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"Collecting Cattails" is an original mixed media on board by Tom Perkinson. His use of saturated violets, vivid yellows, and resplendent oranges pushes color to almost-otherworldly r...

This is a Autograph Greeting Letter Signed by Georges Goyan to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Arcachon, January 5th, 1923. On ivory-colored and laid paper. In French. One page, single-si...

"Grindelwa" Small Collage by Michael Pauker Small abstract paper collage by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). This piece is created from a few pieces of antique pa...

Letter from Louis Marcoussis to Countess Pecci Blunt is an original manuscript. The letter is addressed to Countess Pecci Blunt and it's written from Hotel Minerva, Florence Marco...

"Rabbit Trial Proof 3" is a unique 2-color, trial-proof screen print on paper by AI artist Tom White. This piece was created using neural networks trained on images of real rabbits t...

Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa - "Snail". Fine, minimalist drawing. Ink, Chinese rice paper. Handsigned. Can be framed accordingly, contact us for options. About Ina Abuschenko-Matw...

A new Passport for Sir Solti - A.L.S. is the main content of this unique Autograph Letter Signed by Georg Solti to Nesto Jacometti. Paris, July 4th 1946. ...

Somnath Hore - Untitled Pen & Ink on Paper, 7.1 x 10.8 inches (Unframed Size) ( Unframed & Delivered ) Inclusive of shipment mounted not framed, Should you wish to receive the same ...

SUSIE Q. SMITH Medium: Newspaper comics Distributed by: King Features Syndicate First Appeared: 1945 Creators: Linda and Jerry Walter 6.5 X 18 Like her contemporaries, Aggie Mack, Candy and Patsy Walker (before her conversion to a superhero), Susie Q. Smith was a female Archie-type — not exactly an imitator, because Archie, who had started only four years earlier, hadn't yet become popular enough to spawn imitators, but part of his genre. She attended high school, where her teachers often seemed unreasonable to her, interacted with the opposite gender in a typically adolescent way, and her parents didn't completely understand her. And she was cute and perky as only a teenage girl can be. Susie was the star of a comic strip distributed by King Features, the biggest of the comic strip syndicates, whose other offerings have ranged from Jackys Diary to Prince Valiant. King launched the strip in both daily and Sunday form in 1945. Daily, she was only in a panel at first, but it expanded into a full, multi-panel strip on February 7, 1953. In a very odd turn of events, in 1953 the Walters chose to leave King Features behind and hitch their wagon at the McNaught Syndicate. The creators were Harold "Jerry" Walter and his wife, Linda. Jerry was also responsible for Jellybean Jones, who has nothing to do with Jughead Jones's young sister, a modern-day addition to the Archie cast of characters. Together, they did The Lively Ones during the 1960s. Though each was capable of doing both major jobs in comic strip production, their usual working method was for Jerry to dream up the ideas and write the dialog, while Linda did the artwork. The Walters also collaborated on a series of Susie Q. Smith comic books for Dell Comics. Instead of reprinting newspaper strips, these ran new stories by the Walters. Between 1951 and '54, four issues were published as part of the Four Color Comics series, where many minor comic strips, including Dotty Dripple, Timmy and Rusty Riley had found a home. It had no other media spin-offs. Susie Q. Smith had a respectable run in the newspapers, but it ended in 1959. Jerry Walter (1915 - 2007) was an abstract expressionist artist whose output of energetic and colorful paintings were the products of the rich artistic milieu of post-war New York City. He was born Harold Frank Walter in Mount Pleasant, Iowa on November 25, 1915. After graduating from Colgate University in 1937, Walter moved to New York City, where he studied drawing and painting at the New School and the Art Students’ League. Before concentrating seriously on his art, he spent several years as a successful copywriter and idea man for the advertising agencies of J. Walter Thompson, McCann Ericson, and BBDO. During this time, he also worked as a syndicated cartoonist. Collaborating with his wife, Linda, his best-known series was Susie Q. Smith, which first appeared in 1945 and described as a “female Archie type.” Very popular, the cartoon was later the subject of a series of comic books published from 1951 to 1954. After serving in the United States Army for three years during World War II, Walter began to paint seriously. He ascribed his earliest artistic influence to Joan Miró, whose Dog Barking at the Moon (1926) he viewed when he was twelve, the year he published his first cartoon. Walter later wrote that jazz, “the first native expression of so-called modernism” was a strong influence on his work. During the later 1940s, Walters spent time at the Research Studio in Maitland, Florida. Founded in 1937 by artist and architect J. André Smith and supported by the philanthropist Mary Curtis Bok, the Research Studio was a lively colony that hosted prominent artists, including Milton Avery, Ralston Crawford, and Doris Lee. While at the Studio, Walter’s work was purchased by Frank Crowninshield. A founding trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and editor of Vanity Fair, Crowinshield was a noted collector; his collection included important works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, George Bellows, and Pierre Bonnard. Returning to New York after his time at the Studio, Walter became an active member of the New York school of the abstract expressionist movement, and in the summer of 1956, Walter exhibited 13 paintings and a selection of drawings at New York’s Chase Gallery. The adroit manipulation of both color and composition evident in his work shows the influence of Abstract Expressionism, particularly Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, and Hans Hofmann. illustrator and female cartoonist Linda Walter was the talented female mind behind the beloved "Susie Q. Smith" comic strip. She played an instrumental role in shaping the cultural landscape through her vibrant illustrations. Known for the timeless charm of the "Susie Q. Smith" comic strip, Linda's artistry brought joy and laughter to countless readers during the 1950s and continues to resonate with fans across generations. She was part of the Woodstock artists community. from Women in Comics: Linda Walter was the artist of newspaper strip Susie Q. Smith, which was written by her husband, Jerry. It was syndicated by King Features Syndicate and ran from 1945 to 1959. The Walters also contributed original Susie Q. Smith stories to Dell's Four Color comic books from 1951 to 1954. From 1964-1965, they created a singled panel comic called The Lively Ones. Vintage Golden Age of Comics era. The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era in the history of American comic books from 1938 to 1956. During this time, modern comic books were first published and rapidly increased in popularity. The superhero archetype was created. Between 1939 and 1941 Detective Comics (DC) and its sister company, All-American Publications, introduced popular superheroes such as Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Doctor Fate, the Atom, Hawkman, Green Arrow and Aquaman. Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, had million-selling titles featuring the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America. Another notable series was The Spirit by Will Eisner. Dell Comics' non-superhero characters (particularly the licensed Walt Disney animated-character comics) outsold the superhero comics of the day. The publisher featured licensed movie and literary characters such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Roy Rogers and Tarzan. Additionally, MLJ's introduction of Archie Andrews in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941) gave rise to teen humor comics, with the Archie Comics...

This Setof Autographs by Fausto Pirandello is addressed to the Countess Pecci-Blunt and to Silvio Perina, Written in Italian, from 1938 to 1957, is composed of 9 items, perfectly r...

Collect this unique Autograph Letter Signed by Nino Franchina to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Rome, March 1st 1952. One page, single-sided, on light blue ...

This heterogeneous lot “Ungaretti –Futur Prix Nobel” deals with the Ungaretti's ambitious race for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. A Correspondence, with different senders a...

In the correspondence, Antonio Barrera writes to the Countess Pecci Blunt sending her a business card to invite her to his exhibition.

This set is composed by 2 Autograph Letters Signed by Renato Guttuso and addressed to Gaetano Chiurazzi. In 8. In Italian. One page, One side. Signed and dated. On ivory colored pa...

Dubuffet's Autographs are a beautiful lot of correspondence between Jean Dubuffet and Nesto Jacometti, written in 1955. Two autographs lettes signed and dated by the founder of Art ...

This is a Happy New Year Card Signed by Virgilio Guzzi, to Silvio Perina, the director of the C.I.M, Roman warehouses, during the Seventies. Rome, Febr...

Letter from Ottone Rosai addressed to Mino Maccari. Dated : 30 December 1940, Firenze. Dimensions: 23x14 cm. Good conditions, except a little missing parts lower left and in the mid...

Autograph Letter Signed by Arturo Martini to Gaetano Chiurazzi Milan, December 16th 1935 XII. One page, single-sided. In Italian. Excellent condition, with minor aging signs. This...

Alfredo Casella Autograph Letter is an original manuscript by Alfredo Casella (25 July 1883 – 5 March 1947) an Italian composer, pianist and conductor...

Autographs by Édouard Pignon to Nesto Jacometti. This lot is composed of 2 items: Autograph Letter Signed by E. Pignon to N. Jacometti. April 28th 1...

This is a Autograph Letter Signed by Fabrizio Clerici to the Countess A.L. Pecci-Blunt. November 20th, 1958. Signed "Fabrizio". One page, double-sided. In Italian. Excellent conditi...

This is the Autograph Postcard Signed by Plinio Nomellini to Beppe Guzzi. Impruneta, June 22nd 1931 - IX. One page-double-sided. In Italian. Excellent condition, except for aging signs. Informative postcard: the Italian painter of Divisionism, Plinio Nomellini is sending to Beppe Guzzi an artwork reproducing a wave for an eventual exhibition and ask him to fill in a technical form. The background: During the period of this correspondence, Beppe Guzzi (Genoa, 1902 - Rome, 1982) knows his success: from 1930 to 1954 he partecipates to 11 editions of the Venice Biennale and from the third edition 6 times at the Rome Quadriennale, being awarded during the VII edition, as well as he realizes exhibitions in Livorno. From here Guzzi calls Nomellini for a collective exhibition. Plinio Nomellini (Livorno, 1866 –Firenze, 1943) The Italian painter of the Divisionist mouvement, Plinio Nomellini, in 1885 enrolled at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, where he was the pupil of Giovanni Fattori and formed friendships with Telemaco Signorini and Silvestro Lega...

This is a Autograph Card Signed by Virna Lisi to Maria De Matteis. Udine, July 22nd 1966. In Italian. On letterhead paper "Virna Lisi". Excellent condition...

This is an Happy New Year Autograph Letter Signed and Dated by Giuseppe Ungaretti (Alessandria of Egypt, 1888- Milan 1970) to the Countess and patron o...

Homage to the iconic Chanel Brand. This original artwork on paper combines textured brush strokes and textile collage elements. Surrounded by heavy texture, the focal point is a deta...

Letter by Renato Guttuso About Falsification is an Autograph Letter Signed by Renato Guttuso to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. Rome, April 21st 1961. In Italian. On ivory co...

Christmas Greeting Card by Guttuso is an Autograph Signed by Renato Guttuso to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. Rome, November 1939. In Italian. O...

Autograph Letter Signed by Alberto Savinio to the Countess A.L Pecci-Blunt. 1934 c.a. In Italian. One page, single-sided. Excellent condition, including original envelpe. The Itali...

This is a Fabrizio Clerici's Autograph Letter Signed, to the Countess and Patron of arts, Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Rome, July 24th. Around 1957. Signed "Fabrizio". One page, singl...

Autograph Letter signed by Renato Guttuso to Gaetano Chiurazzi, called "Tanino". Velate, October 29th 1958. Two pages ( front and back), in 8°, in Italian. Excellent conditions, with...

Nesting, a facade. With its envelope. Greeting letter in which the writer communicates the countess the forthcoming publication of a new novel.

This beautiful Lot of Manuscripts by Mario Tozzi to the Countess and patron of arts, Pecci Blunt, between 1936 and 1938, is composed by three items. In de...

This is an Autograph Letter Signed by Tristan Tzara (Moinești, 1896 – Paris 1963), the Romanian and French avant-garde poet and artist, to the Swissh edi...

Autograph Card Signed by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini to their costume designer, Mara De Matteis. Around 1950s. One page, double-sided. In Ital...

This is a Autograph Letter Signed by Fabrizio Clerici to the Countess A.L. Pecci-Blunt. April 4th, 1956. Signed "Fabrizio". One page, single-sided. In Italian. Excellent condition, ...

Small abstract paper collage in teal and white by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). This piece is created from a few pieces of antique...

This set is composed of Two Autographs Signed by Virgilio Guzzi, addressed to Silvio Perina, the director of the C.I.M, Roman warehouses, during the Fifties. Excellent condition, pe...

This is the Business Card "M.r & M.me Paul Valéry ", with autograph notes in French. to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. Original envelope included...

Happy Easter Card by Gianni Granzotto, to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Bologna, Easter, 1937. In Italian. One page, single-sided. With wishing autograph notes by a great...

Autograph Letter by Mario Tozzi to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Signed. Rome, March 27th 1934. In Italian. In Perfect conditin, including the original envelope. Completely...

Autograph Letter of Thanks by Renato Guttuso to Libero de Libero. Signed. After 1937. In Italian. In 8. One page, double-sided. On light blue colored paper and on letterhead "Galleria Mediterranea / Palazzo de seta...

Greeting card with a nice drawing to wish a Merry Christmas (1959). Anna Salvatore (1923-1978) was a populäre Italian painter and novelist.

Autograph Happy Easter Card by Miguel Angel Ibartz to Silvio Perina. Barcelona, March 25th 1959. In Italian. Perfectly readable, excellent condition. Signed by Miguel and Maria Glo...

Autograph Letter Signed by Artuto Tosi to Libero de Libero. Rovetta, October 20th 1937. In Italian. In 8°. On ivory colored paper. In Very good condition, except minor aging signs. Completely readable. With an upset and fluid calligraphy, the Italian artist writes this greeting letter with some logistic details for an exhibition. "Mai dire di no alle persone gentili come la contessa (...)". ( Never say no to the gentle people like the Countess) Arturo Tosi...

Autograph Letter Signed by Alberto Moravia to the Countess Pecci Blunt. Salzburg, August 28th 1933. One page, double-sided. In Italian. Perfectly readable, very good condition except for a lower-right corner detached. Including original envelope. An ending autograph notes by Alberto Moravia. From Salzburg, Alberto Moravia writes this letter of greeting and thanks to the Countess Pecci-Blunt, or Mimi, the patron of arts and the closed-friend of artists and intellectuals. The Italian writer tries to reach her at one of the Countess' residences or at common friends houses. The background: During the period of this correspondence, Moravia has just started his carres as journalist, but his life changed when he published in 1929 Gli Indifferenti, noteced by the critic. In 1930 Moravia started collaborating for the newspaper La Stampa, then edited by author Curzio Malaparte...

Garibaldian Memories is a Autograph Card Signed by Clelia Garibaldi to Clelia Gonella or Gemella. Including the original envelope and a card reporting “...

This is a Letter of Thanks Signed by the Italian artist Alberto Gerardi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Rome, April 6th. Around 1938. One page, single-sinded. In Italian. Excellent con...

Colonna Review - A.L.S. is a Autograph Letter Signed by Alberto Savinio to the Countess A.L Pecci-Blunt. Milan, May 21st 1934. In Italian. One page, single-sided. Excellent conditio...

Letter from Orfeo Tamburi to Countess Pecci Blunt is an invitation letter for the collective of the rising Roman group composed by Guttuso, Guzzi, Montanarini, Ziveri, Fazzini, Tambu...

A Journey to Austria is the main content of this Autograph Letter by Fabrizio Clerici to the Countess and Patron of arts, Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Bad Gastein...

This lot is composed of : a Telegram by Mario Soldati to Maria De Matteis. Written In Italian. Rome, April 20th, 1943 (from the postmark on the back); a Au...

Memories from Marina di Pisa is an Autograph Postcard Signed by the Italian painter Giovanni Costa (Rome, 1826 – Marina di Pisa, 1903), best-known as Nino Costa, to Adele Verducci. ...

A unique Merry Christmas Card Signed by Dino Grandi to the Countess Pecci- Blunt, written in English and Italian. Excellent conditions. Perfectly readable, original envelope included. St. Paul, Brasil, Christmas 1958. Dino Grandi (Mordano, 1895 - Bologna, 1988) Dino Grandi was an Italian politician and diplomat, who went down in history for the presentation of the homonymous agenda to the Grand Council of Fascism on 25 July 1943 which led to the dismissal of Benito Mussolini. He was foreign minister, minister of Grace and Justice and ambassador to London of the Kingdom of Italy. In 1943 Dino Grandi moved to Spain and Portugal, where he resided until 1948. The forties were particularly hard: in Portugal he gave repetitions of Latin while his wife worked as a milliner to survive. Luck returned in the 1950s when he had representative positions for Fiat. During the same period he was a regular consultant to the US authorities, in particular to the ambassador in Rome, Clare Boothe Luce...

M.A.S. accompanying his "Still Life". Rome, December 9, 1984. 1p. 21x29cm. Very good condition. "This is the first, perhaps last Findus, entered into the history of art," writes Vespignani about his only "dead and frozen" still life. In his humorous writing, he described how, in the 1960s, he wanted to paint an "alive, remembering the sea, wriggling like a freshly caught fish" nature, to distract himself from his "murderous dead". But the result was quite different, contrary to his intentions. Because of his being a "realistic painter, or rather obsessed nerista", portraying the alive nature meant seeing and reproducing the gradual decay of the small group: "from the stage of cheerful youth (...) to the cadaverous dissolution." In the same year that he writes "Like Flies in Honey" dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the Academy of France...

Autograph Postcard Signed by Giuseppe Santomaso (Venice, 1907 - 1990) to the Capogrossi family. May, 11, 1955. Dated. In Italian On the front, a colored reproduction of Capogrossi'...

This lot is composed of two Autograph LettersSigned by Felice Casorati to the Countess and Paron of art, Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. 1930's. In Italian. In excellent conditions , exc...

Small abstract paper collage in chalkboard black by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). This piece is created from a few pieces of antique paper, assembled in an aesthetically pleasing ratio, with a stark contrast between codex marks on a black background. These are all numbered sequentially, into the thousands - Pauker created a series of these pieces over the course of a decade. Numbered and titled, "Codex Asien," on verso . Acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Presented in a new mat with foamcore backing. Paper size: 7.75"H x 4.75"W Mat size: 13"H x10"W “I’m driven by curiosity...where it comes from I can’t tell you; it’s just there. And early 20th-century modernist art is the thing that I keep returning to.” - Michael Pauker Bay Area artist and art educator Michael Pauker was born in New York in 1957 and knew he wanted to be an artist from the age of 15. He earned a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at SUNY Purchase in his native state of New York. In 1989 he went on to earn an M.F.A at Mills College in Oakland and was awarded the City of Oakland Artist Fellowship in Painting. He has been a Bay Area resident since 1988. His work has been exhibited widely across the U.S., as well as in Japan and Costa Rica, and is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibitions include: 2007 Contemporary Art Museum, San Jose, Costa Rica 2007 “The Ebay Art Project,” Works/San Jose, San Jose, CA 2003 “Found Imagery: The Art of Collage,” Fresno Art Museum,Fresno, CA 2003 “Cut, Copy, Paste,” De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA 2003 “20th Annual Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2002 “40 by 40,” Adam Baumgold Gallery, N.Y., NY 2002 “Works on Paper,” Bryant St. Gallery, Palo Alto, CA 2002 Dolby Chadwick Gallery...

Disavventure Grafiche (Graphic Disadventures) is the main topic of this lot of Autographs Signed by Giuseppe Santomaso (Venice, 1907 - 1990) to Nesto Jacometti, written in Italian be...