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La Receveuse
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), La Receveuse, engraving, 1919-1920, signed in pencil lower left, numbered (2/38) lower right and annotated ”imp” [also with initials and the date 19...
Category
1910s Cubist Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Resurrection (aka Flying Figures; Border of the Lake)
By Arthur B. Davies
Located in New York, NY
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Resurrection (aka Flying Figures; Border of the Lake), drypoint and aquatint on zinc, 1916, signed with the estate stamp lower right. Reference: Price 2...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Walking in the Woods
By Frank Arthur Nankivell
Located in New York, NY
Frank Arthur Nankivell (18691959), [Walking in the Woods at Night], drypoint, c. 1910, signed in pencil lower right. Printed on a cream laid paper. In good condition, with margins (s...
Category
1910s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Against Green
By Arthur B. Davies
Located in New York, NY
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Against Green (also Three Figure Composition, Figures Against Green), soft ground etching and aquatint, 1918, signed in pencil lower right; also titled ...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Panel with a Mascaron
By Hans Sebald Beham
Located in New York, NY
Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550), Panel with a Mascaron, engraving, 1543 [with the initials monogram and date in the plate]. Reference: Bartsch 231, Hollstein 235. Second state (of 2). ...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Abraham and Sarah (Sarah Presenting Hagar to Abraham)
By Georg Pencz
Located in New York, NY
Georg Pencz (1500-50) engraving, c. 1540, Abraham and Sarah (Sarah Presenting Hagar to Abraham). Reference: Bartsch 1, Landau 1, only state. [title...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Virgin and Child with the Pear
By Hans Sebald Beham
Located in New York, NY
Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550), Virgin and Child with the Pear, engraving, 1520. Initials monogram and date in the plate. References: Bartsch 18, Pauli, Hollstein 19. First state (of two). In good condition, on old laid paper with thread margins on three sides, trimmed on the platemark bottom right and bottom, and archival mounting. h: 4.5 x w: 3 in / h: 11.4 x w: 7.6 cm
A very good impression of this rarity.
Hollstein indicates that earlier impressions, such as this one, do not have a scratch above the head of the Virgin.
Beham was one of the Northern Renaissance Little Masters, so called because of their eminence in producing small-scale engravings such as the Virgin and Child with a Pear. Beham was born in Nuremberg in 1500, and may have trained under Durer, though his training is no more certain than that of his younger brother Barthel. He made his first engraving in 1518, and later became known for producing woodcuts as well.
Beham’s Madonna with the Pear has a similar composition but in reverse to Durer’s engraving...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Tatoo-Shave-Haircut
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1934), Tattoo-Shave-Haircut, etching, 1932. Signed, titled (“Tattoo-Haircut-Shave”), dedicated (“for Arnold Newman”), and annotated (“Fourth State. First of Two Prints”). Reference: Sasowsky 140. On cream wove paper. In very good condition, with small margins (as trimmed, slightly irregularly, by the artist) (slight foxing in margins), remains of prior hinging verso; 9 7/8 x 9 3/4, the sheet 10 15/16 x 10 5/8 inches; archival matting.
A very fine rich black impression; we have not seen impressions of comparable quality on the market.
Provenance: Estate of Arnold Newman. Arnold Newman (1918-2006) was one of the great 20th Century masters of photography, and a friend of many leading artists; it is appears that Marsh took special care in printing this impression for Newman.
Sasowsky calls for 10 states of Tattoo-Shave, based largely on Marsh’s notes. But the states are not clearly delineated (e.g., his States 3 and 4, one proof each, are characterized by Marsh as “Engraving added”; no information is given for State 5). The design for the print was complete in the first state, and subsequent state changes were not, apparently, major.
This impression does not appear to differ in etching lines from the final state impression shown in Sasowsky. Its inscription (as a Fourth State, by Marsh), as well as its rich inking and quality, attest to its being a proof before the edition (of about 34 impressions), but the state of this print (and, presumably of many of the other several proof impressions) cannot at this time be stated with confidence.
Marsh printed this impression personally (we recall his famous answer to a question about the size of his editions: “Since I do practically all my own printing, I do not limit the edition. The buyer limits the edition – he rarely buys, I rarely print”).
Tattoo-Shave-Haircut depicts a scene in the Bowery, a section of New York’s Lower East Side, during the Great Depression. The building and train structures in the top half of the print recall Piranesi’s Carceri...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La Fortune Fait Oblier Les Amis
By Honoré Daumier
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), La Fortune Fait Oblier Les Amis, lithograph, from the series Caricaturana, plate 31, 1838. Daumier Register 385, third state (of...
Category
1830s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
La Fumee du Bateau
By Jean-Francois Raffaelli
Located in New York, NY
Jean-François Raffaëlli (1850-1924), La Fumee du Bateau, color etching and drypoint, 1911, signed and numbered in pencil lower right. Reference: Delteil 98. In very good condition, ...
Category
1910s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Coffee Huskers
By George Biddle
Located in New York, NY
George Biddle (1885-1973), Coffee Huskers, 1928, lithograph, signed, titled and numbered [also inscribed ’43/Biddle/1928 in the plate]. Reference: Pennigar 77, Trotter 43. From the edition of 100, on Rives cream wove paper, with the Rives watermark. In excellent condition, probably never framed or matted, the full sheet, 13 1/4 x 9 3/4, the sheet 16 x 11 1/2 inches, archival mounting (mylar non-attached hinging between acid free boards glassine cover).
A fine black impression.
Biddle wrote of this lithograph, in 1943: “After scraping the tusche away…I worked back with a pensil (sic) and again with diamond. This all adds to the richness of texture and color.” This work produces a very sophisticated lithographic look, akin in some ways to drypoint work in etching.
After Groton, Harvard College and Harvard Law (and several breakdowns) Biddle concluded that a conventional career in law was not for him; he decided on art, went to Paris, worked with Mary Cassatt and familiarized himself with modernist currents in art (as well as more traditional European art).
After serving in WWI, and the dissolution of his marriage, he became interested in working outside of the European tradition (although his travels continued to include Europe, and he spent a period working under the influence of Jules Pascin in Paris in the mid-‘20’s). Coffee Huskers, like many of the Mexican and Haitian prints...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wuxtry! [Extra!]
By Albert Abramovitz
Located in New York, NY
Albert Abramovitz (1879-1963), Wuxtry! [Extra?!], linocut in colors, c. 1936, signed in pencil lower right and titled lower center [also initialed in the plate]. In very good conditi...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
![Wuxtry! [Extra!]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_5153/1491148788368/IMG_0968_master.JPG?width=240 "alex abramovitz")
The Search Party
By Raphael Soyer
Located in New York, NY
Raphael Soyer (1899-1987), The Search Party (From the Cracked Mirror), color lithograph, c. 1975, signed in pencil lower right and numbered III/XXV lowe...
Category
1970s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Portrait, 1917, engraving, signed in pencil lower left and numbered lower right (28/40). Reference: S. Laboureur 170, third state (of 3), from the e...
Category
1910s Art Deco Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving
Une Marmite
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Une Marmite, engraving, 1916, signed in pencil lower left; titled, dated and inscribed “epreuve de 1er etat” bottom margin edge [with the initial an...
Category
1910s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Maisons au Bord de la Mer
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Maisons au Bord de la Mer, etching, 1936, numbered bottom right (26/66) and inscribed in the bottom margin by Suzanne Laboureur (see below). Referen...
Category
1930s Art Deco Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Printemps Breton
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Printemps Breton, 1926, drypoint, roulette, aquatint, etching; signed in pencil lower left and numbered lower right (37/50) with the imp inscription...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Sur la Marne
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Sur la Marne, engraving, 1924, signed in pencil lower right [with the initial lower right in the plate]. Reference: S. Laboureur 277, third state (o...
Category
1920s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
La Petite Plage
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), La Petite Plage, 1926, etching and engraving, signed in pencil lower left [inscribed lower margin as a trial proof; also wi...
Category
1920s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Jeune Fille au Chapeau Blanc
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Jeune Fille au Chapeau Blanc, 1921, etching and engraving. Reference: S. Laboureur 223, third state (of 3), edition of 30, about 47 impressions pull...
Category
1920s Cubist Portrait Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Negres Americains a Saint-Nazaire
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Negres Americains a Saint-Nazaire, 1917-1920, engraving on cream wove paper, signed in pencil lower left, titled lower left margin edge, and numbere...
Category
1910s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
[Nude on Couch, Right Arm on Leg]
By Walt Kuhn
Located in New York, NY
Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), [Nude on Couch, Right Arm on Leg], c. 1920, etching, signed in pencil lower margin. In very good condition, traces of discoloration in...
Category
1920s American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
![[Nude on Couch, Right Arm on Leg]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_5153/1489589845150/IMG_0803_master.JPG?width=240 "mary schrank nude")
Un Homme a La Mer
By Honoré Daumier
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), Un Homme a La Mer lithograph, 1843, [with initials in the plate]. Reference: Daumier Register 1036, plate number 14 from the series Les Canotiers...
Category
1840s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Una (Portrait of a Creole Lady)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in New York, NY
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (1891-1978), Una (Portrait of a Creole Lady), etching, 1929, signed in pencil lower right, and also inscribed by the artist: “2nd State, GB”. Reference: Flet...
Category
1920s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Advice
By Walt Kuhn
Located in New York, NY
Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), Advice, etching and drypoint, 1915, signed in pencil lower right and titled lower left. In generally good condition but obviously a proof impression, with marg...
Category
1910s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Aux Approches de Madrid (also Aux Abords de la Ville)
By Adolphe Beaufrère
Located in New York, NY
Adolphe-Marie Beaufrere (1876-1960), Aux Approches de Madrid (also Aux Abords de la Ville), drypoint, 1927, signed and numbered (14/55), from the edition of 55, with the blindstamp of Sagot, publisher (Lugt 2254). Reference: Morane 27-19. In good condition, on very thin cream Japan paper, 6 1/2 x 9, the sheet 8 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches, archival matting.
A fine impression, with the drypoint burr extremely rich and effective (due in part to the use of a Japan paper, which tends to diffuse the ink surrounding the drypoint lines).
Beaufrere was born at Quimperle, in Brittany, and though he traveled widely he re-connected with this area throughout his life. As a teenager he decided that he wanted to become an artist and he traveled to Paris where, shortly after his arrival, he encountered the eminent Gustave Moreau, who took him on as a student. Moreau encouraged him to study old master prints, especially the prints of Rembrandt and Durer, which were available in the Cabinet des Estampes in Paris – this was to be critical in his development.
Beaufrere began printmaking in about 1904, with some woodcuts, but soon got into etching and engraving. Curiously, one of his colleague/teachers at the time was the Canadian etcher Donald Shaw MacLaughlan. He began showing his prints, with some success, but after his marriage in 1905, and with the urging of his new wife, moved out of Paris and back to Brittany. This move had a mixed effect on his career – contacts with other artists became fewer, but he did maintain gallery relationships, and the French countryside and it’s inhabitants would provide a continuing source of inspiration.
During the Great War Beaufrere served in the infantry, and had few opportunities to make art. But he did study a volume of Rembrandt’s prints...
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Am Gänsehäufel in Wien
By Emil Orlik
Located in New York, NY
Emil Orlik (1870-1932), Am Gänsehäufel in Wien, 1911, soft-ground etching, signed and dated in pencil lower right. In very good condition, on firm laid paper with margins, 5 1/2 x 8...
Category
1910s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Portrait of Slevogt
By Emil Orlik
Located in New York, NY
Emil Orlik (1870-1932), Portrait of Slevogt, etching, 1921, signed in pencil and numbered (27/100) [also signed and dated in the plate], from the presumed edition of 100. In very goo...
Category
1920s Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Four Nudes in a Landscape
By Jan Matulka
Located in New York, NY
Jan Matulka (1890-1972), Four Nudes in a Landscape, drypoint, c. 1923, signed in pencil lower right margin [also with initials in the plate lower left]. Ref...
Category
1920s American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Le Bourg de Batz
By William Strang, R.A., R.E.
Located in New York, NY
William Strang (1859-1921), Le Bourg de Batz, etching and drypoint on copper, 1913, signed in pencil lower right [also signed and dated in the plate]. Refere...
Category
1910s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Une Escale au Brasil (A Stopover in Brazil)
By Charles Dufresne
Located in New York, NY
Charles Dufresne (1876-1938), Une Escale au Brasil (A Stopover in Brazil), etching and drypoint, c. 1920, signed in pencil lower right margin and inscribed “epreuve de artist” lower ...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Vérité (petite planche)
By Henri Fantin-Latour
Located in New York, NY
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904),Vérité (petite planche), 1900, lithograph. Hediard-Mason 156, first state (of 3). A proof of the first state before the edition published in La Revue...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Doorway of the Doges, Venice
By Donald Shaw MacLaughlan
Located in New York, NY
Donald Shaw MacLaughlin (1876-1938), Doorway of the Doges, Venice, etching with plate tone, 1909, signed bottom right [also signed and dated in the plate]. Reference: Marie Bruette 1...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Femme de Chagrin
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in New York, NY
Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923), Femme de Chagrin, 1894, lithograph, signed in pencil lower right [also signed in the plate lower center]. Reference: Crauzat 454, first stat...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Color Pencil, Lithograph
Ostend Horse
By Edmund Blampied
Located in New York, NY
Edmund Blampied (1886-1966), Ostend Horse, drypoint, 1926, signed in pencil lower margin [also signed and dated in the plate lower left], from the edition of 100, printed on ivory laid paper with full margins with deckle edges, 7 x 9, the sheet 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 inches, still in the original SFA Museum mat with extensive annotations.
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries (with their stock number A49359)
Ex Collection: Albert M...
Category
1920s Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Tree, Manhattan
By Martin Lewis
Located in New York, NY
Martin Lewis (1881-1962), Tree, Manhattan, drypoint, 1930, signed in pencil lower right [also signed in the plate lower left]. Reference: McCarron 87, only state; 91 recorded impress...
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Model Contemplating Sculpture
By Pablo Picasso
Located in New York, NY
Pablo Picasso, Model Contemplating Sculpture, etching, signed in pencil, 1933, a fine impression, published by Vollard, from the Vollard Suite, edition of 310, Bloch 175, Geiser 328...
Category
1930s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Tank Car Rail
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Tank Car Rail, 1929, etching, signed lower right and numbered 15 lower left margin [also signed and dated in the plate]. Reference: Sasowsky 86, fifth sta...
Category
1920s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Loco-Erie Watering
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Loco-Erie Watering, 1929, etching, signed in pencil lower right, and numbered (16) lower left. Reference: Sasowsky 85, fourth state (of 4). On Whatman pap...
Category
1920s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Subway Stairs
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan (1871-1951), Subway Stairs, etching, 1926, signed, titled and inscribed “working proof 1;” also with the notation “JS imp” in pencil bottom margin [with the name and date ...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude on Stairs
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan (1871-1951), Nude on Stairs, etching, 1930, signed in pencil lower right margin, titled in pencil center, inscribed “100 proofs” lower left [also signed in the plate lower...
Category
1930s American Realist Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
Fashions of the Past
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan (American 1871 – 1954), Fashions of the Past, etching and aquatint, 1926, signed and titled by the artist in pencil (Morse 224 IV/IV), also signed by the printer. From the...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Schuylkill River
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan etching Schuylkill River, 1894, signed, titled, annotated “100 proofs” [only 25 were printed], also signed by the printer “Peter Platt im...
Category
1890s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Celestial Nymph I
By Elyse Ashe Lord
Located in New York, NY
Elyse Ashe Lord (1900-1971), Celestial Nymph I, c. 1930, color etching, soft ground, drypoint; signed lower right in pencil and numbered by the artist lower left. In very good condition, the full sheet, 8 1/4 x 10, the sheet 17 x 13 1/2 inches.
A fine impression, with strong color and plate tone on the nymph and surrounding decorations, and with pencil additions in various places on the nymph by the artist (using the same pencil as with signing). Printed on a light laid ivory Japan paper.
Provenance:
Kennedy Galleries, New York (with their stock number A 32064)
Elyse Ashe Lord developed her unique artistic style exclusively around oriental subject matter. Her art was inspired by both Chinese art and various aspects of oriental culture. Although E.A.Lord never actually travelled to China, she used Chinese paintings, embroideries and wall hangings, together with objects from surrounding Eastern countries, as the sources for her images. The highly individual style which Elyse Lord created reflects both this source material and the influences of Art Deco and early 1920’s fashion.
In particular, Elyse Lord is unusual in combining the technique of drypoint with woodcut colour printing. She uses the drypoint design almost as the Japanese would have used a key block in multiple block colour printing. The colours would then be added by over-printing the drypoint design using colour-inked wood blocks, precisely as displayed by this unique series of progressive proofs. Elyse Lord would always supervise the difficult process of printing her plates and blocks, in person. [I am indebted to Michael Campbell...
Category
1930s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Beggars
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Beggars, etching and drypoint, 1879-80, signed with the butterfly and inscribed “imp”. Reference: Glasgow 190, seventh sta...
Category
1870s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Little Mast
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Little Mast, etching, drypoint and burnishing, 1879-80, signed in pencil with the early shaded butterfly lower left and annotated “imp”. References: G...
Category
1870s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Couple Under a Tree
By Elyse Ashe Lord
Located in New York, NY
Elyse Ashe Lord (1900-1971), Couple Under a Tree, c. 1930, color etching, soft ground, drypoint; signed lower right in pencil and numbered by the artist lower left. In very good condition, the full sheet, 11 3/4 x 12 1/4, the sheet 17 x 16 inches.
A fine impression, with strong colors and plate tone. Printed on a light laid ivory Japan...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
The Gate, Chelsea
By Theodore Casimir Roussel
Located in New York, NY
Theodore Roussel (1847-1926), The Gate, Chelsea; etching and drypoint, 1889-1890, signed on the tab and inscribed imp [also signed in the plate lowere right]. Reference: Hausberg 33, fourth state (of 4), from the total printing of about 43 impressions. In excellent condition, trimmed by the artist all around on the plate mark except for the tab, 8 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches.
A fine impression, printed on a light cream wove paper with plate tone (wiped to brighten the gate and doorway area) and substantial burr in the drypoint work.
According to Hausberg, “The gate and house behind it still stand today at No. 4 Cheyne Walk...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Baigneuse Nue aux Arbres (Nude Bather amidst Trees)
By André Derain
Located in New York, NY
Andre Derain (1880-1954), Baigneuse Nue aux Arbres (Nude Bather amidst Trees), etching and drypoint, c. 1909, signed in pencil and numbered 27/100. Reference: Adhemar 50. In very good condition, on ARCHES cream laid paper, with their watermark, with full margins, 7 x 3 3/4, the sheet 22 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches, archivally matted.
A fine impression, with a subtle layering of plate tone.
Derain clearly based the face in this print on the famous African Fang mask which he owned (and which influenced others who saw it in his apartment such as Picasso, e.g., in his Demoiselles d’Avignon). It is also related to a sculpture he owned, a late medieval Virgin and Child. In fact, as is argued by Jane Lee...
Category
Early 1900s Cubist Nude Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Fashion Plates (a collection of 12)
By Paul Gavarni
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gavarni (1804-1866), Fashion Plates (a collection of 12), lithographs, c. 1840, as published in Le Charivari, with the letterpress verso. [Some are ...
Category
1840s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Bohemians
By Jacques Callot
Located in New York, NY
Jacques Callot (1592-1635), The Bohemians, the set of four etchings touched with burin, 1621. Reference: Lieure 374 (second state of four); Lieure 375-77 (second state of two). In ve...
Category
1620s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Brooklyn Bridge No. 6 (Swaying)
By John Marin
Located in New York, NY
John Marin (1870-1953), Brooklyn Bridge No. 6 (Swaying), 1913, Etching.
Z112. Edition c. 12 (Steiglitz); 1924, unknown but small (New Republic). Signed in pencil. Signed and dated...
Category
1910s Cubist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
St. Jean de Luz
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), St. Jean de Luz, lithograph, c. 1928, signed in pencil lower right and inscribed “40 proofs” lower left [also signed in the plate lo...
Category
1920s Expressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Metro 2nd Class
By Clement Haupers
Located in New York, NY
Clement Haupers (1900-1982), Metro 2nd Class, aquatint and etching, 1928, signed, titled, numbered (6/20), dated and inscribed “Paris.” In very good condition, slight toning and rema...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Venus
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), Venus, 1859. Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on laid paper, an impression in the second (final) state: there was no published edition. 6 x 9 inches (15 x 22.6 cm) sheet 73/8 x 117/8 inches (18.8 x 30.3 cm) Reference: Kennedy 59; Glasgow 60
A very fine impression.
A study of Héloïse, ‘Fumette’, asleep in bed, her head pressed into the pillow and the bedclothes covering her lower legs. This is one of three portraits Whistler made of Fumette in 1859: one of the others shows her standing and in the third only her head and shoulders are depicted. Venus is a work in the Realist tradition, and may be compared with Courbet’s nudes of the same period. The artist may also have had in mind Rembrandt’s study of Antiope in his etching Jupiter and Antiope.
Venus was never published and there is no record of it being shown until 1898 when it was included in an Exhibition of Etchings, Drypoints and Lithographs by Whistler at H. Wunderlich & Co., New York. To have been overlooked for exhibition until so late in Whistler’s life might suggest that the subject was considered improper. Frederick Wedmore, whose catalogue of Whistler’s etchings...
Category
1850s Impressionist Nude Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Paysage au Buttes-Chaumont (2nd Planche), 1920-21
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943) etching and engraving Paysage au Buttes-Chaumont (2nd Planche), 1920-21, signed and numbered ( 38/55) in pencil. Reference: Sylvain Laboureur 205. In very good condition with wide margins (remains of old hinging on margin verso, some showing through not near image). On white wove paper, 7 7/8 x 9 1/4, the sheet 10 x 13 1/2 inches, archival matting.
A fine, fresh and clear impression of this important cubist-influenced scene.
Jean-Emile Laboureur was born in Nantes in 1877. He traveled to Paris in 1895 intending to study law at the Sorbonne, but found himself drawn to the nearby famed Academie Julian, and although he never officially matriculated there, he became immersed in the Parisian art scene. Laboureur then traveled widely, staying for periods in the US and London, and studying classic art and printmaking in Italy and Germany. Although he had moved back to Paris by 1910, a time when analytical cubism was emerging in the work of Picasso and Braque, he continued working in an abstract, modernist mode, waiting until about 1913 or shortly thereafter to invent a cubist idiom all his own.
Cubism remained an important theme for Laboureur, a theme he varied, sometimes using it as a strong design or compositional component, sometimes only as a subtle background element. In Paysage aux Buttes...
Category
1920s Cubist Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
La Depart Pour La Chasse
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur lithograph La Depart Pour La Chasse, in five colors, 1927, signed and numbered (35/150) in pencil (Sylvain Laboureur, Godefry 780), from the edition of 150 plus ...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Sleeping Model
By Theodore Casimir Roussel
Located in New York, NY
Theodore Roussel (1847-1926), The Sleeping Model or The Sleeper, etching and drypoint with additional pencil coloring, signed on the tab and inscribed “...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Color Pencil, Drypoint, Etching
The Street, Chelsea Embankment
By Theodore Casimir Roussel
Located in New York, NY
Theodore Roussel (1847-1926), The Street, Chelsea Embankment, etching, 1888-9, signed in pencil on the tab and annotated “imp” [also signed lower left in the plate]. Reference: Hausb...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Mill, Amsterdam, 1889
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in New York, NY
James Whistler (1834-1903), The Mill, 1889, etching and drypoint, signed in pencil with the butterfly on the tab and inscribed “imp”, and inscribed “first state” (twice) and annotated “Wunderlich” and signed again with the butterfly verso. Reference: Kennedy 413, first state (of 5). Glasgow 457, second state (of 6; see discussion below) (cf. Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock, James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné, University of Glasgow, 2011)
On laid paper, in very good condition, trimmed just outside of the platemark all around except for the tab by the artist, 6 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches.
A very fine impression of this great rarity, printed in black/brown ink with a slight veil of plate tone.
provenance:
H. Wunderlich & Co., New York
Louis B. Dailey, New York (Lugt 4500)
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, October 31, 2003, lot 69
literature;
Neue Lagerliste 122: James McNeill Whistler – Etchings...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
