Bird Prints and Multiples

In 1963, the Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet in Paris hosted an exhibition titled Livres Gravures Manuscrits Documents, a collaboration between two prominent figures in 20th-century art and literature: the painter Georges Braque and the poet René Char. The exhibition, which showcased their shared interest in the intersections of visual art and written word, was accompanied by a distinctive original poster that has since become a celebrated piece of design in its own right. The Livres Gravures Manuscrits Documents exhibition focused on the works Braque created alongside René Char, combining Braque’s renowned printmaking and visual art with Char's literary texts. Braque, best known for his role in the development of Cubism alongside Pablo Picasso, had a lifelong interest in the integration of text and image, often producing works that bridged the gap between painting, collage, and typography. René Char, a highly respected poet and close collaborator of Braque, shared this interest in the relationship between the visual and the verbal, and their combined works formed a powerful dialogue between the two mediums. The exhibition highlighted a selection of Braque’s engravings and lithographs, many of which were created in collaboration with Char’s poetry. These works, which included books, manuscripts, and documents, displayed the seamless fusion of language and image, where the words were not simply illustrations or captions but were integral parts of the compositions themselves. The exhibition provided an opportunity for visitors to experience how the two artists blurred the boundaries between their respective disciplines. The original exhibition poster for Livres Gravures Manuscrits Documents exemplified the spirit of the exhibition itself. While the exact design details may vary in interpretation, the poster captured the essence of Braque’s and Char’s collaboration—combining elements of the written word with visual art in a way that resonated with the avant-garde movement of the time. The poster, much like the exhibition, served as an invitation to explore the creative synergy between two masters of their respective fields, inviting the viewer to reflect on the interplay of language and visual expression. The Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet, the venue for this important exhibition, was an ideal setting for showcasing this unique collaboration. As a repository of rare manuscripts...

Classical Bird print, after John James Audubon, printed by Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York unframed, 17 x 14 inches color print on pap...

David Everett was born in Beaumont, Texas, and received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from The University of Texas in Austin. In 1978, Everett was awarded a Faculty Travel Grant from So...

Covey of Grouse II is a celebration of game birds in flight. A moment after taking off the birds have scattered in an explosion of aerial speed and agility. The etching reveal the ...

Chromolithograph of Ducks, laid on to contemporary card (as published). [Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1878]. Alexander Pope, Jr., was an American sculptor and painter. He’s kn...

Artist: Alice Asmar American (1929- ) Title: Joy of the Eternal Now Year: 1980 Medium: Lithograph Sight size: 17.75 x 28.75 inches. Sheet size: 22 x 30 inches. Signature: Signed lower right Edition: 105 This one: 57/105 Condition: Very good Unframed This print by Alice Asmar (1929- ) is in very good never-framed condition with no flaws to note. American contemporary artist of Lebanese and Greek descent, Alice Asmar's art is often inspired by her love of nature, combined with a deep respect for native American culture, her work evolved into Southwestern themes of Indian Ceremonial Dance-Dramas, Indian portraits and landscapes. Her parents moved to Portland, Oregon when she was just a baby. She started drawing and painting at a very early age. Alice was considered a child prodigy; she was winning awards and recognition before the age of 10. The artwork of her early years was inspired by the splendors of nature, from the inscrutable pines and ancient sculptured rocks along the Oregon Coast to the mysterious ocean mists. She Graduated magna cum laude from Lewis and Clark College in Portland and obtained her Master's of Fine Arts Degree at The University of Washington in Seattle. Soon after graduating she accepted a job as an engineering drafter at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. Her Assignment was clearing top secret drawings for air-to-ground missile. Alice worked for Boeing for less than a year. They offered her an engineering scholarship but she decided to go back to the art she loved doing from she was a child. In 1954, Alice received her teaching certificate from the University of Washington after which she taught art at Lewis & Clark (1955 to 1958). After studying and traveling throughout the Near East, France, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Turkey, The Greek Islands, Greece and Lebanon, Asmar set up studios in California, New Mexico and Oregon. Today, She works in an 800 - square-foot studio that she designed with four skylights and is located behind her home in Burbank, California. A master of several media, Asmar is distinguished for her many techniques which include paintings in Oil, casein and Acrylic, drawing in ink, pencil and pastel, collage, tapestry, books, lithography, etching, Engraving on metal on plexiglas, portraits, murals and banners. Her hand engraving of innovative designs for dinner and household wares for Nambe Mills in Santa Fe is also recognized internationally. Alice Asmar's works are in several hundred public and private collections in the United States and Europe, including the Smithsonian Institution, Franklin Mint, Portland Art Museum, Gene Autry Hotel in Palm Springs, The Public Art Museum of Gabrova, Bulgaria, Kaiser-Permanente, and the Dr. Nicholas Townell collection, Angus, Scotland. A selected list of her EXHIBITIONS is as follows: - Seattle Art Museum. - Museum of Science & Industry, Los Angeles. - Circle Gallery Ltd, Houston - Abbot Hall Gallery, William Temple...

Rotche is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by London, Bell...

This is an original 19th century John James Audubon hand-colored lithograph entitled "Great Red-breasted Rail or Fresh Water Marsh Hen, 1. Male Adult, 2. Young", No. 62, Plate 309 fr...

Ibis is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-colored, published by London, Bell &...

Flamingo! 2 is a limited edition giclée print hand finished with screen printed layers of diamond dust and varnish by printmaker Benjamin Thomas Taylor. The diamond dust animates the...

Artist: François-Nicolas Martinet (French, 1731-1800) Title: "Sacelle male, de la cote de Coromandel" (Plate 949) Portfolio: Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux *Signed by Martinet in the...

'Pachycephala Contempta - Lord Howe Island Thickhead' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of...

Lithograph on grand vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, La Liberté des Mers, 1959. Published by Maeght Édite...

 The Rice Ear is a  phototype print on paper realized in the late 20th Century by a Unknown Chinese Master. Monogrammed on plate on the left margin The artist want to define a well-...

'Sooty Tern and Panayan Tern' Chromolithograph from Gracius Broinowski's 'The Birds of Australia' , 1887-1891. Gracius Joseph Broinowski (1837-191...

'Lesser Moddy and Moddy Tern' Chromolithograph from Gracius Broinowski's 'The Birds of Australia' , 1887-1891. Gracius Joseph Broinowski (1837-191...

'Marsh Tern and White Tern' Chromolithograph from Gracius Broinowski's 'The Birds of Australia' , 1887-1891. Gracius Joseph Broinowski (1837-1913)...

Alfredo Sosabravo (Cuba, 1930) 'Viejo pescador', 2001 silkscreen on canvas 28.8 x 37.1 in. (73 x 94 cm.) Edition of 75 ID: SOS1289-005-075 Unframed ______________________________________ Manuel Alfredo Sosabravo  Born: 1930, Sagua la Grande, Matanzas, Cuba.  Studies: Between 1955-1957 he studied at the Elementary School of Applied Plastic Arts attached to the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro, in Havana, Cuba.  Experience: Member of the Association of Cuban Recorders and teaches several drawing and engraving courses at the National School of Art Instructors. In 1965 he entered the Graphic Experimental Workshop of Havana. In 1993 he teaches a mural ceramic course at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tenerife in the Canary Islands, working in turn at the Giuseppe Mazzotti Museum House 1903 in Albissola Mare, Italy.  Exhibitions: It is included in the 1959 annual Salon, Palace of Fine Arts, Havana. He made the first personal exhibition of importance in 1967 with oil-collages and ceramics in the Havana gallery. In 1973 he placed on the mezzanine floor of the Habana Libre Hotel a mural composed of 555 pieces of ceramics started since 1971. In 1997 he presented Sosabravo, The Guardian of the Small, in the Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain. In 2001 he exhibited graphic and painting works in El Comune de Orvieto Italia, in the Sala Conca de la Laguna, Tenerife and at the Feria de la Estampa in Madrid. In Cuba, he built the 10 m2 mural called Carnaval de la Habana for the Residencial América real estate. In 2002, Galería Cernuda Arte, Coral Gables, Florida, shows his works at the Art Miami Fair. In the United Kingdom he exhibited Murano glass oil paintings and sculptures. The Biennale di Ceramica nell'Arte Contemporary of Albissola Mare, Savona, invited him to participate with works that he would carry out in the San Giorgio da Poggi workshop. In 2003 his work was part of the Important Cuban Artworks...

'Pterodroma Brevirostris (Kerguelen Pulmar)' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe...

'Catharacta Maccormicki (South Polar Skua)' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe...

Paix Disarmement-Peace By Pablo Picasso 1960 Medium: Lithograph Paper Size: 47 x 31.5 inches ( 119 x 80 cm ) Image Size: 19 x 25.5 inches ( 48 x 65 cm ) Edition Size: 2500

'Pterodroma Brevirostris (Kerguelen Pulmar)' Limited edition lithograph with original hand colouring by Henrik Gronvold. From Mathews 'The Birds of Norfolk and Lord Howe...

Paper Size: 9.25 x 9 inches ( 23.495 x 22.86 cm ) Image Size: 9 x 6 inches ( 22.86 x 15.24 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: This piece derives from the 19...

Leonel Maciel (Mexico, 1939) 'Kapamu', 2005 silkscreen on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 15.4 x 21.3 in. (39 x 54 cm.) ID: MAC-301 Unframed

Very beautiful poster of A. Solon ( 1897 - 1973 ) on the airline Air France and its trips between Marseille, the Balearic Islands and Algiers in 5 hours. One of the first Air France...

Raid On A Sand-Swallow Colony " How Many Eggs?" is an original wood engraving from Harper’s Weekly June 13, 1874 in very good condition. One of Am...

Lithograph and stencil on grand Velin d'Arches paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Édouard Pignon, Arbres et Voi...

Vintage poster realized by Galleria Rondanini in 1978. Offset print. Excellent condition.

Etching and aquatint realized by James Barenger in 1822. Table from "The Sporting Repository", first edition. Very good condition. James Barenger (1780-1831) was an english animal ...

Murex I, Diamond drypoint by Jakob Demus. In the 1986-1988 period Demus immersed himself in the depiction of flowers, and it was then that the most important works in this genre wer...

This artwork titled "Owl (Rose Ground)" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences" 1968 is an original color lithograph on Arches paper by renown British surrealist artist Gr...

Les Cigognes is an artwork realized by Félix Bracquemond in the 1870s. Etching. Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publi...

Classical Bird print, after John James Audubon, printed by Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York unframed, 17 x 14 inches color print on pap...

A superb poster on the theme of airlines, designed by Otto Nielsen 🇩🇰 (1916-2000) for Scandinavian Airlines System, in Swedish SAS AB, a Scandinavian airline founded in 1946. SAS i...

Overal Size: H85 x W86.5 Paul Bartlett. Puffin landing. Puffin Print A puffin comes in to land, wings and feet outstretched to slow its descent. Paul B...

Edgar DEGAS (after) Whorehouse Scene : Champagne Before Love Etching and aquatint On Rives vellum 25 x 32 cm (c. 10 x 13 inch) In the early 1920s, Ambroise Vollard (the great art se...

Contemporary figurative mezzotint print by Polish artist Krystyna Jaszke. Artwork is monochromatic, it comes from limited edition of 20. Print depicts a woman in nude sitting on a th...

While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, their sense of whimsy, satire and irony relate more closely to contemporary life and western sensibilit...

Vibrant giclee limited edition print by worldwidely established Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. Figurative surrealistic print depicting a violin with head of a peacock insted of a viol...

Lithograph hand watercolored. Belongs to the Series "Atlante di Botanica popolare ossia Illustrazione di Piante Notevoli di ogni famiglia" (Atlas of popular botany or illustration o...

This artwork titled "Black Geese" 1934 is an original color aquatint by noted British artist Winifred Marie Louise Austen, 1876-1964. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) is 9 x 13.75 inches, sheet size is 10.30 x 16.5 inches. Published by Arthur Greatorax LTD, Grafton street, London. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Born at Ramsgate, Kent on 12 July 1876, Winifred Austen only daughter of Josiah Austin, a Cornish naval surgeon, and his wife Fanny, née Mann. She amended the spelling of her surname from Austin to Austen from the time that she began to exhibit. In 1892 the family moved to Hornsey, London from where Austin attended the London County Council School of Arts and Crafts, studying under Cuthbert Swan, an animal painter. I n 1899 Austen exhibited a picture of a lion at the Royal Academy and in all exhibited more than seventy pictures at the Academy, the last in 1961. She worked in both oils and watercolor but Austen is most highly regarded as an etcher. In all she made some two hundred etched plates, beginning in 1906 with a series entitled The White Heron. She had particular feeling for birds and small mammals, and the naturalist Sir Peter...

Landscapes is an lithograph realized in 1970s Robert Carroll. Hand-signed on the lower right. Numbered. Edition,14/100. Good conditions except for some folding. The artwork repre...

This is a hand-colored engraving of a Greenfinch bird and a tree sparrow ("1, Le Friquet, 2. Le Verdier") by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 227 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux...

This hand-colored engraving comes from "Histoire Naturelle Des Oiseaux," a famous set of volumes edited by Georges Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon (1707-1788). The book was publish...

Esao Andrews grew up in the Arizona desert, and moved to New York in 1996 to complete his BFA in Illustration at the School of Visual Arts. After graduati...

Diseases of the Eyes - Larynx and Parotis is a lithograph hand colored by Ottavio Muzzi for the edition of Antoine Chazal,Human Anatomy, Printers Batelli and Ridolfi, realized in 184...

Joseph Wolf Lithograph c.1940

Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - Anti-Platon (D 325), Year: 1962, Medium: Etching on pearl Japon, Edition: 125, Image Size: 3.5 x 5 inches, Size: 13 x 10.25 in. (33.02 x 26.04 cm)...

Exotic Animals is a color lithograph realized by the German atist E. Hochdanz in 1866. Image dimensions: 19.9 x 15.3 cm. Under the plate: Art Anst.v E....

Paradise by Sophie Harden Limited edition print and hand signed by the artist Giclée Print on Paper Image Size: H:60cm x W:90cm Complete size of mounted work: H:75cm x W:105cm x D:0.1cm Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look Large Limited Edition print...

Claes Oldenburg Eraser, 1970 Lithograph Hand Signed and dated 'CO 70' lower right Numbered 62/250 lower left Sheet size 74 x 51 cm Published by Paul Bianchini. Reference: Printed St...

This is a hand-colored engraving of a Falkland Island Quail ("Caille des Isles Malouines") by Francois Nicolas Martinet, plate 222 from 'Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux' in associatio...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Sentinel, Year: 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 23 x 18...

This artwork titled "Paysage de Normandie" c.1910 Is an original color aquatint by noted French artist Maurice Levis, 1860-1940. It is hand signed and numbered 245/350 in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (image) size is 17.5 x 24.85 inches, sheet size is 19.75 x 26.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age of the piece. About the artist: Born in Paris on 11 November1860, Maurice Levis was an accomplished landscape and genre painter for nearly sixty years. His career spanned not only the early years of modernism, but also the twentieth century developments of cubism and surrealism. Levis' artistic education began in the late 1870s at the Académie Julian where he studied with Jules Lefebvre. He also studied with Henri Harpignies and with Pierre Billet...

Max Epstein, Canadian (1932 - 2002) - Seagull on a Lantern, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 295, Image Size: 26.5 x 18.5 inches, Size: 3...

Gould, John and Richard Bowdler Sharpe. A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Hummingbirds. London, 1849-61. This plate: Orthorhynchus Ornatus. Original lithographs hand-co...

The moon, bowls, lillies and birds are featured in this 2002 mezzotint. It is #17 from an edition of 75 and is signed, titled, dated and edition by hand by this Korean artist born i...

The Guardians - from the Series "The Divine Comedy" -  Song 8 -  Purgatory  is a woodcut print realized in 1963 for a series illustrating the Medieval poem of the "Divine Comedy" by ...

This exquisite lithograph after Rene Magritte (1898–1967), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album Poems 1923-1958, Dix dessins de Rene Magritte (Ten Drawings by Rene Magritte),...

The Guardians of the Valley of the Princes, from the Series "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, is a woodcut print realized in 1963. Good conditions. Not signed, as issued. Pla...