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Alexandre Coll Blanch's original etching, "Ex-Libris Sara Eugenia Blake" probably dates from the 1950's. In this delightful example Sara Eugenia Blake commissioned the artist for mementoes of a sojourn to Rome. It depicts a still life with a decorative enamel vase, a rose placed behind it, and random italian sketches throughout. The art supplies include paint brushes and an open drawing pad depicting two Italian architectural drawings. Sara Eugenia Blake was one of America's leading collectors of bookplates. Her extensive collection included such historical rarities as Isaiah Thomas's ex libris plate for Paul Revere. She also commissioned twentieth century artists such as Eric Gill, Rockwell Kent and Alexandre Coll Blanch to create personal plates for her library. Sara Eugenia Blake served as the Librarian of Tufts College Medical School. Today a large portion of her collection is housed at Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscript Library. This impression is printed upon thick wove paper and with full, deckled margins and is signed in the plate and pencil signed by the artist to the lower right. "Ex-Libris Sara Eugenia Blake" is a fine, a fine, original example of the art of Alexandre Coll Blanch. |
Title: | Ex-Libris Sara Eugenia Blake (Still Life, Drawing Pad, & Art Supplies) |
Artist: | Coll Blanch, Alexandre (Barcelona, 1898 - 1975) |
Date: | c. 1950 |
Medium: | Original Etching |
Source: | Ex-Libris-Bookplate |
Note: | Alexandre Coll Blanch: A twentieth century Spanish painter and printmaker, Alexandre Coll Blanch studied art techniques under Lluis Labarta Grane (1852-1924) at the Escola de Belles Arts in Barcelona. He then completed his education under Vincent Climent Navarro (1872-1923). Coll Blanch participated in group exhibitions as early as 1920 and, in 1934, held his first solo exhibition. |
At the end of the Second World War (1945), Alexandre Coll Blanch turned his talents mainly to illustrating fine books with his original etchings and lithographs. He illustrated the works of such classic authors as Miguel de Cervantes, Walter Scott, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoi and Robert Louis Stevenson. As well, Coll Blanch illustrated works by Suarez Bermejo, Enrique Jardiel, Karl May, Pedro M. Voltes, Rene Guillot, Okakura Kakuzo and Carlo Soldevila. Today the fine art of Alexandre Coll Blanch is included in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. | |
Sara Eugenia Blake (Boston, 1886-1973) was one of America's leading collectors of bookplates. Her extensive collection included such historical rarities as Isaiah Thomas's ex libris plate for Paul Revere. She also commissioned twentieth century artists such as Eric Gill, Rockwell Kent and Alexandre Coll Blanch to create personal plates for her library. Sara Eugenia Blake served as the Librarian of Tufts College Medical School. Today a large portion of her collection is housed at Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscript Library. In this delightful etching Sarah has commissioned Coll Blanch for mementoes of a sojourn to Rome. It depicts a still life with a decorative enamel vase, a rose placed behind it, and random italian sketches throughout. The art supplies include paint brushes and an open drawing pad depicting two Italian architectural drawings. | |
A Note on Ex Libris Art: Ex-Libris woodcuts, wood engravings and etchings have their beginnings as far back as the mid fifteenth century. Their function was initially quite utilitarian as plates used to signify the ownership of books. As private libraries and their owners gained more wealth and prestige, however, so did their ex-libris bookplates. Pictorial imagery became as important as the wording and the finished work of art often came to stand as an owner’s claim to fame. Before long famous artists were commissioned by wealthy collectors to create their ex libris designs and during the centuries such great talents as Durer, Holbein, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec and Rockwell Kent all contributed significantly to this great genre. | |
The golden era for ex-libris art was during the twentieth century, most particularly in the Art Deco decade of the 1930’s. Collecting of ex-libris etchings, engravings and wood engravings reached such a height at this time that many artists devoted themselves almost exclusively to this area. | |
Size: | 4 3/4 X 3 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials | |
Buy Now | Price: $285.00 US |
Condition: | Printed upon thick wove paper and with full, deckled margins. Signed in the plate and pencil signed by the artist to the lower right. "Ex-Libris Sara Eugenia Blake" (Still Life, Drawing Pad, & Art Supplies) is in excellent condition throughout and represents a fine, original example of the art of Alexandre Coll Blanch. |
Subject: | Alexandre Coll Blanch, "Ex-Libris Sara Eugenia Blake" (Still Life, Drawing Pad, & Art Supplies), sojourn to Rome, twentieth century Spanish painter and printmaker, Escola de Belles Arts in Barcelona, Tufts College Medical School. |
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Original Etching by the Spanish artist, Alexandre Coll Blanch.
Ex-Libris Sara Eugenia Blake (Still Life, Drawing Pad, & Art Supplies) |
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Image | Title & Artist | Artist Info | Medium | Date | - |
Bookplate of Mark Holstein (Bucking Holstein Bull) by Arthur Allen Lewis | Arthur Allen Lewis (Mobile, Alabama, 1873 - New York City, 1957) | Original Color Woodcut | 1927 | Sold | |
Ex-Libris Carlo d'Alessio (Young Women Bathing, Satyr Playing his Syrinx) by Vitezslav Fleissig | Vitezslav Fleissig (Prague, 1892 - 1955) | Original Engraving & Soft Ground Etching | 1949 | ||
Ex-Libris Charles Asselineau (La Femme Qui N'est Pas La Colombe Et Le Roseau Est Un Monstre) by Aglaus Bouvenne | Aglaus Bouvenne (Paris, 1829 - Levallois-Perret, 1903) | Original Etching with Plate Tone | c. 1870 | ||
Ex-Libris de Madame la Comtesse de Noe by Aglaus Bouvenne | Aglaus Bouvenne (Paris, 1829 - Levallois-Perret, 1903) | Original Etching | 1888 | ||
Ex-Libris Design (Woman with Conch Shell, & a Falling Star) by Frank Ivo van Damme | Frank-Ivo Van Damme (Belgium, 20th century) | Original Linocut | c. 1970 | Sold | |
Ex-Libris Diamond (An Eagle, Wings Spread, Hovers over the Globe within a Diamond Cloud) by Valentin Le Campion | Valentin Le Campion (Born, Russia, 1903 - Died, Paris 1952) | Original Wood Engraving | c. 1930 - 1940 | ||
Ex-Libris Diamond (Tropical Island, Palm Trees, a Volcano & Lies) by Adrian Feint | Adrian Feint (Narrandera, New South Wales, 1894 - Sydney, 1971) | Original Wood Engraving | c. 1930 | ||
Ex-Libris Dr. A. L. (Dance of Death) by Vitezslav Fleissig | Vitezslav Fleissig (Prague, 1892 - 1955) | Original Etching | 1948 | ||
Ex-Libris Dr. Luigi Airoldi (Sorceress, Crystal Ball, & Chinese Dragon) by Enrico Vannuccini | Enrico Vannuccini (Barullo di Cortona, 1900 - Griante, Italy, 1990) | Original Etching | 1948 | ||
Ex-Libris Elizabeth (Young Woman Viewing a Rose in an Open Book) by Valentin Le Campion | Valentin Le Campion (Born, Russia, 1903 - Died, Paris 1952) | Original Wood Engraving | c. 1935 | ||
Ex Libris Elizabeth Watson Diamond (Alpine Chateau, Mountaineering) by Vitezslav Fleissig | Vitezslav Fleissig (Prague, 1892 - 1955) | Original Etching | c. 1948 or 1949 | ||
Ex-Libris Elizabeth Watson Diamond (Chinese Winter Landscape) by John Hudson Elwell | John Hudson Elwell (Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1878 – 1955) | Original Engraving | c. 1930 | ||
Ex-Libris Elizabeth Watson Diamond (Landscape with Tree & Swirling Prints) by Adrian Feint | Adrian Feint (Narrandera, New South Wales, 1894 - Sydney, 1971) | Original Wood Engraving | 1938 | ||
Ex-Libris Elizabeth Watson Diamond (Women Holding up a Globe - Black Ink) by Valentin Le Campion | Valentin Le Campion (Born, Russia, 1903 - Died, Paris 1952) | Original Wood Engraving | c. 1935 | Sold | |
Ex-Libris Elizabeth Watson Diamond (Women Holding up a Globe - Red Ink) by Valentin Le Campion | Valentin Le Campion (Moscow, 1903 - Plessis-Robinson (Paris), 1952) | Original Wood Engraving | c.1935 | ||
Ex-Libris Emil Eerme (Forest Landscape) by Karoly Andrusko | Karoly Andrusko (Zentan, Hungary, B. 1915) | Original Woodcut | 1970 | ||
Ex-Libris Eroticis Lars C. Stolt (Embracing Figures in Silhouette) by Ladislav Rusek | Ladislav Rusek (Czech Republic, Born, Olomouce) | Original Linocut | 1973 | Sold | |
Ex-Libris: Franz J. Kaiser (Director of the Dairy Ministry, Vienna) by Alfred Cossmann | Alfred Cossmann (Gratz, 1870 - Vienna, 1951) | Original Engraving | 1905 |
Ex-Libris George Allan Hancock (Oceanographic Research Vessel, Velero) by James Webb | James Webb (U.S.A., Active, 1920 - 1940) | Original Engraving | 1932 | Sold | |
Ex-Libris Giorgio Balbi (Sognare -- 'Dream') by Giulio Cisari | Giulio Cisari (Como, 1892 - Milan, 1979) | Original Wood Engraving | c. 1935 - 1940 | ||
Ex-Libris Harvey Simmonds (Caltha, Ranunculaceae) by Clare Leighton | Clare Leighton (London, 1899 - Woodbury, Connecticut, 1989) | Original Wood Engraving | 1956 | ||
Ex-Libris Hnizdovsky (Tree) by Jacques Hnizdovsky | Jacques Hnizdovsky (Pylypche, Ukraine, 1915 - New York City, 1985) | Original Woodcut | 1972 | Sold | |
Ex-Libris J. Edouard Diamond (Dutch Scenes, Bridge over Canal in Amsterdam, Gabled Buildings, a Windmill, & Sailboats) by Valentin Le Campion | Valentin Le Campion (Born, Russia, 1903 - Died, Paris 1952) | Original Wood Engraving | c. 1930 | ||
Ex-Libris J. Edouard Diamond (Woman at a Spring) by Leslie Victor Smith (Monogramme: L. V. S) | Leslie Victor Smith 'Monogramme L. V. S.' (Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, 1880 - Toronto?, 1952) | Original Etching | 1939 | ||
Ex-Libris Jack Diamond & Elizabeth Diamond (Jack & the Queen of Diamonds Playing Cards) by Kalman Kubinyi | Kalman Kubinyi (Cleveland, 1906 - Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1973) | Two Original Linocuts | c.1935 - 1940 | ||
Ex-Libris Julio C. Salvatierra 'Nostalgia de Mallorca (Majorca)' by Carlos Puntis Nebot | Carlos Puntis Nebot (Palma de Mallorca (Spain), 1912 – 2001) | Original Wood Engraving | c. 1950 | ||
Ex-Libris Library of Betsie Diamond (Pan Playing his Syrinx) by John William Jameson | John William Jameson ( Chicago, 1882 - 1939) | Original Etching | 1938 | ||
Ex-Libris Luigi Filippo Bolaffio (Study of a Woman) by Vitezslav Fleissig | Vitezslav Fleissig (Prague, 1892 - 1955) | Original Soft Ground Etching | 1949 | ||
Ex-Libris Luigi Filippo Bolaffio: Memoriam Michel Fingesten by Vitezslav Fleissig | Vitezslav Fleissig (Prague, 1892 - 1955) | Original Etching | 1950 | Sold | |
Ex Libris Mansueto Fenini (Venustas Lux 'Beautiful Light') by Vitezslav Fleissig | Vitezslav Fleissig (Prague, 1892 - 1955) | Original Soft Ground Etching | 1949 | ||
Ex-Libris Moses H. Grossman (Fly Fishing in a Mountain Stream) by Henri Berengier | Henri Berengier (Marseille, 1880 - ?) | Original Etching | c. 1925 | ||
Ex-Libris Pepita Palle (Mi Agrada Molt Viatjar) by Mark Fernand Severin | Mark Fernand Severin (Brussels, 1906 - 1987) | Original Wood Engraving | 1968 | ||
Ex-Libris Sara Eugenia Blake (Still Life, Drawing Pad, & Art Supplies) by Alexandre Coll Blanch | Alexandre Coll Blanch (Barcelona, 1898 - 1975) | Original Etching | c. 1950 | ||
Ex-Libris Sara Eugenia Blake (The Old State House, Boston) by Sara Eugenia Blake | Sara Eugenia Blake (Boston, 1886 - 1973) | Original Engraving & Etching | c. 1920 - 1930 | ||
Ex-Libris Sidney David Gamble (View of China) by an Unknown Artist Monogram | Unknown Artist Monogram (20th century) | Original Engraving & Etching | 1923 | Sold | |
Ex Libris Stasys Pilka (We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are) by Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau | Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau (Siauliai, Lithuania, Born, 1930) | Original Wood Engraving | 1975 | ||
Ex-Libris Varga Karoly (Castle of Sumeg) by Antal Fery | Antal Fery (Szerencs, Hungary, 1908 - Budapest, 1993) | Original Woodcut | 1976 | ||
Ex-Libris Vitolis Vengris by Vincas Kisarauskas | Vincas Kisarauskas (Augmenai (Radviliskis), Lithuania, 1934 – New York, 1988) | Original Color Linocut | c. 1971 - 1972 | Sold | |
VI Congreso Europeo de Ex-Libris, Barcelona (Angel & Medieval Scriveners) by Antoni Gelabert i Casas | Antoni Gelabert i Casas (Barcelona, Spain, 1911 - 1980) | Original Color Woodcut | 1958 |
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