Title: Lady Hailing a Carriage | Dame, eine Droschke rufend, 1919
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Drypoint on Simili-Japan Paper
Paper size: 23 x 17.6 cm. / 9 x 7 in.
Image size: 20 x 15 cm. / 7.9 x 5.9 in.
Additional Information: This original etching and drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist “L. Ury” at the lower left margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 150, at the lower right margin.
Literature: Rosenbach D. (2002). Lesser Ury. Das Druckgraphische Werk. Hannover/Berlin: Edition Rosenbach
Reference: Rosenbach 50
Condition: The sheet trimmed on all sides. Pale time-staining at the sheet edges.
ZAO WOU-KI 1921- 2013
Beijing 1921 -2013 Switzerland (Chinese)
Title: Deer | Les cerfs, 1952
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph in Colours on Arches Wove Paper
Paper size: 38 x 57 cm. / 14.9 x 22.4 in.
Image size: 32.5 x 49 cm. / 12.8 x 19.3 in.
Additional Information: This lithograph in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Zao Wou-Ki” in Chinese and Pinyin at the lower left margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 250, at the lower right margin.
It was printed by E. and J. Desjobert, Paris, and published by La Guilde Internationale de la Gravure, Geneva in 1952.
The paper bears the publisher’s blindtamp in the lower left corner. There is a partial Arches watermark in the upper right corner.
Literature:
1) Ågerup, J. (1994). Zao Wou-Ki – The Graphic Work – A Catalogue Raisonne 1937-1995. Copenhagen: Heede & Moestrup.
Reference: Ågerup 76
2) Rivière, Y. ed., Arts et Metiers Graphiques, Zao Wou-ki: Les estampes 1937-1974, Paris, France
Reference: Rivière 78
Condition: Very good condition. Very pale time-staining around the image.
JOAN MIRÓ 1893-1983
Montroig 1893-1983 Mallorca (Spanish)
Title: The First Night of Spring, from: Allegro Vivace | La première nuit du printemps: Allegro Vivace, 1981
Technique: Original Hand Signed and hand numbered Lithograph in Colours on Wove Paper
Paper size: 61 x 90 cm. / 24 x 35.4 in.
Additional Information: This original lithograph in colours is hand signed by the artist in pencil ‘Miró’ at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 100, at the lower left margin.
It was printed in a limited edition of 100 signed and numbered impressions in 1981 by Ateliers Lelong, Paris. It was published by Daniel Lelong Éditeur, Paris in 1987.
This work was part of the Allegro Vivace Suite that contained 15 lithographs
Literature: Mourlot, F. & Leiris, M. (1992). Joan Miró: Der Lithograph, Vol. VI 1976-1981. Geneva: Weber.
Reference: Mourlot 1244
Condition: Excellent condition.
JOAN MIRÓ 1893-1983
Montroig 1893-1983 Mallorca (Spanish)
Title: The Lover’s Sled, from: Allegro Vivace | La luge des amants I: Allegro Vivace, 1981
Technique: Original Hand Signed and hand numbered Lithograph in Colours on Wove Paper
Paper size: 61 x 88 cm. / 24 x 35 in.
Additional Information: This original lithograph in colours is hand signed by the artist in pencil ‘Miró’ at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 100, at the lower left margin.
It was printed in a limited edition of 100 signed and numbered impressions in 1981 by Ateliers Lelong, Paris. It was published by Daniel Lelong Éditeur, Paris in 1987.
This work was part of the Allegro Vivace Suite that contained 15 lithographs.
Literature: Mourlot, F. & Leiris, M. (1992). Joan Miró: Der Lithograph, Vol. VI 1976-1981. Geneva: Weber.
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching on Chine Appliqué to Arches Paper
Paper size: 30.3 x 21 cm. / 11.9 x 8.3 in.
Image size: 14.3 x 9.5 cm. / 5.6 x 3.7 in.
Additional Information: This original etching is hand signed in black ink by the artist “Henri Matisse” at the lower right margin.
The work is from the edition of 1,000 published alongside 50 reproductions of the artist’s drawings with text in French by Charles Vildrac.
It was printed by Victor Jacquemin, Paris on 18th September 1920 and published by the artist.
The work has been inscribed with the number 761/1000 by another hand in the lower left corner.
Literature: Duthuit, C. (1988). Henri Matisse: Catalogue Raisonné des ouvrages illustrés. Paris: Galerie Maeght Lelong.
Reference: Duthuit Books 2
Condition: Very good condition. The sheet very lightly toned in the margins.
JOAN MIRÓ 1893-1983
Montroig 1893-1983 Mallorca (Spanish)
Title: Figure and Stars I | Personatge I Estels V, 1979
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Aquatint with Collage on Arches Wove Paper
Paper size: 90.5 x 63 cm. / 35.6 x 24.8 in.
Additional Information: This original etching and aquatint with collage is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Miró” at the lower right edge.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, at the lower left edge. There were also 15 Hors Commerce [out of trade] proofs aside from the standard edition.
It was printed by Joan Barbarà, Barcelona in 1979 and was published by Galerie Maeght, Barcelona in 1979.
This work is the first composition from the ‘Personatge i Estels’, [Figure and Stars] suite of seven etchings and aquatints with collage. The paper bears the Arches watermark.
Provenance: Schaeffer Editions, New York. (acquired 1980)
Literature: Dupin, J. (2001). Miró Engraver, Vol. IV 1976-1983. Paris: Éditeur Daniel Lelong. Reference: Dupin 1088
Condition: Very good condition. The sheet attached to a supporting card.
Title: The Rabbi of Vitebsk (The Praying Jew) | Le Rabbin de Vitebsk (Le Juif priant), 1923
Technique: Hand Signed and Numbered Etching and Aquatint in Colours on chine-colleé on Japan Paper
Paper size: 70 x 53.5 cm. / 27.6 x 21 in. Image size: 47 x 36.5 cm. / 18.5 x 114.3 in.
Additional Information: This etching and aquatint in colour is hand signed in pencil by the artist “Marc Chagall” at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 100, at the lower left margin.
It was printed and published circa 1930 by the Éditions Apollo Artistiques, Paris based on an oil painting of the same name from 1923.
Provenance: Estate of Anne Rosenzweig, New York.
Note: The oil painting “The Praying Jew” on which this work is based is held in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. This, along with one other version in oil held by the Ca’ Pesaro, Venice, were created in 1923 upon the artist’s return to Paris following the First World War. On his arrival in Paris it became clear much of the works he had created before the outbreak of war had not survived and so Chagall created these two paintings based on an oil he created in Vitebsk in 1914.
The central figure was a beggar in Vitebsk who the artist had paid to wear his father’s prayer clothes in an attempt to capture what Chagall felt were fast disappearing traditions.
The composition although solemn in choice of palette shows the influence of Cubism on Chagall – proving that even the most traditional subjects from the artist’s life in Vitebsk can be viewed alongside the burgeoning Parisian Avant-garde.
Condition: Very good condition. Pale time-staining around the image. The sheet very slightly, but evenly toned. A soft crease at the lower right corner.
LYONEL FEININGER 1871-1956
New York 1871-1956 New York (American/German)
Title: Sketch for Mural: Marine Transportation Building, 1939 New York World’s Fair, 1938
Technique: Signed, Titled and Dated Watercolour, Pen and Ink Drawing on thin Cream Laid Paper
Paper size: 16.7 x 62.9 cm. / 6.6 x 24.8 in.
Additional Information: This work is hand signed in ink by the artist “Feininger” in the lower left image.
It is also dated in black ink “1938” next to the signature.
It is titled in pencil “Sketch for Mural: Marine Transportation. 1938” in the lower left margin.
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Marlborough Fine Art, London and New York
Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Cologne (acquired by 1980)
Sotheby’s, New York, 15 May 1985, lot 205 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Los Angeles (acquired from the above).
Barbara Grant Jaynes, the Former Mrs. Cary Grant
The work is accompanied by a photo-certificate from Achim Moeller and is included in the Lyonel Feininger Archives with the number 1877-10-16-23.
Hamburg, Levy Galerie, Lyonel Feininger: Bilder, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, 1978, no. 31, n.p., illustrated in colour.
Cologne, Galerie Orangerie-Reinz, Lyonel Feininger, 1980, n.p., illustrated in colour
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Lyonel Feininger, Gemälde, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik, 1982, no. 79, p. 150, illustrated.
New York, Leonard Hutton Galleries, The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee, 1984, no. 10, p. 22, illustrated in colour and p. 75.
Condition: Very good condition. The sheet is lightly time-stained, with very slight cockling. The edges are reduced on all sides. Artist’s pinholes in the corner have been repaired, and there is a tiny, repaired tear along the lower left edge. Very minor, unobtrusive foxmarks scattered across the sheet.
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