Salvador Dalí­

Love's Labors Lost

1971

Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Raven and the Fox Series: Bestiaire de la Fontaine Date: 1974 Medium: drypoint with color added by stencil Framed Dimensions: 35.75" x 28" Sig...

Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Picasso: a Ticket to Glory Series: After 50 Years of Surrealism Date: 1974 Medium: drypoint engraving with hand coloring Unframed Dimensions: 26" ...

Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: The Fiancee of King of Garbe Series: Le Decameron Date: 1972 Medium: drypoint printed in color Unframed Dimensions: 17.72" x 12.2" Framed Dimension...

Artist: Dali, Salvador Title: Parade Series: Femmes et Chevaux Date: 1973 Medium: drypoint printed in color Framed Dimensions: 25" x 19.5" Signature: Pencil signed Edition: E...

Etching Héliogravure and drypoint. Signed with artist's monogram. Hand titled. Second state.  Good condition. Ref. Rouir 905; Exteens 411. 

"Obliques" is an etching hand-signed and numbered etching realized by Max Ernst in 1967. This is an edition of 57 prints. Passepartout included. Very good condition. Published by Ge...

Lawrence Kupferman, 'Fantasia Americana – 1880', drypoint etching with sandground, 1943. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Series A, 1971 2/6' in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on heavy, cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches); the paper slightly lightened within the original mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition. One of only 6 impressions printed in 1971, with the added sandground grey background tint. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 11 13/16 x 14 3/4 inches; sheet size 18 x 20 1/4 inches. Collections: National Gallery of Art, Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University). ABOUT THE ARTIST Lawrence Kupferman (1909 - 1982) was born in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and grew up in a working-class family. He attended the Boston Latin School and participated in the high school art program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In the late 1920s, he studied drawing under Philip Leslie Hale at the Museum School—an experience he called 'stultifying and repressive'. In 1932 he transferred to the Massachusetts College of Art, where he first met his wife, the artist Ruth Cobb. He returned briefly to the Museum School in 1946 to study with the influential expressionist German-American painter Karl Zerbe. Kupferman held various jobs while pursuing his artistic career, including two years as a security guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During the 1930s he worked as a drypoint etcher for the Federal Art Project, creating architectural drawings in a formally realistic style—these works are held in the collections of the Fogg Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In the 1940s he began incorporating more expressionistic forms into his paintings as he became progressively more concerned with abstraction. In 1946 he began spending summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he met and was influenced by Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollock, and other abstract painters. At about the same time he began exhibiting his work at the Boris Mirski Gallery in Boston. In 1948, Kupferman was at the center of a controversy involving hundreds of Boston-area artists. In February of that year, the Boston Institute of Modern Art issued a manifesto titled 'Modern Art and the American Public' decrying 'the excesses of modern art,' and announced that it was changing its name to the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). The poorly conceived statement, intended to distinguish Boston's art scene from that of New York, was widely perceived as an attack on modernism. In protest, Boston artists such as Karl Zerbe, Jack Levine, and David Aronson formed the 'Modern Artists Group' and organized a mass meeting. On March 21, 300 artists, students, and other supporters met at the Old South Meeting House and demanded that the ICA retract its statement. Kupferman chaired the meeting and read this statement to the press: “The recent manifesto of the Institute is a fatuous declaration which misinforms and misleads the public concerning the integrity and intention of the modern artist. By arrogating to itself the privilege of telling the artists what art should be, the Institute runs counter to the original purposes of this organization whose function was to encourage and to assimilate contemporary innovation.” The other speakers were Karl Knaths...

Hand signed. From the deluxe edition of 25 prints in Roman Numerals aside from the standard edition of 125. (There were 4 similarly-numbered editions in English, German, Italian, an...