Goldin Fine Art

10/22/2023

Багрец

07/31/2023

Another discovery at National Gallery East Wing

04/16/2023

Happy World Art Day!

This painting by Platzer shows an idealized vision of the artist himself in his studio. At the center of the composition, the painter presents his finished masterpiece to a potential collector, surrounded by a busy studio filled with live models, pupils, assistants, and artwork from earlier eras. Platzer champions the art of painting as a timeless, noble, and intellectual pursuit worthy of exaltation.

11/11/2022

Cornelis Cort, attributed to.
Head of Medusa. Engraving.
Ca. 1568–70.

Cornelis Cort engraved this stunning head thirty years before the famous Medusa by Caravaggio was painted.

Cort’s initial drawing might have been made from Leonardo’s original masterpiece from Cosimo I Medici collection and was lost.

11/07/2022

Cherubino Alberti. Mary Magdalen. Engraving. 1571-1615.

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07/13/2022

01/11/2022

12/29/2021

We haven’t expected 2021 to astonish us more than it already has. Yet now we’ve seen everything:

A bald hedgehog, a wild pig - antiques amateur, an 18th-century capibara, a smiling wolf…

Check out more stunning exotic animal images in our new arrivals, link in bio - 18 fascinating engravings from "Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière….”, by de Buffon & Dauberton (Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1766-1799).

12/21/2021

🌒 Here is a pair of superb hand colored engravings after Raphael for the longest night of the year.
🕰 They depict two female allegories: Ora Prima di Notte (First Hour of the Night) and Ora Quarta di Notte (Fourth Hour of the Night).
🦉 Look at those tiny owl fluff balls!
🖼 Executed in early 19th century France, the engravings were cut to fit the gilded oval frames made by a famous Baltimore company M. Barrett & Bro circa 1850.
Image 10 1/2" х 8 1/2".
Find out more on our website, link in bio.

11/25/2021

It’s hard to keep this from looking too corny…

Corn was on the table at the first Thanksgiving dinner and continues to be a staple of the holiday today.

Decorate your house or table with this sterling silver ear of corn from the Goldin Fine Art collection. What a conversation starter!
Length 7 7/8". Weight 9.28 oz.

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11/18/2021

11/20 - 11/29 5% off. Happy Thanksgiving.

11/15/2021

🌸 Would Georgia O’Keeffe have appreciated if we offered her flowers on her birthday?
“I hate flowers, - she once said - I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.”
Anyway, you can treat yourself with this exuberant floral abstraction vintage print from the Goldin Fine Art collection that represents O’Keeffe’s famous painting “Grey Lines with Black, Blue, and Yellow” from the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston

11/12/2021

11.11.2021 marks the bicentennial birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky. It’s a meaningful event for us, as Mikhail Goldin worked for Dostoevsky Museum in Saint Petersburg in the 1980s.
To celebrate the anniversary, we present a painting from the collection of Goldin Fine Art. This is a hand painted porcelain plaque made in Berlin, at KPM (Konigliche Porzellan Manufactur), after Antonio Correggio’s painting “Mary Magdalen reading”.
The original painting was housed in Dresden Gallery since 1745, when Augustus III of Saxony bought it among other 6 paintings by Correggio in Modena, Italy.
In 1867, Dostoevsky at the age of 47 with his young wife Anna went abroad for the first time in their lives. Their first big stop was Dresden. They dropped their luggage in the hotel and first headed to the famous Dresden Gallery.
Their tour started at Sistine Madonna and then led to Correggio.
Mary Magdalen is one of the iconic images for Dostoevsky, one of the prototypes of Sonechka Marmeladova from “Crime and Punishment”. This character can also be found in other masterpieces of the author.
The original painting by Correggio mysteriously disappeared from the Gallery after World War 2. What is left to us are some engravings published in the 19th century and several porcelain plaque copies of Mary Magdalen by skillful artists of KPM. One of these plaques is currently in the collection of our gallery.

11/11/2021

"Life is like a fountain” states Georg Andreas Bockler (1617-1687) in his engravings. Bockler, a German architect and engineer, admired the possibilities of water such as windmills, pumps, and, of course, fountains.
Sixteen engravings of both real, like the Tritons in Rome, and imaginary fountains have been added to the collection of Goldin Fine Art.
Find more in the New Arrivals, link in bio.

10/19/2021

The “Backstage” lithograph by Moses Soyer (1899 Russia – 1974 USA) for the World Ballet Day!
The artist’s wife, Ida, was a dancer, and many of his paintings are of ballet dancers.
This lithograph is signed and titled by Soyer in pencil. It was issued by the Associated American Artists in 1945.

10/16/2021

Melpomene.
One of the most remarkable etchings in the Goldin Fine Art collection bears the monogram signature of the preeminent Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617).

However, its provenance is worth a separate conversation:
⏺ The GB stamp on the reverse is a hallmark of George Björklund (1887-after 1968), a renowned collector of Old Master prints from Stockholm, recognized expert, co-author of the most authoritative Rembrandt etchings catalogue.
⏺ This information is further confirmed by the label of Phyllis Kind Gallery. The legendary American art dealer Phyllis Kind (1933-2018), who, over a decades-long career, played a leading role in the development of an international market for the work of art brut and outsider artists, was an extravagant lady and a women's rights advocate. Besides, she initiated the unofficial Soviet art show in 1987 "Direct from Moscow!"
⏺ "Melpomene" comes from the Joshua B. Kind Trust. Joshua Kind (1933-2019) was a Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Phyllis and Joshua divorced in the 1970s.

We know only the part of the story covering approximately the last 100 years of this print’s existence. Perhaps, the preceding centuries will remain a mystery.
During its lifetime, this engraving connected the Old World collector, academic circles of Chicago and avant-garde American art community. We are fostering it with care. What would be its next journey?

10/12/2021

Looking for extravagant Halloween costume ideas?
We like this one, even though it’s not eerie at all.
The grotesque costumes of various professions were extremely popular in the 18th century Europe.

A Female Sweets Peddler (Une Confisseuse) is a distinctive baroque engraving designed by a German publisher
Martin Engelbrecht circa 1730.
Engraved by J. F. Schmidt. Hand-colored. Sheet 14”x 8 5/8”.

💡Rare find from the Goldin Fine Art collection. By the way, we also have a male counterpart (Un Confisseur)! They make a really sweet couple.

🔎All 10 kinds of depicted desserts are numbered and signed in the legend below the image.

❓Any ideas why is there a miniature Athena statue on the helmet? Can it be an homage to the benefits of sugar for you brains and wisdom?

09/25/2021

Disturbers of Domestic Happiness.
Just look at those mugs!
A thrilling scene of a robbery from the Goldin Fine Art collection depicted by Thomas Rowlandson, a late 18th century artist known for his cheeky caricatures and social satire.
Rare etching. Early 19th century.

09/18/2021

The New York Crystal Palace and Latting Observatory were constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in 1853, in what is today Bryant Park in the heart of Manhattan.
The observatory tower was the tallest skyscraper in the city until it burned down in 1856. The Crystal Palace, distinctly inspired by the London Crystal Palace, was destroyed by fire two years later…
🖼 This large engraving from the Goldin Fine Art collection was created by Samuel Capewell and Christopher Kimmel in 1853. Image 12 3/8” x 19 3/8”.
🔎 This is what attention to detail looks like: you can examine the crowd to learn about fashion, social habits, demography of that time as well as public transportation and mobility services!
🚏 Do you spot the Broadway 44th St omnibus that would take you to what is now Times Square?

09/10/2021

This marvellous Gilded Age edition of The Bibliophilist's Library is a real treasure trove of the world literature, first completely translated into English.

The Decameron of Boccaccio, 2v.
The Heptameron of Marguerite d'Angouleme, 2v.
Montesquieu's Persian Letters, 2v.
The Confession of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 2v.
The writings of François Rabelais, 2v.
Printed only for subscribers by George Barrie, Philadelphia (Scotland, 1843 - Pennsylvania, USA, 1918).
Illustrated with etched plates by Leopold Flameng, Emile Boilvin, and Edmond Hedonin. All plates in TWO STATES, all with printed tissue guards.
🎞 Stamped-signed by Whitman Bennett - a famed bookbinder, book dealer, movie director, and movie producer.

📖 Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio.
📖 Ex-libris Adrian G. Newcomb by monogrammist RS inside front cover.
📖 Education of Gargantua.

08/20/2021

We’d like to celebrate the World Photography Day by presenting this stunning and scarce portrait of the Italian opera genius Gioachino Rossini by Étienne Carjat from the Goldin Fine Art collection.

📸It was created in 1862 using a rare, elaborate and expensive photography technique- woodburytype - that provided intense prints of high quality.
The most sought-after woodburytypes are the portraits of Rossini and Baudelaire made by Carjat.

📖 “Indeed, Carjat's flair for capturing the spirit of his celebrity subjects frequently equaled or excelled that of his better known contemporary, Nadar, who depended heavily on dramatic side lighting for his effects.” Source: National Gallery of Art website.

08/09/2021

An adventuresome career trajectory led a son of a land surveyor who started as an engraver to become Lord Mayor of London.
Our new blog post tells more about ups and downs of John Boydell, a brilliant representative of the Age of Enlightenment in Britain.
Goldin Fine Art is proud to offer multiple engravings from his major ventures: Claude Lorrain’s Liber Veritatis and the Shakespeare Gallery.

A biographical sketch of an outstanding representative of the English Age of Enlightenment John Boydell, engraver, art dealer, publisher, politician.

07/18/2021

July is in full swing, and we pay tribute to summer with this color lithograph created by Chaim Gross (1904 Austria/Poland –1991 USA).
🖼 Summer Time. 1973.
Artist proofed, signed, dated, and titled in pencil beneath the image.
Image 14" x 18". Sheet 18 1/2" x 23 1/2". Frame 20" x 25".
❗️Trial proof copy is probably the most desirable kind of print for collectors, as it is unique and often stays in the artist's possession. Goldin Fine Art offers 5 different trial and artist's proofs of Chaim Gross artworks.
📖A Jewish émigré, Gross is best remembered as one of America’s foremost sculptors, known for his hardwood carvings, figurative sculptures, and graphic work. For more than sixty years Chaim Gross’s art has expressed optimistic, affirming themes... [to] convey joyfulness, exuberance, love, and intimacy. Reference credit

07/15/2021

Goldin Fine Art presents an iconic rare book from our collection.
BECHER, Bernhard und Hilla. Anonyme Skulpturen. Dusseldorf, Art-Press Verlag, 1970.
First edition of one of the most important contemporary architecture books, dedicated to industrial buildings such as Lime-kilns, Cooling towers, Blast furnaces, Winding-towers, Gas-holders, Silos. Avant-garde photography book. Original blue cloth hardcover and the dust jacket.
"The authors were the German husband-and-wife team of Bernd and Hilla Becher… [who] looked backwards to the ‘objective’ rather than the ‘subjective’ German photography of the 1920s and early 30s, and also to an era in European industrialization that had largely ended with WWII. But the Bechers also represented the future. They looked forward to a new integration between the traditional arts and photography, and to a new period of vigour and excitement in European photography” (Parr & Badger, The Photobook, 193).

07/12/2021

The best way to get over your post-vacation blues is to plan for the next getaway. Why not dream about Bermuda islands? What would be your next vacation destination?
Rainy Day in Bermuda Harbor, a meditative watercolor by Alfred Birdsey (1912-1996). The artist is internationally known for his iconic landscapes with sailboats and street scenes. Besides, he is believed to be the most notable impressionist of Bermuda. Goldin Fine Art offers five refined watercolors and lithographs by Birdsey.
Signed l.r. in felt tip pen. Mid 20th century.
Image 15" x 21 1/2". Frame 22" x 28".
Museums: The Birdsey Studio. Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art

07/06/2021

Check out our recent blog about Claude Lorrain's notable sketchbook Liber Veritatis on Goldin Fine Art website. Please find the blog link in comments below.

🖼 The Cumaean Sibyl conducting Aeneas to the entrance of the Infernal Regions. Etching with mezzotint by Richard Earlom. Published by John Boydell in 1777.
The delicate summer palette is highlighted with bright turquoise accents in this 18th century hand-colored engraving after Claude Lorrain.
📖 The original painting is lost. The drawing that served as a source for this engraving was in the collection of Duke of Devonshire. It illustrates a scene from the Aeneid in which Aeneas, the Trojan hero, prepares to visit the underworld. Aeneas is led by a prophetess known as the Cumaean Sibyl. Virgil set this scene at night, but Claude preferred to emphasize the majestic landscape with the sunlight. 🌅

07/01/2021

Let’s welcome the month of July while bidding farewell to June with these two 300-year-old engravings by Johann Kraus (1655-1719), a German engraver and publisher from Augsburg. He executed a series of illustrations depicting Four Seasons for “Tapisseries du Roy”, an edition devoted to the King of France Louis XIV. Perhaps, June and July were a part of this suite.
Titled in the plate: Iulius. Iunius.
Materials and Techniques: Engraving on laid paper. Matted.
Dimensions: Image 3 1/4" x 5 3/4". Sheet 5 3/8" x 7 2/8".
Publication: Germany, XVII - XVIII c.
Provenance: Folio Fine Art LTD, London.
Collection of Goldin Fine Art

06/22/2021

Finally, we've got some time for ourselves. Not to brag or anything but our family is going on vacation!
The Goldin Fine Art online gallery is open, however, shipping will resume after July 4th. In the meantime, use the code SUMMER21 to get a 5% discount off any purchase.
Hope you all have a safe and joyful summer, too!

🎨 Rita Genet. Jamaica Festival. Oil on canvas. 1990.
Collection of Goldin Fine Art.

06/20/2021

☀️ Here Comes The Sun!
The longest day of the year, aka Summer Solstice, hits the Western Hemisphere today and kicks off the official calendar start of summer.
The striking aquatint by Joan Miro from the Goldin Fine Art collection is an illustration to the Canticle of the Sun, a poem by St Francis of Assissi.
The red ovoid shape recurs throughout the artist's work as a symbol of the Sun. It embodies the quintessence of Miro's aesthetic - bold colors, playful lines and vibrant imagery.
🖼 Joan Miro. Cantic Del Sol V. Etching, aquatint in colors. 1975. 13 1/2" x 20''.
Published by Gustau Gili, S.A., Barcelona.

05/23/2021

Congratulating New York Public Library on their 126th birthday with a watercolor from the Goldin Fine Art collection.
The pair of lion statues, aka library lions, became another beloved iconic symbol of NYC since early 20th century.
The lion named Fortitude, which sounds like “forty-two”, is closer to 42nd St., while another one, named Patience, locates to the south. 🦁 🏛 🦁

Robert Bowden. A Library Lion. Watercolor. 2008.
Image 15 3/4" x 12 1/2"
Signed in pencil.
Collection of Goldin Fine Art.

📸 Masked lion

05/19/2021

To Whom It May Concern:
Congratulations on the International Museum Day from a former employee of the Dostoevsky Museum in Saint Petersburg

Достоевсковеды, встаньте! (c)

Vincent Nesbert (Polish/American, 1898-1976)
Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Inspired by the iconic portrait of the Russian author painted by V. Perov.
Watercolor. Mid-20th century.

Image 23 1/4” x 17 1/2”
Frame 29 3/8” x 23 7/8”
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#достоевский #музейдостоевского

05/12/2021

Эдна Хибель Плоткин (1917-2014), американская художница, признанный мастер цветной литографии. В 1990 году она посетила Россию в рамках своей выставки в петербургской Академии художеств. Ее проекты - "Золотой мост" и "Мир через мудрость" - были направлены на развитие культурных связей между США и Россией. Результатом ее поездки стал документальный фильм «Русская палитра Хибель».
Колоритный эпизод, в котором Эдна пишет на пленэре под саундтрек «На горе колхоз», можно посмотреть в открытом доступе.

A clip is from a one-hour PBS documentary about the artist Edna Hibel. Read more at https://www.eimage.com/portfolio-item/documentary-video-production/ .

05/12/2021

Edna Hibel Plotkin. Friesland. Color lithograph. 1977.
Enjoy a breath of fresh spring air from turquoise green Friesland fields. Do you know that this hidden European gem is the only Dutch province with its own official language?
Edna Hibel Plotkin (1917-2014), an American artist, well known for her works in the impressionist manner. She has created more multi-color stone lithographs than any other artist from the time of the media’s invention in 1795 and was the first American woman to be honored with the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts.
Besides, Edna Hibel Plotkin received numerous awards for her humanitarian achievements. In 1990, she came to Saint Petersburg with her travelling exhibitions Golden Bridge and Peace Through Wisdom to promote intercultural communication between US and Russia. As a result, she produced a documentary for PBS channel Hibel's Russian Palette including her sincere interviews of ordinary people.
The commitment of this uniquely talented woman artist to peace and compassion is unparalleled, this is what our current world is lacking.

04/24/2021

Joseph Mallord William Turner was born on this day 246 years ago.
Of the 71 engravings that make up Turner's project Liber Studiorum, only 3 are devoted to the theme of childhood and are considered the rarest, namely, Marine Dabblers, Juvenile Tricks, and Young Anglers, all three are in the Goldin Fine Art collection and bear Turner's monogram blind stamp.
Provenance: from Turner's studio.
"JMWT monogram blind stamp. This mark was applied to every item sold from Turner’s studio in the sales at Christie’s of 1873 and 1874".

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (1775 - 1851) was an English painter, printmaker, and watercolorist. Title: Marine Dabblers. Children playing with toy boats. Signature: Before any letters. Turner studio blind stamp. Materials and Techniques: Etching on wove paper. Print before mezzotint. "These etc...

04/14/2021

To celebrate the 151st anniversary of our favorite The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ogata Korin. Iris and Bridge. Original Vintage Japanese Art Exhibition Poster. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1987.
Collection of Goldin Fine Art.

04/10/2021

В 1966 году Линдон Джонсон заказал Елизавете Шуматовой портрет Франклина Рузвельта для Белого дома.
Спустя пару лет Джонсон одобрил уже свой официальный портрет, написанный Шуматовой, после того как отверг два предыдущих портрета кисти Нормана Роквелла и Питера Херда.
Более подробно о судьбе брата и сестры Андрея Авинова и Елизаветы Шуматовой, русских эмигрантов в Америке, а также о законе парных случаев в коллекционировании, в блоге Goldin Fine Art.

Фото: Фрэнсис Миллер. Президент Линдон Джонсон пожимает руку Елизавете Шуматовой на церемонии открытия портрета Франклина Рузвельта в Белом Доме. 1967. Музей искусств Кливленда.

Фотограф Фрэнсис Миллер. Президент Линдон Джонсон пожимает руку Елизавете Шуматовой на церемонии открытия портрета Франклина Рузвельта в Белом Доме. 1967. Музей иск...

04/02/2021

Когда-то этот Пуссен висел в Эрмитаже, а теперь украшает музей изобразительных искусств в Филадельфии.
Once this Poussin was in The State Hermitage, now it is The Philadelphia Museum of Art highlight.

03/30/2021

Vincent Van Gogh was born today 168 years ago! 💐
Irises. Vintage limited edition art poster from Goldin Fine Art collection. 1985.
In May 1890, just before he checked himself out of the asylum at Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted four exuberant bouquets of spring flowers. In the Irises he sought a “harmonious and soft” effect by placing the “violet” flowers against a “pink background,” which have since faded owing to his use of fugitive red pigments.
European Paintings. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Co. MMA, 1985. Art Direction by The Colman Press, NYC. Printed in the U.S.A.
Dimensions: Framed 29 1/8 x 37 1/8.