Frederick Stuart Church, A major nineteenth century painter and etcher of figurative and fantasy scenes, F. S. Church first served as a soldier in the Civil War. He fought  More »

Frederick Stuart Church, A major nineteenth century painter and etcher of figurative and fantasy scenes, F. S. Church first served as a soldier in the Civil War. He fought in many campaigns and served under General Sherman in his march to the sea. After the conclusion of the war, Church studied art at the Chicago Academy of Design, the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League, New York. Church began his career as an illustrator for Harper’s and received his first commissions for painting in 1875. After that point he dedicated himself to both painting and etching. In the latter category he enjoyed much success and some of his etchings were commissioned by the influential Paris publisher, L’Art. Frederick S. Church “The Snow Image” Etching on laid Paper and from a limited edition printed, 1878. The etched work measure 3 by 5.25 inches plus full margins in good condition.   « Less

Robert Walker MacBeth “Robert Macbeth” A nineteenth century Scottish painter and etcher of pastoral landscapes, Robert Walker MacBeth studied art in London and  More »

Robert Walker MacBeth “Robert Macbeth” A nineteenth century Scottish painter and etcher of pastoral landscapes, Robert Walker MacBeth studied art in London and then worked as an artist and illustrator for The Graphic. He began exhibiting his art at the prestigious Royal Academy in 1871, as well as in Glasgow, Liverpool and at the Royal Scottish Academy. Robert MacBeth was a full member of the Royal Watercolour Society (1901), the Royal Academy (1883) and the Royal Engravers. Many of his etchings are included in the collection of the British Museum, London. During the latter nineteenth century, Robert Walker MacBeth created a number of fine etchings either after his designs or the designs of contemporary artists, such as Burne-Jones. The Ferrywas completely designed and etched by the artist himself and shows the best qualities of Robert Walker MacBeth’s landscape art. This etching was commissioned by The Portfolio in 1880. Robert Walker MacBeth “The Ferry” Etching printed in sepia measure 8.50 by 10.50 inches on antique Laid paper in good condition.   « Less

Adolphe Lalauze A French 19th century etcher and illustrator, Adolphe Lalauze first gained employment as a recording controller and then studied art in Paris under  More »

Adolphe Lalauze A French 19th century etcher and illustrator, Adolphe Lalauze first gained employment as a recording controller and then studied art in Paris under Gaucherel. Early in his career he concentrated mostly upon original etching, with many of his works in this medium initially commissioned by Cadart in Paris. Cadart, Delatre and the Societe des aqua-Fortistes: This original etching was published by France’s first important publisher of the etching revival. In 1862 Cadart founded the Societe des aqua-Fortistes. Until its demise in 1867, it was responsible for publishing some of the greatest French art from this important decade. Around 1870, Cadart (along with Luquet) reopened his publishing house and continued to commission original etchings from such masters as Jongkind, Bracquemond, Manet, Ribot and many others. Almost all of the fine etchings published by Cadart were printed by Auguste Delatre. Adolphe Lalauze “Portrait of J. F. Millet”, etching was published in “Souvenirs De Barbizon” in the late 19th century in Paris. The plate signed work measure 4.50 by 3.50 inches approximate (plate mark) and in good condition.   « Less

Frederick S. Church “Pandora” Sepia Etching Frederick Stuart Church, A major nineteenth century painter and etcher of figurative and fantasy scenes, F. S.  More »

Frederick S. Church “Pandora” Sepia Etching Frederick Stuart Church, A major nineteenth century painter and etcher of figurative and fantasy scenes, F. S. Church first served as a soldier in the Civil War. He fought in many campaigns and served under General Sherman in his march to the sea. After the conclusion of the war, Church studied art at the Chicago Academy of Design, the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League, New York. Church began his career as an illustrator for Harper’s and received his first commissions for painting in 1875. After that point he dedicated himself to both painting and etching. In the latter category he enjoyed much success and some of his etchings were commissioned by the influential Paris publisher, L’Art. Frederick S. Church “Pandora” Etching on Laid Paper and from a limited edition printed, 1878. The etched work measures 3.25 by 4.50 inches plus full margins in good condition on laid paper.   « Less

A. F. Bellows “Windsor Pond” Connecticut Etching A. F. Bellows An outstanding nineteenth century American landscape artist, A. F. Bellows first studied  More »

A. F. Bellows “Windsor Pond” Connecticut Etching A. F. Bellows An outstanding nineteenth century American landscape artist, A. F. Bellows first studied architecture. He then accepted the post of Principal of the New England School of Design, Boston, remaining there from 1850 to 1856. He then resigned to complete his studies first in Paris and then in Antwerp at the Royal Academy. Albert Fitch Bellows was elected to the Royal Society of Painters in Belgium several years later. Upon his return to the United States he lived and worked mainly in Boston until the great fire of 1872, in which his studio and much of his work was destroyed. During the last decade of his life, A. F. Bellows opened a very successful studio on Fourth Avenue in New York. It was at this time that he devoted much of his time to the original art of etching, becoming a member of the New York Etching Club, the Philadelphia Society of Etchers and the prestigious Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, London, England. Albert Fitch Bellows was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1859 and a full member in 1861. A. F. Bellows, “Windsor Pond” Connecticut, is a plate signed etching on laid paper measuring 3.25 by 6 inches and in good condition   « Less

Sigmund Abeles “Cafe Society” Ltd Ed Etching-Gravure Sigmund Abeles was born 1934 in New York City and raised in South Carolina. He is an artist whose work  More »

Sigmund Abeles “Cafe Society” Ltd Ed Etching-Gravure Sigmund Abeles was born 1934 in New York City and raised in South Carolina. He is an artist whose work deals with the expressive and psychological aspects of the human figure (and animals); an art focused on the entire life cycle. Drawing informs all his work. He works in pastels, oils, the graphic media, and sculpture. Currently, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, after 27 years of teaching, he is working full-time in his NYC and upstate New York studio. Recipient of numerous grants and awards, a National Academician; Abeles work is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Philadelphia Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. Coastal Carolina University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2000. A major one-artist exhibition was at Thomas Williams Fine Arts, London, UK in 2000. The Pastel Society of America made him their Hall of Fame Honoree for 2004 and was awarded their Degas Pastel Society Award in 2006. He is represented by The Old Print Shop, NYC, Hampton III Gallery, Greenville, SC and Cherly Newby Fine Arts, Pawley’s Island, S.C. “From Whence I Came” a retrospective was held at the Burroughs-Chapin Museum of Art in Myrtle Beach, SC, his hometown, in 2007. “Passionate Lives, Passionate Lines”, dual solo exhibits open in May at The Park Row Gallery and The Joyce Goldstein Gallery in Chatham NY. He is included in Humanity, One Hundred Years of Figurative Art at the ACA Gallery in NYC. Here we have one of several etched-gravure works from the same series (Girl of the Streets), Published by The Limited Edition Club 1974, in a limited edition. The Colophon in the second Pix is NOT included with your sale BUT may be down loaded for your records. Each image measures 5.50 by 7 inches and in good condition.   « Less

Paul Gauguin “Miseres Humaines” Limited Edition Woodcut Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 — May 8, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist  More »

Paul Gauguin “Miseres Humaines” Limited Edition Woodcut Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 — May 8, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, France to journalist Clovis Gauguin and half-Peruvian Aline Maria Chazal, the daughter of proto-socialist leader Flora Tristan. In 1851 the family left Paris for Peru, motivated by the political climate of the period. Clovis died on the voyage, leaving three-year old Paul, his mother and his sister to fend for themselves. They lived for four years in Lima, Peru with Paul’s uncle and his family. The imagery of Peru would later influence Paul in his art. In 1891, Gauguin, frustrated by lack of recognition at home and financially destitute, sailed to the tropics to escape European civilization and “everything that is artificial and conventional.” Living in Mataiea Village in Tahiti, he painted “Fatata te Miti” (“By the Sea”), “Ia Orana Maria” (Ave Maria) and other depictions of Tahitian life. He moved to Punaauia in 1897, where he created the masterpiece painting “Where Do We Come From” and then lived the rest of his life in the Marquesas Islands, returning to France only once. His works of that period are full of quasi-religious symbolism and an exoticized view of the inhabitants of Polynesia. In Polynesia, he sided with the native peoples, clashing often with the colonial authorities and with the Catholic Church. During this period he also wrote the book Avant et après (before and after), a fragmented collection of observations about life in Polynesia, memories from his life and comments on literature and paintings. It was during this period Paul Gauguin, executed his wood cuts of this series and several others. Paul Gauguin “Miseres Humaines” Limited Edition Woodcut, recorded in the catalogue Guerin Catalogue of Gauguin’s works #29. This rare work and others are woodcuts after the original edition, all published by The Grabhorn Press, 1943 in a limited edition of 250 copies. Bright and in fine condition. Each sheet measures 9.50 by 15 and the image is 7.50 by 11 inches and printed on a very fine japon-rice paper in excellent condition.   « Less

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 — May 8, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the  More »

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 — May 8, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, France to journalist Clovis Gauguin and half-Peruvian Aline Maria Chazal, the daughter of proto-socialist leader Flora Tristan. In 1851 the family left Paris for Peru, motivated by the political climate of the period. Clovis died on the voyage, leaving three-year old Paul, his mother and his sister to fend for themselves. They lived for four years in Lima, Peru with Paul’s uncle and his family. The imagery of Peru would later influence Paul in his art. In 1891, Gauguin, frustrated by lack of recognition at home and financially destitute, sailed to the tropics to escape European civilization and “everything that is artificial and conventional.” Living in Mataiea Village in Tahiti, he painted “Fatata te Miti” (“By the Sea”), “Ia Orana Maria” (Ave Maria) and other depictions of Tahitian life. He moved to Punaauia in 1897, where he created the masterpiece painting “Where Do We Come From” and then lived the rest of his life in the Marquesas Islands, returning to France only once. His works of that period are full of quasi-religious symbolism and an exoticized view of the inhabitants of Polynesia. In Polynesia, he sided with the native peoples, clashing often with the colonial authorities and with the Catholic Church. During this period he also wrote the book Avant et après (before and after), a fragmented collection of observations about life in Polynesia, memories from his life and comments on literature and paintings. It was during this period Paul Gauguin, executed his wood cuts of this series and several others. Paul Gauguin “Le Sourire #1” Limited Edition Woodcut, recorded in the catalogue Guerin Catalogue of Gauguin’s works #29. This rare work and others are woodcuts after the original edition, all published by The Grabhorn Press, 1943 in a limited edition of 250 copies. Bright and in fine condition. Each sheet measures 9.25 by 7.25 inches and the image is 4.25 by 7.25 inches and printed on a very fine japon-rice paper in excellent condition.   « Less

Paul Gauguin “Le Sourire #2” Limited Edition Woodcut Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 — May 8, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist  More »

Paul Gauguin “Le Sourire #2” Limited Edition Woodcut Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (June 7, 1848 — May 8, 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, France to journalist Clovis Gauguin and half-Peruvian Aline Maria Chazal, the daughter of proto-socialist leader Flora Tristan. In 1851 the family left Paris for Peru, motivated by the political climate of the period. Clovis died on the voyage, leaving three-year old Paul, his mother and his sister to fend for themselves. They lived for four years in Lima, Peru with Paul’s uncle and his family. The imagery of Peru would later influence Paul in his art. In 1891, Gauguin, frustrated by lack of recognition at home and financially destitute, sailed to the tropics to escape European civilization and “everything that is artificial and conventional.” Living in Mataiea Village in Tahiti, he painted “Fatata te Miti” (“By the Sea”), “Ia Orana Maria” (Ave Maria) and other depictions of Tahitian life. He moved to Punaauia in 1897, where he created the masterpiece painting “Where Do We Come From” and then lived the rest of his life in the Marquesas Islands, returning to France only once. His works of that period are full of quasi-religious symbolism and an exoticized view of the inhabitants of Polynesia. In Polynesia, he sided with the native peoples, clashing often with the colonial authorities and with the Catholic Church. During this period he also wrote the book Avant et après (before and after), a fragmented collection of observations about life in Polynesia, memories from his life and comments on literature and paintings. It was during this period Paul Gauguin, executed his wood cuts of this series and several others. Paul Gauguin “Le Sourire #2” Limited Edition Woodcut, recorded in the catalogue Guerin Catalogue of Gauguin’s works #29. This rare work and others are woodcuts after the original edition, all published by The Grabhorn Press, 1943 in a limited edition of 250 copies. Bright and in fine condition. Each sheet measures 8.50 by 10.75 inches and the image is 5.50 by 8.75 inches and printed on a very fine japon-rice paper in excellent condition.   « Less

Callot (1592—1633), a native of Nancy, France, trained in Florence, taking up etching and introducing the technical innovation of using a very hard ground on the  More »

Callot (1592—1633), a native of Nancy, France, trained in Florence, taking up etching and introducing the technical innovation of using a very hard ground on the plate, thus making it possible to vary the thickness of the line, modeling it along its whole course with a dependable ground to work on, he became the first specialist virtuoso etcher [this work provides] the first unromantic pictures of war, exposing its impersonal cruelty, casual violence, and senseless destruction his records of war-torture, rape, burning at the stake, the firing squad-are strikingly believable because he observed decorum, viewed events as dispassionately as only a Frenchman can, and made his figures move as delicately and precisely as deadly insects. Through his technical innovations and the excellence of his drawing he exerted an influence more profound than that of many greater artists. Rare two etchings from Jacques Callot. Each etching measures 2 5/8 x 3 3/8 inches with narrow with thread margins. Printed ca. early 18th century, on laid paper. Recorded in the Catalogue Lieure 194 PROV: Purchased in the 1980 from a well-respected New York Gallery, “Associated American Artist” in 1980.   « Less