Significant TLS from the famed American photographer best known for his monumental images of the western American landscape. One page, 16 x 18 cm, on personal letterhead, February 27th, 1966. A letter with wonderful content addressed to composer Henry Cowell's widow, asking her to forward a letter to Olive Cowell explaining that he is unable to attend a memorial for Cowell. In part: "Henry's passing was naturally a deep shock to me. Life-long friends leave us, and there is really nothng to say - but everything to feel! / Henry was a great spirit and a noble artist, I am glad that I knew him and lived in his time!"
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Drawing, graphite on cream wove paper mounted on board, monogrammed lower left "Bs," ca. 1968. 11 3/4 x 15 7/8 inches. Monnier, Balthus Catalogue Raisonné of the Complete Works, 1999, p. 343, number D 1173.
From the Estate of actor Tony Curtis, a collector of Balthus' works and a friend of the notoriously reclusive artist.
Color xerographic image of a fly and an rectangular abstraction on a toned, stained (in the image) and lightly creased page with pin holes at upper corners, apparently as created by the artist. 8.5 x 11 inches, signed in pencil, "Joseph Beuys," at the lower right corner. Small tear on left, otherwise fine. Verso pencil note indicates this work was accomplished by the artist in Edinburgh in 1970. Read More...
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Untitled (Cupped Hands holding bird chicks). Silver gelatin. 8 x 10 inches. Photographer's stamps on the verso. In very fine condition, a fine example from the celebrated American photographer.
The complete suite of 11 etchings, including the title engraving with 10 illustrated plates. Paris, Israel (Henriet), 1635. Each approximately 62 x 83 mm; 2 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches. Lieure 1404-1414, third and final state, with the engr. captions and numbers. In very fine condition. Read More...
Pair of autograph signed letters from the mother of the French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, signed "M. Cartier-Bresson."
2 postcard format 9 x 14cm cards with the printed address of 49 Rue des Vignes Paris XVIe. Both signed in full and sold together with the transmissal envelope to Mme Bonneau, the letters arranging an appointment to come and have Cartier-Bresson ("mon fils") take Bonneau's photograph.
Paris: Éditions des Cahiers Libres. 1932. 58, (4)pp. Lrg. 8vo. Publisher’s printed apple-green wraps. Partly unopened. Number 420 of 600 numbered copies on vélin Outheninchalandre, from the limited edition of 623 in all. Fragile wrappers a little worn/toned, with chipping/losses along spine, but otherwise fine throughout. Signed and inscribed on the half title by Dali to Gaston Bergeri(sic) [Bergery], French ambassador to Russia. Read More...
Original suite of 6 woodblock engravings, one of the "decomposition" suites issued as part of the deluxe editions of Dali's celebrated "Divine Comedy." The progressive proof images show the buildup of the woodcut from start to finish, including an impression from each indiviudal block and the buildup of the blocks to the final completed woodcut. Read More...
An interesting pair of letters from the influential French artist whose idealistic approach to aesthetics embraced so called "Art Brut" ("Raw Art" or "Low Art") and eschewed traditional standards of beauty in favor of what he believed to be a more authentic and humanistic approach to image-making. Both letters addressed to the actor Tony Curtis who, throughout his life, enjoyed painting, and from the early 1980s, painted as a second career. He passionately collected artwork and corresponded with many important artists of the 20th Century, including Dubuffet. The group includes a retained and unsigned typed letter from Curtis to Dubuffet regarding a painting that Curtis had purchased, dated 1963, and two handwritten and signed letters from Dubuffet to Curtis, dated 1963 and 1964. Read More...
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Original artwork for a one-panel cartoon from the Pulitzer Prize–winning American cartoonist best known for his drawings of imaginative, exuberantly elaborate contraptions “invented” to accomplish the simplest of tasks. Ink and white paint on a heavy textured off-white sheet, 21 x 26 cm.
Original Ink and wash drawing by Gorey, an early illustration for an unknown book, four panels arranged in a square, each showing a man at one stage in the process of dissolving into the background. Accomplished on the reverse side of a thick paper proof page from "Lions and Lobsters and Foxes and Frogs" (fables from Aesop by Ennis Rees with drawing by Gorey), published in 1971. The drawing can be dated, therefore, to roughly this period. 8.25 x 5.25 inches overall and in very fine condition, with tiny pushpin holes along top edge, not affecting image. Sold together with an undated autograph note, signed "E. Gorey", to an unknown art director or editor: "If you don't think the sketch leaves enough room for the lettering I can always make the drawings a bit smaller." 1/2 page, 8vo; even toning, tiny pushpin holes along top edge. Read More...
Autograph signed note from the influential German-American artist, in red ink on an illustrated postcard announcing the publication of his autobiography. Addressed to the author and book dealer Herbert Bittner, who wrote a book about Grosz. Dated 1946.
An original pen and ink drawing, signed l.r.. 12 x 18 cm. Archivally framed. A remarkable and unusual drawing by the artist Baudelaire called "the painter of modern life."
London: Faber & Faber. 1991. First edition, signed by both Hockney and Spender, folio, (104) pp. 26 coloured plates, Prospectus for the work loosely inserted. Yellow buckram, dark blue spine lettered in gilt, slipcase, a fine copy. Contributions from Spender and 25 other Authors, including Iris Murdoch, Seamus Heaney, T.S. Eliot, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Douglas Adams and Patrick Leigh Fermor
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A finely painted miniature, apparently executed in the late 19th century or start of the 20th century on an earlier manuscript page, ca. 1800. 21.5 x 31.5 cm.
Rare signed typed letter from the pioneering Russian artist who takes a place among the seminal figures in the development of abstract art. Postcard format. 1 page, dated July 30, 1933, in French, to to M. de Ridder. Translated, in full: "I have still not received the issues. Would you please be so kind as to let me know when you will send them - one example on Hollande directly to my address and the others to the address of Knauer. And finally the 20 examples to M. Grohmann? I will be most grateful. Cordial salutations! [Signed] Kandinsky. [with a typed postscript]: Please correct the address of M. Prof. Dr. Alois Schardt on the list that I gave you - it's no longer Halle, but Berlin, National Gallery, where he is now Director." Read More...
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Very rare autograph Postcard Signed ("Gus"), 3 1/3 by 5 inches, [Paris], October 20, 1909, to Fanny Klimt, on postcard featuring image of Le Pont au Change, some soiling to surface, corners bumped.
Etching printed in black on thin, cream wove paper, 1910. Plate measures 156 x 138 mm [6 1/8 x 5 3/8 inches], wide margins, overall 250 x 352 mm. A very good impression with warm plate tone, with the stamped signature at the lower right. Klipstein 106; Knesebeck 109 V. Read More...