Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA)
Launched in 1987, the International Fine Print Dealers Association has continually set the bar for quality and ethics while promoting prints as original works of art to generations of collectors, curators and art lovers. With over 160 members in 13 countries, the IFPDA is a worldwide community of leading dealers and editions publishers who represent the full spectrum of printmaking. Each year, the IFPDA hosts the IFPDA Print Fair in New York, the only major fair dedicated to fine-art prints.
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Ninth Inning
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Sylvia Mayzer Rantz, 'Ninth Inning', lithograph, 1949, edition 24. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '9/24' in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper. The ful...
Category
1940s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'Broken Carousel' — Mid-century Symbolism
By Benton Murdoch Spruance
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
'Broken Carousel', color lithograph, 1950, edition 35, Fine and Looney 285. Signed, titled, and numbered '18/35' in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. A fine, richly-inked ...
Category
1950s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Boats in a Harbor
By Duilio Barnabe
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting is signed and dated by Barnabè on the lower right.
In 1959, French art critic Michel Concil-Lacoste, in the newspaper Le Monde, expressed his views on Barnabè: "Barnab...
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20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Beatles, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Norman Rossington on a platform
Located in London, GB
Original silver gelatin print on Ilford Multigrade fibre base 255 gsm paper, numbered in black pen to verso from the edition of 35, artist’s name blindstamp lower right, publisher’s ...
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled (for the journal, XX Siécle)
By Hans Hartung
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (for the journal, XXe Siécle)
Color lithograph on wove paper, 1973
Unsigned (as issued)
From: XXe Siecle,, December 1973, No. 41
Published by G. di San Lazzaro for A. Maeght, Paris
Printed by Mourlot, Paris
Edition 3000 (There was also a signed edition of 75 on larger paper)
Catalogue raisonné: Subsequent to Schmücking
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches
"Hans Hartung
B. 1904, LEIPZIG, GERMANY; D. 1989, ANTIBES, FRANCE
Hans Hartung was born on September 21, 1904, in Leipzig, Germany. He cultivated interests in philosophy, astronomy, music, and religion at a young age before he turned to painting. Early in his career he found inspiration in the works of Rembrandt van Rijn and Francisco de Goya, and later influences included Lovis Corinth, Oskar Kokoschka, Emil Nolde, and Max Slevogt. At just 17, Hartung began to experiment with abstraction, synthesizing the graphic techniques of his artistic models...
Category
1970s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
The Beatles, George Harrison signing a book in the walled garden
Located in London, GB
Original silver gelatin print on Ilford Multigrade fibre base 255 gsm paper, numbered in black pen to verso from the edition of 35, artist’s name blindstamp lower right, publisher’s ...
Category
1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk
By Frank Lemon
Located in New York, NY
Lemon, Frank.
Flights: Unforgettable Exploits of the Air.
This plate: With one beat of his wing, Charles Lindbergh goes to Paris! 1927.
Wright Aeronautical Corporation, 1928.
Origi...
Category
1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
MACHINES
By Jose Clemente Orozco
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO (Mexican, 1883-1949)
MACHINES, (aka Dos cabezas y Maquinas, Dos Cabezas, Maquinas) 1935 (Orozco 26)
Lithograph. Image 12 x 17 inches. Full margins, sheet 16 x 2...
Category
1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Church at Chichicastenango
By Jesse F. Reed
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jesse F. Reed, 'Church at Chichicastenango', color etching and aquatint, 1963. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right. A fine, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 3/8 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition.
Chichicastenango, also known as Santo Tomás Chichicastenango, is a town in the El Quiché department of Guatemala, located in a mountainous region about 140 km northwest of Guatemala City. Chichicastenango is a K'iche' Maya cultural center, with the great majority of the municipality's population indigenous Mayan K'iche. The church depicted is the 400-year-old church Iglesia de Santo Tomás. Built atop a Pre-Columbian temple platform, the steps which remain venerated today, originally led to a temple of the pre-Hispanic Maya civilization. K'iche' Maya priests still use the church for their rituals, burning incense and candles. Each of the 18 stairs that lead up to the church stands for one month of the Maya calendar year.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jesse Floyd Reed (1920-2011) studied art in New York City at the Grand Central School of Art and the Art Students’ League. He held degrees in History and English and completed special advance studies in Asian, African, and Latin American art, history and culture. At the time of his retirement, he was a Professor of the Arts Emeritus at Davis & Elkins College, a position he held for over forty-nine years.
A nationally recognized artist since 1947, Professor Reed’s art has been shown in hundreds of museums, libraries, colleges, and universities, including the Boston Museum, National Museum, The Library of Congress, Brooklyn Museum, and Seattle Museum. In his native West Virginia, he is represented in the permanent collections of the Huntington Museum and the Charleston Museum at Sunrise.
The recipient of many national and regional awards, Reed was a member of the Salmagundi Club in NY, the Boston Printmakers, the Print Club of Albany, and was a founding member of the West Virginia Water...
Category
1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
The Solitary One in Autumn—after Gustav Mahler's 'The Song of the Earth'
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Arthur Paunzen, 'Der Einsame im Herbst' (The Solitary One in Autumn) from the suite 'Song of the Earth', etching, aquatint, and drypoint, 1920. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 3/8 to 4 1/8 inches), in good condition. Image size 12 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches; sheet size 19 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THIS WORK
Pauzen’s suite of six etchings 'Das Lied von der Erde' (The Song of the Earth), published in 1920, was inspired by Gustav Mahler...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching, Drypoint, Aquatint
Myra
By Marcus Harvey
Located in London, GB
Silkscreen, 2016, on Somerset wove, signed and numbered from the edition of 25, published by Shapero Modern, London, printed by K2 Screens, London, image size 39.5 x 48.5 cm (15.6 x 19.1 in), sheet 50 x 63.5 cm. (19.7 x 25 in.)
Marcus Harvey's 'Myra' was included in the controversial Sensation exhibition of Young British Artists at the Royal Academy of Art in London in 1997. Norman Rosenthal, the Secretary of the Royal Academy, described it as the single most important painting in the show – "a very, very cathartic picture ... It is an incredibly serious and sober work of art that needs to be seen."[4] However, it provoked angry press and public comment before the exhibition opened, including the ironic comment in an editorial in The Sun: 'Myra Hindley...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Young British Artists (YBA) Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
CHANGING FLIES
By Levon West
Located in Santa Monica, CA
LEVON WEST (1900 – 1968)
CHANGING FLIES c. 1930
Etching and drypoint, signed in pencil and no. 28. Image, 13 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches, sheet 17 1/4 x 11 5/8 full margins with deckle edge...
Category
1930s Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
THE EIGHT - Rare early proof of a major Grosvenor School Linocut
By Cyril Power
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CYRIL POWER (1872 – 1951)
THE EIGHT 1930 (Coppel CEP 18: V. 18)
Color linocut. Unsigned. A printer’s counterproof (?) in reverse, on newsprint. Only two...
Category
1930s Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Linocut
Seahorse Print
By Mathurin Meheut
Located in New York, NY
Plate number 12, Hippocampe mouchete, from "Étude de la Mer" by Mathurin Meheut. Heliochrome print. Paris, Éditions Albert Levy, 1924.
Category
1920s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
29.88 x 22.36 ins (75.9 x 56.8 cms)
Edition of 96
Signature:Signed "R. Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's chop mark lower right
...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Untitled
By Michael Graves (b.1934)
Located in New York, NY
Michael Graves (July 9, 1934 – March 12, 2015) was an American architect. Identified as one of The New York Five, as well as Memphis Group, Graves was known first for his contemporary building designs and some prominent public commissions that became iconic examples of Postmodern architecture, such as the Portland Building and Denver Public Library. His recognition grew through designing domestic products sold by premium Italian housewares maker Alessi, and later low-cost new designs at stores such as Target and J. C. Penney in the United States. He was a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture and formerly designed postmodern buildings, and was recognized as a major influence in all three movements. Michael Graves was one of the most prominent and influential architects and designers of the late- 20th and early- 21st centuries. In his buildings and in his furniture and housewares, Graves embodied the essence of Postmodernism — a refined classicism inflected with a humanistic sense of joy. The Indiana-born Graves attended the University of Cincinnati’s architectural program and continued his studies at Harvard as well as at the American Academy in Rome. In 1962, he began teaching at Princeton, and remained there throughout his career. Following a seminal 1972 Museum of Modern Art group...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
(PHILOSOPHER READING)
By Ferdinand Bol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Circle of or a follower of Ferdinand Bol - (1616-1680)
(PHILOSOPHER READING) ca 1700
Etching on thin laid paper attached to support sheet at the top sh...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
Beetle Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Seba, Albertus.
Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historiam.
Amsterdam, Wetsten, Smith, Jans...
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Mid-18th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Laid Paper
LAST MOMENTS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN
Located in Santa Monica, CA
J. F. BUFFORD PUBLISHER and PRINTER
LAST MOMENTS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, April 15, 1865
Lithograph, very good impression. The 2 lower publishing lines ...
Category
1860s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
UNTITLED
By Ynez Johnston
Located in Portland, ME
Johnston, Ynez (American, 1920-2019). UNTITLED. Color woodcut, not dated. Edition size, if any, not known. Inscriibed "Trial Proof" in the left margin, and signed in pencil in the lo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'Autumn' — 1920s American Modernism, Color Woodcut
By Charles Turzak
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'Autumn', color woodcut, edition 50, c. 1925. Signed, titled and numbered '17/50' in pencil. Signed in the block, lower left. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on...
Category
1920s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Leaving the Mosque
By Marius Bauer
Located in Storrs, CT
Leaving the Mosque. 1892. Etching. 4 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 8 3/4 x10 5/16). Number 78. A rich, tonal impression printed on cream laid paper. Signed and numbered in pencil.l. Housed in a...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
STREET ACAPULCO
By Joseph Pennell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSEPH PENNELL (1857 - 1926)
STREET ACAPULCO 1901-08. Color pastel and gouache drawing on blue paper. Signed and titled in pencil in his early signature. Image, 10 x 14 inches to j...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Pastel, Mixed Media, Gouache
Farm in the Woods
By Werner Drewes
Located in New York, NY
Werner Drewes (1899-1983), Farm in the Woods, woodcut, 1933, signed and dated in pencil lower right (also numbered 1-xxx and titled lower left). Reference: Rose 83. In very good cond...
Category
1930s American Realist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
UNTITLED
By George Hoehn
Located in Portland, ME
Hoehn, George (American, 1935 - ?) UNTITLED ABSTRACTION. Gouache on heavy wove paper, 1969. Signed and dated, lower right. Tondo, 3 1/4 inches diameter, (image), 15 x 11 inches (shee...
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1960s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Gouache
Constellations
By Matt Magee
Located in Houston, TX
Matt Magee
Constellations, 2019
Diptych lithograph
22 x 44 inches overall (22 x 22 each sheet)
Edition of 30
Unframed
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Homme dévoilant une Femme. (Man uncovering a woman).
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Storrs, CT
Homme dévoilant une Femme. (Man uncovering a woman). 1931. Drypoint. Bloch 138; Baer 203 B.d. Vollard Suite, plate 5. Printed by: Lacourie...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Etching
'Tokaido' — Mt. Fuji Rising – Mid-Nineteenth Century Woodblock Print
By Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III)
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Utagawa Kunisada (Tokoyuni III), 'Tokaido', color woodblock, 1863. Signed in the cartouche, lower right. A fine impression, with rich, fresh colors and pronounced woodgrain, the full...
Category
1860s Edo Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
The Basque Boy also called Boy with Beret and Fabian.
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst
Located in Storrs, CT
The Basque Boy also called Boy with Beret and Fabian. 1944. Lithograph. Fletcher Lithographs 3.ii. zinc plate. 13 x 10 1/4 (sheet 7 1/8 x 13 7/8). Edition 10. Printed on countermarke...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, 1940s Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 IV. Annotated 'PW 290 state IV / IV 3669', in pencil, in the bottom right sheet corner. With the artist's typed address and date adjacent to the letterhead image: 'Falls Village, Connecticut September 26th, 1940'.
A fine impression, on buff, wove letterhead stock; several small losses, and tears, in the sheet edges (not affecting the image area); a crease in the bottom right sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Very scarce.
Image size: 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches; sheet size 11 x 8 5/8 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Feininger moved from Germany to New York City in 1938 and began spending his summers in Falls Village in 1940.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; New York, NY.
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...
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1930s Bauhaus Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
Our Gang
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 20.
Don Ed Hardy’s lithographs, created in the spring of 2007, continue the “look” of his Ghost Writer painting series which has been developed over the past five years. They are evocative of ancient Chinese stone rubbings, or x-rays. Both prints refer to earlier images from Japanese art history.
Our Gang...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
Bamboo Print
By Mathurin Meheut
Located in New York, NY
Meheut, Mathurin.
La Plante Exotique.
Pl 1: Bamboo.
Paris, 1931.
Heliochrome print.
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
T is for The Beatles, from Alphabet Series
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category
1990s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
Portrait of a Woman
Located in New York, NY
Sadatora, Utagawa (active 1818-1844).
[Portrait of woman].
Japan, ca. 1825.
Original woodblock print.
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1820s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Unknown title (castle with wall, stream and footbridge)
By David Cox
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unknown title (castle with wall, stream and footbridge)
Watercolor on laid paper, mounted to support of old Albumin photograph mount
Signed and dated lower left (see photo)
The watercolor is mounted on support that is the backing for a vintage albumin photograph of Moulin Huet, Guernsey, Channel Islands, c. 1850's
Condition: Mounted to verso of albumin photograph mount (see photo)
Glue residue outside of image/sheet on recto
Colors fresh
No other issues to note
David Cox (29 April 1783 – 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism.
He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour.
Although most popularly known for his works in watercolour, he also painted over 300 works in oil towards the end of his career, now considered "one of the greatest, but least recognised, achievements of any British painter.
His son, known as David Cox the Younger (1809-1885), was also a successful artist.
Early life in Birmingham, 1783–1804
Cox's birthplace in Deritend, Birmingham, illustrated by Samuel Lines
Cox was born on 29 April 1783 on Heath Mill Lane in Deritend, then an industrial suburb of Birmingham. His father was a blacksmith and whitesmith about whom little is known, except that he supplied components such as bayonets and barrels to the Birmingham gun trade. Cox's mother was the daughter of a farmer and miller from Small Heath to the east of Birmingham. Early biographers record that "she had had a better education than his father, and was a woman of superior intelligence and force of character." Cox was initially expected to follow his father into the metal trade and take over his forge, but his lack of physical strength led his family to seek opportunities for him to develop his interest in art, which is said to have first become apparent when the young Cox started painting paper kites...
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1840s Romantic Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Lower East Side Crowd
By Abraham Walkowitz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lower East Side Crowd
Ink and ink wash on paper, c. 1910
Signed in ink lower center edge (see photo)
Signed with the initials lower right corner (see p...
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1910s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink
THE NEW FRENCH TOOLS 5 - BOULEVARD VICTOR DOUBLE SKY.
By Jim Dine
Located in Portland, ME
Dine, Jim. THE NEW FRENCH TOOLS 5 - BOULEVARD VICTOR DOUBLE SKY. D;Oench and Feinberg 175. Etching and aquatint and electric tools on two plates, with hand ...
Category
1980s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Red Loop (suite of 12 mezzotints in boxed portfolio)
By Eduardo Leyva Herrera
Located in New Orleans, LA
12 copper mezzotints printed on Hahnemulle paper in an edition of 12. This is impression #5
The 12 complementary mezzotints are included in boxed portfolio
Graduated from the Natio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Mezzotint
La Receveuse (Bill Collector) —French Cubism
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Jean-Emile Laboureur, 'La Receveuse', engraving, 1919, edition 8, first state of two (artist's proof). Laboureur, Godefroy 190.
Signed and numbered '3/8 ép' in pencil. Initialed and...
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1910s Cubist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving
On the Beach (Coney Island, New York) — 1930s Graphic Modernism, WPA
By Lou Barlow
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lou Barlow (Louis Breslow), 'On the Beach' (Coney Island) wood engraving, c. 1937, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. Stamped 'FEDERAL ART PROJECT NYC WPA' in the bottom left margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, with all the fine lines printing clearly, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 3 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Scarce.
Image size 11 x 8 1/8 inches; sheet size 16 x 11 3/8 inches.
Created during the Great Depression for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), Federal Art Project, New York City.
Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the Illinois State Museum and the New York Public Library.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
Due to Coney Island's proximity to Manhattan, Brooklyn, and other New York boroughs, it began attracting vacationers in the 1830s and 1840s. Most of the vacationers were wealthy and went by carriage roads and steamship services that reduced travel time from a formerly half-day journey to two hours. By the late 1870s, the development of Coney Island's amusement park attractions and hotels drew people from all social classes. When the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company electrified the steam railroads and connected Brooklyn to Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge at the beginning of the 20th century, Coney Island turned rapidly from a resort to an accessible location for day-trippers seeking to escape the summer heat in New York City's tenements. In 1915, the Sea Beach Line was upgraded to a subway line, and the opening of the Stillwell Avenue station in 1919 ushered in Coney Island's busiest era. On the peak summer days, over a million people would travel to Coney Island. In 1937, New York City purchased a 400-foot-wide strip of land along the shoreline to allow the boardwalk to be moved 300 feet inland. At this point, Coney Island was so crowded on summer weekends that parks commissioner Robert Moses...
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1930s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
W is for Wrestler, from Alphabet Series
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category
1990s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, ...
By Georges Rouault
Located in Fairlawn, OH
En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, the taste of bitterness)
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922
Unsigned as issued
From: Miserere (Have Mercy), 58 plates
Plate 15
Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure
1922-1927
Edition: 425 on Arches vellum with the Ambrose Vollard watermark
25 Hors commerce portfolios
All published impression are unsigned, as issued
Signed and numbered only on the colophon
Published by Societe d’Editions l’Etoile Filante, Paris, 1948
Printer: Jacquemin, Paris, 1922-1927
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 19 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches
Reference: Chapon & Rouault 68 d/d
Flora and Kang cite Lamentations 3:18-23 as a possible verbal equivalent: "my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; so I say, ‘Gone is my glory, and all that I had hoped for from the Lord.’ The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall! My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me."
Rouault’s Miserere...
Category
1920s French School Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Aquatint
California Poppies Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor illustration for a series of commercial seed packets. Printed by Stecher-Traung Lithograph Corporation, Rochester, NY, circa 1935. Some staining from tape to edges.
Category
1930s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Marlboro Out the Window (These Boots are made for walking)
By Brinley Ribando
Located in New Orleans, LA
A color photograph showing a young woman in boots with a pack of Marlboro
Category
2010s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Digital Pigment
View of Piazzo San Marco in Venice
By Pierre Van der Aa
Located in New York, NY
Engraving of Veduta della Piazza di S. Marco, versoil Canale by Pierre van der Aa. Printed in 1722. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size, 11 x 13 5/8 in. Has the original center crease.
Category
1720s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Tree Peonies
By Chao Chung
Located in Storrs, CT
Tree Peonies. Watercolor and sumi ink on paper mounted on silk. Image: 29 x 11 1/2. Signed with the artist's red seal. Text: "You can smell the fragrances with the spring breeze touc...
Category
Late 20th Century Showa Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Cucumber Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Original watercolor by Nan Dedrick. Signed in pencil along the lower right edge of the main cucumber. Dedrick is a botanical artist who was a founding member of Art Botanica. This g...
Category
Early 2000s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Le Fondeur Paris [Steel Worker]
By Eugène Carrière
Located in New York, NY
Carriere, Eugene. Le Fondeur, Paris 1900 [Steel Worker], Color lithograph.
Ref: Das Fruhe Plakat 134. 51 x 34 3/4 inches.
Eugène Anatole Ca...
Category
Early 1900s Symbolist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
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Blue and White Embroidery Design
By Felix Fuzier
Located in New York, NY
Original color Jugendstil design lithograph from "Dessins et Broderies Pour Costum et Ameublement." Paris, 1900.
Category
Early 1900s Jugendstil Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Our Gang State II
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 20.
Don Ed Hardy’s lithographs, created in the spring of 2007, continue the “look” of his Ghost Writer painting series which has been developed over the past five years. They are evocative of ancient Chinese stone rubbings, or x-rays. Both prints refer to earlier images from Japanese art history.
Our Gang...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Lithograph
U is for Unusual People, from Alphabet Series
By Peter Blake
Located in London, GB
Screenprint in colours, 1991, on wove paper, signed, titled and numbered from the edition of 95 in pencil, published by Waddington Graphics and Corianda Studios, 102.5 x 77 cm. (40.4...
Category
1990s Pop Art Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Screen
Silhouette of Rembrandt
Located in New York, NY
Silhouette lithograph by an unknown artist, circa 1910. Presented in a cream archival mat with an opening of 4.5"L x 3.25"W.
Category
Early 20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Paper
Pair of Shell Watercolors
Located in New York, NY
Pair of original 19th Century watercolors displayed in custom w=k black stained frames.
Category
19th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Statue-Fisherboy
By Jane Martin VonBosse
Located in Storrs, CT
Statue-Fisherboy 1967. Linoleum cut. 9 1/2 x 7 5/8 (sheet 13 x 10 5/8). Edition 16, #16. A fine impression printed on Japanese mulberry paper. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. ...
Category
1960s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Linocut
'Church with House and Tree' – Artist's Personal Letterhead, Bauhaus Modernism
By Lyonel Feininger
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lyonel Feininger, 'Church with House and Tree (Kirche mit Haus und Baum)', woodcut, 1936, one of a small but unknown number of letterhead proofs; Prasse W290 V. Inscribed 'J. F. note paper', in pencil, in the artist’s hand; with the Feininger estate stamp and catalog no. 'W 859' in pencil. Annotated 'W.290 V state 3609' 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 3/4 inches; sheet size 10 x 7 5/16 inches. Archivally sleeved, unmatted.
Exhibited: 'Lyonel Feininer, Woodcuts Used As Letterheads'; Associated American Artists; Feb 4 - March 2, 1974; NY, NY.
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. Still, 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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Woodcut
A small copse in a field.
By Robert Kipniss
Located in New York, NY
The drypoint engraving entitled "A small copse in a field" was created by Robert Kipniss in 2016. Printed in an edition of 16 - this impression is signed in pencil and inscribed “12...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Engraving, Drypoint
Butterflies, Moths and Caterpillars Engraving
Located in New York, NY
Seba, Albertus.
Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus artificiossimis expressio, per universam physices historiam.
Amsterdam, Wetsten, Smith, Jans...
Category
Mid-18th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Laid Paper
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 12 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches
Regarding the Maine subject matter of her watercolors, we know that Allen taught art in West Gouldsboro, ME, located near Arcadia National Forest. This watercolor was most probably done in that vicinity.
A local Maine newsletter mentions “the artist Greta Allen’s house...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Watercolor
Moon ( from the artist's Lunar Series)
By Ted Kincaid
Located in New Orleans, LA
An image from Kincaid lunar series. An edition of 10
Over the course of three decades, Ted Kincaid has systematically subverted the notion of an objective photographic record and examined the play between painting and photography. Kincaid has created multiple series...
Category
2010s Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Film, Digital
Bedside View (Sunlight streams through window across body of young woman)
By Brinley Ribando
Located in New Orleans, LA
a sexy young girl lies in bed bathed in sunlight
Category
2010s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association
Materials
Digital Pigment
