Etchings

Etching with drypoint, image size 20 1/8 x 11 1/2 inches, c.1900, pencil signed. Helleu began his art career when he enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and worked as an apprentice for Theodore Deck, decorating ceramic plates with women's portraits. He became friends with many artists of La Belle Epoch, including John Singer Sargent, Whistler, Tissot, Monet and Rodin, and became well known for his elegant portraits of women of French society. He traveled between France and America, and in 1912 was commissioned to create the astrological ceiling decoration in New York's Grand Central Station.

Etching, image size 5 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches, 1859, cat: Kennedy- 45, plate signed and dated, framed.

Etching, image size 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, 1881, cat: Klackner-56, pencil signed.

Etching, image size 6 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches, 1926, pencil signed.

Etching, image size 5 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches, 1927, pencil signed and titled.

Etching and drypoint, early proof of this rare image, image size 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches, 1911, cat: Schwartz-76, inscribed "probedruck" (test print) l.l. and signed l.r. both in red crayon, blindstamp l.l. just below image. Corinth began his art career studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and went on to study under Bouguereau at the Academie Julian in Paris. He then returned to Germany and became a member and then president of the Berlin "Sezession".

Etching, drypoint, image size 11 3/4 x 13 3/4 inches, Ordeman #217, plate signed l.l. "F.W.B. 1923", pencil signed l.l. "Frank W. Benson.", edition of 150 proofs on uncalendered Japanese Vellum.

Etching, image size 12 x 7 1/2 inches, c. 1925, pencil signed "A.A. Blum" l.r.

Etching, image size 9 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches, published in studio, 1914, artist's monogram within the plate, pencil signed and titled.

Etching, image size 6 x 8 7/8 inches, Kennedy 50/II, pub. 1859, printed on laid Japanese paper, plate signed l.l. "Whistler. 1859." Archivally framed.