Adventures in the Print Trade

Jacob Balgley, Rue à Jérusalem Etching How many of us have ever heard of Jacob Balgley, a direct contemporary of Marc Chagall? Not ...

The story of etching in France could be told simply in terms of French etchers' passionate engagement with the work of Rembrandt - as Al...

I first came across the work of the etcher Eugène Véder in issue 17 of the art revue Byblis (Spring 1926), which published his etching La ru...

I’ve posted before about the journal Paris à l’eau-forte, a literary journal illustrated with original etchings which was edited and publish...

The etcher Félix Bracquemond was a towering figure in nineteenth-century French printmaking, a fact which was recognised when in 1900 he wo...

It’s a while since I posted about the master of the Art Deco nude, Édouard Chimot. Of course if Chimot were simply a depictor of the nude, ...

Édouard Chimot, Perfection - etching/aquatint for L'Enfer, 1921 The French etcher and lithographer Édouard Chimot (1880-1959) was one ...

Isy Brachot, publisher of L'Art Belge L’Art Belge was a fine art revue published by the Brussels gallerist Isy Brachot from the 1920s...

Paul Huet was born in Paris in 1803. was a pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, and a friend and associate of Delacroix an...

I would like to alert my readers to a new book on the neglected Austrian Expressionist artist Emma Bormann (1887-1974), by her grandson Andr...