Pablo Picasso lithograph poster and collage | Traits, Tete de femme
Medium: lithograph, collage and stencil poster. This work consists of a lithograph mounted onto brown wove paper, with a collage of hand-cut newsprint letters and stenciled text in red and blue ink. On verso is a stamp stating that this affiche (poster) was issued in a limited edition of 60 and that this is copy number 1 (see photos).
The lithograph itself appears to be a slightly different state of "Tête de femme". It is known that Tete de femme (references Bloch 384; Mourlot 4) was executed by Picasso in 1945 and issued in an edition of 50 with Picasso's red pencil signature but with no plate signature. The lithograph offered here is printed on Arches laid paper and is signed in the stone, but is not hand-signed.
The size of the lithograph portrait is 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (300 x 210 mm) and the full poster measures 19 3/4 x 13 inches (500 x 325 mm).
Condition: there are pinholes at each corner of the poster, with minor creasing throughout. The lithograph shows a horizontal crease near the top, where it is attached to the support sheet. Extremely rare!
Max Beckmann Bildnis Frau H.M. Naila signed original woodcut
Medium: original woodcut. Signed in pencil. Catalogue reference: Hofmaier 282 IV BB. Printed in Germany in 1923 for the very rare Kunst der
Gegenwart portfolio, published in Munich by Marées-Gesellschaft, R.
Piper & Co., with the Marées-Gesellschaft blindstamp in the margin.
The printer was Fritz Voigt, of Berlin.
This impression is one of 220 printed on cream wove paper from a total
edition of 300 (consisting of 220 on wove and 80 on japon paper). The
image measures 13 3/4 x 13 inches (350 x 331 mm); the total sheet
measures 20 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (520 x 472 mm) with full original margins
and deckle edges.
In very good condition; with minor creasing near the edges of the sheet and a tiny pinhole in the space above the figure's right eye (hardly visible).
This is one of several portraits of a mysterious woman called "Naila" that were done by Max Beckmann. It is now known that Naila was Dr. Hildegard Melms, and that Beckmann had an affair with her in 1923, the same year he executed this print. This important German Expressionist woodcut can be found in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Piet Mondrian serigraph "Composition en bleu b"
Medium: serigraph (after the 1917 painting). Printed in 1957 on Bristol San Francisco smooth wove paper in an edition of 300 at the atelier Arcay and published by Galerie Denise René. Image size: 15 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches (395 x 350 mm). Sheet size: 26 x 20 inches (660 x 510 mm). Not signed.
Condition: there is minor wear to the edges of the sheet, not affecting the image.
Piet Mondrian serigraph "L'arbre bleu"
Medium: serigraph (after the 1911 watercolor). Printed in 1957 on Bristol San Francisco smooth wove paper in an edition of 300 at the atelier Arcay and published by Galerie Denise René. Image size: 15 x 19 inches (377 x 488 mm). Sheet size: 20 x 26 inches (510 x 660 mm). Signed in the plate (not by hand).
Condition: there is minor creasing in the margin, not affecting the image.
Robert Indiana "Eternal Hexagon" original serigraph
Medium: original serigraph / silkscreen. In 1964 Samuel Wagstaff, Jr. (at that time Curator of Paintings at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartfordford, Connecticut) selected ten important American artists and asked them to contribute original prints for the portfolio “Ten Works by Ten Painters”. This was issued in 1964 in an edition of 500. The publisher's blindstamp is in the margin near the bottom right corner. Not signed.
The other artists collaborating with the project were Stuart Davis, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, George Ortman, Larry Poons, Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol.
Image size: 17 1/2 x 16 inches (445 x 408mm). Printed on wove paper with full original margins, the sheet measures 24 x 20 inches.
Condition: there is a mat stain in the margin.
Winslow Homer etching "The Lookout -- All's Well"
Medium: etching (etched by William Bicknell after Winslow Homer's 1896 painting). Although there is no inscription, it is presumed to have been published in 1906 by the John A. Lowell Bank Note Co., Boston, and issued for the Hamburg-American Line (there is a vignette of one of their passenger steamships in the margin at the bottom left). Image size: 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (595 x 443mm) printed on heavy wove paper. Signed in the plate (not by hand).
Condition: The margins have been somewhat trimmed (not affecting the etching but slightly cropping the steamship vignette along the bottom edge). There is small skinned spot at the top right corner of the composition, and a pink erasure mark in the margin at the bottom right with skinning to the surface of the paper.
A rich, dark impression of this magnificent etching. A lucky find!
Allan D'Arcangelo "Paris Review" signed numbered serigraph
Medium: original serigraph. Signed and numbered in pencil 82/150. Executed in 1965 for the Paris Review (catalogue reference: Burchfield 2). The image size is 29 x 25 inches and the full sheet size is 40 x 26 inches. An iconic example of 1960's Pop Art.
Condition: there is some wear around the edges of the sheet.
In 1965 the leading Pop and Abstract artists of the era were commissioned by the Paris Review to contribute original prints. These silkscreens were published in small signed/numbered editions (of 150) and today are quite rare. Artists participating in the project included Motherwell, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Indiana, Dine, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, D'Arcangelo, Anuszkiewicz, Frankenthaler, Katz, Kelly, Nevelson, Rosenquist and others.
Maurice Utrillo lithograph | Montmartre
Medium: lithograph (after the Utrillo painting). Printed in 1969 on Arches paper at the Mourlot studio in Paris. Image size: 19 x 24 inches (480 x 610 mm). Sheet size: 23 x 28 inches. A splendid, richly inked impression. Signed in the plate, not hand-signed.
Condition: minor creasing in the margin.
Joan Miro pochoir "Study for an engraving" 1967
Medium: pochoir (after the oil on paper). Issued in 1967 in an edition of 1200 for the rare exhibition catalogue "Oiseau solaire, oiseau lunaire, etincelles", published by the Pierre Matisse Gallery. This is a fine impression printed in Paris by Ateliers Daniel Jacomet. Sheet size: 12 x 27 1/2 inches (305 x 700 mm). This work was issued as a folded sheet with two center folds. Not signed.
Paul Cezanne pochoir "Joueur de carte"
Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor). This impression was printed in 1971 on Arches paper at the atelier of Daniel Jacomet and published in an edition of 225 for the Cezanne Quinze Aquarelles portfolio. Image size: 15 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches (390 x 265 mm). Sheet size: 21 x 16 inches (530 x 410 mm). It was mounted by the publisher along the top edge onto a larger support sheet and bears the Daniel Jacomet stamp on the reverse. Not signed.
Pablo Picasso lithograph "Woman with Flowered Bodice"
Medium: lithograph (after Picasso). Printed in 1959 by Young & Klein of Cincinnati and published by the Cincinnati Art Museum for their Picasso exhibition catalogue (now quite scarce). Size: 17 x 14 inches (430 x 350 mm). There is text on the back side, as published. Not signed.
Condition: there is some creasing.
Victor Vasarely lithograph "Babel 3"
Medium: offset lithograph (after Vasarely). Printed in 1972 in Neuchatel, Switzerland on thick, high-gloss paper and published by Editions du Griffon for the "Vasarely Progressions 1" portfolio. Size: 16 x 16 inches (410 x 410 mm). Not signed.
Victor Vasarely lithograph "Quasar Zett"
Medium: offset lithograph (after Vasarely). Printed in 1972 in Neuchatel, Switzerland on thick, high-gloss paper and published by Editions du Griffon for the "Vasarely Progressions 1" portfolio. Size: 16 x 16 inches (410 x 410 mm). Not signed.
Victor Vasarely lithograph "Hat B"
Medium: offset lithograph (after Vasarely). Printed in 1972 in Neuchatel, Switzerland on thick, high-gloss paper and published by Editions du Griffon for the "Vasarely Progressions 1" portfolio. Size: 16 x 16 inches (410 x 410 mm). Not signed.
Victor Vasarely lithograph "Cheyt MC-4"
Medium: offset lithograph (after Vasarely). Printed in 1972 in Neuchatel, Switzerland on thick, high-gloss paper and published by Editions du Griffon for the "Vasarely Progressions 1" portfolio. Size: 16 x 16 inches (410 x 410 mm). Not signed.
Victor Vasarely lithograph "Test 2"
Medium: offset lithograph (after Vasarely). Printed in 1972 in Neuchatel, Switzerland on thick, high-gloss paper and published by Editions du Griffon for the "Vasarely Progressions 1" portfolio. Size: 16 x 16 inches (410 x 410 mm). Not signed.
Victor Vasarely lithograph "Quasar Paal 2"
Medium: offset lithograph (after Vasarely). Printed in 1972 in Neuchatel, Switzerland on thick, high-gloss paper and published by Editions du Griffon for the "Vasarely Progressions 1" portfolio. Size: 16 x 16 inches (410 x 410 mm). Not signed.
Hans Erni original woodcut for Dames des Decans, 1970
Medium: original woodcut. Executed by Hans Erni in 1970 for the "Dames des Décans" deluxe book portfolio. There were 324 copies of the book issued, but this impression was apart from the book edition and without the usual center crease (the prints were customarily folded to fit into the portfolio). The image size is 15 x 25 inches (380 x 630 mm) and the full sheet measures 18 x 28 inches (470 x 720 mm). A beautiful impression on quality Arches paper. Not signed.
Condition: there is some creasing in the margin, not affecting the woodcut image.
Paul Cezanne lithograph "Paysage a Aix"
Medium: lithograph (after the Paul Cezanne painting). Printed in Paris on Arches paper at the Mourlot studio in 1973 in an edition of 1000 for the Collection Pierre Lévy deluxe portfolio. The image measures 10 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches (270 x 340 mm) and the full sheet is 20 x 26 inches. Not signed.
Condition: there is age-toning and discoloration in the margin, not affecting the lithographed image.
Honore Daumier lithograph "Au bord de l'eau"
Medium: lithograph (after the Daumier painting). Printed in Paris on Arches paper at the Mourlot studio in 1973 in an edition of 1000 for the Collection Pierre Lévy deluxe portfolio. The image measures 13 x 9 1/2 inches (330 x 240 mm) and the full sheet is 26 x 20 inches. Signed in the plate; not hand-signed.
Condition: there is age-toning and discoloration in the margin, not affecting the lithographed image.
Edgar Degas lithograph "Deux hommes en pied"
Medium: lithograph (after the 1862 Degas painting). Printed in Paris on Arches paper at the Mourlot studio in 1973 in an edition of 1000 for the Collection Pierre Lévy deluxe portfolio. The image measures 21 x 16 inches (540 x 406 mm) and the full sheet is 26 x 20 inches. Not signed.
Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph "Lassitude" Elles
Medium: lithograph (after the original). In 1896 Toulouse-Lautrec executed his famous "Elles" portfolio; this is a beatiful limited edition replica published in Paris by Claude Tchou and the Bibliotheque Nationale. This impression was printed on watermarked Arches laid paper, in a limited edition of 550 issued in 1990 and bears the official dry stamp of the Bibliotheque Nationale. The image size is 15 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches (390 x 520 mm) and the full sheet measures 19 x 23 inches (475 x 590 mm). Signed in the stone; not hand-signed. For the collector who cannot spend a small fortune on the first edition Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph, this presents an affordable alternative.
Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph "Deux femmes" Elles
Medium: lithograph (after the original). In 1896 Toulouse-Lautrec executed his famous "Elles" portfolio; this is a beatiful limited edition replica published in Paris by Claude Tchou and the Bibliotheque Nationale. This impression was printed on watermarked Arches laid paper, in a limited edition of 550 issued in 1990 and bears the official dry stamp of the Bibliotheque Nationale. The image size is 16 x 20 1/2 inches (405 x 520 mm) and the full sheet measures 19 x 23 inches (475 x 590 mm). Signed in the stone; not hand-signed. For the collector who cannot spend a small fortune on the first edition Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph, this presents an affordable alternative.
Robert Indiana original lithograph "Angel More"
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1977 on Arches paper for Robert Indiana's "Mother of Us All"
series. Image size: 18 x 14 inches. Sheet size: 23 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches. Not signed or numbered.
Hans Erni original lithograph for Dames des Decans, 1970
Medium: original lithograph. Executed by Hans Erni in 1970 for the "Dames des Décans" deluxe book portfolio. There were 324 copies of the book issued, but this impression was apart from the book edition and is printed on a larger sheet, with no center fold (the lithographs were customarily folded to fit into the portfolio). The image size is 14 1/2 x 22 inches (370 x 565 mm) and the full sheet measures 21 x 26 inches (530 x 670 mm). A beautiful impression on quality Arches paper. Not signed.
Condition: there is foxing and discoloration in the margin.
Hans Erni original lithograph for Dames des Decans, 1970
Medium: original lithograph. Executed by Hans Erni in 1970 for the "Dames des Décans" deluxe book portfolio. There were 324 copies of the book issued, but this impression was apart from the book edition and is printed on a larger sheet, with no center fold (the lithographs were customarily folded to fit into the portfolio). The image size is 14 x 22 inches (360 x 555 mm) and the full sheet measures 21 x 25 inches (530 x 645 mm). A beautiful impression on quality Arches paper. Not signed.
Gustave Courbet lithograph "Paysage de neige dans Le Jura"
Medium: lithograph (after the 1866 Gustave Courbet painting). Printed in Paris on Arches paper at the Mourlot studio in 1973 in an edition of 1000 for the Collection Pierre Lévy deluxe portfolio. The image measures 16 1/2 x 21 inches (422 x 535 mm) and the full sheet is 20 x 26 inches. Signed in the plate; not hand-signed.
Gustave Courbet lithograph "Marc Trapadoux examinant un livre d'estampes"
Medium: lithograph (after the Gustave Courbet painting). Printed in Paris on Arches paper at the Mourlot studio in 1973 in an edition of 1000 for the Collection Pierre Lévy deluxe portfolio. The image measures 16 x 12 1/2 inches (405 x 317 mm) and the full sheet is 26 x 20 inches. Not signed.
Andre Derain lithograph "Les deux hangars"
Medium: lithograph (after the 1947 Andre Derain painting). Printed in Paris on Arches paper at the Mourlot studio in 1970 in an edition of 1000 for the Collection Pierre Lévy deluxe portfolio. The image measures 17 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches (440 x 550 mm) and the full sheet is 20 x 26 inches. Signed in the plate, not hand-signed.
Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph "Le dejeuner du matin" Elles
Medium: lithograph (after the original). In 1896 Toulouse-Lautrec executed his famous "Elles" portfolio; this is a beatiful limited edition replica published in Paris by Claude Tchou and the Bibliotheque Nationale. This impression was printed on watermarked Arches laid paper, in a limited edition of 550 issued in 1990 and bears the official dry stamp of the Bibliotheque Nationale. The image size is 16 x 20 1/2 inches (405 x 520 mm) and the full sheet measures 19 x 23 inches (475 x 590 mm). Signed in the stone; not hand-signed. For the collector who cannot spend a small fortune on the first edition Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph, this presents an affordable alternative.
Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph "Devant la glace" Elles
Medium: lithograph (after the original). In 1896 Toulouse-Lautrec executed his famous "Elles" portfolio; this is a beatiful limited edition replica published in Paris by Claude Tchou and the Bibliotheque Nationale. This impression was printed on watermarked Arches laid paper, in a limited edition of 550 issued in 1990 and bears the official dry stamp of the Bibliotheque Nationale. The image size is 20 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (525 x 400 mm) and the full sheet measures 23 x 19 inches (590 x 475 mm). Signed in the stone; not hand-signed. For the collector who cannot spend a small fortune on the first edition Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph, this presents an affordable alternative.
Andre Derain lithograph "Deux femmes nues et nature morte"
Medium: lithograph (after the 1935 Andre Derain painting). Printed in Paris on Arches paper at the Mourlot studio in 1970 in an edition of 1000 for the Collection Pierre Lévy deluxe portfolio. The image measures 18 x 19 1/4 inches (460 x 490 mm) and the full sheet is 20 x 26 inches (500 x 645 mm). Signed in the plate, not hand-signed.
Wyndham Lewis "Portrait of Gladys Anne Hoskyns"
Medium: collotype (after the drawing). This large print was issued in an edition of 500 in 1923 for the very scarce "Living Art" portfolio, by The Dial Publishing Company, New York. Printed on wove paper, the total sheet measures 17 x 16 1/2 inches (425 x 415 mm). The drawing itself resides in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. Signed in the plate (not hand-signed).
Condition: there are the remains of old tape mounts on back.
J. M. W. Turner | John Cother Webb signed mezzotint "Regulus leaving Carthage"
Medium: mezzotint. Engraved by John Cother Webb after the J. M. W. Turner painting and signed in pencil by John Cother Webb. Printed in 1924 on chine-collé paper (china paper mounted by the publisher onto a heavy wove paper support sheet) and published in London by The Museum Galleries, with the publisher's blindstamp in the margin. Image size: 13 1/4 x 17 3/4 inches (332 x 447 mm). Plate size: 16 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches (417 x 540 mm). Sheet size: 21 x 27 inches (535 x 690 mm).
Condition: there is age-toning to the paper, and a mat stain in the margin. This work was attached with glue many years ago onto a stiff paperboard backing sheet.
Toulouse-Lautrec "Devant la glace" lithograph | Elles
Medium: lithograph (after the original). In 1896 Toulouse-Lautrec executed his Elles portfolio, and the lithograph offered here is a faithful limited edition replica. It was printed in 1969 and published in London by the Toulouse-Lautrec Circle, and embossed with their dry stamp seal. Issued in an edition of 1250, this impression is numbered in pencil 1178/1250.
Size: 20 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches (515 x 400 mm). This is the same size as the original, and as faithful as possible in every way, including having been printed on paper from the same mill in Docelles, France that was used by Lautrec's publisher Gustave Pellet for the originals. Signed in the plate (not by hand).
Condition: This work was mounted by the publisher onto a larger support sheet.
Toulouse-Lautrec "Le dejeuner du matin" lithograph | Elles
Medium: lithograph (after the original). In 1896 Toulouse-Lautrec executed his Elles portfolio, and the lithograph offered here is a faithful limited edition replica. It was printed in 1969 and published in London by the Toulouse-Lautrec Circle, and embossed with their dry stamp seal. Issued in an edition of 1250, this impression is numbered in pencil 1178/1250.
Size: 15 3/4 x 20 1/2 inches (400 x 520 mm). This is the same size as the original, and as faithful as possible in every way, including having been printed on paper from the same mill in Docelles, France that was used by Lautrec's publisher Gustave Pellet for the originals. Signed in the plate (not by hand).
Condition: This work was mounted by the publisher onto a larger support sheet.
Jean-Paul Riopelle original lithograph, 1966
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1966 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 160) and published in Paris by Maeght. Size: 31 x 24 1/2 inches (783 x 620 mm). This large lithograph was published as a folded sheet with several center folds. Not signed.
Paul Cezanne pochoir "Interieur de village"
Medium: pochoir (after the watercolor). This impression was printed in 1971 on Arches paper at the atelier of Daniel Jacomet and published in an edition of 225 for the Cezanne Quinze Aquarelles portfolio. Image size: 18 x 11 inches (453 x 287 mm). Sheet size: 21 x 16 inches (530 x 410 mm). It has been mounted by the publisher onto a larger support sheet. Not signed.
Adolphe Monticelli lithograph "Portrait du Maitre M.L."
Medium: lithograph (after the 1878 Adolphe Monticelli painting). Printed in Paris on Arches paper at the Mourlot studio in 1973 in an edition of 1000 for the Collection Pierre Lévy deluxe portfolio. The image measures 20 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (520 x 395 mm) and the full sheet is 26 x 20 inches. Signed in the plate; not hand-signed.
Jean-Francois Millet lithograph "Jeune femme en buste"
Medium: lithograph (after the Jean-Francois Millet painting). Printed in Paris on Arches paper at the Mourlot studio in 1973 in an edition of 1000 for the Collection Pierre Lévy deluxe portfolio. The image measures 16 x 12 3/4 inches (400 x 323 mm) and the full sheet is 26 x 20 inches. Not signed.