Bizarre
- Lepic, Ce qui Restait du Puissant Guillaume de Naillac
- Claeaz, Dancers with Death
- Anonymous American, A Naked Man and Horse
- Klinger, Amor, Tod und Jenseits (Love, Death and the Hereafter)
- Surugue, La Folie pare la Décrépitude
- Legros, La Légende du Bonhomme Misère : La Mort dans le Poirier
- Rops, L’Enlèvement
- Sadeler, Allegory of Opulence, Fornication and Stupidity
- Mohlitz, La Vierge aux Étrons (The Virgin of Turds)
- Legrand, Épaves de Famille (Oddballs of the Family)
- Jacquemart, L’Écurueil (sic)
- Benassit, L’Absinthe!
- de Bry, Punishment of the Mutinous Indians
- Goncourt, Le Singe au Miroir (The Monkey at the Mirror)
- Callot, Les Martyrs du Japon
- Dillon, Les Mendiants (The Beggars)
- Barberis, The Witch
- Budzinski, The Thirsty Giant
- Meryon, Le Ministère de la Marine
- Torre-Bueno, Death’s Arrival
- van Meurs, Animals of America
- Redon, Félinerie
- Chagall, Le Vixe
- Martin, Indécision (Tête de Femme)
- Rops, Le Calvaire
- Rops, Les Frères de la Bonne Trogne
- Gillray, Tentanda via est qua ve quoque possim Tollere humo
- Underwood, Simian Ecstasy
- Veber, Beheaded!
- Strang, Death and the Ploughman’s Wife: Frontispiece
- Corman, The Temptation of Saint Anthony
- Bliss, Gargoyles Spouting
- Castellón, Of Land and Sea
- Eichenberg, Isaiah 11
- Rops, L’Idole (The Idol)
- Master MZ, Aristotle and Phyllis
- Bracquemond, “Hors de mon soleil, canailles!"
- Spare, Nemesis
- Higgens, Forgotten
- Anonymous, Jewish Amulet to Protect Mother and Child
- Daumier, Une Expérience Qui Réussit Trop Bien
- Seligmann, Le Roi du Charbon (King Charcoal)
- Braun, The Release of Force
- Callot, Le Grand Rocher
- Forest, Bâstard Foetus Hérédité, Comte D’Averton Mort-Né
- Jacque, La Souricière
- Veber, “Ah! Qu’il fait chaud"
- Pastelot, Les Sorcières
- Lepic, Le Verger du Roi Louis (The Orchard of King Louis)
- Grandville, Résurrection de la Censure
- Tidemann, The Earth Swallows Up the People of Korah
- Shields, The Descent
- Redon, C’est le diable
- Sadeler, Ita Erit et Aventus Filii Hominis
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20. Theodore Torre-Bueno (1914-1991) Death’s Arrival |
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Death’s Arrival
Etching and aquatint, ca. 1940, 138 x 200 mm. Superb impression on pale blue wove paper with full margins, signed verso with initials and numbered recto apparently from an edition of 7. Sad to say, we have probably sold more prints and drawings by Theodore Torre-Bueno in the last twenty years than he sold in his lifetime. This is an unusually dark print for him; he generally had a clear and open sense of humor. Death climbs the stairs in an old house, preceded by puffs of smoke, headed, obviously, to the open door behind which one can just make out a bed and its occupant. It is a medieval tale, tellingly transported to modern times, and depicted with such conventional realism as to offer no artistic impediment to its meaning.
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$500.00 |  |
