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[BACON FRANCIS]: (1909-1992) Irish-born British painter. A good, large colour 13 x 19 (32.5 x 48 cm) photograph of Bacon by photographer Jacques Saraben, the image depicting the artist in a semi-profile head and shoulders pose. Signed (‘Jacques Saraben’) by the photographer to the lower white border and further titled in his hand ‘Francis Bacon, Reece Mews, 25 Mars 1972’ (printed later). Also with his oval credit stamp to the verso. VGJacques Saraben (1939- ) French photographer and painter.7 Reece Mews in South Kensington, London, served as Bacon’s studio from October 1961 until his death in April 1992. Few people were allowed into the centre of his artistic activities, and even fewer witnessed him painting. In 1998 the entire contents of the studio were donated to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin where they were meticulously reconstructed.
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KLEMPERER OTTO: (1885-1973) German conductor and composer. A fine vintage signed 8 x 10 photograph of Klemperer in a profile head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Armand Roth of Beverly Hills, California, and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed by Klemperer in bold dark fountain pen ink to a clear area of the background and dated 1963 in his hand. A typed annotation to the head of the verso indicates that the signature was obtained in person at the Hyde Park Hotel in London. One very light paperclip indentation to the upper edge and a few extremely minor surface creases, VG
DRESSLER MARIE: (1868-1934) Canadian actress, Academy Award winner for Best Actress in 1930/31 for her role as Min Divot in Min and Bill. Vintage signed sepia 8 x 10 photograph of Dressler in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Clarence Sinclair Bull for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and bearing his blind stamp to the lower right corner and credit stamp to the verso. Signed by Dressler in fountain pen ink to the base of the image with slightly poorer contrast in parts. Some light staining and corner creasing, G
NUREYEV RUDOLF: (1938-1993) Russian ballet dancer. A good signed 7.5 x 10 photograph of Nureyev in a full-length dance pose in costume from Le Corsaire, an extract from the ballet revived by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg in the 19th century and orginally inspired by a poem by Lord Byron. Photograph by Leslie E. Spatt and bearing her credit stamp to the verso. Signed ('Rudolf Nureyev') by Nureyev to the image in bold blue fountain pen ink with his name alone. VG
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[EINSTEIN & CURIE]: [EINSTEIN ALBERT] (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921 & [CURIE MARIE] (1867-1934) French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics 1903, and for Chemistry 1911. A good vintage unsigned sepia 7 x 5 photograph showing the members of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation (attached to the League of Nations) gathered together standing and seated in several rows outside the Hotel Leger in Thoiry on 25th July 1930, the delegates including Albert Einstein (seated third from left in the front row) and Marie Curie (seated far left in the front row) as well as Nicolae Titulescu (1882-1941) Romanian politician and diplomat, President of the General Assembly of the League of Nations 1930-32, George Oprescu (1881-1969) Romanian historian, art critic and collector, Secretary of the ICIC, Alfredo Rocco (1875-1935) Italian politician and jurist, Gilbert Murray (1866-1957) Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, Paul Painleve (1863-1933) French mathematician and statesman, Prime Minister of France 1917 & 1925, Paul Valery (1871-1945) French poet, essayist and philosopher, and other intellectuals. Photograph by Robert Ehrer of Bellegarde and bearing his white facsimile signature (within the negative) to the lower right corner and credit stamp to the verso. With a series of pencil annotations to the verso, most relating to the publication of the photograph. A few surface and corner creases, otherwise about VG
DAVOUT LOUIS NICOLAS: (1770-1823) Marshal of France, Duc d´Auerstaedt and Prince of Eckmuhl. Known as the Iron Marshal, Davout was the only Napoleonic Marshal not to have been defeated in battle by 1815. Unusual A.L.S., `L. Davout´, two pages, 4to, Skierniewice (between Lodz and Warsaw), in Poland, 1st of January [1808], to his wife Aimée Leclerc, in French. Davout sends a bold ink manuscript letter to his wife from Poland, where he has been few months earlier appointed by Napoleon Governor-General of the new created Duchy following the Treaties of Tislit few months before. Davout refers to an important property they intend to buy in France, and confirms that he fully trust and support his wife´s decisions, stating in part `Je reçois ma chère aimée ta lettre où tu m'annonces que l'on t'a devancé et que l'hôtel de Rohan-Chabot est acheté. Je te répète que j'approuverai tout ce que tu feras et que je ne verrai jamais une folie dans l'acquisition que tu feras, quelle qu'elle soit, il me sera suffisant que cela te convienne pour avoir ma pleine et entière approbation...´ (Translation: "My dear beloved, I receive your letter in which you tell me that you have been beaten and that the Rohan-Chabot hotel has been purchased. I repeat to you that I will approve everything you do and that I will never see folly in the acquisition you make, whatever it may be, it will be enough for me that it suits you to have my full and complete approval...") Davout further refers to the money need referred by his wife which he cannot understand, saying `Je te prierai d'excuser mon laconisme, ma chère Aimée, je veux expédier tout le travail de cette journée auparavant le départ de l'ordonnance et j'ai des choses pressantes. J'espère que l'arrivée des 29 000 f. t'auront un peu soulagé, mais comment peux-tu te trouver dans l´embarras, le Major Général ayant 300 000 qu´il te remettra à son arrivée...´ (Translation: "I will ask you to excuse my laconicism, my dear Aimée, I want to get through all the work of this day before the departure of the orderly and I have pressing matters. I hope that the arrival of the 29,000 f. will have relieved you a little, but how can you find yourself in an embarrassment, the Major General having 300,000 which he will give you upon his arrival...") Davout refers to Louis Alexandre Berthier when mentionning the Major General who will bring thee 300.000 fr, being a grant given by Napoleon I to Davout in order to help him to buy the hotel he wished and dederved according to his rank. With address leaf in Davout´s hand `a Madame La Maréchale Davout, cour de l´orangerie, Paris´, also bearing an ink stamp and an attractive and in good condition red wax seal, showing a crowned coat of arms with the Marshal´s batons and his own initials. Overall creasing, with few tears to the adress leaf as a result of the letter opening. G
GERTLER MARK: (1891-1939) British painter. A scarce A.L.S., Mark, to the verso of a colour picture postcard featuring a reproduction of a painting by Rubens, Paris, 1932, to his aunt, Annie Gertler. The artist writes, in full, ‘I heard from Minnie that Harry is better. I am very glad. I hope all goes well still. I will phone when I return to London. Love to all’. Together with a few pieces of unsigned printed ephemera comprising two different invitation cards to exhibitions of Gertler’s works at The Leicester Galleries and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and a small 8vo catalogue of the New Year Exhibition of Pictures, Drawings and Sculpture by Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Artists at The Leicester Galleries in London, January 1954, featuring works by L. S. Lowry, Ford Madox Brown, Frank Brangwyn, Amedeo Modiglaini, Augustus John, Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, Stanley Spencer, Wyndham Lewis, Paul Signac, Alfred Sisley, Duncan Grant, Walter Sickert, Terry Frost, John Piper, Ben Nicholson, Edgar Degas and Mark Gertler amongst others. Further including a series of unsigned incomplete autograph letters and notes by Valentine Dobree (1894-1974, Indian-born English artist, associated with the Bloomsbury Group and the lover of Gertler), four pages, 8vo, Richmond, n.d., to Mark Gertler, in ink and pencil. Dobree commences the first page of one letter ‘Terms like the “aura of my disfigured mentality” and the “rigidity of puritanical labels” occur to me as the memory of my first confused correspondence sweeps into my mind like a dark cloud which flashed thunder……’ further writing ‘I experienced the fever & madness of love, then the idyllic strain of fanciful pleasure, which shocked me out of myself with its sweetness & unrealism. I descended to earth filled with the fright of you’, and also adding a note in the margin, ‘I know I never ought to right (sic) like this to you because you do not love me but you can decide for yourself whether you want me or not’. The other pages state, in part, ‘The unconscious growth of nature creates shapes of life with an unpremidated (sic) spontanity (sic)….The Artist in you is mostly unconscious if it exists at all….sex is definitely unconscious liquid in the mind poisoning the grey matter…..I don’t think anybody else has felt love like I have. It is because I have suppressed myself to such an extent that it has burst upon me…..’ Some age wear and creasing, particularly evident to Gertler’s postcard (which also has the postage stamp neatly removed), and a few small tears and areas of paper loss, FR to generally G, 8
ROBSON FLORA: (1902-1984) British actress. Signed 8 x 10 photograph, the original vintage portrait by Tunbridge of London (and bearing their credit stamp to the verso) depicting Robson seated in a half-length pose in costume from one of her most famous roles as Queen Elizabeth I in the film drama Fire Over England (1937) in which she starred alongside Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier in their first screen appearance together. Signed by Robson in blue ink with her name alone to a light area at the head of the image. A couple of minor corner creases, otherwise VG
Ambrose McEvoy ARA, British 1878-1927 - Street scene; pen and ink, wash and charcoal on paper, with studio stamp lower right, 25.3 x 22.7 cm Provenance: the Collection of Bernard Sheridan (1927-2007) and thence by descent Note: Ambrose McEvoy was an important and successful British portrait artist, who was inspired and encouraged by his friend and supporter James McNiell Whistler. He studied at the Slade where he was part of the celebrated circle of artists that included Gwen and Augustus John, and later worked in Dieppe with Walter Sickert.
John Tunnard, British 1900-1971 - Sphere, c.1960; ink and chalk on paper, with studio stamp on the reverse, 37 x 54.7 cm (ARR) Provenance: the Studio of the Artist; Entwistle, London, G0056 (according to the label attached to the reverse of the frame); private collection Note: this enigmatic late work shows the artist taking a more painterly approach to his characteristic cosmic imagery, the sphere of the title hanging in a deep expanse of pure colour. During this period of Tunnard's life he was living in Lamorna in Cornwall, in a loose community of avant-garde artists that included Ithell Colquhoun, John Armstrong, Gluck and Marlow Moss. Their work was recently the focus of an exhibition at Penlee House in Penzanze, 'Lamorna Colony Pioneers' in 2023. Tunnard's work is in all major public collections in the UK and also internationally in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Guggenheim gave Tunnard an exhibition at her London gallery in 1939.
Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA, British 1891-1959 - Cloaked Figures Studies (with 'Figure studies' on the reverse), c.1916; brown wash on irregularly-shaped headed paper and with pencil on paper on the reverse, with 'Stanley Spencer Studio Sale' stamp upper, 25.6 x 17.6 cm (ARR) Provenance: Christie's, London, Stanley Spencer Studio Sale, 5th November 1998; The Court Gallery, Taunton (according to a copy of the label and partial paperwork); the Collection of Paul Clarke and thence by descent Note: based on the headed paper used for this drawing, it was clearly made during Spencer's time working for the Royal Army Medical Corps based in Salonica (modern day Thessaloniki in Greece) during the Second World War. His experiences on the Macedonian front would inform his greatest and best known work, the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere.
MADONNA - MADONNA LP (ORIGINAL PERUVIAN PROMO COPY - WARNER Y-WBR-0123867.8). Great addition to any serious Madonna collection with this original Peruvian promo copy of the debut eponymous LP from The Queen Of Pop. The record is in fantastic Ex+ condition showing only a couple of extremely faint, slight and wispy paper marks. The original Peruvian cover is in VG+ condition with some light edge/ringwear, with original Peruvian promo stamp to the reverse.
ARZACHEL - ARZACHEL LP (ORIGINAL US PRESSING - ROULETTE SR-42036). Scarce original US copy of the sought after only 1969 LP from Arzachel. The record (Roulette SR-42036 with Bellsound machine stamped in the matrix runouts) is in very sharp Ex condition showing only a couple of very light and minor surface hairline marks, these never at all heavier feelable scratches. The sleeve is in VG+ condition with some minor ringwear, 2 small import holes, a little writing in pen to the reverse and a part of the pasted reverse with a small tear/lifting on the top right section (reverse). With 'D.J. Not For Sale' original stamp to the reverse. The spine is in sharp, clean and fully legible order.
Netherlands 1976-1988 Stamp Exhibitions "Amphilex 77" SG 1254-1258 u/m set in pair blocks, "Amphilex 77" SG 1273-1276 u/m set 1273-1276 used set in pair blocks, SG MS1277 u/m miniature sheet, SG 1442 from "Fila Cento" issue, Filacept exhibition SG 1525-1527 u/m set in pairs. 2x FDC for "Amphilex 77"
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