Dagmar Mezricky

Tenderness Gives Rise to Harmony /// Contemporary Nude Female Artist Woman Art

1988

Artist: Dagmar Mezricky (Czech, 1944-) Title: "Earth" *Signed, numbered, and dated by Mezricky in pencil lower right Year: 1989 Medium: Original Lithograph on Rives BFK paper Limite...

Artist: (after) Yves Klein (French, 1928-1962) Title: "Galerie Karl Flinker (Anthropometry)" Year: 1973 Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper Limited edi...

Artist: Tom Wesselmann (American, 1931-2004) Title: "Nude (Lithograph)" *Signed, dated, and numbered by Wesselmann in pencil lower right Year: 1976 Medium: Original Lithograph and Screenprint with Embossing on Rives BFK paper Limited edition: 49/75, (there were also 12 artist's proofs) Printer: Styria Studio, New York, NY Publisher: Multiples Inc., New York, NY Reference: "Tom Wesselmann" - Stealingworth page 285; "Synthesis and Tension: Tom Wesselmann's Editions" - Cristea Roberts Gallery No. 9, page 36-37 Sheet size: 22.5" x 30.13" Image size: 13.5" x 23.63" Condition: A superior example in mint condition Rare Notes: Provenance: one owner ever - private collection - Chicago, IL; acquired from van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL in 1979, retaining their original gallery label. This work is also sometimes referred to as "Nude with Rose". Printed in thirty-four colors. Styria Studio chop mark/blind stamp lower right. Multiples Inc. chop mark/blind stamp lower left. Rives BFK watermark lower left. Some pencil inscribed reference numbers on verso. Our example here is in mint condition with strong colors as the day it was printed having been previously archivally framed and properly stored. For reasons unknown, most all examples of "Nude (Lithograph)" that appear today, their colors have greatly attenuated (faded) over the past 45 years. Also, the printer and publisher of this edition are almost always incorrectly defined backwards, as Styria Studios as the publisher and Multiples Inc. as the printer. William (Bill) van Straaten (1937-2013) founded van Straaten Gallery in Chicago in 1969, a contemporary art gallery with an international reputation. He served as president of the Chicago Art Dealers Association. He ran the gallery at 646 North Michigan Avenue for 33 years until 2002. In 2003, van Straaten moved his operations to Steamboat Springs, Colorado establishing Riverhouse Editions, a fine art publisher. In 2008, van Straaten moved to Denver and acquired the Sandy Carson Gallery on Santa Fe Drive, which operated as the van Straaten Gallery for five final years before closing in 2012. Biography: Thomas K. Wesselmann (February 23, 1931 – December 17, 2004) was an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture. Born on February 23, 1931, in Cincinnati, Ohio, cartoonist and collagist Tom Wesselmann eventually moved to New York City to become one of the founding figures of the Pop Art movement, making waves with his "Great American Nude" series. He later became well known for his huge canvas...

Artist: (after) Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) Title: "Untitled (Verve No. 29-30)" Portfolio: Verve: Suite de 180 Dessins de Picasso (Vol. V...

Artist: Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904) Title: "Vérité (Truth)" Portfolio: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne *Issued unsigned Year: 1900 (third state of three) Medium: Original Lithograph on chine appliqué on wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: A. Clot, Paris, France Publisher: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne, Paris, France Reference: Floury No. 156; Hediard-Mason No. 156; L No. 139 Sheet size: 11.5" x 8.5" Image size: 7.5" x 5.5" Condition: In excellent condition This review was founded in 1897 in the continuity of the review Les Beaux-Arts published between 1861 and 1865; Jules Comte, the founder, entitled his first issue Les Beaux-Arts - Revue nouvelle then changed the title to La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Jules Comte directed the review until his death in 1912. Raymond Woog took over , who was provisional director until the start of the war in July 1914. In 1919, André Dezarrois took over this review and was its director until December 1937, date of last issue (published in January 1938). In the meantime, it publishes the Bulletin of ancient and modern art, which has gained a certain notoriety in the community. Biography: Henri Fantin-Latour, in full Ignace-Henri-Jean-Théodore Fantin-Latour (born Jan. 14, 1836, Grenoble, France—died Aug. 25, 1904, Buré), French painter, printmaker, and illustrator noted for his still lifes with flowers and his portraits, especially group compositions, of contemporary French celebrities in the arts. Fantin-Latour’s first teacher was his father, a well-known portrait painter. Later, he studied at the school of Lecoq de Boisbaudran and attended the École des Beaux-Arts. He exhibited at the official French Salons, but in 1863 he also showed his work in the rebel Salon des Refusés. Although academic in manner, Fantin-Latour was independent in style. He had numerous friends among the leading French painters of his day, including J.-A.-D. Ingres, Eugène Delacroix, Camille Corot, Édouard Manet, and Gustave Courbet. His portrait groups, often arranged in rows of heads and figures like 17th-century Dutch guild...

Artist: (after) Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (German, 1884-1976) Title: "Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG (Nudes)" Year: 1984 Medium: Original Offset-Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on yellow wove paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Unknown Publisher: Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Bremen, Germany Framing: Recently framed in a contemporary black moulding with frame space Framed size: 29.25" x 19.5" Sheet size: 27.25" x 17.75" Image size: 9.5" x 12" Condition: In excellent condition Extremely rare Notes: Poster produced for a special posthumous exhibition of Rottluff's early watercolors and printmaking "Schmidt Rottluff" at Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Bremen, Germany from March 8 - May 12, 1984, in tribute to the artist's, would have been, 100th birthday. GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer: Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters. Biography: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (born December 1, 1884, Rottluff, near Chemnitz, Germany—died August 9, 1976, West Berlin [now Berlin]), German painter and printmaker who was noted for his Expressionist landscapes and nudes. In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff began to study architecture in Dresden, Germany, where he and his friend Erich Heckel met Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Fritz Bleyl, two other architecture students who shared their passion for painting. Together they formed the organization of Expressionist artists known as Die Brücke...

Pink Nude is an original colored lithograph realized by the artist Nino Terziari in the 1970s. Hand-signed by the artist on lower right. Artist's Proof (P.A. is handwritten on lower...

Lovers is an original colored lithograph realized by the artist Roger Chapelain-Midy in the 1970s. Hand-signed by the artist on lower right. Numbered on lower left. Edition 16/100. ...

The Viewer is an original colored lithograph realized by the artist Roger Chapelain-Midy in 1970. Hand-signed by the artist on lower right. Numbered on lower left. Edition 25/100. ...

Nude of Woman is a Lithograph realized by Carlo Marcantonio in 1970s. This original print is hand signed. This is an edition of 50 prints plus some artist's proofs, numbered 21/50. ...

Paul Wunderlich created a series of 12 lithographs,Twilight together with his wife, Karin Szekessy, a fine art photographer. This image is of an other worldly nude reclining on a tab...

Hand Signed. Edition of 50 pieces. Very good condition.