Signed check penned and signed by the highly regarded American songwriter best known for the musical Showboat and for such standards as “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.” California Bank check, 8.25 x 3, filled out and signed by Kern, “Jerome D. Kern,” payable to "Jerome D. Kern" for $50.00, May 2nd, 1939, and - you guessed it - endorsed on reverse "Jerome D. Kern"! Expected cancellation holes affecting the front 2 signatures but not the third, generally fine.
A beautiful original doubleweight matte head and shoulders postcard photograph of the beloved American violinist and composer of Austrian birth who was one of the most important musicians of the last century. Boldly signed in black ink, with verso mounting traces and in very fine condition. 3.5 x 5.25 inches, with the impressed stamp of the Hirano Studio, Tokyo, Japan.
Complete set of signatures, dated 14.2.27, from the original members of the great Hungarian quartet, the first to record the complete Beethoven Quartets. Signed by Jeno Lener, Joseph Smilovits (2nd violin), Sandor Roth (viola), and Imre Hartmann (cello). Rare.
An unusual collection of original programs from Buenos Aires performances by the great Hungarian quartet, the first to record the complete Beethoven Quartets. Five programs from 1939, one from 1940. All with ususual light creases, but overall in very good condition.
Signed postcard portrait of the Italian composer best known for his operas, and particularly for the beloved repertoire staple, "Pagliacci" (1892). Boldly signed and inscribed on the verso "R. Leoncavallo" and dated "15.7.1913." In fine condition.
AMQS from the great pianist, who has penned three chords, signed "Josef Lhevinne," and dated London, April 1937. In very fine condition and one of the rarest of all pianist autographs, this is the first AMQS from Lhevinne we have ever seen. Read More...
Autograph note on a small sheet, six lines being the conclusion of a letter in German, signed "F. Liszt," and with an added postscript [translated]"a propos your viola pieces, I have them." Nicely matted together with a vintage portrait print to 16 x 12 inches overall. Fine.
Original cabinet photograph by Louis Held, showing Liszt at the keyboard in Weimar. Small chip to left edge of the mount, otherwise in fine condition. 11 x 16.5 cm.
Leipzig: Fr. Kistner. [ca. 1850]. Nouvelle Edition. Upright folio. 27 pp. Engraved. [PN] 1019. Edges heavily chipped with small losses within the plate on the final page, spine reinforced with tape.
An early reissue of the original Kistner publication of 1833, this set including the etudes 7 - 12, part of the first set dedicated to fellow pianist-composer, Franz Liszt.
Signed 12 x 12 print by both of the American architects who were in partnership from 1967-91. The image showing various architectural plans for their landmark collaboration of the AT & T World Headquarters at Madison Avenue, New York (now known as the Sony Building) completed in 1984. Artist's Proof numbered 56 of 60. Signed by both Johnson and Burgee in bold black inks with their names alone to the lower white border.
Signed typewritten poem from the American poet and four-time Pulitzer Prize winner. ‘The Pasture,’ on an off-white 5.5 x 8.5 sheet, signed at the conclusion in blue ink, “Robert Frost,” and inscribed underneath by Frost “For Margaret Coit.” In very good condition, with a central horizontal fold affecting the tops of a few letters of signature, a few edge tears, toning along two edges, and some damp staining to lower right. Accompanied by an unsigned original 3.75 x 4.5 inch photograph of Frost leaning on a fence. Read More...
Interesting autograph letter from the French novelist best known for such works as the Claudine series, La Chatte, and Gigi. On blue paper, elaborately framed with a photographic image of Colette and a brass plaque bearing a translation. The letter measuring 8" x 7 1/4" framed to 22" x 26" overall. In fine condition.
Signed Niebling of Christiana cabinet photograph of the revered Norwegian playwright and poet whose works, including A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler, made him one of the seminal figures in the forefront of modern drama. Signed on the verso "Henrik Ibsen / 27.12.97." 165 x 108 mm. Edges chipped, verso soiled and scratched.
136. Magritte, René. (1898 - 1967). "Georgette in the garden at Rue Esseghem in Brussels, 1946." Original Photograph.
Gelatin silver print, annotated, authenticated and signed in pencil on the reverse by Georgette Magritte, who states that this image was accomplished by René Magritte in Brussels. The full sheet 18 x 24 cm. Fine. Matted and framed under UV-Plexi. Read More...
137. Magritte, René. (1898-1967). The Extraterrestrials V. Marcel Lecomte & Georgette in the garden at Rue Esseghem in Brussels, 1935.
Gelatin silver print, annotated, authenticated and signed in pencil on the reverse by Georgette Magritte, who states that this image was accomplished by René Magritte in Brussels. The full sheet 18 x 24 cm (7 x 9.5 in). Fine. Matted and framed under UV-Plexi. Read More...
Remarkable item from the important American artist who was one of the leading figures of the abstract Expressionist movement. His 1936 Stanford University, 9.5" x 11.5" canvas 3 ring binder, dated and signed on both the outside and inside cover, and with some of his earliest sketches in ink, including heads, a hand gun, various abstractions, and inscriptions of his initials penned by Motherwell around the inner edges of the front board. Acquired from his mother's estate in Marin County, CA. Read More...
Footsteps. Magnetic tape around card containing sound loop. SMS No. 5 August 1968, Published by The Letter Edged in Black Press. 7-5/8 x 10-3/4 inches. From the editon of 2000. Read More...
Early vintage jumbo postcard Leo Castelli Gallery invitation for Nauman's 1968 show. The image features the artist's "Self-portrait as a fountain," and Naumann has cryptically signed across it boldly in green ink "F.J. C. W. : Bruce Nauman." Some creases, else fine. 8.75 x 7 inches.
Gilt paper crown, a traditional "galette des rois" crown, signed and inscribed by Picasso to Serge Lifar and dated 6.1.60, in thick red pencil, signed also by Lifar in blue pencil and with the stamp of the Lifar Collection. 6.5 x 51 cm. In fine condition, housed in a custom gilt-wood two-sided full view tabletop frame. Read More...