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April, 28 2023April, 28 2023

New catalogue n°126, Grosvenor Prints

Grosvenor Prints uploaded Catalogue 126 to its website! Highlights include: Cover: M.r James Gillray. From a miniature painted by himself & Engraved by Cha.s Turner.London, Published april 19 1819 by G.Humphrey, 27 S.t James’s Street.Mezzotint, plate: 300 x 395mm (12 x 15½”), with very large margins, on 19th century watermarked paper. Oval head and shoulders portrait of caricaturist and printmaker James Gillray (1757-1815). State with title in thick and thin letters, and all inscriptions engraved within border of horizontal and vertical lines surrounding image. Whitman 1907: 224.II. [Ref: 60043] £380.00 Venus. Elias Martin pinx.t J. Fried.k Martin Aculp.tPublish’d as the...

April, 28 2023April, 28 2023

“Mario Sironi unpublished. Drawings and plates”, The Gallery Il Bulino Antiche Stampe

Drawings and matrices Exhibition from April 18 to May 6, 2023 With the collaboration of the Association for the patronage and promotion of the figure and work of Mario Sironi. Catalog edited by Matteo Crespi, with an introductory essay by Elena Pontiggia. Drawings Matteo Crespi has discovered and recently acquired the Pietro Grigis’ collection of 37 unpublished drawings by Mario Sironi. The works have been studied and archived by the Associazione per il patrocinio e la promozione della figura e dell’opera di Mario Sironi. The collection is valuable both for the subjects and for the span in which they...

April, 28 2023April, 28 2023

“Out of frame” by Johann Naldi and Rodolphe Trouilleux

“In the course of Johann Naldi s’ encounters and research, finds and discoveries multiply. Incredible masterpieces reappeared, thought to be lost forever, and have been included in this book for the very first time. A large bather by Courbet; a sketchbook by Delacroix; a majestic horse painted by Géricault; landscapes by Constable, by Manet… Until these seventeen insanely ironic works of Incoherent Art. Works that had been lost for 140 years, and have just been declared a National Treasure by the Ministry of Culture. A beautiful and unique book, which takes you on a real treasure hunt through flea markets,...

March, 17 2023March, 21 2023

Grosvenor Prints, catalogue n°123

We have the pleasure of uploading our new Reference Book Listing: Catalogue 123. Highlights include: Cover: James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire. Tim Clayton. New Haven & London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022. 4to (300 x 250mm, 11¾ x 9¾”), printed boards and illus. d/w; pp. viii + 400, profusely illustrated. New. A superb study of James Gillray (1756-1815), the leading satirist of his times. Tim Clayton has written several books on prints, including ‘The English Print, 1688-1802’ (1997) and ‘Bonaparte and the British: prints and propaganda in the age of Napoleon’, the catalogue of...

March, 17 2023March, 21 2023

New Catalogue, The Paul Prouté Gallery

The Paul Prouté gallery invites you to discover its latest catalog n°164 dedicated to the origins of lithography in France (1804 – 1818). Online catalog is available on the gallery’s website. Visuals : Pierre-Nolasque BERGERET (Bordeaux 1782 – Paris 1863). The Dawdlers of The Rue du Coq, 1804. Lithograph enhanced with watercolor, 215 × 375 mm, margins 240 × 395 mm, edited by the lithographic printing house located at 24, rue Saint Sébastien. Provenance : Gabriel Cognacq (Lugt 538d), P. Prouté (L. 2103c). Reference : IFF ( Inventory of The BNF collections) Not defined, Bonafous-Murat 1987 n°1, Chappey 45. Jean-François...

January, 21 2023January, 31 2023

Exhibition La Ville/ the City by Fernand Léger, the Arenthon gallery

Exhibition of the 29 plates of the album La Ville/ the City by Fernand Léger, the Arenthon gallery. Starting from January 19th. « Fernand Léger had conceived the project of illustrating a book with the theme of the city, i.e. Paris. Paris which had inspired his work since The Hive and the Vaugirard Slaughterhouses, passing by Montparnasse and the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, across the Seine and its tugboats, the Street, its lovers, its soldiers and its merchants of four seasons, its stations, the quays and their bird merchants, the Eiffel Tower and the Opera. Old or recent memories like the radio...