Prints

This is a rare color etching by American artist John Taylor Arms.  The title is: Early Morning, North River, created and printed in  1921.  This color impression was printed in an edition of only 25 impressions.  It was also printed in Black and White in an edition of 100.  The image measures 9 1/2X7 1/2 inches.  Very good condition Signed in pencil lower right.  Created with a combination of etching and aquatint.  This image appears in the Fletcher catalog as image number 100.

$3200.00

This is a fine original lithograph by American artist Rockwell Kent.  The title is: Bringing Home the Christmas Tree,  created and printed in an edition of 100 in 1928.  Hand signed in pencil the image mesures 12X8 3/8 inches.  Very fine condition, Printed on a Rives B.F.K. wove type sheet.  This image appears in the Burne-Jones catalog as image number 29.  It was in the mid-twenties that Kent began illustrating classic literature. By the end of 1928 he had settled permanently in the Adirondack Mountains in his personally named farm, Asgaard. On his farm Kent wrote and illustrated his third novel, North by East in 1930.  This is one of his best modernist lithographic studies that he created during that time.

$3200.00

This is a very fine etching by American artist John Taylor Arms.  The title is: Venetian Mirror, The Grand Canal, Venice,  created and printed in 1935 in a combined edition of 169, printed by David Strang.  The image measures 6 3/8X14 1/8 inches.  The image is part of his Italian Series and appears in the Fletcher catalog as image number 289.  This etching is hand signed in pencil and numbered II  from the second state of two. Printed on an  Ivory laid Whatman handmade sheet.

$3600.00

This is one of the finest mezzotints by the important French artist James Jacques Tissot.  The title is: Le Banc de jardin (The Garden Bench)   It was created and printed in 1883.  This was a rare first state impression prior to the lettering added at the bottom edge.  This work is pencil signed and inscribed as "1st state"  Also with the artists red stamp in the lower left.  Printed in a sepia toned ink the image measures 16 1/2X22 1/8 inches.  This image appears in the Wentworth catalogue as image 75 i/iii...  The subject was the great love of Tissot's life, Mrs. Kathleen Newton with her two children.  her daughter Violet, her niece Belle and her son Cecil seated on a bench in Tissot's garden in St. John's Wood London.  Probably conceived bbefore Kathleen Newton's tragic death at the age of only 28.  Tissot created a large oil painting of this subject after his return to Paris, distraught at the loss of his young friendship.  A very rich impression, fine condition apart from a small tear in the lower border area, unobtrusive.

$4200.00

This is a very fine original etching by British artist Gerald Brockhurst.  The subject is Kathleen Nancy Woodward and is titled: Jeunesse Doree (Gilded Youth)  This image is pencil signed and dated G.L. Brockhurst 1942.  The image measures 10 7/8X8 7/8 inches.  The etching is printed on an antique cream toned laid paper with partial watermark.  Printed in an edition of 75 this image appears in the Fletcher catalog as image number 80.  Very fine condition.  "Brockhurst celebrates the beauty of Kathleen Woodward, whom he had renamed Dorette (Gift). They met in the late nineteen twenties when she was a young model at the Royal Academy Schools and he a visiting professor, and she soon displaced his wife Anaïs at the center of his art. " (The Met)

$4450.00

"This is one of the most famous prints from the British Etching Revival"  This image is titled: A Spanish Good Friday,created and printed in 1925 by British artist David Muirhead Bone.  This pencil signed drypoint measures 12 5/8X8 inches, printed on a laid type sheet with deckeled edges.  Numbered as XXVII lower left corner.  The image depicts the solemn festival at the end of Passion Week.  Ref. Campbell Dodgson 412 .

$4450.00

This is an original etching with drypoint by French artist James Tissot (1836-1902)  The title is: Promenade Dans La Neige, A Walk in the Snow, created and printed in 1880 in an edition of 100.  This etching has the Tissot red monogram  stamp in the lower right border, the 2nd state of 2.  The subject is a study of Kathleen Newton in the Garden of Tissot's house in winter.  This very large etching is in fine condition printed on a watermarked wove type sheet.  One of the most valued of all of his etchings.   The subject was the great love of Tissot's life, Mrs. Kathleen Newton who died at the age of only 28.

$4600.00