{"title":"BDG KILLERS - Part II: Pictures at an Execution","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"8171-anonymous-ca-1700-two-men-in-combat","title":"[Anonymous] Ca. 1700 Two Men in Combat","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing in black chalk with white highlights on laid paper,  ca. 1700, depicting two classical nude men in combat, one held down by the other who is poised to bring down the raised club over his head.  20 x 14 inches (51 x 36 cm) (sight). Mounted with tape along left edge to mat (not laid down), 3\" loss, l.l. corner, several creases, areas of restoration around face of top center figure, scattered foxing. Framed to 24 x 19 inches (61 x 48 cm). \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093348536479,"sku":"8171","price":3500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/AnonymousTwoMeninCombatdrawing8171a_6412ee2a-a3b9-42ff-9caa-4221d278d6bb.jpg?v=1735924959"},{"product_id":"10398-castiglione-giovanni-benedetto-1609-1664-a-heathen-sacrifice-original-drawing","title":"Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto. (1609 - 1664) \"A heathen sacrifice\" - Original Drawing","description":"Study of Figures, pen and ink on paper, 17.75 x 20.25 cm [7 x 8 in], ca. 1650.  With the collection mark lower left of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792), this work thought to be Castiglione's \"A heathen sacrifice\" listed as #55 in the second day of the Reynolds sale catalogue.  With significant areas of paper loss and repairs, rebacked with areas of support sheet showing through. Archivally matted and set in a hand-gilted finished-corner frame under UV plexiglass.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Italian Baroque artist, painter, printmaker and draftsman of the Genoese school is best known now for his elaborate engravings, as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping, and for the \"course fluidity\" of his distinctive drawing style, the latter being on full display in the present fine example. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le Benédette.  A brilliant draftsman, Castiglione pioneered the development of the oil sketch (often using a mixture of mediums) as a finished work.  He returned to the same subjects, including that of sacrifice, over and over again, but with significantly different compositions each time. \"Collectors and and connoisseurs traveling to Venice...marveled at the brio and verve of execution...even if the works did not conform to the idealizing classicism favoured by many of Castiglione's contemporaries....they sensed that his drawings were at their best when they juxtaposed highly descriptive elements with deliberately unfinished passages.\" We can date the present drawing to the early to mid 1650s when the style of Castiglione's figures took on a marked and newly pronounced elongation. \"In part this was a re-engagement with Genoese late Mannerism, reprising a brief phases seen in the early 1640s but now taking the elegance of Biscaino, Castello and, from a century earlier, Parmigianino to such extremes that the results appear tortured rather than graceful.\"  (Timothy J. 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This copy from the Collection of Andre Meyer. Hopkinson 20A (title page illustrated, plate IIA) ; D. Kern Holoman, Catalogue of the Works of Hector Berlioz, p.160; Hirsch IV, 700.  Rare. Worldcat records but six copies.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the full score of one of Berlioz's grandest and best-known works, with a tremendous orchestration of woodwind and brass instruments, including four antiphonal offstage brass ensembles placed at the corners of the concert stage. The famous 'Rex tremendæ', with its eight pairs of timpani, is engraved here on up to 32 staves per page. The vocal score did not appear until 1882. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1837, Adrien de Gasparin, the Minister of the Interior of France, asked Berlioz to compose a Requiem Mass to remember soldiers who died in the Revolution of July 1830.  The premiere was conducted by François Antoine Habeneck on December 5, 1837 in commemoration of General Damrémont and the soldiers killed in the Siege of Constantine. According to Berlioz himself, Habeneck put down his baton during the dramatic Tuba mirum (part of the Dies irae movement), and took a pinch of snuff. Berlioz rushed to the podium to conduct himself, saving the performance from disaster. The premiere was a complete success.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093430030495,"sku":"10691","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Berlioz_Mass_10691a.jpg?v=1722187970"},{"product_id":"12588-drum-afghan-pakistani-drum-made-of-artillery-shell","title":"[Drum] Afghan-Pakistani Drum made of Artillery Shell","description":"\u003cp\u003eVisually striking drum composed of Afghan-Pakistani goatskin, plaster, vegetable dye, wire and sling fitted around a WWII artillery shell. 17.5\"h. Scattered cracks, wear and losses. Deaccessioned from the Northern California Art Museum, this is an extraordinary musical relic, a sort of metaphor given physical form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093490684063,"sku":"12588","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/IMG_8212.jpg?v=1722188373"},{"product_id":"15647-turounet-paul-america-reynosa-tamaulipas-mexico-1998","title":"Turounet, Paul. 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Drawing inspiration from the pulp comic of the same name, Tierra Brava traverses a personal psychological space within the color of a place mired in contradictions; the U.S. – Mexico border. It is a place that is in a constant search for its own sense of identity, juggling the traditions of culture and history of the interior with the pleasures and promises of prosperity and a better life of its northern neighbor. It is not Mexico and not the United States, but rather something and somewhere in-between.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaul Turounet is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, books and installation. Using his own photographs, archived images and ephemera, text, and found materials, his practice is driven by a curiosity combined with exploratory research to conceptually develop subjective documentary narratives that are informed and shaped by personal and collective histories in such places as the U.S.-Mexico border and sites of the American experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003ePaul Turounet received his MFA in Photography from the Yale University School of Art in 1995. For the following fifteen years, he photographed in Mexico, which he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1997 and grants from the Trans-Border Institute in 2003 and 2004 from the University of San Diego. His work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally, including the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, the New Mexico State University Art Gallery, the Aperture Gallery in New York, Centro Cultural Tijuana in Mexico, and the Moscow House of Photography in Russia. His most recent book, Estamos Buscando A, was recently shortlisted and a runner-up for the 2016 Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award as well as being listed on the New York Times list of “Best Photobooks of 2016.” His border wall installation, Estamos Buscando A, was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art -Tucson in October 2017. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093591609503,"sku":"15647","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Screen_Shot_2017-09-29_at_5.29.28_PM.png?v=1722189041"},{"product_id":"15792-cahll-gautier-ca-1800-between-life-and-death","title":"[Cahll] [Gautier] Ca. 1800 Between Life and Death","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eStriking stipple engraving, depicting Death as a crowned skeleton with wings and tail, attacking a woman in an airborne battle.  Death points a spear at her as she pushes him away, a hound of Hell barking at their feet, while the woman grips the wrist of another crowned and winged figure, representing life, who brandishes a sword and pulls her from below.  In an extensive search, we have been unable to positively identify either the artist of the original image (signed \"Cahll\") or the engraver (signed \"Gautier\").  Sight 6.75 x 9 inches (17 x 23 cm.), framed to 14.5 x 17 inches (37 x 43 cm.).\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093596229791,"sku":"15792","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Between_Life_and_Death_5792.png?v=1722189077"},{"product_id":"21619-habermann-franz-xaver-representation-du-feu-terrible-a-nouvelle-yorck-great-fire-of-new-york-1776-print","title":"Habermann, Franz Xaver. (1721 - 1796) Representation du Feu Terrible a Nouvelle Yorck [Great Fire of New York], 1776 Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eStriking hand-colored engraving on laid paper, a 1776 vue d'optique or Lantern Print offering a European artist's conception of the Great New York Fire of 1776. The view depicts parts of downtown New York, near Broadway, the original Stock Exchange, the original Kings College, and Trinity Church, fully engulfed in flames. British soldiers, dressed in their signature red coats are savagely beating the city's panicked inhabitants while enslaved Africans carry trunks from the blazing buildings. In overall fine condition within the plate and image; heavily worn around the edges with staining, creasing and small losses, one paper repair to lower left corner. 13.5\"h x 17\"w; 43.5 x 34.5 cm;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally issued as a vue d'optique or lantern print, the drawing was intended to be projected and seen through an optic device and consequently the title, top center, is rendered as a mirror image. For the present printing, French and German text decrying the fire as an act of revolutionary and slave aggression against rightful British hegemony, has been added to the base of the map. It was drawn by the German engraver Franz Xaver Habermann and published in 1776 by L'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des Arts Libereaux, in Augsburg, Germany, as part of the collection of views Collection des Prospects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe German engraver and artist Franz Xaver Habermann was active in the second half of the 18th century and based in Augsburg where he was a well-respected engraver of urban views. He is particularly known for his views of American cities, most specifically New York and Boston, which though merely artists conceptions and highly fictive, do illustrate the common European perception of the English colonies at the outset of the American Revolutionary War.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA contemporary witness described the fire:\u003cbr\u003e\"… at a little past midnight, September 21, 1776, a fire broke out in a low drinking-place and brothel -a wooden building on the wharf, near White-hall Slip. The wind was brisk from the southwest, and the flames spreaåd rapidly, unchecked, for there were few inhabitants in the city. every building between White-hall and Broad streets up to Beaver Street was consumed, when the wind veered to the southeast and drove the flames towards Broadway. The buildings on each side of Beaver Street to the Bowling Green were burned. The fire crossed Broadway and swept all the buildings on each side as far as Exchange Street, and on the west side to Partition (Fulton) Street, destroying Trinity Church. Every building westward towards the Hudson River perished.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fire broke out as American Revolutionary forces, under George Washington, and British marines, under Lord Howe, fought for control of the strategically important harbor. The conflagration lasted two days and destroyed nearly 500 buildings, at the time about one third of the city. Both sides immediately accused the other of starting the fire intentionally, and indeed, when it became apparent that wresting control of New York harbor from the entrenched British was unlikely, the Revolutionary leaders did discuss burning the city to the ground, though supposedly the plan was abandoned. Nonetheless, the ramifications were significant, with the British using the fire as an excuse to maintain martial law over the city until finally expelled in 1783.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReferences:\u003cbr\u003eCresswell, D. H., The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress, no. 268. New York Public Library, Miriam and Ira D. 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In very fine condition.\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003eFrom the collection of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene Dietrich as the icon’s stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort, and later spent 25 years as an arts and entertainment reviewer and photographer with Gay Community News, Esplanade, Tommy’s Connection, The Mirror, Bay Windows and other publications.\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093796147359,"sku":"21896","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Russell_2522The_Paleface_2522_E2_80_93_Signed_Promotional_Photograph_21896.jpg?v=1722190418"},{"product_id":"22316-dagger-continental-engraved-steel-dagger","title":"[Dagger] Continental Engraved Steel Dagger","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"space-top space-bottom\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Continental engraved steel dagger with a finger ring, in mahogany case. \u003cspan\u003eEvidently 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.\" O\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003exidation, marks, and wear. Case 3 1\/4 x 20 x 9 inches, rather worn and partially damaged. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"space-top space-bottom\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093809483935,"sku":"22316","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Dagger_22316a.png?v=1722190518"},{"product_id":"22525-crumb-george-black-angels-autograph-musical-quotation-signed","title":"Crumb, George. 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The book was not completed or published until after the execution of the killers and the pro-forma nature of the present inscription suggests to us that the author was subsequently asked to sign a copy to someone actually of the same name as the book's subject. While this is thus not a signed association copy in the truest sense, it is almost certainly the only extant signed copy to (a) Perry Smith.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eIn the early morning hours of November 15, 1959, four members of the Clutter family were murdered in a rural Kansas farming community. Two ex-convicts, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, were captured six weeks later, put on trial, found guilty of the murders and sentenced to death. They would remain on death row for nearly six years, before both being executed on April 14, 1965. Even before they were apprehended, writer Truman Capote had developed an interest in the story and traveled to Holcomb, Kansas, to interview the locals. After Smith and Hickcock were imprisoned, Capote interviewed both extensively, eventually befriending them and serving as an official witness to their executions. He compiled over 8,000 pages of research notes while writing In Cold Blood, which was first published as a four-part serial in The New Yorker, beginning on September 25, 1965. Random House released it in book form on January 17, 1966, where it achieved overnight success. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his story of the killers, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, Capote paints an especially empathetic portrait of Smith. 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