Woodcut
![DESCARTES, RENÉ. 1596-1650. De homine figuris et latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl. Le...: DESCARTES, RENÉ. 1596-1650. De homine figuris et latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl. Leiden: P. Leffen and F. Moyard, 1662. 4to (204 x 153 mm). Woodcut device on title page, 10 engraved plate](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/332953/179736936_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718184285)
![Salvador Dalí, Illustration to Dante’s Divine Comedy – Purgatorio, Canto 29, 1959-1963: Salvador Dalí, Illustration to Dante’s Divine Comedy – Purgatorio, Canto 29, 1959-1963, coloured woodcut/ Pur Chiffon de Rives wove paper shredded in lower edge, sheet: 33 x 26,2 cm, print: 25,5](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8862/331412/178757329_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716998535)
![Salvador Dalí, Illustration to Dante’s Divine Comedy – Purgatorio, Canto 1, 1959-1963: Salvador Dalí, Illustration to Dante’s Divine Comedy – Purgatorio, Canto 1, 1959-1963, coloured woodcut/ Pur Chiffon de Rives wove paper shredded in lower edge, sheet: 33 x 26,2 cm, print: 25,5 x](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8862/331412/178757301_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716998535)
![Salvador Dalí, Illustration to Dante’s Divine Comedy – Inferno, Canto 28, 1959-1963: Salvador Dalí, Illustration to Dante’s Divine Comedy – Inferno, Canto 28, 1959-1963, coloured woodcut/ Pur Chiffon de Rives wove paper shredded in lower edge, sheet: 33 x 26,2 cm, print: 25,5 x 1](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8862/331412/178757294_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716998535)
![Salvador Dalí, Illustration to Dante’s Divine Comedy – Inferno, Canto 2, 1959-1963: Salvador Dalí, Illustration to Dante’s Divine Comedy – Inferno, Canto 2, 1959-1963, coloured woodcut/ Pur Chiffon de Rives wove paper shredded in lower edge, sheet: 33 x 26,2 cm, print: 25,5 x 18](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/8862/331412/178757268_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716998535)
![PARE, AMBROISE. C.1509-1590. Opera chirurgica. Frankfurt: J. Feyerabend for P. Fischer, 1594.: PARE, AMBROISE. C.1509-1590. Opera chirurgica. Frankfurt: J. Feyerabend for P. Fischer, 1594. Folio (341 x 210 mm). Title printed in red and black, woodcut printer's emblem to title and colophon, woo](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/332953/179737002_2_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718184285)
![REISCH, GREGOR. 1470-1525. Margarita Philosophica. Basel: Michael Furter and Johann Schott, 1508.: REISCH, GREGOR. 1470-1525. Margarita Philosophica. Basel: Michael Furter and Johann Schott, 1508. 4to (213 x 149 mm). Title printed in red and black with large hand-colored woodcut vignette by Master](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/1043/332953/179737017_7_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718184285)
![1577 Leaf Holinshed Chronicles Woodcuts Caligula: A leaf from Holinshed "Historie of Englande", printed at London in 1577 with one woodcut depicting Roman troops of Caligula marching into city and the other of a King. On verso is woodcut of a ship. V](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5584/332595/179394056_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718142780)
![Lazzaro Donati Siena Cityscape Woodcut on Paper: Lazzaro Donati (Italian, b. 1926), Siena Cityscape, Woodcut on Paper, signed "Lazaro Donati / a Siena " lower left. Image: 12.5" H x 17" W; frame: 19" H x 23.5" W. Provenance: From a New York City Col](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5649/333144/179840274_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718227312)
![Jean Hans Arp original woodcut, 1948: Medium: original color woodcut. Printed in 1948 and published in New York by Wittenborn and Schultz. Size: 10 x 7 1/4 inches (253 x 186 mm). Not signed. Reserve: $160.00 Shipping: Domestic: Flat-rate](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5584/331895/179034937_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718142737)
![Salvador Dali- Original Color Woodcut on B.F.K. Rives Paper "Paradise 9": Artist: Salvador Dali. Medium: Original Color Woodcut on B.F.K. Rives Paper. Title: Paradise 9. Size: 13" x 10". Measures approx. 22" x 18" (framed). Certificate of Authenticity: Is included. Addition](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6024/332856/179641780_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717867637)
![Salvador Dali- Original Color Woodcut on B.F.K. Rives Paper "Inferno 32": Artist: Salvador Dali. Medium: Original Color Woodcut on B.F.K. Rives Paper. Title: Inferno 32. Size: 13" x 10". Measures approx. 22" x 18" (framed). Certificate of Authenticity: Is included. Addition](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6024/332856/179641252_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717867637)
![Salvador Dali- Original Color Woodcut on B.F.K. Rives Paper "Inferno 2": Artist: Salvador Dali. Medium: Original Color Woodcut on B.F.K. Rives Paper. Title: Inferno 2. Size: 13" x 10". Measures approx. 20" x 17" (framed). Certificate of Authenticity: Is included. Additiona](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6024/333177/179862711_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718236011)
![1678 BIBLE COMMENTARY by MATHEO POLO antique PIGSKIN BOUND MASSIVE FOLIO v. IV: SYNOPSIS CRITICORUM ALIORUMOUE SACRAE SCRIPTURAE by MATHEO POLO LONDINENSI Volumen IV Frankfurt; 1678 With woodcut printer's device. Massive, heavy folio. Size 10 by 16" (2), 1541 pp Beautiful blind t](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5584/332364/179251861_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718142848)
![1543 EPIC POEM on PUNIC WARS by Silius Italicus antique PIGSKIN BINDING RARE: Silius Italicus. Libri XVIII. bellorum, quae Romani adversus Poenos gesserunt. Cum annotationibus Hermanni Buschii. Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1543 8 leaves, 665 pages, 3 leaves. With woodcut printer's de](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5584/332364/179251753_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718142848)
![1584 ASTRONOMY & MEDICAL WORKS of Girolamo Fracastoro antique 16th CENTURY: HIERONIMI FRACASTORII VERONENSIS (Fracastoro, Girolamo) Opera omnia ... accessit index locupletissimus Venice, Giunti, 1584 Size 6 3/4 by 9' Frontispiece with woodcut typography by Luca Antonio Giunta](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5584/332364/179251799_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718142848)
![1579 PLUTARCH 3 VOLUMES PLUTARCHI CHAERONENSIS antique: PLUTARCHI CHAERONENSIS Plutarch. Parallel or comparative life of William Xylandri Augustan 3 volumes Basel, 1579 volume I title with woodcut device, a few annotations and previous owner inscriptions t](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5584/332364/179251579_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718142848)
![Woodcut of Crouching Man, Initialed BM: Artist: Initialed BM Subject: Crouching man in hat Medium: Woodcut Date: Unknown Size: Unframed: 7" x 12" Framed: 12.25" x 17.5" Provenance: Sigvaldason F](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/6120/212793/177520193_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717687474)
![2 LEAVES FROM TERENCE OPERA OMNIA & PHARSALIA: 1) A page from Collected Works of Terence, Paris, dated 1552, in Latin, woodcut of stage actors, 11 1/2" x 8 1/4". 2) A page from Pharsalia, Guerinus, Venice, dated 1477, 11" x 7 1/2".](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/3904/332838/179637989_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1717865153)
![William Strang (1859-1921), Death with: William Strang (1859-1921), Death with two young women, woodcut from two plates from a Dance of Death series, monogrammed lower right in the stick, 30 x 29 cm, behind passepartout 45 x 47 cm](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/609/331544/178840694_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1716989929)
![Giorgio Wenter Marini (Rovereto 1890 - 1970 Venezia): Il Santo, about 1920 - woodcut on paper, 17,5 x 21 cm (plate), 24 x 29 cm (sheet). Signed and titled. Provenance: private collection](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/7581/328757/177082140_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1714859119)
![Medicine.- Varanda (Jean de) Tractatus therapeuticus primus: De morbis ventricul, Montpellier,: Medicine.- Varanda (Jean de) Tractatus therapeuticus primus: De morbis ventriculi, title with woodcut vignette, woodcut initials, some spotting, old in inscription "John Bradfords Book Hornby 1795" wi](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/5458/333399/180018759_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1718372581)
News about Woodcut
![NYC exhibition explores works of woodcut artist Hnizdovsky](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/26766526_1_x.jpg)
NYC exhibition explores works of woodcut artist Hnizdovsky
NEW YORK (AP) – A New York City exhibition explores the career of one of the foremost woodcut artists in America. Ukrainian-American artist Jacques Hnizdovsky was a master of intricate woodcuts of stylized flora, fauna – and also of paintings, including one that depicts a post-World War II refugee camp.
![Modern Master Prints Auction comes to New York June 5](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/178279177_1_x.jpg)
Modern Master Prints Auction comes to New York June 5
NEW YORK — Jasper52 presents a Modern Master Prints Auction Wednesday, June 5 at 3 pm Eastern time. Featuring nearly 200 lots of fine art prints from contemporary masters, the complete catalog is now available for review and bidding at LiveAuctioneers. From a 1947 edition of 950 prints comes this Henri Matisse woodcut Pierre a […]
![Six Henry Sugimoto internment-inspired woodblock prints exceeded expectations at District Auction](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/175302479_1_x.jpg)
Six Henry Sugimoto internment-inspired woodblock prints exceeded expectations at District Auction
SEATTLE — A small but important six-piece collection of woodcut prints by Henry Sugimoto (1900-1990) came to market at District Auction April 14 as part of its Fine Art, Mid-Century Furniture, and Decor sale. Estimated modestly at $75-$150, the circa-1965 black-and-white prints documenting his time in World War II-era Japanese internment camps all soared, with […]
![Trio of M.C. Escher prints bewitch bidders at Swann’s April 30 sale](https://www.liveauctioneers.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Swann-Apr-18-MC-Escher-Whirlpools.jpg)
Trio of M.C. Escher prints bewitch bidders at Swann’s April 30 sale
NEW YORK – Speaking about his 1957 color wood engraving and woodcut dubbed Whirlpools, shown above, Dutch artist M.C. Escher said: “I doubt that ‘the public’ will ever understand, much less appreciate, how many gymnastics of the brain, fascinating to me, have preceded the construction of such a picture.” Maurits Cornelis (M.C.) Escher (1898-1972) was, […]