Tavik Frantisek Simon (1877 - 1942)
Noted Czech painter, printmaker and writer T. František Šimon was born in Eisenstadtel at Gitschin, Bohemia. He studied with Max Pirner at the Prague Academy of Arts followed by further studies in Dalmatia and Italy. Šimon lived in Paris from 1904 to 1914, and in Prague thereafter. He traveled extensively during the inter-war period including a round-the-world trip in 1926. Beginning in 1928, Šimon was a professor at the Prague Academy of Arts and a member of the Czech Academy. During his career he produced a body of more than six hundred prints including woodcuts, etchings, mezzoints, drypoints, and lithographs, together with many landscapes, portraits, and watercolors. Šimon wrote extensively on all aspects of the arts and published a highly respected manual of the graphic arts. He died at Prague in 1942.
Indian Girls, Ceylon
Color soft ground and etching, 1931; edition of 200. Image size 8-7/8” x 11-3/16;” sheet size 15¼” x 19¼.” Signed and numbered 71 in lower margin, with artist’s red stamp. A fine impression in overall fine condition. Novak 531.
$725
Arab Stalls, Tangier
Color etching, 1913; edition of 200. Image size 17½” x 14”; sheet size 25-1/8” x 19½”. Numbered 176 and signed in pencil by Simon with the blind stamp of the Cercle Librairie Estampes in the lower margin. Fine. Novak 201.
$900
Marketplace in Nice
Color soft-ground & aquatint, 1912; edition of 100. Image size 13¼" x 15¼;" sheet size 17-3/8" x 21". Red stamp in lower margin. Numbered 49, signed, and annotated "imp" by the artist in pencil in the lower margin. A beautiful print in near-fine condition with faint toning. Novak 186.
SOLD
Roman Bridge, Ronda, Spain
Etching, 1912; edition of 150. Image size 9-5/16” x 13¼”; sheet size 12-3/8” x 18”. Numbered 139 and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin, together with his red stamp. A fine impression in overall fine condition. Novak 206.
$400
Dreaming
Mezzotint, 1922; edition of 55. Image size 6¼” x 8¼”; sheet size 12-1/8” x 16½”. Numbered 20 and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin; artist's chop mark in red lower left margin. A beautifully nuanced impression in very good condition overall. Novak 369; Baker 181.
$925
An Amsterdam Ragman
Etching on tan wove paper, 1911; edition of 150. Image size 8-3/8” x 7-1/8”; sheet size 12½” x 17-3/8”. Numbered 60 and signed by the artist in the lower margin, together with his red stamp. Near fine overall. Novak 182.
$225
Fishermen in Concarneau, Brittany
Color etching on wove paper, 1912; edition of 150. Image size 14-1/8” x 12-5/8;” sheet size 17” x 17.” Very good overall condition, with slight rippling at the upper edges. Novak 192.
$525
Quai d'Anjou, Paris
Color soft-ground and aquatint, 1924; edition of 300. Image size 15½" x 11-7/8;" sheet size 16-7/8" x 13-3/8." Published by Les Graveurs Modernes, Paris and numbered 109 in pencil in the lower left margin. Signed in pencil by the artist in lower right margin. A very good impression with reduced but adequate margins. Novak 408.
$975
Charles Bridge and Kriznovnici, Prague
Etching on wove paper, 1914; edition of 200. Image size 14¼” x 12;” sheet size 19-7/8” x 16.” Artist’s red stamp and signature in lower margin. Overall very good condition. Novak 217.
$225
Štefánik Bridge, Prague (The Iron Bridge)
Etching, 1940. edition not stated. Image size 9-7/8” x 12¾”; sheet size 12¾” x 17-1/16”. Signed in pencil by Simon in the lower right-hand margin, with an illegible notation opposite in a different hand. Fine overall condition. Added to the most recent edition of the Novak catalog by Catherine Bentinck Smith but not numbered.
$275
View In Old Prague
Woodcut in two colors, edition not stated. Image size 3¼” x 3-3/8”; sheet size 5-5/8" x 9”. Published in The Print Connoisseur, Volume X, Number 2, April, 1930. Fine
$225
Panorama pris du Jardin Furstenburg
Etching on Van Gelder, 1911; edition of 250. Image size 8-5/8” x 6”; sheet size 12-5/8” x 11-3/8”. Dated 1910 with artist’s monogram in the plate. Signed inpencil by the artist in the lower margin. Overall fine condition. Novak 154.
$ 150
Ancien Cloitre Ste Agnes
Etching, 1911; edition of 250. Image size 5-1/8” x 8-5/8” sheet size 12” x 16-7/8”. Annotated and signed in pencil in the lower margin,with the artist’s yellow stamp. A fine impression in overall fine condition. Novak 142.
$225
Horologe of Staré Mesto / Devant l’Horloge
Etching on laid paper, 1911; edition of 250. Image size 6-11/16” x 7-5/8”; sheet size 8-5/8” x 11-3/8”. Numbered 2 and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Fine impression in very good overall condition. Novak 143.
$225
Rue de Dominicans
Etching on wove paper, 1911; edition of 250. Image size 5-7/8” x 8¾”; sheet size 13¾” x 17-1/8”. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. A fine impression in overall fine condition.
$175
Pres de St. Eustache, Paris
Etching on Holland wove paper, 1924; edition of 90. Image size 6¾” x 10-3/16”; sheet size 12½” x 16¾”. Numbered 63 and signed by the artist in pencil in the lower margin, with the artist’s yellow stamp. A fine, richly inked impression. Diagonal crease in the lower left-hand corner of the sheet well away from the sight area, with signs of handling at the periphery of the sheet; otherwise fine. Novak 399.
$325
La Nouvel Escalier du Chateau Royal
Etching on Holland wove paper, 1911; edition of 250. Image size 5-11/16” x 8-3/16”; sheet size 12-5/8” x 15”. A fine impression in very good overall condition, with faint toning in the sight area. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin with the artist’s red stamp. Novak 157.
$275
Reims 1919 – Remains of the Old Gates
Etching, 1919; edition of 40. Image size 7¾” x 12½”; sheet size 12-5/16” x 16-7/8”. Annotated “imp.” and signed and dated in pencil by the artist in the lower margin, with the artist’s stamp in red. A very bold impression in overall good condition. Moderate soiling at extremities of sheet and faint diagonal crease upper portion of the image and two others in the uppermost corner of the sheet away from the image. Novak 315.
$175
Reims 1919 – South Tower of the Cathedral
Etching on laid paper, 1919; edition of 40. Image size 7¾” x 11-1/8”; sheet size 11-3/8” x 15½”. Signed and dated in pencil by the artist, with artist’s red stamp. A fine impression in overall fine condition. Novak 310.
$250
Under the Pont Neuf, Paris
Etching on laidpaper, 1924; edition of 100. Image size 6¾” x 10-1/8”; sheet size 12-3/4” x 18”. Numbered 31 and signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin, with the artist’s yellow stamp. A beautifully inked impression in overall fine condition. Novak 401.
$275
Porte St. Denis, Paris
Etching on tan laid paper, 1910; edition of 100. Image size 6¾” x 9”; sheet size 11” x 17-58”. Numbered 5 and signed in pencil by Simon in the lower margin. Fine overall condition. Novak 131.
$225
The Potters
Color soft ground & etching, 1905; edition of 150. Image size 12” x 9-9/16”; sheet size 15¼” x 12¾”. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Overall very good condition, with minor rippling at edges. Novak 40.
$750
Scrap Iron Market, Paris
Color soft ground and aquatint, 1908; edition of 300. Image size 16” x 12-1/8”; sheet size 22-3/8” x 17¼”. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Very good overall condition.
$1,100
Nocturne in Aurey, Brittany
Color etching and aquatint, 1922; edition of 200. Image size 16½” x 11½”; sheet size 20-7/8” z 16-1/8”. Signed in pencil by the artist in the lower margin. Fine.
$1,000
Boulevard St. Denis, Paris
Etching on wove paper, 1911; edition of 150. Image size 6-13/16” x 9;” sheet size 11¼” x 14¾.” Initialed and dated in the plate and signed and numbered 25 in pencil in the lower margin, with the artist’s red stamp. Fine overall condition. Novak 132.
$325