Léon Desbuissons Art

This artwork titled "Revelations de Nozdriov" from the suite "Nicholas Gogol, Les Ames Mortes" created 1923-1937, published 1948, is an etching on paper by renown Russian/French arti...

This artwork titled "Facing the Sun, Gyakko" is an original color aquatint by noted Japanese artist Shogo Okamoto, 1920-2001. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 62/100 in pencil b...

This artwork titled "Cockle Burrs at Tinker's" 1966, is an original etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Richard Claude Ziemann, b.1932. It is hand signed, titled, dated an...

Original engraving #7 by Ernst FUCHS from Kabbalah (THIRTY-TWO PATHS OF WISDOM by SEFER YETZIRA), 1978 Etching signed and numbered 16/30 E.A. Page size - 30 ...

This artwork titled "Maple Leaves and Vines" 1978-79, is an original etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Richard Claude Ziemann, b.1932. It is hand signed, titled, dated a...

Pierre Bonnard - The Street - Original Lithograph Dimensions : 13 x 10". Paper : Rives vellum. Edition : 225 copies. 1927 From Tableaux de Paris, Emile-Paul Freres, Paris CHARLES...

Colour aquatint with embossing ""Feuillage en couleurs" (Colourful Leaves) by Georges Braque from 1956. The edition on BFK RIVES cromprises approx. 80 copies. The present copy is ...

This artwork titled "Kazakh Steppes" 1965, is an original etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Richard Claude Ziemann, b.1932. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered...

Jacques Villon - Sleeping Nude - Original Etching Circa 1950 Signed in pencil Edition of 45. Dimensions : 32.7 x 25 cm

Marie Laurencin - Woman Angel - Original Etching Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946 Edition of 340 Signed in the plate

Etching monogrammed in the plate. Illustration for a Robert Ganzo's poem "Lespugue" Editions Marcel Sautier, Paris, 1966. Conditions: Good Conditions Dimensions: 25,5 x 16,5 cm. Vellum paper Référence Czwiklitzer n°55. 1890 Zadkine was born on the 14th of July in Vitebsk, a city in Belarussia, on the Dvina. His father Ephime teaches classical languages at the local seminar. His mother Sophie Lester descended from Scots, who emigrated at the time of Peter the Great. 1905 His parents send him to Sunderland, in the North of England, where his mother’s family lives. He studies English and attends modelling courses at the local Art School. 1905-1909 He travels to London without his parents permission where he attends courses at the Regent Street Polytechnicum. In order to earn his living, he plans to work with a stonecutter. He visits the British Museum and studies classical sculpture there. Returns to Smolensk where he produces his first sculpture. Goes back to London. 1909-1910 Zadkine settles in Paris and studies in the ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Finds a workshop in a building called La Ruche, in the XVe arrondissement. 1911 Zadkine presents statues and drawings at the annual Salon d’Automne and at the Salon des Indépendants. It is the ‘cubists’ who draw his attention in Paris. Is essentially close to Russian students who get together in a cafe of the ‘Quartier Latin’. Has himself called Joe Zadkine until 1914. 1912-1913 Finds a room in the neighbourhood of Montparnasse, in the rue de Vaugirard. Studies Roman sculpture. Zadkine is immortalized by his neighbour, photographer Marc Vaux, in his new workshop. Meets Brancusi, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jacques Lipchitz, Pablo Picasso, Antoine Bourdelle, Leopold Survage and Robert Delaunay. Henri Matisse visits Zadkine’s workshop. 1914-1915 Exhibition at the Freie Sezession in Berlin, at De Onafhankelijken in Amsterdam (Holland) and at the Allied Artists Association in London. Thanks to collector Paul Rodocanachi, he can settle in a workshop in the rue Rousselet. Becomes friends with Modigliani. 1916-1917 Works as a stretcher-bearer on the front. Produces drawings and watercolours dealing with war. Zadkine is discharged in 1917. He says he is ‘bodily and spiritually’ ruined by the war. After his stay in the Epernay hospital he recovers in Bruniquel, in the southwest of France. 1918-1919 Makes a series of 20 war etchings...

Original engraving #4 by Ernst FUCHS from Kabbalah (THIRTY-TWO PATHS OF WISDOM by SEFER YETZIRA), 1978 Etching signed and numbered 16/30 E.A. Page size - 30 x 22 in 76 x 56 cm Image...