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View of St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle VOJTECH PREISSIG American, (1873-1944) Etching and aquatint printed in colors, undated , edition unknown. 13 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. Signed in pencil and with an inscription "c.73." This is a fine impression of this rare work. The margins are full. The condition is very good apart from a faint mat line. (The upper left and right sides of the platemark are professionally reinforced.). Preissig studied at the Prague School of Arts and Crafts and later worked with Mucha and Kupka in Paris. He moved to the United States in 1910 where he taught at Columbia with Arthur Wesley Dow. He also taught at the Wentworth Institute in Boston. When he was back in Prague, Preissig supported the Czech resistance and was arrested in 1940 for doing graphic design work for a magazine that had been outlawed by the Germans. He died in Dachau in 1944. $1,600 |
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La Neige (The Snow) JEAN-FRANCOIS RAFFAELLI French, (1850-1924) Etching, drypoint and aquatint printed in colors, 1906, Delteil 68, edition 200. 17 3/4 x 22 1/4 in. Signed and titled in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on a sturdy white wove paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine apart from a few spots of foxing on the verso. Raffaëlli was represented by Theo van Gogh in Paris. His worked was collected by Vincent and an impression of this print was found in Vincent van Gogh's estate. This is a large and exemplary work by the artist. $2,500 |
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Trottins (Errands) RICHARD RANFT Swiss, (1862-1931) Etching, 1894, Stein / Karshan 61, edition 100. 15 5/8 x 10 1/8 in. Signed in the plate, lower left. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on a sturdy cream paper. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This memorable work was published in L'Estampe Originale (Album VIII, plate 78) and bears their blindstamp in the lower left corner of the sheet. This impression is from the collection of Rudolf L. Mayer (Lugt 4534). $2,400 |
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Masked Ball (Bal Masqué) RICHARD RANFT Swiss, (1862-1931) Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1899, edition 30. 11 5/8 x 14 5/8 in. Signed in the plate, upper left corner. Signed and numbered in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on cream ARCHES watermarked paper. The margins appear to be full and untrimmed. This print was probably printed by Eugène Delâtre and published by Sagot. Ranft was born in Switzerland and later moved to Paris where he studied with Courbet and learned about engraving from from Augustin-Alexandre Dumont. He was a full member off the the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Ranft produced about eighty-five etchings in color which are considered his finest medium. Ex-collection: Eric Carlson, New York. SOLD |
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Centaure Aiming at the Clouds (Centaure Visant les Nues) ODILON REDON French, (1840-1916) Lithograph, 1895, Mellerio/Hyman 133, edition 50. 11 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. Signed on the stone, lower right. Signed in pencil. This is a fine impression printed on chine appliqué. The margins are wide. The condition is good apart from some toning on the verso and imperfections showing on the chine, primarily on the extreme edges of the sheet which is a light gray. This is a proof without the tiny, printed title and edition "50 ep." just below the image at center. The catalogue mentions that a few of these were printed in black and green ink. One such example is found at the Kröller-Muller Museum in the Netherlands. SOLD |
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Symbolic Figure, Facing Right GERTRAUD B. REINBERGER Austrian, (1903-1992) Woodcut, circa 1920, edition unknown. 12 x 7 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. A superb impression in very good condition. Minor foxing, verso, along bottom edge of sheet. Wide if not full margins. Little is know about her lift as an artist. Her designs and symbolic imagery is quite unique and her prints are rare. SOLD |
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Salome GERTRAUD B. REINBERGER Austrian, (1903-1992) Woodcut, 1920-25, edition unknown. 15 5/8 x 7 7/8 in. Signed in pencil. A fine impression on Japanese paper. Fine condition. Full margins. Reinberger's extraordinary woodcuts developed in part from her family's friendship with Josef Hoffmann. Her work is well-represented at the Albertina. $2,000 |
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Four Figures; One Kneeling GERTRAUD B. REINBERGER Austrian, (1903-1992) Woodcut, 1920, edition unknown. 10 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. Signed and dated in pencil. This is a very good impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. She studied at the School of Applied Arts in Vienna and made her first woodcut in 1916. She rarely dated her prints as we have here. There's a large group of her prints in the Albertina. $1,500 |
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Du Quai de Grenelle (From the Quai de Grenelle) HENRI RIVIERE French, (1864-1951) Lithograph printed in colors, 1888-1902, Fields, pp. 77-78, edition 500. 6 5/8 x 8 3/8 in. Signed on the stone with the artist's red monogram. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. This is plate 18 from the celebrated series Les Trentes-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel. Certainly, the influence of Hokusai and his Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji cannot be understated. $850 |
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Du Bois de Boulogne (From the Bois de Boulogne) HENRI RIVIERE French, (1864-1951) Lithograph printed in colors, 1888-1902, Fields, pp. 77-78, edition 500. 6 3/4 x 8 3/8 in. Signed on the stone with the monogram. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. This is plate 22 from Les Trentes-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel, as printed by Eugene Verneau. This remarkable series is considered by many to be Riviere's best work in lithography. $700 |
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Du Quai de Javel (From the Quai de Javel, Switchman's Hut) HENRI RIVIERE French, (1864-1951) Lithograph printed in colors, 1888-1902, Fields, pp. 77-78, edition 500. 6 3/4 x 8 3/8 in. Signed on the stone with the monogram. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This is plate 28 from the series Les Trente-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel. $800 |
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De l'Estacade (From the Estacade Footbridge) HENRI RIVIERE French, (1864-1951) Lithograph printed in colors, 1888-1902, Fields, pp. 77-78, edition 500. 6 3/4 x 8 3/8 in. Signed on the stone with the monogram. This is a fine impression in fine condition. The margins are full. This is plate 33 from Les Trentes-Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel, as printed by Eugene Verneau. This remarkable series is considered by many to be Riviere's best work in lithography. SOLD |
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The Beech Woods at Kerzardern (Le Bois de Hetres à Kerzardern) HENRI RIVIERE French, (1864-1951) Lithograph printed in colors, 1917, Fields pg. 80; edition 500 unsigned and 100 signed impressions. 9 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. Signed on the stone, lower left, and also with the artist's printed monogram in red. Here we have a superb impression with fresh colors. The margins are full and the condition is fine. This is plate 20 from the series "Le Beau Pays de Bretagne," printed and published by Eugène Verneau, Paris. Based on the dates given by Fields, this would be the last print made by Riviere. $1,500 |
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The Island of Bréhat (L'ile de Bréhat) HENRI RIVIERE French, (1864-1951) Lithograph printed in colors, 1913, Fields pg. 79; edition 500 unsigned and 100 signed impressions. 9 x 13 7/8 in. Signed on the stone, lower right, along with the printed red artist's monogram. This is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is fine. This is plate 16 from the series, "Le Beau Pays de Bretagne," printed and published by Eugène Verneau, Paris. $1,500 |
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The Old Mill at Loguivy (Le Vieux Moulin à Loguivy) HENRI RIVIERE French, (1864-1951) Lithograph printed in colors, 1910, Fields, pg. 79; edition 500 unsigned and 100 signed impressions. 9 x 14 in. Signed on the stone, lower right and also signed with the artist's printed red monogram. this is a superb impression with full margins. The condition is fine. This is plate 13 from the series, "Le Beau Pays de Bretagne," printed and published by Eugène Verneau, Paris. $1,500 |
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Oak Tree Growing Among the Rocks (Le Chene de Roche) THEODORE ROUSSEAU French, (1812-1867) Etching, 1861, Melot R4 (iii/III), edition unknown. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right. This is a fine impression printed on a cream-colored chine appliqué. The margins are full and the condition is very good apart from being slightly light struck within an earlier mat opening. Rousseau produced only four etchings and this is the most common as it appears here; the third state as published in the Gazette des Beaux Arts in 1861. Early state impressions are very rare and the letters of the third state are occasionally found masked or roughed out to present the appearance of a first state. Rousseau exhibited the painting of the same subject in the Salon of 1861. This is a fine example of Barbizon printmaking at an affordable price. SOLD |
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Le Cerisier de la Plante-à-Biau (The Cherry Tree at La Plante-à-Biau) THEODORE ROUSSEAU French, (1812-1867) Cliché-verre , 1855, Melot R5, only state. edition 150. 9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. Signed in the plate, lower left. This is a fine impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This is one of forty cliché-verre plates acquired from Bouasse-Lebel including works by Corot, Daubigny, Delacroix, Millet and Rousseau. They were acquired by by the firm of Sagot-Le Garrec and published in 1921. Each impression, as with this one, bears the stamp of Sagot-Le Garrec (Lugt 1766a) and is numbered. (Our impression is signed in pencil with, "Essai" ('trial proof'). Early, lifetime impressions of these works are nearly impossible to fine.
This a especially fine example of one of only six graphic works by Rousseau, two of which were the cliché-verre glass plate process. $1,400 |
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Training the Dog (L'Education du Chien), or, In the Snow (Dans la Niege) KER XAVIER ROUSSEL French, (1867-1944) Lithograph printed in colors, 1893, Salomon 10, Stein & Karshan 76; edition 100. 12 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. Signed on the stone, lower right. Signed and numbered in pencil in the lower left corner of the sheet. This is a very fine impression with full margins. The condition is fine apart from minor rippling along the top edge of the sheet. This stellar Nabis print was published in Album 1 of L'Estampe Originale in 1893 and was printed by Ancourt. The blindstamp of the publication (Lugt 819) appears in the lower right corner of the sheet. "During his Nabis years, François-Xavier Roussel, known as Ker, was influenced by Japanese prints. This color lithograph--particularly the slim, columnar trees, whose branches are cropped from view--may have been inspired by Utagawa Hiroshige's vertical format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, which also includes snow scenes. For the Nabis, pets were intimate members of the household, and thus worthy of inclusion in their domestic and garden views."
See pg 210 of "Private Lives, Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris 1889-1900," by Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown (2021) published by the Cleveland Museum of Art. $7,000 |
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La Source KER XAVIER ROUSSEL French, (1867-1944) Lithograph printed in colors, 1899, Salomon 20, edition 100. 12 1/2 x 16 1/16 in. Unsigned as usual. This is a fine impression printed on china paper. The margins are probably full. The condition is quite good apart from very slight lightening within a previous mat opening. Provenance: Joel Bergquist Fine Prints. $2,000 |
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Landscape with House (Paysage avec Maison) KER XAVIER ROUSSEL French, (1867-1944) Lithograph printed in colors, 1897, Salomon 13, edition 100. 11 3/8 x 16 1/4 in. Signed in pencil. This is very fine, vibrant impression with full margins. The condition is excellent. This large post-impressionist work was part of Vollard's "L'Album d'estampes originales de la Galerie Vollard." The series was never completed but included works by Bonnard, Carrière, Denis, Redon, and others. $2,800 |
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