This is an antique miniature color print portrait of Emperor Napoleon III of France, dating back to approximately 1900. The portrait is meticulously crafted with a gold outline, set against a black background, and showcases the Emperor in his full glory. The portrait is well-preserved and protected by an exquisite ebonized wood and gilt frame, adding elegance and grandeur to the piece. The frame is also fitted with glass to ensure the portrait remains pristine...
Harold Kerr Eby
1889-1946
American
This is an original etching and aquatint by American artist Kerr Eby. The subject is Eby's home which he named Driftway, in Westport Connecticut. This etching is hand signed in pencil and has an image size of 8 3/8X15 3/8 inches. Printed in an edition of 100 in 1939. This image appears in the Giardina catalog as image number 196. Printed on a medium weight laid type paper.
Berthe Morisot
1841-1895
French
This is an original etching by French artist Berthe Morisot. The title is: Femme Nu de Dos, this etching was created in 1889. This is a later printing after the plate had the cancellation holes at the upper and lower ends of the plate. These holes were later filled in the 20th century and the etching was re-editioned, This state is less common. The image measures 5 7/16X415/16 inches. Unsigned as issued...
Jackson Lee Nesbitt
1913-2008
American Regionalist
This is a fine regionalist etching by American artist Jackson Lee Nesbitt. The title is: Evening in March, it was created and printed in 1942. The image measures 11 3/4X8 5/16 inches. Hand signed and titled in pencil. Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.
Howard Cook
1901-1980
American
This is an original pencil signed lithograph by American artist Howard Cook. The title is: Rosanna, it was created and printed in 1939 in an edition of 250. This image was sold by Associated American Artists in New York. The image measures 11 3/4X8 3/4 inches. Beauful condition, matted not framed.
Paul Jacoulet
1896-1960
French
This is one of the finest color block prints by French artist Paul Jacoulet. The title: Retour De La Jungle, Tondano: Celebes, This image was created and printed in 1948, Pencil signed, with the Sparrow seal. This image measures 15 3/4X12 inches. The artist used a fine coral powder to give dimension to the compositional colors. He also experimented with Gofun, an egg white derivative that produced a rich opaque effect...
John Sloan
1871-1951
American
This is an original etching by American Ash Can School artist John Sloan. The title is: Boys Sledding, it was created and printed in 1920 in an edition of 100. This impression is hand signed in pencil, titled and annotated a "100 Proofs in the lower border. The image mesures 5 1/4X6 15/16 inches. Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet, with tack holes where the artist held the sheet down to dry. Very fine condition.
Mary Stevenson Cassatt
1844-1926
American
This is an original drypoint etching by American artist Mary Cassatt. The title is Denise holding her Child, created in 1905, this image is the first state of two, printed on an Ivory laid type sheet. The image measures 8X5 3/4 inches. Unsigned as issued. This image appears in the Breeskin catalog as image number 204.
Clara E. Klinghoffer
1900-1970
British
This is a fine original lithograph by British artist Clara Klinghoffer. This study of a seated nude has an image size of 13 3/4X11 7/8 inches. Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet, hand signed in pencil lower right.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
1889-1953
Japanese-American, Arts Students League N.Y.
This is a fine pencil signed and dated lithograph by American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi. This image created and printed in 1928, has an image size of 11X6 inches, printed on an ivory toned chine colle, adhered to a thicker supporting sheet. This lithograph is numbered as 28/30. Very fine condition apart from a line of toning in the border where an earlier window mat once lay. Catalog as Davis L-30.
Elyse Ashe Lord
1900-1971
British
This is a fine original hand colored etching by British artist Elyse Lord. The title is: Fantasy in Blue, created and printed circa 1925. This image is pencil signed and numbered as 39/75. The image measures 13 3/4X10 1/4 inches. Printed on a thin Japan type sheet.
David Y. Cameron
1865-1945
British
This is an original pencil signed etching by British artist David Young Cameron. It is titled: A Dutch Farm, art of his North Holland Set. This etching was created and printed in 1892. The image measures 4 5/16 X 8 15/16 inches.Printed on an early laid type sheet with collectors stamp lower corner of the border. This etching came to us with 1/8 inch margins on three sides.
Anders Zorn
1860-1920
Sweden
This is an original pencil signed impression of the well known etching, Valkulla by Swedish artist Anders Zorn, 1860-1920. This impression measures an image area 11 3/4X7 3/4 inches. Printed on a watermarked, laid type sheet, very wide borders all around, in nice condition, very light even toning to the sheet where the window mat once exposed it to the light, but unobtrusive, this is a very fine and rich impression, printed on a buff toned sheet. Catalogue Ref...
Harry Herman Wickey
1892-1968
American
This is an original regionalist lithograph by American artist Harry Wickey 1892-1968. This lithograph is hand signed in pencil and editioned as 100 proofs. The iage measures 11 1/2X12 1/8 inches. Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet. For the remainder of 1935 and most of 1936, Harry Wickey returned to his family farm near Stryker, Ohio...
A beautiful framed work by the famous Japanese artist. Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese: 歌川 国貞; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国, Sandai Otagawa Toyokuni), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi...
Dutch Artist Antonius Van Dyke 1599-1641 “Contessa” 20” x 17” , framed…………Sir Anthony van Dyck (Dutch: Antoon van Dyck or Van Dyke [ˈɑntoːɱ vɑn ˈdɛik];[a] 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641)[2] was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.
The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealthy Antwerp silk merchant, Anthony painted from an early age...
A very fine English Eighteenth Century Etching of a Gentleman 20” x 17”
Original etching by Alfred Hutty (USA, SC, 1877-1954). This work is titled "My Doorway on Tradd Street" or "Stairway, 46 Tradd Street". Signed in pencil by the artist and with the snail cypher. In excellent condition. Provenance: Childs Gallery Boston.
Original etching by Alfred Hutty (USA, SC, 1877-1954). This work is titled "St. Michael's in Sunlight" and dates from 1933. Signed in pencil l.r. and with the snail cypher. In excellent condition. Provenance: Childs Gallery Boston.
A beautiful English Seventeenth Century Etching “Townscape” Framed 12” x 17”
A beautiful Early Nineteenth Century Etching of a Landscape, Framed 12” x 14” Hirsh Collection
Haku Maki loved the kanji (Chinese character) for dragon—and he did it more than once. Both of the above—Work 73-14 A on the left and Work 73-12A—were done in 1973. Read about them in more detail below at stock numbers 1005 and 1039.
NOTE: Those born in the Dragon year were born in 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024.
signed in pencil, titled and numbered 17/200
screenprint in colors on wove paper
image: 11¾ by 13¾ in. 209 by 350 mm.
Executed in 2000; this impression is number 17 from the edition of 200 plus 20 artist's proofs, published by Serpentine Gallery.
NOTE: The print has been cut from the sheet, the edition number, title and signature in pencil are below.
The image is in excellent condition...
Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita
1886-1968
Japanese/French
THis is a rare color etching with aquatint by French/Japanese artist Tsuguharu Foujita. The title is: Le Petit Garcon, it was created and printed in 1929, This is numbered as ix/x 9 of 10. Before the later edition of 100 Published by Editions Artistiques Apollo, Paris. From his series, Les Enfants. The image measures 14X11 1/4 inches, on a sheet size of 20 1/2X16 1/2 inches. Pencil signed, printed on a Chine colle on Japan paper...
Sir William Russell Flint
1880-1969
British
This is a scarce original drypoint etching by British artist William Russell Flint...
Joseph Pennell
1857-1926
American
This is a fine original etching by American artist Joseph Pennell. The subject is, The Ferry House, The Cortlandt Steet Ferry from the Jersey City Side. This etching is hand signed in pencil, the image measures 12X10 inches, printed on an antique laid type sheet. This was sold originally by Schwartz Galleries in New York. This impressive etching is nicely framed with collectors annotations on the back,
David Y. Cameron
1865-1945
British
This is a rare original etching and drypoint by Scottish artist David Cameron. The title is: Wingless Chimera, Amiens Cathedral, it was created and printed in 1911. Hand signed in pencil, this etching measures an image area of 7 5/8X9 3/8 inches. Printed on a medium weight laid type sheet. This image was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1911. This image appears in the Rinder catalog as image number 416.
Artist’s proof of the print EELS from the “Folk Sayings” series by Clifton Karhu. An artist's proof is a print that is set aside as a reference by the artist and usually marked AP rather than being numbered and included in the main edition. Clifton Karhu (1927 – 007) was an American artist who settled in Japan after serving there in the U.S. military during WW II and returning as a missionary. He became internationally renowned for his woodblock prints which he began making in the early ...
This print is Haku Maki’s 78-6 水Water, number 108 in an edition of 151. Earlier that year,1978, he had already produced dramatic single-kanji large black and white prints. The first two, 78-1 Mountain and 78-2 Water, both horizontal prints, were 17in W x 9.25in H. They were followed soon after by 78-6, also horizontal.
But this depiction of the kanji for water is nearly twice the size of the previous two: his 78-6 is 32.5 inches wide and 17 inches high (83cm W X 43.5cm H). Hence, the dr...
Poster, offset lithograph, (dots visible under magnification), 1980, issued on the occasion of an exhibition in 1980 of the works of David Hockney, at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, the imagery after a 1977 painting "Still Life, Taj Hotel, Bombay" by the artist. This unframed work, in shrink wrap laid against or on foamboard (not opened) measures 38" by 27". I believe this to be Baggot #85 in that definitive catalog raisonne of Hockney posters. There appears to be a smaller versio...
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. The dream-like imagery, of green shoots emerging from reddish soil patc...
A fabulous lithograph by Belorussian born master artist Marc Chagall 1887-1985, possibly done from a linoleum cut. The work features his series of “Brides” done circa 1950s-1960s in very saturated colors on French paper, possibly by his lithographers Mourlot of France. Measuring 35” x 24”………..
An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained g...
Colorful poster "Nichols Canyon", after the famous 1980 Hollywood Hills painting by world-renowned British-born artist now associated with Southern California, David Hockney (born 1937). The offset lithograph measures 35 1/2" by 23" inside the white laminate frame. That framing suggests that this is a vintage print and not a later reproduction. I have not opened this to inspect; the lettering at bottom "David Hockney A Retrospective", with none of the information "The Metropolitan Museum of A...
Verifax (Kodak) collage by Wallace Berman. Series of four hands on paper mounted on wooden panel with wooden frame.
Dedication on reverse "For Marie 12.25.70" and signed "Wallace B".
Wallace Berman (American 1926-1976) was born in Staten Island, NY. He moved to Los Angeles and then to San Francisco where he started his magazine "Semina" which he filled with his poetry, photographs, writing and drawing. He was influenced by Jazz and Rock n Roll, becoming associated with the ...
Original lithograph poster issued in 1974 in an edition of 5,000, for the unveiling of a mural by Marc Chagall at the Four Seasons, Chicago. The colors are bright and unfaded. Measurements are 33 1/2" by 22 1/2" (42" by 30" framed) . Due to the danger posed by shipping glass, even when taped, this will be shipped flat or if preferred by buyer, can be rolled in a hard plastic tube (at a significantly lower shipping cost). Email to discuss.
A scarce and desirable lithograph by Vietnamese master artist Vu Cao Dam (1908-2000), titled "Mother and Child" or "Maternite", 1969, pencil signed by the artist and numbered 119/150 at lower left (hidden by the present mat). The piece measures 26" by 20" inside that mat and 33" by 26 1/2" in white frame. Will be shipped without glass or rolled in a sturdy plastic tube (email to discuss). The print is clean and colors fresh. Vietnamese historical art has been climbing dramatically in value f...