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

Aug. 08, 2026
Antonio Frasconi (American, 1919-2013) woodcut
Est: $100 - $200
The Dog and The Crocodile woodcut, 1950, signed and dated in pencil, The Print Club of Cleveland publication no. 30, edition of 250. 16 x 11 3/8''
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Jun. 28, 2026
ANTONIO FRASCONI (URUGUAYAN / AMERICAN,1919-2013).
Est: $300 - $500
Sioux Plains'. 1971. Lithograph in colors. Signed, title, dated, and numbered '63/100' lower margins in pencil. Terry Dintenfass Gallery embossed stamp lower left corner. Property of a Manhattan, NYC estate. Dimensions: Image: 25.25" h x 19" w. Frame: 35.50" h x 27" w.
Clarke Auction Gallery
Jun. 24, 2026
Antonio Frasconi, Uruguayan American (1919-2013), Sean O'Casey, 1956 / 12 Fables of Aesop, woodcut and book of linoleum blocks, 24"H x 15 1/4"W (sheet)
Est: $160 - $300
Antonio Frasconi Uruguayan American, (1919-2013) Sean O'Casey, 1956 / 12 Fables of Aesop woodcut and book of linoleum blocks Sean O'Casey: pencil signed and dated lower right, edition 25. 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
Jun. 24, 2026
Antonio Frasconi, Uruguayan American (1919-2013), Sioux Plains, 1971, color woodcut, 25"H x 19"W (image), 30"H x 21 3/4"W (sheet)
Est: $200 - $300
Antonio Frasconi Uruguayan American, (1919-2013) Sioux Plains, 1971 color woodcut pencil signed and dated lower right, numbered 79/100. 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
Jun. 24, 2026
Antonio Frasconi, Uruguayan American (1919-2013), Summer Pasture, 1955, color woodcut, 7 1/2"H x 13"W (image), 12"H x 17 1/2"W (sheet)
Est: $300 - $400
Antonio Frasconi Uruguayan American, (1919-2013) Summer Pasture, 1955 color woodcut pencil signed and dated lower 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. 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
May. 19, 2026
Antonio Frasconi "Los Desparecidos" Signed Book
Est: $100 - $300
"Los Desparecidos-The Disappeared" Antonio Frasconi (b. Argentina 1919), signed "Frasconi" on inside back cover: 1991 extended version limited edition of 475. Closed 17 3/8" x 11 1/2". Condition: Good condition. Estimate 100 - 300 Domestic shipping Third Party
Orion Antiques
May. 13, 2026
Antonio Frasconi, Uruguay / American (1919-2013), Self Portrait, 1961, woodcut, 20 1/4"H x 16"W (Sight), 27"H x 22 1/4"W (Mat)
Est: $200 - $400
Antonio Frasconi Uruguay / American, (1919-2013) Self Portrait, 1961 woodcut Hand printed by the artist. Signed, titled, and numbered ed.20/50 in pencil. Staining on bottom and top. 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
May. 13, 2026
Antonio Frasconi (Uruguayan American, 1919-2013) Group of commemorative material from art exhibitions, 1967; exhibition catalog from Instituto General Electric, Montevideo, Uruguay with woodcut pressing, pencil signed an
Est: $140 - $200
Antonio Frasconi (Uruguayan American, 1919-2013) Group of commemorative material from art exhibitions, 1967; exhibition catalog from Instituto General Electric, Montevideo, Uruguay with woodcut pressing, pencil signed and dated lower right, 1981 Keepsake print from the Neuberger Museum, keepsake folded print 1969 New York City exhibition
Ripley Auctions
May. 13, 2026
Antonio Frasconi, Uruguay / American (1919-2013), Sueño (1968), Woodcut print, 9 3/4"H x 7 1/2"W (image), 11 1/4"H x 8 1/2"W (sheet)
Est: $200 - $400
Antonio Frasconi Uruguay / American, (1919-2013) Sueño (1968) Woodcut print Numbered 55/200 (in pencil, lower left), pencil signed lower 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. 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
May. 13, 2026
Antonio Frasconi, Uruguay / American (1919-2013), Uruguay, 1968, Screenprint, 20"H x 13 3/4" (print), 23"H x 17"W (sheet)
Est: $140 - $250
Antonio Frasconi Uruguay / American, (1919-2013) Uruguay, 1968 Screenprint Designed for the Uruguay pavilion at the 1968 Venice Biennale. Numbered 49/150 (in pencil, lower left), pencil singed lower right, some stains/wear on print 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
May. 13, 2026
Antonio Frasconi, New York, Connecticut / Uruguay (1919-2013), Sioux Plains, 1971, Color Woodcut on paper, 25 1/3"H x 19"W (Print), 29 3/4"H x 21 3/4"W (Sheet)
Est: $400 - $600
Antonio Frasconi New York, Connecticut / Uruguay, (1919-2013) Sioux Plains, 1971 Color Woodcut on paper Signed, dated, titled, and numbered in pencil, 53/100 with blindstamp. Small hole top center. 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. 20, 2026
Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (Apple), 1959
Est: $20 - $999
Antonio Frasconi Uruguayan, 1919 - 2013 Untitled (Apple), 1959 woodcut signed and dated lower right: Frasconi 59
Santa Fe Art Auction
Apr. 16, 2026
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013), American Indian Series, 1971.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013) American Indian Series. Complete set of 5 color lithographs on Rives BFK, 1971. Edition of 100. Each signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin. Co-published by Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, and Ferdinand Roten Galleries, Baltimore, with the blind stamps lower margin.
Swann Auction Galleries
Mar. 19, 2026
Book, Antonio Frasconi
Est: $100 - $200
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013), "Aesop," 1954, book, author: Glenway Wescott, printer: Joseph Blumenthal, publisher: The Museum of Modern Art - "Twelve Fables of Aesop retold by Glenway Westcott (1954), museum inventory no: 1956.368.1-19, overall: 11"h x 7.81"w x .69"d. Provenance: Property of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Clars Auctions
Mar. 19, 2026
Book, Antonio Frasconi
Est: $150 - $250
Antonio Frasconi (Argentine, 1919-2013), Walt Whitman, "A Whitman Portrait," 1960, book, publisher: Spiral Press (New York), museum inventory no: 1980.1.95.1-18, overall: 7.5"h x 5.5"w x .56"d. Provenance: Property of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to Benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Clars Auctions
Mar. 12, 2026
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013), Fulton Fish Market, 1952.
Est: $2,500 - $3,500
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013) Fulton Fish Market. Set of four color woodcuts on tan Japan paper, 1952. Each signed and two titled in pencil, lower margin.
Swann Auction Galleries
Feb. 14, 2026
Antonio Frasconi (American, 1919-2013) woodcut
Est: $150 - $250
The Dog and the Crocodile' (Some Well Known Fables, No. 5) woodcut, 1950, edition of 250 plus 10, The Print Club of Cleveland publication no. 30 for 1952. 16 1/16 x 11 7/16''
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Dec. 15, 2025
Antonio Frasconi, Day and Night, 1952
Est: $20 - $999
Antonio Frasconi Uruguayan, 1919 - 2013 Day and Night, 1952 print signed and dated lower right: Frasconi / 52
Santa Fe Art Auction
Dec. 06, 2025
Antonio Frasconi (American, 1919-2013) woodcut
Est: $100 - $200
Greensboro, VT woodcut, 1948, signed, dated, titled and inscribed in pencil. 9 3/4 x 13"
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Nov. 05, 2025
Antonio Frasconi Woodcut [1953 Catalog Cover]
Est: $50 - $100
Antionio Frasconi (1919-2013) 1953 woodcut print from the cover of exhibition catalog 'The Work of Antonio'. Measures 9.25 x 12.5 in. and is spot glued in corners to a paperboard that measures 15.875 in. x 15.75 in. Sheet measures 15.875 x 15.75 inches for shipping purposes. 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.
Grant Zahajko Auctions, LLC
Oct. 28, 2025
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
Oct. 25, 2025
Antonio Frasconi (Uruguayan/American, 1919-2013) woodcut
Est: $800 - $1,200
Fulton Fish Market III woodcut in colors, 1952, signed, dated, titled & annotated A.P in pencil. 23 1/2 x 11 1/2"
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Oct. 07, 2025
Antonio Frasconi (1919-2013), "The Sound IV," 1975
Est: $200 - $300
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 75
John Moran Auctioneers
Sep. 17, 2025
Antonio Frasconi, Untitled (Apple), 1959
Est: $500 - $700
Antonio Frasconi Uruguayan, 1919 - 2013 Untitled (Apple), 1959 woodcut signed and dated lower right: Frasconi 59
Santa Fe Art Auction
Sep. 11, 2025
Antonio Frasconi, American 1919-2013, Still Life, Woodblock Print
Est: $100 - $150
Antonio Frasconi American, 1919-2013 Still Life Woodblock Print Signed in pencil.
Nye & Company
Jul. 26, 2025
Antonio Frasconi, Uruguayan American (1919-2013), Sioux Plains, 1971, color woodcut, 29 3/4"H x 21 3/4"W (sheet)
Est: $300 - $500
Antonio Frasconi Uruguayan American, (1919-2013) Sioux Plains, 1971 color woodcut Pencil signed and dated lower right, edition 46/100. 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
Jul. 26, 2025
Antonio Frasconi, Uruguayan American (1919-2013), Oglala Sioux Chief, 1971, color woodcut, 30"H x 21 3/4"W
Est: $300 - $500
Antonio Frasconi Uruguayan American, (1919-2013) Oglala Sioux Chief, 1971 color woodcut Pencil signed and dated lower right, edition 66/100. 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
Jul. 10, 2025
ANTONIO FRASCONI (New York/Connecticut/Uruguay, 1919-2013), "High Tide", 1956., Color woodcut, 22" x 34.5" sight. Framed 29" x 41".
Est: $200 - $300
ANTONIO FRASCONI New York/Connecticut/Uruguay, 1919-2013 "High Tide", 1956. Signed, titled and dated in pencil lower margin. Together with a signed woodcut of a man on a rowboat and a page of cartoons signed "Vail Barrett".
Eldred's
Jun. 28, 2025
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
Jun. 27, 2025
ANTONIO FRASCONI (NY/ URUGUAY, 1919-2013)
Est: $600 - $800
ANTONIO FRASCONI (NY/ URUGUAY, 1919-2013) "Brooklyn Waterfront #1", five color woodcut on oaktag paper, pencil signed and titled, dated '55 and marked 'ed 8', unframed, loose in folio, bend lower right corner. Before producing a woodcut titled "Sunrise - Fulton Fish Market" in 1953, Frasconi spent three months wandering Lower Manhattan's wharves and the holds of fishing boats.
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Jun. 26, 2025
ANTONIO FRASCONI (1919 - 2013) Los Desaparecidos IV.
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
ANTONIO FRASCONI (1919 - 2013) Los Desaparecidos IV. Woodcut on tan wove paper, 1981. 106x750 mm; 41½x29½ inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right and titled and numbered 1/20 in pencil, upper left. Printed and published by the artist, South Norwalk, Connecticut. Exhibited "Block Prints," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 9-November 7, 1982 (label).
Swann Auction Galleries
Jun. 24, 2025
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
Jun. 22, 2025
Antonio Frasconi "The Dog and the Crocodile"
Est: $200 - $300
Antonio Frasconi (American, 1919 - 2013) "The Dog and the Crocodile" - 1950 Woodcut. Pencil signed lower right. Sight Size: 16 x 11.5 in. Overall Framed Size: 29 x 24.75 in. Framed behind glass. The Print Club of Cleveland publication no. 30 for 1952, Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) Bulletin (November 1952), p. 226, repr, Exhibited: Work of Antonio Frasconi, CMA, Cleveland, Ohio, 1952, catalog no. 170 (frontispiece), circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, D.C.
Helmuth Stone
Jun. 21, 2025
Print, Antonio Frasconi
Est: $300 - $500
Antonio Frasconi (Uruguayan/American, 1919-2013), "Self-Portrait," 1958, woodcut, pencil signed and dated lower right, edition 10/12, overall (with frame): 25.5"h x 40.25"w
Clars Auctions
Jun. 12, 2025
Antonio Frasconi, American 1919-2013, Still Life, Woodblock Print
Est: $200 - $300
Antonio Frasconi American, 1919-2013 Still Life Woodblock Print Signed in pencil.
Nye & Company
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