Offset poster (not a lithograph) of the July to September 1968 exhibition of works by the famous French Cubist master artist Georges Braque at the prestigious Galerie Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland. Measures 28 3/4" by 20 1/2". Photos were taken in glass poster framing as found (allow for reflections)...

In the 1960s, Haku Maki was beginning his career as a modern print maker. He used ersatz titles for different series of prints: Cell, Animal Song for the Zodiac, Proportion, Work, Figure,and Emanation. Flower Song was another. Here we show Flower Song 6, which I have just acquired, and Flower Song 3 which I have owned for a long time The others are not noteworthy. This one measures 13 x 17in/48 x 34cm.

Maki’s earliest works were done in the late 1950s and remained rather unknown until the late 1960s. He first started producing prints using red ink in 1965 and this is probably the first example. It is also what I call a Big Red. It is very abstract and it fills up the whole sheet. Maki wanted his prints to have balance. This has it: the red field is pierced by three blue squares: two on the left side of the orange meteor-like strokes, and one on the right side...

Poem S B. This small and unpretentious print was a sleeper. Whoever sold it knew not what he had. Indeed neither did I until well after it came here to Beijing. It is a very rare 1968 Maki print. Not 1967 and not 1969. It has the kanji for Rope in the center and that is placed on a subtle but firmly done kanji for STONE - but the kanji is in there ass backwards. The correct rendering is in image 5. Mysteries abound.I have never seen the sub-title SB in a Maki print...

The size of Sheet : 14 5/16" W x 16 3/8" L (36.4cm x 41.5cm), The image size : 11 1/4" x 11 1/4" ( 28.5 cm x 28.5 cm). Artist: Jef Verheyen, Belgian (1932-1984) Signed: Lower right in Pencil, Jeff Verheyen. Edition Number : 79/100. The subject: Collage with High gloss Serigraph in Colors on paper. Composition with four collages squares, black cross and circle are drawn on the paper as well on 4 colors papers which are applied on white paper. The year of made : 1962...

This is a lithograph, apparently signed in the plate only, by the noted American artist RAPHAEL SOYER (1899-1987). Soyer, one of several brothers who became significant figures in American art during the WPA and mid century period, became known for his sensitive studies of human figures in urban settings and interiors. Paintings sell at major auctions, and prints, some hand signed and some not, are regularly encountered. This one is in clean condition and is ready for the wall.

Haku Maki's print Maki Poem 69-66 78 of 154

The strokes in this print are "U", no meaning. This is an early print using Hiragana. It is two brush strokes piercing the space, leaving a trace of itself before coming to the bottom of the paper. It has but one splash across the top and a red tear along the side and then: Whoosh it goes as in the red image at the bottom. There is one sun at the outer edge of the stroke and two moons inside the curving stroke. Not so simple after all.

In the period 1966-67, Haku Maki did two large series with Song as the theme. There was Flower Song, a series of 10 prints. And there was Animal Song which was Maki’s Asian Zodiac series, with 12 images. It was also a small series with small editions--50 in the case of Animal Song (released in Kyoto, so very hard to find: only one friend has the full set), I do not know who has the full set of Flower Song. Equally rare is Moon Song...

A Very Rare/Fine Japanese Woodblock Print by Tadashi Nakayama (1927 -): Japan, dated 1961, with original frame. Ptinted with metallic embellishments, of red and silver squares with black top (?), signed in pencil T. Nakayama, edition numbered 16/50, on the bottom margin, with a professional/original frame. This is a very unusual print by this artist. It’s in very good condition with color and impression, without any noticeable defects but not examined its back...

A Fine/Large Serigraph Print by Tetsuro Sawada (1935-1999): Japan, 70cm x 55cm all margins included, 50cm x 40 cm image only Dated 1991, Title; Glow wave (II), Signed Sawada and Title and Edition # 89/100 and dated 1991 in pencil by the artist Medium; Serigraph, Condition; it is in very good, very brilliant color and full margins. Please note; I highly recommend keeping this frame with its print since it was custom crafted to enhance the print’s detail...

A rare color lithograph by Wayne Thiebaud titled Coronado signed, numbered 5 of 15 and dated 1956. overall sheet size 16 x25 12.5 x 21.5 inches. A beautiful colorful modernist image of sail boats off the San Diego coast with the old Coranado Hotel in the left of the image...

This is a block print on an unusual paper, the subject a mounted Native American banging his drum while on a white horse, signed in the block by the important "dean of Arizona artists", LON MEGARGEE (1883-1960). The striking image might be after a painting by the artist, who, the story goes, was passed one day in the desert by a warrior in a dreamy trance-like reverie state, working his drum in this manner, barely noticing the white man watching him pass...

Original limited edition hand colored etching titled "Haggling" featuring Korean women in a marketplace by German artist Willy Seiler (born 1903) from his Korean series...

Bakufu Ono, oban tate-e, one of the ¡°Great Japanese Fish Picture Collection (Dai Nihon gyorui gashu)¡±, dated 1951, published by Kyoto, Hanga-in, slightly toned, fine impression and color.

Ca. 1950s

Original Japanese black lacquer and brocade frame. Postcard size print with borders likely trimmed. Print in good condition, but not examined outside frame.

Print: 3 ¾ in. x 5 ½ in., Frame: 9 in. x 7 ¼ in.

¡°The two adversaries (left)¡± and ¡°The two adversaries (right)¡± were published 5 December,1950. The carver was Maeda; the printers were Honda, Uchikawa and Onodera. Both have Paul Jacoulet¡¯s pencil signature and red Arrow seal on the lower corner. They are in excellent condition. ¡°This simple but highly symbolic pair reveals Jacoulet¡¯s feelings toward the North Koreans. In his public dedication to President Truman, the artist expressed ¡°gratitude for aid given so pro...

Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (French)February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art.