This is our second installment documenting the 100 prints published by L'Estampe Originale from 1893 to 1895. Album two is illustrated below. If you're interested in Album one, you can find it HERE. Album II Georges AURIOL(Beauvais, April 26, 1863...
When there are no words to describe one’s sadness, sometimes images can express some of what we can’t. In any case, it’s better to look at the majestic Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in its glory, the way artists living there...
From the gallery's archives: sold long ago... Félix BUHOT (1847-1898): La Place des Martyrs et la Taverne du Bagne Etching, roulette, soft-ground and drypoint on thick wove paper, 1885.Refs: Bourcard/Goodfriend 163, Bonafous-Murat 289.Plate: 13 ¼ x 17 ⅝ inches. It...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, whose small stature was easily recognizable, was a well-known figure of Parisian night life and its musical and entertainment scene. While he is today best remembered for images of cancan dancers, café-concerts (dance halls), prostitutes and all...
The Chinese Vase is a larger composition by Hall Thorpe, born John Hall Thorpe in Australia, who emigrated to England in 1900 (or 1902). His distinctive style is recognizable in this composition. Rather than use black lines in his key...
This is an unusually inky impression of Norbert Goenneutte’s etching titled Le Moulin de Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer (The Mill of Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer). There is no clear date for this work, though the catalogue entry for it in Christophe Duvivier’s raisonné suggest a time...
Imagine a contemporary print publisher convincing Mel Bochner, Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith and Chuck Close to all make a work with them. Or imagine a few decades ago those artists being Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtentstein and Keith Haring. ...
Edward Julius DETMOLD (1883-1957)Off to the Fishing GroundsEtching on simili-japon paper, 1899. This is a companion piece to a similarly large plate by Edward Julius’ twin brother Charles Maurice Detmold (1883-1908), titled “Duel in the Air”. Both our composition and...
From his extensive travels in Europe, North-Africa and the United States, we can deduct that Louis McClellan Potter (1873-1912) had a curious mind. Time spent with Berbers and Bedouins, as well as with Native-American tribes such as the Tlingit; the...
