Auction Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints ft. The Williams Collection of Color Woodcuts — April 15, 2025
At Auction Tuesday, April 15 at 10:30 AM ET
The Reba W. & Dave H. Williams Collection of Color Woodcuts
The April 15 auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints opens with The Reba W. & Dave H. Williams Collection of Color Woodcuts (lots 1 – 64), featuring color woodcuts by important early twentieth-century American artists who were pioneers in the field, such as Arthur Wesley Dow, Blanche Lazzell, Gustave Baumann, and Edna Boies Hopkins.
Old Master Prints
The Old Master section includes engravings, woodcuts, etchings and drypoints by both well-known and lesser-known esteemed master printmakers whose images have stood the test of time. Albrecht Dürer’s scarce woodcut The Knight on Horseback and the Lansquenet stands alongside etchings by Rembrandt van Rijn and Jacques Callot.
19th Century Prints
The section will include an iconic satirical lithograph by Honoré Daumier, A Travers les Ateliers, which was published in Le Boulevard. Works by Impressionist artists, such as Mary Cassatt’s At the Dressing Table, will be presented for sale before a robust section of Art Nouveau prints.
American Prints
The American section highlights the variety of printmaking techniques championed by American artists in the early twentieth century, including etchings by Martin Lewis, lithographs by Louis Lozowick, and a color woodcut by Alice Ravenel Huger Smith.
European Modern Prints
Important artists such as Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky and Henri Matisse are represented among the modernists in the European section. This section also offers prints by Surrealists such as Yves Tanguy, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst.
