A Garden Opal
Woodcut printed in colors, 1943, Williams 14, edition 150. 9 1/8 x 13 7/8 in. Signed in ink within the image and titled in pencil lower left. A fine, delicate impression. Full margins. Ex-collection: Robert Muller; this impression cited in the catalogue raisonné. (Probably an early trial printing.) Inscribed "10" in pencil in the upper left corner. A major work.
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Dry Corn
Woodcut printed in colors, 1940, Williams 6, edition probably 100. 9 1/2 x 13 1/8 in. Signed in pencil. A superb impression with probably the full margins (somewhat narrow at bottom). Fine condition.
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Field Flowers
Woodcut printed in colors, 1956, Williams 35, edition 150. 9 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. Signed in ink and also titled in pencil. A fine impression in fine condition. Full margins.
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Fish Tank
Woodcut printed in colors, 1944, Williams 16, edition 150. 9 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. Signed in ink within the image, lower right. Titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine, luminous impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. Rist was probably introduced to the woodcut medium by Morris Blackburn when they visited a show of Japanese prints in New York. Yet Rist was essentially self-taught and designed, cut and printed his own blocks. This print is illustrated on page 171 of American Prize Prints of the Twentieth Century by Albert Reese.
$3,500

Fruit Dish
Woodcut printed in colors, 1945, Williams 18, edition 150. 14 x 9 7/8 in. Signed in ink in the image in the lower right. Titled in pencil. This is a superb, luminous impression of this major work. The paper is a light cream Japanese and the margins are full but modest in size which is typical. Although the recorded edition is 150, it's doubtful Rist printed them all due to the time consuming nature of inking and printing multiple blocks and even sections of the same block over and over. In the catalogue it states, "As many as fifty or more impressions are sometimes required to complete a given print." (See page 8).
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Paper Doily
Woodcut printed in colors, 1949, Williams 25, edition 150. 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. Signed in ink within the image and also titled in pencil below. A fine impression of this uncommon print. Fine condition. Probably the full margins.
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Pears
Woodcut printed in colors, 1942, Williams 11, edition 113. 9 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. Signed in ink within the image and titled in pencil lower left. A fine impression in fine condition. Full margins. Like most of Rist's woodcuts, the full edition of "Pears" was probably never completed.
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Peperoni
Woodcut printed in colors, 1951, Williams 30, edition 150. 8 x 9 3/4 in. A fine, rich impression in fine condition. Full margins. Signed in ink below the image at right and titled in pencil lower left. The intended edition was 150 but it is highly unlikely that all were printed.
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Potatoe Shoots
Woodcut printed in colors, 1950, Williams 27, edition 150. 6 1/2 x 5 in. Signed in ink and titled in pencil. A fine impression in fine condition with full margins. We currently have others prints by Rist in stock and we have available copies of the catalog raisonne for $30 each plus postage.
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Rhododendron
Woodcut printed in colors, 1942, Williams 10, intended edition 150. 13 1/4 x 10 in. Signed in ink and also titled in pencil. A superb, luminous impression in exemplary condition. Minor discoloration in the margins. One of Rist's finest prints, along with "Fruit Dish."
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Rhododendron
Woodcut printed in colors, 1942, Williams 10, edition 100 or 150. 13 1/8 x 10 in. Signed in ink within the image and titled in pencil just below the image. This is a superb, luminous impression of this uncommon print. The margins are modest in size but this is probably the full sheet as printed. Fine condition overall apart from a faint mat line showing in the margins. This is one of Rist's finest woodcuts.
$4,000

Roses #2
Woodcut, 1946, Williams 20, edition 150. 7 x 9 in. Signed in ink in the image and titled in pencil. A fine, luminous impression of this uncommon print. Substantial margins. Good condition. Repair, upper right corner in margin area. Thin spot left edge, center.
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Roses #2
Woodcut printed in colors, 1946, Williams 20; edition 150. 7 1/8 x 9 1/16 in. Signed in ink in the image and titled in pencil below the image at left. This is a fine, dark impression of this uncommon print. The margins are about 1" all around which is typical for Rist's woodcuts. The condition is very good. Technically superb, Rist has taken this rather simple subject and transformed it into a tour de force of the woodcut medium. The rose petals are beautifully defined.
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Scallions
Woodcut printed in colors, 1946, Williams 19, edition 150. 7 x 9 3/8 in. Signed in ink within the image. A fine impression in fine condition with full margins. An exemplary work by Rist, this image was printed from seven blocks. The original blocks are in the possession of the Montclair Art Museum.
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Sea Shell and Garlic
Woodcut printed in colors, 1947, Williams 22, edition 150. 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 in. Signed in ink, lower right, within the image. Titled in pencil. Here we have a very fine impression printed on thin Japanese paper. The margins are modest but this is probably the full sheet as printed. This is a nice example of his work.
$2,500

Three Red Roses
Woodcut printed in colors, 1942, William 8, edition unknown. 10 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a superb impression of this exemplary work. The margins are full and the condition is very good. (There's subtle toning in the margins extremities.) This work was published by the American Color Print Society (Philadelphia). According to the catalog, ten blocks were used and 25-30 impressions were needed to complete just one print. (This work is beautifully framed.)
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Two Bunches of Grapes
Woodcut, 1942, Williams 12, edition 100 9 5/8 x 11 5/8 in. Signed in ink within the image and titled in pencil lower left. A fine, luminous impression in fine condition. A minor paper loss in the upper left corner of the margin. The margins appear to be full and untrimmed.
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