1910s Prints and Multiples

'Harpy Tomb, West Side' Photogravure from a collection of photogravures depicting Greek and Roman marbles and bronzes in the British museum. Plate number above top right corner of t...

"Military" 1917 is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 89/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner,...

"Military" 1914 is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 89/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner,...

"Military" 1917 is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 89/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower right corner...

"Military" 1917s is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 61/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner...

"Military" 1917s is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 61/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner...

"Military" 1917s is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 61/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner...

"Military" is a beautiful print in the etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955) as part of the series "Croquis du Front Italian". In the series "Croquis du Front Ita...

Beggars is an original Modern artwork realized by Albert Maria Roussel (1869 – 1937) in 1910. Original phototype on Creamy paper. Signed and dated by the artist on plate the lowe...

'Oriental Head Dress (Persia)' Photogravure after Donald Macbeth (1865-1943). Donald Macbeth was a commercial photographer who seems to have held a quasi-official position at the B...

"Military" 1917s is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 61/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner...

'Westmacott Boy' Photogravure from a collection of photogravures depicting Greek and Roman marbles and bronzes in the British museum. Plate number above top right corner of the imag...

"Military" 1917s is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 89/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner...

"Military" 1917s is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 61/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner...

"Military" 1917s is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 61/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner...

"Military" 1917s is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 23/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner...

"Military" 1917s is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 61/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner...

"Military" 1917s is a beautiful print in etching technique, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Hand signed. Numbered 23/100 of prints on the lower left. On the lower left corner...

Georg Tappert (1880 Berlin - 1957 Berlin), The Mother, 1918 (1964). Estate print from 1964. Linocut on Japan, 31.5 cm x 20 cm (image), 44.5 cm x 28 cm (sheet size), marked lower left...

Militaries is an original lithograph by the Italian artist, painter, and printmaker Anselmo Bucci. Signed on the plate on the lower left. In very good conditions. The artwork repr...

Pula 1918 is an original lithograph by the Italian artist, painter, and printmaker Anselmo Bucci. Signed on the plate on the lower right. In very good conditions. The artwork repr...

Front Italien is a beautiful print in etching on paper, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Good conditions except for some diffused foxings. Sheet dimension: 36 x 27.5 From t...

Front Italien is a beautiful print in etching on paper, realized by Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Good conditions. Sheet dimension: 27.5 x 35.5 From the collection: “Croquis du Fron...

Front Italien is a beautiful print in etching on paper, realized by Anselmo Bucci in 1918 (1887-1955). Good conditions. Sheet dimension: 35.5 x 27.5 From the collection: “Croqui...

Stage is an original woodcut print realized by Moses Levi in 1914. The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Passepartout dimension: 52.5 x 37 cm.

The war is an original lithograph on ivory paper, signed on the plate on the lower right and date by the Italian artist, painter, and printmaker Anselmo Bucci. In very good conditio...

Selbstmörder is an original drypoint, realized by Magnus Zeller in 1919, signed and inscribed, Included a frame. In very good conditions. The artwork is representing a desperate m...

Image dimensions: 11,5x17,8 cm. Under the Snow is an original artwork realized by Anselmo Bucci in 1913. The state of preservation is very good, except for some small stains on the...

Signed on plate. Numbered. Edition of 60 prints in Roman Numerals. Very good conditions. Image Dimensions : 21 x 12.5 cm

Group of Men is an original lithograph on cream-colored paper, signed by the Italian artist, painter, and printmaker Anselmo Bucci, Hand-signed and dated on the lower margin of artwo...

Image dimensions: 6 x 8 cm. Hand signed. Edition of 100 prints on Hollande paper. From the collection: “Croquis du Front Italien” , published in Paris by D'Alignan editions. Anselmo...

Image dimensions: 9.5 x 13.5 cm. Hand signed. Edition of 100 prints on Hollande paper. From the collection: “Croquis du Front Italien” , published in Paris by D'Alignan editions. An...

Image dimensions: 10 x 9.5 cm. Hand signed. Edition of 100 prints on Hollande paper. From the collection: “Croquis du Front Italien” , published in Paris by D'Alignan editions. Anse...

Image dimensions: 12.5 x 8.5 cm. Hand signed. Edition of 100 prints on Hollande paper. From the collection: “Croquis du Front Italien”, published in Paris by D'Alignan editions. Ans...

Image dimensions: 11.5 x 14 cm. Hand signed. Edition of 100 prints on Hollande paper. From the collection: “Croquis du Front Italien” , published in Paris by D'Alignan editions. Ans...

Image dimensions: 8.5 x 12 cm. Hand signed. Edition of 100 prints on Hollande paper. From the collection: Croquis du Front Italien, published in Paris by D'Alignan editions. Anselmo...

Image dimensions: 6 x 5 cm. Hand signed. Edition of 100 prints on Hollande paper. From the collection: “Croquis du Front Italien” , published in Paris by D'Alignan editions. Anselm...

Image dimensions: 13 x 8.5 cm. Hand signed. Edition of 100 prints on Hollande paper. From the collection: “Croquis du Front Italien” , published in Paris by D'Alignan editions. Anse...

Medium: original etching. Printed in 1913 and published in Paris by the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate size: 4 3/8 x 5 5/8 inches (112 x 143 mm). A rich, dark impression on ...

Oli Sasso is a colored lithographed original manifesto on cardboard, realized around 1914 by the Italian artist Plinio Nomellini. This modern artwork is signed on plate on higher left margin and has the inscriptions printed on lower margin in the image "Chiedere Catalogo e Campioni ai Sigg. Sasso Oneglia e Figli", under the image: "P. Nomellini/ Off. G. Ricordi and C. Milano / 140 x 200". From the Ricordi Portfolio...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1910 in sanguine ink and published in Paris for Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Image size: 5 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches (146 x 122 mm). Not signed.

Medium: engraving (after the painting). Engraved by French artist Henri Bérengier (1881-1943) after the Manet painting. Printed in 1910 on watermarked BFK Rives paper and published i...

Drypoint and aquatint (brown ink) on cream paper. Signed "Rehn" in pencil on the lower right margin. Titled and numbered in pencil on the lower left margin. Edition of 25 prints. Fr...

Original poster made around 1910 to promote mutual savings. At that time, it was important to "promote the economy through capitalization to allow everyone to build up capital, an e...

Desert is a beautiful black and white xylograph on ivory colored paper, by the French landscapist Marcel Gaillard (1886 -1947). This original print, representing an oriental buildin...

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1914 on chine-colle paper by E. Duchatel and published in Paris by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The catalogue reference is Sanchez and Seydoux 1914...

Medium: original lithograph. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1919 for Das Kestnerbuch, an important collection of original prints published during the height of the Germ...

Circle of Life Lithograph on tan paper, c. 1910's Signed in pencil lower right; signed in the plate lower right (see photo) Annotated "No. 50" in pencil lower left (see photo) ...

2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extolling his artistic merits during his lifetime to showing something of a feigned disdain- more reflective of the world political order than a true change of heart for Hodler’s work. After years of Hodler being all but a footnote in the annals of art history and generally ignored, finally, the pendulum has righted itself once again. Recent retrospective exhibitions in Europe and the United States have indicated not only a joyful rediscovery of Hodler’s art but a firm conviction that his work and world view hold particular relevance today. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is not only a collection of printed work reflecting the best of all of his painted work created up to 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I, the portfolio itself is an encapsulation of Hodler’s ethos, Parallelisme. Hodler developed his philosophy of Parallelisme as a unifying approach to art which strips away detail in search of harmony. By means of abstraction, symmetry and repetition, Hodler sought ways to depict Nature’s essence and her fundamental, universal order. He believed these universal laws governing the natural, observable world extend to the spiritual realm. Symbolist in nature with Romantic undertones, his works are equally portraits of these universal concepts and feelings governing all life as they are a visual portrait in the formal sense. Whether his subject is a solitary tree, a moment in battle, mortal fear, despair, the awe inspired by a vast mountain range, a tender moment or even the collective conviction in a belief, Hodler unveils this guiding principle of Parallelisme. Several aspects of Hodler’s portfolio reinforce his tenets of Parallelisme. The Table of Contents clearly preferences a harmonious design over detail. The two columns, consisting of twenty lines each, list the images by order of appearance using their German titles. The abbreviated titles are somewhat cryptic in that they obscure the identities of the sitters. Like the image Hodler presents, they are distillations of the sitter without any extraneous details. This shortening was also done in an effort to maintain a harmonious symmetry of the Table of Contents, themselves, and keep titles to a one-line limit. The twenty-fourth title: “Bildnis des Schweizerischen Gesandten C.” was so long, even with abbreviation, that it required two lines; so, for the sake of maintaining symmetry, the fortieth title: “Bauernmadchen” was omitted from the list. This explains why the images are not numbered. Hodler’s reasoning is not purely esoteric. Symmetry and pattern reach beyond mere formal design principles. Finding sameness and imposing it over disorder goes to the root of Hodler’s identity and his art. A Swiss native, Hodler was bi-lingual and spoke German and French. Each printed image, even number forty, have titles in both of Hodler’s languages. Certainly, there was a market for Hodler’s work among francophones and this inclusion may have been a polite gesture to that end; however, this is the only place in the portfolio which includes French. With German titles at the lower left of each image, Hodler’s name at bottom center and corresponding French titles at the lower right of each image, there is a harmony and symmetry woven into all aspects of the portfolio. This holds true for the page design, as it applies to each printed image and as it describes the Swiss artist himself. Seen in this light, Hodler’s portfolio of printed work is the epitome of Hodler’s Parallelisme. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is also one of the most significant documents to best tell the story of how Hodler, from Switzerland, became caught between political cross-hairs and how the changing tides of nations directly impacted the artist during his lifetime as well as the accessibility of his art for generations to come. The Munich-based publisher of the portfolio, R. Piper & Co., Verlag, plays a crucial role in this story. Publishing on a wide range of subjects from philosophy and world religion to music, literature and the visual arts; the publisher’s breadth of inquiry within any one genre was equal in scope. Their marketing strategy to publish multiple works on Hodler offers great insight as to what a hot commodity Hodler was at that time. R.Piper & Co.’s Almanach, which they published in 1914 in commemoration of their first ten years in business, clearly illustrates the rapid succession- strategically calculated for achieving the deepest and broadest impact - in which they released three works on Hodler to hit the market by the close of 1914. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS was their premier publication. It preceded C.A. Loosli’s Die Zeichnungen Ferdinand Hodlers, a print portfolio after 50 drawings by Hodler which was released in Autumn of 1914 at the mid-level price-point of 75-150 Marks; and a third less expensive collection of prints after original works by Hodler, which had not been included in either of the first two portfolios, was released at the end of that year entitled Ferdinand Hodler by Dr. Ewald Bender. The title and timing of DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS' debut leaves little doubt as to the connection it has with another avant-garde portfolio of art prints, Das Werk Gustav Klimts, released in 5 installments from 1908 -1914 by Galerie Miethke in Vienna. Hodler, himself, was involved in Klimt’s ground-breaking project. As the owner of Klimt’s 1901 painting, “Judith with the Head of Holifernes” which appears as the ninth collotype print in the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts, Hodler was obliged to grant access of the painting to the art printers in Vienna for them to create the collotype sometime before 1908. Hodler had been previously invited in 1904 to take part in what would be the last exhibition of the Vienna Secession before Klimt and others associated with Galerie Miethke broke away. In an interview that same year, Hodler indicated that he respected and was impressed by Klimt. Hodler’s esteem for Klimt went beyond the art itself; he emulated Klimt’s method aimed at increasing his market reach and appeal to a wider audience by creating a print portfolio of his painted work. By 1914, Hodler and his publisher had the benefit of hindsight to learn from Klimt’s Das Werk publication. Responding to the sluggish sales of Klimt’s expensive endeavor, Hodler’s publisher devised the same diversified 1-2-3 strategy for selling Hodler’s Das Werk portfolio as they did with regards to all three works on Hodler they published that year. For their premium tier of DAS WERKS FERDINAND HODLERS, R. Piper & Co. issued an exclusive Museum quality edition of 15 examples on which Hodler signed each page. At a cost of 600 Marks, this was generally on par with Klimt’s asking price of 600 Kronen for his Das Werk portfolio. A middle-tiered Preferred edition of 30, costing somewhat less and with Hodler’s signature only on the Title Page, was also available. The General edition, targeting the largest audience with its much more affordable price of 150 Marks, is distinguishable by its smaller size. Rather than use the subscription format Miethke had chosen for Klimt’s portfolios which proved to have had its challenges, R. Piper & Co. employed a different strategy. In addition to instantly gratifying the buyer with all 40 of the prints comprising DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS and the choice among three price points, they advertised in German journals a fourth possibility of ordering single prints from them directly. These printed images are easily discernible from the three complete folio editions. The paper size of the single purchased images is of the larger format like the Museum and Preferred editions, measuring 65 h x 50 w cm; however, the paper itself is the same copper print paper used in the General edition and then mounted on poster board. The publishing house positioned itself to be a direct retailer of Hodler’s art. They astutely recognized the potential for profitability and the importance, therefore, of having proprietary control over his graphic works. R. Piper & Co. owned the exclusive printing rights to Hodler’s best work found in their three publications dating from 1914. That same year, a competing publication out of Weimar entitled Ferdinand Hodler: Ein Deutungsversuch von Hans...

2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extolling his artistic merits during his lifetime to showing something of a feigned disdain- more reflective of the world political order than a true change of heart for Hodler’s work. After years of Hodler being all but a footnote in the annals of art history and generally ignored, finally, the pendulum has righted itself once again. Recent retrospective exhibitions in Europe and the United States have indicated not only a joyful rediscovery of Hodler’s art but a firm conviction that his work and world view hold particular relevance today. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is not only a collection of printed work reflecting the best of all of his painted work created up to 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I, the portfolio itself is an encapsulation of Hodler’s ethos, Parallelisme. Hodler developed his philosophy of Parallelisme as a unifying approach to art which strips away detail in search of harmony. By means of abstraction, symmetry and repetition, Hodler sought ways to depict Nature’s essence and her fundamental, universal order. He believed these universal laws governing the natural, observable world extend to the spiritual realm. Symbolist in nature with Romantic undertones, his works are equally portraits of these universal concepts and feelings governing all life as they are a visual portrait in the formal sense. Whether his subject is a solitary tree, a moment in battle, mortal fear, despair, the awe inspired by a vast mountain range, a tender moment or even the collective conviction in a belief, Hodler unveils this guiding principle of Parallelisme. Several aspects of Hodler’s portfolio reinforce his tenets of Parallelisme. The Table of Contents clearly preferences a harmonious design over detail. The two columns, consisting of twenty lines each, list the images by order of appearance using their German titles. The abbreviated titles are somewhat cryptic in that they obscure the identities of the sitters. Like the image Hodler presents, they are distillations of the sitter without any extraneous details. This shortening was also done in an effort to maintain a harmonious symmetry of the Table of Contents, themselves, and keep titles to a one-line limit. The twenty-fourth title: “Bildnis des Schweizerischen Gesandten C.” was so long, even with abbreviation, that it required two lines; so, for the sake of maintaining symmetry, the fortieth title: “Bauernmadchen” was omitted from the list. This explains why the images are not numbered. Hodler’s reasoning is not purely esoteric. Symmetry and pattern reach beyond mere formal design principles. Finding sameness and imposing it over disorder goes to the root of Hodler’s identity and his art. A Swiss native, Hodler was bi-lingual and spoke German and French. Each printed image, even number forty, have titles in both of Hodler’s languages. Certainly, there was a market for Hodler’s work among francophones and this inclusion may have been a polite gesture to that end; however, this is the only place in the portfolio which includes French. With German titles at the lower left of each image, Hodler’s name at bottom center and corresponding French titles at the lower right of each image, there is a harmony and symmetry woven into all aspects of the portfolio. This holds true for the page design, as it applies to each printed image and as it describes the Swiss artist himself. Seen in this light, Hodler’s portfolio of printed work is the epitome of Hodler’s Parallelisme. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is also one of the most significant documents to best tell the story of how Hodler, from Switzerland, became caught between political cross-hairs and how the changing tides of nations directly impacted the artist during his lifetime as well as the accessibility of his art for generations to come. The Munich-based publisher of the portfolio, R. Piper & Co., Verlag, plays a crucial role in this story. Publishing on a wide range of subjects from philosophy and world religion to music, literature and the visual arts; the publisher’s breadth of inquiry within any one genre was equal in scope. Their marketing strategy to publish multiple works on Hodler offers great insight as to what a hot commodity Hodler was at that time. R.Piper & Co.’s Almanach, which they published in 1914 in commemoration of their first ten years in business, clearly illustrates the rapid succession- strategically calculated for achieving the deepest and broadest impact - in which they released three works on Hodler to hit the market by the close of 1914. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS was their premier publication. It preceded C.A. Loosli’s Die Zeichnungen Ferdinand Hodlers, a print portfolio after 50 drawings by Hodler which was released in Autumn of 1914 at the mid-level price-point of 75-150 Marks; and a third less expensive collection of prints after original works by Hodler, which had not been included in either of the first two portfolios, was released at the end of that year entitled Ferdinand Hodler by Dr. Ewald Bender. The title and timing of DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS' debut leaves little doubt as to the connection it has with another avant-garde portfolio of art prints, Das Werk Gustav Klimts, released in 5 installments from 1908 -1914 by Galerie Miethke in Vienna. Hodler, himself, was involved in Klimt’s ground-breaking project. As the owner of Klimt’s 1901 painting, “Judith with the Head of Holifernes” which appears as the ninth collotype print in the second installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts, Hodler was obliged to grant access of the painting to the art printers in Vienna for them to create the collotype sometime before 1908. Hodler had been previously invited in 1904 to take part in what would be the last exhibition of the Vienna Secession before Klimt and others associated with Galerie Miethke broke away. In an interview that same year, Hodler indicated that he respected and was impressed by Klimt. Hodler’s esteem for Klimt went beyond the art itself; he emulated Klimt’s method aimed at increasing his market reach and appeal to a wider audience by creating a print portfolio of his painted work. By 1914, Hodler and his publisher had the benefit of hindsight to learn from Klimt’s Das Werk publication. Responding to the sluggish sales of Klimt’s expensive endeavor, Hodler’s publisher devised the same diversified 1-2-3 strategy for selling Hodler’s Das Werk portfolio as they did with regards to all three works on Hodler they published that year. For their premium tier of DAS WERKS FERDINAND HODLERS, R. Piper & Co. issued an exclusive Museum quality edition of 15 examples on which Hodler signed each page. At a cost of 600 Marks, this was generally on par with Klimt’s asking price of 600 Kronen for his Das Werk portfolio. A middle-tiered Preferred edition of 30, costing somewhat less and with Hodler’s signature only on the Title Page, was also available. The General edition, targeting the largest audience with its much more affordable price of 150 Marks, is distinguishable by its smaller size. Rather than use the subscription format Miethke had chosen for Klimt’s portfolios which proved to have had its challenges, R. Piper & Co. employed a different strategy. In addition to instantly gratifying the buyer with all 40 of the prints comprising DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS and the choice among three price points, they advertised in German journals a fourth possibility of ordering single prints from them directly. These printed images are easily discernible from the three complete folio editions. The paper size of the single purchased images is of the larger format like the Museum and Preferred editions, measuring 65 h x 50 w cm; however, the paper itself is the same copper print paper used in the General edition and then mounted on poster board. The publishing house positioned itself to be a direct retailer of Hodler’s art. They astutely recognized the potential for profitability and the importance, therefore, of having proprietary control over his graphic works. R. Piper & Co. owned the exclusive printing rights to Hodler’s best work found in their three publications dating from 1914. That same year, a competing publication out of Weimar entitled Ferdinand Hodler: Ein Deutungsversuch von Hans...

Medium: original lithograph. This is one of the scenes of the Berlin art world executed by Rudolf Grossmann. Printed in 1919 at the Wolf & Sohn atelier for the Ganymed portfolio (vol...

Medium: original lithograph. This is one of the scenes of the Berlin art world executed by Rudolf Grossmann. Printed in 1919 at the Wolf & Sohn atelier for the Ganymed portfolio (vol...

Egon Tschirch's original poster entitled "Englands Absicht: Geschlossen Wegen Mangel an Arbeit" is a work that reveals the artist's talent for combining visual aesthetics with politi...

Frantisek Kupka, Czech (1871 - 1957) - Sons de Cloches. Year: 1912, Medium: Etching on Richard de Bas, stamp signed and signed in the plate, Image Size: 11 x 8.75 inches, Size: 20 x ...

BOMBERG, David. Russian Ballet. With 6 original color lithographs by David Bomberg. London; Hendersons. [The Bomb Shop] 1919. 8 3/8 x 10 1⁄2 Inches, 8 ...

Raoul Dufy, French (1877 - 1953) - Crows in Field, Year: 1912, Medium: Woodcut on laid paper, signed in pencil, Image Size: 1.5 x 3.5 inches, Size: 7.25 x 5.5 in. (18.42 x 13.97 cm...

"Les Matelassiers (The Mattress Makers)" is an original etching by Auguste Brouet. It depicts people creating a mattress outside. The artist signed the...

Henri DeGroux (1866-1930) was a Belgian Symbolist painter, sculptor and lithographer. He was known for his allegorical, religious and historical subject matter. He became an inspired...

Henri DeGroux (1866-1930) was a Belgian Symbolist painter, sculptor and lithographer. He was known for his allegorical, religious and historical subject matter. He became an inspired...

Original poster of aeronautics. It is an event that took place in the United Kingdom in 1920, it is the 6th International Aeronautical Exhibition. Aviation - United Kingdom We are ...