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Lot 189A
Pre-Columbian, Columbia, Tairona culture, ca. 800 to 1000 CE. An elegant necklace comprised of 24 translucent quartz crystal lozenge-shaped beads, all biconically drilled, alternating with disc-shaped green stone spacers, most of which are pairs. Gold-tones modern clasp. A lovely piece of wearable art, replete with a symmetrical, balanced design and a subtantial number of hand-carved, polished beads from inherently beautiful stones. Size: 19" L (48.3 cm); largest quartz crystal bead measures .75" L (1.9 cm) Provenance: Ex-Private Roswell, GA collection acquired in the 1980's Condition: Stone beads look great, just a few with abrasions. Clasp works. Very wearable. All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #119795
Lot 116
Pre-Columbian, Central Mexico, Guerrero region, ca. 300 to 100 BCE. A Chontal maskette expertly carved from a grey stone with green undertones and mottled beige inclusions. The mask presents an angular form and a flat back, its visage with features in relief including coffee bean shaped eyes, rounded cheek bones, prominent brows, a long aquiline nose, puckered lips, and narrow ear phalanges pierced at the lobes with additional perforations behind temples. Custom block mount. Size: 4" W x 5.5" H (10.2 cm x 14 cm); 4.5" W x 7.5" H (11.4 cm x 19 cm) with mountThe Guerrero region of modern-day southwestern Mexico was the center of the Mezcala and Chontal stone carving traditions. While Mezcala artists are known for their abstract, geometric style, the Chontal sculptors imbued their artworks with more naturalism. Although their stonework stems from the Preclassic period, ca. 300 to 100 BCE, later Mesoamerican peoples clearly cherished Chontal portable sculptures as heirlooms. Chontal creations have been unearthed in ritual caches at Templo Mayor, the principle temple of the fifteenth-century Aztecs of Tenochititlan (Mexico City). What's more, legendary 20th century modernists such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Miguel Covarrubias appreciated the minimalist qualities of Chontal art. Covarrubias went so far as to compare it to the Cycladic style of ancient Greece. Scholars believe that such masks were tied to funerary bundles of the noble elite; however, the smaller scale suggests it may have been attached to clothing. Note the four perforations at the peripheries for such attachment. Provenance: Ex-Dr. G. Hermann collection, Denver, CO acquired before 1980 Condition: On verso are linear depressions most likely inherent to the original stone. Chip to upper edge on back side. Old abrasions beneath it. Otherwise excellent. All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. #118960
Lot 58
CDs - SOUL/FUNK/DISCO/JAZZ/MODERN - An excellent collection of around 360 x 'Ex shop stock' CD albums. Artists will include Kazu Matsui, O'Jays, David Patterson, Rob Mullins, Evan Marks, Robbie Mychals, Teddy Pendergrass, Kim Pensyl, Mark Portman, Art Porter, Caribbean Jazz Project, Mary K Blige, Chick Corea and Jerry Braxton. Condition is mostly unplayed, but please note that there will be duplication.
Lot 280
* JOSEPH DAVIE,HEROoil on canvas178.5cm x 150cmFramedNote: Joseph Davie was born in Glasgow in 1965. He studied at Glasgow School of Art during the 80's, when testosterone and figurative painting seemed to go hand in hand. What is so different about Davie is the subtlety and ambiguity of his work. Georgina Coburn (the freelance arts correspondent) has described his work as lyrical, enigmatic, edgy, dreamlike and compelling. She writes : ''Gently provocative Davie delights in the surreal juxtaposition of ideas and materials. The meeting of contradictory characters, cultures or visual elements such as colour, pattern or form, create intriguing dialogues in his work. Davie's wonderfully ambivalent zinc and copperplate etchings, watercolours, oils on canvas and mixed media works inspire an imaginative response. His whole approach to the figure is brilliantly subdued and refreshing. He conveys a sense of the monumental and iconic not through obvious physical scale but in terms of human aspiration.'' His work is in numerous public collections including Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, The Kelvingrove Museum, Historic Scotland and the BBC.
Lot 313
*JUNE REDFERN,SOUTHERN SHOREoil on linen, signed, titled and dated 2002 verso39cm x 29.5cmFramedLabel verso: Aitken & Dott Ltd, The Scottish Gallery, EdinburghExhibited: The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, 'Christmas Exhibition 2002', 30 November - 24 December, 2002Note: June Redfern’s work is widely represented in private and public collections including: National Gallery (London), Leeds Education Authority, Contemporary Art Society (London), Middlesborough Art Gallery, Dundee Art Gallery, Charlotte Englehart Foundation, Bradford Art Gallery, Laing Art Gallery, Kirkcaldy Art Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Michael Peters Group plc, Robert Fleming plc, Arthur Anderson, Texaco plc, Hiscox Holdings, Berkshire Associates, Proctor and Gamble, Spectrum (London), Standard Life, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery, Lewisham College, Lillie Art Gallery (Glasgow), Paintings in Hospitals, BBC Television and Albertina Museum (Vienna).
Lot 720
A small collection of vintage Conway Stewart fountain pens and pencils, early 20th century and later, comprising a Nippy propelling pencil with mottled green body, 12.5cm, in presentation case but missing the fountain pen, an Art Deco styled fountain pen with 14ct gold nib and mottled red and gold body, 12.7cm, with matching propelling pencil, in poor condition cardboard case, a Dinkie 550 with 14ct gold nib and mottled dark blue body, 10.2cm, a Dinkie 560 with 14ct gold nib and mottled dark red body, 10.2cm, boxed, a 570 with red pearlescent body, a 106 with red coral body, a 66 with blue green body, and a more modern one with red plastic body and black nib, boxed. (9)
Lot 938A
An Art Deco style bronze table lamp, in the style of Max Le Verrier, bears signature, modelled as a nude, holding aloft a globe crackleure shade, on marble socle 37.5cm, a similar modern table lamp, modelled as an Art Deco lady sitting perched on a marble column, missing shade, 43cm, and a further modern Art Deco style metal table tamp, of column form on square stepped base, missing shade, 38cm. (3)
Lot 437
After Terence Cuneo (20th century) - 'The Running Sheds of the Great Caerphilly and Vole-Tail Central Railway', signed artist's proof, numbered 410/850, also bearing the blind stamp for the Fine Art Trade Guild, coloured print, 22" x 30.75"; together with various other decorative prints and pictures, including a print of K.M. Bismarck after Robert Taylor's original painting, a small oil painting of a three masted Barque off a coastline, a modern oil signed T**Moreau - Swans beside a water mill (painted in a pointillist style), another modern oil painting signed Marle, depicting a Dutch street scene with figures, other reproductions depicting Persian, Indian and Egyptian art and an oil painting by A**Charllon - 'Winter in a Durham Birch Wood', various sizes (a collection)
Lot 277
§ Nancy Weir Huntly (British, 1890-1963) View of the ford at Water End, between Lemsford and Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire signed lower right "N W Huntly" oil on board 36 x 44cm (14 x 17in) Other Notes: Nancy Weir Huntly, nee Sheppard, (1890-1963) was a painter in oils of landscapes and portraits. Born in 1890 in Nusserabad, India, she studied art in Dusseldorf at the Royal Academy Schools. She exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the Paris Salon. Her home was in Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, with her daughter, Faith Sheppard, also an artist. Condition is fine - modern frame.
Lot 2078
Silver and silver mounted wares, comprising; a circular ashtray in the Art Deco taste, detailed 'Waikee 90 Silver', a silver mounted and wooden quaich detailed 'Sterling', a modern silver call bell, a rectangular photo frame, a Georgian silver sugar sifter, a large silver decanter label, a Victorian silver aide memoire, a double photo frame, a circular lidded box, a silver mounted prayer book, a novelty pill box formed as a peanut and fifteen further items, combined weight of weighable silver 460gms (26).
Lot 259
20th-21st century AD. A mixed group of exhibition catalogues and magazines on artistic themes including Imagines Imperatorum, Sotheby's African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art catalogue (1), Christie's Watercolours, Drawings and Prints catalogue (1), Sotheby's Martin Bell catalogue (1), Sotheby's Preview (1), Sun Asian Stamps and Philatelic History catalogue (1), Bloomsbury Erotica catalogue (1), Bloomsbury Coins, Medals, Banknotes and Tribal Art (1), Bloomsbury Bibliophile (1), Numisart Antike Kunstobjekte (1), Bonhams Chines Art (1), Bonhams Medals, Banknotes and Coins (1), Spink Derek Clifford Lacquer collection catalogue (1), Spink Insider magazine (1), Sotheby's Irish Art catalogue (1), Financial History Magazine (1), Royal Academy of Arts magazine (2), Tate magazine (1), Anthony Frost catalogue (1), Art Quarterly magazine (1), Alain Bertrand catalogue (1), Apollo magazine (3), Celator magazine (2), Millner Manolatos catalogue (2), Alan Davie catalogue (1), E&R Cyzer Modern Masters catalogue (1), Danish Journal Hans Christian Anderson catalogue signed by the actor Tommy Steel, 1993 (1). 11.9 kg. Ex Steinberg collection; acquired London art market, 1960s-1970s. Mainly fine condition. [No Reserve, 32, No Reserve]
Lot 130
A pair of pewter twin branched candelabra in the Art Nouveau taste on a single column to oval base (after the originals designed by Joseph Maria Olbricht and manufactured by E Heuck circa 1905) CONDITION REPORTS Modern repros, undsigned. Has scratches in varrious places all over, some heavy, some rusting in places possibly applied to look aged. Have general wear and tear. See images for further details.
Lot 802
Hall (Samuel Carter, Editor) Selected Pictures from the Galleries and Private Collections of Great Britain: A Series of Line Engravings from Masterpieces of Modern Art. Vol. I [only, of IV?], [c.1865], London, Virtue & Co. Ltd, folio (575 x 415mm), 38 uncoloured engravings on india paper complete as Contents, most with tissues, and interleaved by text description. Scattered mostly marginal foxing and soiling [&] Selected Pictures from the Galleries and Private Collections of Great Britain: A Series of Engravings from the Best Works of the Best British Artists, Vol. I [only], [c.1860], London, James Virtue, folio (670 x 475mm), 38 uncoloured engravings on india paper complete as Contents, most with tissues, and interleaved by text description. Scattered mostly marginal foxing and soiling. The two vols. uniformly bound in scuffed and rubbed red morocco gilt, frayed edges and spine joints, a.e.g. (2)
Lot 810
A coloured print advertising a Picasso retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art New York 1980, 86 x 49cm approx, a further large poster from the same exhibition 142 x 83cm approx both in aluminium type frames, a colour print after David Hockney showing Mr & Mrs Clark and Percy, an abstract mixed media study of a female head, an abstract painting in tones of red and blue, unsigned and three Indonesian type prints on fabric of figure subjects/floral subjects etc
Lot 144
BECKFORD WILLIAM: (1766-1844) British Novelist and Art Collector. A.L.S., William Beckford, one page, 8vo, n.p. (Bath), 13th October 1823, to Messrs Morlands, Auriol & Co. Beckford informs his correspondent 'Please to furnish Mr. Clarke with one hundred pounds…' With signature cancelled by the bank. Tears to the address leaf caused by the opening of the black wax seal. Two paper repairs to on the verso only slightly affecting the text. Signs of former mounting to the address panel. GMorlands, Auriol & Co, Pall Mall London. One of over 250 financial institutions that merged, amalgamated, or were purchased to form the modern Barclays.The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography notes that Beckwith 'was in almost daily communication with his booksellers, dealing in London with William Clarke, and then with his son George, from whom he ordered numerous books for examination and kept only those few that pleased him.'
Lot 482
Holme (Charles, editor). Art in Photography, with Selected Examples of European and American Work, tipped-in and printed illustrations from photographs, adverts at front, hinges broken and original printed wrappers detached, rubbed and lower outer corner of upper wrapper torn with loss, 4to, together with other miscellaneous art, literature, history, etc. including paperbacks and 63 issues of Modern Painters (vol. 1 no. 1, 1988-vol. 17 no. 3, 2004), lacking only 5 issues (vol. 13 no. 1, vol. 15 nos. 2-4 & vol. 16 no. 1 (6 shelves)
Lot 487
The Curwen Press. Scenery of Great Britain and Ireland in Aquatint and Lithography 1770-1860, from the library of J.R. Abbey, limited edition 177/500, 1952, Life in England..., limited edition 283/400, 1953, Travel..., volumes 1 & 2, limited edition 45/400, 1956, colour and black and white illustrations, all uniform original brown cloth in dust jackets (Life in England dust jacket price clipped), covers slightly marked and rubbed, large 8vo, together with Jones (Owen), The Grammar of Ornament, 1968, 112 colour plates, plus black and whtie illustrations, bookplate to front pastedown, some light spotting, all edges gilt, original gilt decorated plum cloth, boards rubbed with loss to edges, spine faded and rubbed, large 8vo, and Descharnes (Robert, & Néret, Gilles), Salvador Dali, The Paintings 1904-1946, 1997, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original black boards in dust jacket, large 8vo, plus other late 19th century and modern art reference, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 shelves)
Lot 508
Voronova (Tamara & Sterligov, Andrei). Western European Illuminated Manuscripts of the 8th to the 16th Centuries in the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1996, numerous colour illustrations, original boards in dust jacket, large 8vo, together with Mortimer (Martin), The English Glass Chandelier, 2000, numerous black and white illustrations, original blue cloth in dust jacket, 8vo, and Fahr-Becker (Gabriele, editor), The Art of East Asia, 1999, numerous colour illustrations, original red cloth in dust jacket, large 4to, plus other modern art reference books including publications by The Antique Collectors' Club, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (5 shelves)
Lot 332
Baxter (Richard). Gildas Salvianus; The Reformed Pastor. Shewing the nature of the Pastoral work; Especially in Private Instruction and Catechizing. With an open Confession of our too open Sins..., 2nd edition, 1657, lacking A1 (blank?), armorial bookplate of James Stonhouse of Berkshire, hinges repaired, contemporary marbled boards with vellim tipped corners, modern reback, 8vo, together with [Allestree, Richard], The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. Or an Impartial Survey of the Ruines of Christian Religion, Undermin'd by Unchristian Practice, 1667, imprimatur leaf present, engraved vignette title, contemporary speckled calf, modern amateur title label to spine, joints cracked, 8vo, with The Ladies Calling, in Two Parts, 8th impression, Oxford, 1705, engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette title, occasional scattered spotting, all edges gilt, hinges cracked, contemporary red morocco, gilt panelled boards and decoration to spine, joints slightly cracked at head & foot, 8vo, and The Government of the Tongue, 6th impression, Oxford, 1702, imprimatur leaf, engraved portrait frontispiece, bound with The Art of Contentment, Oxford, 1705, engraved portrait frontispiece & vignette title, bound with The Lively Oracles given to us..., Oxford, 1696, imprimatur leaf, engraved frontispiece and vignette title, later printed front endpaper, contemporary panelled calf, joints cracked and crude repair to upper panel of spine, 8vo, plus five other late 17th & 18th century antiquarian, including theology (9)
Lot 460
Gascoyne (David). A Short Survey of Surrealism, Enitharmon Press, 2000, signed by the author to the limitation page, original red cloth with inlaid black and white illustration, 8vo, (limited edition 30/50), together with Sitwell (Sacheverell), Valse Des Fleurs, A Day in St. Petersburg and a Ball at the Winter Palace in 1868, limited edition, The Fairfax Press, 1980, 1 black and white illustration, colour endpapers, original blue quarter cloth in slipcase, 8vo, plus Levy (Silvano), Desmond Morris, Analytical Catalogue Raisonné, 1st edition, 2001, numerous colour and black and white illustrations, original red cloth in dust jacket, 4to, plus other modern art and illustration reference and related, including Henry Moore, Sculpture & Drawing, volumes 1-3, mixed editions, mostly original cloth in dust jackets, G/VG, 8vo/folio (3 cartons)
Lot 109
An Elsa Schiaparelli couture embroidered midnight-blue velvet evening jacket, Autumn-Winter, 1937-38, Paris label with date, richly embroidered by Lesage with gilt strip, gilt cord and sequins, blue and pink rhinestones, with three turquoise tinted metal star-burst 'buttons' with brass closure hooks, discreet pocket vents inserted at the hips, small shoulder pads, lined in blue silk, bust 86cm, 34inProvenance: Stella, Lady EatonSee 'Shocking' Schiaparelli by Dilys Blum pp166-7 for a full-page photograph of Lady Clark of Saltwood wearing a similar jacket in burgundy velvet in 1939 at the opening of the Modern Art Museum in New York. CONDITION REPORT: Rear left armhole seam has been crudely re-sewn. Velvet is rubbed at the elbows. Faint soil spots in the velvet down the centre back when held up against the light. Velvet is slightly crushed at the underarms. Overall the appearance is good. Embroidery and beading is generally intact and good. Lining needs re-stitching at left and right underarms. Front right panel: pink rhinestone missing where embroidery band meets the hem. Two more at neck edge above starburst button, another from 'grass' front on shoulder area. One missing from top of left neck edge and three from rear neck edge. A blue stone missing from floret to left of bottom button. Eight further blue stones missing from flowerheads scattered across the panel - not immediately noticeable. Blue stain is slightly rubbed on lower button. Front left panel: missing 13 pink stones and 10 blue scattered across the jacket. Label has splits. Soiling to lining to neck edge and slightly at underarms.
Lot 160
HENRY KHUDYAKOV (RUSSIAN-AMERICAN B. 1930)Untitled (21 CA), 1978-2003mixed media on a mannequinheight: 184 cm (72 1/2 in.)signed and inscribed on base, shoes, and inside of the jacket, dated with detailed stages of completion on the shoes and clothingLOT NOTESFew materials lie outside of Henry Khudyakov`s reach – glitter, phosphorescent paint, Band-Aids, computer printouts, and construction paper all regularly make an appearance in the multifaceted, and often unexpected, work of the renegade artist. As one critic noted " Partially as a result of his cosmic outlook, no canvas can be too bright for [the] creator. … His works cannot be summed up casually; although, many of them can be connected to each other as cells of a living organism. It's a creation of a new dynamic mysterious cosmos from customary objects. It's better not only to see his creations but be surrounded by them, feel them, and wear as a perfume those simple but surprisingly fresh images." As other Fluxus artists, Khudyakov envisioned and attempted to imbue the everyday with art – elevating the humbles of materials to fine art status.Henry Khudyakov`s works can be found in private and museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Lot 152
DUCHAMP MARCEL: (1887-1968) French-born American Painter, Writer and Chess Player. A.L.S., Marcel, one page, 4to, n.p., 25th October 1947, to [Charles R.] Hulbeck (Richard Huelsenbeck). Duchamp informs his friend that `The pictures are not back and I am afraid won´t be back for some months', continuing to explain 'Schweizer, the representative here, is in France and is coming back in a few weeks or days. He will have exact information about the return of the shipment. Don´t worry'. A letter of interesting association. The upper edge of the letter is very slightly irregularly trimmed, otherwise VG Richard Huelsenbeck (1892-1974) German Psychoanalyst, Poet, Writer & Drummer, founder of the Berlin Dada Group. Huelsenbeck was continually investigated by the Nazi authorities from 1933, although managed to emigrate to the United States in 1936. Once there he changed his name to Charles R. Hulbeck and practiced medicine and psychoanalysis in Long Island, New York. Huelsenbeck's autobiography, Memoirs of a Dada Drummer, gives detailed accounts of his interactions with many key figures of the movement, including Duchamp. Duchamp's work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art and Dada and the artist is considered by many critics to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century. He advised modern art collectors and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art and challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and rejected the emerging art market. Duchamp famously dubbed a urinal art and named it Fountain, however he produced relatively few artworks while remaining mostly aloof of the avant-garde circles of his time. Duchamp went on to pretend to abandon art and devote the rest of his life to chess, whilst secretly continuing to make art.
Lot 86
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC HENRI DE: (1864-1901) French Painter & Illustrator. A.L.S., T-Lautrec, three pages, 8vo, Paris, n.d. (1898?), to 'Mon cher Theo' (van Rysselberghe), in French. The artist informs his friend that he has returned from Spain, where he met Dario, and is now leaving for London in four days, asking van Rysselberghe to supply him with the address of a dealer in London where he can buy some items. Toulouse-Lautrec also enquires as to when his correspondent will be in Paris next as they must go to see a home when it is finished. In concluding he remarks that a mutual acquaintance will be going to Brussels shortly and will meet van Rysselberghe. Autograph letters of Toulouse-Lautrec are rare as a result of his untimely death at the age of 36. One slight paperclip rust stain to the first page, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise VG Theo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926) Belgian Neo-Impressionist Painter who played a pivotal role in the European art scene at the turn of the 20th century. Co-founder of Les XX (1883). Rysselberghe had first met Toulouse-Lautrec in 1887 and was highly appreciative of his talent. Toulouse-Lautrec's family were Anglophiles and, though not as fluent as he pretended to be, the artist spoke English well enough to travel to London, exhibiting works at Goupil's Gallery in May 1898. Whilst in London Toulouse-Lautrec made posters, including the 'Confetti' poster, and the bicycle advert 'La Chaine Simpson'. It was at this time that he also met and befriended Oscar Wilde. Toulouse-Lautrec immersed himself in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century, allowing himself to produce a collection of enticing, elegant and provocative images of the modern, and often decadent, life of those times. He is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, along with Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin.
Lot 1915
A group of various mantel clocks to include an early 20th century American example, height 41cm, a brown onyx rectangular example with alarm clock, and a brass desk piece with perpetual calendar, clock and barometer, also an Art Deco style wall barometer and a modern cased mahjong game set.
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