Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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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Naked Young Man Sitting On Lopped Branch; Naked Young Woman Sitting on a Branch.
By Eric Gill
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Wood engraving, 1930, edition small, Physick 642 / 643. Initialed in pencil.
Two blocks printed on a single sheet: fine impressions on cream laid Japan with full margins (1 1/2 to 2...
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1930s Art Deco Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Fantasia Americana, 1880
— Mid-Century American Surrealism
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches.
Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
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1940s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
CHANGING FLIES
By Levon West
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEVON WEST (1900 – 1968)
CHANGING FLIES c. 1930
Etching and drypoint, signed in pencil and no. 28. Image, 13 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches, sheet 17 1/4 x 11 5/8 full margins with deckle edge...
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1930s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Windy Night, Stockholm.
By Sir Muirhead Bone
Located in Storrs, CT
Windy Night, Stockholm. 1935. Drypoint. Dodgson 457.x. 11 7/8 x 7 5/8 (sheet 15 1/2 x 10 7/8). Edition of 80 in this state (total 93 in 10 states). Illustrated: Guichard, British Etc...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$1,600 Sale Price
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Court
— WPA Social Conscience, Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Claire Mahl Moore, 'Court' also 'The Authorities', woodcut, 1936, edition 5. Signed 'Mahl' and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on ...
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1930s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
HAIL AND FAREWELL
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Portland, ME
Kent, Rockwell. HAIL AND FAREWELL. Burne-Jones 55. Wood engraving, 1930. Edition of 120. 8 x 5 1/2 inches, 203 x 140 mm. Signed in pencil. In excellent condition.
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Golden Calf - Nuremberg Chronicle, (528 Years Old)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NUREMBERG CHRONICLE, 1493
THE GOLDEN CALF (THE CALF OF GOD) 1493
Woodcut. from "Liber Chronicarum." Printed by Anton Koberger text by Hartmann Sc...
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15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Mending Nets
— Cape Ann Regionalism, Rockport
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Christian Dull, 'Mending Nets', aquatint, c. 1930, edition 50. Signed and numbered '50/-' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream laid paper, the full sheet with margins (1/2 to 1 1/2...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
The Trench
By James Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Trench
Lithograph, 1937
Signed and annotated in pencil (see photos)
Edition: 30
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Mary Ryan Gallery
Frac Teck Services, Ft. Worth, TX
Part of a se...
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1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Elevated, East 42nd Street, New York
— 1910 American Realism
By William Monk
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Monk, 'The Elevated, East 42nd Street, New York', etching, 1910. Signed in pencil and titled in the bottom right sheet corner. Signed in the plate, lower right. A superb, ric...
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1910s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,200 Sale Price
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Sailing
— Modernism, New York City WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fred Becker, 'Sailing', wood engraving, c. 1935, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper; with full margins (1 to 2 15/16...
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1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Lindsey Row, Chelsea
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Lindsey Row, Chelsea. 1888. Lithograph. Way 20; Levy 33; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 23. 5 x 8. Edition of 56 posthumous impressions printed by Goulding, in addition to the 14 lifet...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Singers
By Adriaen van Ostade
Located in Chicago, IL
The Singers (4th State), 1667
Etching printed with tone
240 x 190 mm.; 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Provenance:
W. Benoni White (Lugt 2592)
Karl Herweg (not in Lugt)
References:
Godefroy 19 IV/VII
Hollstein 19 IV/VII
Pelletier, Georgia Museum of Art, 1994: nos. 46 and 47
Notes:
A very fine impression of the rare 4th state (of seven) of this major Van Ostade.
Godefroy illustrates differences between this 4th state and the following 5th state. In the latter state, there are several “escaped lines”, going obliquely from left to right, directly above the central post. These lines are not visible in the 4th state.
Ostade was one of the most important of the printmakers within the Rembrandt circle. His prints, avoiding religious subjects, depicted beggars, peasants and artisans. Combining great artistic sensitivity with thorough mastery of the medium of etching, Ostade etchings present a unique artistic panorama of life in seventeenth-century Holland.
Pelletier (S. William Pelletier, Adrian Van Ostade...
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17th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Thames and the Tower of London
By William Lionel Wyllie
Located in Storrs, CT
The Thames and the Tower of London. 1924. Etching and drypoint. 6 3/8 x 14 3/4 (sheet 10 1/4 x 17 1/4). Mat line; otherwise fine condition. A rich impr...
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1920s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
$975 Sale Price
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I
ll Be What I Choose
— Mid-century American Surrealism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'I'll Be What I Choose: Vanity of Ambition', color lithograph, 1949, edition 40, Fine and Looney 281. Signed, titled, and numbered '23/40' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower ri...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$960 Sale Price
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Charing Cross - The Statue of Charles I.
By William Walcot R. E. Hon. R. I. B. A.
Located in Storrs, CT
Charing Cross -- The Statue of Charles I. 1919. Etching with aquatint and drypoint. 3 5/8 x 4 7/8 (sheet 9 1/8 x 11 3/8). A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream-wove paper. Signed in pencil.
Charing Cross is located at the junction of the Strand, Whitehall, and Cockspur Street in Central London, England. The name originates from the Eleanor cross installed by King Edward I as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile at the former hamlet of Charing. Since 1675, the cross site has been occupied by a statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse. The pedestal is thought to be designed by Wren and carved by Grinling Gibbons.
Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England. Inside the Grade I listed building, there is seating for 400 people. There is a memorial plaque to the author Henry James (1843–1916) who lived nearby on Cheyne Walk. To the west of the church is a small public garden containing a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein.
When he was seventeen,William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
$780 Sale Price
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ORBITS - Large Hoeckner lithograph
By Carl Hoeckner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CARL HOECKNER (1883 – 1972)
ORBITS, c. 1935
Lithograph, edition unknown but small. Image 11 3/3 \4 x 18 3/8 inches, sheet 12 3/8 x 19. In good condition aside from small margins an...
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1930s Surrealist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$937 Sale Price
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To Market, to Market
— Surrealist Fantasy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Zena Kavin, 'To Market, to Market', lithograph, c. 1935, edition 20. Signed, titled, and numbered '6/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full ma...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$360 Sale Price
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POCKETS FOR POWDER IN THE MINE
By Harry F. Mack
Located in Portland, ME
Mack, Harry F. POCKETS FOR POWDER IN THE MINE. Etching with aquatint, not dated, but circa 1930s. Titled and signed "H. F. Mack" in pencil. 7 7/8 x 6 inches (plate), 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 i...
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1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching, Aquatint
Dancing in the Dark
By Joan Snyder
Located in New York, NY
Joan Snyder has been called an autobiographical, even confessional artist, who draws from her experiences and surroundings to create her paintings. While her subjects vary widely, Sn...
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1980s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Delaware River Bridge
— Mid-Atlantic Regionalism
By Anton Schutz
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Delaware Bridge' (Delaware, New Jersey), etching, c. 1927. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with skillfully wiped plate tone, on BFK Rives, cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches (302 x 225 mm); sheet size 15 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (403 x 311 mm).
ABOUT THIS IMAGE
The Benjamin Franklin Bridge, originally named the Delaware River...
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1920s Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
The Loop I (the artist
s memories of days at Chicago
s Art Institute)
By Richard Gilbert
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Loop I was created in a small edition of 15. The Loop is a vibrant area featuring eclectic eateries, shops, theaters and parks. Comprised mostly of high-rises, it’s also home to the 108-story Willis Tower. The iconic “Cloud Gate...
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1990s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Winter Fun — Mid-century Modernism, Central Park, New York City
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Winter Fun', lithograph, 1940, edition 20, 250 (1941). Flint 188. Signed in pencil, with the artist’s monogram in the stone, lower left. A...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Playboys (2 American male refugees from the Gatsby era preen on Mexican beach)
By Caroline Durieux
Located in New Orleans, LA
In these beady-eyed playboys, Durieux pokes some fun at the pride and pretensions of the Great Gatsby class. Here are two Americans pretending to be macho on a Mexican beach.
Caroline Durieux (American, 1896 – 1989)
Printmaker, painter, satirist, innovator, social activist, Caroline Durieux was born in New Orleans and was already making sketches by the age of four. Her formal art training was at Newcomb College (1912-1917) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1918-1920).
Carl Zigrosser of the Philadelphia Museum of Art encouraged Durieux to try lithography. While living in Mexico, she learned lithography from Emilio Amero...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Irving Place Burlesk
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Irving Place Burlesk, etching, 1929, signed in pencil lower right and numbered (18) lower left. Reference: Sasowsky 75, third state (of 3). In very good c...
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1920s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
GREETINGS, 1915 or MOTHER AND CHILD AT THE WINDOW
By John Sloan
Located in Portland, ME
Sloan, John. GREETINGS, 1915 or MOTHER AND CHILD AT THE WINDOW. Morse 170. Etching, 1914. Edition of 100 of which only 75 were printed. Signed in pencil and inscribed in pencil "Gree...
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1910s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
THANKSGIVING IN CAMP
By Winslow Homer
Located in Santa Monica, CA
AFTER - WINSLOW HOMER (1836-1910)
THANKSGIVING IN THE ARMY - After Dinner: the Wishbone, 1864
Original wood engraving as published by Harpers Weekly December 3, 1864, after a drawing by Winslow Homer. Image 9 3/4" x 14, Sheet 10 3.\/4 x 15 3/4" . Generally good condition, a small stain in the upper right margin.
Homer contributed drawings to Harper's Weekly from 1857 to 1875. They were converted to wood engravings by Harper's craftsman and published in Harper's Weekly. Although after his original drawings, they are now accepted as an important part of his body of work by museums and collectors. They were very large editions. As such, they occur often in the marketplace. Harper's published during the Civil War years as this was, were widely read and kept as people followed the war first hand and its aftermath over the years continuing today as both Homer and Civil War collectables
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1860s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$175 Sale Price
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Tsunami
By Peter Milton
Located in New York, NY
TSUNAMI is an archival digital print created in 2015. This original print was directly drawn into the computer by Peter Milton and printed digitally. It is signed, titled, and date...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Digital
THE FORGE - Rich Drypoint
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEIL WHISTLER (1834 – 1903)
THE FORGE 1866 (Kennedy. 68 iv/vi: Glascow 86 vi/vi)
Etching and drypoint. Signed and dated in the plate 1866. VERY GOOD IMPRESSION WITH...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Tropical Wash Day
— Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Tropical Wash Day', aquatint, edition 100, 1946. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy cream wove paper, with full...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Aquatint
Viel Gluck 1923
(Good Luck Wishes) — German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Viel Gluck 1923 Wunscht der Graphikverlag, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothenfelde', woodcut, 1922, edition 20. Signed and numbered op. 135d and 20/20 in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. Annotated 'Vorgesdruck' [artist’s proof] in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream Japan paper, with full margins (5/8 to 1 1/8 inches), in good condition. With the artist’s blind stamp in the top left margin. Printed by the artist. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
New Year's Greeting - "1923, Good Luck Wishes from the Graphic Press, J.G. Holzwarth/Bad Rothfelde."
Image size 5 x 3 1/2 inches (127 x 89 mm); sheet size 6 5/8 x 5 7/8 inches (168 x 149 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 (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a reduced folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Girl with Hands to Face
— Mid-century Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Girl with Hands to Face', two-color lithograph, 1940, edition 30, Fine and Looney 180. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed. 30' in pencil. A superb impression, on cr...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$960 Sale Price
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Swing (The swing of the bat from #27 a right handed hitter. Play Baseball!
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
Play Ball! No. 27 unleashes a mighty swing at the ball. Both umpire and catcher are in their huddled crouch. "Swing" is an exclusive publication of Stone and Press Gallery by Art We...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Mezzotint
The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City
— American Expressionism
By Frederick K. Detwiller
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Frederick K. Detwiller, 'The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City', lithograph, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Lith 20' in pencil. Inscribed 'To my Friend Herbert L. Jones' in pencil. Signed and dated, in the stone, lower right; initialed and dated '1927' in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with margins (7/8 to 1 1/4 inches); slight toning in the top left sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.
Image size 20 1/2 x 14 inches (521 x 356 mm); sheet size 22 1/2 x 16 inches (572 x 406 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
The Sixth Avenue El was constructed in the late 1870s by the Gilbert Elevated Railway and reorganized as the Metropolitan Elevated Railway. By 1878, it was running from Rector Street to 58th Street. Soon after that, it was taken over by the Manhattan Railway Company, with three other Manhattan elevated train lines. The company built a connection, the ‘spur’ by which it turned west on 53rd Street to merge with the 9th Avenue El—paralleling the present-day route of the 6th Avenue subway.
The Sixth Avenue El served the “Ladies Mile” shops (including the Siegel-Cooper emporium, whose building now houses Bed...
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1920s Ashcan School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Kris Dancer, Bali
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Al Hirschfeld, 'Kris Dancer, Bali', color lithograph, 1941, edition 1,000. Signed in the stone, lower right. A fine, clean impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper, the ful...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
BEFORE THE FIREPLACE. NO. 1.
By Mary Cassatt
Located in Portland, ME
Cassatt, Mary. BEFORE THE FIREPLACE. NO. 1.
Breeskin 64.
Soft-grpund etching and aquatint, c. 1882.
State 2 (of 3) with the light tone added, and the profile still indistinct.
Si...
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1880s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Clown
— WPA American Expressionism
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Clown', color serigraph, 1939, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff la...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Chelsea Rags
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Storrs, CT
Chelsea Rags.
Chelsea Rags. 1888. Lithograph. Way 22, Levy 35, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 26. 7 1/8 x 6 5/16 (sheet 12 3/4 x 8). Printed on cream laid paper. Provenance: Miss Rosalind Birnie Philip, Whistler's sister-in-law, her seal verso: (Lugt 405). Michael Parkin Fine Art, Ltd. from whom purchased in 1972. Christie's, King Street.Signed with the butterfly in the image. One of 13 impressions listed by Way, before the image was transferred to supplementary stones for the edition of 500-1,000 printed by Way and issued in the Albemarle, January, 1892. Signed with the butterfly in the stone and in pencil. Housed in an elegant silk mat with a silver liner, and in a 16 3/4 x 14 3/4-inch silver leaf frame decorated with fleur-de-lis decorations.
"And his interest in London has not been restricted to the Thames. Seeing the beautiful, where other men might be discouraged by dullness, he has taken his subject, now in the little cheap shop opening a low window upon the street, now in the forgotten church hidden away in a lonely square. And Chelsea Rags, the Shops of Chelsea, the Drury Lane, as well as The Butcher's Dog, are impressions of vague Rembrandtesque interiors where figures, grim or graceful, peer from out deep shadows— shops as lovely in his prints as the halls of a Veronese, or the palaces of a Claude." Elizabeth Robins...
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Late 19th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$3,500 Sale Price
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Roadside, Collonges-La Rouge
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Roadside, Collonges-La Rouge', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1980, edition 160 in 1983. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, l...
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1980s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Set Pieces: Vanity of Trust
— Mid-Century American Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Set Pieces: Vanity of Trust', color lithograph, 1949, edition 40, Fine and Looney 279. Signed, titled, dated and numbered '23/40' in pencil. A fine, impression with fresh colors, on...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Horse Attacked by Tiger
— 19th-Century French Romanticism
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault (after), 'Tigre dévorant un cheval' (Tiger Devouring a Horse), lithograph, 3rd state of 3, Clement 97, c. 1820. Lettered 'Volmar ...
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1820s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Gardenias
— Mid-Century Floral Abstraction
By Mary Van Blarcom
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Mary Van Blarcom, 'Gardenias', color serigraph, c. 1945, edition small. Signed 'Van B' in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled in pencil, bottom left sheet corner. A rich, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (5/16 to 1 1/16 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 6 x 8 3/8 inches; sheet size 6 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Painter, printmaker and craftsperson, Mary Van Blarcom was born in Newark, New Jersey and studied at Wellesley College. She was a member of the National Serigraph Society where she served on the board of trustees from 1945 through 1952 and was 1st vice-president from 1949-51. She was also a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Artists Equity Association, the American Color Print Society, the New Jersey Artists Association (Director), and Artists of Today.
Van Blarcom exhibited actively throughout the 1940’s at many prominent art organizations including: Montclair Art Museum, 1941-45 and 1947-51 (prize, 1948); Society of Independent Artists, 1942-44; Artists of Today, 1942-46; Elisabeth Ney Museum, 1943; Northwest Printmakers, 1944, 1946-49; Laguna Beach Art Association, 1945-47, 1949; National Association of Women Artists, 1945-50, (prize, 1946); Library of Congress, 1946-47; Museum of Modern Art travelling exhibition, 1945-47; Carnegie Institute, 1947; Serigraph Gallery, 1946, 1951 (solo); American Color Print Society, 1947-52; Newark Museum, 1947-48, 1951; California State Library, 1947, 1949; National Serigraph Society, 1949 (prize), 1950 (prize); University of Chile, 1950; New Jersey State Museum, 1950; Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1951; and the Main Gallery, NY, 1952.
Van Blarcom’s work is in the collections of the Newark Public Library, U.S. Library of Congress; the American Association of University Women; New York Public Library; Tel-Aviv Museum, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Princeton Print Club...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Screen
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 Figurative Prints
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Engraving
LA TOILETTE ASSISE
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Portland, ME
Bonnard, Pierre. LA TOILETTE ASSISE (Woman Dressing, Seated). Bouvet, 96. Lithograph printed in black, 1925. First State, before the addition of the Monogr...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Viel Gluck 1923
— New Year
s Greeting - German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Viel Gluck 1923 Wunscht Karl Michel', etching, 1923, edition not stated but small. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op. 136' in pencil. Signed in the image, lower right. A...
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1920s Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Corner of Steel Plant
— American Modernism / Precisionism
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Corner of Steel Plant', lithograph, 1929, edition 25, and 10 printed in 1972; Flint 21. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 'I/X' in penci...
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1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
de Young Mansion
– San Francisco
— California WPA, Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Marguerite Redman Dorgeloh, 'de Young Mansion – San Francisco', lithograph, c. 1937, edition 25. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impr...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Le maréchal flamand
(The Flemish Blacksmith) — 19th-Century French Romanticism
By Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Théodore Géricault 'Le maréchal flamand' (The Flemish Blacksmith) from the series ‘Etudes, de chevaux lithographiés,’ lithograph, 1822, 2nd state ...
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1820s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Bridges of Florence
— Firenze Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Alonzo C. Webb, 'Bridges of Florence', etching, 1929, edition 100. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in warm ...
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1920s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
L
Armoire (2nd State)
By Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in Chicago, IL
The Armoire
Etching
340 x 469 mm.; 13 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches
Reference:
Inventaire 18e siècle 9: 289-90, No. 22
Wildenstein 1956, cat. No. 23, State II/IV
Regency to Empire, 1...
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18th Century Rococo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Crown of Roses
— Mid-century Modernism
By Mary Van Blarcom
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Mary Van Blarcom, 'Crown of Roses', color serigraph, c. 1945, edition not stated but small. Signed in pencil beneath the image, lower left. Titled in pencil, bottom left sheet corner. A rich painterly impression, with fresh colors, on cream laid paper, with full margins (3/8 to 7/8 inch), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 8 13/16 x 12 11/16 inches; sheet size 9 1/2 x 8 5/16 inches.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Painter, printmaker, and craftsperson, Mary Van Blarcom was born in Newark, New Jersey, and studied at Wellesley College. She was a member of the National Serigraph Society, where she served on the board of trustees from 1945 through 1952 and was 1st vice-president from 1949-51. She was also a member of the National Association of Women Artists, the Artists Equity Association, the American Color Print Society, the New Jersey Artists Association (Director), and Artists of Today.
Van Blarcom exhibited actively throughout the 1940s at many prominent art organizations, including Montclair Art Museum, 1941-45 and 1947-51 (prize, 1948); Society of Independent Artists, 1942-44; Artists of Today, 1942-46; Elisabeth Ney Museum, 1943; Northwest Printmakers, 1944, 1946-49; Laguna Beach Art Association, 1945-47, 1949; National Association of Women Artists, 1945-50, (prize, 1946); Library of Congress, 1946-47; Museum of Modern Art Traveling Exhibition, 1945-47; Carnegie Institute, 1947; Serigraph Gallery, 1946, 1951 (solo); American Color Print Society, 1947-52; Newark Museum, 1947-48, 1951; California State Library, 1947, 1949; National Serigraph Society, 1949 (prize), 1950 (prize); University of Chile, 1950; New Jersey State Museum, 1950; Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1951; and the Main Gallery, NY, 1952.
Van Blarcom’s work is represented in the collections of the Newark Public Library, the U.S. Library of Congress; the American Association of University Women; the New York Public Library; Tel-Aviv Museum, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Princeton Print Club...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Screen
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An Old Corsican.
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
An Old Corsican. 1921. Etching. Fletcher 27. 6 5/16 x 4 9/16 (11 1/2 x 9 3/8). Edition 76. A beautiful, rich impression with plate tone, printed on 'J. Whatman' laid paper on the ful...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Femme au Lys (Woman with Lily)
By Paul Guiramand
Located in Chicago, IL
This lithograph comes from an edition of 110, it is signed and numbered.
Paul Guiramand, painter, sculptor and lithographer, was born in 1926 in Saint-Quentin in northern France. I...
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1970s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Ninth Inning
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Sylvia Mayzer Rantz, 'Ninth Inning', lithograph, 1949, edition 24. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '9/24' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper. The ful...
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1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Floating Crap Game
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Floating Crap Game, chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1958, edition 145. Signed, titled, numbered 'Ed. 145' and dated '3/1958'. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, rich ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
Les Arcades, Dieppe France (the arches along coastline of a town in Normandy)
By Stanley Anderson
Located in New Orleans, LA
The image show a panoramic view of the architectural arches and the boats in the harbor of Dieppe in Normandy France. Dieppe was occupied by German naval and army forces after the f...
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Early 20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Drypoint, Etching
La Receveuse (Bill Collector) —French Cubism
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jean-Emile Laboureur, 'La Receveuse', engraving, 1919, edition 8, first state of two (artist's proof). Laboureur, Godefroy 190.
Signed and numbered '3/8 ép' in pencil. Initialed and...
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1910s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Engraving
WITHOUT A NET
By George Scribner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GEORGE SCHREIBER (1904 – 1977)
WITHOUT A NET c. 1944
Lithograph, signed in pencil lower right. Image 8 7/8 x 13 5/8 inches, sheet 10 5/8 x 15 ½ inches.Edition approximately 250 as p...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
$460 Sale Price
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Tamas The Power of Bad
By Willy Pogany
Located in Santa Monica, CA
WILLY POGANY (1882 - 1955)
TAMAS THE POWER OF BAD, c. 1940.
Etching, signed and titled and numbered 50 in pencil. Image 12 x 9 inches. Sheet 14 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches. Generally goo...
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1940s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Etching
Humming Birds and Orchids
— Vintage White Line Color Woodcut
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Wuanita Smith, 'Humming Birds and Orchids', white-line color woodcut, circa 1930, edition 50. Signed and titled in pencil. Annotated '50 edition', 'no 5'...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Figurative Prints
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Woodcut
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