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Antique English 1800's cigar case witha portrait of a woman painted on the front. On the back, it reads "Cigares" 5.5 x 2.75 inches Papier mâché, leather, oil paint

Limited Edition Watch created for Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates" project, held in February, 2005 in New York's Central Park. The face of the watch features several of the G...

15 Green/ 15 Cream Bakelite Chip Sz: 1-5/8"W x 1/2"D One Green "Doubling" Cube Sz: 1 1/4"Sq 28 1/2"W x 24 1/4"L Ex- J.H.W. Collection Manhasset, LI, NY John Hay Whitney...

Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrored Room: The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away: Leather Clutch Purse in Original Box, 2017 Leather outside; polyester inside 6 × 10 × 2 inches This leather clutch with polyester on the inside, is, according to the manufacturer, the most popular product they ever sold. It was created exclusively for the Broad Museum in a limited edition of an undisclosed amount, and has long sold out. Brand new in original box. Makes a wonderful gift! The clutch purse itself measures 6 inches vertical x 10 inches horizontal, and the box measures 6.75 inches x 10.75 inches. Inspired by Yayoi Kusama's iconic artwork, Infinity Mirrored Room: The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013—originally done in wood, metal, glass mirrors, plastic, acrylic panel, rubber, LED lighting system, acrylic balls, and water - this collectible and very wearable purse features perspectives of the room's expansive interior. YAYOI KUSAMA BIOGRAPHY Yayoi Kusama's work has transcended two of the most important art movements of the second half of the twentieth century: Pop art and Minimalism. Her highly influential career spans paintings, performances, room-size presentations, outdoor sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design, and interventions within existing architectural structures, which allude at once to microscopic and macroscopic universes. Born in 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan, Kusama’s work has been featured widely in both solo and group presentations. She presented her first solo show in her native Japan in 1952. In the mid-1960s, she established herself in New York as an important avant-garde artist by staging groundbreaking and influential happenings, events, and exhibitions. Her work gained renewed widespread recognition in the late 1980s following a number of international solo exhibitions, including shows at the Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, both of which took place in 1989. She represented Japan in 1993 at the 45th Venice Biennale, to much critical acclaim. In 1998, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, co-organized Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958–1968, which toured to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1998-1999), and Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1999). More recently, in 2011 to 2012, her work was the subject of a large-scale retrospective that traveled to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. From 2012 through 2015, three major museum solo presentations of the artist’s work simultaneously traveled to major museums throughout Japan, Asia, and Central and South America. In 2015, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, organized a comprehensive overview of Kusama’s practice that traveled to Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and Helsinki Art Museum. In 2017-2019, a major survey of the artist’s work, Infinity Mirrors, was presented at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Seattle Art Museum; The Broad, Los Angeles; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. Yayoi Kusama: Life Is the Heart of the Rainbow, which marked the first large-scale exhibition of Kusama’s work presented in Southeast Asia, opened at the National Gallery of Singapore in 2017 and traveled to the Queensland Art Gallery Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara, Jakarta. In 2019, All About Love Speaks Forever, an exhibition "tailor-made" specifically for the Fosun Foundation, Shanghai included more than 40 works by the artist. A comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s work was on view at Gropius Bau, Berlin in 2021, and traveled to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2022. KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature...

Art Sz: 10 1/2"H x 16 1/2"W Frame Sz: 12 1/4"H x 18 1/4"W Vintage morocco leather bartender serving up savoury concoctions c1950s

A modern watch by Donald Roller Wilson. The watch features a red patent leather and a dial that features a monkey with male genitalia on its head. The watch has silver metal accents and shows only very minimal wear. Unsigned but it includes a handwritten note to the collector. The box is clean and intact. Watch length: 9" Strap width: 0.68" Dial dimensions: H: 1.5" x W 1" Artist Biography: Donald Roller Wilson (b. 1938) is an American artist, known for his paintings of people and anthropomorphized chimpanzees, orangutans, cats, and dogs, set in southern gothic...

Limited Edition Watch created for Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates" project, held in February, 2005 in New York's Central Park. The face of the watch features several of the G...

Limited Edition Watch created for Christo and Jeanne-Claude's "The Gates" project, held in February, 2005 in New York's Central Park. The face of the watch features several of the G...

This is a hand-made leather frame by an unknown Peruvian artist. It will hold a 4" x 6" photograph vertically or horizontally and includes museum acrylic...

Kara Walker (American, b. 1969, Stockton, California) Freedom, A Fable, 1997 Medium: Laser-cut paper pop-up book, bound in brown leather Dimensions: 23.8 × 21.3 × 1.6 cm (9 2/5 × 8 2/5 × 3/5 in) Edition of 4000 Publisher: Peter Norton...

Edward Bohlin silver mounted parade saddle. 14 inch seat. Black. Great Bohlin Stamp. Cowboy Saddle, Western Saddle. 1930s his most desirable period. Bohlin of Hollywood California. He made all of the saddles and other related western gear for the movies. The Corona is original. The Corona was custom made using the original Corona as the sample to copy. Biography Edward Bohlin (1895-1980) Edward H Bohlin Company Saddlery-Saddle Maker 1895-1980 BP: Sweden LKL: Hollywood, CA. Born in Sweden in 1895, Edward Bohlin ran away from home at age 15, working his way to America on a huge four-mast schooner with dreams of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West in his head. Ed worked cattle drives around Montana before opening his first saddle shop in Cody, Wyoming where he did rope tricks in front of his shop to draw business. He met Tom Mix while performing at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood and Mix convinced Ed to stay and produce silver and leather items in the Los Angeles area. From his humble beginnings to his fame in Hollywood for high-end pieces, Ed crafted more than 12,000 Bohlin saddles including many grand silver outfits of Tournament of Roses Parade fame. He also dressed many silver screen heroes and horses with his grand style of buckles, spurs and gun belts. His company was without equal among western style silversmiths building a reputation on flawless workmanship. The Edward H Bohlin company, which operated from the early 1920s through the 1980s (under Ed's watchful eye but continues to operate under other ownership), reached its apex in the 1930s when the Hollywood cowboys reigned supreme. Bohlin was a stickler for details and employed the finest silver and leather workers of his era to satisfy discriminating clients including Mae West, Hopalong Cassidy, Monte Hale, Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan. Bohlin Saddles Roy Roger's Diamond Special Bohlin Saddle Ed Bohlin was known for his beautifully crafted parade saddles. A perfectionist, for good and bad, he never accepted anything less than the best craftsmanship. The leather on his saddles still squeak after 60 years. The silver requires only a cloth to clean because he used the highest grade of sterling. He and his artisans made many of the pieces by hand, especially the gold figures on his saddles. His carving was stunning and recognizable. Many of High Noon's customers remember going into Bohlin's shop as children while their fathers purchased saddles, buckles, belts, bolos and money clips. Some time the kids got a special gift, too, from their dads. A few child's saddles (The Jackie Cooper model) were made to match their fathers' for parades. The Tim McCoy model and others were made for the stars of the era. Fiesta was truly a work of art, both in the silver and the pictorial carving. The Murietta was one of his brilliant models, mounted with Indian and Tepee design with distant hills all done in three shades of gold. The Dicksons were used many times for riders who wanted to twinkle with silver in parades.Bohlin saddles have always been valued higher than any other maker and have kept their value throughout the years. Both riders and collectors of Western Americana still clamor for Bohlin, whether they plan to ride using them or only to display them proudly in their offices or living rooms as art. Bohlin Buckles...

Frank Diaz Escalet is a Puerto Rican artist born in 1930 in Ponce. Before embarking on an art career in the New York art scene he had served in the US Air Force and had also had a successful custom leather crafting career producing leather clothing for the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, and other rock groups, he was also commissioned by Pablo Casals to make his cello case and by the Museum of Modern Art to make covers for their stone-slab seats in their sculpture garden. Frank's style of painting is primitive and is based on impressionistic folk art. Leather, wood, paper, metal, oil, acrylic, water colors and fabric are his mediums of choice. His works are classified into: • African American Series - Once There Was A Rail Road, Harlem Nights, Land Of Cotton, Promised Land, Workin De Gulf, Lord's Day, Brothers In Arms, Song & Dance Man • Hispanic (Latin American) Series - Musica Del Barrio, Cebolla, Dias De Christo, Navidad Ayer, La Cocina, Piraqua, Ghetto Drummer,Cinco En La Tarde • Bishop Romero Series - collection of paintings in honor of the moving and tragic story of Bishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador who was the victiom of political murder for his violent protest against the inhumanity on the El Salvador people • Inlaid Leather Paintings- Your Place or Mine , Skateboard, Crucifiction, Walk In Peace, Summer Of My Youth, Siesta, Painted Desert. • Wall Hangings- Search For Xanadu, Cana De Mi Tierra, End Of An Age, Rain Forest Raped. Along with Walter Mercado, Arnaldo Morales, Angel Otero, Olga Albizu and Angel Botello he is one of the Puerto Rican artists whose work has achieved a broader following and recognition. Escalet's work has been exhibited in the National Gallery and the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. In addition, his artwork is owned by many well-known collectors such as former President Ronald Reagan, explorer Jacques Cousteau, actor Danny Kaye...