Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), Advice, etching and drypoint, 1915, signed in pencil lower right and titled lower left. In generally good condition but obviously a proof impression, with margins (trimmed irregularly), remains of prior hinging showing through at upper margin, a red ink notation lower margin (“29 Conversation”), 4 3/8 x 2 1/2, the sheet 6 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches.
Provenance: ex Collection: Jonathan Greenberg, New York.
A very good, inky impression of this great rarity. The total number of proofs is about 6 or less, probably 3 or 4.
Advice appears to be a portrait of circus or carnival performers in an [...]
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Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), Strong Girl, drypoint, 1916 [signed in pencil by Kenneth Hays Miller and inscribed “Zinc sheet E printed by Howard Moore Park 1928″). In very good condition, printed on a cream wove paper, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4, the sheet 11 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches.
Provenance: ex Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of New York, with their stamp verso.
ex Coll: Jonathan Greenberg, New York City
A very good impression of this rare early Kuhn print.
Kuhn was of course intimately familiar with circuses and carnivals. To the left of the Strong Girl holding the barbells is another woman, less muscular, perhaps [...]
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Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), [Nude on Couch, Right Arm on Leg], c. 1920, etching, signed in pencil lower margin. In very good condition, traces of discoloration in margins, the full sheet on yellow/cream laid paper, 8 5/8 x 6, the sheet 11 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches, archival mounting.
A fine impression.
Walt Kuhn was born in Brooklyn, and after a period of study art in Europe, he returned to the US to work as a cartoonist; illustrator, and developing artist. Aware of the great surge of modernist artistic activity in Europe, he joined with others to encourage Arthur B. Davies to get behind the idea [...]
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Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), [Nude on Couch, Smoking], c. 1920, etching, signed in pencil lower margin. In good condition,traces of discoloration in margins, soft creases in margins, the full sheet on yellow/cream laid paper, 9 x 5 3/4, the sheet 12 7/8 x 9 1/2 inches, archival mounting.
A fine impression with plate tone.
Walt Kuhn was born in Brooklyn, and after a period of study art in Europe, he returned to the US to work as a cartoonist; illustrator, and developing artist. Aware of the great surge of modernist artistic activity in Europe, he joined with others to encourage Arthur B. Davies to get behind [...]
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Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), [Reclining Nude], c. 1920, etching, signed in pencil lower margin. In pristine condition, soft fold upper right, with no sign of prior framing or exposure, the full sheet on yellow/cream laid paper, 6 x 7 3/4, the sheet 9 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches, archival mounting.
A fine impression.
Walt Kuhn was born in Brooklyn, and after a period of study art in Europe, he returned to the US to work as a cartoonist; illustrator, and developing artist. Aware of the great surge of modernist artistic activity in Europe, he joined with others to encourage Arthur B. Davies [...]
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Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), [Nude on Chaise], c. 1920, etching, signed in pencil lower margin. In very good condition, no sign of prior framing, with margins (slight discoloration in margins), the full sheet on yellow/cream laid paper, 6 x 7 3/4, the sheet 9 3/8 x 11 1/4 inches, archival mounting.
A fine impression, printed with a light veil of plate tone.
Walt Kuhn was born in Brooklyn, and after a period of study art in Europe, he returned to the US to work as a cartoonist, illustrator, and developing artist. Aware of the great surge of modernist artistic activity [...]
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Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), Negligee, c. 1920, etching, signed and titled in pencil lower margin. In good condition, on cream wove paper, printed with a light veil of plate tone, with wide margins, 6 x 8, the sheet 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches, archival mounting.
A fine impression of this great rarity; this is the only impression that we know of to ever appear on the market, and we do not know of impressions in institutional or private collections.
Walt Kuhn was born in Brooklyn, and after a period of study art in Europe, he returned to the US to [...]
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