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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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The Ponte and Castel S. Angelo (Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant
Angelo)
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Ponte and Castel S. Angelo
Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant' Angelo
Etching, 1754
Signed in the plate lower right above the caption
From: Vedute di Roma
A proper Roman printing w...
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1750s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Still Life — Mid-century Modern
By Charles Quest
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Quest, 'Still Life', 1947, wood engraving, edition 8. Signed, dated, and numbered '3/8' in pencil. Titled and annotated 'wood engraving' in the bottom left margin. A fine impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charles Quest, painter, printmaker, and fine art instructor, worked in various mediums, including mosaic, stained glass, mural painting, and sculpture. Quest grew up in St. Louis, his talent evident as a teenager when he began copying the works of masters such as Michelangelo on his bedroom walls. He studied at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where he later taught from 1944 to 1971. He traveled to Europe after his graduation in 1929 and studied at La Grande Chaumière and Academie Colarossi, Paris, continuing to draw inspiration from the works of the Old Masters.
After returning to St. Louis, Quest received several commissions to paint murals in public buildings, schools, and churches, including one from Joseph Cardinal Ritter, to paint a replica of Velasquez's Crucifixion over the main altar of the Old Cathedral in St. Louis. Quest soon became interested in the woodcut medium, which he learned through his study of J. J. Lankes' A Woodcut Manual (1932) and Paul Landacre's articles in American Artist magazine ‘since no artists in St. Louis were working in wood’ at that time. Quest also revealed that for him, wood cutting and engraving were ‘more enjoyable than any other means of expression.’
In the late 1940s, his graphic works began attracting critical attention—several of his woodcuts won prizes and were acquired by major American and European museums. His wood engraving entitled ‘Lovers’ was included in the American Federation of Art's traveling print exhibition in 1947. Two years later, Quest's two prize-winning prints, ‘Still Life with Grindstone’ and ‘Break Forth into Singing’, were exhibited in major American museums in a traveling show organized by the Philadelphia Print Club. His work was included in the Chicago Art Institute's exhibition, ‘Woodcut Through Six Centuries’, and the print ‘Still Life with Vise’ was purchased by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1951 he was invited by artist-Curator Jacob Kainen to exhibit thirty wood engravings and color woodcuts in a one-person show at the Smithsonian's National Museum (now known as the American History Museum). Kainen's press release praised the ‘technical refinement’ of Quest's work: ‘He obtains a great variety of textural effects through the use of the graver, and these dense or transparent grays are set off against whites or blacks to achieve sparkling results. His work has the handsome qualities characteristic of the craftsman and designer.’
At the time of the Smithsonian exhibition, Quest's work was represented by three New York galleries in addition to one in his home town. He had won 38 prizes, and his prints were in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In cooperation with the Art in Embassies program, his color woodcuts were displayed at the American Embassy in Paris in 1951.
Recognition at home came in 1955 with his first solo exhibition in St. Louis. Press coverage of the show heralded the ‘growth of graphic arts toward rivaling painting and sculpture as a major independent medium’.
An exhibition of his prints at the Bethesda Art Gallery in 1983 attracted Curator Emeritus Joseph A. Haller, S.J., who began purchasing his work for Georgetown University's collection. In 1990 Georgetown University Library's Special Collections Division was the recipient of a large body of Quest's work, including prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture, stained glass, and his archive of correspondence and professional memorabilia. These extensive holdings, including some 260 of his fine prints, provide a rich opportunity for further study and appreciation of this versatile and not-to-be-forgotten mid-Western American artist...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Claude Renoir, la Tete Baisee (Claude Renoir, Head Lowered)
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Claude Renoir, la Tete Baisee
(Claude Renoir, Head Lowered)
Lithograph, 1904
Edition 1,000, this one of 950 on wove paper with the stamp signature (there were also 50 impressions pri...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
The Draped Figure, Seated
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Draped Figure, Seated
Lithograph on fine japanese paper, 1893
Signed in pencil with the butterfly (see photo)
Signed in the stone with the butterfly on the sofa (see photo)
Numbered: "No. 20" in pencil
Printed by Thomas Way, London
A beautiful impression with tonal variations in the stump work (shading)
As published in: L'Estampe Originale, Paris, 1893, Album IV
Edition: 107 impressions, this No. 20
There were an additonal 24 impressions printed by Way for Whistler and 20 impressions printed for the Fine Art Society, London
Lacking the huge support sheet and embossed series stamp by Charpentier
With the letterpress lower left: "T. Way. Imp London"
The stone erased in 1904
The majority of the lifetime impressions are in public collections
Condition: Excellent condition
Hinges from original issuance of L'Estampe Originale verso at top as described in Spink
Three hinges residue along right edge of the sheet from a later matting of the print
Image size: 8 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches
Sheet size: 11 3/8 x 9 1/16 inches
Reference: Spink/Tadeschi 72, published edition
Levy 74
Way 46
A superb Neoclassical lithograph...
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1890s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
A Fierce Bull
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
A Fierce Bull. 1911. Drypoint. Hardie 108. 5 3/8 x 8 (sheet 8 5/16 x 11 7/8). Edition 8. An exceptional impression with rich drypoint burr printed on antique laid paper. A proof of t...
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1910s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$1,500 Sale Price
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Theater
— 1920s German Expressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A German Expressionist woodcut, with original hand-coloring in watercolor, depicting a parent and child watching a theatrical production; ...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Symphony in White No. 2, The Little White Girl
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Clifford James (active 1900-1930)
After James Abbott NcNeill Whistler (1834-1903)
Symphony in White No. 2, The Little White Girl
Color mezzotint, 1922
Signed in pencil by James (see ...
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1920s Pre-Raphaelite Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
Jonah
By Sadao Watanabe
Located in Santa Monica, CA
SADAO WATANABE (Japanese 1913-1996)
JONAH, 1959
Color stencil, signed, numbered and dated in white ink. Sheet, 25 5/8 x 22 5/8 inches. Edition: 44/50. Good color and generally good ...
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1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut, Stencil
$1,200 Sale Price
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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula
Located in New York, NY
Copper-plate engraving, hand-colored, 1608 - c.1630 and published by Joannes Jansonius, Amsterdam. Image size 15.75 x 21.19 inches (40 x 53.9 cm).
A classic example of a world ma...
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17th Century Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
Peking - Paifang Gate
— Mid-Century Watanabe Color Woodcut
By Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Cyrus Le Roy Baldridge, 'Peking '25', woodblock print, published 1926. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'No 124' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh, undiminished colors; the full sheet, in excellent condition. Watanabe 6 mm seal, lower right, indicating an impression printed between 1945 and 1957. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 9 5/8 x 14 5/16 inches; sheet size 10 7/16 x 15 3/8 inches.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
A 'paifang', also known as a 'pailou', is a traditional style of Chinese architectural arch or gateway structure. It has been theorized that the paifang gate architecture was influenced by Buddhist torana temple gates. Paifang are designed with traditional Chinese architectural motifs including multi-tiered roofs, prominent supporting posts, and gracefully arched openings.
This is an unusual ukiyo-e or 'floating world' woodcut published by Watanabe Shozaburo, Tokyo, in that the subject is of an early 20th-century scene in Peking, China.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Cyrus Leroy Baldridge...
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1920s Showa Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
EVENING (SELF PORTRAIT with the Battenbergs)
By Max Beckmann
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAX BECKMANN (German 1884 - 1950)
EVENING (Self-Portrait with the Battenbergs) 1916, (Hofmaier 90: Gallwitz 67)
Etching and drypoint, Plate 10 from the portfolio Gesichter (Faces)...
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1910s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
VISAGE DE FEMME APPUYE SUR SA MAIN (FACE OF A WOMAN LEANING ON HER HAND)
By André Derain
Located in Portland, ME
Derain, Andre (French, 1880-1954). VISAGE DE FEMME APPUYE SUR SA MAIN (FACE OF A WOMAN LEANING ON HER HAND). Adhemar 71, BN-IFF 17. Lithograph, 1927. One of 25 copies numbered in Rom...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
A Mirage
By James McBey
Located in Plano, TX
A Mirage. 1928. Etching. Hardie 238. 11 13/16 x 14 3/8 (sheet 12 3/16 x 18 3/4). Edition 76, #46. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1928 and 1938; Holmes, Etchings of Today. A ri...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$1,750 Sale Price
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Nets – Mid-Century Modernism, Atelier 17
By Sigismond Kolos-Vari
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Sigismond Kolos-Vari, 'Nets', color etching with soft-ground and aquatint, edition 200 (1 of 60 artist's proofs), 1952. Signed and dated in pencil. Numbered L/LX in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, off-white, Arches wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Published by the Guide de la Gravure, Switzerland, with their blindstamp in the bottom left sheet corner. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 11 3/4 x 15 5/8 inches (298 x 397 mm); sheet size 15 x 22 1/4 inches (381 x 565 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sigismund Kolos-Vari was born in Hungary and attended the School of Applied Arts in Budapest from 1915 to 1918 and then the School of Decorative Arts until 1925. The artist settled in Paris, and his first one-person show in 1928 at Galerie Miromesnil, which was highly successful, led to numerous subsequent exhibitions, including with the prestigious Galerie Bonaparte in 1929 and Galerie Povolosky in 1930.
Kolos-Vari’s early success was abruptly interrupted by the outbreak of WWII when he was arrested by the Gestapo and imprisoned in the Gurs internment camp. During this period, he created a sketchbook for a little girl, which is now preserved at the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris. He managed to escape after two years, crossing the border into Switzerland. After the war, he returned to Paris with a renewed dedication to his painting, producing increasingly powerful compositions. His work was highly acclaimed when shown at an important 1946 exhibition at the Musée National d’Art Moderne de Paris, organized by Jean Cassou. The artist was then approached by the eminent art dealer Jean Bucher, who gave Kolos-Vary a major one-person show at his gallery in 1948. During this post-war period, Kolos-Vary participated in the radical Salon de Mai, 1949-1958, the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, 1956-1961, and the Salon des Comparaisons, 1960-1962.
Supported by his association with Stanley William Hayter and the landmark printmaking workshop Atelier 17...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
Flower Vase, Red Camellia, white plum, white daffodils and orchids
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Flower Vase, Red Camellia, white plum, white daffodils and orchids
Color woodcut, c. 1950
Signed "B. Ohno" (see photo)
Seal: Bakufu (see photo)
Series: Flowers of the Four Seasons
Ca...
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1950s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
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 ...
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1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Other Medium
Beauty Otami - Kabuki
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Beauty Otami - Kabuki
Note: Kabuki actor Nakamura Matsue is in the role of courtesan otami. She is standing in front of a small tea shop in a garden.
Color woodblock, c. 1800-1810
Si...
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Early 1800s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
SAN GIMINIANO
By Ben Nicholson
Located in Portland, ME
Nicholson, Ben. San Gimignano. Lafranca 38. Etching, 1966. Edition of 50, signed in pencil and dated "66," and numbered "1/50." With the chop of the printer Lafranca embiossed lowe...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
A. M.
By Janet Fish
Located in Portland, ME
Fish, Janet (American, born 1938). A. M. Color Screenprint, 1994. Edition of 60, printed and published by Stewart & Stewart. Signed in pencil and numbered 16/60. 24 x 36 inches (ima...
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1990s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
$4,800
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,...
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1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
Cahiers d
art, Surrealist Composition 1
By Joan Miró
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cahiers d'art, Surrealist Composition 1
Pochoir, 1934
Unsigned as issued in Cahier's edition
Published in Cahier's d'art, 1934
Unsigned Edition of 1200
There was also a pencil signed...
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1930s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Stencil
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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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...
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20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$350 Sale Price
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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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
Piazza Navona allagata solito farsi nelle Feste di Agosto
By Giuseppe Vasi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Piazza Navona allagata solito farsi nelle Feste di Agosto
Etching, 1752
Signed in the plate lower right (see photo)
From: Della Magnificenze di Roma Antica e Moderna ( The Magnificense of Ancient and Modern Rome) , (1747-1761)
Volume II, The Main Squares and Obelisks, columns and other ornaments, 1752, Plate No. 26
Della Magnificenze di Roma Antica e Moderna_ (1747-61), a collection of 238 plates that was published in ten volumes. Vasi recorded all types of architecture and organized these images of contemporary Rome by subject, with each volume representing a different category of architecture. This comprehensive project provides one of the most complete views of eighteenth-century Rome
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 8 .25 x 12.63 inches
Sheet size: 11 x 15 7/8 inches
Vasi was Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s teacher. Piranesi (1720-1778) entered Vasi’s studio as an apprentice at age 20 c. 1740. Piranesi left Vasi’s employment after stabbing Vasi over the perception that Vasi was withholding secrets of the etching process.
Giuseppe Vasi was an Italian engraver and painter born and trained in Sicily. He received a classical education in his hometown of Corleone and trained as a printmaker in nearby Palermo, perhaps under the tutelage of the etchers Antonino Bova and Francesco Cichè. He moved to Rome in 1736, already an established printmaker, and spent most of his career documenting the urban landscape of the city in engravings. Through his patron, the politically and culturally influential Cardinal Troiano Acquaviva d’Aragona, Vasi met other artists working in Rome, such as Sebastiano Conca, Ferdinando Fuga, and Luigi Vanvitelli. He was also influenced by his predecessors, including Giovanni Paolo Panini, Giovanni Battista Falda...
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1750s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
New York (from Ports of America)
By Louis Orr
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Orr, 'New York' (from the portfolio 'Ports of America', published by Yale University Press, 1928), etching, 1925, edition not stated. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the...
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1920s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$550 Sale Price
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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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
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...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
$9,000 Sale Price
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Chrysanthemums
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chrysanthemums
Color woodcut, c. 1950's
Signed lower right (see photo)
Publisher: Uchida (see photo of red seal)
Note: Chrysanthemums, a symbol of the sun, the Japanese consider the ...
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1950s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
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...
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1910s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
#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, ...
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1970s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
#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, ...
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1970s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Evening
—Mid-Century American Surrealism
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'Evening', color serigraph, 1958, edition 25, Ryan 71. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 25' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
$680 Sale Price
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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...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$16,000 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, ...
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1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Other Medium
Nocturnal Adversary
— Mid-Century Surrealist Abstraction
By Edward August Landon
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'Nocturnal Adversary', color serigraph, 1946, edition 50, Ryan 137. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled, dated, and annotated '6 COLORS EDITION 50' in th...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Screen
VEDUTA DEGLI AVANZI De’MAUSOLEI E DELLE FABBRICHE…...
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (Italian 1720-1778)
VEDUTA DEGLI AVANZI De’MAUSOLEI E DELLE FABBRICHE…c 1756 (Hind 83; Focillon 20.A.293; Giesecke 116; Wilton-E...
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1750s Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$2,000 Sale Price
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Untitled I
By Thomas Nozkowski
Located in New York, NY
For over thirty years, Nozkowski has practiced his own form of idiosyncratic abstraction, foregoing a signature style or subject matter in favor of seemingly limitless variations in ...
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2010s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Color, Linocut, Woodcut
Le Cheval Bleu (The Blue Horse)
By Albert Zavaro
Located in Chicago, IL
Edition of 110, signed and numbered lower right
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1970s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
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...
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1930s Abstract Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Color, Woodcut
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...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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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...
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1960s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Woodcut
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
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...
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1990s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
‘LE REPOSE du MODELE
- Rare First State
By Henri Matisse
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRI MATISSE (French 1869-1954)
LE REPOSE du MODELE 1922 . (Duthuit 416)
Original lithograph, FIRST STATE, on Chine volant paper BEFORE image was reduced at the left edge. An uns...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
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...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Engraving
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...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$1,800 Sale Price
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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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
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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...
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1950s Other Art Style Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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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...
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1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Vachère au Bord de l
Eau
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CAMILLE PISSARRO (French 1830-1903)
VACHERE au BORD de l’EAU 1890 (Delteil 93 viii/viii)
Etching, unsigned as published in “Gazette des Beaux Arts”, Paris, 1890. On laid paper
Very...
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1890s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint, Etching
$1,463 Sale Price
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La Sortie du Bain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Eugene Leroux (1807-1863)
La Sortie Du Bain
Lithograph, c. 1840
Signed in the lower left corner of the image (see photo)
Inscribed "Imp Bertauts Paris" in bottom margin
Inscribed "55...
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1840s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
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...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Drypoint
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...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$506 Sale Price
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Late Night (Where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn
s Park Slope)
By Frederick Mershimer
Located in New Orleans, LA
In "Late Night", Frederick Mershimer created a winter scene where Berkeley Place meets Seventh Avenue in Brooklyn's Park Slope. This image, the seventh in t...
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1990s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint, Aquatint
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