Thomas French Fine Art

Thomas French Fine Art was founded in 1978 and specializes in selling old and modern master prints, drawings, paintings and Japanese color woodcuts. We are members in good standing of the International Fine Print Dealer's Association, Inc. and of CINOA, the Confederation Internationale des Negotiants en Oeuvres d’Art. We subscribe to the IFPDA's code of ethics and have sold works of art to many major museums and institutions within the United States and abroad. We stand behind every work of art that we sell and have many works of art to fit any personal style and budget. All works displayed are for sale unless marked SOLD. By Appointment Only. 330.867.1679

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August F. Biehle (1885-1979)

Title: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Medium: Graphite on paper with hand-colored lithograph with graphite touches

Dimensions: Sheet size of drawing: 5 3/8 x 14 inches (13.8 x 35.5 cm); Print: 5-1/2 x 13-1/2" (13.9 x 34.3 cm.)

Signature: Drawing: Signed upper center; print: signed on rooftop just left of center; Print is annotated across bottom: "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Mr. - Mrs. Biehle&#

Provenance:

Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland

References And Exhibitions:

The lithograph is annotated across bottom: "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Mr. - Mrs. Biehle"

Price: (US) $1,500.00

Inventory Number: FA5725

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Josef Albers (1899-1994)

Title: I-S Va 4

Medium: Screen Print

Date Of Execution: 1969

Dimensions: 15 x 30

Signature: Signed and dated in pencil lower right: "Albers `69", Titled and numbered in pencil lower left

Edition: 150

Provenance:

Published by Ives-Sillman, New Haven, CT Reference: Danilowitz 192.4 Provenance: The Arwin Galleries Inc., Detroit

Condition Notes:

Original in the original Kulicke frame

Price: (US) $3700.00

Inventory Number: FA8906

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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Title: S & H Green Stamps

Medium: Color offset lithograph

Date Of Execution: 1965

Dimensions: 23 x 22 3/4”

Edition: 6,000

References And Exhibitions:

Published by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, from the edition of 6000 folded and used as announcements for the Warhol solo exhibition at ICA in Philadelphia. At the 1965 opening of Warhol’s first solo museum exhibition at  Institute of Contemporary Art, students and guests mobbed the artist and his entourage. A near riot ensued as on lookers rushed to see Warhol, the art star. They escaped the chaos by going up the spiral staircase, into the night, and on to superstardom.

Reference: Frayda Feldman Jorg Schellmann, Andy Warhol prints: A Catalogue Raisonne: 1962-1987 (: D.A.P./ Distributed Art Publishers), 11.9.

Price: (US) $5,500.00

Inventory Number: FA8910

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Happy Holidays from all of us here at Thomas French Fine Art.

  We invite you to take advantage of our Holiday Sale, running now until 11:59pm EST on December 6th, 2013. 

  10% off on 1 item, 15% off on 2-3 items and if you have interest in 4 or more items please contact us for further details.

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Happy Holidays from all of us here at Thomas French Fine Art! We invite you to take advantage of our Holiday Sale, running now until 11:59pm EST on December 6th, 2013.  10% off on 1 item, 15% off on 2-3 items and if you have interest in 4 or more items please contact us for further details. 

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Zao Wou-ki (1920-2013)

Title: Untitled (Gravure 189)

Medium: Etching with aquatint

Date Of Execution: 1968

Dimensions: Sheet: 22 1/8 x 29 1/4"; Plate: 17 1/2 x 21 1/2"

Signature: Signed, dated and numbered in pencil

Edition: 95 (74/95)

References And Exhibitions:

Arts et Metiers Graphiques, Zao Wou-ki les estampes 1937-1974, Paris, France, 1975 (different edition illustrated in black and white, plate 189, pp. 104.

Edition Heede & Moestrup, Zao Wou-ki: The Graphic Work, A Catalogue Raisonne 1937-1995, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994 (diffent edition illustrated, plate 188, pp. 111.

Price: (US) $12,000.00

Inventory Number: FA8883

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Josef Albers (1899-1994)

Title: Folio 1/Folder 5 (left)

Medium: Serigraph

Date Of Execution: 1972

Dimensions: Sheet: 15 x 20"; Image: 10 x 10"

Edition: 1,000

Provenance:

Norman Ives heirs

References And Exhibitions:

From: Formulation: Articulation Published by Ives-Sillman, New Haven, CT Printed by Sirocco Screenprints, New Haven, CT

Reference: Brenda Danilowitz, The Prints of Josef Albers: A Catalogue Raisonne 1915-1976 (New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, 2001), Appendix C, Folio 1/Folder 5 left.  

  Price: (US) $850.00

Inventory Number: FA8908

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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Title: S & H Green Stamps

Medium: Color offset lithograph

Date Of Execution: 1965

Dimensions: 23 x 22 3/4"

Edition: 6,000

References And Exhibitions:

Published by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, from the edition of 6000 folded and used as announcements for the Warhol solo exhibition at ICA in Philadelphia. At the 1965 opening of Warhol's first solo museum exhibition at  Institute of Contemporary Art, students and guests mobbed the artist and his entourage. A near riot ensued as on lookers rushed to see Warhol, the art star. They escaped the chaos by going up the spiral staircase, into the night, and on to superstardom.

Reference: Frayda Feldman Jorg Schellmann, Andy Warhol prints: A Catalogue Raisonne: 1962-1987 (: D.A.P./ Distributed Art Publishers), 11.9.

Price: (US) $5,500.00

Inventory Number: FA8910

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Rene Magritte (1898-1967)

Title: Les Bijoux Indiscrets (The Indiscreet Jewels)

Medium: Color lithograph

Date Of Execution: 1963

Edition: c. 2,000

Provenance:

Ray H. French

Thomas R. French

References And Exhibitions:

As published in XXeme Siecle, 1963 Printed by Mourlot, Paris

Price: (US) $1,500.00

Inventory Number: FA8373

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Margaret Burroughs (1917-2010)

Title: Black Venus

Medium: Linoleum cut

Date Of Execution: c. 1957

Dimensions: Sheet: 18 9/16 x 15 1/16"; Image: 14 x 11 1/16"

Signature: Signed, titled and numbered in pencil by the artist; Initialed MB in the plate

Edition: 50 (45/50)

References And Exhibitions:

Note: Uncommon and important original linoleum cut print by Louisiana-born African American artist and writer. This is her best-known work, widely exhibited during the '70s.

Price: (US) $1,650.00

Inventory Number: FA8935

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Home of the free because of the brave! Thank you to all of the men and women who have served our country! Happy Veterans Day!

George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925)

Title: Hail to Peace, Christmas 1918, (Hail to Peace) [Unrecorded state]

Medium: Lithograph

Date Of Execution: 1918

Dimensions: Sheet: 5 1/4 x 4 inches; Image: 4-1/2 x 3-1/4"

Signature: Signed by the artist's daughter, Jean Bellows Booth (JBB)

Edition: 100

Provenance:

Bellows Family Trust

References And Exhibitions:

References: Mason 68

                  Myers/Ayers p. 69, footnote 1

From the War Series Lauris Mason, author of the Bellows catalogue raisonne, describes this image as Bellows' "euphoric tribute to the armistice" (p. 112) In this, an unrecorded state, the darkened eye of the Red Cross nurse has been lightened and appears more as it does in the first state.

Price: (US) $400.00

Inventory Number: BFT1076

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If you are in Manhattan this weekend stop by The Armory on Park and visit us at the 2013 IFPDA Print Fair. We are in booth 109 and have works available to fit any budget and style.

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Kent Hagerman (1893-1978)

Title: Trackside, Chicago

Medium: Etching

Date Of Execution: c.1945-1950

Dimensions: 13 7/8 x 11 1/8" (35.24 x 28.26 cm) Image: 10 1/4 x 7 11/16"; 26.04 x 19.53cm

Signature: Signed in pencil by the artist; Signed in the plate Kent Hagerman

Price: (US) $500.00

Inventory Number: FA8070

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Robert Jay Wolff (1905-1978)

Title: Pixie

Medium: Watercolor

Date Of Execution: 1935

Dimensions: 13 7/8 x 9 7/8"; Frame: 21-1/4 x 17-3/8 x 1/2"

Signature: Signed and dated in ink lower right

Provenance:

Estate of the artist

Condition Notes:

Excellent fresh color and conditionExcellent fresh color and condition

Price: (US) $1,500.00

Inventory Number: FA2135

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Happy Halloween from all of us at Thomas French Fine Art!

Adolf Dehn (1895-1968)

Title: Was it a Dream

Medium: Lithograph

Date Of Execution: 1945

Dimensions: Sheet: 21-1/8 x 16-7/8" (53.8 x 43 cm.); Image: 13-7/8 x 11-1/8" (35.4 x 28.3 cm.)

Signature: Signed and titled in pencil by the artist; Initialed in the stone lower right: AD

Edition: 250, plus trial proofs

References And Exhibitions:

From "Selected Tales of Guy de Maupassant," a portfolio of 20 lithographs, each based on a Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) short story. 

Printed on handmade paper by Lawrence Barrett (1897-1973), Colorado Springs, CO

Reference: L&O 409

Price: (US) $175.00

Inventory Number: FA7712

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John Martin (1789-1854)

Title: Eve's Dream-Satan Aroused

Medium: Mezzotint with etching

Date Of Execution: 1825

Dimensions: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 7/16"; Image: 7 5/8 x 10 15/16"

Provenance:

Dr. Robert Powell Coggins (1924-1989) Collection of American Art, Marietta, GA

References And Exhibitions:

From: Illustration to Paradise Lost (24 plates)           Impreial Quarto Edition Based on the epic poem by John Milton (1608-1674) Published by Septimus Prowett, London, 1824-25 Printed by Chatfield & Co.

Reference: Balston 9a4 (A)  

Condition Notes:

Slight scuffing to the mezzotint, slight foxing to sheet.

Price: (US) $400.00

Inventory Number: FA8869

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A father photographs the daily life of his autistic son. Truly beautiful!

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Georges Rouault (1871-1958)

Title: Professeur Pieu, Membre de l'Institut

Medium: Color aquatint

Date Of Execution: 1935

Edition: From: Passion (17 color aquatints) Edition 270 printed on Montval laid paper

References And Exhibitions:

Published by Ambrose Vollard, 1939, Paris.

There were also an edition of 40 impressions in black.

Printed by Roger Lacouriere, Paris

Reference; Wofsy 348, C-Rouault 267B

Price: (US) $3,250.00

Inventory Number: FA8505

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Unknown Artist, France

Title: Équerre sur Nature (Angles in Nature)

Medium: Watercolor

Date Of Execution: 1931

Dimensions: 5-1/8 x 3" (Sheet dimensions are sight size).

Condition Notes:

Pinpoint hole approximate center of design. (Compass Point?)

Price: (US) $180.00

Inventory Number: FA7902