Figural Studies and Allegories

Various artistic depictions including allegorical figures, religious themes, and abstract representations, emphasizing expressive lines and forms.

Illustration from Edgar Allan Poe book by Harry Clarke, Lithograph, 1919, 1889-1931, Private Collection

Albrecht Altdorfer, Saint Christopher, 1513 Saint Christopher

Three kneeling figures for winged man.Rechts is a man with wings instead of ears. He turns to the three figures that kneel for him. In his left hand he holds a flower; With the right he points to the sun in which a bird can be seen with spread wings.

Illustration from Edgar Allan Poe book by Harry Clarke, Lithograph, 1919, 1889-1931, Private Collection

Woman, Tying Shoe (Frau Schuh zuknöpfend) Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German, 1880-1938). , 1912. Woodcut on laid paper, Image: 12 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (30.8 x 25.1 cm). European Art 1912

Herbert Bennett, Untitled (Frustration) Untitled (Frustration)

Bell (Hangman). Hulewicz, Jerzy (1886-1941), graphic artist

Witch's journey. Ernst Barlach (Germany, 1870-1938). Germany, 1922. Prints; woodcuts. Woodcut on Japan paper

The figure of a man draped in a giraffe skin and playing pipes. Process print.

The graphic work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner to 1924: Volume 1, to 1916. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938). Germany, Berlin-Charlottenberg, 1924-1926. Books. Printed material and fifty-three woodcuts on smooth wove paper

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, The Sun (Die Sonne), 1914, woodcut on paper.

Portrait of The Thick Girl by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). This work was produced in 1899.

The Centaur , 1896. Auguste Louis Lepère (French, 1849-1918). Woodcut; sheet: 27.8 x 18.6 cm (10 15/16 x 7 5/16 in.); platemark: 20.8 x 14.2 cm (8 3/16 x 5 9/16 in.).

Gallen-Kallela, Akseli, Nahkatorvet, 10th chapter interlude (unprinted), marker, drawing, 23 .5 cm x 17.5 cm, Akseli Gallen-Kallela 1865 - 1931, a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland.

Lying figure with birds. A figure is on the side, supporting his right arm. There is a bird for him; Behind him four birds fly away towards the sun. On the right the face of a man who raises two fingers.

Beauty am Flußufer.

Boom with fantastic heads, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print A collection of heads of people and fantasy creatures grows from a tree. At the top right a skull, below a caterpillar. paper surrealia, surrealistic representations. fabulous trees. head (human). death's head, skull (symbol of Death)

Alexander Nevsky. From the Series 'The Mystical Images of War' by Goncharova, Natalia Sergeevna (1881-1962)/ Private Collection/ 1914/ Russia/ Lithograph/ Expressionism/ Mythology, Allegory and Literature,History

Woodcut of a mother holding her infant child by Emil Nolde (1867-1956) German Danish painter, printmaker and member of Die Brücke. Dated 1906

Bookplate of Karel Jelinek. Kalvoda, Alois (1875-1934), graphic artist

Ericsson, Henry, work, Saint leaning on his staff, 1919, woodcut, graphics, RELIGION; saint, rod, radius, plate width 5.5 cm, plate height 11.5 cm, leaf width 21.5 cm, leaf height 28 cm, Carl August Henry Ericsson, 1898 in St. Michel, Finland - 1933 in Borgå, was a Finnish graphic artist and decorative painter of Finland.

Postcard of Wiener Werkstätte No, Till Eulenspiegel, Urban Janke -, Artist, Wiener Werkstätte, Publishing House

The Morning Dream, by Aubrey Beardsley, one of a series of illustrations to Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. Date: 1896

La Création de la Femme. Jasiński, Feliks Stanisław (1862-1901), graphic artist

Dancer with lifted skirt

Woodcut by Christian Rohlfs titled 'Spook', created around 1911.

In Other Folk's Homes, from The Black Woman (formerly The Negro Woman) (published 1946-47). Elizabeth Catlett; American, active in Mexico, 1915-2012. Date: 1946. Dimensions: 162 x 55 mm (image); 255 x 205 mm (sheet). Linocut on cream wove paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Black Venus, 1930s-1940s, by John Archibald Austen. Gift of Rex Nan Kivell, 1953.

Homme et femme. Jasiński, Feliks Stanisław (1862-1901), graphic artist, unknown, printer of graphic prints

Nine fantastic female figures, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1897 print Bottom left a woman with wings, to the right of the middle a gorgin, a woman with snakes instead of her. Above the middle a woman on a throne. Japanese paper (handmade paper) Gorgons. woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude. fabulous beings with wings

Two chic ladies looking at a fish held by a fishwoman. They wear afternoon dresses: one in a panier dress of diallaine and wool, the other with parasol in a skirt and jacket of blue serge. Le poisson dargent. Deux robes d'apres-midi. La robe a paniers est en diallaine et est garnie d'un galon de laine. La jupe et la petite veste de la seconde sont en serge bleue, le dessous et les manches sont en taffetas. Handcoloured pochoir lithograph by Maurice Leroy from Lucien Vogels Le Bon Genre: 100 Plates fromGazettedu Bon Ton, Brentanos, Paris, 1920.

Ex Libris Ed. Leubner (Trial Proof)

Work entitled Poodle by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). This work was produced in 1903.

Standing naked woman at plant stalks; Strive for the higher; Twelve woodcuts. A naked woman with a pointed sik is in between two plant stalks. Her heart can be seen on her chest, which is connected to a Ouroboros, a snake that bites in his own tail. At the top of a swastika and a six-lasting star.

Animal training. Wilhelm Morgner (Germany, Soest, 1891-1917). Germany, 1912. Prints; woodcuts. Woodcut on wove paper

Decorative Study: Satyr. Attributed to Aubrey Vincent Beardsley; English, 1872-1898. Date: 1892-1898. Dimensions: 124 × 87 mm. Pen and black ink, with brush and black wash, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

A peasant up a tree disturbs a courting couple below. The bumpkin in search of his calf. Le villageois qui cherche son veau. Lithograph after an illustration by Charles Martin from Jean de la Fontaines Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, Tales and Novellas in Verse, Libraire de France, Paris, 1930.

Sarah And The Angels, Marc Chagall, (1887-1985 Russian)

Hand in the lake reclaims Excalibur, King Arthur's sword. 1893 illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for Thomas Mallory Le Morte D'arthur. Woodcut

Alphonse Daudet

Woodcut of a nude female figure sat with horses by Heinrich Campendonk (1889-1957) Dutch painter of German birth and member of the Der Blaue Reiter group. Dated 1916

An illustration from 'Faery Lands of the South Seas' by James Norman Hall and Charles Bernard Nordoff (1921). James Norman Hall and Charles Bernard Nordhoff were two American writers. They were given a given a commission by Harper's Magazine to write travel articles set in the South Pacific. They went to Tahiti in the Society Islands for research and inspiration, and ended up staying, Nordhoff for twenty years, Hall for life. Their second book, Faery Lands of the South Seas, was serialized in Harper's in 1920-21, then published in book form.

Vijf meisjes, een Engels schip en Franse militairen; Aftellen.Four drawings composed in frames with trims with circles and dots in the right and left-hand corner. Performances of five girls from different ages, a moored English ship to a quay, a marching group of French soldiers and a French soldier with plum hat on a street.

Pierre-Georges Jeanniot, The Two Sisters, c. 1900, woodcut on wove paper.

Zodiac sign Vissen, Henri van der Stok, 1880 - 1946 print Two fish in the water under the starry sky. Netherlands paper Pisces (zodiacal sign of February)

Mouth of Hell, 16th. c. engraving.

Aeneas finds the Golden Bough

'Design for Title-Page of Pagan Papers, 1893, (1914). Artist: Aubrey Beardsley.

'They Adored the City, the Palace, and the Garden', c1930. Artist: W Heath Robinson.

Illustration by Franz M. Melchers (Dutch, 1868-1944), from 'Poems' by Thomas Braun. 1897

Postcard of Wiener Werkstätte No, Varietary number , Gottlieb Säuselin the Improviser, Moriz Jung -, Artist, Wiener Werkstätte, Publishing House

For the Third Tableau of Das Rheingold, illustration by Aubrey Beardsley in his unfinished novel, 'Under the Hill'. Date: C.1895

SIN IDENTIFICAR - 1977 - TINTA CHINA. Author: GUILLERMO PEREZ VILLALTA. Location: GALERIA SOLEDAD LORENZO. MADRID. SPAIN.

THE TELL-TALE HEART 'But, for many minutes, the heart beat on with a muffled sound'. Date: First published: 1842

HUCU robber; Bart Omiejczyk, Edmund Ludwik (1885-1950); 1929 (1929-00-00-1929-00-00);

The Actor Ichikawa Omezo I as Tomita Hyotaro (Shodai Ichikawa Omezo no Tomita Hyotaro). Toshusai Sharaku ; Japanese, active 1794-95. Date: 1789-1799. Dimensions: 31.5 x 13.3 cm. Color woodblock print; hosoban, nishiki-e. Origin: Japan. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Hand in the lake reclaims Excalibur, King Arthur's sword. 1893 illustration by Aubrey Beardsley for Thomas Mallory 'Le Morte D'arthur'. Woodcut.

To the sweetheart accordion . . . ' 1927. Kustodiev BM

To whom time is an eternity. Ernst Barlach (Germany, 1870-1938). Germany, 1916. Prints; lithographs. Lithograph

Illustration from Ephraim Moses Lilien 'Lieder des Ghetto' (songs from the ghetto) 1902, by Morris Rosenfeld (Moshe Jacob Alter) (1862 - 1923); Yiddish poet. Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925), art nouveau illustrator and printmaker, noted for his art on Jewish themes. He is sometimes called the "first Zionist artist.

Drawing in Punch, 1894, satirising the unique and controversial artistic style of Aubrey Beardsley. The artist's name used, 'Mortarthurio Whiskersley', references Beardsley's series of illustrations to Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Date: 1894

World Erotic Art Museum. Erotic lithograph printed from metal plates 1900. Unknown artist European. Miami, Florida, USA.

Two dancers. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938). Switzerland, 1932. Prints; woodcuts. Woodcut printed in brown on wove paper

DALI Salvador(1904-1989) There is plenty to suck Capricho-45 1977 Based on Capricho Francisco Goya's etchings etching 39x31

Knight and giant monkey, 1908 - 1937 drawing In the foreground a standing man in a long white tunic, a helmet on and a sword in hand, seen on the back. In the background a giant red monkey, sitting between factory chimneys. In folder with 31 design drawings and sketches for illustrations. paper. deck paint. pencil brush

Les malheurs des immortels. Creator, Max Ernst, 1891-1976 and Paul Éluard, 1895-1952. Éluard was a French surrealist poet

Trophy set up on the shore by Athenian squadron under Phormio to mark their victory at Naupactus against a much greater Peloponnesian force. PELOPONNESIAN WAR (Second, or Great) 431-404 BC between Athens and Sparta. Illustration by W. Gordon Mein 1910

The Swamp Flower, A Human and Sad Head / swamp flower, human and sad head pl. 2 from the portfolio: Tribute to Goya, Paris 1885, print. Lemertcier & Cie Redon, Odilon (1840 1916), Lemercier & Cie

Postcard of the Wiener Werkstätte No, Rows of Rows, Josef József by Diveky Divéky -, Artist, Wiener Werkstätte, Publishing House

Europe is in danger of Communist derailment. Date: 1931

French satirical illustration of 1908, showing French Sewerage officials struggling to fix bursting pipes.

Delightful Land. Artist: Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848-1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands). Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 8 in. (34.9 x 20.3 cm) block18 3/4 x 10 11/16 in. (47.6 x 27.2 cm) paper. Series/Portfolio: Noa Noa (suite of ten woodcuts). Date: 1893-94.Gauguin spent much of his time in Paris in 1893-94 working on the text and illustrations for Noa Noa (Fragrance). The project began as a narrative to guide an uncomprehending public through Gauguin's personal and artistic perceptions of Tahiti, but ultimately became more complex and mysterious than anything he had produced in the South Seas. The remarkable series of ten woodblock prints that Gauguin designed as illustrations bear little relationship to his romanticized autobiographical text. Nor do they seem to follow any particular sequence. However, the imagery and themes of the prints--love and fear, creation and death, day and night--relate closely to those of Gauguin's Tahitian paintings.The Noa Noa woodcuts were seen for the

Juliusz Klukowski's exlibris; Rawicz-Lipi Ski, Teodor (1871-1932); 1914-1918 (1914-00-00-1918-00-00);Moscow (Russia)-headquarters of the addressee of exlibris, Stańczyk (CA 1480-Ca 1560), Witke-Jeżewski, Dominik (1862-1944)-collection, allegorical and symbolic exlibris, books, books

Illustration by Gustave Dore for 'Le Capitaine Fracasse' by Pierre Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)French, Writer, poet, painter, art critic. Gautier was a defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. Captain Fracasse (Le Capitaine Fracasse) is an 1863 novel by the French writer Théophile Gautier. It is an adventure novel set in the seventeenth century.

Homme et femme. Jasiński, Feliks Stanisław (1862-1901), graphic artist, unknown, printer of graphic prints

Still Life II., 1927, United Kingdom, by Paul Nash. Gift of Rex Nan Kivell, 1953.

Child and bees, Mathieu Lauweriks, 1935 print There is a child in the middle. At the bottom of five bees, the middle one of which have three small objects with them: a heart, a crown and a circle. At the top a human head with a crown of stars, surrounded by a snake. Japanese paper (handmade paper) child. insects: bee. serpent Ouroboros

French window prints, linocuts, works on paper

Lazio Viterbo Orte S. Silvestro Museo Diocesano d'Arte Sacra1. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Romanesque architecture (12th century), architectural sculpture, 8th century mosaic, paintings on canvas and panel, including 13th century panel with scenes from the life of St. Francis, sculpture, carved wooden coffin, church furnishings. Post-medieval: Paintings on canvas and panel Antiquities: Fragments of sculpture German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Work entitled Omega Awakens Alfa by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). This work was produced in 1908.

Escena del libro Don Quichote, de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcalá de Henares, 1547-Madrid, 1616). "El caballero cogando de un árbol" Editado en Zutphen (Países Bajos), año 1930. Author: Albert Hahn jr.

In this 1918 illustration, the Greek Trojan War hero Odysseus is shown the second time he must face the whirlpool Charybdis.

A nixie or water spirit in a well frightens an old woman who came there to fetch water. Date: 1898

Maruru (Thank You). Dimensions: image: 20.2 x 35.4 cm (7 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.) block: 28.9 x 40.2 cm (11 3/8 x 15 13/16 in.). Medium: woodcut on wove paper (restrike). Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: PAUL GAUGUIN.

Japanaiserie: Oiran, Fine Art

In ancient Greek Mythology, the Greek hero Jason sought the Golden Fleece in Colchis to bring it back to his uncle, Pelias, who had usurped the throne of Ioclus from Jason's father. With the aid of Medea, the daughter of Aeetes, the king of Colchis, Jason snatched the fleece, guarded by a fire-breathing dragon (seen here in this 1915 illustration). Medea fell in love with Jason and left Colchis with him.

Woman despairing on battlefield by Honore Daumier, lithograph, 1871, 1808-1879, Private Collection, 23x18

'So Elise Took Off Her Clothes and Stepped into the Water', c1930. Artist: W Heath Robinson.

Ex libris Maximilian Roch; Ubbelohde, Otto (1867-1922); around 1910 (1910-00-00-1910-00-00);

Godspeed, Kent, Rockwell (1882-1971)

SIEGE OF SYRACUSE - 414-413 BC Athenian commander Nicias ordering a fire to be set to drive back a force of Syracusian troops attacking the Athenian position. PELOPONNESIAN WAR (Second, or Great) 431-404 BC between Athens and Sparta. Illustration by W. Gordon Mein 1910

A medieval King and Queen in bed Date: circa 15th century

Two Famous Wrestlers Onogawa and Tanikase ca. 1795 Katsukawa Shun'ei 川春英 Japanese. Two Famous Wrestlers Onogawa and Tanikase 55144

Columbia Lamenting the Loss of Her Son. undefined.

Lysistrata convinces the women of Athens to withhold sex until the end of the Peloponnesian War Date: circa 1896

The Baker tells his tale Date: First published: 1876

Cartoon - One More River. John Collins (1917-2007)

Standing Nude with Crossed Arms. Dated: 1879. Dimensions: overall: 42 x 21.6 cm (16 9/16 x 8 1/2 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink over graphite. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Dawson Watson.

A Giant Angel from the book Judah illustrated by Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925). Lilian is considered as the father of Zionist iconography, created in the Jugendstil (German art nouveau) style. He illustrated' Juda' (1900), a book of biblical poetry by a Christian friend, Borries Freiherr von Munchausen.'

Apocalypse de Saint-Jean Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916). Apocalypse de Saint-Jean, 1899. Lithograph on China paper laid down, 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (29.2 x 20.9 cm). European Art 1899

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