Post-War Landscape Prints

Caberet du Lapin Agile, Montmartre, Paris - 13/250 This charming etching depicts a French residential street scene by Saul Yaffie a.k.a., Paul Jeffay (Scotland, 1898–1957) in varying shades of lights and darks with intricately made hash marks. Frame Size: 12.25"H x 14.88"W. Image size: 6"H x 8.75"W. Signed lower right Paul Jaffay and lower left "13 of 250" (impressions) Saul Yaffie, a.k.a. Paul Jeffay, (1898–1957) was a Scottish Jewish artist. Known for his charming French street scenes as well as his Judaica work. Saul Yaffie is listed in the Glasgow School of Art's World War One Roll of Honor. After (1918) the armistice Saul returned briefly to Glasgow, before ‘try[ing] his luck in Paris’ (Schotz, pg. 64). It is around this time that Saul began to sign his work with the pseudonym ‘Paul Jeffay’.He later went by the name Paul Jeffay, and much of his work is signed under this name. Saul Yaffie was born in Blythswood, Glasgow on 29 April 1898. His mother was Kate Yaffie (née Karkonoski), and his father, Bernard Yaffie, was a master tailor. Like many Russian Jews, Kate and Bernard Yaffie fled persecution in Russia during a wave of anti-Jewish pogroms triggered by the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881. Saul's father was naturalised as a British citizen by the time that Saul himself was three; a Bernard Yaffie is recorded as living at Abbotsford Place in the old Gorbals, where the young Saul spent the early years of his childhood. The Yaffies were not unique in their situation: the Gorbals was the centre of Scotland's Jewish community and home to a large proportion of Glasgow's immigrants throughout the early 20th century. Over time, there was a movement to some of the more affluent communities in Glasgow, such as Pollokshields and Garnethill, as many Jewish families gradually improved their social and economic situation. Like these, the Yaffies also experienced a time of good fortune, moving to a more agreeable address on Sinclair Drive, Cathcart as Bernard's tailoring business prospered. Saul attended day classes in drawing and painting, modelling, and life drawing at The Glasgow School of Art from 1912 to 1919. During the First World War, he was required to interrupt his studies to serve in the King's Own Scottish Borderers in 1916/17. Although subject to military conscription, Yaffie reached the rank of corporal during his service. Prior to his conscription Yaffie engaged in munitions work, something that was recorded in the GSA's student registers. The post-war economic depression that affected the country during the 1920s, also affected the Yaffie family directly: Bernard Yaffie's business suffered greatly, and the family eventually emigrated to Canada. Saul did not emigrate with his family, choosing instead to stay in Europe, and relocate to jazz age Paris where he continued his artistic practice. Now married, Saul sought to escape persecution in Europe by returning to the UK before the Second World War with his wife, Estusia. The two settled in Manchester, but returned to France after the war. In his memoires ‘Bronze in My Blood’, German-born sculptor Benno Schotz describes a Saul ‘Yaffe’, one of only three other Jewish students who attended The Glasgow School of Art at the time. (Schotz himself was exempt from joining the forces because he was ‘not yet a British subject’, and was engaged in war work in the drawing office of John Brown’s shipyards). On the outbreak of the war, Schotz writes, Yaffie won a poster competition to be displayed in Glasgow tramcars at the beginning of the 1914-18 war – his winning design depicted a woman with a child in her arms, fleeing from a fire behind her. While on leave from service, the young Saul told Schotz he had briefly been stationed in the same unit as Jewish American sculptor Jacob Epstein. This was most likely the 38th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers...

Color etching and aquatint Image: 10 in x 25 in (26 x 63.5 cm) Sheet: 17 3/4 x 29 11/16 in (45.1 x 75.4 cm) Signed lower right: "G Braque" Numbered lower left: 182/300" Edition 182 o...

David Hockney Paper Pools 1980 Lithograph on paper, Edition of 1000 26.5 x 23 cm (10 7/16 x 9 1/8 ins) DH17975 The print is in pristine condition and has never been framed.

Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) Landscape. Wonderful fishing scene, likely southeast Asia. Genis grew up in Vietnam of French parents and returned to the area throughout his career. ...

A 1926 drypoint etching by Alfred C. Stanley Anderson CBE RA RE (1884-1966) from an edition of 65, signed in pencil to the lower right just under the image. Depicting figures at Place St Gervaise Falaise, France. Titled in pencil and inscribed in pencil to the lower margin, and inscribed indistinctly '(?) in F Prints of the Year 1926'. Exhibited at the Sadley Street Gallery, Wells - an original gallery label affixed to the reverse. Fixed at the top edge to backing card measuring 45 x 32 cm. Image Size: 28 x 21.5 cm Sheet Size: 42 x 30.5cm (16.5" x 12") Plate Size: 28.5 x 22cm (11.2" x 8.7") Artist Biography: Anderson was responsible for reviving line engraving as a mode of original graphic expression, when it had become all but obsolete. He learned the process as an apprentice to a heraldic engraver, but initially achieved fame as an etcher and drypointist in the renaissance of British etching...

JULIAN TREVELYAN Heathrow, 1973 Etching with aquatint printed in black and blue On mouldmade T.H. Saunders paper Signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 52 Printed by Studio ...

Helen Frankenthaler Skywriting , 1997 screenprint 30 x 40 in Signed and dated in pencil edition of 110

DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937) View of Hotel Well II, from Moving Focus lithograph in colors, 1985, on HMP handmade paper, signed and dated in pencil, edition of 75 (there were also 14 arti...

"Normandie" is an offset lithograph of a pastoral landscape created for the Societe Nationale des Chemis de fer Francais, the French National Railways. 24" x 39"...

"Cote D'Azur" is an original color lithograph of the French Riviera created by the artist TAL for the Societe Nationale des Chemis de fer Francais, the French National Rail...

"Lourdes (Societe Nationale des Chemis de fer Francais)" is a signed original color lithograph by Herve Baille. It depicts a ray of bright light hitting a castle in the val...

"Bretagne (Societe National des Chemins de fer Francais)" is an original color lithograph by Robert Abel. It depicts a farm homestead...