International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Launched in 1987, the International Fine Print Dealers Association has continually set the bar for quality and ethics while promoting prints as original works of art to generations of collectors, curators and art lovers. With over 160 members in 13 countries, the IFPDA is a worldwide community of leading dealers and editions publishers who represent the full spectrum of printmaking. Each year, the IFPDA hosts the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, the only major fair dedicated to fine-art prints.
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Las Cabanas
By Emilio Sanchez
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “LAS CABANAS” in 1996-98. This impression is signed, titled, and inscribed in pencil. Estate stamped on verso. The...
Category
1990s Other Art Style International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Seraphina II
By Robert Kushner
Located in New York, NY
Robert Kushner is an American contemporary painter who is known especially for his involvement in Pattern and Decoration and has been called "a founder" of that artistic movement. In addition to painting, Kushner creates installations in a variety of mediums, from large-scale public mosaics to delicate paintings on antique book pages.
Kushner draws from a unique range of influences, including Islamic and European textiles, Henri Matisse, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Pierre Bonnard, Tawaraya Sotatsu, Ito Jakuchu, Qi Baishi...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Basque Boy also called Boy with Beret and Fabian.
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Plano, TX
The Basque Boy also called Boy with Beret and Fabian. 1944. Lithograph. Fletcher Lithographs 3.ii. zinc plate. 13 x 10 1/4 (sheet 7 1/8 x 13 7/8). Edition 10. Printed on countermarke...
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Mid-20th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
$550 Sale Price
38% Off
Interlinear K50
— Mid-Century Geometric Abstraction
By Josef Albers
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Josef Albers, 'Interlinear K50', zinc plate lithograph offset to stone printing, 1962, edition 20, Danilowitz 151. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '14/20' in pencil. A superb, ri...
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1960s Abstract Geometric International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
$9,000 Sale Price
25% Off
HERCULES FIGHTS ADRAGON center, ACHELOUS CARRYING OFF DEIANEIRA left
By Giulio Bonasone
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GIULIO BONASONE (Italian 1500/10-1574)
HERCULES FiGHTS ADRAGON center, ACHELOUS CARRYING OFF DEIANEIRA left 1531–76 (Bartsch XV.157.178; Massari 1983, no.230)
Engraving. Lettered in roundel held by putto at right: 'Iulio / Bonasone' Sheet 10 5/8 x 16 7/8 inches. Thread margins outside border line. A fair impression. Early annotations lower left verso, as well aa a collectors stamp: Lugt 2773 - A. Freiherr von...
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16th Century Old Masters International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Female Torso, Nude
By Asa Cheffetz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude Female Torso
Charcoal on paper, c. 1920
Stamped and initialed in pencil "Asa Cheffetz/A.D.C"
Estate signature by wife, A.D.C.
Exhibited: Museum of F...
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1920s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Charcoal
River View
— Mid-Century American Modernism
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'River View, color serigraph, 1942, edition 50, Ryan 159. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled, dated, and annotated '9 COLORS – 50 PRINTS' in the screen,...
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1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
Pisces-The Fish
By Eugène Grasset
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pisces
From: Les Douze Mois de 1889
As published in Vol. 9, No. 425 of Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui.
Published by Sagot, Paris
Proof before letters without the calendarium as published
...
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1880s Art Nouveau International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Le Cheval Bleu (The Blue Horse)
By Albert Zavaro
Located in Chicago, IL
Edition of 110, signed and numbered lower right
Category
1970s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Insomnia
s Green Ledge
By Terrell James
Located in Houston, TX
Terrell James
Insomnia's Green Ledge, 2022
Oil on canvas
66 x 66 in (167.6 x 167.6 cm)
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
[Nude on Couch, Right Arm on Leg]
By Walt Kuhn
Located in New York, NY
Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), [Nude on Couch, Right Arm on Leg], c. 1920, etching, signed in pencil lower margin. In very good condition, traces of discoloration in...
Category
1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
![[Nude on Couch, Right Arm on Leg]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_5153/1489589845150/IMG_0803_master.JPG?width=240 "mary schrank nude")
George
s Dock, LIverpool.
By Sir Frank Short
Located in Plano, TX
1890. Etching. Hardie 245. 5 7/8 x 7 3/4 (sheet 8 1/4 x 10 1/8). Two hinge stains in the top sheet edges; otherwise excellent condition. A rich impression with plate tone, printed on cream wove paper with full margins. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat.
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George's Dock was located on the River Mersey, England, within the Port of Liverpool. It was connected to Canning Dock to the south and George's Basin to the north. The dock, which opened in 1771, was designed and built by Henry Berry and expanded by John Foster, Sr.
In 1899 the dock and the adjoining George's Basin were filled in to create what is now the Pier Head...
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19th Century Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
A black and white cat play with a mouse, from Le Chat Noir
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A black and white cat play with a mouse, from Le Chat Noir
Gillotage chromotype, 1898
Signed in the image lower right (see photo)
An impression of this image is in the collection of ...
Category
1890s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Other Medium
Sundown, Stonington, Maine
— Artist-printed Exhibition Proof
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Nelson Wilbur (1897-1988), 'Sundown, Stonington, Maine', wood engraving, artist's proof, edition not stated but small, 1969. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the block...
Category
1940s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Double Page Illustration for DLM
Color lithograph, 1968
Unsigned as issued in DLM
Published in Derriere le Miroir (Behind the Mirror), calle...
Category
1960s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled 6 - Animals in the Light
Located in New Orleans, LA
Self taught outsider art by African American artist from New Orleans with work in major museum and private collections. White created a bold c...
Category
1990s Outsider Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Foam Board, Felt Pen
GRASS FIRE. - Very Scarce Early signed Impression
By Paul Landacre
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PAUL LANDACRE (1883 – 1963)
GRASSS FIRE, 1928 (Wien 53)
Wood engraving on tissue thin Japanese paper, signed in pencil and titled with full margins. Thee are only 20 signed, titled,...
Category
1920s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench).
By James Jacques Joseph Tissot
Located in Plano, TX
Le banc de jardin (The Garden Bench). 1883. Mezzotint. Tissot catalog 79, Béraldi catalog 66, Wentworth catalog 75 state ii/iii. 16 1/2 x 22 1/8 (s...
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19th Century Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
$1,800 Sale Price
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Standing Female Nude
By Frederick Carl Frieseke
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 International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
SLOW TRAIN THROUGH ARKANSAS
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in Portland, ME
Benton, Thomas Hart (American, 1889-1975 SLOW TRAIN THROUGH ARKANSAS. Fath . Lithograph, 1941. Edition of 250 published by Associated American Artists (A.A.A.). 9 7/8 x 12 inches (im...
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1940s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Plate 1) DLM
By Alexander Calder
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Plate 1) DLM
Color lithograph, 1963
Unsigned and unnumbered (as usual)
From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 141
Published by A. Maeght, Paris
Image/sheet size: 14 7/8 x 11 inches...
Category
1960s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
GAEU AWA
By Marguerite Kirmse
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARGUERITE KIRMSE (American, 1885-1954) "
GAEU AWA c. 1940
Etching, signed and titled depicting a Scottie dog on a dock, plate 6-5/8" x 9-5/8" plate. Sheet 11 ½ x 13 ½”.Generally ...
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1940s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
New York, Central Park
— 1930s American Modernism
By William Meyerowitz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'New York, Central Park', etching, edition 40, c. 1930. Signed in pencil. Titled and numbered '14/40' on the bottom sheet edge, in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, ...
Category
1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
The Gargoyle and His Quarry
By John Taylor Arms
Located in Plano, TX
The Gargoyle and His Quarry, Notre Dame. 1920. Etching.Fletcher 90. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 (sheet 10 1/2 x 9 1/16). Gargoyle series #1. Edition 75. A rich impression printed on 'FJHead&Co' c...
Category
1920s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$2,750 Sale Price
21% Off
Locomotives Watering
— Ashcan School Social Realism
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Reginald Marsh, 'Erie R.R. Locos Watering (Locomotives Watering)', etching, 1934, edition 100 (Whitney, 1969), Sasowsky 155. Unsigned as published; numbered '68/100' in pencil. A su...
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1930s Ashcan School International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
MANHATTAN MINARETS
By Walter Tittle
Located in Portland, ME
Tittle, Walter. MANHATTAN MINARETS. Drypoint, 1931. Titled, lower left and signed, lower right. Edition of 75. 14 1/2 x 8 7/8 inches (plate), 17 3/4 x 11 1/8 inches (sheet). In excel...
Category
1930s International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint
Lichtenstein Paper Plate — Pop Art Icon
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Roy Lichtenstein, 'Paper Plate', serigraph, 1969, edition unknown, Corlett III.45. Printed in dark blue ink verso, 'Roy Lichtenstein © On 1st Inc. 1969'. A fine impression, on white paperboard pressure formed into a 3-dimensional plate; age toning verso, otherwise in very good condition. Published by Bert Stern, New York.
Image size 10 1/4 inch diameter, 1-inch depth. Archivally sleeved, unmounted, unframed. Carefully protected for shipping.
Literature: John Russell. 'Art: Time for Old-Master Prints', New York Times (July 27, 1979), p. C16.
Jan Howard. 'Reflections on 'The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein', Print Collector's Newsletter 26 (July–August 1995), p. 82.
Mark M. Johnson. 'The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the '60s', Art & Activities 123 (June–Summer 1998), ill. p. 37 (color).
Mary Lee Corlett. 'The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné', New York, 2002, p. 286, no. III.45.
Susan Dackerman, ed., 'Corita Kent and the Language of Pop', exhibition catalog, Harvard Art...
Category
1960s Pop Art International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Mehr Sonne fur 1924
(More Sun for 1924)— German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Mehr Sonne fur 1924. Viel Gluck Wunscht Karl Michel U. Frau', woodcut, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op. 162' and '15/20' in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression on buff wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
New Year's Greeting – English translation: "More Sun for 1924. Good Luck Wishes from Karl Michel and his Wife."
Image size 4 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (118 x 121 mm); sheet size 7 3/4 x 10 inches (198 x 254 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat...
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1920s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
#9
— Modernist Abstraction — African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hilliard Dean, '#9', color lithograph, 1970, edition 7. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed 7' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on Arches, ...
Category
1970s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
#6 — Modernist Abstraction — African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Hilliard Dean, '#6', color lithograph, 1970, edition 9. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed 9' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on Arches, ...
Category
1970s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Green Shade
— Mid-century Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, Atelier 17
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Stanley William Hayter, 'Green Shade', color etching and scraper, 1963, edition 50, (only 39 printed), B&M 278. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered '1/50' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, luminous impression, with fresh, vivid colors, on Barcham Green textured cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2 3/16 to 3 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Printed: intaglio black-green, contact lumogen yellow, soft roller phthalo green. Scarce.
Image size 15 7/16 x 11 5/8 inches (392 x 295 mm); sheet size 21 1/8 x 16 inches (537 x 406 mm). Matted to museum standards (unframed).
Collection: The British Museum
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stanley William Hayter (1901-1988) was a British painter and printmaker associated in the 1930s with Surrealism and from 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. Regarded as one of the most significant printmakers of the 20th century, Hayter founded the legendary Atelier 17...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Soaring New York
— 1930s American Modernism, New York City
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Howard Cook, 'Soaring New York', aquatint, soft-ground etching, roulette, 1931-32, edition 25, Duffy 165. Signed, dated, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked, atmosp...
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1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Whiteout
Located in Plano, TX
"Whiteout" is a part of Christopher Kennedy's "Trees Revered" series.
"This particular tree is deep in a huge field in Pennsylvania and so seldom seen by anyone but the wildlife. I...
Category
2010s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Archival Paper
$880 Sale Price
20% Off
Lot Cleaning, Los Angeles
— 1930s Modernism
By Paul Landacre
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Lot Cleaning, Los Angeles', wood engraving, edition 60, Zeitlin & Ver Brugge 69. Signed, titled and numbered '51/60' in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on Kitakata Japan pape...
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1930s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Spire -- New York
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Plano, TX
The Spire -- New York. 1985. Etching and drypoint. 14 1/2 x 11 (sheet 22 1/2 x 18). Trial proof of the second third, prior to the edition of 100. Printed on Rives cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. A rich impression in pristine condition, housed in an archival sleeve. This etching has never been matted. Provenance: the artist's estate. Titled, annotated 'third state - trial proof' and signed in pencil. A dramatic view of the Chrysler Building.
Painter and printmaker Lawrence Nelson...
Category
20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$350 Sale Price
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A black cat playing with a Snowman, from Le Chat Noir
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A black cat playing with a Snowman, from Le Chat Noir
Gillotage chromotype, 1898
Signed in the image lower right (see photo)
Cats were a symbol of freedom and bohemia in Montmartre, ...
Category
1890s Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Other Medium
Flyable Objects Identified
— Mid-Century Modernism
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Flyable Objects Identified', color serigraph, 1969, edition 30, Ryan 83. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 30' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, o...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Screen
TWO SIAMESE CATS
By Junichiro Sekino
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JUN'ICHIRO SEKINO (1914-1988)
TWO SIAMESE CATS Japanese Woodblock Print, c. 1960, 1st edition, pencil signed, titled and numbered 90/200 with red Sekino pub...
Category
1960s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Manhattan Bridge — 1920s New York City
By George Stimmel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Manhattan Bridge', etching, c. 1920, proofs only. Signed in ink in the image, lower right. A fine, rich impression, in warm black ink, on cream wove ...
Category
1920s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
The Garden
— Celebrated Contemporary African American Artist
By Margo Humphrey
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Margo Humphrey, 'The Garden (Adam and Eve)', reductive color woodcut, 1989. Signed, dated, and annotated 'A/P' in pencil. Signed and dated in the image, lower right. A fine, richly-inked, artist's proof impression, with fresh, vivid colors, on BFK Rives, heavy, off-white wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 to 1 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted. Scarce.
Image size 27 1/4 x 39 1/8 inches (692 x 994 mm); sheet size 29 1/2 x 42 inches (749 x 1,067 mm).
ABOUT THIS WORK
"Humphrey continued to reinterpret stories from the Bible with African American figures. In 1989 she published the woodcut print 'The Garden' at Magnolia Editions in Oakland, CA. For this rare foray into relief printmaking, she employed the reductive method, which uses only one block that is successively carved for each color segment, reducing the block with each cutting. Technically challenging, this lush and elaborate print is a testament to Humphrey’s skills as a printmaker. A youthful Adam and Eve are depicted in a luxuriant tropical landscape. Here, Humphrey chooses not to include the traditional symbols of humanity’s downfall but instead portrays them as being protected by angels in an atmosphere of idyllic bounty. ...Although Humphrey challenges traditional representation of Christian themes, her images are not iconoclastic but present a broader, more inclusive engagement with religious spirituality."
— Adrienne L. Childs, 'Margo Humphrey, The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: Volume VII,' Pomegranate Communications, Inc., 2009, page 71.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
American printmaker, illustrator, and art teacher Margo Humphrey was born in Oakland, California, in 1942. She earned a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the California College of Arts and Crafts and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Printmaking from Stanford University.
Humphrey began teaching in 1973 at the University of California Santa Cruz and has since taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has also taught at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji; Yaba Technological Institute of Fine Art, Ekoi Island, Nigeria; the University of Benin in Benin City, Nigeria; the Margaret Trowell School of Fine Art in Kampala, Uganda, and the Fine Art School of the National Gallery of Art, Harare, Zimbabwe. In 1989, she was appointed Department Head of Printmaking at the University of Maryland in College Park.
Humphrey has worked in lithography, monoprint, and woodcut with significant printmaking ateliers, including the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and the Tamarind Institute in New Mexico. She was one of the earliest African-American woman artists to distinguish herself as a lithographer in a highly technical, male-dominated profession and was the first to have her prints published by Tamarind in 1974.
Humphrey’s imagery combines historical perspective, autobiography, and fantasy to illuminate her experience as an African American woman. Bold, saturated color, animated figures, and syncopated rhythmic arrangements are hallmarks of Humphrey's oeuvre. Though Humphrey labels her distinctive style "sophisticated naive," the narrative complexity and technical skill of her works attest to her artistic virtuosity. Joyful, expressive, and at times humorous, her works offer engaging commentary on the presumptions of American culture and myth while embracing her personal vision of authenticity and spirituality.
She developed her 1987 work The Last Bar-B-Que, a vividly colored transformation of the Last Supper, following a three-year period during which she examined portrayals of the iconic subject by artists from Pietro Lorenzetti to Emil Nolde. Her narrative work The Garden, a monumentally scaled reductive woodcut, is a further example of an archetypal subject—Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden—debunked and rendered with fresh, life-affirming vibrancy.
Since her first solo exhibition in 1965, Humphrey’s works have been exhibited internationally. They are held in major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Hampton University Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, and the National Gallery of Modern Art, Lagos. In 1996, she was invited to be part of the World Printmaking Survey at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
In 2011, Hampton University Museum mounted a 45-year retrospective of Humphrey’s work Her Story: Margo Humphrey Lithographs and Works on Paper, jointly curated by Robert E. Steele, executive director of the David Driskell...
Category
1980s Expressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
STORM LINED - Large Format Gearhart
By Frances H. Gearhart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869-1958)
STORM LINED c.1936
Color block print, signed and titled in pencil 13 ¼ x 10 1/8, full sheet 14 3/8 x 11 ¼” with deckle edge on her typical fibrous Ja...
Category
1930s Abstract Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Color, Woodcut
The Web
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Web
Engraving and soft ground, 1950
Signed, titled, dated and numbered by the artist
Edition: 35 (26/35)
Printed by Master Printer, Jon Clemens, 2000
Provenance:
Estate of the ar...
Category
1950s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Early Marshes
— Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Early Marshes', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1943, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '37/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (2 5/8 to 7 inches), in excellent condition.
With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 x 5 7/8 inches (127 x 149 mm); sheet size 15 x 11 inches (381 x 279 mm).
Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945 and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions.
“The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.”
—Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature.
Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research.
Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June.
Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages."
In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking.
Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...
Category
1940s Surrealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Engraving
Angel and Skeleton (the rescuing Angel appears to be female)
By Donna Evans
Located in New Orleans, LA
Donna Evans' "Angel and Skeleton" shows an angel reaching out to a skeleton as if to rescue it from a wooded landscape.
Donna Evans is one of a group of N...
Category
1980s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Avalon South
—— Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Morris Blackburn, 'Avalon South', wood engraving, 1951, edition 30. Signed, titled, and numbered '12/30' in pencil. A fine black impression on cream wove Japan paper, with wide margins (1 3/8 to 2 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 5 x 7 inches (127 x 178 mm); sheet size 8 5/8 x 10 7/8 inches (219 x 276 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Morris Blackburn was a prominent painter, printmaker, and graphic artist, as well as a respected teacher at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Born in Philadelphia, where he spent most of his career, Blackburn was a descendant of the notable colonial portrait artist Joseph J. Blackburn (c. 1700–1780). He developed an interest in art early on and studied architectural drawing at the Philadelphia Trade School. In 1922, he took classes at the Graphic Sketch Club and later attended the School of Industrial Art. While working for the well-known Philadelphia furniture designer Oscar Mertz, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1925 to 1929. During his studies, he learned painting from Henry Bainbridge McCarter...
Category
1950s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Kirill / Boy with Crossed Legs (peekaboo) - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community.
A signed Certificate of Authority will be included with all photographs. A nude boy...
Category
2010s Photorealist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital
Make Fast, Plate 2.
By Arthur John Trevor Briscoe
Located in Plano, TX
Make Fast, plate 2. 1929. Etching. Laver catalog number 146; Hurst catalog number 258. Plate: 14 3/8 x 9 13/16 (sheet 17 5/8 x 11 3/4). Trial proof 2, before the edition or 75. Ill...
Category
1920s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled 90-13
By Dale Chihuly
Located in Lyons, CO
Color monotype.
Category
1990s Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Monotype
La Duchesse de Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt
By Paul César Helleu
Located in Plano, TX
Paul César Helleu. La Duchesse de Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt. c. 1901. Drypoint. 21 1/2 x 13 3/4 (sheet 24 x 15). A rich impression printed o...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$16,000 Sale Price
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Christmas Pine Cones, festive printed image has the feel of a watercolor wash.
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
This Holiday wreath adorns the door of a Brooklyn Mansion
Frederick Mershimer (American, b. 1958)
Moody, mysterious, majestic – these are some of the ways to describe the mezzotint...
Category
1990s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Winter Serenity
—from
Solitude
for Henry David Thoreau
s
Walden
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Naoko Matsubara, 'Winter Serenity' for the portfolio 'Solitude', woodcut, 1971, edition 100. Signed and numbered '58/100' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream laid J...
Category
1970s Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
MANHATTAN
By Anton Schutz
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANTON SCHUTZ
MANHATTAN c 1940
Etching, signed in pencil, edition 100, no. 15/100. On thin simili-japan paper. Very slight toning around plate mark. Remnants of old tape on verso, s...
Category
1940s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
Aquarius-The Water Bearer
By Eugène Grasset
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Aquarius-The Water Bearer
From: Les Douze Mois de 1889
As published in Vol. 9, No. 425 of Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui.
Published by Sagot, Paris
Proof before letters without the calend...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
LE PETIT CAVALIER SUR BOIS.
By Jean Baptiste Corot
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JEAN-BAPTISTE CAMILLE COROT (1876 - 1875)
LE PETIT CAVALIER SUR BOIS. 1854 (1921) (Delteil 42)
Cliché-verre on thin vellum. Signed in plate at bottom. 8 1/4 x 6 5/16” (sheet size)....
Category
1850s Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Etching
Flower in Vase (Summer)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Flower in Vase (Summer)
Color woodblock, c. 1950
Signed "B. Ohno" lower right (see photo)
Sealed lower right (see photo)
Series: Flowers of the Four Se...
Category
1950s Other Art Style International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Woodcut
Lithographie originale pour XXe Siecle, No. 20
By Max Ernst
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lithographie originale pour XXe Siecle, No. 20
Color lithograph, 1962
Unsigned (as issued)
From: XXe Siecle, No. 20, Christmas
Publisher: G. di San Lazzaro, Paris.
Printer: Mourlot?
Large edition: c. 1500?
Condition: Excellent/Mint
usual glue on reverse from binding in book
Image/Sheet size: 12 3/16 x 9 1/2 inches
New series of XXe Siecle
Back in Paris in 1949, Gualtieri di San Lazzaro resumed 20TH century publishing in 1951.
It hosts many of the most important writers and art critics of the 1950s and 1960s, including Alain Bosquet , Genevieve Bonnefoi, Camille Bourniquel , Georges Borgeaud, Marcel Brion , Georges Boudaille, Jacques Brosse , Michel Butor , Jean Cassou , Denys Chevalier, Pierre Courthion, Hubert Damisch , Pierre Descargues, Bernard Dorival , Jacques Dupin , Mircea Eliade , Jean-Louis Ferrier , Pierre Francastel , André Frenaud , Roger Van Gindertael...
Category
1960s Abstract International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gaspe: St. Lawrence Village
By William Grauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
With the artist's original presentation (Frame and matting)
Two similar titles were exhibited in The ...
Category
1950s American Modern International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Watercolor
THE THREE GRACES
Located in Portland, ME
Barrer, Gertrude (American, 1921-19920. THE THREE GRACES. Oil on panel. Signed "Barrer," lower left. Not dated. 27 1/2 X 20 1/2 inches, framed to 29 x...
Category
Mid-20th Century International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Oil
THREE
S A CROWD
By Marguerite Kirmse
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MARGUERITE KIRMSE (English/American 1885-1954)
THREE’S A CROWD, c 1930
Etching, signed and titled in pencil. Plate 6 3/8 x 9 ¾ inches. Full sheet with edges on all sides. Sheet 10 5/8 x 13 5/8 inches. In good condition, save for old tape on sheet edges verso, showing through to recto. A hint of a mat line below the signature
Kirmse is considered to be one of the most important etchers of Dogs.
Sheet with even white tone - photos show oblique shadows
From Wikipedia:
Marguerite first trained as a harpist at the Royal Academy of Music but spent much of her spare time drawing animals. She went to the United States in 1910 on holiday with friends but stayed there.[4] She was not successful in advancing her musical career and focused her attention increasingly on her animal drawing, which she developed by frequent sketching trips to the Bronx Zoo.[5]
In 1921 she started producing etchings of dogs...
Category
1930s American Realist International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Etching
$506 Sale Price
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Sweet Pea II
By Robert Kushner
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with metallic leaf, Edition 30
Kushner's use of rich color harmonies and bold, fluid drawing, mark his belief in the importance of beauty in our lives. Kushner ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary International Fine Print Dealers Association Art
Materials
Lithograph
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