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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Fair in de Doelen (Kermis in de Doelen)
HERMAN F. BIELING
Dutch, (1887-1964)
Woodcut, 1922, edition unknown. 8 7/8 x 12 1/4 in. Signed, dated and titled in pencil. Here we have a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. Bieling was a Rotterdam artist and a founder of De Branding, an avant-garde artists association. He had a studio fire in 1933 and there lost much of his early work. De Doelen was a fair venue in Rotterdam but it was destroyed by the Nazis in 1940. (It was rebuilt in 1966 as a convention center.)
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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.
$1,600

Shepherdess with her Cows
CARL ALEXANDER BRENDEL
German, (1877-1945)
Woodcut printed in colors, circa 1910-20, edition unknown. 7 7/8 x 10 7/8 in. Signed in pencil and also inscribed, "Orig. Holzschnitt,handabzug." This is a fine, fresh impression printed on Japanese paper. The margins are probably full and the condition is fine. Brendel studied at the Académie Julian in Parisvand and during the early 1920s he was a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar. He was also an accomplished painter.
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Leopard
NORBERTINE BRESSLERN-ROTH
Austrian, (1891-1978)
Woodcut (linocut?) printed in colors, circa 1922, edition unknown. 8 3/8 x 6 1/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression with vibrant colors. The paper is a thin Japanese which is usually her choice for printing the blocks. The margins are modest on the top and both sides. The condition overall is very good apart from a couple of soft wrinkles near the top of the image and rippling from the printing process in the bottom edge. She produced this same image in reverse.
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Flamingos
NORBERTINE BRESSLERN-ROTH
Austrian, (1891-1978)
Linocut, 1920s, edition unknown. 8 3/8 x 7 3/4 in. Signed and inscribed in pencil "handdruck." This is a fine impression printed on thin wove paper The margins are full. The condition is very good apart from slight toning at the outer edges of the sheet, well away from the image.
$1,600

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.
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Barge Beasts (Shoebills) (Kahnschnäbel)
NORBERTINE BRESSLERN-ROTH
Austrian, (1891-1978)
Linocut printed in colors, circa 1928, edition unknown. 9 1/8 x 8 1/8 in. Signed in pencil and inscribed, "Handdruck." This is a fine impression with fresh colors. The margins are narrow. The condition is fine apart from a speck of ink on the left margin, center, and slight toning on the verso largely from the dark colors showing through. With a tremendous sense of ornamentation, the artist uses two circles and a curved line to evoke the impression of a murky pool from which these birds fish for their prey. It turns out that Bresslern-Roth made a trip to Africa in 1928 and shoebills are native to that continent.
$1,600

Allen Street El
BERNARD BRUSSEL-SMITH
American, (1914-1989)
Wood engraving, 1941, Teller 12, edition 140. 4 1/16 x 6 1/16 in. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on a fairly thin wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. New York artist Bernard Brussel-Smith was born in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1914. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the New School for Social Research in New York. It was during his time at the New School that Brussel-Smith became interested in wood engraving and began a career in this demanding art form. The Allen Street El is now a creation of the past. It was demolished in 1942.
$700

Masque of the Red Death (the title of the volume)
JOHN BUCKLAND-WRIGHT
British, (1897-1954)
Wood engraving, 1932, Buckland Wright A-9; edition 175. 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is a fine, rich impression with probably the full margins. The condition is excellent. This is one of thirteen wood engravings in this publication. The edition was printed in 1932 by Halcyon Press in Maastricht.
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Self Portrait
CECIL BULLER
Canadian, (1886-1973)
Wood engraving, 1949, Ainslie 53 (iii/III); edition 25. 10 1/16 x 8 1/8 in. Signed in pencil. This is a superb impression of this uncommon print. The paper is a japanese and the margins are full. The condition is excellent. This work was made on the occasion of Buller's entry as an associate in the the National Academy of Design. As Ainslie states, "The whole image has a dream-like quality that is reinforced by the pensive attitude of the face. Symbolic elements and sections of earlier prints appear behind the portrait, suggesting her relationships with those particular works and with the recurring elements of her thoughts and subconscious mind. (See Cecil Buller, Modernist Printmaker, Glenbow Museum, (1989), page 42.
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The Heavens
CHARLES BURCHFIELD
American, (1893-1967)
Wood engraving in collaboration with JJ Lankes, 1923-24, Czestochowski 4, Cleveland/Prasse 185, edition 13. 6 1/8 x 4 5/8 in. Initialed in the block (B+L) by Burchfield and Lankes. Signed and titled by both artists in pencil and also inscribed "no. 5". The print is titled along the bottom margin in pencil. This is a superb impression of this extremely rare work. The margins are full and the condition is fine apart from small old hinges showing at the top corners, well away from the image. Burchfield and Lankes published eleven wood engravings together. Burchfield did the designs and Lankes cut the blocks. The Heavens deals with the world of the spirit and it reaffirms the mysticism of Burchfields's work from 1915-17. This wood engraving was intended for a publication of Ecclesiastes along with three other prints. That publication never materialized. The checklist of Burchfield's prints by Joseph Czestochowski appeared in the American Art Journal, November 1976, pages 99-110.
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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

Birthday Party
MARGARET BURROUGHS
African American, (1915-2010)
Linoleum cut, 2002, edition 10 plus later proofs. 16 1/8 x 19 3/8 in. Signed, dated and titled in ink. This is a good impression printed on a sturdy wove paper. The margins are narrow along the top and bottom but this appears to be the full sheet as printed. The condition is fine. This large and charming image was created in 1960 and printed in an edition of only ten impressions. This is a later printing from 2002. Margaret Burroughs was a pioneering African American artist, writer and activist. She co-founded the Ebony Museum in Chicago which is now the DuSable Museum of African American History. An impression of this print is in the Art Institute of Chicago. Burroughs also produced a 1986 etching of the same subject.
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8:30 Express
LETTERIO CALAPAI
American, (1902-1993)
Wood engraving, 1943-44, edition 27 plus proofs. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. Initialed in the block, lower right. Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. This is a superb impression printed on thin wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is excellent. This potent image of a packed New York subway scene combines the expressionist "edge" of the wood engraving medium with a tilted perspective suggesting chaos and disorder. Impressions of this print are located at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art and the Yale University Art Gallery among others.
$1,400