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Item Ships From: California
Klonski Twins
By Charles Bragg
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Klonski Twinss" c.1970 is an original etching by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 2/100 in pencil by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 6 x 7.5 inches, framed is 15 x 19 inches. It is custom framed in red mahogany frame, with off white color matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist.
Charles Bragg was born in St. Louis, Missouri to two Vaudeville performing parents that he traveled with throughout his childhood. He attended New York’s High School of Music and Art in Harlem and ran away with his sweetheart when he turned 18.
He studied at the Art Students League in New York and later resided in Los Angeles. Before he decided to truly pursue painting, Bragg was a cab driver, a truck driver, a stand-up comedian, and a factory worker. When he arrived in California, he began painting for the wealthy and even gave lessons. It was during this time that he began to develop satirical feelings for the upper-class he was painting.
Considered the foremost social satire artist in America, Charles Bragg is highly acclaimed for his cryptic and humorous portraits. Bragg is a spiritual descendent of Bosch, Brueghel and Daumier
His work is found in the collections of at least 20 international museums, including thePushkin Museum, Moscow, USSR - Galleria d' Arte, Moderna de Milano Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland - Dayton Art Museum, Ohio - DowneyMuseum of Art, California - Long Beach Museum of Art, California - Wichita State University Collection - Roswell Museum Collection, New Mexico - Canton Art Institute, Ohio - Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando Florida - University of Wyoming Museum of Art - The Albrecht Museum of Art, St Joseph, Mo - St Lawrence University, Canton, NY - Gibbes Art Center, Charleston, SC - Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan ¬University of Judaism, Los Angeles, Ca - Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska - Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas - Joseph Hirshhorn Collection, National Gallery of Design...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Pour en Finir
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Pour en Finir
Year: Circa 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x 22.25 ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Fish Dish"- Figurative Abstract Still-Life
By Morag Muir
Located in Soquel, CA
"Fish Dish" by Morag Muir (Scottish, b. 1960). Screen print on paper Signed "Morag Muir" and dated "87" lower right. Titled "Fish Dish" center and numbered "...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Printer s Ink, Laid Paper, Screen
"Seaview Motel" Photography 14.5" x 20" inch Edition of 20 by Oleg Char
Located in Culver City, CA
"Seaview Motel" Photography 14.5" x 20" inch Edition of 20 by Oleg Char
Medium: Hahnemühle Baryta Paper
Not framed. Ships in a tube.
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Comes with C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Digital
Untitled 3
By Roger Chapelain Midy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roger Chapelain Midy (French, 1904-1992)
Title: Untitled 3
Year : Circa 1975
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Unknown
Paper: Silk paper
Image size: 18 x 25.25 inche...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Late 19th Century Engraving -- "A Hot Bargain" Painting by Frederick Bridgman
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful engraving of a late 19th Century painting by Frederic Arthur Bridgman (American, 1847 - 1928) titled "A Hot Bargain," (see image) engraved by James D. Smillie (American, 1833-1909), circa 1900. Signed lower right edge. Edition 64/225 with attribution to piece and artist on verso. Presented in with new mat. Original mat on verso. Condition: Good, minor foxing on edge. Image size: 5.88"H x 9"W.
A native of New York and the son of an engraver, James David Smillie earned his early reputation for his etching skills but later for watercolor landscapes. He began etching at age 8, learning from his father, James Smillie...
Category
1870s Realist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled 2
By Roger Chapelain Midy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roger Chapelain Midy (French, 1904-1992)
Title: Untitled 2
Year : Circa 1975
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Unknown
Paper: Silk paper
Image size: 18 x 25.25 inche...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nouvelles En Trois Lignes I
By Roland Topor
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roland Topor (French, 1938-1997)
Title: Nouvelles En Trois Lignes I
Year: 1975
Medium: Lithograph with pochoir hand coloring
Edition: Inscribed A.P (Artist Proof)
Paper: Wove
Image size: 21 x 15 inches
paper size: 25.5 x 19.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher: Editions Sauret, Paris, Monaco
Condition: Excellent
Description: From the suite"Nouvelles En Trois Lignes"
About the artist.
Roland Topor (January 7, 1938 – April 16, 1997), was a French illustrator, painter, writer, filmmaker and actor, known for the surreal nature of his work. He attended the School of Fine Arts in Paris (1955-1964).
He publishes his first drawings in the review « Bizarre », his first short stories appear in the review « Fiction » in 1958. His corrosive humor leads him to collaborate with the satirical newspaper « Hari-Kiri » (1961-1965). « Masochists » his first book is edited by Losfeld in 1961. Totally tragic, absurd and grotesque , the humor he disseminates evokes more the one of Central Europe. All his creations from the beginning till the end remain provocative and bizarre.
He is mainly known as an illustrator and graphic artist and famous for combining surrealism with black humor.
Abram Topor, father of the artist came to settle in Paris in 1930 thanks to a grant from the Warsow Arts Academy. In his young age during the war, he and his family will stay for a while in Savoie trying to escape Nazis.
In 1962 he created the Panic Movement (mouvement panique), together with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Fernando Arrabal. Topor wrote the novel "The Tenant" (1964), which was filmed by Roman Polanski as The Tenant
Topor was responsible for the odd visual style of the Czech/French animated sci-fi feature La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic Planet...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract portrait of a Woman Finely Detailed Collotype on paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract portrait of a Woman Finely Detailed Collotype on paper
Finely detailed abstract collotype of a woman by Heather Speck a San Francisco. Californi...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching, Oil, Gouache
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Pears
By Donald Sultan
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Donald Sultan (American, born 1951)
Title: Pears
Year: 1989
Medium: Color silkscreen and lithograph
Edition: Numbered 87/125 in pencil
Paper: Arches 88
Image size: 12 x 12 inches
paper size: 22 x 23 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Publisher : Parasol Editions Press L.T.D. Portland, Oregon.
Condition: Excellent
Frame: Framed in a custom wooden maple frame, with fabric bevel and matting.
Description: From the suite, Fruits
Donald Sultan is an American painter, sculptor, and print maker, well-known for large-scale still life paintings and the use of industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tiles. He has been exhibiting internationally in prominent museums and galleries, and his works are included in important museum collections all over the globe. Donald Sultan rose...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
$2,650
Untitled 1
By Roger Chapelain Midy
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Roger Chapelain Midy (French, 1904-1992)
Title: Untitled 1
Year : Circa 1975
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Unknown
Paper: Silk paper
Image size: 18 x 25.25 inche...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Set of Four Framed Wood Cut Prints After André Derain
By André Derain
Located in Pasadena, CA
Rare Set of Four Original Color WDCT Skira 1943 after RABELAIS (François).
The Horrible and Terrible Deeds and Prowess of the Renowned Pantagruel, King of the Dipsodes, Son of the ...
Category
1940s Fauvist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Woodcut
Woman with Hat
By Franco Gentilini
Located in San Francisco, CA
This is an original color lithograph on wove paper by Roman Italian artist Franco Gentilini (1909 - 1981) entitled "Woman with Hat." It was created circ...
Category
20th Century Modern California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Rideau de l
Hiver
By Erté
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Le Rideau de l'Hiver ( The Winter Curtain)" 1980 is an original color serigraph by Russian artist Erte ( Romain De Tirtoff) Russian, 1892-1990. It is hand signed...
Category
Late 20th Century Art Deco California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Other Medium
Classe 17
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923)
Title: Classe 17
Year: 1917
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 61/100 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Image size: 10.5 x 14.25 inches
...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Fool: Homage a Philippe
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Year: 2024
Edition: 25
Image Size: 24 x 18 inches
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
Dramatic etching of high wire walker...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Finely Detailed Abstract W/Woman Carrying a Young Child Collotype on paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely Detailed Abstract W/Woman Carrying a Young Child Collotype on paper
Finely detailed etching or collotype of a complicated fine line drawing o...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
The Heartkeepers
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Hearthkeepers" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on wove paper by American artist Robert Raymond Anderson, 1945-2...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Study 6" Figurative Abstract Lithograph
By Jim Smyth
Located in Soquel, CA
Graceful abstract figurative lithograph by Jim Smyth (American, b. 1938). Numbered, titled, signed and dated "5/12", "Study 2", "Smyth 74” along the bottom edge. Unframed.
Jim Smyth has studied at the Academia de Belle Arti in Fiorenza, Italy, Ecole des BeauxArts in Geneva, New York Academy, and the Art Students League. He is also a graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in Fine Art.
Although academically trained, Smyth practices and teaches a more impressionistic style of painting, focusing on the Alla Prima technique.
He is particularly knowledgeable about drawing, perspective, color theory and the human figure, his passion. Smyth, with extensive academic knowledge, has a profound love of all human representations as illustrated by his humorous quick sketches from life. He also practices and teaches oil painting and pastels.
When not in Provence, or Southeastern France, Smyth teaches intensely in art schools, art centers and several colleges in the Bay Area. He is a beloved instructor and his classes fill in quickly as he is very knowledgeable.
On his return to the United States, he began studying with Mr. Alanson Appleton at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. Smyth was a founding member of the Appletree Etchers, Inc., an etching print shop organized by Mr. Appleton and his students to develop and promote color intaglio. Smyth served as Master Printer at the studio for many years perfecting the techniques of intaglio and developing the color theories of Mr. Appleton as applied to the deeply etched plate.
Smyth received his degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972 and holds the California Community College Certificate and an Adult Education Certificate. Smyth was invited to teach "Anatomy for Artists" at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, as a result of his many years of dissection of the cadaver and developed the course of study of Perspective for the college. During this period, he began teaching Life Drawing at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California. During the following thirty years Smyth has taught an average of twelve classes per week at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, the Palo Alto Art Center and the Burlingame Recreation Department among others in all phases of drawing and painting. He has conducted many workshops for the California Academy of Painters in many aspects of drawing and painting. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of Drawing at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. He is an authority on the materials of painting and drawing, techniques of traditional drawing and painting, color theory, perspective and anatomy for artists. In his career in Life Drawing, Smyth has made over two hundred thousand drawings from the model.
In addition to studies at Berkeley, Smyth has studied at the College of San Mateo, Foothill College, De Anza College, Mission College, and West Valley College, all in California. One of the pivotal points in his career was studying with Mr. Maynard Dixon Stewart at the University of San Jose, California. He spent a year at the New York Academy of Art where he was offered a full scholarship and at the Art Students League of New York. He concurrently attended classes at the National Academy of Design in New York. Among others, Smyth studied with M. Andrejivec, Ted Schmidt, Elliot Goldfinger, Gary Fagin, Ted Jacobs, Leo Neufeld, David Leffel, Jack Ferragasso, Jim Childs and Everett Raymond Kinstler and Kim English. Smyth has also studied with the noted painter and colorist, Ovanes Berberian...
Category
1970s American Impressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Scribe and Personal Assistant to the Shogun - Japanese Woodblock Print on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Scribe and Personal Assistant to the Shogun - Japanese Woodblock Print on Paper
Detailed woodblock print by an unknown artist, In the style of Suzuki Harunobu. There are two women i...
Category
19th Century Edo California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Mel Ramos
Virnaburger
(or Verna Burger) signed print
By Mel Ramos
Located in San Rafael, CA
Mel Ramos (1935-2018)
Virnaburger (Verna Burger), 1965
Offset lithograph
A proof aside from the numbered edition of 500
Signed and dated LR: M Ramos 65
Image 19 x 14 inches
In a vint...
Category
1960s Pop Art California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Three Female Nudes - Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully evocative abstracted figurative study of three nudes by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century) who used a ground etching technique for added depth and movement. Signe...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
"Potiphar
s Wife", Stylized Figurative Abstract Woodcut on Handmade Paper
By Paula Walzer
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate woodcut print on handmade paper of a stylized figure and hieroglyphic-like symbols by Monterey Bay artist Paula Walzer (British,/American 1926-20...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Handmade Paper, Woodcut, Raw Linen
Danzante
By Juan Fuentes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: linocut
Year: 2019
Image Size: 24 x 24 inches
Edition Size: 10
Image of a native American woman in traditional garb and ceremonial dance.
As a cultural activist/artist/prin...
Category
2010s California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Mount Grosslockner, Austria
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Mount Grosslockner, Austria" c.1920 is a color etching on watermarked Kasimir Vienna paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist's estate at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 17.25 x 13.5 inches, the sheet size is 25.75 x 21 inches. with full margin. it is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the artist.
Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand.
Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Showcase (color), by Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Color mezzotint
Year: 2024
Edition: 25
Image Size: 24 x 18 inches
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist
Dramatic mezzotint of the tattooed back of a circus per...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Actor Arashi Rikan II as Aburaya Yohei - Figurative Woodblock Print on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Actor Arashi Rikan II as Aburaya Yohei - Figurative Woodblock Print on Paper
Woodblock print of kabuki actor by Shunbaisai Hokuei (Japanes...
Category
1830s Edo California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
Portrait of Albert Einstein with Multi-Colored Wires
By Lilya Vorobey
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Albert Einstein, a color collotype print, watercolor with electric wires, by Lilya Vorobey (American, 20th Century). Signed and dated "L. Vorobey '89" lower right. On mat...
Category
1980s American Modern California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Wire
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Reflection: Gallup Diner, by Art Hazelwood
By Art Hazelwood
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered woodcut from the edition of 15. Political and social satire is a frequent topic in Hazelwood's work. But equally, he enjoys depicting the social scene in specific...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Le Repos du Soldat
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923)
Title: Le Repos du Soldat
Year: c.1915
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 68/100 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Image size: 1...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Diex, Carinthia, Austria
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Diex, Carinthia, Austria" c.1950 is a color etching on Wove paper by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. Published/printed by Graphics International, Austria. The plate mark (image) size is 13.75 x 10.75 inches, sheet size is 20.5 x 16.15 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the artist.
Josef Eidenberger was born in 1899 in the little town of Goisern, Austria,he began his artistic career as a landscape painter. In 1923 he enrolled in the famed Graphic Academy of Art in Vienna and studied under Professor Alfred Cossman.
His recognized talent brought him many commissions from city officials and members of the business communities throughout Europe, especially in Austria and Germany. In 1973 after visiting the United States for the first time he created a series of California etchings...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Vintage Etching Abstracted Portrait of Amazing Grace
By Claudette McElroy
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold, slightly abstracted etching of an elderly woman titled "Amazing Grace" by Claudette McElroy (American, b. 1943). Signed on verso "Claudette McElroy" in the lower right corner, ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
$680 Sale Price
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"Fish Out of Water" Photography 20" x 16" in Ed. of 15 by Brendan North
By Brendan North
Located in Culver City, CA
"Fish Out of Water" Photography 20" x 16" in Ed. of 15 by Brendan North
Available sizes:
Edition of 15: 20" x 16" inch
Edition of 3: 30" x 24" inch
Edition of 3: 50" x 40" inch
AB...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Digital
Windows - A Suite of Prints by Patricia Pearce, et al
By Patricia A. Pearce
Located in Soquel, CA
A set of lithographs by College of San Mateo class of 1989, instructed by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b 1948). Pieces are individually signed by each artist. Each print is on laid paper, meaning they all have ragged edges. Presented in a black folio with title sheet, table of contents, and ties. Includes protective tissue paper dividers between each piece. Image size: 14"H x 11"W
Patricia Pearce is a California artist who attended San Francisco State and UC Irvine and is the adjunct Professor of Fine Art at the College of San Mateo. Her early work on paper explored images of garments using various printmaking techniques. Later, she began to work mainly in collagraph and monotype prints creating singular images of kimonos and ribbons in her subtle shifting, subdued pieces are constructed in a three-step process. Awards include Grade Prize, 3rd Biennial Exhibition of Prints, Wakayama Japan; Grant, Peninsula Community Foundation. Collections: Nieman Marcus, San Francisco; Wells Fargo, San Francisco Exhibitions: Montalvo, California Center for the Arts; Pacific Prints, Palo Alto.
Other artists in the collection include:
Peggy Christgau (American, b. 1939)
Marcia Pagels (American, b. 1930) - BA in Art, Stanford, 1951.
Barbara Cohn (American, b. 1923)
Megumi Kido
Julia Pitcher (American, b. 1942)
Bu King
Liane Rocker (American, b. 1929)
Jane Leddy...
Category
1980s Contemporary California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Mixed Media, Laid Paper, Lithograph
"Saddle Bags", Limited Edition Mixed Media Modern Pop Art Collotype, 4/6
By Maureen Fenton-Hansen
Located in Soquel, CA
"Saddle Bags", Limited Edition Mixed Media Modern Pop Art Collotype, 4/6
"Saddle Bags", a unique limited edition mixed media collotype on paper and machi...
Category
1970s Pop Art California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Thread, Paper, Printer s Ink
The Zealot
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "The Zealot" c.1950 is an original woodcut by Hungarian/American artist Julius F. Faysash, 1904-1977. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 4/50 in pencil by the artist. The image (woodblock mark) is 10 x 8 inches, framed size is 18 x 15 inches. Custom framed in a wooden grey frame and light beige matting. It is in very good condition.
About the artist:
Julius F. Faysash was born 1904 in Budapest Hungary. He and his family moved to the United States in 1914. His father, Emanuel Faysash was a cabinet maker and settled in Cleveland Ohio area. A short time later the family moved to Akron, Ohio where Faysash remained the rest of his life.
Julius graduated from the Cleveland School of Art and attended Akron University in 1927. He was a founding member of the Akron Society of Artists in 1931 and was the president of the Society in 1934 and 1946. He was an illustrator for the Firestone Company from the 1940's until his retirement from the company in 1969, mainly working in watercolor for this time period.
After retirement he began traveling to Mexico 6 months out of the year and began working in oils, acrylics and printmaking. He received an M.F.A. in 1973 from the Instituto Allende/University of Guanajuato, Mexico. He also had further studies under Henry G. Keller and in portraiture with Wayman Adams, Sandor Vago...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Puerto Escondido
By Arnold A. Grossman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Puerto Escondido" 1992 is an original color aquatint by noted California artist Arnold A. Grossman, 1923-2016. It is signed, dated, titled and numbered 1/20 in p...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Bob Dylan, 1960s Pop Art Portrait, A/P Etching
By Marc Foster Grant
Located in Soquel, CA
Pop Art portrait of a young Bob Dylan, a 1967 etching by Marc Foster Grant (American, 20th Century). Signed and dated "Marc Grant '67" lower right. Titled "...
Category
1960s Pop Art California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Printer s Ink, Etching
$1,720 Sale Price
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1970
s Figurative Home Interior Etching, Portrait of a Couple with Dogs
Located in Soquel, CA
1970's modernist etching of a man and woman at home with their dogs by Stephen Martin (American, 20th Century). The enigmatic couple both wear sungla...
Category
1970s Contemporary California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
Woodblock Portrait of a Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold woodblock print of a woman by J. Duffy (American, 20th Century). The subject is staring directly at the viewer, creating a compelling yet delicate composition. The ink appears t...
Category
1950s Modern California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
In Absentia - Al Mutanabbi Street 2007
By David Avery
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching
Year: 2014
Edition Size: 20
Image Size: 4 x 10.25 inches
The subtitle for this print is Al Mutanabbi Street, 2007. That is when a suicide bomber attacked this street...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Nude Figure Posterior View, Figurative Drypoint Etching
By Jim Smyth
Located in Soquel, CA
Limited edition drypoint etching of a nude figure from a posterior view by Jim Smyth (American, b. 1938). Numbered and signed by hand "7/15 Jim Smyth" along the bottom edge. Presented in a new cream and off-white double mat. No frame. Image size: 14.75"H x 10.75"W
Jim Smyth (American, b. 1938) has studied at the Academia de Belle Arti in Fiorenza, Italy, Ecole des BeauxArts in Geneva, New York Academy and the Art Students league. He is also a graduate from UC Berkeley with a degree in Fine Art.
Although academically trained, Smyth practices and teaches a more impressionistic style of painting, focusing on Alla Prima technique. He is particularly knowledgeable about drawing, perspective, color theory and the human figure, his passion. Smyth, with an extensive academic knowledge, has a profound love of all human representations as illustrated by his humorous quick sketches from life. He also practices and teaches oil painting and pastels.
When not in Provence, or Southeastern France, Smyth teaches intensely in art schools, art centers and several colleges in the Bay Area. He is a beloved instructor and his classes fill in quickly as he is very knowledgeable.
On his return to the United States, he began studying with Mr. Alanson Appleton at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. Smyth was a founding member of the Appletree Etchers, Inc., an etching print shop organized by Mr. Appleton and his students to develop and promote color intaglio. Smyth served as Master Printer at the studio for many years perfecting the techniques of intaglio and developing the color theories of Mr. Appleton as applied to the deep etched plate.
Smyth received his degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972 and holds the California Community College Certificate and an Adult Education Certificate. Smyth was invited to teach "Anatomy for Artists" at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, as a result of his many years of dissection of the cadaver and developed the course of study of Perspective for the college. During this period, he began teaching Life Drawing at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California. During the following thirty years Smyth has taught an average of twelve classes per week at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, the Palo Alto Art Center and the Burlingame Recreation Department among others in all phases of drawing and painting. He has conducted many workshops for the California Academy of Painters in many aspects of drawing and painting. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of Drawing at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. He is an authority on the materials of painting and drawing, techniques of traditional drawing and painting, color theory, perspective and anatomy for artists. In his career in Life Drawing, Smyth has made over two hundred thousand drawings from the model.
In addition to studies at Berkeley, Smyth has studied at the College of San Mateo, Foothill College, De Anza College, Mission College and West Valley College, all in California. One of the pivotal points in his career was studying with Mr. Maynard Dixon Stewart at the University of San Jose, California. He spent a year at the New York Academy of Art where he was offered a full scholarship and at the Art Students League of New York. He concurrently attended classes at the National Academy of Design in New York. Among others, Smyth studied with M. Andrejivec, Ted Schmidt, Elliot Goldfinger, Gary Fagin, Ted Jacobs, Leo Neufeld, David Leffel, Jack Ferragasso, Jim Childs and Everett Raymond Kinstler and Kim English. Smyth has also studied with the noted painter and colorist, Ovanes Berberian. In 2002 Jim was invited to study at the Academy of Art in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he worked in Life Drawing and Life Painting.
Smyth is a popular lecturer, a sought after demonstrator and juror. He is the recipient of many awards for both his painting and his teaching. In 1988 and again in 2003, he received the Kenneth Washburn...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
$700 Sale Price
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Bay Harbor
By David Rosenthal
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: David Rosenthal (American 1876-1949)
Title: Bay Harbor
Year: c.1930
Medium: Etching
Image (Plate mark) size: 6 x 8.25 inches
Sheet size: 8.25 x 10.5 inches
Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist
Condition: Very good
About the artist.
David Rosenthal (1876-1949) was a Cincinnati artist...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Two Oxen
By Nevzat Akoral
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Two Oxen" c.1960 is an original linocut on thin fiber paper by noted Turkish artist Nevzat Akoral, 1926-2016 It is signed in the plate as issue. The image is 11.15 x 9....
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
"Study 8" Figurative Lithograph
By Jim Smyth
Located in Soquel, CA
Lithograph of a figure of a woman by Jim Smyth (American, b. 1938). Numbered, titled, signed and dated "3/12", "Study 8", "Smyth 74” along the bottom edge. Unframed.
Jim Smyth has studied at the Academia de Belle Arti in Fiorenza, Italy, Ecole des BeauxArts in Geneva, New York Academy, and the Art Students League. He is also a graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in Fine Art.
Although academically trained, Smyth practices and teaches a more impressionistic style of painting, focusing on the Alla Prima technique.
He is particularly knowledgeable about drawing, perspective, color theory and the human figure, his passion. Smyth, with extensive academic knowledge, has a profound love of all human representations as illustrated by his humorous quick sketches from life. He also practices and teaches oil painting and pastels.
When not in Provence, or Southeastern France, Smyth teaches intensely in art schools, art centers and several colleges in the Bay Area. He is a beloved instructor and his classes fill in quickly as he is very knowledgeable.
On his return to the United States, he began studying with Mr. Alanson Appleton at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. Smyth was a founding member of the Appletree Etchers, Inc., an etching print shop organized by Mr. Appleton and his students to develop and promote color intaglio. Smyth served as Master Printer at the studio for many years perfecting the techniques of intaglio and developing the color theories of Mr. Appleton as applied to the deeply etched plate.
Smyth received his degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972 and holds the California Community College Certificate and an Adult Education Certificate. Smyth was invited to teach "Anatomy for Artists" at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, California, as a result of his many years of dissection of the cadaver and developed the course of study of Perspective for the college. During this period, he began teaching Life Drawing at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, California. During the following thirty years Smyth has taught an average of twelve classes per week at the Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, the Palo Alto Art Center and the Burlingame Recreation Department among others in all phases of drawing and painting. He has conducted many workshops for the California Academy of Painters in many aspects of drawing and painting. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor of Drawing at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California. He is an authority on the materials of painting and drawing, techniques of traditional drawing and painting, color theory, perspective and anatomy for artists. In his career in Life Drawing, Smyth has made over two hundred thousand drawings from the model.
In addition to studies at Berkeley, Smyth has studied at the College of San Mateo, Foothill College, De Anza College, Mission College, and West Valley College, all in California. One of the pivotal points in his career was studying with Mr. Maynard Dixon Stewart at the University of San Jose, California. He spent a year at the New York Academy of Art where he was offered a full scholarship and at the Art Students League of New York. He concurrently attended classes at the National Academy of Design in New York. Among others, Smyth studied with M. Andrejivec, Ted Schmidt, Elliot Goldfinger, Gary Fagin, Ted Jacobs, Leo Neufeld, David Leffel, Jack Ferragasso, Jim Childs and Everett Raymond Kinstler and Kim English. Smyth has also studied with the noted painter and colorist, Ovanes Berberian...
Category
1970s American Impressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
$520 Sale Price
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Abstract Etching (no. 1/5) by David Mar
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold black and white print by David Mar (American, 20th Century). An abstract print of wartime imagery is layered over the poem "Suicide in the Trenches" by Siegfried Sassoon...
Category
1990s Contemporary California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
$380 Sale Price
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Bird
By Arnold A. Grossman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Bird" c.1980 is an original etching by noted California artist Arnold A. Grossman, 1923-2016. It is signed with initials in pencil by the artist. The artwork siz...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Lake at Carcaron II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Lake at Carcaron II" c.1990 in an original color etching with aquatint by British artist Frances St. Clair Miller, b.1947. It is hand signed, titled and numbered...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Japanese Fishing Boats, Abstract Diptych Screen Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Screen print (Serigraph) composition of Japanese fishing boats in two parts by an unknown artist (20th Century). Signed (possibly "Myketo") a...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Screen
A Bientot Pour de Bon
By Théophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923)
Title: A Bientot Pour de Bon
Year: 1916
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 99/100 in pencil
Pa...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Paris Ville du Front
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Paris Ville du Front
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size paper: 15 x 22.25 i...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Low Tide
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Low Tide" 1943 is an original lithograph by New York artist Julian Edwin Levi, 1900-1982. It is hand signed in pencil by the art...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Venetian Sketches of Life - Figurative Abstract Lithograph, 116/150
By Katherine Chang Liu
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous eching and aquatint of Venice as overlapping scenes by California artist Katherine Chang Liu (American, 20th century). Presented in a metal frame. Numbered "116/150" and sig...
Category
1990s Abstract Impressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Two Figures on the Shore - Minimalist Landscape Drypoint Etching in Ink on Paper
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Two Figures on the Shore - Minimalist Landscape Drypoint Etching in Ink on Paper
Minimalist landscape with two figures walking along the shore by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-201...
Category
1980s Minimalist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
$460 Sale Price
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Young Girl by the Window, Mid-century Portrait
By Ben Messick
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-century portrait of a young girl by a window by acclaimed California artist Ben Messick (American, 1891-1981). Signed "Ben Messick" in plate, and in pencil in the lower right corner, by the estate. Presented in an off-white mat. Unframed. Paper size: 12"H x 12"W
The following is submitted by Jim Lafferty whose sources include the autobiography of the artist:
William Washington Messick married Sarah A. Bristow January 2,1889 and from this marriage a son, Benjamin Newton Messick was born on January 9, 1891 on a farm near Strafford, Missouri. His art talent was apparent from the time he was a child and later recognized by his commanding officer in World War I. He completed his training in Los Angeles at Chouinard in the late-1920s and is well-known for his Regionalist scenes and Modernist paintings. He was an instructor at Chouinard through the 1950s & influenced a generation of LA Modernists.
Little is recorded in his autobiography about Messick's life from his teen years and service during the War. He enrolled at Chouinard Institute in the Fall of 1925, and was given a three-year scholarship by Mrs. Chouinard. In 1925 he won a cash award at the Los Angeles County Fair for a group of pen and charcoal drawings done in the parks and streets of Los Angeles. These works give the appearance of being spontaneous and fluid.
In 1930 Messick left Chouinard as a full-time student and rented an apartment on West Eighth Street to use as a studio and living quarters. He had his own ideas on what he was trying to accomplish in art. "If you should ask what is the message of my drawings, I should say that they may explain themselves or may be just a technical exercise."
By the mid 1940s, Messick's position in the art world had been well established as a teacher, painter, printmaker, writer and critic. Over his life time he had over 400 shows and exhibitions. Starting in 1939 he produced a number of stone lithographs that appear to the untrained eye as original drawings. To Messick the image was the most important aspect of his lithographs, and his signature in the plate was sufficient. Hand signing each lithograph did not seem necessary to him. He exhibited prints widely including the Albany Print Club and the Metropolitian Museum.
To further substantiate the authenticity of Messick's prints the Eclectic Gallery under the authority of the Messick family posthumously pencil signed each estate-acquired stone lithograph.
Messick had a childhood fascination with the circus and started drawing and painting the circus in 1935. His circus work, especially his clown studies, and his lithographs became his trademark work for in the 1940s and 1950s. A critic for ART REVIEW described his Big Top work this way: "His circus canvases...
Category
1940s American Impressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink
$600 Sale Price
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Moro con clavel (Moor with Carnation) (A/P)
By Rafael Coronel
Located in San Francisco, CA
Serigraph by Mexican painter Rafael Coronel. Edition of 100. Certificate of authenticity included.
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Ben Turpin Cameo - Vintage Pop-Art 1960
s Psychedelic Figurative Print
By Peter Max
Located in Soquel, CA
Ben Turpin Cameo - Vintage Pop-Art 1960's Psychedelic Figurative Print
Bold and bright vintage psychedelic 1960's poster of Ben Turpin Cameo #3 by Peter Max (German, b. 1937). Image size, 38"H x 24"W. Unframed. Shipped Rolled in tube.
One of the most famous of all living artist's, Peter Max is a pop culture icon. His bold colors, uplifting images and an uncommon artistic diversity have touched almost every phase of American culture and has inspired many generations. Peter Max has painted for six U.S. Presidents and his art is on display in Presidential Libraries and in U.S. Embassies. Max has painted our Lady Liberty annually since America's Bicentennial and in 2000 a collage of his Liberties adorned over 145 million Verizon phone books. Max has been named an official artist of the 2006 U.S. Olympic Team at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. He has also been Official Artist of 5 Super Bowls, World Cup USA, The World Series, The U.S. Open, The Indy 500, The NYC Marathon...
Category
1960s Pop Art California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Lithograph
$1,516 Sale Price
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Personages with Lambs
By Sylvain Sauvage
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Personages with Lambs" 1924 is an original colors aquatint by noted French artist Felix Roy A.K.A Sylvain Sauvage, 1888-1948. It is hand signed and numbered 88/350 in pencil by the artist.
The image size is 13 x 9.5 inches, framed is 20 16 inches. Published and printed by La Societe Des Graveurs Modernes, Paris. Custom framed in a wooden gold frame.
It is in excellent condition, especially considering the age of this artwork
About the artist.
Félix Roy, said Sylvain Sauvage (born in Baume-les-Messieurs ( Jura ) on May 8 , 1888 and died in Paris in January 1948 ) is an illustrator and technician of the French book.
He was an exhibitor at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and Director of École Estienne . He illustrated many books of the French classic literature. The work of Sylvain Sauvage is held in numerous private collections in France and Europe.
Selected books illustrated by the artist.
L'Ingénue de Voltaire, Kieffer, 1922
La fille aux yeux d'or de Balzac, G. Crès, 1923
Monsieur Nicolas ou le cœur humain dévoilé. Mémoires intimes de Restif de la Bretonne, illustrés par Sylvain Sauvage de Restif de la Bretonne, Henri Jonquières, 1924
Les Belles Dames de Paris, historiettes de Tallemant de Réaux, coll. « Le livre du lettré », 1924 (avec une préface de Gérard Bauër)
Anatole France, Les sept femmes de la Barbe Bleue et autres contes merveilleux, A.&G. Mornay, Paris, 1925
Marquis de Sade, Ernestine, Cabinet du Livre / Jean Fort Éditeur, Paris, 1926 : 10 eaux-fortes
Casanova (J. de, Seigneur de Seingalt.), Une aventure de Casanova, Histoire complète de ses amours avec la belle C. C. et la religieuse de Muran. Compositions de Sylvain Sauvage gravées avec la collaboration de E. Feltesse. Paris, [chez l'artiste], 1926.
Candide de Voltaire, chez l'Artiste (imprimé chez Frazier-Soye et Haasen), 1928
Les Dieux ont soif de Anatole France, Éditions du Nord, 1928
Le Bon Plaisir d’Henri de Régnier, La Roseraie, 1929 : 20 eaux-fortes en couleurs et vingt bois gravés
La Troisième Jeunesse de madame Prune de Pierre Loti, Calmann-Levy, 1936
Les Romanesques ; Les Deux Pierrots ; La Dernière Nuit de Don Juan d’Edmond Rostand, éditions Pierre Laffitte, 1939 ; illustrations de Auguste Leroux...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Headache, Stomachache
By Yuji Hiratsuka
Located in Palm Springs, CA
While the images have some resemblance to traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, their sense of whimsy, satire and irony relate more closely to contemporary life and western sensibilit...
Category
2010s Contemporary California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Le Pays Reconquis
By Jean Louis Forain
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean-Louis Forain (French, 1852-1931)
Title: Le Pays Reconquis
Year: 1918
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: Numbered 266/300 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size p...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist California - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
