Signatures of Famous Artists

Autograph signatures, signed letters, and other signed pieces of artists vary in availability, and collector demand varies widely. The most popular area of interest among collectors is the French artists, beginning with early Impressionism in the 19th century and continuing well into the 20th century. Signed letters of Edouard Manet, the originator and leader of Impressionism, are, relative to other artists of the later period, much rarer and more in demand. Claude Monet was very well-known and signed many letters, but he is in great demand by collectors. More likely to be found are signed pieces by Auguste Rodin, the leading sculptor of realism. Pablo Picasso would give his autograph signature to admirers both through the mail and in person, but the international interest in Picasso has created a demand that has made his autograph signature difficult to find. The autographs of Henri Matisse, a leading fauvist painter and sculptor, are much rarer than the autograph material of his contemporaries. The Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali signed his autograph under many different circumstances but his popularity has caused him to not be as common as he might be.

In the field of American art, John James Audubon’s autograph signatures and signed pieces are quite rare. The sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens less so, but his signed letters have been collected by an institutional library. John Singer Sargent, who wrote many signed letters of a social nature, has generally been available. The two American Western artists, Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, are quite rare in autograph material, as is Albert Bierstadt.

Adams, Ansel

Price: $950 American nature photographer. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, February 6, 1960. On his name imprinted stationery, to ...
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Cassatt, Mary

Price: $4,750 American Impressionist paper. Autograph Letter Signed, M. Cassatt, one page, octavo, Paris, undated but circa 1904. To M ...
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Cassatt, Mary

Price: $3,750 American painter who exhibited with the Impressionists. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, oblong small octavo, [Paris, May 21, ...
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Chagall, Marc

Price: $3,750 Russian painter. Autograph Letter Signed, one full page, quarto, New York, 1945. In Russian. "She always spoke of ...
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Copley, John Singleton

Price: $17,500 American artist. Partly-printed Receipt Signed, J.C.Copley. one page, narrow oblong octavo, April, 2, 1787. Together with a printed ...
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Cruikshank, George

Price: $500 English caricaturist and illustrator. Autograph Document Signed, in the text, one page, oblong octavo, August 5, 1835. "Messrs ...
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Currier, Nathaniel

Price: $3,750 American lithographer; Currier and Ives. Autograph Document Signed, Nathl Currier, two lines on a sheet of paper measuring ...
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Dali, Salvador

Price: $4,750 Spanish painter; associated with the Ultra-Modern schools, notably Futurism, Constructivism, Cubism, Abstract Irrationalism, and Surrealism. Original pen and ...
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Degas, Edgar

Price: $4,750 French Impressionist painter. Autograph Letter Signed, Degas, one page, octavo, Sunday [February 1896]. On a postal card, to ...
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Dore, Gustave

Price: $1,750 French illustrator and painter. Autograph Letter Signed, G. Dore, one full page, octavo, January 28, n.y. "On the ...
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Eames, Charles and Ray

Price: $5,750 Inventive designers of the post World War II period; created the "Eames Chairs." Typewritten Letter Signed by Charles, ...
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Gainsborough, Thomas

Price: $17,500 English painter; excelled in portraits and landscapes; painted The Blue Boy. Autograph Document Signed, one page, 4 1/2 ...
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Gauguin, Paul

Price: $22,500 French painter. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, small octavo, n.d. In bold pencil to the painter Camille Pissarro ...
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Houdon, Jean Antoine

Price: $8,750 French sculptor. Document Signed, Houdon, one page, oblong octavo, Paris, May 26, 1800. The sculptor signs a receipt ...
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Hunt, William Holmon

Price: $2,750 English Pre-Raphaelite painter. Autographed William Holmon Hunt, Manuscript, two pages, oblong octavo, undated. Concerning William Holmon Hunt's comments on ...
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Ingres, Jean

Price; $1,750 French painter; recognized as the leader among the Classicists. Autograph Letter Signed, Ingres, one page, octavo, February 19, ...
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Ives, James Merritt

Price: $5,000 American lithographer. Currier & Ives. Autograph Document Signed by Ives as "Currier & Ives," one page, quarto, April ...
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Laurencin, Marie

Price: $4,750 French modernist painter. Autograph Letter Signed, one and a half pages, octavo, undated. To an unnamed lady, concerning ...
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Leger, Ferdnand

Price: $2,750 French painter; identified with the Ultra-modern school, especially the Cubists. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, oblong octavo, New ...
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Leger, Ferdnand

Price: $6,750 French painter; identified with the Ultra-Modern School, especially with the Cubists. Signed Photograph of one of his paintings, ...
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Manet, Edouard

Price: $7,750 French Impressionist painter. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, small octavo, March 20, no year. On imprinted stationery, to ...
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Moran, Thomas

Price: $2,750 American artist, best known for his landscapes and scenes of the American West. Autograph Letter Signed, T. Moran, ...
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Morris, William

Price: $5,750 English poet and artist; founded the Arts and Crafts Movement. Printed Proof Sheet Signed, with initials in purple ...
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Morse, Samuel

Price: $17,500 American artist and inventor of the telegraph. Sketch, in pencil, one page, irregular small octavo sheet pasted onto ...
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Nast, Thomas

Price: $2,750 American cartoonist whose work was largely responsible for the overthrow of the Tweed Ring in New York. Fourteen ...
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O’Keeffe, Georgia

Price: $2,750 American painter. Autograph Letter Signed, Georgia O'Keeffe, one page, quarto, Abiquiu, July 25, 1969. To Elizabeth Monroe. With ...
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Pissarro, Camille

Price: $3,750 French Impressionist painter. Autograph Letter Signed, C. Pissarro, two pages, octavo, 28 Place Dauphin, Paris, April 12, 1902 ...
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Redoute, Pierre-Joseph

Price: $12,500 French painter of flowers (sometimes called the "Raphael of Flowers") and lithographer. Autograph Letter Signed, full page, quarto, ...
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Renoir, Pierre Auguste

Price: $7,500 French Impressionist painter. Photograph of one of his paintings of a female nude, standing backward, signed above a ...
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Reynolds, Sir Joshua

Price: $12,500 English portrait painter; official painter to George III. Partly printed Document Signed Sir Joshua Reynolds, one page, folio, ...
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Roualt, Georges

Price: $7,500 French Fauvist and Expressionist painter. Autograph Letter Signed, one full page, quarto, August 15, 1938. “I am in ...
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Stuart, Gilbert

Price: $17,500 American painter; known for his distinctively American portrait style. Document Signed, as witness, Gilb: Stuart, one page, quarto, ...
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Thackeray, William Makepeace

Price: $2,750 English novelist. Pen and ink sketches, unsigned, two pages, octavo, [n.d.]. William Makepeace Thackeray has drawn three profile ...
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Henry de

Price: $10,000 Autograph Letter Signed, HT Lautrec, one and a half pages, small quarto, [1894]. In French, to the publisher ...
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Turner, J M W

Price: $6,750 English landscape painter. Autograph Letter Signed J M W Turner, one page, small octavo, September 30, n.y. "Have ...
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Turner, J M W

Price: $6,750 English landscape painter. Autograph Letter Signed, J M W Turner, one full page, quarto, December 27, 1845. To ...
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Vigee-Lebrun, Marie Anne Élisabeth

Price: $4,500 Portrait painter to Queen Marie Antoinette. Third Person Letter, Marie Anne Vigee-Lebrun, one page, octavo, October 28, [1837] ...
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Whistler, James McNeill

Price: $5,750 American artist. Superb sepia tone albumen photograph of James Whistler's work in White III, Signed Whistler and with ...
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