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The Lazy Frog is an original lithograph by J.J. Grandville from "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux, 1852. Published by Manesq & Harvard, Paris. Good Conditions but ag...

Jean-Michel Basquiat Hanover 1986: Rare hand-signed 1986 Basquiat catalog published on the occasion of Jean-Michel Basquiat Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover: 28 November 1986 to 25 January 1987. Featuring 60 works by a then 25 year old Basquiat, Kestner is widely remembered as Basquiat’s last major exhibition during his lifetime. Signed boldly & inscribed to ‘Hans’ (Meyer?) on the interior title page. Medium: signed exhibition catalogue Bound in stiff wraps. Text in German. Approximately 100 pages. Features full-page images of over 30 Basquiat paintings, in addition to several in collaboration with Andy Warhol. Well preserved bold, marker signature & inscription. Book: very good overall vintage condition. From a scarce edition of unknown. Distinctly rarer when signed. Provenance: Obtained from a noted Manhattan rare book specialist. Accompanied by a COA from Lot 180 Gallery, New York We are a 1stDibs seller since 2016 specializing in Basquiat, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, KAWS & more. _ Jean-Michel Basquiat was an influential African-American artist who rose to success during the 1980s. Basquiat’s paintings are largely responsible for elevating graffiti artists into the realm of the New York gallery scene. His spray-painted crowns and scribbled words referenced everything from his Haitian and Puerto Rican heritage, to political issues, pop-culture icons, and Biblical verse. The gestural marks and expressive nature of his work not only aligned him with the street art of Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, but also the Neo-Expressionists Julian Schnabel and David Salle. “If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence,” he said of his process. “It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.” Born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, NY, Basquiat never finished high school but developed an appreciation for art as a youth, from his many visits to the Brooklyn Museum of Art with his mother. His early work consisted of spray painting buildings and trains in downtown New York alongside his friend Al Diaz. The artist’s tag was the now infamous pseudonym SAMO. After quickly rising to fame in the early 1980s, Basquiat was befriended by many celebrities and artists, including Andy Warhol, with whom he made several collaborative works. At only 27, his troubles with fame and drug addiction led to his tragic death from a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988 in New York, NY. The Whitney Museum of American Art held the artist’s first retrospective from October 1992 to February 1993. In 2017, after having set Basquiat’s auction record the previous year with a $57.3 million purchase, the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa surpassed it, buying the artist’s Untitled (1982) at Sotheby's for $110.5 million. This set a new record for the highest price ever paid at auction for an American artist's work. Today, Basquiat's works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, among others. Related Categories: Jean-Michel Basquiat Bischofberger...

Royal Academy Exhibition Poster By David Hockney David Hockney is a British painter, draftsman, and photographer celebrated for his vibrant depictions of California swimming pools...

Vingt Jour chez Hitler is an interesting correspondance by François Le Grix, as director of La Revue Hebdomadaire, to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. This lot is composed of...

V.A., Artistes Italiens contemporains, Stabilimento grafico Foa, Torin, 1927. Vol in 8°, pp. 209, cm 25x1.5x22. In French. Catalogue of the "Exposition d'Artistes Italians Contemporaines", Musée Rath, Genève, February 1927. Vary rare and interesting volume on the artists who joined the exhibition: Felice Carena, Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, Gigi Chessa, Ernesto de Fiori, Achille Funi, Nicola Galante, Pietro Marussig, Francesco Menzio...

Confidential Letter by the General of the Armies, John Joseph Pershing to Cecil Charles Blunt. Typewritten Letter Signed. Washington, November 16th, 1920. One page, single-sided. In English. On letterhead paper "General of the Armies Washington". Excellent condition, including original envelope. Letter of apology sent to the Count Cecil Charles Blumentahal, later changed to Blunt, a wealthy Jewish banker from New York: "I reget very much that I was unable to see you while you were in Washington". John Joseph Pershing (Laclede, 1860 - Washington, 1948) John Joseph Pershing, best-known as "Black Jack", was an American general. He distinguished himself in the Spanish-American war for his courage and after a long and brilliant career in the Philippines and Mexico against the rebels of the two countries. Pershing led the US expedition in World War I and later served as chief of staff of the United States Army. for this reason he is considered the mentor of a generation of US generals who fought in World War II such as George Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Lesley James McNair, George Smith Patton and Douglas MacArthur. Like George Washington, he was the only soldier to obtain the highest US military rank, that of General of the Armies of the United States. Pershing was one of the first generals in history to be able to coordinate light infantry with twentieth-century war inventions such as tanks and armored cars for the great offensives during the punitive expedition to Mexico against Pancho Villa...

Royal Academy Exhibition Poster By David Hockney David Hockney is a British painter, draftsman, and photographer celebrated for his vibrant depictions of California swimming pools ...

Die tapferen Zehntausend is an original rare book written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and illustrated by Max Slevogt (Landshut, 8 October 1868 – Leinsweiler...

Ex Libris - Hanns Heeren 1893-1963 is an Artwork realized in Early 20th Century, by Hans Michael Bungter from Germany.  Etching on ivory paper.  Hand Signed on the right corner. Sig...

Il Cuciniere Italiano Moderno - modern Italian or the friend of greedy stewards and convalescents is the title of a cookbook, printed in Livorno by the Fratelli Vignozzi e Nipote in ...

Royal Academy Exhibition Poster By David Hockney David Hockney is a British painter, draftsman, and photographer celebrated for his vibrant depictions of California swimming pools...

Candid oder der optimismus is an original modern rare book written by Voltaire and illustrated by Max Unold (Memmingen, 1885 - Munich, 1964) in 1913. Original Edition. 800 Numbere...