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"The All-Seeing Eye" Watercolor & Gouache w/ Beveled Mirror Frame

Quickens The Pace At The 25th Fence And Goes On To Win 1931 Inscribed LL: Merry Christmas and a lot of winning rides in 1932 To Roberta and "Freddie" from the Paul Browns Mixed Me...

Editions Albert Morance 1925 11" x 9 3/8" Lacking plate 8, 26, 30 & 36 Jean Badovici (6 January 1893 – 17 August 1956) was a French architect and ar...

CHESTERTON, C.K. Darwen Finlayson 7 1/2" x 5 3/4" Original dust jacket design gouache artwork by Val Biro "Tales of the Long Bow are eight ingenious episodes concerning people w...

Colorful abstract composition circa 1960s by J. Majer in a gilt bamboo frame Art Sz: 13-1/2"H x 16-3/8"W Frame Sz: 18-3/4"H x 21-1/2"W

Belgian artist Miette Braive(1916-2000), was classically trained in Belgium, before moving to Paris to pursue her art career as first a student and then a contemporary of the famed F...

*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. Pastorales by Joan Miró (1893-1983) Gouache and wax crayon on paper 66 x 50.3 cm (26 x 19 ³/₄ inches) Signed Miró, date...

Florentine, Probably Seventeenth Century Titled L’ultime parti note nel Indie occidentali Dated on the edge of the cartouche: “M.D. LXIII. M.AG” [1564…the month of August] In the 1560s Cosimo I de’Medici, the powerful Duke of Florence, undertook a major renovation of the Palazzo Vecchio, the venerable palace that to this day dominates the city at the Piazza della Signoria. For the Sala della Guardaroba, literally the wardrobe room, but in fact the storeroom of the Duke’s most precious holdings, Cosimo conceived of a grand decorative project that was to reflect in one space the entire cosmos --both an indication of the Duke’s ambition and an allusion to his name. The plan, supervised by Giorgio Vasari, involved the construction of walnut cabinets to contain the Medici treasures, on the outside doors of which were to be placed large hand-painted maps specially commissioned to document and illustrate the current knowledge of the world. Portraits of famous men were to decorate the tops of the cabinets and two large globes –one representing the terrestrial world, the other celestial—were to descend from openings in the ceiling. The commission for the maps, inspired by Ptolemy’s Geographia, was given to the celebrated mathematician and cosmographer, Fra Egnazio Danti (Perugia 1536-1585 Alatri). Fifty-three maps were ultimately created. Thirty were conceived and executed by Danti between 1563 and 1575. The remaining twenty-three were completed by Stefano Bonsignori between 1576 and 1686. They remain in place in Florence in the room for which they were created. The present work is an exact-size painted, drawn and inscribed copy of Danti’s map of California...

Signed, lower right: M Dobuzhinsky