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Click here to subscribeCommander R. D Hamilton Bate Signed 40th Anniversary of the Visit by HM King George VI to Malta June 20th 1943 in HMS Aurora FDC. British stamp with 20 June 83 Postmark. Good condition. All autographed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Anthony Holden signed FDC. 1948-1998 H. R. H. The Prince of Wales 50th Birthday tribute. Single postmarked 14th November 98 Benham Cover. Good condition. All autographed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Sqn Ldr S Brecken and Flt Lt A. R Edmunds Signed Mosquito Aircraft Museum FDC. British Stamp with 25 September 1975 Postmark. Good condition. All autographed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Sgt R Heathcock and Flt Lt Bill Bishop Signed Operation Thursday First Day Cover. British stamp with 5 March 87 Postmark. Good condition. All autographed items come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Edgeworth [Maria]: Comic Dramas in Three Acts, printed for R. Hunter, 1817; Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus, Excudebat Johan Croke, 1698; Parker [S]: Cicero's Five Books De Finibus, printed for N. Bliss, 1812, etc. (12)Lot 1217 - Illustrations in Fabularum Aesopicarum Delectus as follows - on opposite the title pages of tree, figure and animals, one of building on title page, one of crest on next page, spine badly torn, undulation to pages, generally tired, dog eared/torn corners, completeness unknown.
A diamond three stone ring, A diamond three stone ring, the old cut diamond line star set to the tapered band, estimated total diamond weight 0.20ct, stamped 18ct, ring size R, gross weight 4.5g.Overall condition fair to goodScratches in keeping with age and wearReplacement band - pitting and discolouration visible to inside of bandPrincipal diamond with SR fracture extending across crown facets, chip to table facet, one surrounding diamond with chip to girdle, visible with magnificationMarks clear and legible
ALEX KATZ (B. 1927)Yvonne with Flowers 2001 signed and dated 01 on the overlapoil on linen91.6 by 167.9 cm.36 1/16 by 66 1/8 in.Footnotes:ProvenancePace Wildenstein, New York (#34446)Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto (7780)Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 2014ExhibitedToronto, Mira Godard Gallery, Alex Katz - Paintings & Prints, 2012Executed in his signature style using pared back, bold lines and heightened, vibrant colours, Yvonne with Flowers from 2001 is a truly exceptional work of portraiture by Alex Katz, one of America's definitive painters of the 20th century. Growing up in the New York art world of the 1940s and 50s, when non-representational abstraction dominated the discourse, Katz resisted the dogma of the period and developed his own form of figuration. His direct visual vocabulary, inspired by artists such as Paul Klee, Édouard Manet and Henri Matisse, captured everyday moments from his own life and is instantly recognizable in it's cinematic and refined style. With a recent, highly acclaimed, major career retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and with works included in many of the worlds most prestigious museum collections, Alex Katz's artistic vision has been a defiant voice across centuries and continents. He is one of the great American masters.Painted in 2001, and coming to auction for the very first time, Yvonne with Flowers is an elegant large-scale portrait. The sitter is Yvonne Force Villareal, Co-Founder of Art Production Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to commissioning and producing ambitious public art projects, wife of the artist Leo Villareal and a leading figure in the Maine arts community. Close-cropped against a background of larger-than-life yellow pansies, bright pink carnations and a vivid turquoise blue sky, she gazes out at the viewer, her expression conveys a sense of intimacy and confidence whilst remaining cooly detached at the same time. Typical for the artists work, all extraneous details are stripped away, leaving only the most vital. Yvonne's expression is dispassionate, there is no context or psychological engagement leaving the viewer with an impression bordering on abstraction. In the present work, Katz defines his model's features in his distinctive wet-on-wet brushwork that forces him to finish each work in a single session. Developed from the Renaissance fresco technique of pinning paper to the canvas, and forcing dry pigment through pinholes to create an outline, Katz shapes a vivid human presence with the most minimal of means. The picture is a warm portrayal of Force Villareal, whom Katz has known since the early 1990s and who has since been one of his most painted models after his wife Ada. She features in over 20 paintings, cut-outs and prints of the artist, each depiction revealing a different facet of the sitter. The inclusion of flowers, another one of Katz's career long signature themes, gives the work a fresh springlike quality, similar to Flora in Sandro Botticelli's masterwork Primavera.Offsetting the daringly close crop of the face and flowers with a large canvas, Yvonne with Flowers is evocative of the billboards and cinema screens that influenced the artist in the 1960s. Like a movie still, projected onto a flat cinema screen, the work embodies a distinct Pop aesthetic despite the fact that Katz never saw himself as a Pop artist; if anything he was a precursor to it. Whilst at first, his works with their bold colours and strong close ups seemed to be related to the emerging Pop movement of the 1960s, Katz and his craft-based approach to painting stood apart from the preeminent artistic movements. 'Minimalism was excluding things, but my work was compression,' he told Calvin Tomkins, as for conceptual art, it was 'mostly philosophical ideas, and it comes from universities. A lot of artists don't master their craft until they're thirty-five, but you can be a first-class conceptual artist when you're eighteen' (the artist in: Calvin Tomkins, 'Alex Katz's Life in Art', newyorker.com, 27 August 2018). As for his connection to Pop Art, Katz always painted scenes from his life, friends and family members, not popular culture.Having been featured in nearly 500 group shows internationally and in over 200 solo exhibitions since 1951, Alex Katz has been honoured with numerous retrospectives around the globe. His work has been shown in some of the most prestigious museums in the world, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Tate, London, the Albertina Museum in Vienna and The Guggenheim in Bilbao. His recent career-spanning retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York has been highly praised by critics and enhanced an already strong demand from collectors and institutions internationally. Yvonne with Flowers offers the opportunity to buy a stellar example of the artist's oeuvre, a wonderful addition to any art collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
LALIQUE FRANCE, MARIENTHAL GLASS PLATE LATE 20TH CENTURY marked R. Lalique France, presented on stand23cm diameterDisplays light surface scratches, some rubbing and unevenness to central frosted finish, slight imperfections in the glass, would benefit from a clean and polish but no chips or cracks
RENÉ LALIQUE (FRENCH, 1860-1945), RAMPILLION OPALESCENT GLASS VASE DESIGNED 1927 the tapered lobed body moulded and tinted with foliage, etched R. LALIQUE FRANCE and No. 991 marks to base12.8cm highSome tiny flea bites to rim interior and exterior, some very small and light surface scratches particularly to rim, otherwise no issues to note
RENÉ LALIQUE (FRENCH, 1860-1945), COQUILLES GLASS SHALLOW DISH EARLY 20TH CENTURY with R. LALIQUE, FRANCE signature and no. 3011 to base23.5cm diameterSome very light surface scratches, some very minor pitting to the rim, some very minor imperfections to the rim, several all very small scratches to rim reverse; otherwise no issues to note
PORSON R. Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis. Calf, some rubbing. 1790; also Samuel Burder, Oriental Customs or An Illustration of the Sacred Scriptures. 2 vols., dark calf, 1816; Benjamin Whichcote, Several Discourses, eng. port. frontis, rebacked calf, 2nd ed., 1702 & Thomas Fothergill, Five Sermons Preached on Publick Occasions, calf, Oxford, 1766. (5).
Breeches Bible. Old Testament with no title or prelims, New Testament with eng. title, 1608 & concludes with Two Right Profitable & Fruitfull Concordances ... Collected by R. F. H., 1608. Small quarto. Rebound dark leather, internal wear, many annotations, etc.; also another bible, Old Testament again lacking title, New Testament, Cambridge, 1637 & The Whole Book of Psalmes, Cambridge, 1638, diced dark calf; & another bible, Oxford, 1675. All a.f. (3).
ACKERMANN R. (Pubs). The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities & Monuments. 2 vols. Subscriber's list. Eng. port. frontis & plan & 80 good hand col. aquatint plates as per the plate list. Large quarto. Nicely rebacked calf, a good set. 1st ed., 2nd issue, 1812.
Collection of Military Medals, comprising 1914-1919 Great War Medal awarded to T-36437 A.S.C. Dvr.E Warwick, 1914-1918 George V Medal awarded to 26431 Pte. J Dring L'pool R, 1914-15 Star Medal awarded to 26430 Pte J Dring L'pool R, 1914-1918 George V medal & War Medal awarded to 88147 Pte T Hodkinson L'Pool R, 14-15 Star & War MEdal Both awarded to 13311 Pte J Nickson R Lanc R, together with an AA badge No. 0E03177.
18ct Gold - Attractive Emerald and Diamond Set Cluster Ring, Flower head Setting. Full Hallmark to Shank. The Central Step-cut Emerald Surrounded by 12 Round Brilliant Cut Diamonds of Good Colour and Clarity. Est Diamond Weight 0.75 pts. Ring Size R. Weight 3,8 grams. Shank / Setting Very Good.
A Hallmarked Silver Vesta Case, M&Co, Chster 1903, of plain rounded rectangular form, monogrammed (60grams); Together with A Small Victorian Irish Hallmarked Silver Flask, W&L, Dublin 1888, of shaped circular form and textured finish with pull out stopper, engraved "R. Oates Wever Sheffield" (containing old matches). (2)
A pair of signed royal presentation portraits of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, after W.C Ross ARA and engraved by F. Bacon, each 27x18cm and signed 'Victoria R' and 'Albert' respectively lower right, in gilt gesso frames surmounted by a crown, set within a larger glazed velvet lined mahogany frame, 43x65cmProvenance: the Peto Family, formerly of Chedington Court, Dorset
Late 18th/early 19th century coloured engraving, 'A View of Ratcliff's Library in Oxford', c.1780-1815, 'printed for R Wilkinson at No. 58 in Cornhill, London', probably engraved by William Woollett, the plate 28x44cmProvenance: from the estate of Professor James Griffin, formerly White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi college, Oxford
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