Last Hurrah

Hopfer, The Soldier and His Wife
van Leyden, The Baptism of Christ
Italian School (Tuscan?), Eagles
Marco Dente, Entellus and Dares
Vincentino, Temperance
Hopfer, Battle of the Naked Men
Circle of Romano, Roman Battle
van Leyden, The Fall of Man
Scultori, Eros Playing a Clavier
Bonasone, The Wounded Scipio
Brun, The Drummer
Cort, The Assembly of the Gods
Wierix, The Virgin Nursing
Sadeler, Annunciation
de Gheyn, The Rest on the Flight
Sadeler, Death as a Welcome Visitor
Callot, Les Intermèdes, No.1
Brebiette, Woman Nursing
Dutch or Flemish School, Four Biblical Episodes
Vauquer, Ornament Plate
Hondius, Uylenspiegel, or Owlglass
Roghman, River and Rocks, Italy
Castiglione, Noah and the Animals
Piranesi, Frontispiece
Piranesi, Carceri XI: The Arch
Pether, A Farrier’s Shop
Tiepolo, Self Portrait
Turner & Dunkarton, The Temple
Lucas, The Vale of Dedham, Essex
Weir, Study for a Monument
Lalanne, View of Groningen
Richmond, Landscape at Otford
Harpignies, Troncs d’Arbres
Loizelet, Le Petit Coblentz
Whistler, The Smith
Forain, Loge de Danseuse
Toulouse-Lautrec, Au Pied du Sinai
Orlik, Still Life with Fruit
Marin, Sestiere di Dorso Duro
Roussel, The Snow
Vergé-Sarrat, Chambre de Malade
Oppenheimer, Ferruccio Busoni
Levine, Sewing Machine Operator
Picasso, Femme Nue à la Jambe
Oppenheimer, The Rosé Quartet
Villon, Mon Vieux Luxembourg
Epstein, Jackie
Tobey, Untitled
Click on an image above or a title at the left to view the work.

To our friends and clients:

This will be our last web exhibition. I suppose, given my music background, I could have named it after Schubert’s Schwanengesang (Swan Song) but, I confess, I felt like cheering a bit. On January 1, 2017, I go into semi-retirement, after forty-eight years of business. I’ll be eighty-five later that year, so it’s about time.

C & J Goodfriend will continue to exist – sort of – but without my invaluable assistant Elizabeth Napier. The website will stay up, but without any new additions. You will no longer receive any solicitations or announcements from us. I will continue to do some business and I will be in the office, usually, a couple of days a week, so clients, if they choose, can still contact me and buy, if they choose, from a depleting but still large inventory. We will no longer be able to accept credit cards, we will no longer be able to do appraisals or to research prints. I may be able to send scans, if I can get the hang of it.

It’s been a good forty-eight years and I’d like to take the opportunity to thank all our clients as well as all of those who contacted us simply to give us, or ask us for, information. You’ve been quite the nicest, most interested and most sophisticated group of people I could ever have hoped to deal with. I would also like to thank my colleagues in the print and drawing trade, especially Charles Seidman, who have been of such great help to us over the years. And, of course, I would like to thank the C of C & J, my wife Carol, and my frequent savior Elizabeth, for all the thought and effort and hours they have put into the business

The current exhibition, coincidentally one item for each year of business, largely comprises prints and drawings we have not offered before. Some were recently purchased, come culled from private collection, some discovered after being misplaced for years. The prices, of course, are all over the map. But we do think that each item is interesting and worth attention in its own way, and some are quite rare. All items not sold earlier will be at our booth at the New York Satellite Print Fair at the Bohemian National Hall, 321 East 73rd St. from Friday, November 4 through Sunday November 6. We hope you enjoy the web exhibition and that you are able to attend the fair.

All our best wishes,
 
James Goodfriend
Carol Goodfriend
Elizabeth Napier