HARRIS SCHRANK FINE PRINTS

Adolphe Beaufrere (1876-1960), [Mountain and Sea], soft ground etching, c. 1910, signed in pencil lower right margin and with the artist’s red stamp lower right. Not in Morane. In very good condition, printed on a cream/tan card, with small (1/4″) margins all around, 105 x 149 mm, 4 1/4 x 5 7/8 inches.
Provenance: acquired directly from Jean-Noel Beaufrere, the artist’s son.
A fine impression of this most unusual modernist image, printed with plate tone.
This is an exceedingly rare proof impression, quite possibly unique.

Adolphe Beaufrere (1876-1960), La Vache Noire, Le Pouldu (The Black Cow. Le Pouldu), soft ground etching, 1910, unsigned.  Reference: Morane 10-23, only state. In very good condition, trimmed about 1/8-1/4 inch outside of the platemark, 7 x 8 1/8 inches.
Printed in black on a laid paper, with the watermark Original Hindostan Mill, with the letters and crest.
Provenance: acquired directly from Jean-Noel Beaufrere, the artist’s son.
A fine proof impression of this very rare composition. Morane notes that only 1 or 2 proofs of Le Vache Noire was pulled.
It appears that at this time Beaufrere was experimenting with a variation on a [...]

Adolphe Beaufrere (1876-1960),  Fermes et Marais, Port-Louis, 1908, etching, signed in pencil lower right [also initialed and dated in the plate lower right]. References: Morane 08-03, Laran 36. Printed on a thin wove Japan paper, in brown/olive ink. In very good condition, with margins, 7 7/8 x 11 3/4, the sheet 8 1/2 x 12 1/4  inches.
Provenance: acquired directly from Jean-Noel Beaufrere, the artist’s son.
A fine impression, with a light veil of plate tone, carefully wiped more cleanly in the field and middle sky; the foreground, especially the foreground right, is dark.
Morane notes that the intended edition was [...]

Adolphe Beaufrere (1876-1960), Lavoir de Kervino, 1908, etching, with the Beaufrere red estate stamp lower left recto [also signed and dated in the plate lower right]. References: Morane 08-02, Laran 35.  Printed in a dark brown ink, on a thin wove Japan paper. In very good condition, unobtrusive water stain lower left, crease lower right corner, with margins, 9 1/2 x 12, the sheet 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches.
Provenance: acquired directly from Jean-Noel Beaufrere, the artist’s son.
A fine impression of this very rare print.
This impression is probably a first state working proof, before some foliage was added lower right, [...]

Adolphe-Marie Beaufrere (1876-1960), Les Enfants Le Gall, drypoint, 1927, signed in pencil lower right and numbered lower left margins (13/45) [also dated and monogrammed in the plate]. Reference: Laran 208, Morane 27-04, only state. In very good condition, with margins, printed on a ivory/orange laid Japan paper, 7 5/8 x 6 1/2, the sheet 10 x 8 3/4 inches, archival matting.
A fine impression, the black contrasting warmly with the ivory/orange paper.
With the Sagot blindstamp.
Beaufrere was born at Quimperle, in Brittany, and though he traveled widely he re-connected with this area throughout his life. As a teenager he decided [...]

Adolphe-Marie Beaufrere (1876-1960), Aux Approches de Madrid (also Aux Abords de la Ville), drypoint, 1927, signed and numbered (14/55), from the edition of 55, with the blindstamp of Sagot, publisher (Lugt 2254). Reference: Morane 27-19. In good condition, on very thin cream Japan paper, 6 1/2 x 9, the sheet 8 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches, archival matting.
A fine impression, with the drypoint burr extremely rich and effective (due in part to the use of a Japan paper, which tends to diffuse the ink surrounding the drypoint lines).
Beaufrere was born at Quimperle, in Brittany, and though [...]

Adolphe Beaufrere (1876-1960), Femmes au Tub (Women Bathing), c. 1902, colored woodcut, signed in pencil, also with the artist’s red monogram stamp. Reference: Morane B-1; Musee des Beaux Arts de Renne 1. On brown Japon paper. Printed in dark brown, orange, tan and light blue. 13 1/2 x 8 7/8 inches. Trimmed just outside of the borderline. Soft creases upper left and associated slight rubbing, 2 soft folds upper right corner, soft creases lower left, soft fold near left border, a few rubbed or lightly printed areas in image.
Provenance: acquired directly from Jean-Noel Beaufrere, the artist’s son.
A [...]