Tag: etching

Día de los Muertos

José Guadalupe Posada :: All Hallow's Eve, published 1947, woodcut. src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
José Guadalupe Posada :: All Hallow’s Eve, published 1947, woodcut.
src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
José Guadalupe Posada :: Calavera of the Engraver, published 1947, woodcut. src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery
José Guadalupe Posada :: Calavera of the Engraver, published 1947, woodcut.
src Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery

La Calavera Garbancera, ca. 1910

La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina (*)​] created by Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913). (*) Skull of the Female Dandy, named after the mural 'Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central' (1947) by muralist Diego Rivera. | source wikimedia commons
La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina (*)​] created by Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913).
(*) Skull of the Female Dandy, named after the mural ‘Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central’ (1947) by muralist Diego Rivera. | source wikimedia commons
La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina (*)​] created by Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913). (*) Skull of the Female Dandy, named after the mural 'Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central' (1947) by muralist Diego Rivera. | source wikimedia commons
La Calavera Garbancera [aka, La Catrina, La calavera Catrina] created by Mexican engraver José Guadalupe Posada (zinc etching, ca. 1910 / periodical from 1913)

Bajadéra, 1900–1920

Stredoeurópsky grafik z prelomu 19. – 20. storočia. Bajadéra, 1900–1920. | Central European graphic artist from the turn of the 19th – 20th century. Bajadera, 1900–1920. | src Galéria mesta Bratislavy

Die Blätter mit dem Tod, 1918

Die Blätter mit dem Tod (The Leaves with Death), cover title: Ein Totentanz by Alfred Kubin. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918. Book of 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only. First edition with the cover title "A Dance of Death". | src Bassenge Auktionen
Die Blätter mit dem Tod (The Leaves with Death), cover title: Ein Totentanz by Alfred Kubin. Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918. Book of 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only. First edition with the cover title “A Dance of Death”. | src Bassenge Auktionen
Alfred Kubin :: Die Blätter mit dem Tod; [cover title]: Ein Totentanz. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918. First Edition. Kubin's sequence of 24 lithographic images depicts death in a variety of contexts and including the title page and final vignette, in which which a gravestone bears the the artist's own name; the cover is an additional lithograph. Kubin was well known for his explorations of macabre and satirical subject matter. This interpretation of the "Dance of Death" appeared at a moment when four years of world war and a spreading influenza pandemic meant that virtually no-one was untouched by death. | src locus solus rare books
Alfred Kubin :: Die Blätter mit dem Tod; [cover title]: Ein Totentanz. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1918. First Edition. Kubin’s sequence of 24 lithographic images depicts death in a variety of contexts and including the title page and final vignette, in which which a gravestone bears the the artist’s own name; the cover is an additional lithograph. Kubin was well known for his explorations of macabre and satirical subject matter. This interpretation of the “Dance of Death” appeared at a moment when four years of world war and a spreading influenza pandemic meant that virtually no-one was untouched by death. | src locus solus rare books
Alfred Kubin :: Das Ballgespenst [The Ball Ghost], thirteenth plate in the book Ein Totentanz. Folio, 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only (Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918). | src Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Alfred Kubin :: Das Ballgespenst [The Ball Ghost], thirteenth plate in the book Ein Totentanz. Folio, 25 unpaginated leaves, printed on rectos only (Berlin, Bruno Cassirer, 1918). | src Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Sterbender Schwan, 1920

Ernst Oppler :: Anna Pawlowa als “Sterbender Schwan”. Radierung (Etching). Vom Künstler signiert und nummeriert. 1920. | src Bassenge Auktionen

Cours de Danse, 1892

Louis Legrand :: Cours de Danse. Fin de Siècle. 59 pages with 11 original etchings (including frontispiece and on the cover) as well as numerous colored initials, head vignettes and cul-de-lampes by Louis Legrand. Paris, E. Dentu, 1892. | src Bassenge Auktionen

Vera Fokina als Ha-Tor, um 1914

Arthur Grunenberg :: Vera Fokina as Ha-Tor in “Cleopatra”. Partly colored etching on handmade paper, signed in pencil below the image on the right: “A. Grunenberg” and inscribed “P XLV / 111”. Around 1914. | src Bassenge Auktionen

Jungfrau im Baum, 1903

Paul Klee :: Jungfrau im Baum [Virgin in the Tree], 1903. Lithograph after original etching. Titled and dated in the plate, on lower center. | src liveautioneers (double click image for high resolution)