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Lot 457
A FRANCO-FLEMISH VERDU TAPESTRY, BRUXELLES, 16TH CENTURY woven wool, organic pigments, depicting a bear hunt in a verdant landscape surrounding a château and moat populated by hunters, huntresses and dogs in the foreground within a four-sided classical border of scrolling flower arrangements, summer fruits and foliage offset by four graceful figures to each corner,splits, foreground repairs, relined with Belgian linen, later blue border, restorations, cleaned and lined in Paris in 1987 by M. Kechichain, Quai de la Seine, Paris332 by 245cmTapestries, the fine embodiment of history and art, coalesced in Europe in the great weaving centres of Italy, France and the Netherlands, over a thousand years ago. Before the Royal houses of Europe ordered sumptuous and labour intensive heraldic tapestries in the medieval period, smaller and simpler ones were commissioned by ordinary households for the purpose of warmth and decoration. It is however the grand and regal tapestries that have survived over time - many housed in museums, and royal residences - that are now sought after by collectors. Not since the January 1997 sale of a 17th century Brussels tapestry depicting Ulysees and Circe from the estate of the Baroness Grace Confaloneri , has Stephan Welz and Co in Cape Town been in a position to offer two superb examples of early Flemish tapestry. The weaving centres of Bruxelles and Enghien in Flanders (Belgium) reached their height in the XVIth century. The tapestries in lots 457 and 458 produced by these centres, are made entirely by hand of gathered, spun and organically dyed wool. Designs were specially created by “tapestry painters” who created novel designs to be placed under the warp of the loom for the weavers to bring to life. As well as scenes of courtly life, themes of classical mythology and the bible were used as central panels framed by borders of decorative foliage, fruit, flowers and figures set in architectural niches. It is interesting to note that there is a renewed interest in Flemish tapestries, particularly when juxtaposed with clean, contemporary interiors like those of acclaimed Belgian decorator Axel Verwoordt.- Carol Kaufmann
Lot 367
Mark Wilfred Batten (1905-1993), A bronze portrait bust of John Hull Grundy, signed, titled and dated 1958, height, 48cm, 19in. * The bust is of the pioneering medical zoologist John Hull Grundy who himself trained in sculpture before going into medicine and was a contemporary of Batten's at Chelsea Art School. Artists' Resale Right ("droit de suite") may apply to this lot.
Lot 11
Illuminated Testimonial. An illuminated testimonial for John Dent Goodman upon tendering his resignation as director and chairman of the London and Midland Bank Ltd., 15th July 1898, produced by Blades, East & Blades, [1898], a total of 4 well-executed watercolour, gilt and gouache leaves, the first 2 with text, the third leaf with 23 mounted vignette oval portrait photographs (manuscript key leaf loosely inserted), the fourth leaf with 15 vignettes of bank buildings (11 albumen print photographs and 4 well-executed watercolours to match), the Art Nouveau decorative borders with floral and foliage designs, the second leaf with 2 armorials and mottos to lower border, each 34 x 25 cm and window-mounted in thick card, Blades, East & Blades gilt stamp to final blank leaf, some mostly marginal spotting, moire silk doublures, all edges gilt, contemporary red morocco with gilt rules and bank's circular gilt crest to upper cover, inner dentelles with gilt floral design, minor rubbing at head and foot of spine, large 4to (49 x 40 cm) From the collection of his grandson Sir Victor Goodman, Clerk of the Parliaments. (1)
Lot 132
Ireland (Samuel). Picturesque Views on the River Wye, from its Source at Plinlimmon Hill, to its Junction with the Severn below Chepstow: with Observations on the Public Buildings, and other Works of Art, in its Vicinity, 1st edition, 1797, half-title not present, single-page engraved map, 30 sepia aquatint plates (including frontispiece) and one engraved portrait plate, several woodcut illustrations, dust-soiling & marginal damp stains mostly to frontispece and title, modern calf gilt by Period Binders of Bath, large 8vo, together with Scott (Walter). Waverley Novels, 47 volumes (of 48), Edinburgh: Cadell & Company, London: Simpkin & Marshall, 1829-1833, volume 48 lacking, engraved frontispieces and vignette titles, engraved dedication leaf (with spotting and browning), contemporary blue green calf, gilt decorated spines with morocco labels at head & foot, gilt & blind decoration to borders of boards, 8vo, plus Carnan (T. & Newbery, F., publishers), A Description of England and Wales. Containing a Particular Account of each County, 10 volumes, mixed editions, 1769-1775, numerous engraved plates, contemporary marbled calf, gilt decorated spines, contrasting morocco labels (some lacking), volume 4 spine torn with slight loss, few joints cracked, 12mo, and Dickens (Charles). Works, 20 volumes, London & New York: Chapman & Hall Ltd., and Henry Frowde, circa 1910, black & white illustrations, top edge gilt, original dark green morocco gilt, 8vo, and Byron (Lord George), The Works..., with His Letters and Journals, and His Life, by Thomas Moore, 17 volumes, John Murray, 1832-1833, engraved frontispieces and additional engraved titles, contemporary half calf gilt, lacking some labels, upper board of volume 1 detached, worn, 8vo, and others, including Theo A. Stephens, My Garden, An Intimate Magazine for Garden Lovers, volumes 1-12, January 1934-December 1937,colour and black & white plates, numerous illusttations and advertisements, contemporary uniform green morocco, 8vo, Hollandischen Maler by Dr. C. Hofstede de Groot, volumes 1-7, 9-10 only (vol. 10 facsimile reprint), Paris, 1907-1928, black & white plates, contemporary uniform cloth-backed boards gilt (vol. 10 in full vellum), morocco spine labels, large 8vo, and two large folio volumes containing extracts, cuttings & reviews regarding the acclaimed Italian actress Eleonora Duse (1858-1924), with mounted black & white illustrations, and two portrait photographs (one signed) Abbey Scenery 544, Upcott pages 330-332, for the first work. (3 cartons)
Lot 21
The Art Journal, a broken run, 38 volumes, a broken run, 1848-51, 1853-55, 1859-60, 1862, 1873, 1874-76, & 1885-1906, plus duplicates for 1855 and 1886, numerous black and white engravings and illustrations, some light toning, together with 7 other 19th century art journals, all mixed contemporary leather bindings, boards and spines slightly rubbed, large 4to (45)
Lot 22
Bolliger (Hans). Dokumentations-Bibliothek zur Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts/Bibliography of 20th century Art Publications, Alan Wofsy, 1991, monochrome illustrations, original cloth in dust wrapper, 4to, VG, together with Gill (Eric), Drawings From Life, 1st edition, 1940, monochrome illustrations, original blue cloth gilt in dust wrapper, rubbed and a little frayed to edges, 8vo, plus Whistler (James McNeill), Eden versus Whistler, The Baronet & The Butterfly, a Valentine with a Verdict, Paris, Louis-Henry May, 1899, original cloth-backed boards gilt, very slightly rubbed, 8vo (from the library of Leonard Smithers, with recent printed ticket loosely inserted), and other art and design interest, including Axis, a quarterly review of contemporary abstract painting & sculpture, no. 2, April 1935, Walter Crane, Line & Form, 1900, Antony Griffiths, The Print in Stuart Britain 1603-1689, British Museum, 1998, Penguin Modern Painters series, Poetry Review, 6 issues, March 1912-July 1913, etc. (46)
Lot 146
Marquis of Stafford's Art Collection - Ottley, William YoungEngravings of the Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford's Collection of Pictures in London. London: Longman, Hurst [&c.], 1818. 4 volumes in one, large 4to, 13 plans and 126 engraved plates [13, 25, 31, 59, 11], contemporary green half morocco, t.e.g., scattered spotting to platesProvenance: The property of the Newbattle Abbey College Trust
Lot 180
Art Reference & Bibliography, 24 booksMaclehose, James, printer Pictures Exhibited in the Royal Reception Rooms in the Art Galleries of the Glasgow International Exhibition 1901. Glasgow, 1902. 4to, two bookplates designed by D.Y. Cameron belonging to J. Craig Annan and Lessing and Edith Rosenwald (loose), original boards with blue morocco gilt labels; "Bromley, Henry" A Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits. London: T. Payne..., 1793. 4to, contemporary tree calf, rebacked, bookplate; Almack, Edward A Bibliography of the King's Book or Eikon Basilike. London: Blades, East & Blades, 1896. Folio, original black cloth gilt, bookplate; Partridge, Frank Ralph Wood Pottery, Mr. Frank Partridge's Collection. London: [n.d.] 4to, original blue cloth gilt; Menpes, Mortimer Whistler as I knew Him. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. 4to, original cloth gilt; Huth, Henry A Catalogue of Woodcuts and Engravings in the Huth Library. London: Chiswick Press, 1910. 4to, contemporary quarter morocco, bookplate; Gebelin, François Les Chateaux de la Renaissance. Paris, [1927]. Folio, original cloth; Blanc, Charles Grammaire des Arts Décoratifs. Paris, 1882. 4to, contemporary quarter morocco gilt; Trusler, John The Works of William Hogarth. London: Jones and Co., 1833. 4to, contemporary half calf; Field, George A Grammar of Colouring... London: Crosby Lockwood & Co., 1877. 12mo, original cloth; and 14 others, sold not subject to return (24)
Lot 182
Art, Architecture & Clocks, 22 volumesMillais, John Guille The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais. London: Methuen & Co., 1902. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, contemporary red morocco gilt with floral tooling to spine; MacQuoid, Percy & Ralph Edwards The Dictionary of English Furniture. London: Country Life, 1924. 3 volumes, folio, original green cloth gilt; MacGibbon, David & Thomas Ross The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland... Edinburgh, 1990. 5 volumes, 8vo, green cloth; M. Harris and Sons A Catalogue and Index of Old Furniture and Works of Decorative Art, [n.d.] 3 volumes, 4to; Symonds, R.W. English Furniture from Charles II to George II. London: The Conoisseur, 1929. Folio, original cloth gilt; Cescinsky, Herbert The Old English Master Clockmakers. London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1938. 8vo, black cloth, spine detaching; and 7 others, sold not subject t return (22)
Lot 468
Angling - Two 18th century works comprising Shirley, ThomasThe Angler's Museum; or, the whole Art of float and fly Fishing... The third edition. London: Printed for John Fielding, [c. 1784]. pp. 5, '8', [vii]-viii, 135, [1], with a final page of advertisements and a frontispiece portrait (dated 1784) of John Kirby [Bound with:] The Gentleman Angler. Containing brief and plain Instructions by which the young Beginner may in a short Time become a perfect Artist in angling for all Kinds of Fish. London: Printed for G. Kearsley, 1786. pp. vii, [1], 122, [2], with a final advertisement leaf and frontispiece engraving; 2 works in one volume, 12mo, contemporary half calf, spine chipped at head, joints cracking slightly
Lot 795
Tessa Beaver (British, 20th Century), Spring Catalpa; Spring Shagbark Hickory; New England Maple; each signed, titled and numbered in pencil (in lower margin) and each with Christie's Contemporary Art label (verso), etchings, each 63 x 52cm, together with another etching by Greenwood titled 'Reed Gold', signed, titled and numbered in pencil (in lower margin), 53 x 46cm (4). May be subject to ARR
Lot 355
JOSEPHINE WILSON (CONTEMPORARY) CHECKA I & II, a pair of portrait pencil drawings of a young woman in side profile with large hoop earrings, approximately 76cm x 56cm, framed and glazed (2) (The Artist and the sitter were final year art students at Leeds College of Art) and comes with Aon Community Art Award brochure 2015 featuring Checka I & II on page 4/5 and the work of the sitter Checka Levi Morenos on pages 14/15
Lot 205
A Chinese export silver cocktail shaker,c.1920,in Art Deco style, embossed with stylised camellias, blossom and bamboo leaves, the similarly decorated handle of serpent form, the detachable domed cover and spout stopper mounted with cork, the interior cover with hooks, marked below the base with Chinese characters, and stamped sterling,24cm high, 17oz overallAt first glance, this object could be mistaken for a Tiffany or an Asprey cocktail shaker. The distinct Art Deco form is comparable with contemporary cocktail shaker styles of the 1920s and 1930s.
Lot 880
A dealer lot of silver to include necklace of various shapes and sizes, all silver mounted. To include abalone inlaid roundel, brutalist, agate teardrop, faced glass roundel, square agate, transluscent teardrop,mother of pearl teardrop, Art Nouveau, contemporary, hearts, vintage, padlock heart etc. Total weight 158.2g
Lot 9
Japanese folding book, silk laid onto paper, printed landscape and scenes and characters with silk covered bds, a little wornJapanese Drama, The Tourist Library no.6, Tokyo, the Maruzen Company Limited 1936, folding colour frontis, colour and photographic ills, limp coversTwo books in Chinese, image of Confucius on front coversProgramme for opera and dance in Osaka, probably 1920's Hosie, Lady "The Pool of Ch'ien Lung, a tale of modern Peking", Hodder & Stoughton 1944, colour frontis, blue bds, gilt titles and characters, dj chipped and with lossSeike, Kyoshi and Terry, Charles S "Contemporary Japanese Houses" pub Kodansha International Ltd, Tokyo, Japan 1970, folioThe New Art Library"The Practice and Science of Drawing...", Sealey Service, djGuerman, M"The Art of the October Revolution"Amay, Mario "Pop as Art", bds "A Wealth of Poetry part 2", Selected Copyright 1963, Basil Blackwell, arranged in 12 themes, each visually introduced by Bridget Riley, gilt decs to front board, limp covers, shelf wear Curtis Comic, vol 1, Zero Taker, Art by Yoonyeol Choi, story by Kimgoon, dated 2002 and various other volumes (1 box)
Lot 143
Verve: The French Review of Art, Nos.5/6, 14 colour lithographs Guys (4), Braque, Rouault, Derain (2), Léger, Bonnard (2), Matisse (2) and Klee, plates and illustrations, some mounted, title lightly browned, contemporary boards, rubbed, original colour lithograph wrappers by Maillol bound in, 4to, Paris, 1939.
Lot 146
Warhol (Andy).- Green (Samuel Adams) Andy Warhol, first edition, designed by Ben Brillo, printed on cream green and silver leaves, plates, a few leaves loose (as often), original cloth-backed wrappers, upper cover featuring Campbell Soup tins, very slightly rubbed and soiled but a good copy, 8vo, Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, 1965.⁂ Scarce catalogue of the artist's first museum exhibition in 1965. In the crush at the press night some of the paintings were damaged so they were removed before the official opening the following night, effectively making Andy Warhol himself the exhibit and creating his status of Pop Art icon.
Lot 167
Meijer (Emile) & Joop Swart. The Photographic Memory: Press Photography - Twelve Insights, 1988 § Whelan (Richard) Double Take: A Comparative Look at Photographs, New York, 1981 § Hudson (Roger) An Independent Eye: A Century of Photographs, 1998 § Epic (The) and the Everyday: Contemporary Photographic Art, 1994, illustrations, the first two original cloth with dust-jackets, the last two original wrappers; and a quantity of others, photography, including some duplicates, v.s. (3 boxes)
Lot 63
Ark: The Journal of the Royal College of Art, Nos. 1, 7, 12, 23, 28, 35, 37 & 38 only, plus a duplicate of no.28, original pictorial wrappers, 1950-65 § Evans (Myfanwy, editor) The Pavilion: A Contemporary Collection of British Art & Architecture, with contributions by Wyndham Lewis, John Betjeman and Edward Bawden, original wrappers, spine torn, [1946]; Axis: A Quarterly Review of Contemporary Abstract Painting & Sculpture, No.8 only (of 8), original printed wrappers, colour plates after Alexander Calder and Paul Nash, 1937 § Shawe-Taylor (Desmond, editor) The Arts, No.2, original pictorial wrappers by Edward Bawden, spine slightly frayed, [c.1947], plates and illustrations, some colour, all a little rubbed and soiled; and a small quantity of others on British art and design, including several 1950s issues of Royal Academy Illustrated, Penguin Modern Painters publications and some exhibition catalogues, v.s. (c.50)
Lot 383
Mandey (Venterus & Moxon, James). Mechanick-Powers: or, the Mistery of Nature and Art Unvail'd, 1st edition, 1696, engraved portrait frontispiece, 17 engraved folding plates, signature to title, upper outer corner of title torn & frayed with slight loss to double-ruled border, occasional marginalia & notes, few ink marks and some to verso of plates, later endpapers, contemporary blind panelled calf, rebacked and corners repaired, 4to Wing M418. (1)
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Lot 73
[James, Robert]. The Rational Farmer, and Practical Husbandman by the Author of the new Medicinal Dictionary, to which is added, the British Herbal..., 2 parts in 1 volume, 2nd edition, printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1747, first part in double column, second part with woodcut botanical illustrations, some occasional heavy spotting and old dampstaining, tear with loss to upper outer corner of T1 of first part, with resultant loss of page numbers and to letters of the last/first word of recto/verso, old marginal paper repairs to Y3-4 & Z1 of first part, not affecting text, contemporary engraved illustration from another work pasted as frontispiece, contemporary sheep, rubbed, some edge wear, 4to Very rare and not in Fussell or Henrey. ESTC lists only 4 copies of the first edition of 1743 and 2 copies of this second edition: University College Wales, Hugh Owen Library; Henry E. Huntingdon Library and Art Gallery. (1)
Lot 733
A signed coloured limited edition etching by John Brunsdon showing a Welsh landscape, signed bottom right, edition number 140/150, inscribed Llansannan, with Christie's Contemporary Art certificate verso, 40 x 47 cm, together with a further signed coloured limited edition etching by John Brunsdon - Dusk over Pen-y-Gwryd, 137/150, 27 x 35 cm both in gilt frames
Lot 225
Helen Stuart ( fl.1880s ) Portrait of a Maori Wearing a huia-feather headdress over-painted gelatin Silver Print. Signed and Dated lower left In contemporary gilt and ebonised frame.1885. Size 22 x 21 Inches. Helen Stuart was the sister of the painter and photographer Samuel Stuart Jnr, who both emigrated to New Zealand from Scotland. Helen Stuart was one of very few recorded colourists, mostly of her brothers photographs and possibly, as may well be the case here, of the photographs of Josiah Martin. The Christchurch Star of 5th November 1886 reported that a photograph of a Maori coloured by Helen Stuart was Included In an exhibition of New Zealand art, part of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, held at the Royal Albert Hall In London, where examples of Martins ethnological and topographical Photographs are also recorded as being exhibited.Reference ebook; Crombie To Burton Early New Zealand Photography, page 58 to view similar portrait
Lot 62
Polar.- Antarctica.- Ponting (Herbert George, 1870-1935) One of the Dogs, gelatin silver print, blindstamped H.G. Ponting, 335 x 455 mm. (13 1/4 x 17 7/8 in), some small worm holes, light browning and minor abrasion, in contemporary oak frame, [1911, printed c.1924].Provenance:Fine Art Society [no. 34] label on reverse.
Lot 356
Masefield (John) Salt-Water Ballads, first edition, first issue without "go" on p.59 and with Grant Richards imprint, [one of 500 copies], half-title, inscribed by the author to Laurence Hodson with 3-verse unpublished poem on front free endpaper, book-label of Laurence Hodson at foot of front pastedown, original blue buckram, t.e.g., others uncut, occasional spotting to edges, a very good copy, preserved in contemporary paper wrapper inscribed on upper panel by Elkin Mathews, rubbed, a little frayed at corners, 8vo, 1902. ⁂ The author's first book, published while he was secretary to Laurence Hodson, Chairman of the Fine Art Committee for the Wolverhampton Art and Industrial Exhibition of 1902. The unpublished poem is addressed to Hodson, beginning "Enclosed, I pray thee Skipper, find / Some tarry whiffs of Channel Wind...The writer hopes you will not mind his use of 'bloody'..." and finishes "...he / Sincerely and devoutly hopes / The rhymes'll please ye." The book was later lent to Elkin Mathews to produce another edition and he has inscribed the wrapper: "To the Printer. N.B. The owner & Mr. Masefield both ask me to insist that this loaned copy shall be treated with the utmost care and be so guarded that it may not be inked nor smudged. Elkin Mathews".Saleroom Notice: The manuscript poem is not unpublished.
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Lot 100
Sporting.- Berners (Dame Juliana) [The Book of St Albans]: The Book containing the Treatises of Hawking; Hunting; Coat-Armour; Fishing; and Blasing of Arms, facsimile of the Wynkyn de Worde edition of 1496, [one of 150 copies], printed in red and black, woodcut illustrations, some full-page, lightly browned, William Baillie Grohman's copy with his signed ink inscription "...bought this copy at the Gilbey sale 21. June 1915" on front free endpaper, bookplates of Walter Harold Wilkin and James Stevens Cox, worming to hinges, contemporary russia with borders in blind, by C.Hering with his ticket, g.e., a little rubbed and damp-stained, rebacked and recornered in morocco, [W & S p. 28; Schwerdt I p. 63], small folio, 1810.⁂ Facsimile of the first English work to include the earliest printed illustration of a fisherman and passages of veterinary interest, the earliest book printed in English relating to falconry, and the first work in England to use colour printing.William Baillie Grohman (1851-1921), Anglo-Austrian author on hunting and big game hunter. He assembled a large library on hunting and a vast collection of sporting art.
Lot 95
Dutch Landscapes.- Apostool (Cornelius, engraver) The Beauties of the Dutch School, 14 aquatint plates engraved by Apostool after various artists, most printed in sepia, on Whatman wove paper, each with letterpress leaf of text, contemporary ink inscription at head of title, light foxing, mostly marginal, contemporary half calf, gilt-stamped red morocco label on upper cover, rubbed, corners and spine ends worn, upper joint split, [cf. Abbey, Life 195, coloured copy], oblong folio, for J.Robson...and J.Edwards, 1793.⁂ In the descriptions the editor, an anonymous London art dealer, also comments on the particular artist's skill and popularity, the provenance of some of his paintings, examples of items at auction and their prices. Regarding Paul Potter he writes: "At Mr Bramcamp's sale, at Amsterdam, I bid nine hundred pounds for a picture representing a Drove of Oxen (six feet by four), which was sold for nine hundred and five pounds...It was purchased for the Empress of Russia, but was unfortunately lost...in going to St. Petersburgh".
Lot 374
§ Ethel Walker (Scottish, b.1941) Bright Daffodils and Bowl signed lower right "Walker" oil on board, in a silvered frame 57 x 52cm (22 x 20in) Provenance: The Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, 31 High Street, Eton, Windsor, Berkshire From a Cambridgeshire country house Other Notes: Ethel Walker was born in Ayrshire in 1941 and studied Art at Glasgow School of Art from 1959 – 1961. Her work can be found in many important private and corporate collections throughout the world. Condition appears fine and colours are good.
Lot 382
§ Evelyn Mary Dunbar, NEAC, RWS, ARCA (British, 1906-1960) Roadworks signed lower left "Evelyn Dunbar" oil on canvas, unframed 36 x 46cm (14 x 18in) Provenance: By descent within the family of the artist Other Notes: Evelyn Dunbar was a mural artist, illustrator and teacher, born in Reading, Berkshire. She studied at Rochester and Chelsea Schools of Art and The Royal College of Art (1929 - 33). She painted murals at Brockley County School, Kent and at Bletchley Training College, Buckinghamshire. During World War II, Dunbar was the only woman artist to receive a salary for commissions, depicting civilian contributions to the war effort on the Home Front. After the war she was appointed as a part-time teacher at the Oxford School of Art as well as a visiting teacher at the Ruskin School, Oxford. Christopher Campbell-Howes writes: "Road Works' is quite early, I should think 1926, most probably an exercise set by Dunbar's tutor, Harold Shimmell, during the first of her two sessions, 1926 and 1928, at Rochester School of Art, each of which she attended for a month or two before dropping out. The signature however appears to date from the early 1950s, when a quantity of her work was divided up and in some cases authenticated between members of her family. 'Road Works' went to her brother Alec and his wife Jill, and thence by descent to Evelyn's great-nieces. The scene is probably somewhere between The Cedars, the Dunbar family home in Strood, Kent, and Micawber Cottage, Alec and Jill Dunbar's house about a mile away up the hill towards Gravesend, but the urban configuration has changed so much in the last 90 years that it is impossible to identify exactly. It is very rare in the sense that there are only two other urban scenes in her entire known output, the others being 'Mobile Canteen' (Private Collection, a similar student exercise from 1928) and 'The Queue at the Fish Shop' (1942-45, Imperial War Museum)". In late 1938 Dunbar opened The Blue Gallery, a large first-floor room above the shop run by her sisters Marjorie and Jessie at 168 High Street, Rochester. Here she displayed her own work and included some of her mother's floral still-life paintings. She invited Charles Mahoney (with whom she remained on friendly terms) and prominent contemporary artists , to contribute their work to her first group exhibition, which opened in March 1939. The Blue Gallery did not prosper and it closed after a few months.Condition: Unframed. Scuffing to the edges and some scuffing to the right of the signature.
Lot 1539
A collection of catalogues for the Artists of the Northern Counties Exhibitions, at Newcastle's Laing Art Gallery from their inception in 1905 until 1962; together with individual catalogues for a selection of important and other exhibitions held at this venue, including: Charles Napier Hemy 1984, Ralph Hedley 1990, Robert & Isa Jobling 1992; together with other catalogues of local artists, including: Winslow Homer at the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland 1988, George Horton, North Tyneside Library 1986, 19th Century North East Artists, Sunderland Art Gallery 1974; and others. (qty)
Lot 10
Lot of 11 Art volumes The lot contains: Testori Giovanni. Fra Galgario. Torino: Eri, 1970. Red cloth, illustrated dust jacket. Dedicated to the painter from Bergamo Vittore Ghislandi, so-called Fra Galgario (1655-1743), with text of the historian and art critic Giovanni Testori (1923-1993). Reggiori Ferdinando. Lombardia sull'acqua. Milano: Silvana, 1973. Cloth with illustrated dust jacket, cardboard box. Beautiful photographic volume. The analysis goes from the Ticino area to the city of Mantua, on the Mincio, passing through the Lugano and Varese lakes, of Iseo and Garda, and waterways as the Adda, Brembo, Serio, Po and Navigli. Van Loon Hendrik Willem. Le arti... Milano: Bompiani, 1938. Editorial wrappers. Les faiences de l'Auxerrois. ABC Décor. Revue mensuelle. Numéro hors-série. Janvier 1978. Modesti Renzo. La pittura di Carletti. 40 tavole a colori. Milano: Amilcare Pizzi, 1962. Cardboard with illustrated dust jacket, cardboard box. Illulstrated monograph dedicated to the painter from Turin Mario Carletti (1912-1977). Gasbarri Carlo. La terrasanta. Dal paese di Abramo al monte dell'Ascensione. Con 302 tavole fuori testo in nero e a colori e 4 cartine geografiche a colori nel testo. Introduzione di Salvatore Garofalo. Roma: Opera nazionale per il recupero dei fanciulli subnormali, 1964. Percalline cardboard, illustrated dust jacket. AA.VV. Sèvres. Le XVIIIe siècle par Pierre Verlet... Les XIXe et XXe siècles par Serge Grandjean... Les marques de Sèvres par Marcelle Brunet. Paris: Gérard Le Prat, 1954. Rough cloth. I capolavori del colore. IV. Nature morte e fiori. Introduzione di Nietta Aprà. G. G. Gorlich, [s.d.]. Editorial folder containing 9 colored plates. Granmann Erwin (Introduzione). Landschaften und Feste in der franzoesischen Malerei des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. Acht farbige Wiedergaben mit einer Einfuehrung von Erwin Gradmann. Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1939. Loose leaves editorial folder. Briner-Zuerich Eduard (Introduzione). Albert Anker. Sechs farbige Wiedergaben seiner Werke. Zuerich: Rascher Verlag, 1941. AA.VV. Group of di 11 chapters of the collection Les Chefs d'Oeuvre des grandes Maitres (Paris: Hachette, 1903), each one in original wrappers with contemporary purple cardboard, color illustrated, bound in an half-leather volume with marbled covers. Contains : Livraison V (1903); Livraison II (1903); Livraison III (1903); Livraison VII (1903); Livraison VIII (1903); Livraison IV (1903); Livraison VI (1903); Livraison IX (1903); Livraison XIV (1903); Livraison XV (1903); Livraison XIII (1903). Lotto di 11 volumi d'arte Il lotto comprende: Testori Giovanni. Fra Galgario. Torino: Eri, 1970. Legatura in tela rossa, sovraccoperta illustrata. Monografia dedicata al pittore bergamasco Vittore Ghislandi detto Fra Galgario (1655-1743), con testo dello storico e critico d'arte Giovanni Testori (1923-1993). Reggiori Ferdinando. Lombardia sull'acqua. Milano: Silvana, 1973. Legatura in tela con sovraccoperta illustrata, cofanetto cartonato. Bel volume fotografico. L'analisi va dalla zona ticinese fino alla città di Mantova, sul Mincio, passando in rassegna i laghi di Lugano e Varese, d'Iseo e di Garda, e corsi d'acqua come l'Adda, il Brembo, il Serio, il Po e i navigli. Van Loon Hendrik Willem. Le arti... Milano: Bompiani, 1938. Brossura editoriale. Les faiences de l'Auxerrois. ABC Décor. Revue mensuelle. Numéro hors-série. Janvier 1978. Modesti Renzo. La pittura di Carletti. 40 tavole a colori. Milano: Amilcare Pizzi, 1962. Legatura in cartonato con sovraccoperta illustrata, cofanetto cartonato. Monografia illustrata dedicata al pittore torinese Mario Carletti (1912-1977). Gasbarri Carlo. La terrasanta. Dal paese di Abramo al monte dell'Ascensione. Con 302 tavole fuori testo in nero e a colori e 4 cartine geografiche a colori nel testo. Introduzione di Salvatore Garofalo. Roma: Opera nazionale per il recupero dei fanciulli subnormali, 1964. Legatura in cartonato rivestito in percallina, sovraccoperta illustrata. AA.VV. Sèvres. Le XVIIIe siècle par Pierre Verlet... Les XIXe et XXe siècles par Serge Grandjean... Les marques de Sèvres par Marcelle Brunet. Paris: Gérard Le Prat, 1954. Legatura in tela grezza. I capolavori del colore. IV. Nature morte e fiori. Introduzione di Nietta Aprà. G. G. Gorlich, [s.d.]. Cartella editoriale contenente 9 tavole a colori. Granmann Erwin (Introduzione). Landschaften und Feste in der franzoesischen Malerei des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. Acht farbige Wiedergaben mit einer Einfuehrung von Erwin Gradmann. Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1939. Cartella editoriale a fogli sciolti. Briner-Zuerich Eduard (Introduzione). Albert Anker. Sechs farbige Wiedergaben seiner Werke. Zuerich: Rascher Verlag, 1941. AA.VV. Gruppo di 11 fascicoli della collana Les Chefs d'Oeuvre des grandes Maitres (Paris: Hachette, 1903), ognuno con propria brossura originale in cartoncino porpora illustrato a colori, legati in un volume in mezza pelle con punte e carta marmorizzata ai piatti. Comprende: Livraison V (1903); Livraison II (1903); Livraison III (1903); Livraison VII (1903); Livraison VIII (1903); Livraison IV (1903); Livraison VI (1903); Livraison IX (1903); Livraison XIV (1903); Livraison XV (1903); Livraison XIII (1903).
Lot 105
The lot contains: Hertzberg Gustav Friedrich. Storia dello Impero Romano... con ritratti, illustrazioni e carte. Milano: Società Editrice Libraria, s.d. [end of 19th Century]. Editorial percalline with gilt titles on the front cover and the spine. Gregorio Rosario. Opere scelte... Terza edizione. Volume unico. Palermo: Tipografia di Pietro Pensante, 1860. Contemporary half-cloth, decorated parcalline on the covers. Burns Delisle. La prima Europa. Il Cristianesimo medioevale dal 400 all'800. Milano: Longanesi, 1950. Collana I cento libri, I. Editorial leather, wanting the spine and the dust jacket. Copy n. 960 of 1200 printed on India paper. Nencini Franco. Firenze i giorni del diluvio. Prefazione di Enrico Mattei. Firenze: Sansoni, 1966. Fourth edition. Editorial illustrated cloth. AA.VV. L'oreficeria nella Firenze del Quattrocento. Firenze: Studio per Edizioni scelte, 1977. Exhibition catalog. Editorial illustrated wrappers. Istituto del Nastro Azzurro fra combattenti decorati al valor militare. Federazione provinciale di Bologna. Albo d'Oro dei decorati al valor militare della provincia di Bologna dal 1860 al 1983. Bologna: Li Causi Editore, 1983. Illustrated editorial wrappers. I grandi di Bologna. Repertorio alfabetico di personaggi illustri dal 1800 a oggi. A cura di Franco Basile e Giuseppe Castagnoli. Bologna: Poligrafici Editoriale, 1991. Editorial illustrated cardboard. I grandi di Romagna. Repertorio alfabetico dei romagnoli illustri dall'unità d'Italia da oggi. A cura di Mauro Tedeschini. Bologna: Poligrafici Editoriale, 1990. Editorial illustrated cardboard. Le felsinarie. Celebrazioni storiche di Bologna. A cura di Giuseppe Maria Mioni. Bologna: Costa editore, 2002. Editorial illustrated wrappers. far Bersaglio nella vita. Rassegna petroniana. Testi di Andrea Badini. [Bologna]: Numero unico edito sotto l'egida della Associazione Amici del Bologna, 1962. AA.VV. Centomila anni di vita quotidiana. Milano: Valentino Bompiani editore, 1961. Editorial cloth with illustrated dust jacket. I protagonisti della Storia Universale. Il mondo contemporaneo. Dalla rivoluzione russa alla rivoluzione cinese. Milano: C.E.I - Compagnia Edizioni Internazionali, 1965. Editorial cardboard with illustrated dust jacket. Giuliotti Domenico. S. Francesco. Firenze: NEMI - Novissima Enciclopedia Monografica Illustrata, 1931. Editorial illustrated wrappers. Ex libris Biblioteca Palazzi. Bassi Domenico. La Bibbia. Firenze: NEMI - Novissima Enciclopedia Monografica Illustrata, 1931. Editorial illustrated wrappers. Ex libris Biblioteca Palazzi. ADDING: 3 information booklets of tourist interest: Eremo di Montecasale (s.d.), Itinerari Tuscolani (1972), Bellocchi Ugo. L'aceto balsamico tradizionale di Reggio Emilia (1991).Storia - Religione - Arte. Lotto di 17 libri e opuscoli moderni di argomento vario Il lotto contiene: Hertzberg Gustav Friedrich. Storia dello Impero Romano... con ritratti, illustrazioni e carte. Milano: Società Editrice Libraria, s.d. [ma fine XIX secolo]. Legatura editoriale in percallina con titoli in oro al piatto anteriore e al dorso. Gregorio Rosario. Opere scelte... Terza edizione. Volume unico. Palermo: Tipografia di Pietro Pensante, 1860. Legatura coeva in mezza tela, percallina decorata ai piatti. Burns Delisle. La prima Europa. Il Cristianesimo medioevale dal 400 all'800. Milano: Longanesi, 1950. Collana I cento libri, I. Legatura editoriale in pelle, dorso e sovraccoperta mancanti. Esemplare numerato 960 di 1200 stampati su carta d'India. Nencini Franco. Firenze i giorni del diluvio. Prefazione di Enrico Mattei. Firenze: Sansoni, 1966. Quarta edizione. Legatura in tela editoriale illustrata. AA.VV. L'oreficeria nella Firenze del Quattrocento. Firenze: Studio per Edizioni scelte, 1977. Catalogo della mostra. Brossura editoriale illustrata. Istituto del Nastro Azzurro fra combattenti decorati al valor militare. Federazione provinciale di Bologna. Albo d'Oro dei decorati al valor militare della provincia di Bologna dal 1860 al 1983. Bologna: Li Causi Editore, 1983. Brossura editoriale illustrata. I grandi di Bologna. Repertorio alfabetico di personaggi illustri dal 1800 a oggi. A cura di Franco Basile e Giuseppe Castagnoli. Bologna: Poligrafici Editoriale, 1991. Cartonato editoriale illustrato. I grandi di Romagna. Repertorio alfabetico dei romagnoli illustri dall'unità d'Italia da oggi. A cura di Mauro Tedeschini. Bologna: Poligrafici Editoriale, 1990. Cartonato editoriale illustrato. Le felsinarie. Celebrazioni storiche di Bologna. A cura di Giuseppe Maria Mioni. Bologna: Costa editore, 2002. Brossura editoriale illustrata. far Bersaglio nella vita. Rassegna petroniana. Testi di Andrea Badini. [Bologna]: Numero unico edito sotto l'egida della Associazione Amici del Bologna, 1962. AA.VV. Centomila anni di vita quotidiana. Milano: Valentino Bompiani editore, 1961. Legatura in tela editoriale con sovraccoperta illustrata. I protagonisti della Storia Universale. Il mondo contemporaneo. Dalla rivoluzione russa alla rivoluzione cinese. Milano: C.E.I - Compagnia Edizioni Internazionali, 1965. Cartonato editoriale con sovraccoperta illustrata. Giuliotti Domenico. S. Francesco. Firenze: NEMI - Novissima Enciclopedia Monografica Illustrata, 1931. Brossura editoriale illustrata. Ex libris Biblioteca Palazzi. Bassi Domenico. La Bibbia. Firenze: NEMI - Novissima Enciclopedia Monografica Illustrata, 1931. Brossura editoriale illustrata. Ex libris Biblioteca Palazzi. Si aggiungono 3 opuscoli divulgativi di interesse turistico: Eremo di Montecasale (s.d.), Itinerari Tuscolani (1972), Bellocchi Ugo. L'aceto balsamico tradizionale di Reggio Emilia (1991). History - Religion - Art. Lot of 17 volumes and modern booklets of various subjects.
Lot 60
Guibert Jacques Antoine Hippolyte (de). Essai général de tactique, précédé d'un discours sur l'état actuel de la politique & de la science militaire en Europe avec le plan d'un ouvrage intitulé la France politique et militaire. Tome premier [-second]. A Londres [i.e. Liegi]: chez les libraires associés [i.e. Clement Plomteux], 1772. Two volumes, 8° (196x120 mm). viii, CLX, 408, 451 [i.e. 411], [1pages. 12 folding plates; 358 pages, last leaf blank lacking, 15 folding plates. In the quire N of the second volume the printer curiously inserted a leaf marked *N4, containing the text of pages 199 and 200. Woodcut ornament on both title-pages. Foxing, some leaves uniformly browned. Contemporary mottled calf. Spines with five raised bands, gilt tooled; title and volume numbering in gold on double red morocco lettering-piece. Marbled pastedowns, flyleaves, and edges. Covers abraded, losses to the extremities of the spines. One of the most importants and appreciated eighteenth-century treatises on art military, which enjoyed a wide popularity, and was also translated into English and German.Due volumi in-8° (mm 196x120). Pagine viii, CLX, 408, 451 [i.e. 411], [1], 12 tavole ripiegate; 358, manca l'ultima carta bianca, 15 tavole ripiegate. Nel fascicolo N del secondo volume è stata curiosamente inserita in tipografia la c. *N4 che riporta il testo delle pp. 199 e 200. Fregio xilografico al frontespizio di entrambi i volumi, Fioriture, alcune carte uniformemente brunite. Legatura coeva in vitello agli acidi, dorso a cinque nervi, titolo e numero di volume su duplice tassello in marocchino granata, scomparti decorati da ferri dorati. Tagli marmorizzati. Contropiatti e sguardie in carta caillouté. Evidenti abrasioni ai piatti, mancanze in corrispondenza delle estremità del dorso. Celebre trattato di tattica e tecnica militare, senza dubbio uno dei migliori dell'epoca e per questo di vasta diffusione anche in traduzione inglese e tedesca. L'Autore analizza l'arte della guerra del suo tempo con uno sguardo ampio e critico, riuscendo a cogliere trasformazioni - e rivoluzioni - non solo in atto, ma intuendo soluzioni che solo negli anni successivi avrebbero effettivamente trovato applicazioni, modificando drasticamente e a livello europeo il modo di condurre le campagne militari.
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Lot 70
Magazzino toscano d'instruzione e di piacere. Tomo primo [-secondo]. In Livorno: per Antonio Santini e compagni, 1754-1755. Two volumes (of 3), 4° (mm 206x142). I: 557, [1] pages, with 11 engraved plates, of which some are folded. Three quires a2, b2 and c2, not belonging to the edition as issued, are bound between E and F, L and M, R and S. II: 567, [1] pages, with 12 engraved plates, of which some are folded. Woodcut vignette to both title-pages. Browned the title-page and the first quire of the Tomo primo: marginal waterstain to the title-page of the Tomo secondo, a few foxing. Contemporary vellum over pasteboards, titles on gold on painted lettering pieces. Edes speckled red. A few spots and stains to the covers. Early shelfmarks inked to the front flyleaf and title-page of the Tomo primo, and to the spines. Two volumes from this interesting journal, considered as the ideal continuation of the Magazzino italiano d'istruzione e di piacere, founded in Livorno in 1752 by the publisher Santini, on the model of the Bristish magazines. The journal deals with various topics: history and philosophy, literature and poetry, art and architecture, economics, commerce, etc. The Magazzino toscano was issued until 1757.Due volumi (di 3) in-4° (mm 206x142). I: Pagine 557, [1], con 11 tavole calcografiche di cui alcune ripiegate. Tre fascicoli a2, b2 e c2, non pertinenti all'edizione sono legati tra i ff. E ed F, L e M, R e S. II: Pagine 567, [1], con 12 tavole calcografiche di cui alcune ripiegate. Vignetta calcografica ai frontespizi, fregi xilografici. Brunito il frontespizio e il primo fascicolo del Tomo primo, gora marginale al frontespizio del Tomo secondo, qualche arrossatura. Legatura coeva in pergamena su cartone, titoli in oro su falso tassello al dorso, tagli screziati in rosso. Qualche alone e macchia ai piatti. Antiche segnatura manoscritte alla carta di guardia anteriore e al frontespizio del Tomo primo 'M. S6' e ai dorsi. Due volumi di questa interessante pubblicazione periodica che si poneva come ideale continuazione del Magazzino italiano d'istruzione e di piacere, nato nel 1752 a Livorno per iniziativa dell'editore Santini seguendo il modello dei magazine britannici. Le materie trattate erano le più varie: storia e filosofia, letteratura e poesia, geografia e viaggi, arte e architettura, oltre a tematiche legate all'economia, al commercio, alla navigazione, alle scienze agrarie. La pubblicazione, nata nel fervido clima culturale e mercantile che distinse la Livorno illuminista, cessò nel 1757.
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* HELEN M TURNER PPAI, PAION THE WEST COASToil on board, signed40cm x 50cmFramed.Note: Helen has paintings in the collections of the late Lord Morton, Lord McLean, Robert Fleming Holdings plc, Ramco Oil, Dunedin Fund Managers, Baillie & Gifford, Leone Cockburn Contemporary Art, The Trustees Savings Bank, Edinburgh, South Ayrshire Council and Paisley Museum & Art Gallery. Helen has also exhibited in galleries from Pitlochry to London in the UK and in St. Petersburg, France and Hong Kong.
Lot 20
Ron Tatro, American, Modern contemporary abstract metal sculpture, signed and dated 1987 to base. Height: 91cm, width: 70cm, base: 49cm diameter. Tatro gained his Master's degree in art from Southern Illinois University in the sixties. His sculptures appear in numerous public and private collections across the United States and Europe, including the collection of the San Jose Museum of Art.
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