Daphnis and ChloeSeries: Illustration for Daphnis and Chloe by Longus Medium: Woodcut Year: 1937 Edition : Proof Publisher: Published by Phillipe Gonin, Paris, 1937 References: Reference: Rewald 122 Provenance: Daphnis and Chloe by Longus Size: Image: 5 x 2 in. Sheet: 7-7/8 x 5-1/4 in Description: Daphnis and Chloe is an Ancient Greek tale that follows a boy and a girl from young, naive love, through trials and tribulations and finally to a happy ending together. In Maillol's depiction, he shows the more mature Daphnis and Chloe, happy together and expecting a child. It is a touching portrait of a profound love that was hard earned. Stock Number: 43468c Price: $150.00
Hans Erni Swiss (b. 1909)
Couple with ChildMedium: Lithograph Year: 1953 Edition : 96/100 Signature: Signed in pencil Printer: Maison Kratz, Zurich References: Cailler 66 Size: 17-1/2 x 23 inches Description: In a composition free of landscape, narrative elements or even personal accoutrements, Erni directs the focus on the bodies and connectivity of a new family. The man and women, their physical link to each and and the child they made together almost tangible, fold lovingly towards one another and their newborn child as the mother takes it to the breast. The strength and protection comes not just from the mother alone, but from the family as a whole. Stock Number: 43452c Price: $600.00
Francisco Mora Mexican (1922–2002)
StreetcarMedium: Lithograph Year: 1953 Signature: Signed and dated in pencil Size: 12-3/4 x 9-1/2 inches Description: In conjunction with other renowned artists in Mexico such as Leopold Méndez, Pablo O'Higgins and Luis Arenal, Mora and his colleagues built on Mexico’s rich tradition of political printmaking in order to advance revolutionary political and social causes. In Mora’s portrait of a mother and child, rather than an emotional scene of tender love and affection, he focuses on the social reality. The lower class woman rides in a street car with her child protectively cradled in her lap, a frown on her face and lines of worry etched in her brow. Stock Number: 30484c Price: $1500.00
Toyohara Kunichika Japanese (1835 - 1900)
Mother and ChildSeries: From 24 HOURS OF HAPPENINGS Medium: Color woodblock Publisher: Fukuda Kumajirō Size: 14-1/2 x 9 inches Description: In this work by Kunichika, the artist shows a mother lovingly feeding her baby from a bottle, a look of complete joy and adoration on her face. The roundel on the wall behind her with a picture of an ox likely alludes to this child’s birth being in the year of the ox according to the Japanese zodiac calendar. Stock Number: 42611c Price: $425.00
Bernhard Jäger German (b. 1935)
Untitled (Pregnant Woman)Medium: Color lithograph Year: 1973 Edition : 16/222 Signature: Signed in pencil Size: 19-3/4 x 15-3/4 inches Description: In a grand departure from the tender images of mothers and children, Jäger breaks down the anatomy of the pregnant woman into a series of shapes and parts and reconstructs it into an intriguingly grotesque composition of tubes, breasts and an amorphous polywog-like fetus. Scientifically abstracted, the inspirational subject “Pregnant Woman,” comes secondary to the construction and layout of the “Untitled” composition of shapes and colors. Stock Number: 20451c Price: $325.00
