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Period: 1940s
lithograph

lithograph

By (after) Pierre Bonnard

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This impression in violet ink was printed in France in 1944 for the rare "Correspondances" portfolio, published by Teriade in a limited editio...

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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)
Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)

Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)

By Edgar Degas

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Stud...

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Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Pablo Picasso, Head, from Not Wanting, 1942
Pablo Picasso, Head, from Not Wanting, 1942

Pablo Picasso, Head, from Not Wanting, 1942

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite zincograph by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), titled Tete (Head), from the album Non vouloir (Not Wanting), originates from the 1942 edition published by Editions Jeanne Bu...

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Cubist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

pochoir

pochoir

By (after) Edgar Degas

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: pochoir (after the pastel). A soft and delicate impression, printed in Paris in 1948 and published in an edition of 1200 by Braun et Cie. Size: 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (164 x 11...

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Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Stencil

Original "Stop Loose Talk to Strangers.  Enemy Ears are Alert" vintage poster
Original "Stop Loose Talk to Strangers.  Enemy Ears are Alert" vintage poster

Original "Stop Loose Talk to Strangers. Enemy Ears are Alert" vintage poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original, Stop, Loose Talk to Strangers. ‘Enemy ears are alert’ vintage poster. Excellent condition, linen-backed WWII vintage war poster: STOP LOOSE TALK TO STRANGERS ENEMY EAR...

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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Edgar Degas, Three Dancers, 1945 (after)
Edgar Degas, Three Dancers, 1945 (after)

Edgar Degas, Three Dancers, 1945 (after)

By Edgar Degas

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Trois danseurs (Three Dancers), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, 1945, this work reflects Degas’s sensitive mastery of line, movement, and the intimate psychological nuances of the ballet studio. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm). Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island. Artwork Details: Artist: After Edgar Degas (1834–1917) Title: Trois danseurs (Three Dancers), from Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, 1945 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper Dimensions: 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm) Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1945 Publisher: The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Printer: Albert Carman, City Island Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Notes: Excerpted from the album, Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas lived, and surely loved the life of that city during most of his years. These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used them as models, he must have had an especial admiration for the ballet girls who followed a profession that at the time brought none of the glory and prosperity which attend it today. New aspects of the human body, revealed in movement, fascinated him. But his occupation with the simply anatomical side of his subjects never resulted in a cold interpretation. On the contrary there is a warmth and sympathy that pervades all of his work. The drawings here represent the painter in one important phase of his multi-sensitive view of life; and permit an insight which a more ambitious work might not do-into the operation of the creative process, the artist's transformation of reality as it passes through the mesh of his sensibilities. The Edition of this Portfolio is limited to MMMD examples. Rendered by Albert Carman. About the Publication: Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches (1945) is one of the earliest and most significant American postwar fine art portfolios devoted to Edgar Degas’s intimate works on paper. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, and rendered and printed by Albert Carman at City Island, the album sought to faithfully reproduce a group of Degas’s ballet-related drawings through a combination of lithography and hand-applied pochoir coloring. This hybrid technique allowed the edition to preserve the immediacy, tonal subtlety, and gestural delicacy central to Degas’s draftsmanship. Conceived as a fine art publication rather than a commercial book, the portfolio provided American audiences unprecedented access to Degas’s private, spontaneous studies—images that reveal the artist’s fascination with movement, anatomy, and the psychological atmosphere of the rehearsal studio. The album exemplifies the mid-20th-century revival of pochoir as a means of recreating the texture and coloristic nuance of original works on paper, and it remains an important document of how Degas’s legacy was translated into high-quality printed form for collectors, museums, and connoisseurs. About the Artist: Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking fusion of classical draftsmanship, modern experimentation, and psychological depth helped define the trajectory of Western art, positioning him as one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; renowned for his depictions of ballet dancers, racehorses, theater scenes, cafe life, domestic interiors, milliners, laundresses, and women at their toilette, Degas reimagined observational realism through radical compositional innovation—employing extreme cropping, asymmetrical framing, oblique viewpoints, and dramatic lighting that anticipated photographic and cinematic language long before these technologies shaped visual culture, and although associated with Impressionism, he rejected plein-air spontaneity in favor of studio-based discipline rooted in the linear precision of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the expressive chromaticism of Eugene Delacroix, and the modernity of Edouard Manet while also drawing inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, classical sculpture, and early photography; his independent artistic philosophy resonated with and helped shape the innovations of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whose explorations of movement, form, dream logic, abstraction, and conceptualism all find antecedents in Degas’s investigations into seriality, temporality, and the fragmented figure, and his pioneering use of pastel, monotype, and wax sculpture fundamentally transformed each medium, influencing artists from Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Giacomo Manzu to Paula Rego, contemporary realists, experimental photographers, and choreographers; his works are held in nearly every major museum collection worldwide—including the Musee dOrsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Courtauld Institute, and the National Gallery, London—affirming his central place in the history of art, and the highest auction record for Degas was achieved at Sothebys London on February 3, 2015, when Danseuses en Bleu sold for 37,033,000 GBP, cementing his status as one of the most sought-after and enduringly significant artists of the Western canon. Degas pochoir, Degas lithograph...

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Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original 1942 "CASABLANCA" vintage Academy Award winning movie poster
Original 1942 "CASABLANCA" vintage Academy Award winning movie poster

Original 1942 "CASABLANCA" vintage Academy Award winning movie poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original 1942 CASABLANCA vintage movie poster. Archival linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. The original production fold marks have been touched up and restored. This is an authentic vintage 1942 issue of Casablanca for sale. "Casablanca" is widely regarded as one of the greatest films in cinema history. It received critical acclaim upon its release and won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Michael Curtiz, and Best Adapted Screenplay. The cast's performances, memorable dialogue, and timeless romance have contributed to the film's enduring popularity. "Casablanca" remains a cultural touchstone and is often referenced in popular media. • Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart): The owner of Rick's Café Américain, an establishment known for its lively atmosphere. Rick is initially portrayed as detached and cynical, but his past is revealed as the story progresses. • Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman): A Norwegian woman with a complicated history with Rick. She is caught in a love triangle between Rick and her husband, Victor Laszlo. • Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains): The corrupt and witty French police captain in Casablanca. He adds a layer of humor to the film and undergoes a moral transformation as the story unfolds. Over the years, the Casablanca poster...

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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

"Hombre contemplando la luna" original etching
"Hombre contemplando la luna" original etching

"Hombre contemplando la luna" original etching

By Rufino Tamayo

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original etching and aquatint. Printed in 1947 on Velin de Hollande paper and published in New York by the Quadrangle Press as the frontispiece of the deluxe edition of Rober...

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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

Pierre Bonnard, Sunset Over the Mediterranean, Verve, Revue Artistique, 1940
Pierre Bonnard, Sunset Over the Mediterranean, Verve, Revue Artistique, 1940

Pierre Bonnard, Sunset Over the Mediterranean, Verve, Revue Artistique, 1940

By Pierre Bonnard

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), titled Coucher De Soleil Sur La Mediterranee (Sunset Over the Mediterranean), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol...

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Post-Impressionist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original Cultivez des Oleagineux French mid-century vintage poster
Original Cultivez des Oleagineux French mid-century vintage poster

Original Cultivez des Oleagineux French mid-century vintage poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original 'La France Manque d’Huile, cultivez des Oleagineux' vintage French poster. Linen backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. FREE Continential USA shipping. Transpor...

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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Blackfeet Indians, Great Northern Railway 14 prints
Blackfeet Indians, Great Northern Railway 14 prints

Blackfeet Indians, Great Northern Railway 14 prints

By Winold Reiss

Located in Spokane, WA

A group of 14 Blackfeet Indians prints created by the artist Winold Reiss. The Great Northern Railway printed and released these prints in c. 1940. This is for the entire group...

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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Paul Klee, A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast, 1941 (after)
Paul Klee, A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast, 1941 (after)

Paul Klee, A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast, 1941 (after)

By Paul Klee

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite silkscreen after Paul Klee (1879–1940), titled Ein Genius serviert ein kleines Fruhstuck (A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast), from the album Paul Klee, Paintin...

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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Hans Jean Arp, Red, Blue, Brown, from Derriere le miroir, 1949
Hans Jean Arp, Red, Blue, Brown, from Derriere le miroir, 1949

Hans Jean Arp, Red, Blue, Brown, from Derriere le miroir, 1949

By Hans Jean Arp

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Hans Jean Arp (1886–1966), titled Rouge, bleu, brun (Red, Blue, Brown), from the folio Derriere le miroir, L’art abstrait, No. 21-22, originates from the...

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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original poster made by Jack Maxwell in 1948 - Biarritz Le golf de Chiberta
Original poster made by Jack Maxwell in 1948 - Biarritz Le golf de Chiberta

Original poster made by Jack Maxwell in 1948 - Biarritz Le golf de Chiberta

By Jack Maxwell

Located in PARIS, FR

A splendid and historical poster made by Jack Maxwell in 1948. ⛳️ The history of this legendary golf course begins in 1924: the company "Biarritz Anglet la Forêt" became the owner o...

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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Henri Matisse, Series B, Var. 5, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Henri Matisse, Series B, Var. 5, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)

Henri Matisse, Series B, Var. 5, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)

By Henri Matisse

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie B, var. 5 (Series B, Variation 5), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

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Fauvist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Old Injun
Old Injun

Old Injun

By Charles Banks Wilson

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Charles Banks Wilson, 'Old Injun', lithograph, 1948, edition 250, Hunt 39. Signed in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 3/4 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Published by Associated American Artists. Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the following institutions: Ackland Art Museum, Georgetown University...

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American Realist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Braque, Composition, Du cubisme (after)
Braque, Composition, Du cubisme (after)

Braque, Composition, Du cubisme (after)

By Georges Braque

Located in Southampton, NY

Aquatint, Etching on vélin du Lana Papiers Spéciaux pure rag paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good Condition. Notes: From the folio, Du Cubisme, 1947. Published by Compagni...

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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching, Aquatint

'A Wind Is Rising and the Rivers Flow'  — Mid-Century American Modernism
'A Wind Is Rising and the Rivers Flow'  — Mid-Century American Modernism

'A Wind Is Rising and the Rivers Flow' — Mid-Century American Modernism

By Benton Murdoch Spruance

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Benton Spruance, 'A Wind is Rising and the Rivers Flow', color lithograph, 1945, edition 40, Fine and Looney 242. Signed, dated, and titled, and annotated 'Ed 40' in pencil. A fine ...

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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Henri Matisse, Series H, Var. 4, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)
Henri Matisse, Series H, Var. 4, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)

Henri Matisse, Series H, Var. 4, Drawings, Themes and Variations, 1943 (after)

By Henri Matisse

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Serie H, var. 4 (Series H, Variation 4), from the album Henri Matisse, Dessins, Themes et Variations (Drawings, Them...

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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Adolf Dehn, Lake Tarryall, 1941 mid-century lithograph of Colorado mountain lake
Adolf Dehn, Lake Tarryall, 1941 mid-century lithograph of Colorado mountain lake

Adolf Dehn, Lake Tarryall, 1941 mid-century lithograph of Colorado mountain lake

By Adolf Dehn

Located in New York, NY

Lake Tarryall, a 1941 lithograph by Adolf Dehn (1895-1968) was made while he was teaching in Colorado. A native of Waterville, Minnesota, Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art ...

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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Is that Gun Loaded?  NRA original vintage gun safety poster
Is that Gun Loaded?  NRA original vintage gun safety poster

Is that Gun Loaded? NRA original vintage gun safety poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original “Is that Gun LOADED?” vintage National Rifle Association of America vintage poster. Archival linen backed in excellent condition, mint, and ready to frame. Printed in 1946 on a thick cardboard stock. Excellent condition, vibrant green and reds. 22 x 14 inches. NO paper loss, no tears. These are images of the exact poster you will receive. The poster shows a careless man incorrectly holding a rifle pointing towards another person. The men’s camping gear...

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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Original 'Map of the United States as Californians See It' vintage map poster
Original 'Map of the United States as Californians See It' vintage map poster

Original 'Map of the United States as Californians See It' vintage map poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Original vintage poster: "Map of the United States as Californians See It". 1947, artist: Oren Arnold. Size: 16.5" x 20.5", R. H. MOEBUS COMPANY This poster is not linen-backed. This poster is in very good fine condition, ready to frame. A humorous satirical pictorial map from 1947 with the golden sun on the upper left, gives a detailed depiction of California, its relative size to the rest of the United States, showing Florida as "Death Valley", the rest of the United States as "Unexplored" 'Unimportant anyway, not in California". The image has your Mexican singer; bikini-clad bathers and others set in the image. Shows rivers, lakes, harbors, landmarks, parks, recreational activities, and local people. This map shows Los Angeles’ city...

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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Pablo Picasso, Untitled, from Carmen, 1949
Pablo Picasso, Untitled, from Carmen, 1949

Pablo Picasso, Untitled, from Carmen, 1949

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite engraving by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Picasso, Carmen (Picasso, Carmen), originates from the 1949 edition published by L...

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Cubist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

lithograph

lithograph

By (after) Pierre Bonnard

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). This impression in violet ink was printed in France in 1944 for the rare "Correspondances" portfolio, published by Teriade in a limited editio...

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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

'Taos Placita' — American Southwest Regionalist Masterwork
'Taos Placita' — American Southwest Regionalist Masterwork

'Taos Placita' — American Southwest Regionalist Masterwork

By Gustave Baumann

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Gustave Baumann, 'Taos Placita', color woodcut, 1947, edition 125. Baumann 132. Signed, titled, and numbered '20-125' in pencil; with the artist’s Hand-in-Heart chop. A superb, richly-inked impression, with fresh colors, on fibrous oatmeal wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2 to 3 1/8 inches); slight rippling at the left sheet edge, in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 9 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches (244 x 286 mm); sheet size 13 1/4 x 17 inches (337 x 432 mm). Collections: Harwood Museum of Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Scottsdale Art Museum, Wichita Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) was a renowned printmaker and a leading figure of the American color woodcut revival whose exquisite craftsmanship and vibrant imagery captured the essence of the Southwest. "A brilliant printmaker, Baumann brought to the medium a full mastery of the craft of woodworking that he acquired from his father, a German cabinetmaker. This craftsmanship was coupled with a strong artistic training that resulted in the handsome objects we see in the exhibition today. After discovering New Mexico in 1918, Baumann began to explore in his woodblock prints of this period the light. color, and architectural forms of that landscape. His prints of this period are among the most beautiful and poetic images of the American West." —Lewis I. Sharp, Director, Denver Art Museum Baumann, the son of a craftsman, immigrated to the United States from Germany with his family when he was ten, settling in Chicago. From 1897 to 1904, he studied in the evenings at the Art Institute of Chicago, working in a commercial printmaking shop during the day. In 1905, he returned to Germany to attend the Kunstwerbe Schule in Munich, where he decided on a career in printmaking. He returned to Chicago in 1906 and worked for a few years as a graphic designer of labels. Baumann made his first prints in 1909 and exhibited them at the Art Institute of Chicago the following year. In 1910, he moved to the artists’ colony in Nashville, Indiana, where he explored the creative and commercial possibilities of a career as a printmaker. In 1915, he exhibited his color woodcuts at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, winning the gold medal. Among Baumann’s ongoing commercial activities was his work for the Packard Motor Car Company from 1914 to 1920 where he produced designs, illustrations, and color woodcuts until 1923. In 1919, Baumann’s printmaking work dominated the important exhibition of American color woodcuts at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Twenty-six of his prints were included, far more than the works of any other artist. A set of his blocks, a preparatory drawing, and seven progressive proofs complemented the exhibition. That same year, Baumann worked in New York and, over the summer, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His airy images of Cape Cod employed soft, pastel colors and occasionally showed the influence of the white-line woodcut technique. Many of his Chicago artist friends had traveled to the southwest, and Baumann became intrigued by their paintings, souvenirs, and stories of an exotic place named Taos, New Mexico. In the summer of 1918, he spent the summer in Taos sketching and painting before visiting Santa Fe. Paul Walter, the director of the Museum of New Mexico, offered him a studio in the museum's basement. Inspired by the rugged beauty of the Southwest—the vibrant colors and dramatic landscapes of the region became a central theme in his work, influencing his artistic style and subject matter for the remainder of his career. Later in the decade, he traveled to the West Coast and made prints of California landscape. Baumann's prints became synonymous with the Southwest, capturing the spirit of its place in America's identity with a unique sense of authenticity and reverence. His iconic images of desert vistas, pueblo villages, and indigenous cultures served as visual tributes to the region's rich cultural heritage, earning him a dedicated following among collectors and curators alike. A true craftsman and artist, Baumann completed every step of the printmaking process himself, cutting each block, mixing the inks, and printing every impression on the handmade paper he selected. His dedication to true craftsmanship and his commitment to preserving the integrity of his artistic vision earned him widespread acclaim and recognition within the art world. About the vibrant colors he produced, Baumann stated, “A knowledge of color needs to be acquired since they don’t all behave the same way when ground or mixed...careful chemistry goes into the making of colors, with meticulous testing for permanence. While complicated formulae evolve new colors, those derived from Earth and metal bases are still the most reliable.” In the 1930s, Baumann became interested in puppet theater. He designed and carved his own marionettes and established a little traveling company. From 1943 to 1945, the artist carved an altarpiece for the Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe. In 1952, a retrospective exhibition of his prints was mounted at the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts. Throughout his prolific career, Baumann executed nearly four hundred color woodcuts. Baumann’s woodcuts...

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American Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

Pablo Picasso, Untitled, from Carmen, 1949
Pablo Picasso, Untitled, from Carmen, 1949

Pablo Picasso, Untitled, from Carmen, 1949

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite engraving by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Picasso, Carmen (Picasso, Carmen), originates from the 1949 edition published by L...

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Cubist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Grant Wood Original Pencil Signed Lithograph, 1940 - February
Grant Wood Original Pencil Signed Lithograph, 1940 - February

Grant Wood Original Pencil Signed Lithograph, 1940 - February

By Grant Wood

Located in Phoenix, AZ

Original pencil signed Grant Wood lithograph, "February," created 1940. A fine impression and one of the most important of the 19 lithographs created by the painter of "American Goth...

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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

SLOW TRAIN THROUGH ARKANSAS
SLOW TRAIN THROUGH ARKANSAS

SLOW TRAIN THROUGH ARKANSAS

By Thomas Hart Benton

Located in Portland, ME

Benton, Thomas Hart (American, 1889-1975 SLOW TRAIN THROUGH ARKANSAS. Fath . Lithograph, 1941. Edition of 250 published by Associated American Artists (A.A.A.). 9 7/8 x 12 inches (im...

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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Shadow - Etching by Pierre Guastalla - 1940

Shadow - Etching by Pierre Guastalla - 1940

By Pierre Guastalla

Located in Roma, IT

Shadow is an original etching artwork on paper realized in 1940 by Pierre Guastalla (1891-1968). Hand-signed lower right in pencil. Numbered lower left, from an edition of 6 prints....

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Modern 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Etching

'Early Marshes' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17
'Early Marshes' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17

'Early Marshes' — Mid-Century Surrealism, Atelier 17

By Ian Hugo

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Ian Hugo, 'Early Marshes', from the portfolio 'Ten Engravings'. engraving, 1943, edition 50. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered '37/50' in pencil. A fine impression, with delicate overall plate tone, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (2 5/8 to 7 inches), in excellent condition. With the blind stamp 'madeleine-claude jobrack EDITIONS', in the bottom right margin. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 5 x 5 7/8 inches (127 x 149 mm); sheet size 15 x 11 inches (381 x 279 mm). Ian Hugo originally created "Ten Engravings" in 1945 and the portfolio included a foreword by his partner and collaborator, Anais Nin. In 1978, Hugo republished the portfolio with Madeleine-Claude Jobrack, an American master printmaker who studied under Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17, Paris, and with Johnny Friedlaender. When Jobrack returned to the States she managed the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York before opening her own printing studio, Madeleine-Claude Jobrak Editions. “The sign of the true artist is one who creates a complete universe, invents new plants, new animals, new figures to transfer to us a new vision of the universe in which dream and reality fuse. Ian Hugo's plants have eyes, the birds have the delicacy of dragonflies, their feathers have the shape of fans. Humor is apparent in every gesture. He uses a fine spider web to give a feeling of flight, speed, lightness. The body of a woman reveals the structure of a leaf, a plant. Wings are moving in a world unified by mythological themes. This is an animated world, humorous and levitating, elusive and decorative, which by its unique forms and shapes gives us the sensation of a rebirth, a liberation from the usual, the familiar, a visit to a new planet.” —Anais Nin, from the forward to the portfolio ‘Ten Engravings’ ABOUT THE ARTIST Ian Hugo was born Hugh Parker Guiler in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 15, 1898. His childhood was spent in Puerto Rico—a "tropical paradise," the memory of which stayed with him and surfaced in both his engravings and his films. He attended school in Scotland and graduated from Columbia University where he studied economics and literature. Hugo was working with the National City Bank when he met and married author Anais Nin in 1923. The couple moved to Paris the following year, where Nin's diary and Guiler's artistic aspirations flowered. Guiler feared his business associates would not understand his interests in art and music, let alone those of his wife, so he began a second, creative life as Ian Hugo. Ian and Anais moved to New York in 1939. The following year he took up engraving and etching, working at Stanley William Hayter’s experimental printmaking workshop Atelier 17, established at the New School for Social Research. Hugo began producing surreal images often used to illustrate Nin's books. For Nin, his unwavering love and financial support were indispensable—Hugo was the "fixed center, core... my home, my refuge" (Sept. 16, 1937, Nearer the Moon, The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1937-!939). Fictionalized portraits of Higo and Nin appear in Philip Kaufman's 1990 film drama of a literary love triangle, Henry & June. Inspired by comments that viewers saw motion in his engravings, Hugo took up filmmaking. He asked the avant-garde filmmaker Sasha Hammid for instruction but was told, "Use the camera yourself, make your own mistakes, make your own style." Hugo embarked on an exploration of the film medium as a vehicle to delve into his dreams, his unconscious, and his memories. Without a specific plan, He would collect resonant images, then reorder or superimpose them, seeking a sense of self-connection through the poetic juxtapositions he created. These intuitive explorations resembled the mystical evocations of his engravings, which he described in 1946 as "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages." In the underwater world of his film ‘Bells of Atlantis,’ the light originates from the world above the surface; it is otherworldly, out of place, yet essential. In ‘Jazz of Lights,’ the street lights of Times Square become in Nin's words, "an ephemeral flow of sensations." This flow that she also calls "phantasmagorical" had a crucial impact on Stan Brakhage, who said that without Jazz of Lights (1954), "there would have been no Anticipation of the Night" his autobiographical film which ushered in a new era of experimental modernist filmmaking. Hugo lived the last two decades of his life in a New York apartment high above street level. In the evenings, surrounded by an electrically illuminated man...

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Surrealist 1940s Prints and Multiples

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Engraving

Pablo Picasso, Untitled, from Carmen, 1949
Pablo Picasso, Untitled, from Carmen, 1949

Pablo Picasso, Untitled, from Carmen, 1949

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite engraving by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the folio Picasso, Carmen (Picasso, Carmen), originates from the 1949 edition published by L...

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Cubist 1940s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Engraving

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Myron Kozman

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Untitled Screen print, 1941 Signed and dated in pencil lower right From an unnumbered edition of 6 Condition: Excellent Image size: 7 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches Sheet size: 10 x 8 inches Pr...

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Abstract 1940s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen