Stockholm
JOHN TAYLOR ARMS
American, (1887-1953)
Etching, 1940, Fletcher 346, edition 395. 7 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. Signed and dated in pencil. Also inscribed "III" for third state and below "sp" for special proof. This is a fine, luminous impression of this stellar work. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This print won multiple prizes from 1941-48.
$1,500

The Invasion of Art
PEGGY BACON
American, (1895-1987)
Drypoint, 1943, Flint 147, edition unknown. 9 3/8 x 13 7/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. Inscribed, "For Josephine with morbid affection from Peg." This is a superb impression of this large, uncommon print. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from a paper tape hinge on the verso at the top, and two tiny white tape hinges at the corners also on the back. The paper bears a WHATMAN watermark. This entertaining work with an equally satirical dedication reflects the personality of the artist. There's a drawing of this same location (Kennebunkport, ME) in the Princeton University Art Museum. It's listed as the same year as the print.
$2,200

Gateside Conversation
THOMAS HART BENTON
American, (1889-1975)
Lithograph, 1946, Fath 69, AAA 753; edition 250. 9 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. Signed on the stone, lower right. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. A painting of this subject was made prior to the lithograph.
$3,500

Houses in the Snow
JAN BOON
Dutch, (1882-1975)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1930s-1940s, edition unknown. 10 5/8 x 11 5/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on fibrous Japanese paper. The margins are full. Excellent condition. Boon studied with Philip Zilcken and Jacob Maris. He was a gifted painter as well as a printmaker and his works are rare. He moved around the Netherlands and in 1922 he relocated to Austria for a few years. His carefully composed and detailed work in paintings in often referred to as the New Realism from the mid 1920s onward.
$650

Tree in Winter
JAN BOON
Dutch, (1882-1975)
Woodcut printed in black and gray, 1930-1940s, edition unknown. 9 5/8 x 13 in. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine impression printed on fibrous Japanese paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. Boon was a painter, watercolorist, draughtsman, woodcut artist as well as being an etcher. For some reason his work rarely turns up. He won numerous awards and medals for his work over the years.
$650

Toucans
NORBERTINE BRESSLERN-ROTH
Austrian, (1891-1978)
Linocut printed in colors, 1929, edition unknown. 10 5/8 x 9 1/8 in. Signed with the monogram in the block, lower right. Signed in pencil. Here we have a fine, vibrant impression with probably the full margins. The condition is excellent. This stellar work was published in a special edition of the 1920 Gesellschaft für Vervielfältigende Kunst, Vienna. There is also the published, unsigned edition with the printed descriptive text along the bottom edge of the sheet.
$1,900

Youth (Jugend)
NORBERTINE BRESSLERN-ROTH
Austrian, (1891-1978)
Linoleum cut, 1930, edition unknown. 10 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. Signed in pencil and inscribed, "handdruck." This is a fine impression printed on her typical thin Japanese paper. The margins are substantial and this is probably the full, untrimmed sheet. The condition is fine apart from a tiny stain just to the right of the image in the upper corner. The is a beautiful impression. Bersslern-Roth studied with Ferdinand Schmutzer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In the 1920s, she was one of the first women to become deeply involved with the linocut process which she focused on up until about 1952.
SOLD

La Falaise - Baie de Saint Malo
FELIX BUHOT
French, (1847-1898)
Etching, drypoint, aquatint and roulette, 1886-1890, Bourcard-Goodfriend 165. 11 3/4 x 15 1/2 in. Signed with the artist's large red owl stamp (Lugt 977) along the lower left of the image. This is a fine, rich, luminous impression printed in two slightly different tones of black ink. The margins are full and the condition is very good. (There's a professionally repaired break along the right edge from plate mark pressure in the printing process.) The central image (state v/VI) is printed from one plate and the outer image (state iii/III) is printed from a second plate. There's a pencil inscription on the verso which reads," Eau Forte de Felix Buhot purchased from the artist's son, Jean Buhot, in 1919... R. Lawson." In addition, this beautiful print comes from a Norwegian private collection.
$5,000

The Large Cottages (Les Grandes Chaumières)
FELIX BUHOT
French, (1847-1898)
Drypoint, aquatint and roulette, 1881, Bourcard/Goodfriend 150 (v/VI); edition unknown. 5 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. Signed below the imaged with the artist's large red owl stamp (Lugt 977). This is a superb impression printed on a cream laid paper. The margins are probably full and the condition is excellent. There's an unidentified collector's mark on the verso "AEB" printed in blue ink.
$2,300

The Return of the Artists to the Champs-Elysées (Le Retour des Artistes aux Champs-Elysées)
FELIX BUHOT
French, (1847-1898)
Etching, drypoint, aquatint and roulette, 1877, Bourcard-Goodfriend 125 (iv/IV); edition unknown. 8 1/8 x 12 1/2 in. Signed, titled and dated in the plate, lower left. This is a fine, richly inked impression of this uncommon print. The margins appear to be full with a deckle edge on three sides. The condition is fine. According to Jim Goodfriend, "The precise time and date (March 20, 6 in the evening) are etched into the plate, memorializing the final day on which artists could submit paintings for exhibition in the 1877 salon." (See his Catalogue Number Six, page 10 (1998). This, the published state, bears the printed title "Le 20 Mars au Palais des Champs Èlysées." It was published by Cadart.
$1,400

Frontispiece for L'Illustration Nouvelle
FELIX BUHOT
French, (1847-1898)
Etching, drypoint, aquatint and roulette, 1877, Bourcard/Goodfriend 124 (v/V) 13 5/8 x 10 7/8 in. Signed in the plate, lower left. Signed in pencil. This superb impression also bears the following inscription, "à mon camarade et ami, E." There's a further Buhot pencil inscription, "frontispiece pour L'Illustration Nouvelle de Cadart". The paper is a fine laid and the margins are full. This impression is before the plate edges were cleaned. This print is described by Goodfriend as follows: "The subject of this curious allegory is the 'death' of reproductive engraving (the spirit of the engraver's tool is carried aloft by angels, while the 'body' is taken off by an old hearse labeled 1876, drawn by a winged horse) and the triumphant arrival of original etching transported by a modern locomotive called 'L'Illustration Nouvelle' and dated 1877." Signed impressions of this print are rare. Based on the pencil dedication it appears that this is the impression illustrated in Catalogue Number Four (1986) by C. & J. Goodfriend, page 35, # 90.
$4,500

Baptism in the Japanese Style (Baptême Japonais)
FELIX BUHOT
French, (1847-1898)
Etching, drypoint and aquatint on vellum, 1890, Bourcard-Goodfriend 167 (ii/III), edition unknown. 8 5/8 x 5 in. Unsigned. Here we have a fine, warm impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from subtle wrinkling in the margins in the center, above and below the image. This lovely image is a portrait of the artist's son, Jean Buhot. This print usually turns up unsigned as we have here. The plate was cancelled in the third and final state. Provenance: a private Norwegian collection.
$1,400

Mexican Girl
MARGARET BURROUGHS
African American, (1915-2010)
Linoleum cut, 1998, edition unknown. 21 1/2 x 13 3/4 in. Initialed in the block, lower left. Signed, titled and dated in ink. This is a superb impression printed on white wove paper. The margins are probably full and the condition is fine. (There's a small bent corner, lower right, and a smudge on the bottom center margin.) This large, dynamic print relates to an earlier and smaller version of the same subject. (An impression from the Melvin Holmes Collection of African American Art measures 13 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. It's dated 1953 and the edition was only five impressions.) Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs was a visual artist, writer, educator and founder of the DuSable Museum of African American History in Hyde Park (Chicago). Burroughs spent a brief time in Mexico where she studied printmaking under the direction of Leopoldo Méndez at the Taller de Gráfica Popular. As a leader of the Black Arts Movement in Chicago, her works focused on community and the social empowerment of art.
$3,500

Eagle Dance
HOWARD COOK
American, (1901-1980)
Wood engraving, 1942, Duffy 201, edition 200. 10 x 8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a superb impression in fine condition. The margins are full. This print was published by the Woodcut Society of Kansas City. The print is still in the folder it was published in and it's attached at the two top corners, verso. Duffy cites ten impressions in museum collections.
$1,800

Wheat Shocks
JOHN ROGERS COX
American, (1915-1990)
Lithograph, 1951, AAA 1141, edition 250. 8 7/8 x 11 3/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with wide margins. The condition is very good apart from faint light toning within an earlier mat opening and very slight toning of the back of the sheet. This is the only print by Cox and it was published by Associated American Artists in New York. Cox was born in Indiana and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was appointed the first Director of the Swope Art Museum at the age of twenty-six. He organized important shows of American painters and was buying American painters' works from the 1930s and 1940s for the Swope before it became the trendy thing to do. Cox was a fine painter but he produced a small body of work. He tended towards a magic regionalist landscape tradition and his work is quite compelling.
$3,500

Coastal Scene at Night
EUGENE DELATRE
French, (1864-1938)
Etching and aquatint, 1906, edition unknown. 18 5/8 x 25 in. Signed and numbered "113" in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression with wide margins. The condition is very good apart from traces of adhesive, recto, in the margins from an early mount and a few repaired tears also in the margins. This large and ambitious print shows Delâtre at his best as an intaglio printmaker. This painterly print effectively conveys the mood of the moment. (There's no proper catalogue of his prints apart from the Inventaire du fonds français après 1800 which lists prints in the Bibliothèque Nationale.) Eugène was the son of Auguste Delâtre.
$2,500

Peacocks (Oblong Plate)
CHARLES M. & EDWARD J. DETMOLD
British, (1883-1908 & 1883-1957)
Etching, 1905, Dodgson 8, edition unknown. 3 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. Signed in pencil by Edward, lower right, and signed in pencil lower left, M.D. (by) E.J.D. This is a fine impression in fine condition with full margins. The paper is a cream-colored Japanese paper. This collaborative etching by the twins is the companion piece for Dodgson 10. Very few impressions were printed in 1905 and this one dates from the 1920s when Edward reprinted a small edition and signed both their names. (Maurice died in 1908). Their work was very much in demand at the time and even today the Detmold etchings have many admirers.
$800

New Towers
WERNER DREWES
American, (1899-1985)
Woodcut, 1931, Rose 58 (iii/III); edition 20. 11 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on cream Japanese paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There are minor paper imperfections in the margins and a few tiny specks of foxing.) Drewes produced a number of stellar expressionist woodcuts of New York from 1930-32. They are generally uncommon today.
$2,000

Corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street
WERNER DREWES
American, (1899-1985)
Woodcut, 1930, Rose 47, edition 20. 13 3/8 x 8 1/2 in. Signed, dated and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on cream Japanese paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There's some rippling here and there at the edges of the sheet.) This potent image is from the series "Ten Views of Manhattan." The impressions were printed between 1930 and 1932.
$2,000

Book Auction
MABEL DWIGHT
American, (1875-1955)
Lithograph, 1932, Robinson/Pirog 63 (i/II); edition 40. 9 x 10 3/8 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression printed on RIVES watermarked paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This is an undescribed first state impression before the image was reduced along the left side by about 1 3/16 inches. There's a preliminary drawing showing this state illustrated on page 105 of the catalogue which was apparently titled. "Fashionable Auction." This title appears in pencil along the lower left edge of the margin written by someone unknown and it's also listed in the entry as an alternate title for the print. (We have the second state impression on this site if you search under Mabel Dwight.) The scene depicted here is is the book auction of the collected works of the Marquess of Lothian held at the Anderson Galleries in New York, 1932. Dwight was there making sketches and the result was this fine print.
$1,600