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DAVID HOCKNEY, METROPOLITAN OPERA TRIPLE BILDavid Hockney (British, b. 1937)Metropolitan Opera Triple Bill: Parade, Les Mamelles de Tir?sias, and L?Enfant et les Sortil?ges, 1981screenprint in colors, and mixed media on heavy wove paperScreenpr
- DAVID HOCKNEY, PARADE METROPOLITAN OPERADavid
DAVID HOCKNEY, PARADE METROPOLITAN OPERADavid Hockney (British, b. 1937)Parade Metropolitan Opera, NYC, 1981silkscreen in colors on heavy wove paperPublished in London and New York: St. Petersberg Press, 1981. Hockney worked closely with th
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- John French Sloan
(American, 1871-1951)
Copyist
John French Sloan
(American, 1871-1951)
Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum, 1908
etching
signed in pencil (lower right)
7 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches.
- GUY ANDERSON "WOMAN FEEDING PIGEONS"
GUY ANDERSON "WOMAN FEEDING PIGEONS" (DRAWING CA. 1950S)Guy Anderson
(Washington, 1906-1998)
Woman Sitting on a Bench with a Child, Feeding Pigeons , circa 1950s
Marker on paper
25" x 19"
A quiet sketch of figures sitting among the pigeons of Seattle's Pioneer Square by Guy Anderson, noted "mystic painter" of the Northwest School art movement. LIFE magazine called Anderson one of the Northwest's "Big Four," along with Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and Kenneth Callahan. Anderson's artwork, often figural in subject, took spiritual inspiration from cultural sources ranging from Hindu texts to Greek myth to indigenous Pacific Northwest iconography. His work is held in numerous major museum collections, including the Seattle Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Signed to the bottom right corner. Accompanied by a 2004 letter from Deryl Walls, the owner of Gallery Dei Gratia and executor of Anderson's estate. Housed in a glazed frame measuring 38" x 31 1/2".
Condition
There are central vertical and horizontal folds to the sheet, some creases along the top edge, and minor creases from handling along the side edges. Pinholes at the corners.
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- COCCARO NEW YORK STUDIO FEMALE PORTRAIT
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- COCCARO "BROTHEL IN MEDINA" OIL ON CANVAS
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IMPRESSIONIST BOOK GROUP, 16 Group of books on Impressionist painters and Impressionism, 16, and including: Brockway & Frankfurter, The Albert D. Lasker Collection: Renoir to Matisse, Simon & Schuster, 1957; Manet, Metropolitan Museum: New York, 1983; Ann Dumas et al., Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes, Merrell: London, 2006; Bonjour Monsieur Manet, Centre Georges Pompidou: Paris, 1983; Gail Stavitsky et al, Cezanne and American Modernism, Baltimore Museum of Art: Baltimore, 2010; Albert Barnes et al, The Art of Renoir, the Barnes Foundation Press: Philadelphia, 1977; Albert Barnes et al. The Art of Cezanne, the Barnes Foundation Press: Philadelphia, 1939 (first edition); Jill Lloyd, Vincent Van Gogh and Expressionism, Van Gogh Museum: Amsterdam, 2006; John Leighton et al, 100 Masterpieces in the Van Gogh Museum, Van Gogh Museum: Amsterdam, 2002; Pick & Vance, Van Gogh in Saint-Remy and Auvers, Metropolitan Museum: New York, 1987; Vivien Greene, Divisionism - Neo Impressionism: Arcadia & Anarchy, Guggenheim Museum: New York, 2007; Wildenstein, One Hundred Years of Impressionism, Wildenstein: New York, 1970; 2007; Wildenstein, Renoir, Wildenstein: New York, 1970; Louis Aragon et al, Matisse, Philadephia Museum of Art: Philadelphia, 1948; Jean Selz, Matisse, Crown Publishers: New York, 1978; Jean Sutherland Boggs, Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art,: New York, 1988. Largest: 14.25" H x 11.25" W.
- AFTER THE ANTIQUE "HEAD OF A YOUTH"
AFTER THE ANTIQUE "HEAD OF A YOUTH" PLASTER After the antique, "Head of a Youth", plaster or bonded limestone, marked "MMA" to rear base of neck, on black square plinth. 16" H x 7" W x 9" D. Keywords: Classical Sculpture, Antique Sculpture, Ancient Sculpture, Metropolitan Museum, Reproductions, Reductions, Grand Tour style
- AFTER RODIN "THE THINKER" BONDED BRONZE
AFTER RODIN "THE THINKER" BONDED BRONZE After Auguste Rodin (French, 1840 - 1917) "The Thinker", bonded bronze, with label to underside, and signed in case "2011 MMA" on shaped plinth. Approx. 8" H x 3.5" W x 6" D. Keyword: Rodin, 19th Century sculpture, Belle Epoque, Bronze Sculpture, Paris, Metropolitan Museum Sculpture, Fin de Siecle
- DORIS BARSKY KREINDLER AURORA BOREALIS
DORIS BARSKY KREINDLER AURORA BOREALIS OIL CANVAS Doris Barsky Kreindler (American, 1901-1974), "Aurora Borealis: Study", Oil on Canvas, signed "Kreindler" lower right. Image: 42" H x 46" W; frame: 43" H x 47" W. Note: Kreindler's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Brooklyn Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Keywords: Paintings, Scandinavian landscape, Northern lights
- LESLEY DILL, 1997 COPPER POEM DRESS
LESLEY DILL, 1997 COPPER POEM DRESS #3, 62" TALL Lesley Dill (American b. 1950), "Hinged Poem Dress #3' - 1997, sheet copper and wire. "I have given my whole life to words / Chewed this dog hunger into a long meal..." - Catalan poet Salvador Espriu. Provenance: From a prominent Atlanta estate; acquired from George Adams Gallery, New York, January 1998. Note: the artist's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Approximate Dimensions:h. 62", w. 22".
- 10VOL MARK TWAIN BOOKS INCLUDING LIMITED
10VOL MARK TWAIN BOOKS INCLUDING LIMITED EDITIONS A lot of 10 books by Mark Twain: The Adventures of Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass by Mark Twain. Published 1928 by Covici. First edition. Bound in brown boards with a label on the front. LIght wear, dust jacket not present. 4to. 59pp. Mark Twain's Birthday: Report of the Celebration of the Sixty-Seventh Thereof at the Metropolitan Club, New York November 28th, 1902. Bound in red boards with gilt titling. Light wear to boards. Pages clear. 4to. 49pp. Tom Sawyer, Detective with Other works. Bound from Harper's Magazine. Green boards with titling on the spine. Some staining on the boards. Light pencil marks on some pages. 4to. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain. Published 1880 by Belford and Company, Toronto. Bound in green boards with blind stamping. Wear on the boards and light marking on pages. 8vo. 410pp. Mark Twain's Conversation As It Was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors. Privately published by Lyle Stuart. Undated. Bound in a red board with gilt titling on the spine. Comes in a slipcase. Some wear to book boards with light pencil marks on pages. Slipcase has some staining. 4to. Extracts From Adam's Diary by Mark Twain. Published 1904 by Harper and Brothers. Bound in red with gilt and black decoration. Light wear to boards, particularly at the edges. Institutional stamp present on interior. 8vo. 89pp. Mark Twain's Autobiography and First Romance. Published 1871 by Sheldon and Company. Bound in green boards with gilt titling with blind stamping. Light wear throughout with some pencil marks on interior. 8vo. 46pp. The Mammoth Cod by Mark Twain. Published 1976 by Maladicta. Bound in green with a dust jacket. 8vo. 25pp. A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain. Published 1907 by Harper and Brothers. Bound in red pictorial cloth with a horse on the cover. Light wear and staining on boards. Light pencil marks inside. 8vo. 153pp. Choice Words of Mark Twain. Published 1878 by Chatto and Windus. Red cloth boards with gilt decoration. Moderate wear on boards, spine slightly loose and some writing on interior, including title page. 8vo. 563pp.
- CHINESE BLUE & WHITE BOGU MONTEITH ON
CHINESE BLUE & WHITE BOGU MONTEITH ON STAND Chinese blue and white porcelain monteith, the interior decorated with bogu or ancient things, including vases and scrolls, the interior crenellated rim of the bowl also decorated with these motifs, the exterior having cartouches containing auspicious animals including a phoenix and a qilin, the underside having a blue underglaze floral mark, possibly Kangxi, with wooden stand. Note: a similar piece is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Approximate Dimensions: h. 6", dia. 12.5".
- J.F. MILLET, 'THE GLEANERS' MOUNTED
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- 77PCS MOTTAHEDEH 'TOBACCO LEAF' DINNERWARE
77PCS MOTTAHEDEH 'TOBACCO LEAF' DINNERWARE Set of 77 pieces of Mottahedeh (American 1924), 'Tobacco Leaf' pattern (introduced 1985), Metropolitan Museum of Art reproduction porcelain dinnerware comprising 27 dinner plates (10.75"), 25 tea cups (3"), and 25 tea cup saucers (5.75"), with printed marks to the underside of each. Approximate dimensions:
- 14 SEYMOUR REMENICK NUDE ILLUSTRATION
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- A 1936 FOLK ART 'NEEDLEWORK TAPESTRY'
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Condition:
Chips to corners of cornice. A couple repaired cracks to cornice. Upper door panels with newer interior liners, but they do appear to be original. Brasses replaced. Feet are period but probably associated with case. Some alterations to backboards of lower section.
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Condition:
Cartouche and rosettes replaced. Brasses replaced. Lacking one side molding below fretwork.
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FEDERAL STYLE BULLSEYE MIRRORFederal style bullseye mirror. Early 20th century. Carved and gilded wood with eagle crest supporting convex mirror. "Metropolitan Mirror and Glass" and "DEC X 1929" stamped on back of mirror. Scuffs and wear to mirror. Mirror is loose and separate from frame. Chip and loss to wood on wing of eagle. Chips to acanthus leaves and edges of mirror. One carved leaf is separated but present.
28 3/4" x 20 1/2".
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Gregory Amenoff (American, 1948)
Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and Ulster County, New York. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and the Tiffany Foundation. He has had over fifty one-person exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums, including the Whitney Museum of America Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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