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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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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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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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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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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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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L’Alsace… (original French title) Aquatint printed in blue ink, with a touch of red in the cockade on simili-Japan paper, April 1916. One of 8 impr...
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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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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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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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La Visitation à la Villa Montrouge (original French title) Color lithograph on smooth wove paper.Reference: Cailler 94; Una Johnson 30.Plate from L...
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