20th Century European Prints

Etching, image size 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches, pencil signed.

Etching and drypoint, image size 6 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches, 1925, plate signed l.r. "Martin Hardie", signed "Martin Hardie" l.r. in pen, titled and identified on the backing.

Etching, image size: 14 13/16 x 9 1/16 inches, ed. 46/125, 1926, pencil signed, titled and dated

Pencil signed in the lower right, artist's stamp in red ink in the lower left. Pencil numbered 81 in an edition of 140. Catalog: Novak 185. Plate measures 10 x 7 1/4 on 14 3/4 x 11 7/8 inch watermarked wove paper. Plate monogrammed in the upper right. T. F. Simon was born in Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and traveled extensively throughout Europe, as well as Asia and the U.S. He lived in Paris from 1905-1913, then returned to Prague to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts. Simon was an exceptional painter and printmaker, and is best known for his atmospheric color etchings and aquatints.

Mezzotint, image size 6 7/8 x 10 inches, blind stamp lower left, pencil signed and titled

Etching, image size 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches, ed. 10/100, pencil signed

A delicately rendered original etching by German artist and professor Paul Geissler, this image measures 12 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches, published in 1928, pencil signed.

Etching, image size 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches, pencil signed l.r. "Paul Paeschke"

Etching, image size 6 1/2 x 11 inches, 1925, pencil signed and numbered 6/30. Titled at the bottom of the sheet: "La Cite, vue du Pont des Arts."

etching, 8X11 3/4", pencil signed

Etching, image size 6 7/8 x 12 7/8 inches, pencil signed, l.r.

Etching, image size: 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches, c. 1876, signed in plate, probably a late or posthumous impression (Faxon - 6)

Etching, image size 8 7/16 x 11 7/8 inches, pencil signed and titled, framed

Drypoint Etching, image size: 9 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches, 1921, ed 90, pencil signed artist proof

"Marshes" is an atmospheric landscape by Sydney MacKenzie Litten done in an edition of 80. It measures 7 7/8 x 14 3/4 inches and is pencil signed on the lower margin. While attending the Royal College of Art in London, Litten became a pupil of Frank Short, who is credited with the revival of the messotint and aquatint process in England. Litten became well known for his landscapes and their sense of space and his architectual views. Living in London he became the Senior Master at the St. Martins School of Art.