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North Sea
By Mimmo Paladino
Located in Dallas, TX
from the Padoli Monotypes III
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Monotype
La Pêche
(Fishing) — French Cubist Woodcut
By Raoul Dufy
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Raoul Dufy, 'La Pêche' (Fishing), woodcut, 1910, from the second edition of 220 printed in 1953. With the estate stamp 'ATELIER RAOUL DUFY' in the lower left margin. Numbered '106/220' in pencil, lower right. Titled in the block, lower right. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, the full sheet with wide margins (3 to 5 inches), slight toning at the sheet edges, well away from the image; otherwise in excellent condition. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Image size 12 1/2 x 15 13/16 inches (318 x 402 mm); sheet size 19 9/16 x 25 3/4 inches (497 x 654 mm).
From the suite of four woodcuts entitled 'Les Plaisirs de la Paix' (The Pleasures of Peace), originally published by Éditions de La Sirène, Paris in 1926. The other three works in the series are 'La Danse' (The Dance), 'La Chase' (The Hunt), and 'L'amore' (Love). See our other listings for 'La Danse' and 'L'amore'.
Collections: Cleveland Museum of Art, Minneapolis Art...
Category
1910s Cubist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Old Professor (Oo La La) Jim Dine lithograph and Ron Padgett poetry
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Bright orange leaps up like flames, or swaying grass, over which hovers a large-eyed bee sketched in black and orange. Over the fire-red in neat handwriting Ron Padgett...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage David Hockney portrait Exhibition poster Graves Art Gallery
80
By (after) David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
The portrait of the David Hockney’s mother featured on this vintage David Hockney poster is currently on view at the National Portrait Gallery’s e...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Departure of the Argonaut by Francesco Clemente Alberto Sauvinio (portfolio)
By Francesco Clemente
Located in New York, NY
The Departure of the Argonaut (1918) is the travelogue and wartime diary of Alberto Savinio, one of the seminal figures in twentieth-century Italian arts and letters. Clemente's acco...
Category
1980s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Festival Predella" by Don Nice (Pop Art, Realism, Expressionism, Music, Print)
By Don Nice
Located in New York, NY
b. 1932, Visalia, CA
A contemporary American realist, Don Nice integrates expressionist and abstract expressionist techniques with a realist focus and energy derived from Pop Art. H...
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Le Beguin (Anaïs)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Le Beguin (Anaïs). 1922. Etching. Fletcher catalog 33 state iii./iv (before cancellation). 5 1/2 x 4 5/16 (sheet 11 1/2 x 8 13/16). Edition 76. Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarter...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Canadian Tire 2/4 - abstract, figurative, pop-art, limited giclee print
By Charles Pachter
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This pop art acrylic painting of a ‘Canadian’ tire is by Charles Pachter.
Canada’s much-celebrated pop artist, Charles Pachter displays his signatory humour in this patriotic rendit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée
Plate 93 from Imaginary Beings - Floral Giclée Print on Archival Paper
By Johanna Goodman
Located in Brighton, GB
Plate 93 from Johanna Goodman's Catalogue of Imaginary Beings
Giclée print on Archival Matte Paper with Archival Pigment Ink
In 2017 Goodman was awarded the New York State Council ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Peacocker, woman with peacock feather by Yuji Hiratsuka
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 Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Nero
— Mid-Century American Modernism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Benton Spruance, 'Nero', 2-color lithograph, edition 35, 1944, Fine and Looney 233. Signed, dated, titled and annotated 'Ed 35' in pencil. Initialed 'BS' in the image, lower right. A...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
ISRAEL (1951 Mexican Homage Poster)
By Fanny Rabel
Located in Santa Monica, CA
FANNY RABEL (1922 – 2008) and ALBERTO BELTRAN (B. 1923
ISRAEL - 2 Conferencias por Vocente Lombardo 1951 (P.134)
Linocut in 3...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
COMPOSITION - Lovely design portraying a future Abstract Expressionist.
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JAMES CHAPIN (1887 – 1975)
COMPOSITION c. 1940
Lithograph signed in pencil, Image 11 7/8 x 7 ¾ inches, sheet 13 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches. Just a hint of mat line in the margins and on the verso. Some remnants of old tape prImarily at the left & right sheet edges. Rather scarce print but possibly published by Associated American Artists.
WONDERFUL PORTRAYAL OF AN UP AND COMING ARTIST...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Alexsei
By Trevor Southey
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Medium: Etching
Year: 2008
Edition of 150
Image Size: 12 x 18 inches
This portrait was done as part of a larger project titled Warriors for which Trevor traveled to Russia three tim...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
$640 Sale Price
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Sailing
— Modernism, New York City WPA
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Fred Becker, 'Sailing', wood engraving, c. 1935, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper; with full margins (1 to 2 15/16...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$720 Sale Price
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Sew What (the swells and swirls of the stripes are now in the hands of others)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Sew What" is a color mezzotint with burin engraving created in an edition of 35. This impression is #6. I love sumptuously designed textiles in both real life and art. Patterns metamorphosing over fabric folds appeal to my interest in modulating rhythmic forms, particularly the swells and swirls of calligraphic stripes. I’m also fascinated by articulated wooden hand models, which appear in many of my paintings. Combining these passions with sewing paraphernalia from my seamstress days provided inspiration for my color mezzotint engraving "Sew What".
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Up Here Down There
Located in New York, NY
"Up Here Down There" by JR, Oliver Jeffers. 2016.
Hand embellished lithograph in colours on 270 grm BFK Rives paper
28.9 x 20.3 inches unframed (please inquire about framed dimensio...
Category
2010s Street Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Acrylic, Lithograph
DER SCHATTEN II - Rich Drypoint - 1st State
By Max Pechstein
Located in Santa Monica, CA
MAX PECHSTEIN (1881 -1955)
DER SCHATTEN II 1918 (Knupp 79, Fecher 143 I/ii)
Rich drypoint, signed and annotated, FIRST STATE. Image: 8 1/4 x 6 inches on japan paper; 15 x 11 1/4 i...
Category
1910s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Court
— WPA Social Conscience, Woman Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Claire Mahl Moore, 'Court' also 'The Authorities', woodcut, 1936, edition 5. Signed 'Mahl' and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on ...
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Assignation of a Spirit
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Greenwich, CT
Assignation of Spirit is an offset lithograph on paper, 26.75 x 26.75 inches, signed lower right and numbered 155/300. Framed in a contemporary white frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Offset
City Scene I — Mid-Century Modernism, Precisionism
By Bernard Brussel-Smith
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Bernard Brussel-Smith, 'City Scene I', wood engraving, 1949, edition 100. Signed, titled, and numbered '93/100' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on white wove paper, wi...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Red Demon and Blue Demon with 48 Arhats
By Takashi Murakami
Located in Greenwich, CT
'Red Demon and Blue Demon with 48 Arthats' is a large-format offset lithograph by Takashi Murakami, image size 28 x 46.5 inches and framed size 37.5 x 56 inches. From the edition of 300, signed lower right and numbered 191/300. Framed in a contemporary, white frame.
In the 2017 monograph, ‘The Octopus Eats its Own Legs’, Michael Dylan Foster writes, “Akiko Miki has noted that in his more recent work Murakami has made a ‘shift not only to being concerned with the notion of religion – a main component, along with capitalism, behind the creation of art – but also towards a more serious engagement with the traditions of Japanese art.’ These concerns, manifested in his explicit invocations of folkloric imagery and creatures from both religion and art, are particularly apparent in ‘The 500 Arhats,’ his monumental twenty-four-paneled, 100-meter-long painting. The work portrays five hundred wizened and grotesque arhats, Buddhist religious figures who, as art historian Nobuo Tsuji puts it, ‘normally… stay in the mountains practicing religious austerities, only appearing after a fire, tsunami, earthquake, or some other disaster has occurred, as a kind of rescue team.’
The gargantuan painting represents Murakami’s interest in creating – in the wake of Japan’s tragedy of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster on March 11, 2011 – ‘a work of art that would be deemed indispensable to our times.’ The inspiration came directly from a series of exchanges between Murakami and Tsuji, whose critical work the artist had long admired.”
Regarding the red and blue demons in the present artwork, these are allusions to Japan’s folkloric tradition of ‘oni’ – ogre or devil-like creatures who in ancient times were associated with bad fortunes and events, but in modern times are more ambiguous.
“…Murakami’s invocation of the oni suggests that – unlike his arhats, or his baku and hakutaku – these beings have not come as part of the post-disaster ‘rescue team’ but may represent the very inhuman forces that cause disaster. A closer examination of the figures, however, reveals that Murakami has incorporated other cultural allusions that complicate a one-sided interpretation. …these poses are reminiscent of the so-called Niō guardian...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Offset
Untitled (Portrait of a young woman - wife of the artist)
By Francisco Souto
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a self portrait of a young woman who is the wife of the artist.
Francisco Souto was born in Venezuela, and received a BFA from Herron School of Art and a MFA from The Ohio ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$375 Sale Price
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HATTY
By Peggy Bacon
Located in Portland, ME
Bacon, Peggy.
HATTY. Flint 48. Drypoint, 1921.
Titled, signed and dated in pencil.
5 1/2 x 8 7/16 inches (plate), 9 5/16 x 12 1/2 inches (sheet).
In excellent condition.
"A rest...
Category
1920s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$2,250
Mexican Orchestra (joy of the people is captured in this celebratory festival)
By George Overbury Hart
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Mexican Orchestra" is one of the George Overbury Hart's largest pieces. It is #14 from a limited edition of 50. The image captures a festive event with hanging lanterns, an orches...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Reverb" by Denzil Forrester (Reggae, Club, Dance, Concert, Print, Drawing)
Located in New York, NY
This vibrant image is a stellar example of Denzil Forrester’s depictions of dub and reggae clubs – a subject that has been central to his practice since the late 1970's. "I’m interes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Doorway.
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
Hardie/Carter 244. 8 1/16 x 6 3/8 (sheet 10 1/4 x 8 1/4). Edition 80, #52. Illustrated: Guichard, British Etchers, 1850-1940; ; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Forest Woman
— Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Forest Woman', engraving, 1945, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '5/50' in pencil. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack E...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
BAIGNEUSES
By Henri Fantin-Latour
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR (French 1836-1904)
BAIGNEUSES (4e grande planche), 1898 (Hediard 138 II/II)
It’s one of 6 works that formed a suite of images published ...
Category
1890s French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$650 Sale Price
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Rainbow: colorful Rosenquist pop art with gold, turquoise, purple, pink, blue
By James Rosenquist
Located in New York, NY
A classic Rosenquist pop art composition with gold, turquoise, purple, pink, blue, green and yellow. Characteristically surreal and graphic, Rainbow incorporates bold geometric forms with painterly washes of color and airbrush texture. Rosenquist's signature gleaming metallic chrome texture can be seen on an inverted fork behind the glass of a golden window.
Paper 25.25 x 30.25 in. / 64 x 77 cm
Image 17 x 21.5 in. / 43 x 54.5 cm
Lithograph with screenprint on cream-coloured Hodgkinson handmade Wookey Hole paper. Edition of 75 with 8 color trial proofs: this impression 8/8. Signed and dated 1972 lower right in pencil; titled, numbered 8/8 and labeled Color Trial Proof lower left in pencil.
This graphic, colorful scene is based on Rosenquist’s 1962 oil painting of the same name, collected in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. The artist used real glass and wood to construct windows for the original painting – here, house siding is abstracted to bold, black horizontal lines, and the window glass is printed in dark gold ink. At the top of the composition, a window with shutters pushed open is colored in turquoise, with sharp black shadows. The left-hand window pane is shattered, and to the right, the outline of an oversized...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
The Workshop (Stirling)
By Sir David Young Cameron, R.A.
Located in Storrs, CT
The Workshop (Stirling). 1905. Etching and drypoint. Rinder 369 state .ii/iv.Image: 8 3/16 x 12 (sheet 8 5/16 x 12). No published edition. A rich impression with drypoint burr printe...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
$1,000 Sale Price
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Untitled (Profile of an African Woman) — 1920s Modernism
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Boris Lovet-Lorski, 'Untitled (Profile of a Black Woman)', lithograph, edition 250, 1929. Signed and numbered 14 in pencil. Number 14 of Volume 2, a series of 10 lithographs publishe...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Sueno de La Sirena II (Mermaid dream of Dia de Los Muertos) by Juan Fuentes
By Juan Fuentes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil, from the edition of 30. Mermaid dream of Dia de Los Muertos.
The turbulent times of the 70’s set the tone for Fuentes' approach to creating ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
LINDY HOP
By Miguel Covarrubias
Located in Portland, ME
Covarrubias, Miguel. LINDY HOP. Lithograph, 1936. AAG edition (usually about 200), with their label preserved and attached to the back of the mat. Unsigned a...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
ABS, Lithograph
Anaïs No. 2
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Anaïs No. 2. 1930. Etching. Fletcher 67. 8 7/8 x 6 3/4 (Sheet 15 x 11). Edition 111. An extremely rich proof printed on cream wove paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. Anaïs F...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
THE FIT YOURSELF SHOP
By Kyra Markham
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KYRA MARKHAM (1891 – 1967)
THE FIT YOURSELF SHOP, 1935
Lithograph, signed, titled, dedicated, dated and no 24/50 in pencil. 12 5/8 x 9 5/8”. Signed in ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$780 Sale Price
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Plate 257 by Johanna Goodman (Valentine
s, Women Artists, Prints, Figurative)
By Johanna Goodman
Located in Brighton, GB
Please be aware that all prints are produced to order.
Lead times expected between 15-20 days.
Prices may change due to currency fluctuations.
Giclée print on Archival Matte Paper ...
Category
2010s Abstract Figurative Prints
Materials
Giclée
New Year’s Eve and Adam
By John Sloan
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Sloan, 'New Year's Eve and Adam', etching, 1918, edition 100, (only 85 printed), Morse 190. Signed, titled and annotated '100 proofs' in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, l...
Category
1910s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
France at her Furnaces
By James McBey
Located in Storrs, CT
1917. Etching. Hardie 175. 8 x 15 (sheet 10 1/8 x 16 15/16). Edition 76. Slight mat line; otherwise excellent condition. A rich impression printed on antique laid paper with full m...
Category
1910s Modern Interior Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
A DIAMOND HYPNOTIST - Le Diamant Magnetiseur
By Honoré Daumier
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HONORE DAUMIER (1808 - 1879)
LE DIAMANT MAGNETISEUR.....1859 (DR 3227 iii/iii: LD 3227)
Original lithograph 9 1/2 x 11 incl. text. Published in Le Chariv...
Category
1850s Barbizon School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$380 Sale Price
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The Investor, by Art Hazelwood - social satire of stock investor
the homeless
By Art Hazelwood
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered woodcut from the edition of 15. Political satire is a frequent topic in Hazelwood's work. This print shows a stock investor dancing happily past a homeless figure on the ground, while visions of stock quotes fill his mind. This is the last print available from the edition.
Art Hazelwood calls himself artist, instigator and impresario to define the three intertwining areas of his practice. He uses printmaking within a range of political allegory and satire making work from political posters to fine press edition artist books. He has curated and organized a range of exhibitions at venues from museums to immigrant centers. He has worked for over 20 years with homeless rights groups; creating prints, and street posters, and has authored one book and contributed to another on art and homelessness.
He has been a regular visiting guest artist at San Quentin State Prison and teaches currently at the San Francisco Art Institute. He organized the San Francisco Poster...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
BLACK FACE
By Karel Appel
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KAREL APPEL (1921 - 2006)
BLACK FACE, 1969
Lithograph in colors signed in pencil. Edition 26/75, Image: 19 3/4 x 25 1/4, sheet: 22 x 30 inches. Just hint of a mat line
Appel was a member of the Cobra art movement
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
MATTA - 10 EROTIC ETCHINGS - New School Portfolio
By Roberto Matta
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ROBERTO MATTA (Chilean 1911- 2002)
NEW SCHOOL PORTFOLIO (1943-5) (Sabatier 1-7, 4 prints not recorded by Sabatier)
Portfolio with complete set of 10 etch...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Naked Young Man Sitting On Lopped Branch; Naked Young Woman Sitting on a Branch.
By Eric Gill
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Wood engraving, 1930, edition small, Physick 642 / 643. Initialed in pencil.
Two blocks printed on a single sheet: fine impressions on cream laid Japan with full margins (1 1/2 to 2...
Category
1930s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Marquette
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
Marquett. 1925. Etching. Fletcher 51. 8 7/16 x 6 7/8 (sheet 12 13/16 x 8 7/8). Trial proof, apart from the edition of 106 (total 113 impressions). A rich impression, printed on cream...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
$520 Sale Price
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Crucifixion
By Ray H. French
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Crucifixion
Engraving, etching, and ground printed in colors, 1947
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil (see photos)
From the second printing by Jon Clemens, master printer in the 1990's
Done while the artist was at the Iowa Print Group, MFA Program, University of Iowa .
Condition: excellent
Image/Plate size: 15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Ray H...
Category
1940s American Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
7 A. M. St. Louis
By Art Werger
Located in New Orleans, LA
It's early morning I'm St. Louis in this 2002 mezzotint that is signed and numbered
Art Werger’s lyrical suburban scenes are evocative of boyhood summer evenings while his city imag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
$131 Sale Price
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THE PARTISAN (SF Dock strike)
By Herman Roderick Volz 1
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HERMAN VOLZ (Swiss/American 1904 - 1990)
THE PARTISAN, 1937
Lithograph, signed and no. in pencil. Edition 30. 10 1/2 x 14. Sheet 11 1/4 x 17 1/2" Generally good condition aside fro...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
"Brando Bike (Priscilla Pink)" Russell Young hand-pulled screen print on linen
By Russell Young
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Brando Bike (Priscilla Pink)" acrylic, oil-based ink and diamond dust hand-pulled screen print on linen by artist Russell Young. Signed Russell Young and dated 2008 -2-3 verso. Depi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Linen, Ink, Screen
Le Singe à l
électronique, by Pierre-Yves Trémois
By Pierre-Yves Trémois
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Pierre-Yves Trémois’s Le singe à l’électronique (1976) merges scientific imagery with primal instinct, juxtaposing a pensive baboon beside circuit-like engravings and a serene human ...
Category
1980s Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
$1,000 Sale Price
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Early Marshes
— Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ian Hugo, 'Early Marshes', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1943, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '37/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (2 5/8 to 7 inches), in excellent condition.
With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 5 x 5 7/8 inches (127 x 149 mm); sheet size 15 x 11 inches (381 x 279 mm).
Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945 and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions.
“The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.”
—Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature.
Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research.
Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June.
Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages."
In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking.
Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The bell tower by David Hockney (Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm)
By David Hockney
Located in New York, NY
From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of ‘The boy who left home to learn fear’. Hockney chose this story for its ...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Tropical Wash Day
— Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Tropical Wash Day', aquatint, edition 100, 1946. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy cream wove paper, with full...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Aquatint
The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City
— American Expressionism
By Frederick K. Detwiller
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Frederick K. Detwiller, 'The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City', lithograph, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Lith 20' in pencil. Inscribed 'To my Friend Herbert L. Jones' in pencil. Signed and dated, in the stone, lower right; initialed and dated '1927' in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with margins (7/8 to 1 1/4 inches); slight toning in the top left sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.
Image size 20 1/2 x 14 inches (521 x 356 mm); sheet size 22 1/2 x 16 inches (572 x 406 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
The Sixth Avenue El was constructed in the late 1870s by the Gilbert Elevated Railway and reorganized as the Metropolitan Elevated Railway. By 1878, it was running from Rector Street to 58th Street. Soon after that, it was taken over by the Manhattan Railway Company, with three other Manhattan elevated train lines. The company built a connection, the ‘spur’ by which it turned west on 53rd Street to merge with the 9th Avenue El—paralleling the present-day route of the 6th Avenue subway.
The Sixth Avenue El served the “Ladies Mile” shops (including the Siegel-Cooper emporium, whose building now houses Bed...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Où est le Jour (Poèmes, #13)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Greenwich, CT
Où est le Jour (Where is the Day) is a woodcut on paper from Marc Chagall's Poèmes portfolio, published in 1968. The image size is 13 x 10 inches and the art is framed in an ornate, ...
Category
20th Century Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
La Fille au Violon
By Alexandre Charpentier
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Fille au Violon
Color lithograph, gypsograph with embossed publisher's stamp
Signed and numbered in ink (see photo)
From: L'Estampe Originale, Paris, Vol. VII
Published by Andre M...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Barbados Children.
By Emilio Sanchez
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) created this color lithograph entitled “Barbados Children” in 1996. This signed impression came to us directly from the Sanchez estate. Estate stamped on v...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
SIXTEEN ETCHINGS
By Raphael Soyer
Located in Portland, ME
Soyer, Raphael. SIXTEEN ETCHINGS.
Published by Associated American Artists, NY, 1965.
From the Deluxe suite of 25 on Japan paper, this copy number 24/25. (There were a further 60 p...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Vintage Jim Dine Green Bathrobe exhibition poster, 1970s retro pop art font
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
This original, vintage poster on poster stock features one of Jim Dine's most iconic motifs: the bathrobe. In 1964, Dine saw an ad in the New York Times: “The ad shows a robe with the man airbrushed out of it. There was nobody in the bathrobe, but when I saw it, it looked like me.” Standing in for the artist's own body and rife with personal meaning, it provides a framework for limitless formal and stylistic experimentation. Here, the garment is colored bright green and defined by variegated black lines. Numbers label each part of the robe as in an anatomical chart. Bold black lettering reads Jim Dine, Petersburg Press...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Offset
LE BALLON VERT
By Graciela Rodo Boulanger
Located in Portland, ME
Rodo-Boulanger, Graciela. LE BALLON VERT. Lublin 20. Etching with aquatint in colors, 1967. Edition of 100. Numbered 31/100 and signed in pencil. 21 1/8 x 17...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint





