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Stéphanie au collant à damier, 1989, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, signed
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Stéphanie au collant à damier, 1989
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche
50 x 65 cm / 54 x 76 cm
Bibliographi...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Europe Our Homeland - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Europe Our Homeland
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 33 x 46 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Sciaky
1961
Jean Co...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Two lovers in a garden above Paris
By Lionello Balestrieri
Located in Genève, GE
Ed: 31/300
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
68 x 85.5 x 2.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Christina et sa poupée, 1985, original lithograph by Jean Jansem handsigned
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Christina et sa poupée, 1985
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée et justifiée
76 x 54 cm
Imprimeur: Mourlot, Paris
Editeur Sanbi, Tokyo
Bibliographie:
Jan...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La soupière bleue, 1990, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned numbered
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
La soupière bleue, 1990,
Lithographie sur papier Japon
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche
50 x 65 cm / 54 x 76 cm
Edition à 120 exemplaires sur Arches plus 30 épreuves d'artiste.
Ce rare exemplaire d'une édition à 30 épreuves sur papier Japon numérotées en chiffre romain.
Bibliographie:
Imprimeur: Mourlot, Paris
Editeur: Galerie 10, Paris
Bibliographie:
Jansem Lithographe, 1984-1993, Flora Jansem, Paris, n. 50, reproduit p. 56, référencé p. 109.
"Ma première lithographie date de 1954. Elle représente un enfant en haillons portant deux seaux d'eau, d'après un croquis rapporté de Cordoue lors de mon voyage en Espagne en 1952. Je l'exécutai sur pierre, au pinceau et à l'encre lithographique. Je fus déçu du résultat et n'en tirai qu'un essai et une épreuve.
Quatre ans plus tard, je réalisai une dizaine de nouvelles lithographies, toujours sur pierre, la plupart en noir.
Au lieu d'employer l'encre et le crayon...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Don Quixote Overwhelmed - Original Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Don Quixote Overwhelmed - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Manequin
SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali.
LIMITED : Total edition of 233
SIZE : 41...
Category
1950s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sylvie, fond rouge, 1995, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Sylvie, fond rouge, 1995
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche
64,5 x 50 cm / 76 x 56 cm
Bibliographie:
Impri...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Faces
By Hans Erni
Located in Genève, GE
Ed : 42/100
Wooden frame with glass pane
72.7 x 86 x 3.3 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$848
Leonor Fini - Satyr - Original Handsigned Lithograph
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Satyr - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Circa 1982
On colored paper
Handsigned and Numbered
Edition: 275
Dimensions: 69 x 52.5 cm
Category
1980s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Harvest in Switzerland by Alexandre Mairet - Engraving 26x36 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame from Alexandre Mairet
Category
1910s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Jean Cocteau (after) - The Flamenco Dancer - Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph after a drawing by Jean Cocteau
Title: The Flamenco Dancer
1971
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Lithograph made for the portfolio "Gitans et Corridas" published by Société de Diffu...
Category
1960s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Joëlle aux jambières état rouge, 1995, original lithograph, Jean Jansem, signed
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Joëlle aux jambières, état rouge, 1995
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche
65 x 50 cm / 76 x 56 cm
Rare édit...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,147 Sale Price
20% Off
Baladin, 1983, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned and numbered
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Baladin, 1983
Lithographie sur papier Arches, justifiée et numérotée 27/100
Signée en bas à droite
20 x 15 cm / 36 x 27 cm
Bibliographie:
Catalogue raisonné...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Peintre dans son atelier, 1969, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Peintre dans son atelier, 1969
Lithographie sur papier Rives
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche
39 x 52 cm / 56 x 76 cm
D'une édition à 120 exemplaires
Bibliographie:
Jansem Lithographe, 1954-1983, de Francony Editeur, Nice, 1984, n. 211, reproduit p. 53, référencé p. 231.
"Ma première lithographie date de 1954. Elle représente un enfant en haillons portant deux seaux d'eau, d'après un croquis rapporté de Cordoue lors de mon voyage en Espagne en 1952. Je l'exécutai sur pierre, au pinceau et à l'encre lithographique. Je fus déçu du résultat et n'en tirai qu'un essai et une épreuve.
Quatre ans plus tard, je réalisai une dizaine de nouvelles lithographies, toujours sur pierre, la plupart en noir.
Au lieu d'employer l'encre et le crayon...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sacré Coeur - Village of Montmartre - Pochoir
By (after) Maurice Utrillo
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
(after) Maurice Utrillo
Inspired Village of Montmartre
Pochoir with printed signature
Edition of 490
Dimensions: 39 x 30 cm
Information : This print was created for the portfolio "Le Village inspiré, Chronique de la bohème de Montmartre (1920-1950) " published by Vertex in 1950
Condition : Excellent
Maurice Utrillo (1883 - 1955)
The French painter Maurice Utrillo was born as the illegitimate son of the painter Suzanne Valladon in Paris on December 26, 1883. He was adopted by the Catalan art critic Miguel Utrillo...
Category
1950s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
La porte du jardin, 1986, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
La porte du jardin, 1986
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche
51 x 70 cm / 54 x 76 cm
D'une édition à 30 exemp...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Wine Casks
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Wine Casks - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Delorme.
SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali.
LIMITED : Total edition of 233
EDITION : Number 1...
Category
1950s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Magician - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Magician - Original Etching
Stamp Signed
Dimensions: 38,5 x 28,5 cm
1969
References : Field 69-1 K / Michler & Lopsinger 305
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born as the son of a prestigious notary in the small town of Figueras in Northern Spain. His talent as an artist showed at an early age and Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dali received his first drawing lessons when he was ten years old. His art teachers were a then well known Spanish impressionist painter, Ramon Pichot and later an art professor at the Municipal Drawing School. In 1923 his father bought his son his first printing press.
Dali began to study art at the Royal Academy of Art in Madrid. He was expelled twice and never took the final examinations. His opinion was that he was more qualified than those who should have examined him.
In 1928 Dali went to Paris where he met the Spanish painters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro. He established himself as the principal figure of a group of surrealist artists grouped around Andre Breton, who was something like the theoretical "schoolmaster" of surrealism. Years later Breton turned away from Dali accusing him of support of fascism, excessive self-presentation and financial greediness.
By 1929 Dali had found his personal style that should make him famous the world of the unconscious that is recalled during our dreams. The surrealist theory is based on the theories of the psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud. Recurring images of burning giraffes and melting watches became the artist's surrealist trademarks. His great craftsmanship allowed him to execute his paintings in a nearly photo-realistic style. No wonder that the artist was a great admirer of the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael.
Salvador Dali and Gala.
Meeting Gala was the most important event in the artist's life and decisive for his future career. She was a Russian immigrant and ten years older than Dali. When he met her, she was married to Paul Eluard.
Gala decided to stay with Dali. She became his companion, his muse, his sexual partner, his model in numerous art works and his business manager. For him she was everything. Most of all Gala was a stabilizing factor in his life. And she managed his success in the 1930s with exhibitions in Europe and the United States.
Gala was legally divorced from her husband in 1932. In 1934 Dali and Gala were married in a civil ceremony...
Category
1960s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Pèlerin au cierge, 1986, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, signed and numbered
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Pélerin au cierge, 1986
Lithographie sur papier Japon, justifiée XIV / XXX
Signée en bas à droite
67 x 51 cm / 76 x 54 cm
Bibliographie:
CR Jansem, 1993, n...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Violet Boot - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Violet Boot - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : Field ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall - Creation - Adam and Eve - Original Lithograph from Bible
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograh depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234)
On the reverse: another black and white original litho...
Category
1960s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Venus in Furs - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : Field 68-6 (p. 40-41).
Salvador Dal...
Category
1960s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Solange de dos, 1990, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned, numbered
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Solange de dos, 1990
Lithographie sur papier Japon
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche
45,5 x 65 cm / 54 x 76 cm
Bibliographie:
Imprimeur:...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Christ - Original Handsigned and Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Christ - Original Handsigned and Handcolored Lithograph
Signed in the plate
Handsigned and dated in color pencil.
Handcolored in pencil.
Dimensions: 50.5 x 33 cm
1957
...
Category
1950s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The tower of the island, Geneva 1850 by Louis Rey - Engraving 44x30 cm
By Louis Rey .
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
1970s Realist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Engraving
$160 Sale Price
20% Off
Pablo Picasso - Jeu de la Cape - Lithograph
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Lithograph by Picasso
Atelier Mourlot.
Paper: Vélin.
Dimensions : 9 5/8 x 12 7/16 inches
Reference: Bloch 1015
Picasso is not just a man and his work. Picasso is always a legend, ...
Category
1960s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The clown by William Goliasch - Print 50x66 cm
By William Goliasch
Located in Geneva, CH
William Goliasch (1922-1986)
Geneva Artist
Print on art paper with frame, numbered and signed by hand.
Total size with frame is 70x54 cm
Category
1960s Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Lithograph
$384 Sale Price
41% Off
Marc Chagall - The Bible - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours
Year: 1956
Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet)
Published by: Édit...
Category
1950s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Young woman in period costume from St. Gallen, Switzerland - Engraving 9x14 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Dimensions of the "passe-partout" frame
19.9 x 14.8 cm
Category
19th Century Realist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Mother and child
By Hans Erni
Located in Genève, GE
Ed : 18/150
Silver wood frame with glass pane
96.5 x 74.5 x 2.5 cm
Category
Late 20th Century Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Vision - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Lithograph by Jean Cocteau
Title: Taureaux
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 40 x 30 cm
Edition: 200
Luxury print edition from the portfolio of Trinckvel
1965
Category
1960s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
André Derain - Ovid
s Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938
Andre Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, an artist colony outside Paris. In 1898, he enrolled in the Academie Carriere in Paris where he met Matisse. He attended art school and in 1900, set up a studio with Maurice deVlaminck. After his military service from 1900-1904, Derain exhibited his work at the Salon des Independants and then at the Salon d'Automne with Matisse, Vlaminck and others, thus creating the movement of Fauvism.He worked with Henri Matisse in 1905 at Collioure, and participated in the 1905 Salon d’Automne with Matisse, Vlaminck, and Braque, the exhibition in which this group was labeled as Fauves, or Wild Beasts. Along with Vlaminck, Derain was one of the first artists to collect the tribal art of Africa which was influential to many of the artists of the early 20th century.
In 1906, Derain met Picasso and his dealer, who purchased Derain's entire studio, creating newfound financial success. During this time, he was hired for the illustrations for works by Guillaume Apollinaire and Andre Breton. After World War I, his friend's Cubism movement affected his art, along with influence from Classicism and African Art.
Derain stayed in Paris during most of the Occupation, where he was esteemed by the Nazis because of his artistic integrity. Hitler's Foreign Minister commissioned him to paint a family portrait, but he politely refused. His popularity began to decline after the war because of disagreement over new artistic movements. He later lost most of his eyesight due to illness, which may have been the reason he was hit by a truck in 1954, dying from shock at the age of 74.
Derain’s Fauve paintings are typically bright with intense color. Influenced by the work of Cézanne as well as the early Cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque’s, Derain’s style changed and by 1912, the paintings became more traditional and structured. For the remainder of his career, he continued to investigate different compositional methods including the perspective of Cézanne and the pointillism of Seurat. He also designed ballet sets and made a number of sculptures.
At the turn of the century, Andre Derain exhibited at the radical Fauve Salon d’Automne (1905) and was one of the founding members of the Fauvist movement together with his life-long friends Matisse and Vlaminck. The works he produced in this period, often under the guidance of Matisse, have been counted among the masterpieces of Fauvism.
From around 1918, Derain turned his back on the avant-garde and had begun to explore some of the more traditional genres of Western art, including landscapes. His main source of inspiration once the Fauves group had dispersed was found in the Louvre, where he admired the early Renaissance works in particular. Talking of his frequent visits there, he once said, ‘That seemed to me then, the true, pure absolute painting.’ His work evolved through many styles and, most significantly, turned back to the past, particularly after 1922 when Lenin had publicly pronounced his disdain for abstract art.
Derain built up an immense and fascinating collection of paintings, sculpture and objets d’art throughout his life which aided his experimentation and was reflected in his work between 1930 and 1945. During these years, his painting technique displayed the most avenues of invention, using a repertoire of primitivist motifs. His eclectic collection was constantly changing. In 1930 he sold his African collection in exchange for bronzes of antiquity and the Renaissance which indicated a real change of interest in the objects, as did his later pursuit of Greek ceramic painting and his enthusiasm for grand cycles of literary and antique themes...
Category
1930s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Madonna, children and cherub
By Maurice Denis
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Wooden frame with glass pane
57 x 46.5 x 2.5 cm
Category
1920s French School Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - At The Beach - Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - At The Beach - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Dimensions: 51 x 71 cm
1970
Signed in pencil and numbered
Edition : /CXX
References : Field 70-8
Category
1970s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le coin de l
atelier, 1986, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Le coin de l'atelier, 1986
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche
67 x 51 cm / 76 x 54 cm
D'une édition à 30 exe...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le couple au bouquet vert, 1974, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Le couple au bouquet vert, 1974
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche
69 x 51,5 cm ...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mère et enfant, 1986, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Mère et enfant, 1986, état noir
Lithographie sur papier Arches
Signée en bas à droite et justifiée en bas à gauche
67,5 x 51 cm / 76 x 54 cm
Très rare exemplaire
D'une édition à 30 exemplaires sur Arches de l'état noir.
Bibliographie:
Imprimeur: Mourlot, Paris
Editeur: Galerie Matignon, Paris
Bibliographie:
Jansem Lithographe, 1984-1993, Flora Jansem, Paris, n. 50, reproduit p. 56, référencé p. 109.
"Ma première lithographie date de 1954. Elle représente un enfant en haillons portant deux seaux d'eau, d'après un croquis rapporté de Cordoue lors de mon voyage en Espagne en 1952. Je l'exécutai sur pierre, au pinceau et à l'encre lithographique. Je fus déçu du résultat et n'en tirai qu'un essai et une épreuve.
Quatre ans plus tard, je réalisai une dizaine de nouvelles lithographies, toujours sur pierre, la plupart en noir.
Au lieu d'employer l'encre et le crayon...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Emilio Vedova - Original Lithograph
By Emilio Vedova
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Emilio Vedova - Original Lithograph
Abstraction
1961
From the art revue XXe Siecle
Dimensions: 32 x 24
Edition: G. di San Lazzaro.
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1960s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Nude with Snail
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude with Snail - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 235
1967
embossed signature
On Arches Vellum
References : Field 67-10 (p. 34-35)
Category
1960s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Marc Chagall - Inspiration - Original Lithograph from "Chagall Lithographe" v. 2
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph from Chagall Lithographe 1957-1962. VOLUME II.
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the unsigned edition of 10000 copies without margins
Reference: Mourlot 398
Condition : Excellent
Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985.
The Village
Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work.
At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well.
Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged.
The Beehive
Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period.
Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come.
War, Peace and Revolution
In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos.
To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia.
In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater...
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1960s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Jean Arp (after) - Composition - Pochoir
By Jean Arp
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Arp (after) - Composition - Pochoir
1958
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art revue XXe siècle
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
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1930s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
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Stencil
Salvador Dali - The Torso - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Torso - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : Field 68-6 (...
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1960s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
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Etching
Salvador Dali - The Negresses - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné : Field 68-6 (p. 40-41).
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1960s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
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Etching
Salvador Dali - Reverie of Don Quichotte - Original Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Don Quixote Reading - Original Lithograph
Joseph FORET, Paris, 1957
PRINTER : Atelier Mourlot.
SIGNATURE : plate signed by Dali.
LIMITED : 197 copies.
SIZE : 41 x ...
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1950s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Gabriel Domergue - Women
s Love - Original Etching
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Original Etching by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Dimensions: 33 x 25 cm
1924
Edition of 100
This artwork is part of the famous portfolio The Afternoon of a Faun.
Unsigned and unnumbered as ...
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1920s Impressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Beach
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Beach At Sete - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 235
Editor : Argillet
1967
embossed signature
On Arches Vellum
From the series : Poemes Secrets
P...
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1960s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
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Etching
Les Acadiens, 1993, original lithograph by Jean Jansem, handsigned and numbered
By Jean Jansem
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Jean Jansem (1920-2013)
Les acadiens, 1993
Lithographie sur papier Arches, justifiée E/A 16/30
Signée en bas à droite
65,5 x 50 cm / 76 x 56 cm
Bibliographie:
CR Jansem, 2000, n°9...
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Geneva - Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Nude with Flower - Original Etching on Silk
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Nude with Flower - from "Les Amours de Cassandre"
Original Etching
From the suite on Silk made for editions 9 to 34
Dimensions: 38,5 ...
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1960s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
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Etching
Marc Chagall - Bateau Mouche au bouquet - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
Title: Bateau Mouche au bouquet
1963
Dimensions: 39 x 30 cm
Edition: 180
Unsigned as issued.
From Regards sur Paris
Published by André Sauret
Condit...
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1960s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Les Songes Drolatiques - Handsigned Lithograph
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Hand-Signed Lithograph by Salvador Dali
This edition is on Japan Paper
Title: Pantagruel's Dreams
Signed in Pencil by Salvador Dali
Dimensions: 76 x 56 cm
Edition: EA
1973
References...
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1970s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Cocteau - King Oedipus - Original Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - King Oedipus - Original Lithograph
1956
Signed in the plate
Dimensions: 66 x 50 cm
Provenance : Succession Dermit, Cocteau's heir
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1950s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Lane of the Birches - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Lane of the Birches - Original Stamp-Signed Etching
Stamp signed by Dali
Edition of 294 copies.
Paper : Arches vellum.
Dimensions : 16x12".
Catalogue Raisonné ...
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1960s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Woman - Pochoir
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
After Pablo Picasso - Woman - Pochoir
Dimensions: 48.5 x 36 cm
1962
Signed in the plate
Edition of 260
Daniel Jacomet, LEDA, Editions d'Art
Pablo Picasso
Picasso is not just a man ...
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1960s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
Marc Chagall - The Bible - David saved by Michal - from VERVE
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Lithograph from Verve depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Lithograph in colours (Mourlot no. 234)
On the reverse: another black and white original lithograph ...
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1960s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - The Knighting of Lancelot - Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Original Handsigned Etching
From La Quête du Graal
Dimensions: 45 x 33 cm
Handsigned
Edition: 38/100
from the rare Suite on Moulin Richard de Bas Paper
Catalogue rai...
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1970s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Jean Cocteau - Angel - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau - Angel - Original Handcolored Lithograph
Signed in the plate
Stampsigned
Handcolored in pencil.
Edition : /XXV
Dimensions: 47.5 x...
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1950s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograp...
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1930s Modern Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Salvador Dali - Girl and Pig - Original Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - Girl and Pig - Original Etching
Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm
Edition: 390
1967
On Rives Vellum
Signed in the plate
References : Field 67-4 (p. 3...
Category
1960s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - City Hall - San Francisco - Original Hand-Signed Etching
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - City Hall - San Francisco - Original Hand-Signed Etching
Title: City Hall - San Francisco
Drypoint
Handsigned
Dimensions: 65 x 50 cm
Edition EA
Catalogue raisonné: Fi...
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1970s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvador Dali - The Rider and the Deer - Handsigned Engraving
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Salvador Dali - The Rider and the Deer - Handsigned Engraving
1974
Hand signed by Dali
Edition: /250
The dimensions of the image are 22.8 x 15.7 inches on 3...
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1970s Surrealist Geneva - Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
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