20th Century European Prints

Etching, image size 5 7/8 x 3 7/8 inches, c. 1920, pencil signed.

Etching, image Size approx.6X9 inches, plate signed

11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inch woodcut on 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 laid-type paper. Unsigned.

Etching, image size: 9 3/4 x 5 inches, pencil signed lower right

Etching, image size 4 7/8 x 8 inches, pencil signed

This is a pair of fine wood engraving by Czech artist and member of the anti Nazi resistance fighters in WWII Jaroslav Dobrovolsky (1895-1942)  Both of these wood engravings are hand signed in pencil and also stamped on the back with the artists name.  The color image measures a sheet size of 6 1/2X4 inches, dated 1932.  The other image measures 4 1/2X2 3/4 inches. 

Dobrovolsky was a well known print maker and book illustrator in the Czech republic.  He was captured by the Nazi's and died in the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1942.  Both images are in very good condition and sold as a pair for the one price.

Lithograph, PAN 1899-II, 6 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches

This is a color aquatint etching by French artist Victor Valery.  This view of Notre Dame with the Paris Book stalls on the Seine.  Created circa 1920, this pencil signed etching measures 6 1/2x8 1/2 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type paper.

This is an original Ex Libris book plate, pencil signed by Jozef Menyhart(1901-1976), This wood engraving done circa 1940, measures  an image size of 3 1/4X2 3/4 inches.

Wood engraving, image size 8 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches, c. 1890, plate signed.

Plate and pencil signed, signature indistinct. Image measures 7 1/2 x 5 inches on 12 x 8 inch medium weight wove type paper. An atmospheric print with good tonal range.

Etching, image size 5 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches, blind stamps, initialed in plate, pencil signed and titled.

The Danish painter and wood engraver, Aksel Jorgensen, created this 12 5/8 x 8 3/8 inch print in the early part of the 19th century. As a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen he integrated the graphic arts curriculum into its fine arts program attracting many well known illustrators of the day.

Wood engraving C. 1889. From Harper's New Monthly Magazine with text on verso. Signature in block lower left. Woodblock measures 4 5/8 x 7 7/8 inches on 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inch paper.

Lithograph, image size 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, 1905, printed by Thomas Way, portrait of Master Townsend of the Art Workers' Guild. Plate signed "C. H."(reversed), l.l.