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Period: 1930s
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograp...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Lithograph
Femme nue devant une Statue
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this etching. Edition of 260. Signed in pencil, lower right. Picasso watermark. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Published by Vollard, Paris.
Catalogue refer...
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Cubist 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
'Madman's Drum (Plate 41)' — 1930s Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lynd Ward, 'Madman's Drum, Plate 41', wood engraving, 1930, edition small. Signed in pencil. A fine, black impression, on off-white tissue-thin Japan paper; the full sheet with marg...
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American Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Woodcut
Deux Femmes Nues - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed in ink. Edition of 125 prints.
Very good condition.
Catalogue Bloch n.132.
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Cubist 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching, Paper
Adolescence. (Kathleen Nancy Woodward).
Located in Storrs, CT
Adolescence. (Kathleen Nancy Woodward). 1932. Etching. Fletcher 75 state vi. Image: 14 3/8 x 10 7/16 (sheet 16 3/8 x 12 1/4. Total edition 91). Illustrated: Guichard, British Etchers...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Three Nudes - Original Lithograph
By Le Corbusier
Located in Paris, FR
Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
Three Nudes, 1938
Original lithograph
Signature printed in the plate
Dated in the plate
On light vellum 21 x 27 cm (c. 8 x 11 inch)
Very good condition, pa...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograp...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ex Libris - Ernest Monteux- Etching by Michel Fingesten - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris - Ernest Monteux is an Etching print created by Michel Fingesten in 1930s.
Hand signed on the lower margin. Numbered on the left corner, ex. 149/150
Good conditions.
Mi...
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Symbolist 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
'Mountain Climber' — 1930s American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'Mountain Climber', wood engraving, 1933, edition 250, Burne Jones 93. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 9/16 to 3 5/8 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge verso, where previously hinged; otherwise, in excellent condition. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (200 x 149 mm); sheet size 14 x 11 1/8 inches (356 x 283 mm).
Printed by Pynson Printers, New York. Distributed by The Print Club of Cleveland, Publication No. 11, 1933.
Literature: 'Rockwellkentiana,' Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1933. '101 of The World’s Greatest Books', edited by Spencer Armstrong, 1950.
Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Akron Art Institute, Burne Jones Collection, IL; Cincinnati Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Davis Museum at Wellesley College; Fine Art Museums of San Francisco; H. M. de Young Museum; Hermitage Museum; Kent Collection, NY; Library of Congress; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester; Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection, NY; SUNY, Plattsburg.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock. In 1905 Kent moved from New York to Monhegan Island in Maine, home to a summer art colony, where he continued to find inspiration in nature. Kent soon found success exhibiting and selling his paintings in New York, and in 1907, he was given his first solo show at Claussen Galleries. The following year he married his first wife, Kathleen Whiting (Thayer’s niece), with whom he had five children. The couple divorced in 1924, and Kent married Frances Lee the following year. They divorced after 15 years of marriage, and the artist married Sally Johnstone.
For the next several decades, Kent lived a peripatetic lifestyle, settling in several locations in Connecticut, Maine, and New York. During this time he took several extended voyages to remote, often ice-filled, corners of the globe, including Newfoundland, Alaska, Tierra del Fuego, and Greenland, to which he made three separate trips. For Kent, exploration and artistic production were twinned endeavors, and his travels to these rugged, elemental locations inspired his visual art and his writings. He developed a stark, realist landscape style in his paintings and drawings that revealed both nature’s harshness and its sublimity. Kent’s human figures, which appear sparingly in his work, often allude to the mythic themes of isolation, individualism, heroism, and the quest for self-connection. Important exhibitions of works from these travels include the Knoedler Gallery’s shows in 1919 and 1920, featuring Kent’s Alaska drawings...
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American Modern 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Desnudo de Frida Kahlo, Signed Lithograph by Diego Rivera
By Diego Rivera
Located in Long Island City, NY
This portrait depicts Rivera's second wife, the artist Frida Kahlo (1907-54), sitting on a bed wearing stockings and shoes and fastening rows of beads around her neck. An accident wh...
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Realist 1930s Nude Prints
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Lithograph
Nude - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s.
Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner.
Good conditions.
Édouard Chimot (26 November 1880 – 7 June...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Nude with Stockings - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude with stockings is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s.
Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner.
Good condition.
Édouard Chimot (26 November...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Nude with Wings - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude with Wings is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s.
Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner.
Good conditions.
Édouard Chimot (26 November 18...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Nude - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s.
Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner.
Good conditions.
Édouard Chimot (26 November 1880 – 7 June...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Nude on the Bed - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude on the bed is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s.
Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner.
Good conditions.
Édouard Chimot (26 November 18...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
The Smoking Girl - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Smoking Girl is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s.
Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner.
Good conditions.
Édouard Chimot (26 November 1...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Nude - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s.
Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner.
Good conditions.
Édouard Chimot (26 November 1880 – 7 June...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Nude on the Bed - Etching by Edouard Chimot - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude on the Bed is an etching realized by Edouard Chimot in the 1930s.
Signed on the plate by the artist on the lower right corner.
Good conditions.
Édouard Chimot (26 November 18...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograph...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Lithograph
'The Bather' — 1930s American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Rockwell Kent, 'The Bather', wood engraving, 1931, edition 120, Burne Jones 63. Signed in pencil. A brilliant, black impression, on cream, wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge, verso, otherwise in excellent condition. Image size 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches (137 x 200 mm); sheet size 11 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (283 x 368 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
Impressions of this work are held in the following public collections: Burne Jones Collection, IL; Chegodaev Collection, Moscow; Kent Collection, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library, NJ; Pushkin Museum, Moscow; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection, NY.
Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), though best known as a painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, pursued many careers throughout his life, including architect, carpenter, explorer, writer, dairy farmer, and political activist. Born in Tarrytown, New York, Kent was interested in art from a young age. These ambitions were encouraged by his aunt Jo Holgate, an accomplished ceramicist. Jo came to live with the family after Kent’s father passed away in 1887 and took him to Europe as a teenager, undoubtedly kindling his interest in exploring the world.
Kent attended the Horace Mann School in New York City, where he excelled at mechanical drawing. His family’s financial circumstances prevented him from pursuing a career in the fine arts; however, after graduating from Horace Mann in 1900, Kent decided to study architecture at Columbia University.
Before matriculating at Columbia, Kent spent the first of three consecutive summers studying painting at William Merritt Chase’s art school in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island. There he found a community of mentors and fellow students who encouraged him to pursue his interest in art. At the end of Kent’s third summer at Shinnecock, Chase offered him a full scholarship to the New York School of Art, where he was a teacher. Kent began taking night classes at the art school in addition to his architecture studies but soon left Columbia to study painting full-time. In addition to Chase, Kent took classes with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, where his classmates included the artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper.
Kent spent the summer of 1903 assisting the eccentric painter Abbott Handerson Thayer at his studio in Dublin, New Hampshire—a position he secured through the recommendation of his Aunt Jo. Thayer’s naturalist lifestyle and almost mystical appreciation for natural phenomena greatly influenced Kent; he returned to Dublin for many years to visit Thayer and his family. Thayer gave the young artist time to pursue his work, and that summer Kent painted several views of the New Hampshire landscape, including Mount Monadnock...
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American Modern 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Rest, Two Reclining Nudes - Lithograph and watercolor stencil
By Le Corbusier
Located in Paris, FR
Le Corbusier (1887-1965)
The Rest, Two Reclining Nudes, 1938
Lithograph and watercolor stencil
On light vellum 21 x 27 cm (c. 8 x 11 inch)
Very good condition, paper lightly yellow...
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Cubist 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Reclined Nude - Etching by Valér Ferenczy - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Reclined Nude is an etching and drypoint on ivory-colored paper realized by Valér Ferenczy in the 1930s.
Hand-signed by pencil on the lower right.
Good conditions with foxing and ...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Nude at Dressing Table
By John Sloan
Located in Middletown, NY
Sloan was so fond of this composition that he made a painting after the etching ten years after its completion, in 1943. Completed in Santa Fe, the painting is now housed in the perm...
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American Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Spanish Couple by Edward Chimot Nude Lithograph Print c1946
Located in FR
Spanish Couple Lithograph Print by Edouard Chomet c1946 Erotica
Signed in the plate
From Seville in Spain
With a copy of the listing for the whole set that I will be listing.... th...
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French School 1930s Nude Prints
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Lithograph
Spanish Lady by Edward Chimot Nude Lithograph Print c1946
Located in FR
Spanish Lady Lithograph Print by Edouard Chomet c1946 Erotica
Signed in the plate
From Seville in Spain
With a copy of the listing for the whole set tha...
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French School 1930s Nude Prints
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Lithograph
Ex Libris Tibor Gubisi - Original Woodcut - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Ex Libris Tibor Gubisi is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the early 20th Century .
Original B/W Xilograph artwork on ivory-colored paper.
The work is glued on card...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Woodcut
'Le Paradis Terrestre' (Paradise on Earth) — 1930s Symbolism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edouard Goerg, 'Le Paradis Terrestre' (Paradise on Earth), etching, 1931, edition 40. Signed, titled, and numbered '3/40' in pencil. A fine richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream w...
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Symbolist 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Two Reclining Nudes / Deux Nus Allonges
Located in London, GB
TSUGOUHARU FOUJITA 1886-1968
Edogawa Tokyo 1886-1968 Zurich (French/Japanese)
Title: Two Reclining Nudes / Deux Nus Allonges, 1930
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etc...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograp...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Fire - Original Woodcut on Paper by Erika Lawson Frimke - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Fire is an original woodcut artwork on paper realized in 1937 ca. by Russian artist Erika Lawson Frimke( 1878-1956), Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil.
The state of preservat...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Woodcut
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Amphitrite Nude Etching
By Raoul Dufy
Located in New York, NY
Original etching. This is the frontispiece etching published in Paris in 1930 by Floury for Marcelle Berr de Turique's monograph on the artist Dufy. Signed by Raoul Dufy within the p...
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1930s Nude Prints
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Paper
'Sea And Sky' — 1930s Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan; the full sheet with margins (2 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Edition 150. Signed in pencil. Matted to museum standards...
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American Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Woodcut
Suffering- Original Woodcut on Paper by Erikma Lawson Frimke - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Suffering is an original woodcut artwork on paper realized in 1937 by Russian artist Erikma Lawson Frimke (1878-1956), Hand-signed and dated on the lower in pencil.
The state of pre...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Woodcut
Nude of Woman - Etching by Marcel Homs - 1939
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Woman is an etching on paper realized by Marcel Homs (1910 - 1995), in 1939.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower margin.
Beautiful print represe...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
QUATRE FEMMES NUES ET TETE SCULPTEE (BLOCH 219)
Located in Aventura, FL
Plate 82 from La Suite Vollard. Bloch 219. Baer 424. Etching on Montval paper. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with larger margins). Number...
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Cubist 1930s Nude Prints
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Paper, Engraving
MODELE CONTEMPLANT UN GROUPE SCULPTE (BLOCH 175)
Located in Aventura, FL
Plate 66, from La Suite Vollard. Georges Bloch 175. Brigitte Baer 328. Etching on Montval laid paper. Image size 11.75 x 14.5 inches. Sheet size 13.25 x 17.5 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Frame size approx 27.5 x 30 inches. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 with larger margins).
Numbered '327' in the Henri Petiet inventory system lower left corner. Published by Ambroise Vollard...
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Cubist 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching, Paper
Jean Cocteau - Bath - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograph...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Modernist Nude — Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Russell T. Limbach, 'Untitled (Modernist Nude)', etching and aquatint, no known edition, c. 1930. Signed in pencil. A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 7/8 to 2 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 8 15/16 x 5 15/16 inches; sheet size 13 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches. Extremely rare. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Probably created when Limbach was in Paris (1928-1934), where he was exposed to modernist printmaking explorations at Stanley William Hayter’s 'Atelier 17'.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Massillon, Ohio, Russell Limbach...
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American Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Cubist Nude - Stone lithograph, 1930
Located in Paris, FR
Mariano ANDREU
Cubist Nude, 1930
Original stone lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On Arches vellum 28 x 22 cm (c. 11 x 9 inch)
Excellent condition
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Cubist 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
GARCON ET DORMEUSE A LA CHANDELLE (BLOCH 226)
Located in Aventura, FL
Plate 26 from La Suite Vollard. Bloch 226. Baer 440. Etching, engraving and aquatint, on Montval paper. Signed in pencil, from the edition of 260 (there was also an edition of 50 wit...
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Cubist 1930s Nude Prints
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Paper, Engraving, Etching, Aquatint
Roi Pausole - Original Etching by Marcel Vertès - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Roi Pausole is an original etching on ivory paper. glued on cardboard, realized by Marcel Vertès, in 1930s.
In good conditions. Image Dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm
This artwork represe...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Nu Accroupi - Original Etching by Dunoyer de Segonzac - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 8 x 17 cm.
Etching on ivory colored paper, with en embossing stamp "Libreria Prandi Reggio E." in lower-right corner. Edition of 50 prints.
Beautiful etching rep...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
Nude with Furniture
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan (1871-1954), Nude with Furniture, etching, 1931, signed in pencil lower right, titled lower middle, annotated “100 proofs” lower left. Reference: Morse 252, third state (o...
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American Realist 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
The Painter and the Model - Etching by Giacomo Manzù - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The painter and the model is an original rare etching on paper realized by the Italian artist Giacomo Manzù.
Hand-signed on the lower right and numbered only edition of 17 prints.
...
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1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides - Original Etching
By André Derain
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Derain - Ovid's Heroides
Original Etching
Edition of 134
Dimensions: 32 x 25 cm
Ovide [Marcel Prevost], Héroïdes, Paris, Société des Cent-une, 1938
Andre Derain was born in 1880 in Chatou, an artist colony outside Paris. In 1898, he enrolled in the Academie Carriere in Paris where he met Matisse. He attended art school and in 1900, set up a studio with Maurice deVlaminck. After his military service from 1900-1904, Derain exhibited his work at the Salon des Independants and then at the Salon d'Automne with Matisse, Vlaminck and others, thus creating the movement of Fauvism.He worked with Henri Matisse in 1905 at Collioure, and participated in the 1905 Salon d’Automne with Matisse, Vlaminck, and Braque, the exhibition in which this group was labeled as Fauves, or Wild Beasts. Along with Vlaminck, Derain was one of the first artists to collect the tribal art of Africa which was influential to many of the artists of the early 20th century.
In 1906, Derain met Picasso and his dealer, who purchased Derain's entire studio, creating newfound financial success. During this time, he was hired for the illustrations for works by Guillaume Apollinaire and Andre Breton. After World War I, his friend's Cubism movement affected his art, along with influence from Classicism and African Art.
Derain stayed in Paris during most of the Occupation, where he was esteemed by the Nazis because of his artistic integrity. Hitler's Foreign Minister commissioned him to paint a family portrait, but he politely refused. His popularity began to decline after the war because of disagreement over new artistic movements. He later lost most of his eyesight due to illness, which may have been the reason he was hit by a truck in 1954, dying from shock at the age of 74.
Derain’s Fauve paintings are typically bright with intense color. Influenced by the work of Cézanne as well as the early Cubist paintings of Picasso and Braque’s, Derain’s style changed and by 1912, the paintings became more traditional and structured. For the remainder of his career, he continued to investigate different compositional methods including the perspective of Cézanne and the pointillism of Seurat. He also designed ballet sets and made a number of sculptures.
At the turn of the century, Andre Derain exhibited at the radical Fauve Salon d’Automne (1905) and was one of the founding members of the Fauvist movement together with his life-long friends Matisse and Vlaminck. The works he produced in this period, often under the guidance of Matisse, have been counted among the masterpieces of Fauvism.
From around 1918, Derain turned his back on the avant-garde and had begun to explore some of the more traditional genres of Western art, including landscapes. His main source of inspiration once the Fauves group had dispersed was found in the Louvre, where he admired the early Renaissance works in particular. Talking of his frequent visits there, he once said, ‘That seemed to me then, the true, pure absolute painting.’ His work evolved through many styles and, most significantly, turned back to the past, particularly after 1922 when Lenin had publicly pronounced his disdain for abstract art.
Derain built up an immense and fascinating collection of paintings, sculpture and objets d’art throughout his life which aided his experimentation and was reflected in his work between 1930 and 1945. During these years, his painting technique displayed the most avenues of invention, using a repertoire of primitivist motifs. His eclectic collection was constantly changing. In 1930 he sold his African collection in exchange for bronzes of antiquity and the Renaissance which indicated a real change of interest in the objects, as did his later pursuit of Greek ceramic painting and his enthusiasm for grand cycles of literary and antique themes...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
La Danse
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Henri Matisse (after)
Medium: Lithograph
Title: La Danse
Year: 1938
Edition: Unnumbered
Framed Size: 20 1/2 x 27 inches
Sheet Size: 14 x 21 inches
Ref...
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1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograp...
Category
Modern 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Nude at Piano
By John Sloan
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Sloan, 'Nude at Piano', 1933, etching, edition 100, (only 85 printed), Morse 265. Signed, titled and annotated '100 proofs' in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right...
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Ashcan School 1930s Nude Prints
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Etching
'Naked Girl in Spray, Head Thrown Back' — 1930s Modernist Female Nude
By Eric Gill
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Eric Gill, 'Naked Girl in Spray, Head Thrown Back to Left, Four Leaves' and 'Naked Girl in Spray, Head Upright, Hands Over Head', wood engraving, 1930, edit...
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Art Deco 1930s Nude Prints
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Woodcut
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograp...
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Modern 1930s Nude Prints
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Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Three in One - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
Three in One - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithogr...
Category
Modern 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - Duality - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograph...
Category
Modern 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Jean Cocteau - White Book - Original Handcolored Lithograph
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jean Cocteau
White Book - Autobiography about Cocteau's discovery of his homosexuality. The book was first published anonymously and created a scandal.
Original Handcolored Lithograp...
Category
Modern 1930s Nude Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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