After an original painting by the famed Surrealist Belgian-born master artist Rene Magritte (1898-1967), is this print, 1970's, titled "L'Ile au Tresor" ("Treasure Island"), numbered in margin at lower left 199/200 and pencil signed there by Georgette Magritte (1901-1986), the artist's wife of many years; stamped ink Magritte signature at lower right. Measurements are 18 1/2" by 24" inside the mat and 26" by 31" as framed...
Hand colored engraving "The September sittings.--a demurrer"
England : Pubd. by S. W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly, 1825.
engraving, colored.
Summary: "Lord Eldon stands in a field in profile to the right, knees flexed, and bending forward, holding a gun..."
mat 14" by 18" sight 8.5" by 11" slight tear at bottom right as seen in pictures. The Library of Congress has a copy of this image in their collection
Antique Japanese woodblock print by Koitsu Tsuchiya (1870-1949) entitled Moon at Sumanoura Beach. A lone villager walks on the beach lit by the full moon. In the foreground are gnarled pines.
Koitsu Tsuchiya began studying the art of woodblock printing at the early age of 15. He studied for 19 years under the ukiyo-e master, Kiyochika Kobayashi...
John Taylor Arms
1887-1953
American
This is one of the finest works by John Taylor Arms etching and aquatint. It was created and printed in 1940 as image number 1 of his Scandinavian Series. Pencil signed twice, dedicated to William Schaldach, lower border. The image measures 7 9/16X13 9/16 inches. It appears in the Fletcher catalog as image number 346. It is the third state of three from the edition of 330 impressions. Printed by David Strang...
Mayumi Oda 2-Panel Japanese folding screen titled Sea Goddess, charmingly rendered with sea maidens cavorting amidst waves and clouds. With light blue and blue colors and vermilion and black printed on white paper attached to backing of textile border with Japanese indigo fabric. Circa 1972. Signed by artist.
Print Size: 28"H x 21"W
The size of Matted photo: 16 5/8" H x 14 3/4" W
The size of BW Photo Image: 9 1/4" W x 7 3/8" H .
Photo size itself: 10" x 8"
Date of Photo taken: August 1985
Photographer: Edward Kawanabe (1947 - )
Printer of Photograph: Edward Kawanabe (1947- )
Camera used: Nikon FM 2.
Condition: Excellent
The subject and Location: Taos Pueblo Wall, New Mexico
This is Fine Art Black and White photograph...
Helene Mass (1871-1955)
Sunshine at the Garden
Date: 1910-20.
Size: 14.75 x 14 inches.
Medium: Woodblock print.
Signed "H. Mass" (Helene Maß) in the image.
Condition: Top margin edge has adhesive residue.
Japanese Geisha Woodblock Print circa 1880 measuring 16x13 inches
Call or email. We have a rare and fine selection of Japanese art dating to 1860
In 1879 John Everett Millais produced Cherry Ripe, the oil painting of a little girl sitting on a tree trunk, next to her a large green leaf topped with red cherries. Cherry Ripe became extremely popular, and so was reproduced in various graphic media of the time. Millais’s painting was also used in the advertising campaigns of the Pears Soap company. This version of Cherry Ripe from around 1910 is a chromolithographic print, enhanced with hand coloring...
Aaron Bohrod surrealist lithograph, circa - early 1950's.
Exhibited - Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Institute, Corcoran Gallery Biennial, Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The Whitney Museum of American Art.
Image - 10" x 12 1/2".
Condition - very good.
A rare woodcut color print of exotic cacti in small pots on a yellow and white cloth, 9 3/8" by 9 3/8" inside the innermost mat, 18 1/4" by 17 1/2" as framed, pencil signed at lower right by the artist, EMMA (EMILIE LEONORE) MEYER (1859-1921). The paper use is an exceedingly delicate tissue-like paper. This is a finely crafted work by an artist from Denmark, who obviously deserves to be better known...
Sheet Size : 25 1/2" W x 19 3/4" H
Image Size: 24" W x 17 3/4" H
Artist : Joseph Sambataro
Title: Flower Merchants
Medium: Offset Lithograph on thick art Paper.
Signed: On lower Right, Sambatro in pencil.
Edition No. : 159/750 lower left in pencil.
Publisher: R. H. Banks Fine Art
Year Published : 1990's
Condition of Print: Excellent, Never been framed.
This is beautiful Offset Lithograph by Renowned Impressionist Artist,
Joseph Sambataro...
William Hogarth FRSA (/ˈhoʊɡɑːrθ/; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an 20th century Impression. English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects",[2] and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode...
William Lee Hankey, European, 1869-1952, "Marie Jean", Etching, image size: 10 3/16 x 8 1/2 inches, pencil signed
c.1780 "View of the Fleet of Otaheite" printed London 1780 . Capt Wallis discovery of Tahiti. size 9" by 6.5"
Reginald Cleveland Coxe, American, 1855-1926, "Home Again". This is an atmospheric scene of a ship coming into port, pulled by a tugboat; it is rendered with remarkabley delicate lines and a rich yet quite subtle tonal range, giving a strong sense of a soft morning fog over calm waters. The canvas sails of the ship beautifully contrast with the steam of the tug as is dissipates into the misty air. The image measures 19 x 23 inches, published in 1887, pencil signed on the lower right margin...
Original drypoint etching printed in two colors by David B. Milne (Canada, 1882-1953). In excellent original condition. Pencil signed lower left. Circa 1929-1930. As issued in The Colophon, New York, 1931.
David Milne is an important Canadian modernist.
A Very Fine Woodblock Print by Ito Shinsui (1898-1972):
Japan, Dai oban tate-e, 41.5cm x 25.8cm
“The first collection of modern beauties”
Title; A beauty warming under the quilted branket
Signed and Dated; Shinsui ga and Showha 6 (1931) December on the upper right image
Publisher and Seal; printed by Watanabe Shozaburo with a seal on verso
Watanabe "6-mm" seal (used on early Shinsui prints)
Limited number; 206/250 in rectangular red seal on verso wi...
[NOTE: I think my late husband Daniel Tretiak wrote this in 2007, after he got this site up and running.]
Daniel Tretiak has written a book, The Life and Works of Haku Maki, the important Japanese printmaker of the second half of the 20th Century. Maki toiled alone most of the time between 1960 and 2000. His output was substantial, most of it was cool, crisp, elegant. An example is shown above...
The Latin text discusses the origins of Turkish people and shows a man wearing a kaftan-like garment and a pointed hat. He is armed with a scimitar suspended from his twisted belt.
On top the hand-colored woodcut of king Pepin the Short (714-768 AD) holding sceptre and globe. Pepin was the first Carolingian king and father of Charlemagne.
Below is the figure of St. Eucherius with the insignia of a bishop.
The foregoing sheet portrays the early medieval antipope Constantinus...
A poster issued in 1968 by the Galerie Bradtke of Luxembourg, to celebrate an exhibition of the works of Spanish modern artist LUIS MOLNE (1907-1970). The poster is issued with a patronage by the Prince of Monaco, Prince Rainier, husband of Grace Kelly. The image features a young girl, the predominant colors blues and brown. I would think this a serigraph rather than lithograph. Condition appears to be excellent (not examined out of frame). Likely original frame is silvery painted wood, exh...
Scene from a Noh play from the series “100 Noh Plays” published 1922-1926
Signed Kogyo with publisher’s seal on lower left, very good impression and color, very minor wear, large red collector’s seal
Oban tate-e: 10 x 14 ¾ in.
Etching of the famous Chicago River surrounded by the classic skyscrapers, signed in the plate and dated 1927 at lower right, by the listed artist OTTO J. SCHNEIDER (1875-1946). The print does not appear to be pencil signed. Note the fine detail and the 1920's automobiles in the image at right corner. Schneider was born in Illinois and is most closely associated with that state. He exhibited at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, and the Panama Pacific Exposition of 1915. He was a stu...
"William Hogarth" The House of Commons in Sir Robert Walpole's Administration The Works of William Hogarth" as published by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy in 1822 with the original plates restored by James Heath, engraver to His Majesty. The Heath edition was the last to print directly from Hogarth's original engraved plates. All William Hogarth prints appearing after this date are copies of these original graphic works of art. Heath edition 1822 An original copperplate engraving — over 195 years ol...
Original unframed etching on paper, 8 1/8" by 12 3/8" inside the mat (the sheet 10" by 14"), signed in the plate and dated there 42, and pencil signed in the nearby lower right margin by the noted American printmaker LUIGI LUCIONI (1900-1988). **ONE OF SEVERAL PRINTS BY THE ARTIST IN MY SHOP**, this is no doubt a Vermont landscape scene, as Lucioni's prints largely deal with the classic mountain scenery, barns and farms of that rural state. The title is "Two Silos", and this was issued for the A...
Brandywine frigate frame Print 11 x 15”, frame size 20 x 24”
Shigeki Kuroda - modern Japanese printmaker
Presented - etching with aquatint entitled - Twilight
Image measures 7" x 11 1/2"
Framed
Measurement with frame 17 1/4" x 21 1/4"
Signed and numbered in pencil
Excellent condition
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand, French, 1863-1951, etching, "La Femme au Parapluie" (Lady with Umbrella), image size 14 1/4 x 6 inches, signed and dedicated in pen "A Mon Ami Mil..." (To My Friend Mil...), framed.
Two fine engravings of Mount Vernon, and the White House, each framed and measuring 6 3/4" by 8 3/4". These appear to be the same images that have appeared on US currency in the past, and the very high quality type of printing (intaglio?) is the same process. These were produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, either as printing proofs, or perhaps as official souvenirs to be sold in a gift shop setting----the Bureau's name is printed at the bottom of each. The detail is extremely crisp...
Six original 32 etchings by Jacques Callot comprising the full series LES PENITENTS ET PENITENTES, Lieure catalog numbers 1315-1319, second state of two except for the frontispiece, which is the first state. Wonderful designs, excellent clean prints. Framed and glazed, not examined outside of frame. Average print size 65 x 43 mm (2 1/2 x 1 3/4 inches), frame size 12 x 14 inches.
This silkscreen offering is said by some to depict Kabuki make-up. It is 8sq inches and in excellent condition. See picture 4, the title, where Maki seems to have written Kuma 92/--his numeral 1 was usually a straightforward vertical 1.
Arthur Bowen Davies, American, 1862-1928, "Circling Doves". This transfer lithograph by Arthur Davies measures 16 5/8 x 11 9/16 inches in an edition of 25 or less. Created in 1921, it is signed by the artist on the lower margin. Printed on medium weight paper, it is #189 in the Czestochowski catalog. Davies was known for his unique decorative style, often visualized in a fantasy world of female figures. One of the most respected and successful American artists, he was a member of the "Eight" and...
A harness horse racing print, with fine hand coloring, after the painting by noted English artist WILLIAM J. SHAYER (1811-1892), engraved by James R. Markell (1814-1866), featuring a great horse in his day, Lord William. The horse is described in the title area as the property of Samuel Lawrence Esq. The subtitle continues: "This extraordinary animal trotted a match against time in harness, for wager of 200 sovereigns, aside from London to Brighton, in the unprecedented time of three hours 5...
French artist Honoré Daumier “Salees des Elections” lithograph 10x12”
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (French: [ɔnɔʁe domje]; February 26, 1808 – February 10, 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second Napoleonic Empire in 1870. He earned a living throughout most of his life producing caricatures and cartoons of political figures and satirizing th...
Leon Louis Dolice, American, 1892-1960, Etching with Aquatint, image size: 10 5/8 x 6 inches, pencil signed
An original, vintage 1987 poster for the National Gallery of Art's 1987-1988 exhibition of the works of famed American modernist artist GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986). The offset poster measures 40" by 25 1/2" as framed. Condition is very good, with only a slight damp stain at lower right margin area. O'Keeffe is today one of the most popular American artists. Her modernist works of New York and the American Southwest can bring many millions of dollars at auction. This image is of New York's ...
Caroline Durieux
1896-1989
American, New Orleans
This is a very rare original lithograph by New Orleans artist Caroline Wogan Durieux. This impression is signed, titled and numbered 5/8 in pencil in the lower border. Also inscribed in the border: "printed by the artist". The image measures 14 1/2X10 inches.
Caroline Wogan Durieux is best known for her satirical, often pessimistic depictions of people and events. She was born in New Orleans in 1896, and showed early proficiency, studyin...
ONE OF A NUMBER BY THE ARTIST IN MY SHOP**This is a small etching (the sheet 7 1/2" by 5 1/2", respectably matted but not framed), by the noted California artist HARRIET GENE ROUDEBUSH (1908-1998), titled at lower left margin "Russian Hill" and pencil signed at lower right by the artist. The artist depicts a bird's eye view looking northwest from Russian Hill towards distant Mount Tamalpais in Marin County across the Golden Gate. Roudebush was born in Portland, Oregon and moved to Sacramento as...
Colorful serigraph print entitled "Dakini, the Sky Goer" by the artist Mayumi Oda (b. 1941). Dakini, broadly identified as a female spirit, goddess or demon in Hinduism and Buddhism. She is a fierce goddess and considered the embodiment of enlightened energy. This print is signed in pencil and numbered 26/45.
Mayumi is widely loved for her female empowering works, many of which are currently part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of Fine Arts,...
Original lithograph print, 7 1/4" by 10 3/8" inside the mat opening, the sheet 8 1/4" by 12 3/4", the title "Greeting Card for Aime Maeght", printed by Mourlot in the year 1960 in an unknown edition, on heavy Arches paper. The print is taped at top on the reverse. I note some abrasions: a diagonal scored pressure line at upper right, which extends into the mat, suggesting contact with something sharp; a comma-shaped abrasion in center to the left of the woman, only visible from an angle; a ti...
Woodblock on very thin, delicate Japan type paper, 14 1/2" by 10" inside the old mat, signed at lower right margin in Hebrew, numbered there 53/100, (part of the numbering apparently in green ink), the subject a holy or religious Jewish orthodox man with traditional clothing and hair style. I am not able to read the Hebrew and a friend who can was not able to decipher the writing. Regardless of artist name, the print is beautifully conceived and executed. It is a sensitive portrait of a subje...
The size of Matted photo: 17 " L x 15 1/4" W
The size of BW Photo Image: 9 1/4" L x 7 3/8" W (showing).
Photo size itself: 10" x 8"
Date of Photo taken: November 1985
Photographer: Edward Kawanabe (1947 - )
Printer of Photograph: Edward Kawanabe (1947- )
Camera used: Nikon FM 2.
Printed on Kodak High Gloss paper.
Condition: Excellent
The subject and Location: Renaissance Tower in Downtown Dallas, Tx.
This is Fine Art Black and White photogr...
Woodcut color print "Jeremiah", 23" by 15 1/2" (33" by 25" framed), signed in pencil at extreme lower right corner and dated there 1957, by the well-known Jewish artist JAKOB STEINHARDT (1887-1968). The work is numbered in lower center margin 1/30. Steinhardt is a significant figure in the Jewish art scene of the 20th century. Born in present-day Poland, he attended art school in Berlin in 1906, studying with Lovis Corinth and Hermann Struck. The years 1908 to 1910 were spent in Paris, where...
"William Hogarth" Portrait of John Wilkes The Works of William Hogarth" as published by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy in 1822 with the original plates restored by James Heath, engraver to His Majesty. The Heath edition was the last to print directly from Hogarth's original engraved plates. All William Hogarth prints appearing after this date are copies of these original graphic works of art. Heath edition 1822 An original copperplate engraving — over 195 years old. Sheet size: approx. 19.5 x 25 inc...
Dame Laura Knight
1877-1970
British
This is a fine aquatint etching by British artist Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) The subject is Pavlova in her role as a Grecian Dancer. It was created and printed in 1923 in an edition of 55. This etching is pencil signed and inscribed "print 2"..The image mesures 9 7/8X 6 7/8 inches. Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.
Edmond Francois Aman-Jean
1858-1936
French
This is a fine pencil signed lithograph by French impressionist Edmond Francois Aman-Jean. This image measures 13 3/8X14 5/8 inches. Very fine condition, printed on a wove type paper. The subject is Mile Moreno who played in the Comedie Francaise show this image was created and printed in 1898
Barry Moser, American, 1940-, "Timing Devices". A dramatic triptych wood engraving, the three images are individually titled, "The Dump", "The Burying Ground", and "The Eucharist". The overall image size is 8 x 9 3/8 inches, 1977, pencil signed.
A nineteenth century gentleman deep in thought, searching for the answer to an obviously vexing problem, is the subject of this etching, created in the late 1870's by artist Leon Richeton (1854-1934) after the original painting by Scottish artist ERSKINE NICOL (1825-1904). The artist was born in Edinburgh and taught in Ireland in the years surrounding the Great Potato Famine of the late 1840's. He spent many years of his artistic career addressing the many injustices inflicted upon the Irish p...
after Picasso study for Demoiselles d Avignon 1907 from "Picasso 15 Drawings" lithograph plate signed good condition corner fold as seen will frame very well. limited edition of 500, printed in 1946 they reproduced a group of paintings in a large format folio printed in lithographic plates with a dimension of 19-3/4" x 14" inches. The edition was 500 unsigned and unnumbered.
Leon Bakst, Russian 1866-1924, was an artist famous for his watercolor costume drawings of the Ballet Russe of Paris France. Many we have feature Vaslav Najinsky who is considered the greatest dancer of classical ballet.
The drawings are all original with watercolor and gouache and pencil notations and signed. They are from a private collection that was in the owners family for many, many years. They are priced at $2,500. Each
A fine example of one of the 58 images from the famous "Miserere" series of prints by famous French artist GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958), this being plate number 3, "Toujours Flagelle" ("Forever Scourged"), dated 1922, printed in 1927 in an edition of 425, and finally actually published after the war in 1948. The series is described by many, in many ways; most mention that Rouault was one of the most important religious artists of the 20th century, and that this landmark series of prints, created...
"William Hogarth" Sigismonda The Works of William Hogarth" as published by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy in 1822 with the original plates restored by James Heath, engraver to His Majesty. The Heath edition was the last to print directly from Hogarth's original engraved plates. All William Hogarth prints appearing after this date are copies of these original graphic works of art. Heath edition 1822 An original copperplate engraving — over 195 years old. Sheet size: approx. 19.5 x 25 inches see image...
Adolf Dehn, American 1895 -1968
Schools -
Art Students League of New York
Minneapolis School of Fine Art/College Art Design
Exhibitions -
American Watercolor Society
Brooklyn Museum
Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC
Guggenheim Museum
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Whitney Museum of American Art
Li...
Leaf of the Margarita philosophica, a general encyclopedia written by Gregor Reisch between 1489 and 1496 in Latin and first published in 1503.
Our sample was edited in March 1504 and printed by Johann Schott, a student of Gregor Reisch.
The sheet is from Chapter VI, which deals with geometric solids and their properties.
To illustrate the three dimensions of space, the author chooses the image of a naked man pierced by three spears, standing for length (longitudo), width (l...
A magnificent and imaginative work on paper signed “Calder” Color lithograph , titled “The Way To The World” 1968 the work framed and matted size is 39” x 52” The lithograph measures 29” x 42” The painting comes well framed and matted. The Frame is matte silver metal
A beautifu Eighteenth Century, hand colored Etching exotic monkey 10 x 8“ Frame size 16 x 14 English
"William Hogarth" Frontispiece to Dr. Brook Taylor's Perspective The Works of William Hogarth" as published by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy in 1822 with the original plates restored by James Heath, engraver to His Majesty. The Heath edition was the last to print directly from Hogarth's original engraved plates. All William Hogarth prints appearing after this date are copies of these original graphic works of art. Heath edition 1822 An original copperplate engraving — over 195 years old. Sheet size...
Stephen Parrish American, 1846-1938, "Bethlehim ,Pennsylvania, etching, image size 3 7/8X8 3/8 inches,pencil signed
An Offering Before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii)
Plate 60 for Voyage to the Pacific Ocean 1776-1780, recording the Third Voyage of Captain Cook.
Medium: Engraving
Year: published in 1790
Size: Plate mark: 8.5 x 14.25 inches. Sheet: 9.5 x 15.25 inches
Description: Landscape engraved by S. Middiman, figures engraved by J. Hall. Drawing by John Webber
Joseph Pennell
1857-1926
American
This is an original pencil signed lithograph by American artist Joseph Pennell. He traveled down to Panama in 1912 to record the building of the Canal. He created a series of images from that trip. This image is titled Cranes at Miraflores Lock, Panama, Printed in an edition of only 100. This image measures 22 1/4X16 3/4 inches on a Fabiano watermarked, laid type paper. Sheet size is 25 1/2X 20 1/2 inches.