$700
Dream of Worship
VON ESSEN, Hein
Droom der Aanbidden (original Dutch title) Etching and aquatint printed on thick tan wove paper.Two states, one without the background of the sun’s...
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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.
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Debray Dance Hall
DELATRE, Eugene
Au Bal Debray (French title) Color aquatint & etching on laid Arches paper, circa 1895.Edition unknown but seemingly small, given the scarcity ...
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Off to Japan!
ISAAC, Prosper-Alphonse
Color woodcut (woodblock print in Japanese manner, with water-based inks) on laid Japan paper, 1922 (?).No other impression is known of this print ...
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$750
Jungle Peace
WATSON, Eva Auld
Color woodcut on Japan paper, no date. Edition of 75.Signed, titled and numbered in pencil. The sheet was folded on the left side, on purpose, to b...
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$1,200
Profile in the Manner of Sandro Botticelli
LEFORT des YLOUSES, Arthur Henri
Embossed leather, hand-colored, circa 1900. Unique. This highly unusual work is the result of chiseling into a sheet of leather, which was then sh...
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$650
Old Woman Smoking Her Pipe
DELAVALLEE, Henri
La Vieille Femme Fumant sa Pipe (original French title) Soft-ground and line etching, and aquatint on wove paper, 1892.Reference: Morane 48.Edition...
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Reducing, Small, Third Stone
BELLOWS, George
Lithograph on thin wove paper, 1921. Reference: Mason 79.Printed by Bolton Brown, as is seemingly the case of the whole edition.Edition of 45, scar...
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$450
Neumühlen
RIEDIGER, Reimer
Color aquatint and etching on wove paper, 1987.Edition of 95. Neumühlen is a strip of land along the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany which was once ...
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$2,800
Christ, or Christ with the Crown of Thorns
REDON, Odilon
Lithograph on thin tan chine paper, 1887. Reference: Mellerio 71. This is a proof aside from the scarce edition of 25 on chine-collé, printed by L...
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$650
San Francisco Cable Car at Union Square
OSBORN CUNNINGHAM, Marion
Screenprint, or silkscreen on reused advertisement board. This proof is printed on the blank back of an advertisement poster, cut in half by the ar...
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Halted
SCALZO, Lillian
Woodcut printed on very thin Japan paper, no date. There is no stated edition, and this print may very well be a unique impression. Signed and ti...
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$950
The Old Woman
BOUTET DE MONVEL, Bernard
La Vieille (original French titles) Color aquatint and soft-ground etching on thick wove paper.Ref: BN-IFF 4-5; not in Addade.Edition of 50, quite ...
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$975
Hibiscus
RUSSELL, Shirley
Color woodcut or woodblock print on Japan laid paper, no date. There seems to be no stated edition for this print. Likely from a small group of col...
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$1,000
The Question
TURZAK, Charles
Woodcut printed in black ink on thin laid Japanese paper, 1934 or 1935. From a series of 10 woodcuts titled A History of Illinois in Woodcuts. Edit...
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