$1,300
Rooster at Rest
ISAAC, Prosper-Alphonse
Coq au Repos (French title) Color woodcut (woodblock print in Japanese manner, with water-based inks) on thin laid Japan paper, circa 1908-1912.One...
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Recent Old Stories
Each old work of art has stories to reveal. In addition to esthetics, that is what draws is to art from the past. When I started working for Richard Reed Armstrong Fine Art in 1998 most everything was sold at in-person shows or over the phone. All our sales were predicated on an exchange of stories. Today more than half the sales happen online, without much conversation at all. In an effort to share my side of the story, I have been adding short comments about what I see in a work of art I list online. Increasingly, when you click on an image that intrigues you, you will find at least some context about that particular work. Here are a few such works.
$950
8:30 Express
CALAPAI, Letterio
Woodcut on thin laid paper, 1943-44. Trial proof, aside from an edition of 27. It’s rush hour and a sea of people is holding on for dear life as th...
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A Christmas Tale
LANGASKENS, Maurice
Un Conte de Noël (original French title) Color etching and aquatint on wove paper, no date. An artist’s proof. Edition unknown. Cautiously a man le...
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$800
Nighttime Hospitality
MERODACK-JEANEAU, Alexis
Hospitalité de Nuit (original French title) Lithograph on tan wove paper, no date. Edition unknown, but certainly very small, if any at all was ev...
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$1,500
Rod Mill - Sheffield Steel Corporation
NESBITT, Jackson Lee
Etching on wove paper. Edition of 60. Part of a set of prints commissioned by the Sheffield Steel Corporation in 1937. Signed, numbered, and titl...
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$600
Ballerina
PINTO, Salvatore
Wood engraving on laid japon volant paper. Edition unknown. Scarce. Pinto depicted ballerinas both in print and in painting. They usually do not re...
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$1,800
Women from Ushant
VILLON, Jacques
Femmes d’Ouessant (original French title) Aquatint with touches of drypoint printed in color à la poupée on simili-japon paper. Reference: Gineste...
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