Casanova frontispiece from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt - 1925, Collotype.

Not in Burne Jones. Edition 26. Unsigned.

Image size 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches (191 x 133 mm); sheet size 9 9/16 x 8 1/2 inches (243 x 216 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition.

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt was privately published by Aventuros in 1925 in a 12-volume, numbered edition of 1026. This print is from the portfolio of 12 illustrations by Kent which accompanied 26 sets of the deluxe edition.

$350.

Bowspirit- 1930, Wood Engraving.

Burne Jones 56. Edition 120. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 7/16 x 7 inches (138 x 178 mm); sheet size 9 3/4 x 11 inches (248 x 279 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margins (1 3/4 to 2 5/8 inches), in excellent condition.

One of twelve prints by Kent which were used in a national advertising campaign for the American Car and Foundry Company. The advertisements ran monthly from July 1930 through August 1931 in a number of national magazines including Spur, Sportsman, Time, Town and Country, and American Mercury.

Literature: Contemporary American Prints, Royal Cortissoz, 1931; Saturday Review of Literature, May 16, 1930.

Collections: Mead Art Museum (Amherst), Baltimore museum of Art, Burne Jones Collection, Chegodaev Collectio (Moscow), Cleveland Museum of Art, Franklin Collection (NY), Hermitage Museum (Leningrad), Kent Collection, New York Public Library, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Library, Spector Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art.

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The Bather- 1931, Wood Engraving.

Burne Jones 63. Edition 120. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 3/8 x 7 7/8 inches (137 x 200 mm); sheet size 11 1/8 x 14 1/2 inches (283 x 368 mm).

A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (2 1/2 to 3 1/4 inches); slight skinning 1/4 inch into the top sheet edge, recto, otherwise in very good condition.

One of twelve prints by Kent which were used in a national advertising campaign for the American Car and Foundry Company. The advertisements ran monthly from July 1930 through August 1931 in a number of national magazines including Spur, Sportsman, Time, Town and Country, and American Mercury.

Literature: Rockwellkentiana, p 85, 1933; Russian translation of It's Me O Lord, Moscow, 1965.

Collections: Burne Jones Collection, IL; Chegodaev Collection, Moscow; Kent Collection, NY; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library, NJ; Pushkin Museum, Moscow; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection, NY.

$4500.

Sea and Sky- 1931, published 1932, Wood Engraving.

Burne Jones 85. Edition 150. Signed in pencil.

Image size 10 x 6 7/16 inches (254 x 168 mm); sheet size 14 1/2 x 11 1/8 inches (368 x 283 mm).

A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with full margins (2 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition.

Selected for Fifty Prints, 1932, AIGA. The image was reproduced in the portfolio Rockwell Kent, 1882-1971, published in May 1971 by the National Council for American-Soviet Friendship, New York.

Collections: Burne Jones Collection, Chegodaev Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Franklin Collection, Hermitage Collection, Kent Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Princeton University Library, Spector Collection.

$3600.

Deep Water- 1931, Wood Engraving.

Burne Jones 87. Edition 170. Signed in pencil.

Image size 5 5/16 x 6 7/8 inches (135 x 175 mm); sheet size 9 1/8 x 11 inches (232 x 279 mm).

A brilliant, black impression, on off-white wove Japan paper, with wide margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/4 inches), in excellent condition.

Literature: American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy Collection, The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., 1987; Rockwellkentiana, p 78, 1933; Saturday Review of Literature, Oct 14, 1933; Rhythm, no.3, 1959.

Collections: Burne Jones Collection, Chegodaev Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Franklin Collection, Hermitage Collection, Kent Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Arts, Princeton University Library, Spector Collection.

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Diver also The Diver also Masthead Diver- 1931, Wood Engraving.

Burne Jones 88. Edition 150. Signed, and titled The Diver in pencil..

Image size 7 13/16 x 5 5/16 inches (198 x 135 mm); sheet size 14 3/8 x 11 1/16 inches (365 x 281 mm).

A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with wide margins (2 3/4 to 3 3/4 inches); a professionally repaired tear in the top right sheet corner (3/4 inch), well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Printed by Pynson Printers, New York.

One of twelve prints by Kent which were used in a national advertising campaign for the American Car and Foundry Company. The advertisements ran monthly from July 1930 through August 1931 in a number of national magazines including Spur, Sportsman, Time, Town and Country, and American Mercury.

Literature: Rockwellkentiana, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1933.

Collections: Brooklyn Museum, Burne Jones Collection, IL; Chegodaev Collection (Moscow), Hermitage Museum (Leningrad), Kent Collection (Ausable Forks, NY), Minneapolis Institute of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Library, Spector Collection (New York), Städel Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art.

$3400.

Mountain Climber- 1933, Wood Engraving.

Burne Jones 93. Edition 250. Signed in pencil.

Image size 7 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (200 x 149 mm); sheet size 14 x 11 1/8 inches (356 x 283 mm).

A brilliant, black impression, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with wide margins (2 9/16 to 3 5/8 inches); slight skinning at the top sheet edge verso, where previously hinged, otherwise in excellent condition.

Printed by Pynson Printers, New York. Distributed by The Print Club of Cleveland, Publication No. 11, 1933.

Literature: Rockwellkentiana, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1933. 101 of The World’s Greatest Books, edited by Spencer Armstrong, 1950.

Collections: Akron Art Institute, Burne Jones Collection, IL; Cincinnati Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Davis Museum at Wellesley College; Fine Art Museums of San Francisco; H. M. de Young Museum; Hermitage Museum; Kent Collection, NY; Library of Congress; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester; Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Princeton University Library; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Spector Collection, NY; SUNY, Plattsburg.

$3400.

Starry Night - 1933, Wood Engraving.

Burne Jones 103. Edition 1750. Signed in pencil.

Image size 7 x 4 15/16 inches (178 x 125 mm); sheet size 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (248 x 191 mm).

A fine, black impression, on cream wove Japan paper, with margins (7/8 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition.

Published as a subscription premium by the Literary Guild of America Book Club. Reproduced: June 1933 cover of the Literary Guild’s magazine, Wings.

Collections: Burne Jones Collection, Cincinnati Art Museum, Des Moines Art Center, Franklin Collection, Hunter Museum, National Gallery of Art, New York Public Library, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Princeton University Library, Toledo Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, Worcester Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery.

$1800.

And Now Where - 1936, Lithograph.

Burne Jones 110. Edition not stated. Signed and titled in pencil. A rare, signed impression from the unsigned edition.

Image size 13 1/8 x 19 3/8 inches (349 x 254 mm); sheet size 17 3/8 x 12 3/4 inches (441 x 324 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by George Miller.

Published by the American Artists Group in an unsigned, unlimited edition. AAG's stated purpose was to make meaningful art available to as wide a public as possible, and to that end their editions were unlimited (most were of 200 or less) and unsigned. On the original AAG mat back printed label was the following copy: "This print is an original lithograph made by me and printed with my approval and under my direction. It is in every repect the equivalent in quality of those prints issued by me in limited editions and sold at comparatively high prices. Its low price is made possible by the edition not being arbitrarily limited. My contact with the publishers, conceived in the public interest, prohibits my signing these prints except on the payment of such a fee as I may consider the equivalent of the time and trouble presumably involved. I may therefore say to collectors of autographs (I am myself not one) that upon the receipt of this print and ten dollars I will affix my signature to it and return it properly packed and insured to the sender. But, dear collector, don't waste your money. Rockwell Kent."

Reproduced: The New York Woman magazine, Sept. 30, 1936; America Today (1936) a book of 100 prints chosen by the American Artist Congress; Fine Prints Old and New, Carl Zigrosser, 1937; illustration for the article Rockwell Kent by Carl Zigrosser, Print Collector’s Quarterly; Rockwell Kent, Andre Chegodaev, 1963. llustrated in Fifty Prints, 1926, American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Collections: Addison Gallery of American Art (OH), Akron Art Museum (OH), Burne-Jones Collection (IL), Frankling Collection (NY), Hermitage Museum (Leningrad), Kent Collection (NY), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Princeton University Library, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Phillips Academy (MA), Sate University of New York Plattsburg, Seattle Art Museum.

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