It is with great pleasure and honor that we present this first selection of works of art on paper from the personal collection of James and Carol Goodfriend. Jim is known to many in the world of prints and drawings as the dealer behind C & J Goodfriend Drawings and Prints. Over the years Jim would bring home particularly attractive prints and drawings, kept for their personal enjoyment. Jim and Carol have decided to disperse their collection and we are grateful to have been entrusted with the sale of these prints as well as some drawings, mostly by European, as well as some by American artists.
In keeping with his habit as a dealer Jim was always on the lookout for the most attractive works of art, collected for their artistic merit, rather than for name recognition. The discerning art buyer will find in this selection of works on paper magnificent examples of printmaking and draftsmanship. Each of these works was chosen for the quality of the impression, the interest of its subject matter, or its compositional strength. While famous printmakers will instantly be recognizable, we encourage you to focus not on the name, but on personal appeal, be it based on the light, the line, the composition, or any other number of factors that speak to you on an emotional level. This selection of artworks is being passed on from one distinguished art lover to the next generation.
Conditions and terms:
• Assume that each of these works is overall in a condition pleasing to the eye. They have generally not been conserved, which means that discolorations and minor flaws that do not affect their value visually, have been left untouched. We have noted obvious condition issues for transparency's sake. Full sheet images are visible on our website, and larger ones can be emailed upon request. We will be happy to detail further minor condition details.
• Prices are for payment online. If you wish to pay by check and save the 3.5% credit card charge, email us at bernard@armstrongfineart.com or call us at 312.404.2004.
Etching on laid japon paper.Reference: Delteil 124 between i/ii and ii/iii.Almost certainly a state between Delteil's first and second, with the mo...
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Cliche-verre, mounted on card. Reference: Delteil 48. Exceedingly scarce, early impression in brown.The last impression to come up for auction was ...
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Ink wash with touches of white gouache, watercolor, and crayon or chalk, drawn on the verso of a sheet of thin wove paper, with a French architectu...
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Pencil on wove paper, affixed in four corners onto another sheet.We have not been able to ascertain whether this was a study after a master or an o...
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Graphite, conté crayon, and ink wash on wove notary ledger paper.Signed with an "R. Verdun" stamp (not in Lugt, and not the atelier sale stamp that...
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Black crayon and watercolor on tan laid paper.This is a preliminary drawing for a color woodcut on page 53 of Paysages et Coins de Rues, Jean Riche...
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Very fine pen and black ink drawing on wove paper, no date.This drawing was created for reproduction, but its purpose is as of yet not identified. ...
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Pencil with pale-blue touches on board. Provenance: collection Mrs. Ernest Haskell, Jr; exhibited at Crocker Art Gallery in 1976 retrospective, Sac...
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Etching on laid paper. Reference: Delteil 14 ii/ii. Superb impression of Millet's rarest, and arguably best etching. Large margins (tips of two co...
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Etching with engraving on laid J Kool watermarked paper. References: Schneiderman 23 v/x; Delteil-Wright 28 v/x. Superb impression, before letters...
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Etching and engraving on laid paper.Published by the Society of American Etchers. Signed and dated in pencil.
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Etching and aquatint on laid paper. References: Godefroy/Delteil 15 iv/vi, Coppier 12.Before the plate was cut down laterally by almost two inches....
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Etching on chine-collé on this wove paper. References: Béraldi 162, BN-IFF 115. From the series titled Plantes variées gravées à l'eau-forte. Signe...
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Etching and aquatint over heliogravure (photogravure) on simili-japon wove paper. Reference: Exsteens 783. Plate 1 from Les Sataniques. There is a ...
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Etching with plate tone on thin wove paper.Reference: BN-IFF 31. Signed in blue pencil. Printer's crease in the top margin.
Aquatint, soft-ground, and etching on laid paper.Signed and annotated "Epreuve d'artiste" in pencil. Faint pale spots, mostly visible on the verso....
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Ink wash on wove paper (on the back of a Connecticut commercial product list).Signed with monogram stamp GIO in a circle (?).
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Lithograph on white wove paper (sur blanc).Reference: Delteil 595 ii/iii.From the first edition, when the series was issued by La Caricature, and t...
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Etching and engraving on chine-collé on wove paper.Reference: Pousette-Dart 13. Memorial plate to the artist's first wife, Elizabeth Louise. Scatte...
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Etching on thin laid paper.Reference: BN-IFF 55. Plate from a set of prints titled Croquis hollandais et autres, published by Cadart that same year...
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Lithograph on thin beige wove paper.Published by La Revue Blanche in August 1894. Edition details for this publication are hard to come by, but it...
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Etching and false biting on laid paper.Reference: BN-IFF mentions that it is missing from the collection, volume IV, page 217.First impression of t...
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Color lithograph on tan wove paper. Published by La Revue Blanche in August 1894. Edition details for this publication are hard to come by, but it ...
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Etching on laid paper.Reference: not in Delteil.Stated edition of 75, but unlikely.Signed and numbered in pencil. Very faint tone inside a prior ma...
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