Eileen Soper

Blowing Bubbles /// Antique Female Children Etching Cute Figurative British Art

1924

Artist: Eileen Alice Soper (English, 1905-1990) Title: "The Tragedy" *Signed by Soper in pencil lower right Year: 1922 Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: 264 Printer: Likely printed by Eva Soper, London, UK Publisher: H C Dickens, London, UK Reference: "The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Etchings of George and Eileen Soper" - Beetles No. 31, page 111, 141, 155 Sheet size: 9.13" x 5.5" Image size: 3.88" x 6" Condition: Remnants of previous mounting tape at right edges. In excellent condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Boulder, CO. Biography: Eileen Soper was born in 1905 in the Municipal Borough of Enfield and moved to the house where she was to spend the rest of her life in Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside in 1908. The house she later named "Wildings" was built by her father, the artist George Soper...

Artist: Jean Berain (the Elder) (French, 1640-1711) Title: "Untitled" (Plate 35) Portfolio: Ornemens Inventez par J. Berain (Ornament Designs Invented by J. Berain) Circa: 1711 (Firs...

Artist: Michael Burghers (Dutch, c.1647/1648-1727) Title: "The New Testament" Portfolio: Holy Bible *Signed by Burghers in the plate (printed signature) lower left Year: 1680 Medium: Original Etching and Engraving with recent Hand-Color on watermarked laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: John Baskett, London?, UK Publisher: Moses Pitt, Peter Parker, and Thomas Guy, London?, UK Sheet size (irregular margins): 17.25" x 10.5" Image size: 14.75" x 9.5" Condition: Uneven trimming and light edgewear in margins. One small tear entering image lower right which has been skillfully repaired with added backing paper with archival tape from verso. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition with strong colors Very rare Notes: Provenance: private collection - Cotswolds, UK. Comes from the 1685 "Holy Bible" portfolio. John Baskett was deemed printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty, for Great Britain and to the University of Oxford. Large unidentified watermark within center of sheet. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the British Museum in London, UK. In the foreground, John the Evangelist, holding a pen and writing...

Artist: Tony Minartz (French, 1873-1944) Title: "L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera" Portfolio: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne *Issued unsigned Year: 1903 Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Unknown Publisher: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne, Paris, France Framing: Not framed, but matted with 100% cotton rag matting from Holland, gold filet from Italy, and foam board backing. All archival Matted size: 17" x 14.5" Sheet size: 12" x 9" Image size: 9" x 7.25" Condition: In excellent condition Notes: Printed in one color: bistre. This review was founded in 1897 in the continuity of the review Les Beaux-Arts published between 1861 and 1865; Jules Comte, the founder, entitled his first issue Les Beaux-Arts - Revue nouvelle then changed the title to La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Jules Comte directed the review until his death in 1912. Raymond Woog took over , who was provisional director until the start of the war in July 1914. In 1919, André Dezarrois took over this review and was its director until December 1937, date of last issue (published in January 1938). In the meantime, it publishes the Bulletin of ancient and modern art, which has gained a certain notoriety in the community. Biography: Tony Minartz, pseudonym of Antoine Guillaume, born 8 April 1873 to Cannes and died in that city on 13 December 1944 Is a painter, draftsman , illustrator and engraver French. Painter autodidact , Tony Minartz starts to become known in 1896 by exhibiting paintings at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts , and then decorates the Pompadour theater of painted panels for fashion shows " Grand Guignol ", directed by L. Darthenay. In 1903, Henri Béraldi , with whom he worked, praised him in The Journal of ancient and modern art, writing that "it was thirty years ago," and he has received advice from Paul Renouard to be formed the technique of etching ; Béraldi adds that his favorite subjects are "Paris at night Paris at night, always." Minartz also gives them some high-remarkable in The Journal of ancient and modern art until 1910: balls, cafe concerts, Parisian in their most beautiful dresses, but also music-halls, music halls, restaurants, large and small theaters, are the preferred settings of his compositions. Its fertile period seems to end in 1914. In addition to the National Salon, Minartz exhibited in Paris at the gallery Bartholomew (1903), the Independent Living (1905, 1906) and the gallery Devambez (1909) and received the Academic Palms . He occasionally collaborates with periodic illustrated as The Almanac Sports (Ollendorff, 1899), or satirical as Gil Blas...

Etching on fine, light cream laid paper, 2 1/4 x 2 15/16 inches ( 58 x 75 mm), full margins. Signed and inscribed "II" in pencil, lower margin. A trial proof impression of the second...

An impression printed by the artist Etching on antique cream laid paper, 1 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches (49 x 79 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil, lower margin. From the...

Etching on white laid paper with an "England" watermark, 3 x 1 3/4 inches (76 x 45 mm), full margins. Signed, dated and inscribed "II" in pencil, lower margin. One of 13 trial proof ...

A fine proof impression on antique paper Etching on antique laid paper with a large heraldic watermark. 4 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches (109 x 61mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and inscribed...