Perseus and Andromeda
JOHANNES AARTS
Dutch, (1871-1934)
Woodcut, circa 1905, Wielick H77, edition unknown. 9 3/8 x 7 in. Signed in the block with the monogram, lower left. Signed in pencil. This is a very good impression of this rare print. The margins are wide and the condition is fine. We believe this woodcut shows the story of Perseus and Andromeda. Perhaps Aarts showed the head of Medusa and Pegasus just to combine the most important images of the Perseus cycle. In other depictions of the story, Perseus and the head of Medusa are left out. Wielick catalogued this as Perseus and the Head of Medusa and the Rijksmuseum titles their impression as Perseus and Andromeda. Our website shows a similar print which we previously sold, Wielich H-75, titled as Perseus with the Head of Medusa. Aarts was born in the Hague and moved to Amsterdam in 1911 were he became an influencial teacher at the Rijksacademie. (He replaced Pieter Dupont who died prematurely in 1911.)
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Mallow
ANDERS ALDRIN
American, (1889-1970)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1935, Newark Museum-Aldrin 2; total edition unknown but small. 6 1/2 x 6 in. Signed with the printed monogram in the lower right. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression with full margins. Fine condition apart from traces of previous hinges at the top corners. This is one of a few color variants of this image printed by the artist. Aldrin was born in Sweden and moved to America in 1911. By 1920, Aldrin had relocated to southern California and studied at the Otis Art Institute. He later attended the Santa Barbara School of Art and studied with Frank Morley Fletcher, the British artist known for his exceptional woodcuts in the Japanese manner. Provenance: Annex Galleries, CA.
$1,200

Summer Dawn - Loch Etive-Side
ANN D. ALEXANDER
Scottish, (b. 1890)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1932, edition unknown (probably 50). 6 1/2 x 10 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression on Japanese paper. The margins are fine and the condition is very good. (There's slight minor toning within an earlier mat opening.) Loch Etive joins the sea between the villages of Connel and Dunstaffnage. Ex-collection: Robert O. Muller.
$1,100

Summer Afterglow, Loch Etive-side IV
ANN D. ALEXANDER
Scottish, (b. 1890)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1933, edition probably 50. 7 x 10 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. This is a very fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart frame a very faint suggestion of toning within an early mat opening. The artist studied at the Glasgow School of Art and exhibited extensively between 1917 and 1940. Ex-collection: Robert O Muller.
$1,100

Composition with Green and Red
WOBBE ALKEMA
Dutch, (1900-1984)
Linoleum cut, 1926, Bool/Petersen G34, edition 75. 8 x 5 1/2 in. Signed and dated in pencil "26/78" and numbered "18/75." This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. According to the raisonné, there was no edition printed in 1926 and eight proofs were pulled in 1958. This impression is from the 1978 edition of seventy-five. Even these 1978 impressions are not common today. Alkema was originally trained as a cabinetmaker and he eventually worked with an architectural firm in Groningen. He joined De Ploeg (albeit for a brief period) and produced many remarkable works of geometric abstraction in painting as well as printmaking. His paintings from the 1920s are important today and his prints are equally desirable. Alkema was primarily associated with the Belgian modernists such as Josef Peeters.
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Geometric Composition (Geometrische Compositie)
WOBBE ALKEMA
Dutch, (1900-1984)
Linocut, 1924, Bool/Petersen G24, from a small edition. 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a fine impression printed in black and yellow ochre. The margins are full apart from a loss in the upper left corner. The condition is very good. There are signs of old wrinkles, small repairs at the edges of the sheet, top and bottom edges, and traces of paint loss of the black showing here and there in the image. This print is exceedingly rare being both signed and printed in more than one color. An impression similar to this one is in the Stedelik Museum ("een aafdruk op okergeel papier").This work is illustrated in the black and white version in the following, Wobbe Alkema, The Absolute, The Bright, published by the Groninger Museum in 2009. Authors include Doeke Sijens and Sjoerd van Faassen. (See page 80.) This impression is dedicated to Jan van der Zee in pencil along the bottom left. They were both prominent members of the Ploeg movement.
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Landscape with Farmhouses
JAN ALTINK
Dutch, (1885-1971)
Woodcut, 1926, edition unknown. 9 3/8 x 14 3/4 in. Signed and dated in ink, lower right. Here we have a fine, rich impression printed on a sturdy cream wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is good. (There's a repaired break just outside the image in the upper left corner. There are traces of old cellotape adhesive in the margins, one of which extends on the bottom to just outside the image.) This potent and very rare woodcut exemplfies Altink at his best in this medium. He also worked in etching and lithography and excelled as a painter. He was born in Groningen and studied at the Minerva Academy. He one of the founders of "de Ploeg" and remained a member of the group into the 1960s.
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In Full Cry
SYBIL ANDREWS
British/Canadian, (1898-1992)
Linocut printed in colors, 1931, Coppel SA 13, White 13; edition 50. 11 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (image); 12 7/8 x 171/2 in. (sheet) Signed, numbered "40/50," and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on thin gampi paper (Japanese). The margins are full and the condition is fine. (There are a few subtle reinforced breaks and thin spots in the extreme edges of the sheet, not affecting the image.) This large and dynamic work depicts a fox hunting scene and is a masterpiece of Grosvenor School linocut printmaking. Provenance: Osborne Samuel, London; private collection, Massachusetts. (The print is beautifully framed and this is included in the price.)
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The Tawny Owl
JEAN ARMITAGE
British, (exhibited 1919-1938)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1925, edition 50. 10 3/8 x 8 in. Signed, numbered and titled in pencil. Here we have a fine, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from old hinges at the top two corners, a small spot of foxing to the right of the image and a subtle little repair in the lower left corner below the title. The influence of Japanese printmaking is here in evidence. Her work is executed with great skill, especially as seen here. She studied with the illustrator J.D. Batten at the Byam Shaw School of Art and exhibited with the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. This information was provided by the British Museum and they own two example of her woodcuts.
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The Last Trumpet
BORIS ARTZYBASHEFF
Russian/ American, (1899-1965)
Wood engraving, 1937, edition 200. 11 3/8 x 7 7/8 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on a cream wove paper. The margins are full. The condition is very good apart from old adhesive on the top corners, verso, where the sheet was attached to the accompanying portfolio. This potent image was published by the Woodcut Society of Kansas City with an introduction by Carl Carmer. Artzybasheff was a gifted set designer and illustrator and he created more than 200 covers for Time magazine before his death. This potent image was perhaps partially inspired by his early time in the front lineswhen the Russian Revolution broke out in 1917. He was drafted into the German sponsored Ukranian army and was forced to fight for a separatist Ukranian Republic. With his life at risk, he eventually escaped and made it to New York and commenced his career as an artist. This is a universal statement about war and destruction against the background of a large metropolis.
$3,500

Child Reaching
WILL BARNET
American, (1911-2012)
Woodcut, 1940, Cole 82, Szoke 83; edition 25 (60) 7 1/8 x 11 1/4 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine dark impression printed on thin japanese paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine other than for slight handling marks on the left and right edges of the paper. This charming work was printed and published by the artist. This impression is numbered 59/60. There's no indication in either catalogue raisonné that a second edition was printed. Most likely the artist printed 35 more impressions and continued the numbering as we see here.
$850

From Hillside Gardens
GUSTAVE BAUMANN
American, (1881-1971)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1941-46, Chamberlain 162, edition 83. 12 3/4 x 12 5/8 in. Signed, numbered and titled in pencil. This is a fine, vibrant impression of the second of two printings. The margins are wide. The condition is fine apart from a very faint suggestion of toning in the margins. The first printing (1941) was generally with a silver leaf background and here in the second printing (1946), the background color is silver ink. The inspiration for this lovely print was a garden at Hillside, Lydia Coonley Ward's home in Wyoming, New York. (Note: This is a Baumann replica frame of exceptional quality. We had it made up for this print.)
$15,000

The Kiss (Der Kuss)
PETER BEHRENS
German, (1868-1940)
Woodcut printed in colors, 1898-1900, edition unknown. 7 1/2 x 6 in. Initialed in the block, lower center. Signed with the printed text, lower left, below the image. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is very good apart from light toning to the sheet. This memorable image first appeared in PAN (Volume IV/1898, issue two.) The present, slightly reduced version, appeared in Die Kunst, Volume 2, Munich, in 1900. Behrens was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer. He had a long career designing objects, typefaces and important buildings in a range of styles from around 1900 to the 1930s. This is his best known print.
$1,300

Passerby (Passante)
HERMAN F. BIELING
Dutch, (1887-1964)
Linocut, 1920, edition unknown. 12 1/8 x 8 5/8 in. Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed "gedr d.d. artist" (printed by the artist). This is a superb, rich impression of this stellar work. The paper is a sturdy wove and the margins are full. There's slight wrinkling and small marks primarily in the lower margin. Bieling lived and worked in Rotterdam. He founded an artistic group called De Branding (The Surf or Breakers) which promoted the new modernism in Dutch art. Stylistically, his work relates to de Ploeg but he was not a formal member of the group.
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The Poet (Der Dichter)
HERMAN F. BIELING
Dutch, (1887-1964)
Woodcut, 1920, edition unknown. 11 5/8 x 10 in. Initialed in the block, lower right. Signed, dated and titled in ink. The margins are full and the condition is fine. The image is printed on the back of a sheet of incunabula published by Michael Furter, Basel, (in facsimile). Bieling was a Rotterdam artist who founded an artistic group called "De Branding" (meaning surf or breakers in Dutch). He had connections with art groups including De Stijl and Der Sturm. Bieling was also an organizer of shows which included his work and those by Kurt Schwitters, Piet Mondriaan and many other cutting edge artists. He was an active proponent of modernism in Dutch painting and printmaking during the 1920s and 1930s. Much of his work was lost during a major fire in his studio in 1930.
$1,000

Nude (Naakt)
HERMAN F. BIELING
Dutch, (1887-1964)
Woodcut (linocut?), 1920, edition unknown. 17 3/4 x 8 5/8 in. Signed, titled and dated in ink. Printed by the artist and so inscribed. This is a superb impression of the large work. The margins are full and the condition is fine. Bieling was a Rotterdam artist who founded an artistic group called "De Branding" (meaning surf or breakers in Dutch). He had connections with art groups including De Stijl and Der Sturm. Bieling was also an organizer of shows which included his work and those by Kurt Schwitters, Piet Mondriaan and many other cutting edge artists. He was an active proponent of modernism in Dutch painting and printmaking during the 1920s and 1930s. Much of his work was lost during a major fire in his studio in 1930.
$1,200

Dancers (Danseres)
HERMAN F. BIELING
Dutch, (1887-1964)
Linoleum cut, 1922, small edition. 12 1/2 x 9 in. Signed, titled and dated in ink. Here we have a fine impression printed on a thin light tan paper. The margins are full. The condition is fine apart from slight wrinkling along the left edge of the sheet. Often, as we see here, Bieling's images are comprised of dynamic geometric forms and lines to enhance the overall composition and primary subject.
$800

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.
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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.
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Venice
EMMA BORMANN
Austrian, (1887-1974)
Linocut printed in colors, undated (possibly 1923)., Johns pg. 80, edition unknown. 9 x 14 in. Signed and titled in pencil. Here we have a very fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This stellar view of Venice exists in color variations. This rare work is one of several views of Italy that she did in addition she made trips to: Vienna, Stockholm, Rome, Florence, Prague, Tokyo, Shanghai, New York, Washington, DC, Pittsburgh and on and on. She worked in woodcut and linocut and they can be difficult to tell apart.
$1,900