Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau - Ex Libris Stasys Pilka We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are

Original Engraving by the Lithuanian/American artist, Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau.

Ex Libris Stasys Pilka (We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are)

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01.-		Ex Libris Stasys Pilka (We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are) by Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau	Original Wood Engraving	1975	Virkau, Vytautas Osvaldas (Siauliai, Lithuania, Born, 1930)	Signed and dated by Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau in pencil to the lower right.
02.-		Ex-Libris Vitolis Vengris by Lithuanian artist, Vincas Kisarauskas	Original Color Linocut	c. 1971 - 1972	Kisarauskas, Vincas (Augmenai (Radviliskis), Lithuania, 1934 – New York, 1988)	Signed in the block with Vincas Kisarauskas's monogram to the lower left.	Sold
03.-		The Bride by the Lithuanian / American artist, Audrey Skuodas 'Audrone Skuodas'	Original Oil Painting on Canvas and Stitched Three Dimensional	1973	Skoudas, Audrey (Kaunas, Lithuania, C. 1940 - Resides, Oberlin, Ohio)	Signed, "Audrey Skuodas" and dated, "73" on the verso.

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	Ex-Libris Carlo d'Alessio (Young Women Bathing, Satyr Playing his Syrinx) by Vitezslav Fleissig	Vitezslav Fleissig (Prague, 1892 - 1955)	Original Engraving & Soft Ground Etching	1949
	Ex-Libris Charles Asselineau (La Femme Qui N'est Pas La Colombe Et Le Roseau Est Un Monstre) by Aglaus Bouvenne	Aglaus Bouvenne (Paris, 1829 - Levallois-Perret, 1903)	Original Etching with Plate Tone	c. 1870
	Ex-Libris de Madame la Comtesse de Noe by Aglaus Bouvenne	Aglaus Bouvenne (Paris, 1829 - Levallois-Perret, 1903)	Original Etching	1888
	Ex-Libris Design (Woman with Conch Shell, & a Falling Star) by Frank Ivo van Damme	Frank-Ivo Van Damme (Belgium, 20th century)	Original Linocut	c. 1970	Sold
	Ex-Libris Diamond (An Eagle, Wings Spread, Hovers over the Globe within a Diamond Cloud) by Valentin Le Campion	Valentin Le Campion (Born, Russia, 1903 - Died, Paris 1952)	Original Wood Engraving	c. 1930 - 1940
	Ex-Libris Diamond (Tropical Island, Palm Trees, a Volcano & Lies) by Adrian Feint	Adrian Feint (Narrandera, New South Wales, 1894 - Sydney, 1971)	Original Wood Engraving	c. 1930
	Ex-Libris Dr. A. L. (Dance of Death) by Vitezslav Fleissig	Vitezslav Fleissig (Prague, 1892 - 1955)	Original Etching	1948
	Ex-Libris Dr. Luigi Airoldi (Sorceress, Crystal Ball, & Chinese Dragon) by Enrico Vannuccini	Enrico Vannuccini (Barullo di Cortona, 1900 - Griante, Italy, 1990)	Original Etching	1948
	Ex-Libris Elizabeth (Young Woman Viewing a Rose in an Open Book) by Valentin Le Campion	Valentin Le Campion (Born, Russia, 1903 - Died, Paris 1952)	Original Wood Engraving	c. 1935
	Ex Libris Elizabeth Watson Diamond (Alpine Chateau, Mountaineering) by Vitezslav Fleissig	Vitezslav Fleissig (Prague, 1892 - 1955)	Original Etching	c. 1948 or 1949
	Ex-Libris Elizabeth Watson Diamond (Chinese Winter Landscape) by John Hudson Elwell	John Hudson Elwell (Marblehead, Massachusetts, 1878 – 1955)	Original Engraving	c. 1930
	Ex-Libris Elizabeth Watson Diamond (Landscape with Tree & Swirling Prints) by Adrian Feint	Adrian Feint (Narrandera, New South Wales, 1894 - Sydney, 1971)	Original Wood Engraving	1938
	Ex-Libris Elizabeth Watson Diamond (Women Holding up a Globe - Black Ink) by Valentin Le Campion	Valentin Le Campion (Born, Russia, 1903 - Died, Paris 1952)	Original Wood Engraving	c. 1935	Sold
	Ex-Libris Elizabeth Watson Diamond (Women Holding up a Globe - Red Ink) by Valentin Le Campion	Valentin Le Campion (Moscow, 1903 - Plessis-Robinson (Paris), 1952)	Original Wood Engraving	c.1935
	Ex-Libris Emil Eerme (Forest Landscape) by Karoly Andrusko	Karoly Andrusko (Zentan, Hungary, B. 1915)	Original Woodcut	1970
	Ex-Libris Eroticis Lars C. Stolt (Embracing Figures in Silhouette) by Ladislav Rusek	Ladislav Rusek (Czech Republic, Born, Olomouce)	Original Linocut	1973	Sold
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Ex-Libris George Allan Hancock (Oceanographic Research Vessel, Velero) by James Webb	James Webb (U.S.A., Active, 1920 - 1940)	Original Engraving	1932	Sold
Ex-Libris Giorgio Balbi (Sognare -- 'Dream') by Giulio Cisari	Giulio Cisari (Como, 1892 - Milan, 1979)	Original Wood Engraving	c. 1935 - 1940
Ex-Libris Harvey Simmonds (Caltha, Ranunculaceae) by Clare Leighton	Clare Leighton (London, 1899 - Woodbury, Connecticut, 1989)	Original Wood Engraving	1956
Ex-Libris Hnizdovsky (Tree) by Jacques Hnizdovsky	Jacques Hnizdovsky (Pylypche, Ukraine, 1915 - New York City, 1985)	Original Woodcut	1972	Sold
Ex-Libris J. Edouard Diamond (Dutch Scenes, Bridge over Canal in Amsterdam, Gabled Buildings, a Windmill, & Sailboats) by Valentin Le Campion	Valentin Le Campion (Born, Russia, 1903 - Died, Paris 1952)	Original Wood Engraving	c. 1930
Ex-Libris J. Edouard Diamond (Woman at a Spring) by Leslie Victor Smith (Monogramme: L. V. S)	Leslie Victor Smith 'Monogramme L. V. S.' (Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, 1880 - Toronto?, 1952)	Original Etching	1939
Ex-Libris Jack Diamond & Elizabeth Diamond (Jack & the Queen of Diamonds Playing Cards) by Kalman Kubinyi	Kalman Kubinyi (Cleveland, 1906 - Stockbridge, Massachusetts, 1973)	Two Original Linocuts	c.1935 - 1940
Ex-Libris Julio C. Salvatierra 'Nostalgia de Mallorca (Majorca)' by Carlos Puntis Nebot	Carlos Puntis Nebot (Palma de Mallorca (Spain), 1912 – 2001)	Original Wood Engraving	c. 1950
Ex-Libris Library of Betsie Diamond (Pan Playing his Syrinx) by John William Jameson	John William Jameson ( Chicago, 1882 - 1939)	Original Etching	1938
Ex-Libris Luigi Filippo Bolaffio (Study of a Woman) by Vitezslav Fleissig	Vitezslav Fleissig (Prague, 1892 - 1955)	Original Soft Ground Etching	1949
Ex-Libris Luigi Filippo Bolaffio: Memoriam Michel Fingesten by Vitezslav Fleissig	Vitezslav Fleissig (Prague, 1892 - 1955)	Original Etching	1950	Sold
Ex Libris Mansueto Fenini (Venustas Lux 'Beautiful Light') by Vitezslav Fleissig	Vitezslav Fleissig (Prague, 1892 - 1955)	Original Soft Ground Etching	1949
Ex-Libris Moses H. Grossman (Fly Fishing in a Mountain Stream) by Henri Berengier	Henri Berengier (Marseille, 1880 - ?)	Original Etching	c. 1925
Ex-Libris Pepita Palle (Mi Agrada Molt Viatjar) by Mark Fernand Severin	Mark Fernand Severin (Brussels, 1906 - 1987)	Original Wood Engraving	1968
Ex-Libris Sara Eugenia Blake (Still Life, Drawing Pad, & Art Supplies) by Alexandre Coll Blanch	Alexandre Coll Blanch (Barcelona, 1898 - 1975)	Original Etching	c. 1950
Ex-Libris Sara Eugenia Blake (The Old State House, Boston) by Sara Eugenia Blake	Sara Eugenia Blake (Boston, 1886 - 1973)	Original Engraving & Etching	c. 1920 - 1930
Ex-Libris Sidney David Gamble (View of China) by an Unknown Artist Monogram	Unknown Artist Monogram (20th century)	Original Engraving & Etching	1923	Sold
Ex Libris Stasys Pilka (We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are) by Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau	Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau (Siauliai, Lithuania, Born, 1930)	Original Wood Engraving	1975
Ex-Libris Varga Karoly (Castle of Sumeg) by Antal Fery	Antal Fery (Szerencs, Hungary, 1908 - Budapest, 1993)	Original Woodcut	1976
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Title:	Ex Libris Stasys Pilka (We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are)
Artist:	Virkau, Vytautas Osvaldas (Siauliai, Lithuania, Born, 1930)
Date:	1975
Medium:	Original Engraving
Source:	Ex-Libris-Bookplate
Note:	Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau: Born in Lithuania in 1930, Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau fled to the West in 1944. At the end of the Second World War he studied art techniques at the Lithuanian Gymnasium in Munich, Germany (1946-1949). Virkau left Germany for the United States in 1951 and attended classes at both the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He gained his Master of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute in 1956.
	Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau first worked as an art instructor in 1954. From 1961 to 1985 he was a professor in the George Williams College of Art, Downers Grove, Illinois. Virkau then served as Head of the Department of Fine Arts at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois (1966 to 1969). In 1970 he was also the designer and art editor of the publication, “Metmenys”.
	Vytautas Virkau created his first ex libris design in 1970. Since that time the artist has contributed over four hundred bookplates and well as illustrating over fifty books. Since 1956 Virkau has exhibited his prints and paintings at such institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Midwestern Printmakers, the University of Illinois and the Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, Texas. Created in 1975, Ex Libris Stasys Pilka (We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are), is a striking original example of his Ex-Libris art.
	Stasys Pilka: Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1898, Stasys Pilka studied acting at the Petrograd Alexandra Theatre School (1918) as well as studying at the Petrograd Military Medical Academy (1919-1921). During this period he acted in both the Petrograd State Grand Theatre and the National Grand Theatre. Pilka was a member of the Lithuanian Artists Dramatic Society from 1921 to 1926 and from 1929 to 1944.
	In 1944 Stasys Pilka fled to the West (the same year Vytautas Virkau managed his escape from war torn Lithuania). He settled in Chicago in 1948 and during that year he founded the Lithuanian Theatre Company there. He also served the Company as its director and as a leading actor. Stasys Pilka died in Chicago in 1976. This original engraved Ex-Libris bookplate was created by Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau for Stasys Pilka in 1975.
	An original wood engraving by the Lithuanian/American painter and graphic artist, Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau, Ex Libris Stasys Pilka was created in 1975. Since both the artist, Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau, and the owner of the bookplate, the Lithuanian/American actor and director, Stasys Pilka resided in Chicago, it is more than likely that they were familiar with each other’s work. Virkau provides a fitting quotation for the actor’s ex libris design with Shakespeare’s, “We are such stuff as dreams are … (made of).” A number of Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau’s ex libris prints are housed in the collection of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, including an impression of Ex Libris Stasys Pilka. Created in circular format, the scene depicts a 'cupid / angel' holding out two laurel branches. The text surrounding the image reads; "Ex Libris Stasys Pilka. We Are Such Stuff as Dreams Are. In many countries, the laurel is a symbol conferred as a mark of honor and victory for such achievements as obtaining a degree from a university or college, or for the victors of an athletic competition. This is a striking, original example of the Ex-Libris art of Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau.
	Ex-Libris-Bookplates: Ex-Libris engravings, etchings and woodcuts date as far back as the mid fifteenth century. Their function was initially quite utilitarian as miniature prints or stamps used to signify the ownership of books. As private libraries and their owners gained more wealth and prestige, however, so did their ex-libris bookplates. Pictorial imagery became as important as the wording and titles and the finished work of art came to stand as the owner’s claim to posterity. Before long, famous artists were commissioned by prominent collectors to make their ex-libris designs and during the centuries such masters as Durer, Holbein, Manet, Toulouse-Lautrec and Rockwell Kent all contributed significantly to this great form of art.
Size:	4 3/4 X 3 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials

Buy Now	Price: $285.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon archival white paper and with full margins as created by the artist in 1975. Signed and dated by Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau in pencil to the lower right. This is a finely printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. Ex Libris Stasys Pilka represents a fine, original example of the Lithuanian / American art of Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau.
Subject:	Vytautas Osvaldas Virkau, Vytautas Virkau, Ex Libris Stasys Pilka, original wood engraving, Lithuanian / American art, Lithuanian artists in Chicago, Lithuanian Artists Dramatic Society, Art Institute of Chicago, Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.
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