Valentine's Day: Someone to Watch Over Me.
" Tonight I sent an angel to watch over you, but it came back. When I asked why, it told me that angels don't watch over other angels." -Anonymous.
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Children
Edmund Blampied, R.E. 1886-1966.
Fairy Tales. 1931. Drypoint. Appleby 154. 7 7/8 x 10 7/8 (sheet 10 3/8 x 15 1/2). Edition 100, #13. A fine impression on the full sheet of 'J Whatman' laid paper with full margins. Signed and numbered in ink. $1,750.
Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, R.A., R.E. 1890-1978.
The Two Mélisandes. 1928. Etching. Fletcher 60. 5 3/4 x 3 1/2 (sheet 10 1/2 x 7 1/2). Edition size not stated. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1928; Salaman, Modern Masters of Etching: Brockhurst; Print Collector's Quarterly 21 (1943): 327. Printed on cream-colored laid paper with full margins. Anais, the artist's first wife, is holding their baby daughter. Signed in pencil. $975.
Mary Cassatt. 1845-1926.
Denise Holding Her Child. c. 1905. Drypoint. Breeskin 204.ii. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 (sheet 10 1/16 x 7 1/4). Posthumous printing on cream laid paper from an antique volume. Unsigned. $2,000.
Looking into the Hand Mirror, No.2. c. 1905. Drypoint. Breeskin 202. 7 5/16 x 5 (sheet 11 1/7 x 7 3/16). Posthumous impression. Printed on old laid paper from an antique volume. $2,000.
Toyahara Chikanobu. 1838-1912.
A Mother Takes her Son for A Walk during the Russo-Japanese War. c. 1993. Kakemono: 28 3/8 x 9 7/16. Repairs and staining; fine color. An extremely scarce historical image. Signed Chikanobu. $750.
Timothy Cole. 1852 - 1931.
(after Carrière). Intimité. 1910. 2 7 3/8 x 5 1/4. Proof on tissue paper. Signed and titled 'Intimité Mus. Arts Decoratif Paris' in pencil. $125.
(after Hoppner). Lady Mildmay & Daughter . Private collection NY. 7 3/16 x 5 1/16. Proof on tissue paper. Signed, titled and annotated, ' This Proof’s a little richer than the other T.C.' in pencil. $150.
Jean Cologero. Italian-American. 1022-2001.
Studî della piccola Simonella (Sketches of little Simonella). August 28, 1942. Pencil drawing. 5 1/8 x 7 13/16. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. A charming set of studies of a sleeping child. $550.
Helen West Heller. American. 1872-1955
Mother Earth. 1928. Woodcut. 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 (sheet 14 7/16 x 10 1/2). Signed, dated and titled in pencil. $850.
Ando Hiroshige II (Shigenobu). 1829-1869.
Sumida River. 1861. Series: Eight Views of the Sumida River. Vertical oban. 13 1/8 x 9 (sheet 14 x 9 5/8). Publisher: Kikakudo. Good color and impression. Signed: Hiroshige ga. $275.
Helen Hyde. 1868-1919.
Sunday Morning, San Angel, Mexico. 1912. Woodcut printed in colors. Mason and Mason 104. 10 5/8 x 16 5/8 (sheet 13 1/8 x 20 3/8). A colorful tonal impression printed on fine Japanese paper. A delightful large, impressive processional image. Monogrammed and signed in pencil in the image. $975.00
Dame Laura Knight, R.A., R.E. 1877-1970.
Watching the Aerial Act. 1926. Etching. Bolling-Withington 75. 11 7/8 x 10 (sheet 15 x 10 5/16). Edition c. 50. A fine impression printed on cream 'Arches' countermarked paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. Signed and titled in pencil. $1,750.
William Lee-Hankey, R.E., R.W.S., R.O.I. 1869-1952.
Dawning Intelligence. Drypoint. Subsequent to Hardie. A rich impression printed on cream wove paper with the artist's embossed initial monogram. Printed by the artist. Signed in pencil. $875
The Secret. 1920. Drypoint. 6 x 4 (sheet 9 1/2 x 7 1/8). Hardie 171. Edition 100. A rich impression, with burr, printed on cream wove paper with wide margins. $675.
Theodore Casimir Roussel. 1847-1926.
The Corner of Luna Street, Chelsea Embankment. 1888-89. Etching. Hausberg 28.ii. 6 7/16 x x 5 5/8 (sheet 8 3/8 x 6 13/16). Edition 50 in this state (total edition 51). A rich impression with plate tone, printed cream laid paper. Signed in pencil. $1,500.
Margery Austen Ryerson. American. 1886-1989
Big Sister. c. 1931. Etching and drypoint. 10 x 6 7/8 (sheet 13 9/16 x 10). Edition 35. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1931 ; Beall, American Prints in the Library of Congress, p.432. A rich impression with drypoint burr. Printed on the full sheet of cream wove paper. Signed in pencil. $275.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1834-1903.
Nursemaid and Child. 1859. Etching. Kennedy 37.ii. 3 7/8 x 5 1/4 (sheet 7 3/4 x 8 7/8). There was no published edition of this rare etching. A rich impression printed on cream laid paper with full margins. Signed 'Whistler' in the plate, lower left. $2,750.
Nursemaids: les bonnes de Luxembourg. 1894. Lithograph. Way 84; Levy 79; Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 81. 9 x 6 1/2 (sheet 12 1/2 x 9). Edition of about 3,000 published in The Art Journal, December, 1894. A fine impression printed on ivory colored wove paper. Monogrammed with the butterfly in the stone. $850.
Friends
George Wesley Bellows, N.A. 1882-1925.
Artists Judging Works of Art. 1916. Lithograph. Mason 18. 14 1/2 x 19 (sheet 18 3/4 x 26 7/8). Edition aproximately 52. A rich impression printed on Japanese mulberry paper, on the full sheet with deckle edges. This is a fine lifetime impression. Provenance: H.V. Allison &Co. Inc., New York; Chapellier Galleries, Inc, New York; Galleries Marcus Stenberg, Chicago. Gift of Marcus to a Texas collector. Signed and annotated 'No. 25' in pencil by the artist. $17,500.
Ann Chernow, N.A. Born 1936.
"As I was Say'n' to the Duchess." 1994. Etching and aquatint. Amity 130. 14 5/8 x 7 7/8. Edition 25 with 5 artist's proofs. Printed on Rives BFK. Prize: 10th Annual National Print Exhibition, Florida Printmakers Society. Exhibited at the 1998 World Print Festival in Slovenia. Signed in pencil. Framed $1,000; unframed $900.
Two for the Show. 2008. Lithograph from one stone printed on Rives paper. 10 1/2 x 15 1/2. Edition 6. Signed in pencil. $600.
Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas. 1834-1917.
Mary Cassatt au Louvre, Musée des Antiques, devant le Sarcophage Étrusque ( Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: the Etruscan Gallery). 1879-80. Etching, aquatint and electric crayon. Delteil 30; Adhémar-Cachin 53.vii. Proof from the cancelled plate printed by Ambroise Vollard in 1918. 10 1/2 x 9 1/4 (sheet 12 5/8 x 9 3/4). Edition 150. Published by Vollard. Illustrated: Zigrosser, Six Centuries of Fine Prints, p. 358. Printed on wove Japon paper. Unsigned. $2,750.
Troy Kinney, N.A. 1871-1931.
Arcadia. 1921. Etching. Kinney 33. Fantasy. 6 1/2 X 7 3/4 (sheet 11 3/4 x 12 1/2). Edition 170. Exhibited: Chicago Society of Etchers, The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Etchings, Jan. 26-Feb.28, 1922; Print Makers Society of California, 3rd International Print Makers Exhibition, Los Angeles Museum Exposition Park, March 21-April 16, 1922. Illustrated: Print Collector's Quarterly 25 (1938): 280. A fine impression printed on wove paper on the full sheet with deckle edges. Signed in pencil. $225.
Käthe Kollwitz. German. 1867-1945.
Maria und Elisabeth (Mary and Elisabeth). Version III. 1928. Woodcut. Klipstein 234,Vb; von dem Knesebeck 249.vi.a. 14 1/4 x 13 3/4. Edition 150 in this state. A glowing impression on Japanese mulberry paper. Signed in pencil. Housed in an elegant black and silver frame. $9,750.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler. 1834-1903.
Tête-à-Tête in the Garden. 1894. Lithograph. Way 54, Levy 85, Tedeschi, Stratis and Spink 90. 8 x 6 1/2(sheet 10 7/8 x 8 1/2). Edition of 25 lifetime impressions plus a few proofs recorded by Way, and 30 posthumous impressions printed by Goulding in 1904. The stone was cancelled. Printed on ivory laid paper from an antique volume, numbered 178 recto and 177 verso, lower right. A very good lifetime impression of this extremely scarce print. Signed with the butterfly in the stone. $6,500.
Lovers
Rudolf Bauer. German. 1889-1953.
[Lovers Embracing]. c. 1915. Lithograph. 11 5/8 x 6. Printed on cream wove paper. Excellent impression and condition. Signed in the stone; signed and numbered 20 in pencil. $175. Edmund Blampied, R.E. 1886-1966.
Les Deux Petite Verres. 1928-29. Drypoint. Appleby 135. 10 1/2 x 10 3/16 (sheet 18 1/4 x 12 3/8). Edition 100, #65. Illustrated: Fine Prints of the Year, 1920; Print Collector's Quarterly (1937): 374. A horizontal fold in the upper and lower margins, well away from the image; otherwise excellent condition, apart from. A rich impression, with burr, printed on the full sheet of laid paper. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a most charming study of Blampied and his wife sitting in a cafe, about to imbibe. $2,500.
Sir William Russell Flint, R.A. 1880-1909.
A Rendez-Vous, Vincenzia. 1929. Drypoint. Wright 19.v.9 1/2 x 6 5/8 (sheet 12 1/8 x 9 3/8). Edition 75, #I. An extremely rich impression printed on blue/green laid paper. Signed and numbered in ink. $875.
Eric Gill, R.E. 1882-1940.
Adam and Eve in Heaven, or the Public-House in Paradise. 1927. Engraving on copper. Physick 480. 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 (sheet 13 1/8 x 9 7/8). Originally published in 'Art and Love,' an essay by Eric Gill (Douglas Cleverdon, Bristol, 1927. Later published in Engravings by Eric Gill Douglas Cleverdon, Birmingham, England, 1929. Printed on the full sheet of cream wove paper. Unsigned. $225.
Divine Lovers I. 1922. Wood engraving. Physick 193. 3 1/2 x 3 (sheet 13 x 9 7/8). Edition 480. After a drawing from life. As published in Engravings by Eric Gill Douglas Cleverdon, Birmingham, England, 1929. Printed on the full sheet of cream wove paper. Unsigned. $225.
Walter Greaves. 1846-1930.
Avenue Cremorne Gardens. Pencil, ink and watercolor. 7 7/8 x 10 3/4 (sheet 10 1/2 x 12 3/4. Exhibited at the Parkin Gallery. Signed in the image; titled beneath the image, lower left, in the artist's hand. The image appears to depict Whistler and his wife, Beatrix. $3,500.
Nishimura Hodo.
Two Rabbits at Night. c. 1938. Woodcut printed in colors. Oban: 14 1/2 x10 (sheet 15 1/2 x 11). Publisher: Takemura Hideo (Yokahama 1926-39). Signed and sealed Hodo. "Made in Japan" seal verso. A rich impression with subtle bokashi shading, extensive gauffrage on the flowers and rabbits, gofun white pigment on the white fur. Pristine color and condition. $550.
Ohara Koson (Shoson). 1877-1945.
Two Geese Swimming Near Reeds. 1926. Oban: 14 3/16 x 9 9 5/16 (sheet 15 x 10 5/16). Signed and sealed Shoson. Publisher: Watanabe Shozaburo - copyright seal "d" (1931-41) in the left-hand margin. Edition 200. Illustrated: Crows, Cranes & Camellias, S11.3, p. 197. A fine early impression in pristine condition. $850.
James McBey. 1883-1959.
The Riva at Dusk 1930. Etching. Carter 253. 15 7/8 x 9 3/8 (Sheet 18 3/8 x 11 3/4). Edition 80, #23. Signed and numbered in ink. A fine impression on cream-colored laid paper with full margins. The artist is pictured in the left foreground with his back to the viewer; his wife faces the viewer. This is a charming study of the couple in an outdoor cafe in Venice. $750.
The Riva at Dusk. 1930. Etching. Hardie/Carter 253. 15 7/8 x 9 3/8 (sheet 17 1/2 x 11 5/8). Edition 80, #51. A fine impression on French blue-green laid paper from an antique volume with full margins. Signed and numbered in ink. The color of the paper suggests evening. $850.
Pablo Picasso. 1881-1973.
Homme dévoilant une Femme. (Man uncovering a woman). 1933. Etching. Bloch 138; Baer 203 B.d. 14 1/2 x 11 3/4 (sheet 17 1/2 x 11 3/4). Series: Suite Vollard, plate 5. From the edition of 250 on petit papier vergé Montval paper (there was also an edition of 50 on grand papier vergé Montval that same year, and 3 on parchment). Printed by: Lacourière, Paris. A rich with drypoint burr, impression printed on laid paper countermarked 'Vollard' on the full sheet with deckle edges. Price upon request.
Sir Frank Short, R.A., P.R.E. 1857-1945.
Diana and Endymion (after the painting by George Frederic Watts, R.A., H.R.C.A. 1817 - 1904). 1891. Mezzotint. Hardie 60. 17 3/4 x 22 (sheet 21 3/4 x 25). Edition 300. A rich, tonal proof printed on Japan paper. Signed in pencil by Watts and by Short. $2,750.
Orpheus and Eurydice (after George Frederic Watts, R.A., H.R.C.A. 1817 - 1904). The painting is on the right. 1889. Mezzotint. Hardie 54.12 5/8 x 19 1/2 (sheet 17 1/8 x 23 3/ 8). Edition 300. A rich proof printed on Japon paper. Exhibited in 1889 at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, where it was awarded a gold medal. Signed in pencil by Watts, Short, and by the printer, Frederick Goulding. $1,750.
Jacques James Joseph Tissot. 1836-1902.
En plein soleil. (In the Sunlight). 1881. Etching and drypoint. Tissot 54, Béraldi 45, Wentworth 54. 7 13/16 x 11 1/2 (sheet 11 1/4 x 15). Edition about 100. Printed on off-white laid paper. The plate was included in A portfolio of Autograph Etchings, published by James R. Osgood and Co., Boston, 1881. Impressions of En plein soleil from this portfolio are signed in pencil and bear the artist's red stamp (Lugt 1545). A rich impression. $7,000.
Heinrich Vogeler. German. 1867-1945.
Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty.) 1897. Etching with drypoint and aquatint. Reif 20.IIc(of e). 10 5/8 x 9 3/4 (sheet 19 X 12 3/4). A rich, tonal impression printed on red-brown toned applied Japan paper. Proof aside from the published edition issued in Aus Worpswede. Signed and titled in pencil. $1,250.
Anders Zorn. 1860-1920.
Zorn and His Wife. 1890. Etching. Hjert and Hjert 31.ii. 12 1/2 x 8 3/8 (sheet 23 x 18). Edition 40-50. A fine impression on simili-Japan paper. Signed in pencil. $9,750.
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