Holiday 2023 Catalogue

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180. [Literature & Art] [Voltaire. (1694-1778)] [Huber, Jean. (1721-1786)] Holloway, Thomas. (1748-1827).
"Voltaire after Hubert" – Original Etching

Original etching by English painter and engraver Thomas Holloway, ca. 1791, who created these thirty-three head portraits of the French philosopher after illustrations by Swiss painter Jean Huber for Johann Caspar Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind, London, Bensley, 1789-98.  Toning and scattered foxing, irregularly trimmed, overall in fine condition.  7.5 x 9.25 inches (19 x 23.5 cm.). Read More...

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160. [Literature & Art] [ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF - BOOK OF HOURS].
The Crucifixion [Rouen, ca. 1470 - 1480]

The Crucifixion, from Book of Hours (15 Joys of the Virgin Mary), one leaf, probably Rouen, c.1470-1480, 4.75 x 6.5 inches (12.1 x 16.5 cm.), ink, paint and burnished gold on vellum, 4-lines of text in Latin beneath, illumination of the Crucifixion, inhabited initial and floral border with floral motifs on recto, 15 lines of text with 2 inhabited initials on verso. A few minor abrasions (mostly to margins), window-mounted, framed and glazed, sheet to view.  Read More...

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164. [Literature & Art] [Lovett/Cadagnone] Lovett, John. (b. 1962) & Cadagnone, Alessandro. (1967-2019).
"The Mall, Allentown," 1996

The Mall, Allentown.  Chromogenic photograph of the performance artist duo, whose work examined the ways in which power is encoded in language, behavior, and collective identities.  In very fine condition.  Framed to 16 x 20 inches (40.6 x 50.8 cm.).

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145. [Literature & Art] Brauner, Victor. (1903-1966).
Codex d'un Visage, 1962

Etching on wove paper. Signed, numbered 24/60, and dated in pencil along lower edge. 21-3/4 x 16-3/4 inches (55.2 x 42.5 cm) (sight); Framed Dimensions 27.5 x 21.75 Inches.  Mild to moderate light and time staining to the sheet. Matted and framed in a fine brass frame under glass, unexamined out of frame. Provenance: Property from the G.E. Corporate Art Collection. Read More...

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194. [History & Culture] [Shakers].
"Shakers near Lebanon, State of New York" - Stipple Engraving, ca. 1830

Stipple line engraving depicting Shakers engaged in their particular form of religious worship, ca. 1830, displayed in a worn but handsome period bird's eye maple frame.  Text below the image, partially covered by the frame, reads "Shakers near Lebanon, / State of New York."  Unexamined out of frame but evidently somewhat trimmed at margins and more significantly along the upper edge and mounted to rigid backing, scattered staining and light foxing, overall in good condition.  Framed to 18.5 x 14.25 inches (47 x 36.2 cm.). Read More...

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192. [History & Culture] [Shakers].
CHERRIES - Shaker Stencil Print, ca. 1880

Simple, fragile, beautiful: an original 19th century red stencil print with delicate filigree design, presumably for a package or display of cherries.  Provenance: Likely Catherine Hall (Harvard Commune, 1813-1890, contained in a manuscript Shaker notebook ca. 1880); Raymond Adams (1898-1987, noted Thoreau scholar and collector, founder of the Thoreau Society); by descent. 5.75 x 1.4 inches. Irregularly trimmed, slight toning along left edge, else fine.  Read More...

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193. [History & Culture] [Shakers].
"Hope all things" - Shaker Paper Cross-stitch Bookmark, ca. 1880

Bookmark cross-stitched on needlepoint mesh made of perforated paper, with red border and blue text adapted from 1 Corinthians 13:7, "It [love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." Provenance: Likely Catherine Hall (Harvard Commune, 1813-1890, contained in a manuscript Shaker notebook ca. 1880); Raymond Adams (1898-1987, noted Thoreau scholar and collector, founder of the Thoreau Society); by descent. 5.25 x 1.2 inches. In fine condition.  Read More...

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100. [Jazz & Song] Davis, Miles. (1926–1991).
Signed Limited Edition “Amandla” Promotional Lithograph

Signed lithograph by the legendary jazz trumpeter, being a limited signed edition promotional poster for his 1989 Warner Bros. album Amandla.  Miles signed 150 numbered copies of this poster to be used as promotional items, the present example numbered #92/150 and signed in silver ink, with Davis adding a single musical note to his name. The 17 x 35 inch poster has been framed to 26 x 43 inches overall and is in fine condition.  Read More...

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107. [Jazz & Song] McLorin Salvant, Cécile. (b. 1989).
"Sisters (Masks)," 2015

Watercolor on paper. 11.75 x 15.75 inches. Read More...

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169. [Literature & Art] [Mouse Trap].
CDV Photograph

Unusual still-life carte de visite photograph, ca. 1880s, of a mouse ensnared in an intricate homemade mouse trap.  The peculiar trap has been arranged in an open facing box, with an open pocket knife perched on top and adding to the somewhat threatening and surreal nature of the composition.  Photographer's stamp to verso.  Light scratching to surface and mild toning throughout; overall fine.  Photograph 2.5 x 4.25 inches (6.35 x 10.8 cm.); matted to an overall size of 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm.).

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173. [Literature & Art] Raffaello Sanzio Da Urbino (1483 - 1520) [AFTER] .
Study of Erato, for 'The Parnassus'

Study for the figure of the muse seated to the right of Apollo in Raphael's fresco of Parnassus, painted in c.1510-11 in the Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. In the fresco the figure is depicted holding a kithara, an attribute generally associated with Erato, the muse ruling over music.  Pen and ink on cream laid paper in an unknown hand, ca. 1650-1750, mounted to a secondary sheet. 9.5 x 11.25 in.[ 243 x 285 mm] matted, 14x 16 in. Unidentified collector stamp RU lower left (not in Lugt). Soiled, minor paper loss lower left, a few abrasions to surface, else fine. Read More...

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26. Saint-Saëns, Camille. (1835–1921) [Attributed to].
"Saint-Valery-en-Caux - Spring" - Oil Painting

Charming oil painting of a white cherry tree in bloom in the Normandy countryside, apparently painted and signed by the French composer.  While the composer is known to have made artworks of various kinds, we have never previously offered a painting by him and indeed, we find the signature in paint is unlike his usual penmanship. This is not so unusual, and a number of other works in this same style have appeared over the years at French auction houses, all likewise attributed to the composer of this name. That said, please note that the work is sold as "attributed to." In very fine condition.  11 x 9 inches, framed to 13 x 11 (33 x 27.9 cm.). Read More...

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7. Cage, John. (1912–1992) & Hansen, Al. (1927 - 1995) & Kaprow, Allan. (1927 - 2006) & Vostell, Wolf. (1932 - 1998).
Collaborative Drawing from the Kunstlaboratorium Köln, 1986

Original drawing in ballpoint pen in blue on wove paper, accomplished and signed by John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Al Hansen, and Wolf Vostell as well as dated 1986 by Al Hansen. The outline of the face, eyes and nose appear to be accomplished by Cage, whose signed name "John Cage" constitutes the nostrils, beneath which Allan Kaprow's name composes a mustache over a mouth, while the figure's hair is clearly accomplished by Hansen, whose name and title outline the head "Al Hansen Kunstlaboratorium Köln." In a lighter, rather faded ink, "Vostell" forms the right eye. Previously exhibited in “The Art of Collecting” at the Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf Foundation, 2007. In fine condition.  7.8 x 10.5 inches (26 x 19.5 cm).   Read More...


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101. [Jazz & Song] [Ellington, Duke. (1899-1974)] Byrer, Ralph. (1904 - 1990).
Duke Ellington Theater Marquee Mock-up

Unusual and graphically striking period theatre marquee mock-up for an unknown appearance by the great composer and bandleader, accomplished and signed by Hollywood, theater, & poster painter Ralph Byrer. Pencil and gouache on fiberboard, mounted on matboard. In fine condition.  Mock-up measures 12 1/4" x 4 1/4", mounted and framed without glass to 17 3/4" x 9 3/4" overall.  Read More...

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147. [Literature & Art] Chast, Roz. (b. 1954).
"Three Small Books by Roz Chast"

New York: Kathryn Markel. 1982. First. Rare early publications from the American artist and longtime New Yorker cartoonist described as "the poet laureate of urban neurosis."  Three paperback publications, Mondo Boxo, Somebody Goes to the White House by Vera Lee Marlone in diary form, and The Small Pamphlet of Things, in cardboard slipcase.  Very fine.  2.5 x 3.5 inches (6.4 x 8.9 cm.).

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155. [Literature & Art] Gloeden, Baron Wilhelm von. (1856–1931).
Boy with flying fish (1910)

Photogravure, signed to the upper left, "Gloeden / Taormina / 6/8 '10" in black ink. Gloeden Taormina stamp on verso, in fine condition.  22.5×16.5 cm. Read More...

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165. [Literature & Art] [Magritte, René. (1898-1967) AFTER] Magritte, Georgette. (1901-1986).
La valse hésitation (The Hesitation Waltz), 1971

Aquatint and etching in colors on handmade flecked paper, after the 1955 painting, signed in pencil by the artist's wife Georgette Magritte to lower left and annotated 'E.A.' (an épreuve d'artiste, aside from the edition of 150) lower right.  Kaplan/Baum 13. Unexamined out of frame, apparently in fine condition.  Framed to 31 x 24 inches (78.7 x 61 cm.). Read More...

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171. [Literature & Art] [Picasso, Pablo. (1881–1973) & Matisse, Henri. (1869-1954)] [McBride, Henry (1867 - 1962)] Flanner, Janet. (1892 - 1978).
"Men and Monuments" - Inscribed to Henry McBride

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1957. First. Hardcover in dustjacket. 8vo. 297 pp. Inscribed on the second ffe in blue fountain pen ink "To Mr. Henry McBride, herein cited but everywhere known as a lover of modern art, its friend and helper, its valliant [sic] aid and critic in New York - Faithfully, Janet Flanner." The aforementioned name citation in the present volume's index (p. 295) has been identified in red pencil, presumably by McBride himself. "From the Collection of Henry McBride Art Critic" sticker to inside front cover, purple/black cloth slightly toned, in a worn dustjacket, else fine. An extraordinary association copy. Read More...

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186. [History & Culture] [Dagger].
Continental Engraved Steel Dagger

A Continental engraved steel dagger with a finger ring, in mahogany case. Evidently French but of unknown origin and date, it is apparently a reproduction of an earlier example. Overall 15.5 inches (39.5 cm) in length and with an inscription on the over the handle reading  "DOLEE TE" and then within the central section lengthwise of the blade "SCHWAN LA GARDE LE DE FRANCE." Oxidation, marks, and wear. Case 3 1/4 x 20 x 9 inches, rather worn and partially damaged. 



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159. [Literature & Art] Hockney, David. (b. 1937).
"I Just Feel Sad" - Original Drawing (ca. 1980)

Original pen and ink drawing by the British artist depicting the words "I just feel sad" on four fallen leaves.  Along the lower half of the paper are a number of abstract lines in brown ink.  On wove paper, ca. 1980.  Moderate toning along the top edge, and a small spot of white paint on the middle-left side of the drawing, else fine. Measures 8 x 10 inches (20.4 x 25.5 centimeters).   Read More...

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