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Tennis, Cig and Sunhat, From the Series "Why This Restlessness?"
By Casey Waterman
Located in Miami Beach, FL
By removing parts of the image, he explores the tension between what is present and what is omitted, focusing on the reasons behind these choices and their implications. The cutouts ...
Category
2010s Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Color
THE LAST PRIVATE PERSON - DER LETZIE PRIVATIER
By Andreas Paul Weber
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893-1980)
THE LAST PRIVATE PERSON - DER LETZIE PRIVATIER
Lithograph signed in pencil and with the artist's Clan Press Stamp l...
Category
1950s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Wake on the Ferry.
By John French Sloan
Located in Storrs, CT
Wake on the Ferry. 1949. Etching. Morse catalog 313. state v. 5 x 7 (sheet 8 3/4 x 11 7/8). Edition of 350: 200 for the Art Students League and 150 for the artist. A fine impression ...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,750 Sale Price
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DUELO (Duel)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FRANCISCO MORA (1922 - 2002)
DUELO (Duel) c. 1945
Lithograph signed in pencil. Published by the TGP Taller de Grafica Popular. Label on verso. 9 5/8 x...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chute I (the fall of ethereal creatures wandering in a hellish landscape)
By Maurice Pasternak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maurice Pasternak has created a surreal landscape that includes several spirit-like creatures seeming to wander in an unknown landscape He moves images around on the paper to create ...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Eyes for the Night
— Mid-century American Surrealism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Eyes for the Night', lithograph, 1947, edition 35, Fine and Looney 260. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. A fine impression, on heavy, cream ...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
The Dancer (Anaïs).
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
The Dancer (Anaïs). 1925. Etching. Fletcher catalog 52 state viii. 9 3/4 x 6 1/16 (Sheet 14 1/4 x 10 1/2). Edition 107. An extremely rich proof printed on cream 'MADE IN ENGLAND' ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Grassot Punch (Plate 5)
By Jules Chéret
Located in Greenwich, CT
Grassot Punch (Plate 5) is an 1896 lithograph of Jules Chéret's poster, printed at Imprimerie Chaix by Jules Chéret and included in the famed collection of Belle Époque posters 'Les ...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
WE’RE OVER THR MOUNTAIN (Wir sind überm Berg)
By Andreas Paul Weber
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ANDREAS PAUL WEBER (German 1893 – 1980)
WE’RE OVER THR MOUNTAIN (Wir sind überm Berg) (A68, D2718)
Lithograph over tinted ground, signed in pencil and in monogram in the stone. Image, 14 ½ x 19 1/4. Large full sheet with watermark and deckle edge, 24 ½ x 19 ¼. In very good condition.
The A. Paul Weber Museum was inaugurated in Ratzeburg in 1973. Andreas Paul Weber died on 9 November 1980. This important German lithographer, draughtsman and painter bequeathed a comprehensive œuvre, in which critical satirical works figure prominently.
THE WEBER MUSEUM HAS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND A BIOGRAPHY
The following is a biography taken from the prominent German auction house KETTERER /KUNST:
Andreas Paul Weber attended secondary modern school in Arnstadt between 1903 and 1910 before briefly attending the School for the Decorative and Applied Arts in Erfurt. In 1908 Weber joined the 'Jungwandervogel', a movement which sought to develop a new, modern lifestyle based on walking and living close to nature. At the same time Andreas Paul Weber began experimenting with lithography and worked as a commercial artist. When the first world war broke out, Weber served as a railway engineer on the Eastern Front, where he worked for the army as a draughtsman from 1916. After the war Andreas Paul Weber illustrated numerous books, including Till Eulenspiegel, Reineke Fuchs and the critical contemporary work Der Zeitgenosse by Hjalmar Kutzleb, which were Weber's first successes. In 1925 Weber founded the 'Clan-Presse' ['Clan Press'], where he and his son Christian printed...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Woman Clothed in the Sun
By William Wolff
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed proof copy from edition of unknown size. Most of Wolff's prints were done in very small numbers, and each was often unique.
Born in 1922 in San Francisco, William F. Wolff ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Woodcut
from "Ode à ma Mère" (Sheet 6) - Contemporary, Etching, Black, White, Spider
By Louise Bourgeois
Located in Köln, DE
Etching by Louise Bourgeois from 1995 from the portfolio "Ode à ma Mère": book with a text by Louise Bourgeois (English
French) and 9 etchings.
The present copy (sheet 6 from ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Black and White, Etching
Jim Dine: Dorian Gray
s Stomach from "The Picture of Dorian Gray" black etching
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This humorous black and white Jim Dine etching features what is ostensibly the imprint of an inked stomach. Around the print, black marks, scribbles, ...
Category
1960s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Black Moonlight: abstract black white and gray gouache and watercolor portrait
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in New York, NY
Moody, expressive large scale black and white abstract interior scene with grey watercolor and gouache, depicting a bust, indian Mugal carpet, floral design...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Watercolored By Jim Dine
By Jim Dine
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Jim Dine
Watercolored By Jim Dine
2015
Watercolor and copperplate etching
42 x 56 1/2 in.
Edition of 6; each piece is unique
Pencil signed, dated and numbered...
Category
2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Figure in Skirt Claes Oldenburg playful erotic nude etching in rainbow of color
By Claes Oldenburg
Located in New York, NY
A woman in slip-on heels leans languidly on a cloud-like phallus defined with loose, sketched lines. Gazing dreamily past the viewer, the topless woman dons a diaphanous tutu, and at...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Beneath the Surface: Dissolve, by Art Werger
By Art Werger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
in Beneath the Surface: Dissolve, Werger captures a fleeting, immersive moment of swimmers beneath the rippling surface of a swimming pool. Echoing the iconic swimming pool paintings...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Le Village (The village)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Village (The village)
Original lithograph in colors, listed in the artist's catalog raisonne of his prints, 1977
From: Derriere le Miroir, No. 225,
Edition 15,000 as published in...
Category
1970s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Corner of Steel Plant
— American Modernism / Precisionism
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Corner of Steel Plant', lithograph, 1929, edition 25, and 10 printed in 1972; Flint 21. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 'I/X' in penci...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Capeline de Paille d
Italie (The Italian Straw Hat).
By Henri Matisse
Located in Storrs, CT
La Capeline de Paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat). 1923. Lithograph. Duthuit 430. 17 3/4 x 15 3/4 (sheet 23 1/8 x 17 7/8). Trial proof, apart fr...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$48,000 Sale Price
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Alington in Wiltshire (The First Swallow).
By Robin Tanner
Located in Storrs, CT
Alington in Wiltshire (The First Swallow). 1927. Etching. Garton 2.iv. 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 (sheet 10 1/2 x 13 1/2). Final state published by in an editon of 12 by Garton & Cooke in 1982 (Nicolson published an edition of 40 in 1927). In states iii and iv, the swallow of the title was removed. In state iv, the sky was re-etched and the cross-hatching was slightly finer. Signed in pencil.
Garton writes, page 11: "The design was based on the Anglican chapel-of-ease is the farmyard of Bulisge at Allinston near Chippenham....The print was originally entitled The First Swallow, but the swallow was burnished out before the 1927 edition....Fifty years later new work was effected in the worn-out areas of the sky and distance to produce prints which, in his opinion, were better than those of the original edition."
Robin Tanner was an English artist, etcher, and printmaker. He followed the visionary tradition of Samuel Palmer and English neo-romanticism. His etchings began following night-school classes at Goldsmiths College, London. He had been inspired by the major Samuel Palmer retrospective exhibition organized by Martin Hardie...
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
$1,250 Sale Price
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Lux Aeterna I (Eternal Light -The Requiem/ copters hover over fearful refugees)
By Ana Maria Pacheco
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ana Maria Pacheco portrays the fear and feelings of the displacement of refugees cowering beneath helicopters overhead. The title of the work refers ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Winter Fun — Mid-century Modernism, Central Park, New York City
By Louis Lozowick
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Louis Lozowick, 'Winter Fun', lithograph, 1940, edition 20, 250 (1941). Flint 188. Signed in pencil, with the artist’s monogram in the stone, lower left. A...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Skyline from Jersey Heights
— 1930s Modernism
By Adriaan Lubbers
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Adriaan Lubbers, 'Skyline from Jersey Heights', lithograph, 1930, edition 25. Signed, titled, and numbered '4/XXV' in pencil. Dated 'Paris 1930' in pencil. A fine impression, on crea...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray
s Hand from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This print depicts a hand adorned with ornate jeweled rings, printed in teal turquoise. Underneath the hand is written “Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray’s Hand”. In Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Psychopathic Ward
— Socially-Conscious Realism
By Robert Riggs
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Riggs, 'Psychopathic Ward', 2-color lithograph, c. 1940, edition c. 50, Beall 60, Bassham 78. Signed, titled, and numbered '14' in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A ...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dorian Gray at Opium Den from "The Picture of Dorian Gray" surreal portrait
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This surreal etching portrait of Dorian Gray by Jim Dine in blue ink features the literary protagonist dressed in a white suit. His face is obscured by a mass of hair, tangles of which seem to grow from the sleeves, pant legs, and from beneath the jacket. Dine's notes are written on the image: at his feet reading "WHITE BOOTS" and "White Vinyl Suit" alongside the jacket. On the left edge of the image handwritten text reads "DORIAN GRAY AT OPIUM DEN". In Oscar Wilde's novel Dorian Gray keeps opium in an ornate box in his home, and frequents sites of consumption on the East side of London: “There were opium dens where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new”. An opium den is where Sybil's brother James discovers Dorian. The brother attempts to capture the man he believes is responsible for the death of his sister. Dorian flees to his home, ultimately slashing the portrait that has kept him young for so long.
Etching by Jim Dine from one of his most important artist’s books – completely designed and illustrated by Dine. Study for the Rings on Dorian Gray’s Hand from “The Picture of Dorian Gray...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Ambassadeurs - Aristide Bruant (after) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1966
By (After) Henri Toulouse Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
This lithographic poster illustrates Aristide Bruant who was a famous performer and cabaret owner in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. Lautrec, seizing on Bruant's trademark cos...
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jane Eyre
By Paula Rego
Located in London, GB
Signed hardcover book in cloth-backed pictorial boards
Accompanied by an original lithograph signed by Paula Rego
Housed in bespoke cloth-covered slipcase
From the deluxe edition, nu...
Category
Late 20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Whistler with the Monacle.
By Paul César Helleu
Located in Storrs, CT
Portrait of Whistler with the Monacle. 1897. Drypoint. 13 3/4 x 10 1/4 (sheet 16 3/4 x 11 5/8). A carefully wiped impression with plate tone, from the cancelled plate (there were onl...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
The Pimp
— Graphic Modernism
By Fritz Eichenberg
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fritz Eichenberg, 'The Pimp', wood engraving, 1980, artist's proof before the edition. Signed in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 3/16 to 3 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 12 x 9 3/4 inches (305 x 248 mm); sheet size 18 x 14 inches (457 x 356 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Fritz Eichenberg (1901–1990) was a German-American illustrator and arts educator who worked primarily in wood engraving. His best-known works were concerned with religion, social justice, and nonviolence.
Eichenberg was born to a Jewish family in Cologne, Germany, where the destruction of World War I helped to shape his anti-war sentiments. He worked as a printer's apprentice and studied at the Municipal School of Applied Arts in Cologne and the Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, where he studied under Hugo Steiner-Prag. In 1923 he moved to Berlin to begin his career as an artist, producing illustrations for books and newspapers. In his newspaper and magazine work, Eichenberg was politically outspoken and sometimes wrote and illustrated his reporting.
In 1933, the rise of Adolf Hitler drove Eichenberg, who was a public critic of the Nazis, to emigrate with his wife and children to the United States. He settled in New York City, where he lived most of his life. He worked in the WPA Federal Arts Project and was a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists.
In his prolific career as a book illustrator, Eichenberg portrayed many forms of literature but specialized in works with elements of extreme spiritual and emotional conflict, fantasy, or social satire. Over his long career, Eichenberg was commissioned to illustrate more than 100 classics by publishers in the United States and abroad, including works by renowned authors Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Poe, Swift, and Grimmelshausen. He also wrote and illustrated books of folklore and children's stories.
Eichenberg was a long-time contributor to the progressive magazine The Nation, his illustrations appearing between 1930 and 1980. Eichenberg’s work has been featured by such esteemed publishers as The Heritage Club, Random House, Book of the Month Club, The Limited Editions Club, Kingsport Press, Aquarius Press, and Doubleday.
Raised in a non-religious family, Eichenberg had been attracted to Taoism as a child. Following his wife's unexpected death in 1937, he turned briefly to Zen Buddhist meditation, then joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1940. Though he remained a Quaker until his death, Eichenberg was also associated with Catholic charity work through his friendship with Dorothy Day...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Untitled (Mother and Child)
By Maurice Denis
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Maurice Denis, Untitled (Mother and Child), lithograph, 1897, edition not stated. Signed in the stone, lower right. Annotated in linotype 'MAURICE DENIS, ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIE PAN III' in the lower left sheet corner. A fine, atmospheric impression, in warm, dark gray ink, on buff wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 1 3/4 inches); a small discoloration in the bottom left sheet corner, otherwise in good condition. Image size 8 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches; sheet size 13 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches. As published in 'Pan', the leading German magazine of the period devoted to art and literature. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Collection: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Reproduced: German Expressionist Prints...
Category
1890s Symbolist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mykonos Windmill
By Liudmila Kondakova
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mykonos Windmill is a lithograph on paper with an image size of 3.75 x 2.75 inches, inititaled 'LK' lower right and annotated lower left, framed in a gold-tone classic 'reed and ribb...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Back to the Land “Farming” by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Colour woodcut
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Back to the Land “Farming” by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Colour wood engraving
19.3 x 10.5 cm (7 ⁵/₈ x 4 ¹/₈ inches)
Initialed and titled in the plate and numbered, 4th state ...
Category
1910s Figurative Prints
Materials
Color, Woodcut
Clown
— WPA American Expressionism
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Clown', color serigraph, 1939, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '/20' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on buff la...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Karl Michel Exhibition
— German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Austellung Karl Michel', woodcut, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, numbered 'op. 173' (the artist's inventory number) and '7/20' (the impression number/edition size) and annotated 'Vorgesdruck' (artist's proof) in pencil.
A fine, richly-inked impression on hand-made cream, wove paper, with full margins (1 1/16 to 1 1/2 inches); toning to the right sheet edge deckle, otherwise in good condition. With the artist's blind stamp in the bottom center margin. Designed and printed by the artist. Very scarce. Matted to museum standards (unframed).
An elegantly designed, dynamic exhibition announcement with the German copy in the block: 'Austellung Karl Michel – Deutsches Buchmuseum Leipzig/Zeitzer str 12, Berlin S.W. 61 Teltower str 33 / Buchschmuck/ Plakate/ Anzeige/ Schultzmarke/ Illustrations/ Ex Libris'. English translation: 'Karl Michel Exhibition – German Book Museum, Leipzig Zeitzer Street 12, Berlin, S.W. 61 Teltower St. 33. / Book Decoration / Posters / Announcements / Illustrations / Ex Libris.'
Image size 6 x 4 inches (152 x 102 mm); sheet size 8 1/16 x 5 1/2 inches (205 x 140 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine 'Das Plakat' (The Poster) in 1920. An anti-war advocate, Michel created a suite of 12 wood engravings depicting his impressions of the humanitarian toll of WWII entitled ‘Humanitas’ (Humanity). The German publishing house Greifenverlag published the series in a folio of unsigned prints.
Michel’s graphic work is held in the permanent collections of the Auckland War Memorial Museum (New Zealand), Frederikshavn Kunstmuseum & Exlibrissamling (Denmark), Museum of Applied Arts (Budapest), The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the German Expressionism...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Legs and Redball, From the Series "Why This Restlessness?"
By Casey Waterman
Located in Miami Beach, FL
By removing parts of the image, he explores the tension between what is present and what is omitted, focusing on the reasons behind these choices and their implications. The cutouts ...
Category
2010s Contemporary More Prints
Materials
Archival Ink, Color
THE FORGE - Rich Drypoint
By James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES ABBOTT MCNEIL WHISTLER (1834 – 1903)
THE FORGE 1866 (Kennedy. 68 iv/vi: Glascow 86 vi/vi)
Etching and drypoint. Signed and dated in the plate 1866. VERY GOOD IMPRESSION WITH...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Posies for the Ladies by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Lithograph
By Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Posies for the Ladies by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Lithograph
25.5 x 22.5 cm (10 x 8 ⅞ inches)
Stamped with initials lower right and numbered lower left 6
Executed circa 19...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Southernmost Point (Florida Suite)
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Southernmost Point" from Kiraly's Florida Suite is a serigraph on paper, signed 'John Kiraly' lower right and numbered 72/250 lower left. The image size is 19 x 22.75 inches and the...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Screen
Sifnos (Aegean Sea Suite)
By Thomas McKnight
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Sifnos" is a serigraph on paper by Thomas McKnight from his 'Aegean Sea Suite', signed 'McKnight' lower right and numbered XXIX/CC lower left. From the edition of 510 (there were al...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Screen
Fortune Teller
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Fortune Teller" is a serigraph on paper by the artist John Kiraly, signed 'John Kiraly' lower right and numbered 126/250 lower left. The image size is 36.5 x 27.25 inches and the fr...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Screen
Westchester
By Thomas McKnight
Located in Greenwich, CT
"Westchester" is a serigraph on paper by Thomas McKnight, signed 'McKnight' lower right and numbered LI/C lower left. From the edition of 510 (there were also 200 Arabics, 10 PPs, 75...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Screen
Le Poeme (The Poem)
By Louis Icart
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Etching and aquatint on wove paper
Framed Dimensions: 28.00" x 31.50"
Signature: Signed in pencil at lower right, with the artist’s blindstamp at lower left. “C...
Category
1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
POSTER SIZE MEXICAN LINOCUT - DESPERTAR (Awakening)
By Adolfo Mexiac
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ADOLFO MEXIAC (Mexican b.1927 - )
DESPERTAR, (Awakening) 1960
Linoleum cut signed, titled and dated. image 19 1/4 x 27 1/2. Sheet 24 x 31 1/2
Generally very good condition save for a loss along the top sheet edge and creasing in the lower right part of the sheet. This print was most likely produced at the TGP (El Taller de Grafica Popular...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
$850 Sale Price
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Fantasia Americana, 1880
— Mid-Century American Surrealism
By Lawrence Kupferman
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches.
Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe.
Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston.
In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press:
“The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.”
The other speakers were Karl Knaths...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
El Jardin de las Delicias, by Maximino Javier
By Maximino Javier
Located in Palm Springs, CA
El Jardín de las Delicias by Maximino Javier was created in 1970. This date places it within a significant period of artistic exploration, reflecting the cultural and social themes p...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Mending Nets
— Cape Ann Regionalism, Rockport
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Christian Dull, 'Mending Nets', aquatint, c. 1930, edition 50. Signed and numbered '50/-' in pencil. A fine impression, on cream laid paper, the full sheet with margins (1/2 to 1 1/2...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
From "Marino from Goethe" by Marino Marini, Green, Black, Figurative Print
By Marino Marini
Located in Köln, DE
Etching and aquatint in colours by Marino Marini
From "Marino from Goethe", 1979/1980
90 x 62,8 cm
Copy 10/125
Edition of 195
Marino Marini (Pistoia 1901–1980 Viareggio 1980) - Ha...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Torse à l
aiguière
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Torse à l’aiguière
1927
Lithograph on Chine paper, Edition of 50
Paper size: 49.5 x 34.5 cms (19 1/2 x 13 1/2 ins)
Image size: 36.4 x 26 cms (14 1/4 x 10 1/4 ins)
HM15...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le repos du modèle
By Henri Matisse
Located in London, GB
Henri Matisse
Le repos du modèle
1922
Lithograph on Chine appliqué on Japon paper, Edition of 575
Paper size: not listed
Image size: 22.2 x 30.4 cms (8 3/4 x 12 ins)
HM15512
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
PUNCHINELLO IN THE HOUSE OF DEATH.
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Portland, ME
Bellows, George (American 1882-1925). PUNCHINELLO IN THE HOUSE OF DEATH.Mason 151 Lithograph, 1923. Edition of 60. Titled and signed in pencil by Bellows, and also signed "Bolton Bro...
Category
1920s Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Reflections
By John DePol
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John DePol, 'Reflections', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1979, edition 160 in 1983. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Signed in the block, lower right. A superb impression, on cream ...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Osmosis (process of gradual /unconscious assimilation of ideas, knowledge, etc.)
By Paolo Ciampini
Located in New Orleans, LA
Osmosis refers to the assimilation of ideas
Paolo Ciampini was born in Montopoli in Val d'Arno in 1941. After graduating from the Art Institute of Cascina (Pisa) in 1962, he comple...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
MON DOUX OU-ETES-VOUS? / MY SWEET COUNTRY, WERE ARE YOU?
By Georges Rouault
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958)
MON DOUX OU-ETES-VOUS? / MY SWEET COUNTRY, WERE ARE YOU? 1927
( Chapon/Rouault 97; Wofsy 151) Miserere XLIV Aquatint, 1927, on laid Arches. watermark...
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Aquatint
Otro sueño
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Lithograph
Edition Size: 100
Image Size: 25.6 × 20
Nahum Zenil’s Otro Sueño (“Another Dream”) merges autobiography, myth, and desire. Across the top register, a frieze of ga...
Category
Early 2000s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$1,000 Sale Price
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Church with Star
– Artist
s Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with Star (Kirche mit Stern)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W265. Annotated 'W 265' (Feininger catalogue number) and inventory no. '2808' in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine impression, on cream, laid letterhead stock; hinge remains on the left and right top sheet edges, verso, in excellent condition. Very scarce.
Image size 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 inches; sheet size 10 1/16 x 7 1/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was born in New York City into a musical family—his father was a violinist and composer, his mother was a singer and pianist. He studied violin with his father, and by the age of 12, he was performing in public, but he also drew incessantly, most notably the steamboats and sailing ships on the Hudson and East Rivers, and the landscape around Sharon, Conn., where he spent time on a farm owned by a family friend. At the age of 16 he left New York to study music and art in Germany, from where his parents emigrated. Drawn more to the visual arts, he attended schools in Hamburg, Berlin, and Paris from 1887 to 1892.
After completing his studies, Feininger began his artistic career as a cartoonist and illustrator, his originality leading him to great success. In 1906, after working for a dozen years in Germany, he was offered a job as a cartoonist at the Chicago Tribune, the largest circulation newspaper in the Midwest. He worked there for a year, inventing what became the standard design for the comic strip: in the words of John Carlin, “an overall pattern. . . that allowed the page to be read both as a series of elements one after the other, like language and as a group of juxtaposed images, like visual art.” His originality did not end there: he went on to become one of the great abstract painters. Like Kandinsky, music was his model, but Kandinsky only knew music from the outside—as a listener (inspired initially by Wagner, then by Schoenberg)—while Feininger knew it from the inside. He lived in Paris from 1906 to 1908, during which time he met and was influenced by the work of progressive painters Robert Delaunay and Jules Pascin, as well as that of Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh. He began painting full-time, developing his distinctive Iyrical style based on Cubist and Expressionist idioms and a concern for the emotive qualities of light and color. He exhibited with the Der Blaue Reiter group in 1913, and in 1917, he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Der Sturm in Berlin.
One year after his solo exhibition, in 1918, Feininger began making woodcuts. He became enamored with the medium, producing an impressive 117 in his first year of exploring the printmaking medium. In 1919 at the invitation of the architect Walter Gropius, he was appointed the first master at the newly formed Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar. His woodcut of a cathedral crowned...
Category
1930s Bauhaus Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Ex Libris Verein
— 1920s German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Ex Libris Verein' (New Year's Ex Libris Club Announcement), etching, 1924. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op. 167' in pencil. Signed and dated in...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Food Not Cannon
— WPA Modernist Work of Social Conscience
By Leon Bibel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Leon Bibel, 'Food Not Cannon', etching, 1937, edition 12 (an early state, probably unique). Signed in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/8 to 2 1/8 ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
LA ORANA MARIA (HAIL MARY)
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Santa Monica, CA
PAUL GAUGUIN (French 1848 - 1903)
LA ORANA MARIA (HAIL MARY) 1894/5 (Mongan/Kornfield 27B:Guerin 51) Transfer zincograph on coarse-grained transfer paper, in...
Category
1890s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Red Damsel (Human looks at small Tinker Bell like figure)
By Lois Ward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lois Ward's "Red Damsel" is a color mezzotint created in 1994 in a very small edition of just 10. This impression is #2 of 10. A young human figure in green gazes down on a Tinker B...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$75 Sale Price
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