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LUDWIG EMIL GRIMM
Hanau 1790 – 1863 Kassel
The
brother of the folklorists Jakob and Wilhelm
Grimm, Ludwig Emil studied at the Academy
in Kassel, and took lessons from Philip Otto
Runge.
From 1809-1817 he attended the Academy
of Fine Arts in Munich, interrupted in 1814
when he fought as an officer against Napoleon,
and 1816 which he spent as a study year in
Italy, where he learnt to engrave.
In the
1820’s Grimm helped his pupil, von Reutem, to establish an artists’ colony in Willingshausen, the oldest in Germany and still continuing today.
He was appointed Professor of the History of Painting at Kassel Academy in 1832.
Klobes
Abend Evening at home in Klobes
Stöll145
ii/ii
141 x 189 mm
Original etching, 1850.
The plate with the monograms of the etcher
and the sitter, and dated and entitled.
A
later impression on stout wove.
£350
Two
representations of the artist’s seventeen
year old daughter, Friederike, studiously ignored
by the family cats (perhaps also two studies
of the same cat?). She is seen both sewing,
and reading Cinderella, one of her
uncles’ tales.
Another closed volume of Grimms’ Fairytales is
also on the table.
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MAX KLINGER
Leipzig 1857- 1920 Leipzig
Influential
German symbolist painter and sculptor.
Weiblicher
Akt in Schabkunst
Female nude in mezzotint
Singer 271 ii/iii
288 x 169 mm
Original mezzotint, 1891.
Signed in pencil.
A fine impression on chine appliqué on stout
cream laid paper with part of a Strasbourg
Lily watermark. Faintly mount-stained.
Sold
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THEOPHILE ALEXANDRE STEINLEN
Lausanne 1859 – 1923 Paris
Steinlen
trained in Switzerland as a textile designer
and moved to Paris in 1878 to work in a textile
factory. In the cafés and cabarets he frequented in Montmartre he became friendly with writers and artists with radical leanings to which he was sympathetic and turned instead to illustration and political satire for left-wing newspapers, as well as poster-making.
From
December 1893 till July 1894 Steinlen worked
for Le Chambard socialiste, (Social
Overthrow), a four-page weekly newspaper,
from its debut, until there were signs that
the government was going to crack down on
anarchists and subversives after an Italian
anarchist killed the French President on
the 24th June 1894. In over thirty lithographs
Steinlen attacked the current state of French
society, pointed at corruption and showed
the struggles of the working class.
Steinlen
signed the Chambard cartoons with French
puns of his own German-Swiss name, either
as ‘Petit Pierre’ (as here in La Majorité Oportuniste)
or ‘Jean Caillou’, which literally translate
as ‘little stone’ or ‘pebble’; ‘Steinlen’ being
the German for ‘little stone’.
The
Chambard lithographs were also separately
published in a deluxe edition of 100, signed ‘Steinlen’ in
red crayon.
La
Majorité Opportuniste
De Crauzat 15
305 x 300 mm
Original lithograph, 1894.
The stone signed
Petit Pierre. From the deluxe edition, issued
by Kleinmann, and with his blindstamp.
Signed
(Steinlen) in red crayon.
Edition of 100.
Numbered 51 at the foot of the sheet in blue
crayon.
On wove simile japan, minor handling
creases.
£650
A
great lover of cats and in other prints a
fine ‘feline’ artist,
here Steinlen conveys a fat cat of the human
order.
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OTTO DIX
Utermhaus, Thuringia 1891 – 1969 Hemmenhofen, Constance
In
the immediate post-war years, in response
to his experience of the First World War,
throughout which he had served as a gunner,
Dix moved through an Expressionist phase
and after meeting George Grosz in 1920 was
also temporarily influenced by Dada, before
becoming a leading figure in the Neue Sachlichkeit
(New Objectivity) movement, attacking the
depravities of the Weimar Republic.
The
symbolism of life as a circus or cabaret
act was prevalent in Germany in the early
1920’s.
The
same year, 1922, that Dix, in Dresden, issued
his ten drypoints in the portfolio entitled Zircus (Circus),
Max Beckmann’s cycle of ten drypoints Der
Jahrmarkt (New Year’s Day Fair), in which he depicted himself as a circus barker, was published in Munich, and in Berlin, Georg Alexander Mathéy’s Cirque
de Paris appeared in Die Schaffenden.
Balanceakt Balancing Act
Karsch 35 II
298 x 198 mm
Original drypoint, 1922, for Zircus.
The plate
signed and dated.
Edition of 50, published
by the artist.
Signed in pencil, dated, entitled
and numbered 23/50.
Printed with plate tone
on stout cream wove, slight handling and
other defects in the large margins.
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MARC CHAGALL
Vitebsk 1887 – 1985 St Paul-de-Vence
Chagall
took up colour lithography while he was in
New York during the Second World War.
He
returned to the South of France in 1947,
where he established a close relationship
with the printers Mourlot and Sorlier. He
was especially active in the medium 1956-66,
when he produced hundreds of colour lithographs
in rich glowing colours in a repertoire that
encompassed lovers, flowers, animals, the
Bay of Nice and the Bible.
Chagall
had already etched a large series of monochrome
Old Testament plates for Vollard, which remained
unpublished at Vollard’s death in 1939. They were not issued until 1956 by Tériade.
The
same year the review Verve published them
in facsimile, in a large edition, augmented
with additional new original lithographs,
both monochrome and colour. The colour lithographs
were also issued separately in a small signed
edition.
Angel
of Paradise (Angel of the Expulsion from
Eden)
Mourlot 121
353 x 263 mm
Original five-colour lithograph, 1956.
From the Verve Chagall Bible, issued 1956,
edition of 6500. Printed to the edges of
the sheet on cream wove, a short diagonal
corner crease at the bottom right.
£350
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