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Period: Early 20th Century
"Collette la Vagabonde" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Executed by Vertes in 1928 for "Collette la Vagabonde", this impression on laid paper was published by Arts et Metiers Graphiques. Size: 11 3/4 x 8 7/8 i...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Hard Times - Original Offset and Lithograph by George Grosz - 1923
Located in Roma, IT
Hard Times from is an original offset lithograph realized by George Grosz. The artwork is the plate n.27 from the portfolio Ecce Homo published between 19...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph, Offset

Marie Laurencin, Untitled, from Les Biches, 1924
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Les Biches (The Does), originates from the 1924 edition published b...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Heiligenblut, Austria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Heiligenblut, Austria" c.1950 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed by the artiste's estate in pencil at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 7.75 x 5.75 inches, framed is 17.85 x 15.15 inches. It is framed in a wooden antique silver frame. It is in very good condition. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand. Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Brigahoe Towing Into Scarborough Harbor
Located in New Orleans, LA
This impression is signed and annotated as etched and printed by the artist. It is numbered No. 11 Nelson Ethelred Dawson (1859–1941) was an English artist and member of the Arts a...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Charing Cross - The Statue of Charles I.
Located in Storrs, CT
Charing Cross -- The Statue of Charles I. 1919. Etching with aquatint and drypoint. 3 5/8 x 4 7/8 (sheet 9 1/8 x 11 3/8). A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream-wove paper. Signed in pencil. Charing Cross is located at the junction of the Strand, Whitehall, and Cockspur Street in Central London, England. The name originates from the Eleanor cross installed by King Edward I as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile at the former hamlet of Charing. Since 1675, the cross site has been occupied by a statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse. The pedestal is thought to be designed by Wren and carved by Grinling Gibbons. Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England. Inside the Grade I listed building, there is seating for 400 people. There is a memorial plaque to the author Henry James (1843–1916) who lived nearby on Cheyne Walk. To the west of the church is a small public garden containing a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein. When he was seventeen,William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

"Verite" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This impression on chine-colle paper was printed in 1900 and published in Paris by the Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne. Image size: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed on cream wove paper and published in 1904. Plate size: 4 5/8 x 10 1/2 inches (120 x 265 mm). Signed in the plate; not hand-signed.
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

And the Spirit of God Moved upon the Face... - Lithograph by Abel Pann - 1920ca
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Abel Pann in 1920 ca. Hand signed lower right. Good condition except for a big repaired rip in the top right.
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Surrealist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Marc Chagall, The Farmyard, from Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled La basse-cour (The Farmyard), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, Les Ames mortes, Eaux-fortes originales d...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Marc Chagall, Tchitchikov on the Bed, from Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Tchitchikov sur le lit (Tchitchikov on the Bed), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, Les Ames mortes, Eaux-...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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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; Privatdruck, from the Catalogue ...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving

YB Robinson Swansons 1926
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This lithograph, dated 1926, depicts a scene where anglers are preparing for what appears to be a fishing competition. Y.B. Robinson is known for capturing the spirit of outdoor leis...
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Contemporary Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Femme assise sur un canapé" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching with drypoint. Catalogue reference: Fiorani 23. This impression on laid paper was printed in 1913 and published by Gazette des Beaux Arts. The image size is ...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Circus - Original Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges ROUAULT (1871-1958) Circus, 1927 Original etching Signed in the plate Limited to 225 copies (Not numbered) On BFK Rives vellum 33 x 25 cm (c. 12.9 x 9.8 in) Excellent condi...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Circa 1920 Original aquatint engraving by Manuel Robbe - Place Blanche à Paris
Located in PARIS, FR
In this luminous Belle Époque scene, Manuel Robbe turns his refined eye to Place Blanche, one of Paris's most animated quarters, located at the foot of Montmartre and famed for its p...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving

Original aquatint engraving created in 1906 by Manuel Robbe - La jupe otée
Located in PARIS, FR
With La Jupe Ôtée (1906), Manuel Robbe once again captures the delicate boundary between modesty and sensuality—a recurring theme in his celebrated Belle Époque prints. The title, wh...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving

Original aquatint engraving created in 1904 by Manuel Robbe - Le maquillage
Located in PARIS, FR
In "Le Maquillage" (1904), French artist Manuel Robbe captures a private, almost voyeuristic moment of everyday beauty—a young woman leaning toward her vanity mirror, lost in the rit...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving

Original aquatint engraving created in 1903 by Manuel Robbe
Located in PARIS, FR
This delicate composition, titled "Le Bouquet de Violettes", is a masterful original aquatint engraving created in 1903 by the French artist Manuel Robbe (1872–1936). A refined examp...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving

Les Saltimbanques
Located in Wien, 9
Pablo Picasso's ,,Les Saltimbanques" is a captivating drypoint etching created in 1905. The work is unnumbered and part of the catalog raisonné. The artwork explores the lives of cir...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Stehendes nacktes Mädchen im Profil (Standing Naked Girl in Profile) /// Woodcut
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976) Title: "Stehendes nacktes Mädchen im Profil (Standing Naked Girl in Profile)" Portfolio: Das Spiel Christa vom Schmerz der Schönheit des Weibes (The Play Christa from the Pain of the Beauty of the Woman) *Issued unsigned Year: 1918 Medium: Original Woodcut Engraving on wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Fritz Voigt, Berlin, Germany Publisher: Verlag Die Aktion, Berlin, Germany Reference: Schapire No. 220, page 45; Jentsch No. 35. Rifkind No. 2563; Lang No. 300; Reed No. 118 Sheet size: 8.5" x 5.38" Image size: 6.5" x 3.57" Condition: Toning to sheet (as normal). In very good condition Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Oxnard, CA. Comes from a complete originally bound 48 page folio with 9 original woodcut engravings by Schmidt-Rottluff. Text by Alfred Brust. The cover and title pages in pictures are not included, only for reference/provenance. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Brücke Museum, Berlin, Germany. Biography: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Engraving, Woodcut

Marc Chagall, The Britchka Has Overturned, Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled La britchka s'est renversee (The Britchka Has Overturned), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, Les Ames mor...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Figures in Landscape
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 53x43 cm. Limited edition of 30 prints numbered in roman numbers and signed by the Artist. Excellent conditions.
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

The Market
By Henri Le Riche
Located in Middletown, NY
Stone lithograph in black ink on tissue-thin wove Japon paper, 9 x 11 1/4 inches (228 x 285 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 43/125 in pencil in the lower margin. Overall mod...
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French School Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Lithograph

Important German Expressionist Etching Hamburg, Reiherstiegdock 1910 Emil Nolde
Located in Portland, OR
Highly important German Expressionist etching by Emil Nolde (1867-1956), Hamburg, Reiherstiegdock, 1910. This is a very rare signed and titled etching of Hamburg, Reiherstiegdock, is...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Christophorus II - Lithograph by Hans Thoma - 1916
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized by Hans Thoma in 1916 on light yellow paper. Date and monogrammed in the plate. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition.
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Depart pour la promenade" original etching
By Raoul du Gardier
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and aquatint in bistre. This impression on watermarked laid paper was printed in 1905 and published in Paris for the Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate ...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Alfred Stevens" original etching and drypoint on japon paper
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint. This is an earlier-state proof before letters were added for the final published edition. Printed in 1900 for Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Plate siz...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Javanische Tanzerin" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: Rathenau 169. Printed in Germany in 1921 for the rare Ganymed portfolio of "Das dritte Jahrbuch der Marees Gesellschaft", published ...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Riva San Giuliano
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with drypoint on cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 7 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches ( 200 x 334 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 27/100 in pencil in the lower margin. With two ...
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French School Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Chartres Cathedral
By Axel Herman Haig, R.E.
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching in brownish black ink on cream laid paper, 8 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (209 x 111 mm), full margins. Signed (illegibly) in pencil, lower right margin. In good condition with a print...
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English School Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Laid Paper

On the Street of Paris - Original Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Pierre BONNARD (1867-1947) On the Street of Paris, 1927 Original lithography Signed in the plate Limited to 225 copies (not numbered) On BFK Rives vellum 33 x 25 cm (c. 12.9 x 9.8 ...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Le centaure" original woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original woodcut. This impression on blue-green paper was printed in 1902 and published in London by The Studio. Image size: 8 x 5 1/2 inches (205 x 140 mm). The Studio dryst...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

"Boxers" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1920 on smooth wove paper for the Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart portfolio, and published in Leipzig by Klinkhardt & Biermann in an edition ...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Downtown Paris - Etching by Anselmo Bucci - 1915 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Very good conditions.
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

LOVERS (LIEBESPAAR
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROBERT PHILIPPI (Austrian 1877-1959) LIEBESPAAR (LOVERS) ca.1923 (in Rifkind Collection, LACMA: From a portfolio of 10 prints. Rifkind indicates the e...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

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 "Liebe" (Dear), Text in German on the plate, The drawing created unusually bold erotic subjects through deft strokes. Good conditions. Mihály Zichy...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving

TOD, FRAU, UND KIND (DEATH, WOMAN, AND CHILD
Located in Portland, ME
Kollwitz, Kathe. TOD, FRAU UND KIND (DEATH, WOMAN AND CHILD). Knesebeck 108, Klipstein 113. Etching, drypoint, sandpaper, and soft-ground with the imprint of Ziegler's transfer paper...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Drypoint, Etching

Armand Guillaumin au Pendu - Original etching (Venturi #1159)
Located in Paris, IDF
Paul CEZANNE (1839-1906) Armand Guillaumin Hanged Original Etching Unsigned On laid paper, 32 x 25 cm (c. 13 x 10 in) REFERENCES: - Catalogue Raisonné Venturi #1159 - Catalogue Rai...
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Academic Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Music : Violinist Player - Lithograph, 1918
Located in Paris, IDF
Maurice DENIS (1870 - 1943) Violonist, 1918 Lithograph enhanced with pastel On vellum 47.5 x 31 cm (c. 18.7 x 12.2 inch) INFORMATION : Edited by Louis Rouart in Paris, former colle...
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Academic Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Pastel, Lithograph

"Eternal Problem" - 1924 Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Eternal Problem" - 1924 Etching on Paper Etching on paper titled "Eternal Problem" by Elias M. Grossman (American, 1898-1947). A bearded rabbi is portrayed thinking with his hand p...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Ink, Etching

"Le buisson" etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: etching. Etched by Jacques Beurdeley after Jacob van Ruisdael. Catalogue reference: Sanchez & Seydoux 1906-2. Printed in Paris and published in 19...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Femme
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ARISTIDE MAILLOL (1861-1944) FEMME ASSISE / (WOMAN SEATED IN PROFILE, RIGHT, ONE LEG BENT. ONE LEG RAISED), 1926 (Gueirn 321) Etching signed with “M” monogram in pencil. Image 9 x 9...
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French School Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Munich, Der Alte Hof
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Munich, Der Halte Hof" 1910 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower right corner. The image size is 12.35 x 10.85 inches, plate mark is 12.75 x 11.25 inches, framed size is 20.85 x 19.25 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black/silver frame, with light beige matting and black fillet. It is in very good condition, the paper is toned by age, About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Buste d enfant, tourné à droite" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original soft ground etching. This is a lifetime impression printed in 1914 on laid paper and published in Berlin by Bruno Cassirer for Theodore Duret's "Die Impressionisten"...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Klosterneuburg, Austria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Klosterneuburg, Austria" c.1950 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed by the artist's estate in pencil at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 7.75 x 5.85 inches, framed is 18.15 x 15.15 inches. It is framed in a wooden antique silver frame. It is in very good condition. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand. Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Marc Chagall, Tchitchikov’s Farewell to Manilov, from Dead Souls, 1923-1927
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Les adieux de Tchitchikov a Manilov (Tchitchikovs Farewell to Manilov), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol,...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Marc Chagall, Meal at Manilov s, from Nicolas Gogol, Dead Souls, 1923-1927
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite etching by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Repas chez Manilov (Meal at Manilov's), originates from the celebrated folio Nicolas Gogol, Les Ames mortes, Eaux-fortes or...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Prag / Prague
Located in Middletown, NY
An atmospheric view of the Charles Bridge and Old Town Bridge Tower. Dresden: Max Sinz, 1928. Etching and aquatint in colors on cream wove paper, 11 1/2 x 9 inches (292 x 227 mm) f...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

The Bath — Meji Era Cross-Cultural Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Helen Hyde, 'The Bath', color woodblock print, edition not stated, 1905, Mason & Mason 59. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Numbered '96' in pencil in the image, lower left. The artist's monogram in the block, lower left, and 'Copyright, 1905, by Helen Hyde.' upper right. A superb impression with fresh colors on tissue-thin cream Japanese paper; the full sheet with margins (7/16 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 16 1⁄4 x 10 1⁄8 in. (413 x 260 mm); sheet size: 19 1⁄4 x 11 1⁄8 in. (489 x 283 mm). Literature and Exhibition: Back cover illustration of the catalog of the artist’s prints, 'Helen Hyde', Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990; 'The International Block Print Renaissance, Then And Now, Block Prints In Wichita, Kansas, A Centennial Celebration — 1922-2022', Barbara J. Thompson, Wichita Art Museum, 2022 (back cover). Impressions of this work are held in the following collections: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Art Institute of Chicago, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (De Young), Harvard Art Museums, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Terra Foundation for American Art, University of Oregon Museum of Art. ABOUT THE ARTIST Helen Hyde (1868-1919) was a pioneer American artist best known for advancing Japanese woodblock printmaking in the United States and for bridging Western and Japanese artistic traditions. Hyde was born in Lima, New York, but after her father died in 1872, her family relocated to Oakland, California, where she spent much of her youth. Hyde pursued formal art education in the United States and Europe. She enrolled in the San Francisco School of Design, where she took classes from the Impressionist painter Emil Carlsen; two years later, she transferred to the Art Students League in New York, studying there with Kenyon Cox. Eager to expand her artistic repertoire, Hyde traveled to Europe, studying under Franz Skarbina in Berlin and Raphael Collin in Paris. While in Paris, she first encountered Japanese ukiyo-e prints, sparking a lifelong fascination with Japanese aesthetics. After ten years of study, Hyde returned to San Francisco, where she continued to paint and began to exhibit her work. Hyde learned to etch from her friend Josephine Hyde in about 1885. Her first plates, which she etched herself but had professionally printed, represented children. On sketching expeditions, she sought out quaint subjects for her etchings and watercolors. In 1897, Hyde made her first color etchings—inked á la poupée (applying different ink colors to a single printing plate)—which became the basis for her early reputation. She also enjoyed success as a book illustrator, and her images sometimes depicted the children of Chinatown. After her mother died in 1899, Hyde sailed to Japan, accompanied by her friend Josephine, where she would reside, with only brief interruptions, until 1914. For over three years, she studied classical Japanese ink painting with the ninth and last master of the great Kano school of painters, Kano Tomonobu. She also studied with Emil Orlik, an Austrian artist working in Tokyo. Orlik sought to renew the old ukiyo-e tradition in what became the shin hanga “new woodcut prints” art movement. She immersed herself in the study of traditional Japanese printmaking techniques, apprenticing with master printer Kanō Tomonobu. Hyde adopted Japanese tools, materials, and techniques, choosing to employ the traditional Japanese system of using craftsmen to cut the multiple blocks and execute the exacting color printing of the images she created. Her lyrical works often depicted scenes of family domesticity, particularly focusing on women and children, rendered in delicate lines and muted colors. Through her distinctive fusion of East and West, Hyde’s contributions to Western printmaking were groundbreaking. At a time when few Western women ventured to Japan, she mastered its artistic traditions and emerged as a significant figure in the international art scene. Suffering from poor health, she returned to the United States in 1914, moving to Chicago. Having found restored health and new inspiration during an extended trip to Mexico in 1911, Hyde continued to seek out warmer climates and new subject matter. During the winter of 1916, Hyde was a houseguest at Chicora Wood, the Georgetown, South Carolina, plantation illustrated by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith in Elizabeth Allston Pringle’s 1914 book A Woman Rice Planter. The Lowcountry was a revelation for Hyde. She temporarily put aside her woodcuts and began creating sketches and intaglio etchings of Southern genre scenes and African Americans at work. During her stay, Hyde encouraged Smith’s burgeoning interest in Japanese printmaking and later helped facilitate an exhibition of Smith’s prints at the Art Institute of Chicago. During World War I, Hyde designed posters for the Red Cross and produced color prints extolling the virtues of home-front diligence. In ill health, Hyde traveled to be near her sister in Pasadena a few weeks before her death on May 13, 1919. She was buried in the family plot near Oakland, California. Throughout her career, Hyde enjoyed substantial support from galleries and collectors in the States and in London. She exhibited works at the St. Louis Exposition in 1897, the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo in 1901, the Tokyo Exhibition for Native Art (where she won first prize for an ink drawing) in 1901, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exhibition in Seattle in 1909 (received a gold medal for a print), the Newark Museum in 1913, a solo show at the Chicago Art Institute in 1916, and a memorial exhibition in 1920, Detroit Institute of Arts, Color Woodcut Exhibition in 1919, New York Public Library, American Woodblock Prints...
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Showa Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Die Nixen (Mermaids), nudes, German antique engraving
By Virgilio Tojetti
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Die Nixen' (Mermaids) German wood-engraving, 1903. 230mm by 320mm (image) 280mm by 410mm (sheet)
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Venetian Scene with Arches
By James Hamilton Mackenzie
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Venetian Scene with Arches" c.1910, is an original etching on paper by noted Scottish artist James Hamilton Mackenzie, 1875-1926. It is hand signed at the lower right c...
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Realist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

E. Strache, Handzeichnungen folio, "Kneeling Female, Semi-Nude" Collotype plate
Located in Palm Beach, FL
after Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his mas...
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Vienna Secession Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Original "Othello" (and Desdemona) vintage lithographic theater poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster for Othello, horizontal format; linen-backed. Full lithograph from the 1920. Stafford & Co., England. Brilliant, scarce stone lithograph of Othello with a dagger and sleeping Desdemona in the climactic scene of Shakespeare’s tragedy. This is an Art Nouveau period English poster for a production of the Shakespeare play Othello. S Co Ltd, Stafford & Co Ltd, Netherfield, 1920s printed this poster. Excellent condition. Othello, a Moorish general of Venice, has just promoted Cassio as his lieutenant; Iago, who was hoping for the promotion himself, plots against both Cassio and Othello to exact revenge. Othello has secretly married Desdemona, the beautiful daughter of Venetian senator Brabantio, and Iago is determined to use Desdemona as the means of his revenge. William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello," which has been adapted into numerous films, plays, and other media since its original publication in 1622. This is an Original Vintage Theater Poster...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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 ...
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Modern Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Engraving

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1920 on a light brown tinted wove paper for the German Expressionist art revue Das Kunstblatt, published in Berlin by Verlag Gustav Kiepenheue...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1926 on Montgolfier wove paper in an edition of 1260 for "Le The du Capitaine Sogoub" and published in Paris by Au Sans Pareil. The artist's name...
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Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

"Begrabnis" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This is one of the Berlin Scenes executed by Rudolf Grossmann during the years before World War I and published in Germany by Bruno Cassirer from 1911-14...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

"Etude de nu" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1908 and published in Paris by Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Plate size: 7 x 5 1/2 inches (180 x 140 mm). A rich, dark impression on laid pap...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching

Fille au Pigeon, Etching Aquatint by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Fille au Pigeon by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Etching & aquatint 36 x 13.8 cm (14 ⅛ x 5 ⅛ inches) Signed lower left Provenance Private Collection, London Exhibition Fort ...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

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