and Spanish artists Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Juan Gris, and the German surrealist...

Boris Lovet-Lorski, Untitled (Rendez-Vous), lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. From a suite of 10 lithographs published by the artist ...

Benton Spruance, 'Girl with Hands to Face', two-color lithograph, 1940, edition 30, Fine and Looney 180. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 30' in pencil. A superb impression, on cr...

Benton Spruance, 'Eyes for the Night', lithograph, 1947, edition 35, Fine and Looney 260. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. A fine impression, on heavy, cream ...