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Art Subject: Women
Four Figures and a Head, on Giant Phallus by Claes Oldenburg erotic nude scene
Located in New York, NY
This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of joy and come-hither coquettishness. T...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Complicite 1980 Signed Lithograph with Screen Printing
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Guillaume Corneille
Complicite 1980
Print, Signed Lithograph on wove paper
25½ x 19½ " inches
Signed in pencil and dated
Cat added by artist
As a co-founder of the famed experimen...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
From the Vargas Portfolio
Located in Missouri, MO
From the Vargas Portfolio **Portfolio Cover Not Included**
Lithograph Only
Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) was born in Arequipa, Peru, in 1896, the son of...
Category
20th Century Realist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Venus, Mars and Cupid
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Salvador Dali
Title: Venus, Mars and Cupid
Medium: Engraving with stencil color on Rives paper
Year: 1971
Edition: 81/150
Sheet Size: 29 5/8" x 22"
Image Size: 22 3/4" x 15"
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Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bodies and Heads / - The new human couple -
Located in Berlin, DE
Frans Masereel (1889 Blankenberge - 1972 Avignon), Bodies and Heads, 1948. Woodcut on Japanese paper, 24.5 cm x 18 cm (image), 42.5 cm x 33.5 cm (frame), monogrammed and dated “FM 19...
Category
1940s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Nu a la Guitarre (Serenade), Signed Surrealist Lithograph by Salvador Dalí
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Salvador Dali, Spanish (1904 - 1989)
Title: Nu a la Guitarre (Serenade) from the Nudes Suite
Year: 1970
Medium: Lithograph on Rives, Signed and numbered in Pencil
Edition: C...
Category
1970s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Odalisque au Collier
Located in New York, NY
An excellent, richly-inked impression of this print with full margins. It is one of 10 numbered artist's proofs, aside from the edition of 50. Signed, inscribed "Epr. d'artiste" and ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rising I, Male nude lithograph by Trevor Southey
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Male nude lithograph by Trevor Southey. Charcoal gray. There was also an edition done in terra cotta.
Trevor Southey was born in Rhodesia, Africa (now Zimbabwe) in 1940. His African...
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Women Bathing — German Expressionism, Nudes, 1920
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Georg Gelbke, Untitled (Women Bathing), etching, 1920. Signed and dated in pencil. Initialed and dated in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked im...
Category
1920s Expressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
$520 Sale Price
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I Mean No Disrespect
Located in London, GB
Archival digital print on 200g Munken Lynx paper
70 x 50 cm (paper size)
89.6 x 69.5 cm (Framed)
Unsigned Edition of 250
Published by Shrig Shop.
David Shrigley is an artist known...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Digital
Madman
s Drum (Brothel) —
Story Without Words
Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Madman's Drum, Plate 41', wood engraving, 1930, edition small. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white tissue-thin Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 2 1/2 inches); a small paper blemish in the upper right margin, away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. A scarce, artist-printed, hand-signed proof impression before the published edition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches (140 x 95 mm); sheet size 9 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches (244 x 181 mm).
From Lynd Ward’s book of illustrations without words, 'Madman’s Drum', Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1930.
Reproduced in 'Storyteller Without Words, the Wood Engravings of Lynd Ward', Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1974.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lynd Ward is acknowledged as one of America’s foremost wood engravers and book illustrators of the first half of the twentieth century. His innovative use of narrative printmaking as a stand-alone storytelling vehicle was uniquely successful in reaching a broad audience. The powerful psychological intensity of his work, celebrated for its dynamic design, technical precision, and compelling dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers, Ward was concerned with the themes of man’s inner struggles and the role of the subconscious in determining his destiny. An artist of social conscience during the Great Depression and World War II, he infused his graphic images with his unique brand of social realism, deftly portraying the problems that challenged the ideals of American society.
The son of a Methodist preacher, Lynd Ward, moved from Chicago to Massachusetts at an early age. He graduated from the Teachers College of Columbia University, New York, in 1926, where he studied illustration and graphic arts. He married May Yonge McNeer in 1936 and left for Europe for their honeymoon in Eastern Europe. After four months, they settled in Leipzig, where Ward studied at the National Academy of Graphic Arts and Bookmaking. Inspired by Belgian expressionist artist Frans Masereel's graphic novel ‘The Sun,’ and another graphic novel by the German artist Otto Nückel, ‘Destiny,’ he determined to create his own "wordless" novel. Upon his return to America, Ward completed his first book, ‘God's Man: A Novel in Woodcuts,’ published in 1929. ‘Gods’ Man’ was a great success for its author and publisher and was reprinted four times in 1930, including a British edition. This book and several which followed it, ‘Madman’s Drum,’ 1930, ‘Wild Pilgrimage...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
On the Beach : Bather in the Wind - Original wooodcut, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Baptiste VETTINER (1871-1935)
On the Beach : Bather in the Wind, 1928
Original woodcut
Handsigned in pencil
Numbered /160
On vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 in)
Bears the bli...
Category
1920s Art Deco Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Modernist Nude — Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Russell T. Limbach, 'Untitled (Modernist Nude)', etching and aquatint, no known edition, c. 1930. Signed in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 7/8 to 2 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 8 15/16 x 5 15/16 inches; sheet size 13 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches. Extremely rare. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Probably created when Limbach was in Paris (1928-1934), where he was exposed to modernist printmaking explorations at Stanley William Hayter’s 'Atelier 17'.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Massillon, Ohio, Russell Limbach...
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; ...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Le Printemps, Modern Drypoint Etching by Auguste Rodin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Le Printemps, Year: 1882-1888, Medium: Drypoint Etching, Image Size: 5.75 x 4 inches, Size: 16.25 x 11.25 in. (41.28 x 28.58 cm), Reference: T...
Category
1880s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Marc Chagall “Le Nu” The Nude - Color Lithograph 1978 - Framed - Signed - Angel
By Marc Chagall
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Marc Chagall
"Le Nu"
Lithograph in colors on Arches paper
21.25 x 14 in. (image size)
25.5 x 18.38 in (sheet size)
Edition of 50 + Épreuve d'artiste
Signed in pencil lower rig...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Archival Paper
"La Femme et la Folie Dominent le Monde II" - 1886 Print on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"La Femme et la Folie Dominent le Monde II" - 1886 Print on Paper
("The Woman and the Madness Overlooking The World II")
1886 French illustration from Felicien Rops (Belgian, 1833-...
Category
1880s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Paper, Ink
Erotic Scene - Héliogravure by Micheal Von Zichy - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic scene is an original Héliogravure artwork on ivory-colored paper, realized by Micheal Von Zichy in 1911. Printed in only 300 copies, Leipzig; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
Category
1910s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Engraving
Los Romanos en Tarquena — Photogravure Triptych of Ancient Male Nude Reliefs
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Los Romanos en Tarquena is a powerful photogravure by David Smith-Harrison, depicting a frieze of ancient Roman male figures rendered in striking sculptural detail. Presented as a tr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Intaglio, Photogravure, Monoprint
Salvador Dali - Knight
Death, from "Faust"
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - "Knight & Death" from Faust - Original Etching
With embossed signature (from the standard book edition of 731)
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1...
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Martini Miss, Pop Art Print by Mel Ramos
By Mel Ramos
Located in Long Island City, NY
A pin up picture of a woman (in the likeness of Courtney Cox) sitting in a martini glass. In a fine white contemporary frame.
Artist: Mel Ramos
Title: M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sex Theme - Etching by Charkes Laborde - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching hand colored by Chas Laborde, realized to illustrate "Les Chansons Erotiqies" by Pierre-Jean Beranger.
Realized in the early 20th Century.
Very good condition.
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Feminaire II, Surrealist Etching by André Masson
By André Masson
Located in Long Island City, NY
André Masson, French (1896 -1987) - Feminaire II, Year: 1951, Medium: Etching on wove paper, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 30, Image Size: 9.75 x 8 inches, Size: 14.25...
Category
1950s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Reclining Male Reclining Male Nude with - 2000s - Lithograph After Egon Schiele
Located in Roma, IT
Reclining Male Nude with Green Cloth is a beautiful and original colored lithograph from the portfolio "Erotica" by Egon Schiele.
It deals with a repro...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Femme Couchée et Homme au Grand Chapeau
Located in New York, NY
Color linoleum cut, 1959. Signed by Picasso and numbered 32/50 in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Arnéra, Vallauris. Published by Galerie Louise L...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut, Color
$28,000 Sale Price
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Shunga - Woodcut attr. Keisai Eisen - Mid-19th Century
By Keisai Eisen
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut shunga print attributed to Keisai Eisen and realized in the early 19th century.
Good condition except for some signs of time.
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Nudes 2, Israel by Hans Erni - Lithograph 50x70 cm
By Hans Erni
Located in Geneva, CH
Lithograph numbered and signed by hand
19/60 edition
From Israel collection
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$560 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled by Ken Price
By Ken Price
Located in Morton Grove, IL
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
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Screen
Brunelleschi, Composition, La Leçon d
amour dans un parc (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and stencil on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, La Leçon d'amour dans un parc, 1933. Published by Éditions...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
Geisha Skateboard Triptych(suite of three silkscreen skateboards numbered 55/150
Located in New York, NY
Nobuyoshi Araki
Geisha Skateboard Triptych, ca. 2014
Set of (3) Skateboards of Silkscreen on 7 ply Canadian Maplewood Deck
Signed in plate, Each signed on the deck and hand numbered ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Wood, Maple, Screen
Stefanie 2 by Peter Handel - Giclée Art Print
By Peter Handel
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Stefanie 2, a stunning giclée print by renowned artist Peter Handel. Printed on premium Hahnemühle Velvet paper and hand-signed, this artwork is a high-quality reproduction of the or...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Paper
The Birth of Venus - Original lithograph and watercolor
By Joseph Felon
Located in Paris, IDF
Joseph FELON (1818 - 1897)
The Birth of Venus
Original stone lithograph, enhanced with watercolor
Printed signature in the plate
On paper 33 x 50 cm (c. 12.9 x 19.6 inch)
Very good...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Nude Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Leaves of Love-Orange Lady plus Mermaid (two proof prints)
Located in Middletown, NY
A colorful, myth-based female nude along with a portriat of a mermaid by the same artist.
Lithograph in color on white wove paper, 18 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches (462 x 297 mm), full margin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L
Inconnue - Original lithograph - 1897
Located in Paris, IDF
Antoine CALBET
L'inconnue
Original lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
1897/98
Printed on paper Vélin
Size 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12")
INFORMATION : Published by 'Estampe Mode...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
French Etching Reclining Nude Woman by Suzanne Meunier Dated 1934
Located in Rochester, NY
Vintage pinup nude. French etching by Suzanne Meunier. Signed and dated 1934. Framed.
Suzanne Meunier (1888–1979), French artist
This Suzanne Meunier was a French painter, engraver,...
Category
Early 20th Century Nude Prints
Materials
Paper
Portrait Imaginare 1981 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Guillaume Corneille
Portrait Imaginare 1981
Print, Signed Lithograph on wove paper
25.5 x 19.5 " inches
Signed in pencil and dated and marked 200/200
As a co-founder of the famed ...
Category
1980s Abstract Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Sator - Original Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Sator - Original Etching
Stamp Signed
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 / Michler & Lopsinger 305
Category
1960s Surrealist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
L
arbre extatique, 1981 Signed Lithograph Artist Proof
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Guillaume Corneille
L'arbre Extatique 1981
Print, Signed Lithograph on wove paper
25.5 x 19.5 " inches
Signed in pencil and dated and marked AP 25/25 (artist proof)
Hinges attached f...
Category
1980s Abstract Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
After
Located in Toronto, ON
70" x 50" Unframed
Original - Oil on Canvas
Hand Signed by Robert Hartshorn
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,000
The Embrace - Original Lithograph by Felice Casorati - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 100 prints plus 5 prints in Roman Numerals.
From the portfolio: "Dieci Litografie (Numerus, Mensura, Pondus)".
Very rare print in perfect conditions.
This a...
Category
1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Henri Matisse, Acrobates, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1958 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Acrobates (Acrobats), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. IX, No. 35–36, originates from the 1958 issue...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Le Jarre II, from The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Title: Le Jarre II
Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse
Medium: Lithograph
Year: 1958
Edition: 2000
Framed Size: 20 1/2" x 15 1/4"
Sheet Size: 14"...
Category
1950s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Bath of Venus - Original lithograph and watercolor
By Joseph Felon
Located in Paris, IDF
Joseph FELON (1818 - 1897)
The Bath of Venus
Original stone lithograph, enhanced with watercolor
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum 28 x 44 cm (c. 11 x 18 inch)
Excellent con...
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Nude Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
$479 Sale Price
20% Off
Dreaming Nude - Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Moise KISLING
Dreaming Nude
Lithograph enhanced with watercolor stencil
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum 38 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 inch)
Very good condition
Category
1950s Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
Erotic Scene - Woodcut by Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Erotic Scene is an original xilography artwork realized by Mino Maccari in 1945. Hand-signed in the pseudonym of "Jean Baschie" which is the artist's signature in 1944-45 ca. erotic ...
Category
1940s Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Young Woman Sponging Herself - Original Etching Signed (Petrides #E12)
Located in Paris, IDF
Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938)
Young Woman Sponging Herself, 1932
Original etching
Signed in pencil
On BFK Rives vellum 47 x 37 cm (c. 18.5 x 14.5 in)
INFORMATION : Printed in 1932, t...
Category
1930s Academic Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
The Whore of Babylon
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Middletown, NY
A scarce impression by Dehn, the spirit of sedultive culture personified.
Lithograph on white wove paper with deckle edges, 13 1/2 x 17 1/8 inches (343 x 435 mm), full margins. Sign...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
In the Cabaret - Original Etching Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Alméry Lobel-Riche
In the cabaret
Handsigned original engraving
Signature printed in the plate
Numbered /12
On parchment 31 x 22.5 cm (c. 12.2 x 8.9 inches)
Excellent condition
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Vieil Homme Avec Magicien Evoquant Trois Odalisques (Bl. 1486, Ba. 1501)
Located in Aventura, FL
Etching on BFK Rives paper, Plate 6 from series 347. Hand signed lower right by Pablo Picasso. Hand numbered 18/50 lower left (there were also 17 artist's proofs). Sheet size: 24 ...
Category
1960s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
$28,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Dolores
By Emil Ganso
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dolores" c.1940 is an original soft ground etching and aquatint by noted German/American artist Emil Ganso, 1895-1941. It is hand signed and numbered 6/100 in pe...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Shunga - Woodcut attr. Keisai Eisen - Mid-19th Century
By Keisai Eisen
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut shunga print attributed to Keisai Eisen and realized in the early 19th century.
Good condition except for some signs of time.
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Red Horse 1981 Signed Limited Edition Lithograph
By Walasse Ting
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Walasse Ting
Red Horse – 1981
Print – Lithograph on Arches Paper 17.5” x 23.5”
Edition: H.C. signed Hors d'Commerce
Walasse Ting was a Chinese-American vi...
Category
1980s Pop Art Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag Punk flyer (Post Marked 1984)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Rare Original Raymond Pettibon Black Flag Flyer, 1984
Early Black Flag Punk Flyer featuring artwork by Raymond Pettibon. A rare postmarked version. Further details:
Flyer / handbill...
Category
1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Offset
Incarnation 4. Young artist, Figurative print Linocut, Black
white, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Black and white contemporary figurative linocut by Polish artist Luiza Kasprzyk. Artwork comes from limited edition of 50. Print depicts bodies permeating each other.
LUIZA KASPRZY...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Three Graces - Original lithograph poster - 1960 ( Buisson #60.28)
Located in Paris, IDF
Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA
La jeunesse, les trois graces
Stone lithograph printed by MOURLOT
Printed signature in the plate
On paper 20 x 30...
Category
1960s Realist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Original CAZALIS
PRATS Grand Cru Mermaid vintage French liquor poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original CAZALIS & PRATS since 1875. Artist: Emm. Gaillard. Size: 13" x 19.5". Professionally acid-free archival linen backed and ready to frame. Note that a small ink printing line ...
Category
1950s American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Die Nacht (The Night), nude and cupids, German antique engraving
By Virgilio Tojetti
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Die Nacht'
(The Night)
German wood-engraving, 1903.
310mm by 230mm (image)
410mm by 280mm (sheet)
Category
Early 20th Century Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Leonor Fini, original lithograph from Satiricon, 1970
By Leonor Fini
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare lithograph by surrealist artist Leonor Fini. This signed print is in perfect condition and from a very searched series untitled Satyricon and dealing with Antique Rome and its f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper
Nude with Stockings (BU 04)
By Thomas Ruff
Located in New York, NY
Iris print on heavy white wove paper. Signed and numbered 42/50 in pencil by Ruff.
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Prints
Materials
Color
Standing Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude
Drypoint, c. 1910
Unsigned
Estate authentication on verso (see photo)
Estate authentication verso by Frances Frieseke Kilmer (Mrs. Kenton Kilmer, 1914-1998) (see photo)
Probably depicts the artist's wife, the artist's favorite model
Extremely rare original drypoint by Frieseke
Printed with selective inking to highlight the figure
Condition: excellent
Image/Plate size: 10 x 6 5/8 inches
Frame size: 19 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
By descent to his daughter Frances
Hirschl & Adler Gallery, Stock No. APG 1106.3D-B (see photo)
Biography
Frederick Carl Frieseke was born on April 7, 1874, in Owosso, Michigan. After studying for a short while at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York, Frieseke left for France in 1898, and almost all of his career was spent as an expatriate, with ties to the United States maintained through his New York dealer, William MacBeth, and by occasional visits to America. Following the pattern of innumerable young Americans, he enrolled at the Academie Julian where he studied with Benjamin Constant (1845-1902) and Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1921). He appears to have had at least brief contact with and to have been influenced by James McNeill Whistler, who had recently opened his Academie Carmen in Paris.
By 1900 Frieseke was spending summers in the town of Giverny, made famous by the residence of Monet and subsequently by other artists, among them many Americans. In 1906, the year after his marriage to Sarah O'Bryan, he leased a house once occupied by the American Impressionist Theodore Robinson. Although the property was adjacent to Monet's, Frieseke had only limited contact with the French master. Instead he apparently found Pierre Auguste Renoir the most influential of all the Impressionists. Frieseke's Giverny house and garden, as settings for a series of female models, provided nearly all of his subject matter for the next thirty years, although in 1930 he made a series of watercolors of Florida scenes remembered from his childhood and painted some Swiss landscapes. After World War I, the artist and his family settled in Normandy.
Frieseke's career falls roughly into three stages. In the first, figures most clearly show his academic training and draughtsmanship. Gradually these evolve into the most common images of the next decade, comprised of loosely-applied blotches of bright color. The vast majority of these show their subjects in the garden, standing among the flowers, taking tea, or just basking in the sun. Others include models in colorful, light-filled interiors. In Frieseke's latest paintings, the figures very often appear indoors, their forms are given greater solidity, and the brushwork is less broken.
At the height of his career, in the 1910s and early 1920s, Frieseke was perhaps the most popular of all living American artists. He received numerous awards and medals and saw his work purchased by private collectors and major museums. Decades after the initial introduction of Impressionism by Monet and his contemporaries, Frieseke assumed this style for his work, choosing to ignore the newer artistic movements of the early twentieth century. Nevertheless, his paintings were acclaimed in both the United States and in Europe. In 1904 he won a silver medal at the St. Louis Universal Exposition and a gold medal at Munich. He was elected a member of the Société National des Beaux Arts in 1908 and the National Academy of Design in 1912. Seventeen of his canvases were featured at the Venice Biennale in 1909 and he won the Grand Prize at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915. He was commissioned to execute several murals, including one for the New York store of John Wanamaker, one of his most loyal patrons.
He died on August 28, 1939, at his home in Normandy, in the town of Le Mesnil sur Blangy. In the decades following his death, however, after artistic tastes had changed considerably, his work was nearly forgotten until it received renewed attention as interest in American Impressionism grew in the 1960s Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Etchings by Frederick Carl Frieseke include The Balcony and Standing Female Nude. Frieseke was an American Impressionist painter who was popular in the 1910s and 1920s.
Etchings by Frederick Carl Frieseke:
The Balcony: An etching by Frieseke from 1904
Standing Female Nude
Other paintings by Frederick Carl Frieseke:
The Garden Parasol...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Drypoint





