Antonio Frasconi Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Antonio Frasconi Art Value Price Guide

May. 02, 2025
ANTONIO FRASCONI, GRAFICALATINAMERICANA, LITHOGRAPH
Est: $400 - $600
Artist: Antonio Frasconi, Uruguayan (1919 - 2013) Title: Graficalatinamericana Portfolio: Grafica Latinoamericana Year: 1970 Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
RoGallery
May. 02, 2025
ANTONIO FRASCONI, COLOPHON, LITHOGRAPH
Est: $400 - $600
Artist: Antonio Frasconi, Uruguayan (1919 - 2013) Title: Colophon Portfolio: Grafica Latinoamericana Year: 1970 Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil Edition: 100 Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
RoGallery
Apr. 29, 2025
ANTONIO FRASCONI, URUGUAYAN 1919-2013, GRAFICA LATINO AMERICANA; GRAFICA LATINO AMERICANA and ANTONIO SEGUI (ARGENTINIAN, 1934-2022) EN 1626, LES INDIENS ONT VENDU MANHATTAN AUX ENZYMES POUR 200F. from portfolio GRAFICA
Est: $300 - $500
ANTONIO FRASCONI URUGUAYAN, 1919-2013 GRAFICA LATINO AMERICANA; GRAFICA LATINO AMERICANA and ANTONIO SEGUI (ARGENTINIAN, 1934-2022) EN 1626, LES INDIENS ONT VENDU MANHATTAN AUX ENZYMES POUR 200F. from portfolio GRAFICA LATINO AMERICANA Screenprint "GRAFICA LATINO AMERICANA," lower right signed and dated: Frasconi 71 upper right and left blind stamp; Sheet: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm.) "GRAFICA LATINO AMERICANA;" upper left and lower right signed and dated: Frasconi 71; Sheet: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm.); ANTONIO SEGUI 'LES INDIENS ONT VENDU MANHATTAN AUX ENZYMES POUR 200F." Lower right signed dated and numbered: Segui 69 67/100; Sheet: 22.3 x 29 5/8 in. (56.7 x 75.2 cm.) (3)
Potomack Company
Apr. 27, 2025
Antonio Frasconi (Uruguyan/American, 1919-2013) Woodcut 'Summer Pasture'
Est: $100 - $200
Description: A modernist woodcut depicting two horned cows or steer. Materials: Rice paper Markings & Inscriptions: Signed Date:Mid to late 20th century Maker: Antonio Frasconi (Uruguyan/American, 1919-2013) Dimensions:12" x 17.25" sheet. Provenance: From a Merion, Pennsylvania collection.
Hoch LTD.
Apr. 26, 2025
Antonio Frasconi, New York, Connecticut / Uruguay (1919-2013), The Meadows I, landscape, large color woodcut, 22"H x 33 1/2"W (Plate), 24"H x 35 3/4"W (Sheet)
Est: $200 - $300
Antonio Frasconi New York, Connecticut / Uruguay, (1919-2013) The Meadows I, landscape large color woodcut pencil signed and numbered 4/15 lower margin. Biography from the Archives of askART: An illustrator, painter and print maker, Antonio Frasconi would become best known for his book illustrations. He was born in 1919 in Montevideo, Uruguay but spent most of his career in America where he worked in New York City and lived in Norwalk, Connecticut. His parents had emigrated from Italy to Uruguay during World War I and Antonio Frasconi grew up in Montevideo. By age twelve he was apprenticing at a local print makers, and soon thereafter began publishing his cartoons in satirical newspapers. In the 1940s Frasconi began experimenting with woodcuts in the 1940s, and in 1945 he received a scholarship from the Art Students' League, and moved to New York to begin his formal education. He also studied at the New School of Social Research. By the 1950s he had become widely recognized as a leading graphic artist, especially in woodblock printing. He married artist Leona Pierce in 1951, and in 1955 published See and Say, A Picture Book in Four Languages, for their son. Over the course of the next fifty years he would illustrate and design over 100 books including the poems of Langston Hughes: Let America be America Again and Pablo Neruda's Bestiary/Bestiario; On the Slain Collegians, the images of America's Vietnam, A Whitman Portrait and Twelve Fables of Aesop. The dictatorship in Uruguay was long and hard, finally coming to an end in 1985, four years after the artist began work on his magnum opus, Los Desaparecidos, or The Disappeared, a series of woodcuts and monotypes. Dark, graphically strong, and echoing the book format, Frasconi's art successfully portrays the horrors of torture, incarceration, and killing while specifically preserving the memory of real people. Exhibitions included: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1953 (Joseph Pennell Memorial medal) Venice Film Festival, 1960 and 1968 (Grand Prix) Casa Americas, Havana, Cuba, 1965-68 (prize) Art of the Americas, Yale University Smithsonian Institution Institute Whitney Museum of American Art Sources: Annex Galleries Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Ripley Auctions
Apr. 26, 2025
Antonio Frasconi, New York, Connecticut / Uruguay (1919-2013), The Arena II, bullfight, large color woodcut, 22"H x 30"W (Plate), 24"H x 36"W (Sheet)
Est: $700 - $900
Antonio Frasconi New York, Connecticut / Uruguay, (1919-2013) The Arena II, bullfight large color woodcut pencil signed and numbered 9/10 lower margin. Biography from the Archives of askART: An illustrator, painter and print maker, Antonio Frasconi would become best known for his book illustrations. He was born in 1919 in Montevideo, Uruguay but spent most of his career in America where he worked in New York City and lived in Norwalk, Connecticut. His parents had emigrated from Italy to Uruguay during World War I and Antonio Frasconi grew up in Montevideo. By age twelve he was apprenticing at a local print makers, and soon thereafter began publishing his cartoons in satirical newspapers. In the 1940s Frasconi began experimenting with woodcuts in the 1940s, and in 1945 he received a scholarship from the Art Students' League, and moved to New York to begin his formal education. He also studied at the New School of Social Research. By the 1950s he had become widely recognized as a leading graphic artist, especially in woodblock printing. He married artist Leona Pierce in 1951, and in 1955 published See and Say, A Picture Book in Four Languages, for their son. Over the course of the next fifty years he would illustrate and design over 100 books including the poems of Langston Hughes: Let America be America Again and Pablo Neruda's Bestiary/Bestiario; On the Slain Collegians, the images of America's Vietnam, A Whitman Portrait and Twelve Fables of Aesop. The dictatorship in Uruguay was long and hard, finally coming to an end in 1985, four years after the artist began work on his magnum opus, Los Desaparecidos, or The Disappeared, a series of woodcuts and monotypes. Dark, graphically strong, and echoing the book format, Frasconi's art successfully portrays the horrors of torture, incarceration, and killing while specifically preserving the memory of real people. Exhibitions included: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1953 (Joseph Pennell Memorial medal) Venice Film Festival, 1960 and 1968 (Grand Prix) Casa Americas, Havana, Cuba, 1965-68 (prize) Art of the Americas, Yale University Smithsonian Institution Institute Whitney Museum of American Art Sources: Annex Galleries Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Ripley Auctions
Apr. 26, 2025
Antonio Frasconi, New York, Connecticut / Uruguay (1919-2013), The Arena I, bullfight, large color woodcut, 22"H x 30"W (Plate), 24"H x 34 1/2"W (Sheet)
Est: $700 - $900
Antonio Frasconi New York, Connecticut / Uruguay, (1919-2013) The Arena I, bullfight large color woodcut pencil signed and numbered 9/12 lower margin. Biography from the Archives of askART: An illustrator, painter and print maker, Antonio Frasconi would become best known for his book illustrations. He was born in 1919 in Montevideo, Uruguay but spent most of his career in America where he worked in New York City and lived in Norwalk, Connecticut. His parents had emigrated from Italy to Uruguay during World War I and Antonio Frasconi grew up in Montevideo. By age twelve he was apprenticing at a local print makers, and soon thereafter began publishing his cartoons in satirical newspapers. In the 1940s Frasconi began experimenting with woodcuts in the 1940s, and in 1945 he received a scholarship from the Art Students' League, and moved to New York to begin his formal education. He also studied at the New School of Social Research. By the 1950s he had become widely recognized as a leading graphic artist, especially in woodblock printing. He married artist Leona Pierce in 1951, and in 1955 published See and Say, A Picture Book in Four Languages, for their son. Over the course of the next fifty years he would illustrate and design over 100 books including the poems of Langston Hughes: Let America be America Again and Pablo Neruda's Bestiary/Bestiario; On the Slain Collegians, the images of America's Vietnam, A Whitman Portrait and Twelve Fables of Aesop. The dictatorship in Uruguay was long and hard, finally coming to an end in 1985, four years after the artist began work on his magnum opus, Los Desaparecidos, or The Disappeared, a series of woodcuts and monotypes. Dark, graphically strong, and echoing the book format, Frasconi's art successfully portrays the horrors of torture, incarceration, and killing while specifically preserving the memory of real people. Exhibitions included: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1953 (Joseph Pennell Memorial medal) Venice Film Festival, 1960 and 1968 (Grand Prix) Casa Americas, Havana, Cuba, 1965-68 (prize) Art of the Americas, Yale University Smithsonian Institution Institute Whitney Museum of American Art Sources: Annex Galleries Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Ripley Auctions
Apr. 26, 2025
Antonio Frasconi, New York, Connecticut / Uruguay (1919-2013), Brecht, 1961, woodcut on Rives, 26 1/4"H x 21 1/4"W (Sight), 32 1/2"H x 27"W (Frame)
Est: $100 - $200
Antonio Frasconi New York, Connecticut / Uruguay, (1919-2013) Brecht, 1961 woodcut on Rives Pencil signed and dated lower right. Edition of 80. Biography from the Archives of askART: An illustrator, painter and print maker, Antonio Frasconi would become best known for his book illustrations. He was born in 1919 in Montevideo, Uruguay but spent most of his career in America where he worked in New York City and lived in Norwalk, Connecticut. His parents had emigrated from Italy to Uruguay during World War I and Antonio Frasconi grew up in Montevideo. By age twelve he was apprenticing at a local print makers, and soon thereafter began publishing his cartoons in satirical newspapers. In the 1940s Frasconi began experimenting with woodcuts in the 1940s, and in 1945 he received a scholarship from the Art Students' League, and moved to New York to begin his formal education. He also studied at the New School of Social Research. By the 1950s he had become widely recognized as a leading graphic artist, especially in woodblock printing. He married artist Leona Pierce in 1951, and in 1955 published See and Say, A Picture Book in Four Languages, for their son. Over the course of the next fifty years he would illustrate and design over 100 books including the poems of Langston Hughes: Let America be America Again and Pablo Neruda's Bestiary/Bestiario; On the Slain Collegians, the images of America's Vietnam, A Whitman Portrait and Twelve Fables of Aesop. The dictatorship in Uruguay was long and hard, finally coming to an end in 1985, four years after the artist began work on his magnum opus, Los Desaparecidos, or The Disappeared, a series of woodcuts and monotypes. Dark, graphically strong, and echoing the book format, Frasconi's art successfully portrays the horrors of torture, incarceration, and killing while specifically preserving the memory of real people. Exhibitions included: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1953 (Joseph Pennell Memorial medal) Venice Film Festival, 1960 and 1968 (Grand Prix) Casa Americas, Havana, Cuba, 1965-68 (prize) Art of the Americas, Yale University Smithsonian Institution Institute Whitney Museum of American Art Sources: Annex Galleries Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Ripley Auctions
Apr. 26, 2025
Antonio Frasconi, New York, Connecticut / Uruguay (1919-2013), La Salute, 1967, color woodcut, 22 1/4"H x 34 1/2"W (Sight), 29 1/2"H x 41 1/2"W (Frame)
Est: $300 - $500
Antonio Frasconi New York, Connecticut / Uruguay, (1919-2013) La Salute, 1967 color woodcut Pencil signed and dated lower right. Edition 10/20. Biography from the Archives of askART: An illustrator, painter and print maker, Antonio Frasconi would become best known for his book illustrations. He was born in 1919 in Montevideo, Uruguay but spent most of his career in America where he worked in New York City and lived in Norwalk, Connecticut. His parents had emigrated from Italy to Uruguay during World War I and Antonio Frasconi grew up in Montevideo. By age twelve he was apprenticing at a local print makers, and soon thereafter began publishing his cartoons in satirical newspapers. In the 1940s Frasconi began experimenting with woodcuts in the 1940s, and in 1945 he received a scholarship from the Art Students' League, and moved to New York to begin his formal education. He also studied at the New School of Social Research. By the 1950s he had become widely recognized as a leading graphic artist, especially in woodblock printing. He married artist Leona Pierce in 1951, and in 1955 published See and Say, A Picture Book in Four Languages, for their son. Over the course of the next fifty years he would illustrate and design over 100 books including the poems of Langston Hughes: Let America be America Again and Pablo Neruda's Bestiary/Bestiario; On the Slain Collegians, the images of America's Vietnam, A Whitman Portrait and Twelve Fables of Aesop. The dictatorship in Uruguay was long and hard, finally coming to an end in 1985, four years after the artist began work on his magnum opus, Los Desaparecidos, or The Disappeared, a series of woodcuts and monotypes. Dark, graphically strong, and echoing the book format, Frasconi's art successfully portrays the horrors of torture, incarceration, and killing while specifically preserving the memory of real people. Exhibitions included: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1953 (Joseph Pennell Memorial medal) Venice Film Festival, 1960 and 1968 (Grand Prix) Casa Americas, Havana, Cuba, 1965-68 (prize) Art of the Americas, Yale University Smithsonian Institution Institute Whitney Museum of American Art Sources: Annex Galleries Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
Ripley Auctions
Apr. 15, 2025
ANTONIO FRASCONI (1919 - 2013) View From Brooklyn.
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
ANTONIO FRASCONI (1919 - 2013) View From Brooklyn. Color woodcut, 1959. 175x236 mm; 6¾x9¼ inches, full margins. Signed, titled and inscribed "ed.25" in pencil, lower margin.
Swann Auction Galleries
Apr. 15, 2025
ANTONIO FRASCONI (1919 - 2013) Fulton Fish Market - Sunrise.
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
ANTONIO FRASCONI (1919 - 2013) Fulton Fish Market - Sunrise. Color woodcut on thin Japan paper, 1953. 422x605 mm; 16⅝x23¾ inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the unknown edition of likely less than 20. Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "artist's proof" and "imp." in pencil, lower margin.
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 27, 2025
Antonio Frasconi
Est: $300 - $400
ANTONIO FRASCONI (Uruguayan School, 1919-2013) Silkscreen "In memoriam Pier Paolo Pasolini II." Signed and dated "93" lower right, titled lower center and serialized "3/10" lower left in pencil outside the work. 92 x 67 cm Provenance: Ricardo Pascale Collection ANTONIO FRASCONI (Escuela uruguaya, 1919-2013) Serigrafía "In memoriam Pier Paolo Pasolini II" Firmado y fechado "93" abajo a la derecha, titulado abajo al centro y seriado "3/10" abajo a la izquierda a lápiz fuera de la obra 92 x 67 cm Proveniencia: Colección Ricardo Pascale
Zorrilla Subastas
Mar. 27, 2025
Antonio Frasconi
Est: $250 - $350
ANTONIO FRASCONI (Escuela uruguaya, 1919-2013) Serigrafía "Barn door" Firmado y fechado "65" abajo a la derecha, dedicado "Para Ricardo Pascale un recuerdo de nuestro encuentro" abajo al centro, titulado abajo al centro y seriado "13/14" abajo a la izquierda a lápiz fuera de la obra 55 x 40 cm Proveniencia: Colección Ricardo Pascale ANTONIO FRASCONI (Escuela uruguaya, 1919-2013) Serigrafía "Barn door" Firmado y fechado "65" abajo a la derecha, dedicado "Para Ricardo Pascale un recuerdo de nuestro encuentro" abajo al centro, titulado abajo al centro y seriado "13/14" abajo a la izquierda a lápiz fuera de la obra 55 x 40 cm Proveniencia: Colección Ricardo Pascale
Zorrilla Subastas
Mar. 26, 2025
Antonio Frasconi Signed Woodcut
Est: $200 - $400
Antonio Frasconi (New York, 1919-2013) large matted woodcut. Measures 13 x 9 inches image size and 25.5 x 20 inches matted. Excellent condition. Properly hinge-mounted. Custom matted with backing. The absence of a condition report does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections, or the conditions of aging. Photos may also act as a condition report. Please review all photos closely prior to bidding and ask further questions if so desired. Our in-house shipping department will gladly pack and ship any item that fits into a 14x14x14 inch or 30x5x24 inch or equivalent or smaller box/folio if it is not fragile or over 25lbs. We will charge for labor to pack and process based on actual time it takes, actual cost of materials used to pack and actual shipper charges that will include insurance and signature required. We generally use USPS and Fed Ex and compare the pricing between the two. Books maximum box size will be 14x14x14 inch or equivalent and will be shipped USPS Media Mail unless otherwise requested. We gladly will give shipping estimates prior to auction. Please make this request at least 24 hours prior to auction for our shipping department to respond. If your invoice is for multiple items, we will use our discretion on requiring the use of an outside shipper. We reserve the right to require an outside shipper on any item(s) in the auction even if not stated.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Mar. 20, 2025
Antonio Frasconi "Illustrated Books" Serigraph
Est: $150 - $300
Offered is a serigraph by Antonio Frasconi, titled "Libros Ilustrados" (Illustrated Books), for an exhibition at La Cases Del Libro in San Juan, PR, 1976. Pencil signed along the bottom edge and dated. Sight seen approx. 18-3/4" x 26-1/2", overall frame size approx. 26" x 34". This lot is being offered on behalf of the Bronx County Public Administrator from the Estate of Miriam Castle Melnick #273/21.
Weiss Auctions
Mar. 05, 2025
Antonio Frasconi, American 1919-2013, Still Life, Woodblock Print
Est: $400 - $600
Antonio Frasconi American, 1919-2013 Still Life Woodblock Print Signed in pencil.
Nye & Company
Feb. 27, 2025
Antonio Frasconi signed woodblock Homenaje A Pablo Casals
Est: $100 - $200
Antonio Frasconi signed woodblock Homenaje A Pablo Casals. Approx. Artwork 22x31.5 inches. Frame 31.5x41 inches.
Schultz Auctioneers
Feb. 27, 2025
Antonio Frasconi signed woodcut
Est: $100 - $200
Antonio Frasconi signed woodcut "Bela Bartok" of 110. Title and number are partially obscured by mat. Approx. Artwork 11.75x23 inches. Frame 19x31 inches.
Schultz Auctioneers
Feb. 15, 2025
Antonio FRASCONI: "Sioux Plains".
Est: $350 - $500
Antonio FRASCONI (Uruguayan American,1919-2013) "Sioux Plains". Color lithograph on Rives wove paper, 1971. Edition of 100. Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil. Bearing two unidentified blindstamps in the bottom sheet margin. Image size: 25 1/2 x 19 inches. Sheet size: 30 x 21 3/4 inches.
Armstrong Fine Art
Feb. 15, 2025
Antonio FRASCONI: "Self-Portrait".
Est: $300 - $400
Antonio FRASCONI (American, 1919-2013): "Self-Portrait". Woodcut on Japan laid paper, 1950. Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed in pencil at the lower margin. Image size: 22 x 6 3/4 inches. Sheet size: 29 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches.
Armstrong Fine Art
Dec. 14, 2024
Antonio Frasconi, Uruguay / American (1919-2013), Feeding Time, 1957, woodcut print, 10 1/4”H x 7 1/2”W (sight), 17 1/2”H x 14 1/4”W (frame)
Est: $140 - $250
Antonio Frasconi Uruguay / American, (1919-2013) Feeding Time, 1957 woodcut print Titled and numbered ed.50 in pencil upper left, signed and dated in pencil upper right. Biography from the Archives of askART An illustrator, painter and print maker, Antonio Frasconi would become best known for his book illustrations. He was born in 1919 in Montevideo, Uruguay but spent most of his career in America where he worked in New York City and lived in Norwalk, Connecticut. His parents had emigrated from Italy to Uruguay during World War I and Antonio Frasconi grew up in Montevideo. By age twelve he was apprenticing at a local print makers, and soon thereafter began publishing his cartoons in satirical newspapers. In the 1940s Frasconi began experimenting with woodcuts in the 1940s, and in 1945 he received a scholarship from the Art Students' League, and moved to New York to begin his formal education. He also studied at the New School of Social Research. By the 1950s he had become widely recognized as a leading graphic artist, especially in woodblock printing. He married artist Leona Pierce in 1951, and in 1955 published See and Say, A Picture Book in Four Languages, for their son. Over the course of the next fifty years he would illustrate and design over 100 books including the poems of Langston Hughes: Let America be America Again and Pablo Neruda's Bestiary/Bestiario; On the Slain Collegians, the images of America's Vietnam, A Whitman Portrait and Twelve Fables of Aesop. The dictatorship in Uruguay was long and hard, finally coming to an end in 1985, four years after the artist began work on his magnum opus, Los Desaparecidos, or The Disappeared, a series of woodcuts and monotypes. Dark, graphically strong, and echoing the book format, Frasconi's art successfully portrays the horrors of torture, incarceration, and killing while specifically preserving the memory of real people.
Ripley Auctions
Dec. 10, 2024
Antonio Fraconi, Songs III
Est: -
Etching on paper. Signed and dated (74) in the lower right corner. Titled and numbered (Ed. 3/35) in the lower left corner.
Duran Arte y Subastas
Nov. 23, 2024
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013), Tuscany VI, Mid Century Woodcut
Est: $150 - $300
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013), Tuscany VI, Mid Century Woodcut. Signed "Frasconi 67," numbered 8/20. As framed approximately 42.375W x 30.25H x 1.75D in. Sight approximately 35.25W x 23.25H in.
Clark's Auction Company
Nov. 20, 2024
Antonio Frasconi Signed Woodcut
Est: $100 - $150
Antonio Frasconi Signed Woodcut. Measures 35.5 x 11.75 inches image size. Unframed, taped at top edge only. Provenance: Previously estate of Fritz Eichenberg, recently estate collection of William Greenbaum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Proprietor of William Greenbaum Fine Prints. If lot is absent of a condition report one may be requested via email. Condition report is provided as an opinion only and is no guarantee as condition can be subjective. Buyer must view photographs or scans to assist in determining condition and ask further questions if so desired. Our in-house shipping department will gladly pack and ship any item that fits into a 14x14x14 inch or 30x5x24 inch or equivalent or smaller box/folio if it is not fragile or over 25lbs. We will charge for labor to pack and process based on actual time it takes, actual cost of materials used to pack and actual shipper charges that will include insurance and signature required. We generally use USPS and Fed Ex and compare the pricing between the two. Books maximum box size will be 14x14x14 inch or equivalent and will be shipped USPS Media Mail unless otherwise requested. We gladly will give shipping estimates prior to auction. Please make this request at least 24 hours prior to auction for our shipping department to respond. If your invoice is for multiple items, we will use our discretion on requiring the use of an outside shipper. We reserve the right to require an outside shipper on any item(s) in the auction even if not stated.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Nov. 20, 2024
Antonio Frasconi Woodcut [Exhibition Poster]
Est: $75 - $150
Antonio Frasconi (Uruguayan-American, 1919-2013) exhibition poster 1966. Measures 22.5 in. x 16 in. Unframed, loose and not glued or mounted. Provenance: Estate collection of William Greenbaum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Proprietor of William Greenbaum Fine Prints. If lot is absent of a condition report one may be requested via email. Condition report is provided as an opinion only and is no guarantee as condition can be subjective. Buyer must view photographs or scans to assist in determining condition and ask further questions if so desired. Our in-house shipping department will gladly pack and ship any item that fits into a 14x14x14 inch or 30x5x24 inch or equivalent or smaller box/folio if it is not fragile or over 25lbs. We will charge for labor to pack and process based on actual time it takes, actual cost of materials used to pack and actual shipper charges that will include insurance and signature required. We generally use USPS and Fed Ex and compare the pricing between the two. Books maximum box size will be 14x14x14 inch or equivalent and will be shipped USPS Media Mail unless otherwise requested. We gladly will give shipping estimates prior to auction. Please make this request at least 24 hours prior to auction for our shipping department to respond. If your invoice is for multiple items, we will use our discretion on requiring the use of an outside shipper. We reserve the right to require an outside shipper on any item(s) in the auction even if not stated.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Oct. 30, 2024
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013), "Window III," 1969
Est: $700 - $900
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013) "Window III," 1969 Woodcut in colors on paper Edition: 6/10 Signed, titled, dated, numbered, and inscribed in pencil in the lower margin: Frasconi / to Robin and Ernie with Love, Antonio 28/viii/69
John Moran Auctioneers
Oct. 30, 2024
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013), "Alhambra XIV," 1963
Est: $500 - $700
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013) "Alhambra XIV," 1963 Woodcut in colors on paper Edition: 20/35 Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil in the lower margin: Frasconi
John Moran Auctioneers
Oct. 30, 2024
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013), "The Sound IV," 1975
Est: $600 - $800
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013) "The Sound IV," 1975 Woodcut in colors on paper Edition: 3/10 Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil in the lower margin: Frasconi
John Moran Auctioneers
Oct. 30, 2024
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013), "View of Venice III - La Salute," 1969
Est: $600 - $800
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013) "View of Venice III - La Salute," 1969 Woodcut in colors on paper Edition: 9/16 Signed, titled, dated, numbered, and inscribed in pencil in the lower margin: Frasconi / To Robin & Ernie, until we meet in Venezia from Antonio, Uona [?], Pablo, and Miguel, August 28, 1969
John Moran Auctioneers
Oct. 16, 2024
Antonio Frasconi Woodcut [Sean O'Casey]
Est: $200 - $300
Antonio Frasconi Woodcut [Sean O'Casey]. Signed and dated (19)57 in pencil lower right. Titled in pencil lower center. Measures 24.25 x 17.125 inches sheet size. Light toning over exposed image area when previously framed. Unframed, hinge-mounted at top corners only. Provenance: Estate collection of William Greenbaum, Gloucester, Massachusetts, Proprietor of William Greenbaum Fine Prints. If lot is absent of a condition report one may be requested via email. Condition report is provided as an opinion only and is no guarantee as condition can be subjective. Buyer must view photographs or scans to assist in determining condition and ask further questions if so desired. Our in-house shipping department will gladly pack and ship any item that fits into a 14x14x14 inch or 30x5x24 inch or equivalent or smaller box/folio if it is not fragile or over 25lbs. We will charge for labor to pack and process based on actual time it takes, actual cost of materials used to pack and actual shipper charges that will include insurance and signature required. We generally use USPS and Fed Ex and compare the pricing between the two. Books maximum box size will be 14x14x14 inch or equivalent and will be shipped USPS Media Mail unless otherwise requested. We gladly will give shipping estimates prior to auction. Please make this request at least 24 hours prior to auction for our shipping department to respond. If your invoice is for multiple items, we will use our discretion on requiring the use of an outside shipper. We reserve the right to require an outside shipper on any item(s) in the auction even if not stated.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Oct. 15, 2024
Antonio Frasconi - On Brecht - 1962 Lithograph 26" x 19"
Est: $325 - $400
"On Brecht" by Antonio Frasconi, 1962 Unsigned Lithograph. Paper size is 26 x 19 inches, with an image size of 23 x 19 inches. The Lithograph is from an unknown edition size. and is not framed. The condition was rated C: Several Signs of use and handling, some visible marks. Additional details: In 1953, Time magazine declared Frasconi to be “America’s foremost practitioner of the ancient art of the woodcut.”
DUMBO Auctions
Sep. 08, 2024
ANTONIO FRASCONI (AMERICAN/URUGUAYAN, 1919-2013).
Est: $300 - $500
'Lettuce Worker II, Salina Valley', 1953. Colored woodcut. Signed lower right. Titled lower left. 'AP' for Artist Proof lower left. Verso: Terry Dintenfass Gallery Label Verso. Exhibited at Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Fl, ;'The Latin American Spirit: Arts and Artist in The United States, 1920-1970, January 28 - March 4, 1990. From a Mahopac, NY estate. Dimensions: Image size: 20" h x 11.5" w. Frame: 30.5" h x 21.5" w.
Clarke Auction Gallery
Jun. 30, 2024
Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut on Kotchi Handmade Paper, Signed
Est: $200 - $800
Original woodcut on Kochi Japanese handmade paper proof edition for the cover catalogue of Work of Antonio Frasconi exhibition held at the Cleveland Museum of Art and sponsored by the Print Club of Cleveland in 1952-1953. Signature and date in graphite on lower right: Frasconi 52. Housed in a bamboo shaped frame with an off-white mat. Sight dimensions: 14"L x 11"H. Frame size: 19.50"L x 16.50"H x 0.50"W. Artwork can be unframed and rolled for shipment. Artist: Antonio Frasconi (Uruguayan-American, 1919-2013 Issued: 1952 Dimensions: See Description Country of Origin: Uruguay/United States
Lion and Unicorn
Jun. 01, 2024
2 20th c. American woodcuts
Est: $200 - $400
1). Antonio Frasconi (American, 1919-2013)- Thistle- woodcut, 1965, signed, titled and annotated ed. 25 in pencil. 7 1/2 x 10 7/8" 2). Isaac Sanger (American, 1899-1986)- Tugboats- wood engraving, signed and annotated 'Ed 50' in pencil. 6 3/4 x 4 7/8'
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
May. 09, 2024
λ ANTONIO FRASCONI (1919-2013), MONTEREY FISHERMAN; LETTUCE WORKERS 5; AND MIGRATION OVER THE SOUND
Est: £300 - £500
λ ANTONIO FRASCONI (1919-2013) MONTEREY FISHERMAN; LETTUCE WORKERS 5; AND MIGRATION OVER THE SOUND Three woodcuts printed in colours, 1951, 1953 and 1959, each signed in pencil and dated, the first indistinctly titled and printed on two sheets, the second inscribed '5' and numbered 4/9(), the third titled and numbered 12/25image (largest) approximately 49.5 x 88.5 cm (3)Provenance: Sotheby's, 18th January 2019, A Collecting Legacy: Property From The Collection of Nelson & Happy Rockefeller, Lot 549
Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales
Mar. 26, 2024
Antonio Frasconi - On Brecht - 1962 Lithograph 26" x 19"
Est: $125 - $175
"On Brecht" by Antonio Frasconi, 1962 Unsigned Lithograph. Paper size is 26 x 19 inches, with an image size of 23 x 19 inches. The Lithograph is from an unknown edition size. and is not framed. The condition was rated C: Several Signs of use and handling, some visible marks. Additional details: In 1953, Time magazine declared Frasconi to be “America’s foremost practitioner of the ancient art of the woodcut.”
DUMBO Auctions
Mar. 05, 2024
Antonio Frasconi (Argentine 1919-2013), 'Antonio Frasconi's Woodcuts 1943-1975', Exhibition Poster for Jane Haslem Gallery, March 13-April 14, 1976, Woodcut in Color, Numbered 11/25, Frame: 24 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (61.6 x 46
Est: $200 - $400
Antonio Frasconi (Argentine 1919-2013), 'Antonio Frasconi's Woodcuts 1943-1975', Exhibition Poster for Jane Haslem Gallery, March 13-April 14, 1976, Woodcut in Color, Numbered 11/25,
Weschler's
Feb. 18, 2024
Antonio Frasconi Kaleidoscope in Woodcuts Accordion Folded Book
Est: -
Antonio Frasconi Kaleidoscope in Woodcuts Accordion Folded Book. Pickup is Monday, February 19th from 12pm to 6pm and Tuesday, February 20th from 10am to 3pm in Gahanna, Ohio 43230. (THIS IS THE ONLY PICKUP WINDOW) or we will provide in-house shipping for this item. We will charge a $3 delivery fee to take this lot to our warehouse for processing. Once packed up we will send you an invoice for shipping & handling. Shipping questions: [email protected] Sales tax will be collected for all bidders paying with a card. We will not charge sales tax if you come to pay cash in person (you are welcomed to do this!) If tax exempt, make sure your certificate is submitted with Invaluable.
Burns Auction & Appraisal, LLC.
Feb. 11, 2024
ANTONIO FRASCONI (URUGUAYAN/AMERICAN, 1919-2013).
Est: $600 - $900
'Carnivale'. Woodcut and silkscreen. Signed and date '80' lower right in pencil. This is a rare 'artist proof' printed outside of the numbered edition. Property from a Hendricks, WV collection. (unframed)
Clarke Auction Gallery
Feb. 10, 2024
Antonio Frasconi, New York, Connecticut / Uruguay (1919-2013), Summer Pasture, woodcut, 12"H x 17 1/2"W (sheet)
Est: $200 - $400
Antonio Frasconi New York, Connecticut / Uruguay, (1919-2013) Summer Pasture woodcut Pencil signed lower right. From the Archives of askART: Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. "Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut Master, Dies at 93" By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: January 21, 2013 In 1953, Time magazine called Antonio Frasconi America's foremost practitioner of the ancient art of the woodcut. Four decades later, Art Journal called him the best of his generation. Mr. Frasconi did not reach this pinnacle by adhering to orthodoxies. He found inspiration in comic books as well as the Old Masters. He decried art education, saying the average student does not learn the pertinent questions, much less the answers. He abhorred art that dwelt on aesthetics at the expense of social problems. He repeatedly addressed war, racism and poverty, and devoted a decade to completing a series of woodcut portraits of people who were tortured and killed under a rightist military dictatorship in his home country, Uruguay, from 1973 to 1985. "A sort of anger builds in you, so you try to spill it back in your work," he said in a 1994 interview with Americas, a magazine of the Organization of American States. Mr. Frasconi, who died on Jan. 8 at 93, illustrated more than 100 books, and his work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian. His woodcuts appeared on album and magazine covers, holiday cards, calendars and posters, and in exhibitions around the world. Several of his children's books won awards. In 1963 he designed a stamp to honor the centennial of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1968 he represented Uruguay at the Venice Biennale, exhibiting prints from 20 years of work. Much of that work was done in the studio at his home in Norwalk, Conn., where the views of migrating birds and passing seasons from the window influenced his art. He built the house in 1957, and his son Miguel said he died there. Mr. Frasconi's was patient and meticulous in his art, which involves making an impression on paper from a design carved in a block of wood. Before producing a woodcut titled Sunrise — Fulton Fish Market in 1953, he spent three months wandering Lower Manhattan's wharves and the holds of fishing boats. He spent hour upon hour studying "just how a man lifts a box," he said. He then spent three weeks carving five wood blocks, each to apply a different color, as they are stamped successively on the same sheet of paper. He said the capricious nature of wood governed many artistic decisions. He loved the hands-on experience of working with wood, some of which he gathered from the beach in front of his home. "Sometimes the wood gives you a break," he told Time in 1963, "and matches your conception of the way it is grained. But often you must surrender to the grain, find the movement of the scene, the mood of the work, in the way the grain runs." Mr. Frasconi said he took up the art after being attracted to the idea of making multiple prints, in part so he could offer art to people at reasonable prices. The woodcuts of Paul Gauguin were an enormous influence, he said. Antonio Rudolfo Frasconi was born to Italian immigrant parents on April 28, 1919, in Buenos Aires; a few weeks later his family moved to Uruguay. His father was frequently unemployed, and his mother worked in a restaurant and as a seamstress. He dropped out of art school at 12 because he was bored with copying from plaster casts of classical sculpture and became a printer's apprentice. On his own, he made posters deriding Franco and Hitler, which he signed "Chico." In 1945 he came to New York on a one-year scholarship to the Art Students League, and the next year he had a show at the Brooklyn Museum. After moving to California, he worked as a gardener and as a guard at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, where he had an exhibition. Returning to New York, he collaborated with the adapter Glenway Wescott and the book designer Joseph Blumenthal on 12 Fables of Aesop, which was published by the Museum of Modern Art and honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the year's 50 best books. He illustrated a poem by Federico García Lorca on the brutality of Franco's police. A later political work about the Vietnam War superimposed bombsights on terror-stricken peasants. He illustrated selections from the poems of Herman Melville to comment on the Ohio National Guard's killing of students at Kent State University in 1970. For many years Mr. Frasconi, a citizen of both Uruguay and the United States, taught at Purchase College of the State University of New York. His first marriage, to Rene Farmer, ended in divorce. His second wife, Leona Pierce, a noted woodcut artist, died in 2002 after 50 years of marriage. In addition to his son Miguel, Mr. Frasconi is survived by another son, Pablo, and a granddaughter. Some of Mr. Frasconi's work was devilishly playful. His 1952 book, The World Upside Down, pictured a bull butchering a human, a man in a bird cage while a bird cavorts outside, and a sheep herding a flock of humans. A dog sleeps in bed, while a man slumbers in a doghouse on the floor. A fire hydrant is nearby, apparently in case the man needs it.
Ripley Auctions
Feb. 10, 2024
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013) woodblock
Est: $150 - $250
Summer Pasture woodcut in colors, 1955, signed and titled in pencil. 7 1/2 x 12 7/8''
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Jan. 27, 2024
MID CENTURY ANTONIO FRASCONI EXHIBITION BOOKLETS
Est: $100 - $150
A lot of 1950s booklets for the exhibitions of Antonio Frasconi at the Weyhe Gallery, NY. A total of 7 items. Antonio Frasconi, 1919 to 2013, was an American woodcut artist and illustrator. Weyhe Gallery, established in 1919 in New York City, is an art gallery specializing in prints. Art History Collectibles, Graphic Art Prints, Antiquarian Librarian Pieces.
Antique Arena Inc
Nov. 13, 2023
ANTONIO FRASCONI WOODCUTS ACCORDIAN BOOK
Est: $50 - $150
ANTONIO FRASCONI WOODCUTS ACCORDIAN BOOK -GOOD PRE OWNED CONDITION, MINOR WEAR TO BOX -DP102723
DejaVu Estate Sales & Auctions
Oct. 28, 2023
Antonio Frasconi, New York, Connecticut / Uruguay (1919-2013), Summer Pasture, woodcut, 12"H x 17 1/2"W (sheet)
Est: $200 - $300
Antonio Frasconi New York, Connecticut / Uruguay, (1919-2013) Summer Pasture woodcut Pencil signed lower right. From the Archives of askART: Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. "Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut Master, Dies at 93" By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: January 21, 2013 In 1953, Time magazine called Antonio Frasconi America's foremost practitioner of the ancient art of the woodcut. Four decades later, Art Journal called him the best of his generation. Mr. Frasconi did not reach this pinnacle by adhering to orthodoxies. He found inspiration in comic books as well as the Old Masters. He decried art education, saying the average student does not learn the pertinent questions, much less the answers. He abhorred art that dwelt on aesthetics at the expense of social problems. He repeatedly addressed war, racism and poverty, and devoted a decade to completing a series of woodcut portraits of people who were tortured and killed under a rightist military dictatorship in his home country, Uruguay, from 1973 to 1985. "A sort of anger builds in you, so you try to spill it back in your work," he said in a 1994 interview with Americas, a magazine of the Organization of American States. Mr. Frasconi, who died on Jan. 8 at 93, illustrated more than 100 books, and his work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian. His woodcuts appeared on album and magazine covers, holiday cards, calendars and posters, and in exhibitions around the world. Several of his children's books won awards. In 1963 he designed a stamp to honor the centennial of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1968 he represented Uruguay at the Venice Biennale, exhibiting prints from 20 years of work. Much of that work was done in the studio at his home in Norwalk, Conn., where the views of migrating birds and passing seasons from the window influenced his art. He built the house in 1957, and his son Miguel said he died there. Mr. Frasconi's was patient and meticulous in his art, which involves making an impression on paper from a design carved in a block of wood. Before producing a woodcut titled Sunrise — Fulton Fish Market in 1953, he spent three months wandering Lower Manhattan's wharves and the holds of fishing boats. He spent hour upon hour studying "just how a man lifts a box," he said. He then spent three weeks carving five wood blocks, each to apply a different color, as they are stamped successively on the same sheet of paper. He said the capricious nature of wood governed many artistic decisions. He loved the hands-on experience of working with wood, some of which he gathered from the beach in front of his home. "Sometimes the wood gives you a break," he told Time in 1963, "and matches your conception of the way it is grained. But often you must surrender to the grain, find the movement of the scene, the mood of the work, in the way the grain runs." Mr. Frasconi said he took up the art after being attracted to the idea of making multiple prints, in part so he could offer art to people at reasonable prices. The woodcuts of Paul Gauguin were an enormous influence, he said. Antonio Rudolfo Frasconi was born to Italian immigrant parents on April 28, 1919, in Buenos Aires; a few weeks later his family moved to Uruguay. His father was frequently unemployed, and his mother worked in a restaurant and as a seamstress. He dropped out of art school at 12 because he was bored with copying from plaster casts of classical sculpture and became a printer's apprentice. On his own, he made posters deriding Franco and Hitler, which he signed "Chico." In 1945 he came to New York on a one-year scholarship to the Art Students League, and the next year he had a show at the Brooklyn Museum. After moving to California, he worked as a gardener and as a guard at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, where he had an exhibition. Returning to New York, he collaborated with the adapter Glenway Wescott and the book designer Joseph Blumenthal on 12 Fables of Aesop, which was published by the Museum of Modern Art and honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the year's 50 best books. He illustrated a poem by Federico García Lorca on the brutality of Franco's police. A later political work about the Vietnam War superimposed bombsights on terror-stricken peasants. He illustrated selections from the poems of Herman Melville to comment on the Ohio National Guard's killing of students at Kent State University in 1970. For many years Mr. Frasconi, a citizen of both Uruguay and the United States, taught at Purchase College of the State University of New York. His first marriage, to Rene Farmer, ended in divorce. His second wife, Leona Pierce, a noted woodcut artist, died in 2002 after 50 years of marriage. In addition to his son Miguel, Mr. Frasconi is survived by another son, Pablo, and a granddaughter. Some of Mr. Frasconi's work was devilishly playful. His 1952 book, The World Upside Down, pictured a bull butchering a human, a man in a bird cage while a bird cavorts outside, and a sheep herding a flock of humans. A dog sleeps in bed, while a man slumbers in a doghouse on the floor. A fire hydrant is nearby, apparently in case the man needs it.
Ripley Auctions
Oct. 19, 2023
ANTONIO FRASCONI (New York/Connecticut/Uruguay, 1919-2013), “La Salute”, 1967., Woodcut, 21.5” x 34”. Framed 27.5” x 39.75”.
Est: $250 - $350
ANTONIO FRASCONI New York/Connecticut/Uruguay, 1919-2013 "La Salute", 1967. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 10/20 in pencil lower margin.
Eldred's
Oct. 12, 2023
Antonio Frasconi, woodcut, 1961
Est: $100 - $150
Antonio Frasconi (Uruguayan-American, 1919-2013), "Berthold Brecht", woodcut on Rives paper, pencil signed and titled lower margin, loose and unframed, 29"h x 22"w
Millea Bros Ltd
Oct. 07, 2023
Antonio Frasconi, New York, Connecticut / Uruguay (1919-2013), Sunflower , woodcut, 21 1/4"H x 27 1/4"W (sheet)
Est: $300 - $500
Antonio Frasconi New York, Connecticut / Uruguay, (1919-2013) Sunflower woodcut Signed and dated lower right, titled and numbered 6/10 lower left. From the Archives of askART: Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. "Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut Master, Dies at 93" By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: January 21, 2013 In 1953, Time magazine called Antonio Frasconi America's foremost practitioner of the ancient art of the woodcut. Four decades later, Art Journal called him the best of his generation. Mr. Frasconi did not reach this pinnacle by adhering to orthodoxies. He found inspiration in comic books as well as the Old Masters. He decried art education, saying the average student does not learn the pertinent questions, much less the answers. He abhorred art that dwelt on aesthetics at the expense of social problems. He repeatedly addressed war, racism and poverty, and devoted a decade to completing a series of woodcut portraits of people who were tortured and killed under a rightist military dictatorship in his home country, Uruguay, from 1973 to 1985. "A sort of anger builds in you, so you try to spill it back in your work," he said in a 1994 interview with Americas, a magazine of the Organization of American States. Mr. Frasconi, who died on Jan. 8 at 93, illustrated more than 100 books, and his work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian. His woodcuts appeared on album and magazine covers, holiday cards, calendars and posters, and in exhibitions around the world. Several of his children's books won awards. In 1963 he designed a stamp to honor the centennial of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1968 he represented Uruguay at the Venice Biennale, exhibiting prints from 20 years of work. Much of that work was done in the studio at his home in Norwalk, Conn., where the views of migrating birds and passing seasons from the window influenced his art. He built the house in 1957, and his son Miguel said he died there. Mr. Frasconi's was patient and meticulous in his art, which involves making an impression on paper from a design carved in a block of wood. Before producing a woodcut titled Sunrise — Fulton Fish Market in 1953, he spent three months wandering Lower Manhattan's wharves and the holds of fishing boats. He spent hour upon hour studying "just how a man lifts a box," he said. He then spent three weeks carving five wood blocks, each to apply a different color, as they are stamped successively on the same sheet of paper. He said the capricious nature of wood governed many artistic decisions. He loved the hands-on experience of working with wood, some of which he gathered from the beach in front of his home. "Sometimes the wood gives you a break," he told Time in 1963, "and matches your conception of the way it is grained. But often you must surrender to the grain, find the movement of the scene, the mood of the work, in the way the grain runs." Mr. Frasconi said he took up the art after being attracted to the idea of making multiple prints, in part so he could offer art to people at reasonable prices. The woodcuts of Paul Gauguin were an enormous influence, he said. Antonio Rudolfo Frasconi was born to Italian immigrant parents on April 28, 1919, in Buenos Aires; a few weeks later his family moved to Uruguay. His father was frequently unemployed, and his mother worked in a restaurant and as a seamstress. He dropped out of art school at 12 because he was bored with copying from plaster casts of classical sculpture and became a printer's apprentice. On his own, he made posters deriding Franco and Hitler, which he signed "Chico." In 1945 he came to New York on a one-year scholarship to the Art Students League, and the next year he had a show at the Brooklyn Museum. After moving to California, he worked as a gardener and as a guard at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, where he had an exhibition. Returning to New York, he collaborated with the adapter Glenway Wescott and the book designer Joseph Blumenthal on 12 Fables of Aesop, which was published by the Museum of Modern Art and honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the year's 50 best books. He illustrated a poem by Federico García Lorca on the brutality of Franco's police. A later political work about the Vietnam War superimposed bombsights on terror-stricken peasants. He illustrated selections from the poems of Herman Melville to comment on the Ohio National Guard's killing of students at Kent State University in 1970. For many years Mr. Frasconi, a citizen of both Uruguay and the United States, taught at Purchase College of the State University of New York. His first marriage, to Rene Farmer, ended in divorce. His second wife, Leona Pierce, a noted woodcut artist, died in 2002 after 50 years of marriage. In addition to his son Miguel, Mr. Frasconi is survived by another son, Pablo, and a granddaughter. Some of Mr. Frasconi's work was devilishly playful. His 1952 book, The World Upside Down, pictured a bull butchering a human, a man in a bird cage while a bird cavorts outside, and a sheep herding a flock of humans. A dog sleeps in bed, while a man slumbers in a doghouse on the floor. A fire hydrant is nearby, apparently in case the man needs it.
Ripley Auctions
Oct. 07, 2023
Antonio Frasconi, New York, Connecticut / Uruguay (1919-2013), Sioux-Plains, 1971 , woodcut, 29 7/8"H x 21 3/4"W (sheet)
Est: $300 - $500
Antonio Frasconi New York, Connecticut / Uruguay, (1919-2013) Sioux-Plains, 1971 woodcut Signed and dated lower right, titled lower left, numbered 69/100 lower middle. From the Archives of askART: Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist. "Antonio Frasconi, Woodcut Master, Dies at 93" By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: January 21, 2013 In 1953, Time magazine called Antonio Frasconi America's foremost practitioner of the ancient art of the woodcut. Four decades later, Art Journal called him the best of his generation. Mr. Frasconi did not reach this pinnacle by adhering to orthodoxies. He found inspiration in comic books as well as the Old Masters. He decried art education, saying the average student does not learn the pertinent questions, much less the answers. He abhorred art that dwelt on aesthetics at the expense of social problems. He repeatedly addressed war, racism and poverty, and devoted a decade to completing a series of woodcut portraits of people who were tortured and killed under a rightist military dictatorship in his home country, Uruguay, from 1973 to 1985. "A sort of anger builds in you, so you try to spill it back in your work," he said in a 1994 interview with Americas, a magazine of the Organization of American States. Mr. Frasconi, who died on Jan. 8 at 93, illustrated more than 100 books, and his work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian. His woodcuts appeared on album and magazine covers, holiday cards, calendars and posters, and in exhibitions around the world. Several of his children's books won awards. In 1963 he designed a stamp to honor the centennial of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1968 he represented Uruguay at the Venice Biennale, exhibiting prints from 20 years of work. Much of that work was done in the studio at his home in Norwalk, Conn., where the views of migrating birds and passing seasons from the window influenced his art. He built the house in 1957, and his son Miguel said he died there. Mr. Frasconi's was patient and meticulous in his art, which involves making an impression on paper from a design carved in a block of wood. Before producing a woodcut titled Sunrise — Fulton Fish Market in 1953, he spent three months wandering Lower Manhattan's wharves and the holds of fishing boats. He spent hour upon hour studying "just how a man lifts a box," he said. He then spent three weeks carving five wood blocks, each to apply a different color, as they are stamped successively on the same sheet of paper. He said the capricious nature of wood governed many artistic decisions. He loved the hands-on experience of working with wood, some of which he gathered from the beach in front of his home. "Sometimes the wood gives you a break," he told Time in 1963, "and matches your conception of the way it is grained. But often you must surrender to the grain, find the movement of the scene, the mood of the work, in the way the grain runs." Mr. Frasconi said he took up the art after being attracted to the idea of making multiple prints, in part so he could offer art to people at reasonable prices. The woodcuts of Paul Gauguin were an enormous influence, he said. Antonio Rudolfo Frasconi was born to Italian immigrant parents on April 28, 1919, in Buenos Aires; a few weeks later his family moved to Uruguay. His father was frequently unemployed, and his mother worked in a restaurant and as a seamstress. He dropped out of art school at 12 because he was bored with copying from plaster casts of classical sculpture and became a printer's apprentice. On his own, he made posters deriding Franco and Hitler, which he signed "Chico." In 1945 he came to New York on a one-year scholarship to the Art Students League, and the next year he had a show at the Brooklyn Museum. After moving to California, he worked as a gardener and as a guard at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, where he had an exhibition. Returning to New York, he collaborated with the adapter Glenway Wescott and the book designer Joseph Blumenthal on 12 Fables of Aesop, which was published by the Museum of Modern Art and honored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the year's 50 best books. He illustrated a poem by Federico García Lorca on the brutality of Franco's police. A later political work about the Vietnam War superimposed bombsights on terror-stricken peasants. He illustrated selections from the poems of Herman Melville to comment on the Ohio National Guard's killing of students at Kent State University in 1970. For many years Mr. Frasconi, a citizen of both Uruguay and the United States, taught at Purchase College of the State University of New York. His first marriage, to Rene Farmer, ended in divorce. His second wife, Leona Pierce, a noted woodcut artist, died in 2002 after 50 years of marriage. In addition to his son Miguel, Mr. Frasconi is survived by another son, Pablo, and a granddaughter. Some of Mr. Frasconi's work was devilishly playful. His 1952 book, The World Upside Down, pictured a bull butchering a human, a man in a bird cage while a bird cavorts outside, and a sheep herding a flock of humans. A dog sleeps in bed, while a man slumbers in a doghouse on the floor. A fire hydrant is nearby, apparently in case the man needs it.
Ripley Auctions