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Period: 20th Century
Kool Aid Jamaican Sand Piece, Conceptual Lithograph by Colette
By Colette
Located in Long Island City, NY
Kool Aid Jamaican Sand Piece, Colette (aka Colette Justine)
Tunisian/American (1952)
Date: 1978
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 200, AP 3...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Concile d
Amour, Modern Nude Etching by Leonor Fini
By Leonor Fini
Located in Long Island City, NY
Two women dancing holding hands in a circle as religious figures and another nude look on the scene is the subject of this etching print by Leonor Fini. The work is an illustration of the themes of a satirical play with the same title Le Concile d’Amour...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Lying Naked - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a Faun.
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Jea...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Mort de Daphnis for Les Bucoliques, Modern Lithograph by Jacques Villon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jacques Villon, French (1875 - 1963)
Title: Le Mort de Daphnis for Les Bucoliques
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Lithograph, Signed in Pencil
Image Size: 8 x 19 inches
Size: 15 in....
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Torso
Located in London, GB
Claudio Bravo, (Chilean 1936-2011), Torso, 1978, Screenprint on paper, signed and dated (lower right) and numbered '28/50' (lower left), 18cm x 30cm (image size), 34cm x 46cm (sheet ...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
$8,254
Lovers - Lithograph by Nino La Barbera - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 1970s.
Hand signed in pencil.
Not numbered, as issued.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Birth of Venus - Lithograph by Nino La Barbera - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 1990s.
Hand signed in pencil.
Unnumbered, as issued.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Birth of Venus - Lithograph by Nino La Barbera - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 1990s.
Hand signed in pencil.
Unnumbered, as issued.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sitting Nude - Female nude after the original drawing of Gustav Klimt art deco
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Sitting Nude" (1963) is a lithograph based on Gustav Klimt's original drawing of 1914-16. It depicts in his typical art deco style a nude woman posing with her arms over her head. ...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$2,786 Sale Price
20% Off
Pablo Picasso (after) Helene Chez Archimede - Wood Engraving
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Pablo Picasso (after)
Helene Chez Archimede
Medium: engraved on wood by Georges Aubert
Dimensions: 44 x 33 cm
Portfolio: Helen Chez Archimede
Year: 1955
Edition: 240 (Here it is on...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving, Woodcut
Louis Carroll, Surrealist Lithograph by Corneille
By Corneille
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Corneille, Belgian (1922 - 2010)
Title: Carroll from the Portfolio of Six Reves Peints
Year: 1989
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: XVI/XXX
Image Si...
Category
20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Figurative Accumulation I, Abstract Expressionist Etching by Dimitri Petrov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - Figurative Accumulation I, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 25, Image Size: 16 x 23.5 inches, S...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Untitled - Mythical Creatures VII, Surrealist Etching by Dimitri Petrov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - Untitled - Mythical Creatures VII, Year: circa 1975, Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 25, Size: 14 x 11 in. (35....
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Mythical Creatures VI, Surrealist Etching by Dimitri Petrov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - Mythical Creatures VI, Year: 1977, Medium: Etching, signed in pencil, Image Size: 14 x 11 inches, Size: 26 x 20 in. (66.04 x 50.8 cm)
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
"Nude, " Lithograph Portrait of a Woman signed by Otto Dix
By Otto Dix
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nude" is a lithograph by Otto Dix. It depicts the bust of a nude woman. The artist signed the piece lower right and wrote the edition number (28/XL) in the lower left. This piece wa...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
After Picasso, Surrealist Etching by Dimitri Petrov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dimitri Petrov, American (1919 - 1986) - After Picasso, Year: circa 1980, Medium: Etching with Chine Colle, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 1/25, Image Size: 16 x 24 inch...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
For Adults Only, Pop Art Lithograph by Larry Rivers
By Larry Rivers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Larry Rivers, American (1923 - 2002)
Title: For Adults Only
Year: 1971
Medium: Offset Lithograph with Collage on Two Sheets of Wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Editi...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Golden Calf, Screenprint by Israel Rubinstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
"Israel Rubinstein
(1944 - )
Date: 1980
Screenprint on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 350
Image Size: 18 x 18 inches
Size: 29 x 20.5 in. (73.66 x 52.07 cm)"
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
The Journey to India, Photorealist Etching by Jan Peter Tripp
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Journey to India
Jan Peter Tripp
German (1945)
Date: 1986
Etching, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil
Edition of 46/300
Image Size: 15 x 18 inches
Size: 21.5 x 24.5 in...
Category
Photorealist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Finis le Paradis, Surrealist Etching by Jan Peter Tripp
Located in Long Island City, NY
Finis le Paradis
Jan Peter Tripp
German (1945)
Date: 1994
Etching, signed, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil
Edition of 6/66
Image Size: 39 x 20 inches
...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Woman Eternal, Cubist Nude Lithograph by Remo Farruggio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Remo Farruggio, Italian/American (1904 - 1981)
Title: Woman Eternal
Year: Circa 1980
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 300, AP 35
Image Size: 3...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rahab and the Spies of Jericho
By Marc Chagall
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Marc Chagall
Title: Rahab and the Spies of Jericho
Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1960
Edition: Unnumbered
Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/4"
Image Siz...
Category
20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Henry Moore, "Reclining Figure, " original etching, hand signed
By Henry Moore
Located in Chatsworth, CA
Henry Moore
Reclining Figure
Original etching in sepia, hand signed
1979
Image size: 12 5/8 x 15 7/8 inches
Framed Dimensions: 25 x 25 inches
Numbered 32/50 from the edition of 50 on...
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
$3,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Crazy Horse no.6 - Polly - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen Print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 68/90.
Hand signed and numbered in pencil.
Excellent condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Three Graces of Cova d’or
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Three Graces of Cova d'or
MEDIUM: Etching with embossed verso
SIGNED: Hand Signed
PUBLISHER: Galerie des Quatre Mouvements
EDITION NUMBER: 31/90
ME...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Leda and the Swan No. 10, Framed Minimalist Nude Lithograph by Reuben Nakian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Reuben Nakian
Title: Leda and the Swan - 10
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil
Edition: BAT
Image Size: 22 in. x 30 in. (55.88 cm x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 32...
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paul Eluard, Lithograph by Corneille
By Corneille
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Corneille, Belgian (1922 - 2010)
Title: Eluard from the Portfolio of Six Reves Peints
Year: 1989
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: XVI/XXX
Image Siz...
Category
20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Bird on Tongue - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Bird on Tongue - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 390
1967
On Rives Vellum
References : Field 67-4 (p. 32-33) / Michler & Lopsinger 174 to 187.
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Woman in Yellow - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and numbered. Edition of 90 prints.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Woman in Yellow - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in Yellow is a screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976. Hand signed and dated in pencil lower right (Simbari 76). Edition of 90 prints.
The artwork represents a female...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Woman in Pink - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and numbered. Edition of 90.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Leda and the Swan - 2, Minimalist Nude Etching on Paper by Reuben Nakian
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Reuben Nakian
Title: Leda and the Swan no. 2
Medium: Etching and Chine Colle , signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: XXV
Paper Size: 31 x 42 inches
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Polly_1 - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Subject n. 7 - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed and numbered. Edition of 90 pieces.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Nude Lying Model - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized in 1976 by Nicolas Simbari.
Hand Signed. Edition of 99 pieces.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Woman - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a F...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Woman - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman i is a screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Numbered .Edition 11/90.
The artwork represents a female nude in profile with an abs...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Woman in Yellow - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in Yellow is an original serigraph realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
The artwork represents a female nude in profile with an abstract multicolour composition. There are colo...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Nude on Yellow - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Nude - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Nude on Red - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Polly - Screen Print by Nicola Simbari - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
Screen print realized by Nicola Simbari in 1976.
Edition of 90.
Hand signed in pencil.
Very good condition.
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
The Book of Ah!
Located in Fairlawn, OH
String bound booklet (portfolio) with six hand colored woodcuts, signed in pencil by the artist, tipped in the book
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
By descent to his daughter Kir...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Les yeux noirs (The dark eyes)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les yeux noirs (The dark eyes)
Lithograph, 1913
Lacking the artist's signature in pencil as sited in Duthuit. We have found numerous other impressions of this image with the initials...
Category
French School 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Modern Abstract Red
Purple Toned Figurative Lithograph of Nude Changing Woman
By Bruno Bruni
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract red and purple toned offset lithograph of a female figure by Italian artist Bruno Bruni. The work features a loosely rendered nude woman bent over in the process of c...
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude original Lithograph EA by Alain Bonnefoit
Located in Pasadena, CA
Original Lithographe EA (Epreuve d'Artiste ) Alain Bonnefoit’s trademark female nudes reflect both Western and Eastern art historical influences. A painter, engraver, and sculptor, B...
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
after Pablo Picasso - The Human Comedy - Lithograph
Signed and dated in the plate
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
This artwork is a lithograph in colors on wove paper after a drawing by Pablo...
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Les Crimes de l
Amour, Surrealist Nude Etching by Hans Bellmer
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Hans Bellmer, German (1902 - 1975)
Title: Les Crimes de l'Amour
Year: 1968
Medium: Color Etching, signed in pencil
Image Size: 10.5 x 8.5 inches
Frame Size: 21.5 x 17.5 inches
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Leonor Fini - Orgy - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Orgy - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Circa 1982
On colored paper
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 275
Dimensions: 69 x 52.5 cm
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled, 1971
Located in Wien, 9
- Plate 118 from the Suite 156
- edition 48/50
- stamp signature
- dated in the plate 17.5.71
- cat. raisonné Bloch 1973; cat. raisonné Baer 1982
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
From "Valentina" to "O" - Vintage Offset Print after Guido Crepax - 1976
By Guido Crepax
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage offset print, from "Valentina" to "O", in a vintage poster realized in 1976 after Guido Crepax., in occasion of his exhibition at Galleria Rondanini, Rome.
Very Good condit...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Offset
Irving Place Burlesque, lithograph, 1928
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Irving Place Burlesque, lithograph, 1928, signed in pencil lower right and inscribed 25 proofs lower left margin [also signed and dated in the plate upper...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Three women. 9/50., Paper, etching, 23x58 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Three women. 9/50., Paper, etching, 23x58 cm
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$432 Sale Price
20% Off
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975)
Surrealist engraving, etching
after drawings from a 1942 notebook,
engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims
Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris,
Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations and #7/10 and 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp verso
Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4
Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company.
Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life.
Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany.
He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington.
Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work.
Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton.
He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940.
After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
Category
20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
GOLD AND SILK
Located in Aventura, FL
Rare lithograph in colors on Japon paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Sheet size: 21 x 26 inches. Image size: 14 x 20 inches. Frame size approx 27 x 32 inches. Editio...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
$900 Sale Price
50% Off
Leonor Fini - Pregnant - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Pregnant - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Circa 1982
On colored paper
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 275
Dimensions: 69 x 52.5 cm
Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums.
Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931.
Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy,
very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy.
In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery.
Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau.
A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...
Category
Modern 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975)
Surrealist engraving, etching
after drawings from a 1942 notebook,
engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims
Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris,
Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations verso Editioned from a very small edition of #7/10
'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp.
Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4
Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer.
Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company.
Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life.
Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany.
He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington.
Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work.
Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton.
He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940.
After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
Category
20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
The Little Puppy - Lithograph by Umberto Brunelleschi - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Little Puppy is a color lithograph on ivory paper, created by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi (Montemurlo 1879- Paris 1949).
Illustration for “Tales and Short Stories” b...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Trenches - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Trenches - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 235
1967
Embossed signature
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
1945 Brazilian Master, Art Deco Clown Serigraph Woodcut
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Brazilian Art Deco, African Diaspora
Bahian Carnival
Subject: harlequin clown
Medium: Print
Surface: Paper
Country: Brazil
Dimensions of overall paper are listed.
This is from a series of work he did in the 1940's, we sold one called Ritmo Negro, they are about Afro-Brazilian jazz, dance and music.
Odetto Guersoni was born in the city of Jaboticabal, State of São Paulo, in 1924. From 1936 to 1941 he attended the Liceu de Artes de Ofícios in São Paulo, beginning his artistic career in 1945, when he exhibited paintings in the Hall of the Plastic Artists Union . Two years later he was part of the collective group of 19, alongside Aldemir, Charoux, Otavio Araújo, Grassmann, Maria Leontina and several other artists that time would make famous. He then practiced a figurative painting of accentuated Expressionist lauds, characterized by deformation and coloring, raw and Satirical- as, moreover, so many of his fellow exhibitors at the time. As a French government scholar, Odette Guerzoni went to Paris in 1947 and the following year took part in the Peintres et Graveurs Etrangers and Art Libre exhibitions. Student of engraving by Renê Cottet, gradually transformed this expressive medium into his favorite, to the detriment of painting, which he practically abandoned soon after.
In 1947, he participated in the 19 Painters exhibition at the Prestes Maia Gallery together with Lothar Charoux, Maria Leontina,Grassmann, Aldemir Martins, Luiz Sacilotto and hiró. Guersoni was awarded a scholarship by the French government, and traveled to Paris, where he began work in engraving. Back in Brazil, in 1951, he founded the Art Workshop, in São Paulo. In 1954, he returned to Europe for a year, financed by the International Labor Organization (ILO). In Geneva, he studied engraving with René Cottet (1902 - 1992) and worked in Stanley william Hayter's studio, Atelier 17, in Paris (1901 - 1988). From 1956 to 1957, he became director of the Union of Plastic Artists of São Paulo. From 1960, he attended, as a trainee, some art schools in the United States and Japan such as The New York School of Printing and Osaka University. In 1971, also in Japan, he attended the workshop of I. Jokuriti. Two years later, he was voted Best Recorder of the Year by the Paulista Association of Art Critics - APCA. He took part in a special room at the Ibero-American Biennial in Montevideo in 1983. The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo - Pesp presents a retrospective of his work in 1994.
Odetto Guersoni explores the wide spectrum of possibilities of the engraving. In addition to using techniques such as metal etching, lithograph, serigraph, linocut and, especially, woodcut he developed, in the 1950s, the philigraphy, in which the forms he developed gained points of embroidery made by Bonadei (1906 - 1974) . And, in the 1960s, the plastigraphy, in which he makes engravings on pasty surfaces, obtained from gypsum or other soft material. In the 1970s, technical investigations were associated with pictographic, ideographic, archaic symbol searches, Brazilian cave paintings and plant forms. The drawings are reduced to stylized, geometric shapes and transformed into abstract graphic elements. The artist works with few matrices, which, organized in rectangles, squares or circles, become modules to be combined. Guersoni juxtaposes them, adds, changes colors, and thereby composes colorful mandalas and structural geometries. Based on concise compositions, it produces color vibrations through optical illusions. In many of his woodcut works of the 1980s he uses smooth wood, knives, saws, gouges, punches, avoiding the natural textures of wood. In printing, it leaves the vibrant color and employs dosed inks with colorless masses, obtaining transparencies by superpositions. New journeys of study and specialization in engraving techniques took him in 1954 to Switzerland, 1960 to the United States, and in 1966 to Germany and Austria. Today, after having performed more than 40 individuals including 16 abroad and having participated in more than 50 collectives in several countries, Guersoni is considered one of the most notable Brazilian engravers. Conquered awards in several shows.
CHRONOLOGY
Individual exhibitions
1946 - Sao Paulo SP - 10th Salon of the Artists' Union, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1947 - São Paulo SP - 19 Painters, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1948 - Paris France - Peintres et Graveurs Etrangers at the École des Beaux-Arts
1949 - São Paulo SP - 13th Salon of the Artists' Union, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1951 - São Paulo SP - 1st Paulista Salon of Modern Art, at Prestes Maia Gallery - silver medal
1953 - São Paulo SP - 2nd International Biennial of São Paulo, at MAM / SP
1954 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Paulista Salon of Modern Art, in the Prestes Maia Gallery
1955 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - 4th National Salon of Modern Art
1955 - Salvador BA - 5th Baiano Salon of Fine Arts, in Belvedere da Sé - honorable mention
1962 - São Paulo SP - Leirner Prize for Contemporary Art at the Folha Art Gallery - 1st printing award
1963 - Curitiba PR - 20th Salão Paranaense de Belas Artes, at the Public Library of Paraná
1963 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, no MAM / RJ
1968 - Bradford England - First International Print Biennale
1970 - São Paulo SP - Antonio Henrique Amaral, Odetto Guersoni, Tomie Ohtake, Pedro Tort and Gerda Brentani, in the Alberto Bonfiglioli Gallery
1971 - São Paulo SP - 11th International Biennial of São Paulo, at the Biennial Foundation - acquisition award
1973 - Punta del Este Uruguay - 1st Engraving Meeting of the Prata Basin Countries - International Prize
1977 - São Paulo SP - The Groups: the 40's, at the Lasar Segall Museum
1982 - São Paulo SP - Ismenia Coaracy, Odetto Guersoni and Alice Brill...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut




