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Masterworks on Paper
This exceptional collection presents an exquisite survey of twentieth-century graphic art, bringing together works by the foremost figures of modernism and postwar innovation ? Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dal?, Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, and their contemporaries. The group captures the evolution of printmaking as a vital medium of artistic expression, uniting etchings, lithographs, woodcuts, and silkscreens that reflect the aesthetic dynamism and experimentation of the modern era. Drawn from notable folios and limited editions such as Derri?re le Miroir, Toros y Toreros, La Divine Com?die, and Sunday B. Morning, these works exemplify the technical mastery and conceptual breadth of their creators. Picasso?s supple line and lyrical inventiveness find elegant expression in his heliogravures and lithographs, while Chagall?s dreamlike color harmonies evoke the poetics of memory and folklore. Dal??s surreal vision manifests in vibrant woodcuts illustrating Dante?s Inferno and Purgatorio, executed with the precision of Renaissance engraving yet animated by a distinctly modern imagination. Warhol?s Sunday B. Morning silkscreens channel the artist?s fascination with repetition and celebrity, transforming the print medium into an emblem of contemporary culture.
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2437: Fernand Leger, La Preuve que l'Homme Descend du Singe, Dessins de Guerre 1915-16, Limited EditionEst. $1,000-$1,300$720
2438: Alexander Calder, Sunburst, Braniff International Airways Flying Colors Collection, Limited EditionEst. $2,000-$2,800$1,575
2440: Salvador Dali, Composition (Michler/Lopsinger 1600; Field 69-3), Biblia Sacra, Limited EditionEst. $1,500-$2,000$1,125
2444: Joan Miro, Composition (Mourlot 872-881; Cramer 164), El tapis de Tarragona, Limited EditionEst. $1,200-$1,600$900
2446: Andre Lhote, Composition, Eloge de Andre Lhote, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,000-$1,300$720
2448: Francis Bacon, Study for Portrait of Lucian Freud, Derriere le miroir, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,500-$2,100$1,200
2450: Henri Matisse, Auguste Pellerin, Portraits par Henri Matisse, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,000-$1,300$720
2451: Auguste Rodin, Composition, La Varende, Rodin, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,000-$1,300$720
2454: Alexander Calder, Composition, Derriere le miroir, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,000-$1,300$720
2456: Pablo Picasso, Composition (Orozco 193-204), Au Baiser D'Avignon, Limited Edition LithographEst. $4,500-$6,300$3,600
2457: Pierre Bonnard, Composition (Terrasse 54), Pierre Bonnard Correspondences, Limited EditionEst. $1,000-$1,300$720
2459: Max Ernst, Composition (Spies/Leppien 218), La Ballade du Soldat, Limited Edition LithographEst. $3,500-$4,900$2,800
2460: Auguste Rodin, Composition, La Varende, Rodin, Limited Edition LithographEst. $1,000-$1,300$720
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