Poster for Warhol/Basquiat Paintings, offset lithograph in colours, 1985, on coated wove paper, from the edition of an unknown size, published by Tony Shafrazi, New York and Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich. The full sheet, 485 x 305 mm. In pristine condition.
New York: Harcourt Brace. 1975. First edition, first issue. Hardcover with dustjacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 241 pages. Signed and inscribed in black felt tip on the half-title page, “To Pat Miller, Andy Warhol," and adding a sketch of a soup can labeled "Campbell's Soup." In very fine condition, with a beautifully preserved jacket.
The artist Pat Miller exhibited at the Bodley Gallery in Manhattan and was part of the Warhol Factory Group during the glory years. She later wrote and illustrated The Serendipity Cookbook.
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Large signed Interview Magazine cover designed by Warhol and boldly signed. The complete September 1981 (Volume X, No. 9) issue. One tear on front cover, one on back, else fine.
Andy Warhol Exhibition Catalogue, published by Gendai Hanga Center in 1984 in an edition of 1500 copies with an original serigraph screenprint in the front of the book. Unsigned, 8 x 11 inches. Read More...
[1954]. First edition, sole printing. Twenty photo-lithographs, each an image of a cat and corresponding calligraphic text, complete as issued, from the very limited and sole edition of probably no more than 100 copies. All in good condition, consisting of 10 sheets working as bifolia, printed variously on colored wove paper with the watermark of "Town Crier Text" and colored gloss surface-paper. One of two books produced by Warhol in or around 1954, each produced in very small numbers, a rare copy of this famous collaboration between Andy Warhol and his mother Juila Warhola who was know for her quirky illustrations and calligraphy. Read More...
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New York: Andy Warhol Books/Grosset & Dunlap. 1979. First edition. Hardcover with dustjacket. 4to, 10 x 11 inches. 255 pages. Signed on the half-title page, “Love, Andy Warhol" and on the cover jacket "Andy Warhol" (this one somewhat faded). In very good condition, with some edge wear on the dust wrapper, a little shaken. Warhol's first photography book, with 360 b/w photos of friends and celebrities (most of them both).
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An autograph letter signed, New York, January 13, 1948, by the Russian-born painter, set designer, landscape and portrait artist. Addressed to the author and book dealer Herbert Bittner, who wrote books on Kollwitz and Grosz, among others. In full: "Thank you ever so much for the kind note you wrote to me about my exhibition - I was very touched. I encIose herewith a check for $15 on account of my debts for the books I took before X-mas. I had a letter from Miss Edith Sitwell the well known poet of England, with thanks and admiration for the work you have done. She had apparently never received the copy sent to her in Sept. (Miss Edith Sitwell F.R.S.T. Renishaw Hall / Renishaw near Sheffield, Herbyshire, England). Neither has Mr. Kenneth Clark [British author, museum director, broadcaster, and one of the best-known art historians of his generation], nor my sister! The books were sent by Lincoln [Lincoln Kirstein - American writer, impresario, art connoisseur who authored a book on Tchelitchew and was the subject of one of the artist's most famous paintings], as he told me. Could you, kindly, look up the receipts and find if those names were there? If not, I will ask Lincoln for his N. annd dates of the receipts. I include also some stamps for your secretary...Sincerely yours, P. Tchelitchew."
Unsigned nude drawing on paper cut out and pasted on paper. Framed, glazed and matted. Frame: 22 1/2 x 14 inches. Image size: 15 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches. With a clipping regarding Roualt nudes affixed to the verso of frame.
11 x 14 inch original doubleweight Fiber silver gelatin photograph. Berkey K & L Custom stamps with title, photographer's credit and FSA archive reference numbers on verso. Read More...
Original etching on laid paper. Lettered within image, at bottom left: "Geertruyt Rogman invenit et Sculpsit. Fischer Excudebat" 20.5 x 16.5 cm. Provenance: from the collection of the important American composer, Jerome Kern (1885-1945).
A scarce print from the female engraver and etcher, born in Amsterdam as daughter of Hendrik Lambertsz Roghman.
Original etching on laid paper. Lettered within image, at bottom left: "Geertruyt Rogman invenit" and numbered 5 at lower right. 20.5 x 16.5 cm. Bartsch IV pp.36-7; Hollstein (23 nos). Provenance: from the collection of the important American composer, Jerome Kern (1885-1945).
A scarce print from the female engraver and etcher, born in Amsterdam as daughter of Hendrik Lambertsz Roghman.
New York: Watson-Guptill. 1946. First edition, first printing. Red cloth hardcover with dustjacket, 9 x 12 inches, 208 pages. Signed in green ink on the front free end page, “Sincerely, Norman Rockwell.” A fine, clean copy with a fine dj.
Large original double portrait photograph of Picasso with the French director, Henri-Georges Clouzot. 40 x 30 cm (15.8 x 12 in). Silver gelatin print, 1955. With the photographer's "Photo André Villers (Mention Obligatoire)" wetstamp on the verso, titled in pencil "Picasso and Henri Georges Clouzot at Vallauris" on the verso. In very good condition, with tears and chipping to the trimmed edges, reinforced with perimeter tape on the reverse. One of a series of famous photographs taken by André Villers, a friend and confidant of Picasso. In 1955, Clouzot filmed Picasso as he painted 20 artworks, ranging from quick sketches to widescreen color oil paintings, captured using time lapse photography. In 1984, the French government declared "The Mystery of Picasso" a National Treasure.
Original painting, gouache and pencil on paper. 19 7/8" x 25 3/4". Signed lower right. Painted 1949, Gilot Archive reference number G. 837. Mounted on linen and framed. Provenance: The estate of novelist, Sanford Friedman (1928 - 2010), originally acquired through the Galerie Louise Leiris. Read More...
Early autograph signed postcard from the great artist to his first biographer, the critic and dealer, André Level (1863-1946). On the verso of a surrealist photograph postcard entitled "Un coup de Mistral a Marseille," inscribed in fountain pen ink "Amities de la famille O.P.P. Picasso" and addressed to Level in Paris. Postmarked Marseille 12-6-1925 and with an additional cancellation "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Indrustriels Modernes - Paris - Avril-Octobre 1925." Block of toning, strip of surface loss along upper edge of verso, othewise fine. Read More...
An interesting group of three letters from the influential French surrealist artist, 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 Masson. The group includes three retained and unsigned copies of typed letters from Curtis to Masson, and three handwritten and signed letters from Masson to Curtis, dated 1963 and 1964. All in fine condition, moderately toned, envelopes stapled to upper left corners. In chronological order, as follows: Read More...
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Montreal: Les Editions de l'Arbre. 1945. First edition. 19 x 24cm. Inscribed on the illustrated title page to Frank Elgar, by the French artist best known for his brightly colored, cubist- and machine-age-influenced abstractions. Cover illustrated in color, volume including 32 pages illustrated in black and white, together with texts by François Hertel, M.-A. Couturier, Maurice Gagnon, S. Giedion, S. M. Kootz, Fernand Léger and James Johnson Sweeney. Scattered small corner creases, head of spine chipped but repaired, overall in fine condition.