1930s More Art

Letter addressed to Mino Maccari. Fagnano, 14 May 1933. "The promise of Ansaldo". During his pre journalistic period, the wannabe novelist Benedetti used to use the stage name of Ar...

A New Cagli's Autograph is a L.A.S.s.p.. Autograph Letter Signed and Dated by the Italian artist, Corrado Cagli (1910-1976) to the Countess and patron of arts, Anna Laetitia Pecci-Bl...

L.T.S. addressed to Countess Pecci Blunt, on letterhead Reform Club, Pall Mall. August 23, 1937. In English. Excited to meet his future patron, Belloc co...

A Book of Modern Views of New York City is a souvenir book published by I. S. SEIDMAN & CO. in 1937. Inside man photos of New York with descriptions. Good ...

This is a Apology Letter by Giuliano Balbino to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Rome, June 11, 1938 (from the stamps). One page, double-sided, on letterhead paper "Senato del Regno". On l...

Edition of 1700 copies including lithographs by Mathurin Méheut. Lightly damage on cover, perfect internal conditions. Very rare volume on Japon Imperial.

"Il Selvaggio, no. 1- 1934", "Annual supporter subscription - Una copia 40 Cent - Fortnightly Newspaper letters arts and sciences", including original engravings by the artist Mino ...

This set is composed of a pair of Autograph Letters Signed by Renato Guttuso to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. In 8. In Italian. One page, One side. Signed and dated. On iv...

Destiny is an original modern rare book including original woodcut prints by Otto Nückel (Cologne, 1888 – Cologne, 1955). Published by Farrar & Rinehart, New York, 1930. Original ...

Gerardi's Artworks purchased by the Countess is the main content of this Autograph Letter Signed by Alberto Gerardi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Rome, September 17th 1939. One page, single-sinded. In Italian. Excellent condition, including original envelope. Perfectly readable, thanks to an elegant calligraphy. Touching letter addressed to the Countess and patron of arts, thanking for her purchase proposal of a hand study drawing...

Wanderer is a beautiful original black and white illustration on ivory colored paper, applied on black cardboard, realized at the beginning of XX century by an anonymous artist. A wo...

This beautiful baluster-shaped vase features the vivid hypnotic Egyptian blue (which some call "turquoise", although it's not) Raoul Lachenal is most renowned for. Drop-shaped white...

"Il Selvaggio, no.3 - 1933", "Annual supporter subscription - Una copia 40 Cent - Fortnightly Newspaper letters arts and sciences", including original woodcuts by the artist Mino Ma...

Gesänge Gegen Bar is an original modern rare book written by Günther Schwenn (Berlin, 1903 - Geneva, 1991) and engraved by George Grosz (Berlin, 1823 - 1959, Berlin) in 1931. Publis...

S. written by Sandro Volta, editor-in-chief of the weekly "Oggi", addressed to Mino Maccari. Rome, April 27th XVII. 1p 21x29cm, on “Oggi. Direction and editorial staff ". Perfect state. Request for collaboration for the new publication. Having placed the seals on Leo Longanesi's Omnibus, because it was a magazine not aligned with the regime, the publisher Angelo Rizzoli devises a way not to waste the intelligence and wealth of professionalism that had made the newspaper a new way of doing journalism. He founded a new newspaper that looked at news, literature and history, namely the "Oggi", with the format and setting of the Omnibus, at the direction of which there were two new recruits: Arrigo Benedetti and Mario Pannunzio, who will become the most celebrated couple of Italian journalism. On June 3, 1939, the first issue of Oggi was published, a newspaper that will launch young writers who will reach international fame such as Elio Vittorini, Tommaso Landolfi, Ennio Flaiano, Elsa Morante...

Edition of 615 copies. Copy on velin blanc. Lightly damaged on cover and binding replaced with a protection. 

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...

Collect these Autograph Letters Signed by Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861 –1942) to the Count and the Countess Pecci-Blunt. This lot is composed of three items, in French, written from 1929 to 1933. Excellent conditions, perfectly readable. Including original envelopes. In details: Autograph Greeting Card Signed. Paris, May 10th 1929. One page, double-sided, on light blue colored paper. On letterhead paper "Offranville- Seine Inférieure". Autograph Letter Signed. Paris, December 11th 1932. One page, three-sided. Autograph Letter Signed. Paris, May 24th 1933. One page, three-sided. On letterhead paper " 19. Rue du Docteur Blanche. XVI". Letter of request. Confidential Letters concerning the organization of literary conferences at one of the Countess Pecci Blunt' residences. The letter of request written in 1933, stands out: the French painter asks to the Count Blumenthal for advise on evaluating an investment! Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861 –1942) The French artist, largely self-taught, Jacques-Émile Blanche, became a very successful portrait painter, active in London and Paris, with a style derived from 18th-century English painters such as Thomas Gainsborough as well as Édouard Manet and John Singer Sargent. He had the honor to exhibit at the Salon and the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 1902, Jacques-Émile Blanche took over the direction of the Académie de La Palette, where he would remain director until 1911.He taught at the Académie Vitti in 1903. He was still today remembered to have portrait characters of the mondan and literary world like one of his closest friend, Marcel Proust, the poet Pierre Louÿs, the Thaulow family, Aubrey Beardsley,Yvette Guilbert, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, James Joyce, Julia Stephen, Edgar Degas, Claude Debussy, Auguste Rodin, Colette, Thomas Hardy, John Singer Sargent, Charles Conder, Percy Grainger, and Tamara Karsavina...

Flipping through a few pages of colored"Il Selvaggio, no.2- 1935", "Annual supporter subscription - Una copia 40 Cent - Weekly Newspaper letters arts and sciences", we find, in the d...

Autograph Letter Signed by de Pisis - "Love and Flowers" to Gaetano Chiurazzi. Venice, February 10th 1934. In Italian. With stamps and postmarks. Very good condition, with minor aging signs. Original envelope included. Perfectly readable, on ivory color paper and on letterhead "et spiritualis unctio". With autograph notes signed in blue ink at the end of the back, by an undefined author. An affectionate greeting letter written with a rapid calligraphy and in a cryptical way, with quotations understandable only within the friendship relationship between the poet-artist of "Loves and Flowers" and the Italian gallerist, Gaetano Chiurazzi (Naples,1899 - Rome,1967), best-known as "Tanino". De Pisis is today best-known for his cityscapes, metaphysically-inspired maritime scenes, and still lifes, especially those depicting flowers. His work has a particularly airy quality, and is laden with a sort of pathetic pleasure. This letter demonstrates how de Pisis spent his life: between Rome, Paris and Venice, living a very extravagant lifestyle; he had a pet parrot named Coco, and in Venice he was one of a handful of residents at the time who used a gondola. He had two personal gondoliers on 24 hour duty, who wore black-and-gold livery. Filippo de Pisis (born Luigi Filippo Tibertelli, Ferrara 1896 – Brugherio 1956) When he was 20 years old, the young painter from Ferrara had a meeting that changed his life. During his military service, he met the "Dioscuri", the brothers De Chirico and then Carrà. He was sure impressed by their way of seeing painting and, at the beginning, shared the metaphysical style. After a short stay in Rome and Paris, at the beginning of the 1920's, he started to rework his style, made of suggestions and original subjects, where the pictorial line is fragmented and, therefore, defined by Eugenio Montale as "fly-paw painting". The friendship with Julius Evola...

Edition of 154 copies published on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the “Cent Une Femmes Bibliophile” association. Copy number 81, printed for Countess Pecci-Blunt. Includes ...

"Il Selvaggio, no.5-6- 1935", "Annual supporter subscription - Una Copia 40 Cent - Fortnightly Newspaper of arts and science", including original woodcut prints by the artist Mino M...

Léon Paul Fargue, Les Ludions de Léon Paul Fargue illustrés par Marie Monnier, Paris, Éditions J.O. Fourcade, 1930. Vol. in 4°, cm 31.5 x 1.5 x 21.5, pp. n....

Ex libris - Nagy József  Könyve is an Artwork realized in 1930 s., by the Artist Kálmán Gáborjáni Szabó (1897-1955), from Hungary.  Woodcut B./W. print on  paper. The work is glued ...

Flipping through a few pages of colored"Il Selvaggio, no.3- 1935", "Annual supporter subscription - Una copia 40 Cent - Weekly Newspaper letters arts and sciences", we find, in the d...

Original editorial softcover, binding unglued, excellent conditions inside.Luciano Folgore was an Italian poet. He adhered to Futurism in 1909 after he met Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.

L.T.S. addressed to Countess Pecci Blunt, on Letterhead Reform Club, Pall Mall, February 3, 1938. In English. Thanksgiving letter for the remuneration received and for timely deliv...

Youth is a book written by Francesco De Sanctis.  Autobiographical fragment entirely redone and annotated by Nino Cortese. Printed in Naples in the S.A. Graphic Workshops. ALberto ...

MAILLOL, Aristide. Livret de Folastries.

Die Grosse Befehl is an original Rare Book illustrated by Hermann Max Pechstein (Zwickau, December 31, 1881 – Berlin, June 29, 1955) and written by Johanne...

Autograph postcard written by Renato Guttuso to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. On the front, there is a black and white reproduction of a Neapolitan breathtaking landscape. ...

These 3 Autographs Signed by Mario Praz / all Oppé to the Countess Pecci-Blunt Written In Italian, from 1950 to 1953, are perfectly readable and in excellent conditions with origin...

Rare Original Edition of “Deux Fragments Inédits”, Booklet by G. de Chirico, Paris, Parisot, 1938. Paperback publishing. Later binding in Real brown leather withauthor, titleand orna...

Edition of 2111 copies. Copy on Imponderable Sorel-Moussel paper. Original paperback cover. First edition. Beautiful copy of the relevant experimental work by Breton and Eluard. Very...

A whimsical pastel featuring a Mother with her Child on her lap that just pulled a goldfish from it's bowl. A charming large work that is exquisitely framed. Peggy Dodds Williams ...

This Teatro della Cometa Booklet, concerning the Sir John Gielgud 's Recital, reports the autograph dedication signed by John Gielgud to the Countess Pecci Blunt. "Rome, March 1960". Golden cover, unnumered pages, b/w illustrations, Excellent conditions. Sir John Gielgud 's Recital. An anthology of William Shakespeare. Selected piece from “The Ages of Man” anthology by George Rylands Sir Arthur John Gielgud (1904 – 2000) Sir Arthur Gielgud was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades. With Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier, he was one of the trinity of actors who dominated the British stage for much of the 20th century, famous for his voice and his mastery of Shakespearean verse. Regarded by many as the finest Hamlet of his era, and was also known for high comedy roles such as John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest. During the 1930s Gielgud was a stage star in the West End and on Broadway, appearing in new works and classics. He began a parallel career as a director, and set up his own company at the Queen's Theatre, London. From the late 1960s he found new plays that suited him, by authors including Alan Bennett, David Storey and Harold Pinter.

Das Neue Gesicht der Herrschenden Klasse is an original modern rare book illustrated by George Grosz (Berlin, 1823 - 1959, Berlin) in 1930. Original First Edition. Published by Malik, Berlin. Format: in 4°. The book includes 126 pages with 60 full page reproductions of drawings. Mint conditions. George Grosz (Berlin, 1823 - 1959, Berlin). By the war’s end in 1918, Grosz had developed an unmistakable graphic style that combined a highly expressive use of line with ferocious social caricature. Out of his wartime experiences and his observations of chaotic postwar Germany grew a series of drawings savagely attacking militarism, war profiteering, the gulf between rich and poor, social decadence, and Nazism. In drawing collections such as The Face of the Ruling Class (1921) and Ecce Homo (1922), Grosz depicts fat Junkers, greedy capitalists, smug bourgeoisie, drinkers, and lechers—as well as hollow-faced factory labourers, the poor, and the unemployed. At this time Grosz belonged to the Berlin Dada art movement, having befriended the German Dadaist brothers Wieland Herzfelde and John Heartfield...

This unique Autograph Correspondence by Paul Valery to the Countess Pecci Blunt is composed of 4 items, realized at the end of 1930's. In excellent condit...

Colonna Rivista - A.L.S. is a Autograph Letter Signed by Alberto Savinio to the Countess A.L Pecci-Blunt. Milan, April 14th 1934. In Italian. One page, single-sided, on letterhead p...

Autograph Poscard Signed by Mario Praz to the Countess Pecci Blunt. Rome, January 31st 1936. In Italian and English. Perfectly readable, very good condition except for minor aging signs. From Udine, the Italian critic of art and literature, Mario Praz sends this postcard to the Countess Pecci-Blunt, the patron of arts and the closed-friend of artists and intellectuals, reporting the title of the recommended book. "The Renessaince of Architecture in Southern Italy, a Study of Frederick II...

Autograph Letter Signed by Carlo Carrà to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Milan, Avril 4th 1938. In Italian. In 8°. On ivory colored paper. In perf...

This is a Business Card by Guido Piovene with Autograph notes in black ink. Venice, July 15th 1935. On a cardboard business card (cm 6.2 x 8.5). Excellent condition, perfecly readable, including the original envelope (cm 10.3 x 16.8). It is curious to note that the young journalist , Guido Piovene (Vicenza, 1907 - London, 1974), cancels the title of Count on this business card he sends to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. And Piovene adds heartfelt thanks and greetings by hand. The background: Four year before this correspondence, in 1931 Piovene published his first short stories in The Merry Widow, printed by the Buratti brothers. It took ten years for Piovene to publish his second work, Letters from a novice. But the Italian writer and journalist will be always remembered for his travel reportages: like "Viaggio in Italia" (1957), the most famous literary guide of the Bel Paese...

Deluxe edition of only 23 copies including 40 original etchings by L. Marcoussis, including the title and a portrait of Apollinaire. One of the 20 copies on vélin d'Arches numbered i...

Über alles die Liebe is an original modern rare book illustrated by George Grosz (Berlin, 1823 - 1959, Berlin) in 1930. Original First Edition. Published by Bruno Cassirer, Berlin. Format: in 4°. The book includes 119 pages with Sixty full page reproductions of drawings. Mint conditions. George Grosz (Berlin, 1823 - 1959, Berlin). By the war’s end in 1918, Grosz had developed an unmistakable graphic style that combined a highly expressive use of line with ferocious social caricature. Out of his wartime experiences and his observations of chaotic postwar Germany grew a series of drawings savagely attacking militarism, war profiteering, the gulf between rich and poor, social decadence, and Nazism. In drawing collections such as The Face of the Ruling Class (1921) and Ecce Homo (1922), Grosz depicts fat Junkers, greedy capitalists, smug bourgeoisie, drinkers, and lechers—as well as hollow-faced factory labourers, the poor, and the unemployed. At this time Grosz belonged to the Berlin Dada art movement, having befriended the German Dadaist brothers Wieland Herzfelde and John Heartfield...

The paintings of Roberto Melli is a vintage Catalogue issued by Galleria della Cometa for the painter's third year of exposure at the Galleria della Come...

Collect this unique Autograph Letter Signed by the Countess Pecci Blunt to Bruno Barilli “International Rapprochements”, written in Italian at the middle o...

"Il Selvaggio, no.5 - 1932", "Annual supporter subscription - Una copia 40 Cent - Weekly Newspaper letters arts and sciences", with original woodcuts by the artist Mino Maccari. 4 pa...

Vintage Catalogue of Galleria della Cometa Rome is a vintage Offset leaflet realized by Giovanni D'Aroma in 1938. Good condition on a yellowed paper, for an exhibition of Giovanni D...

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...

Le chiavi nel pozzo is an original modern rare book illustrated by Lorenzo Viani (Viareggio, November 1, 1882 - Lido di Ostia, November 2, 1936) in 1935. Original Edition. Publishe...

The Voice of the City and Other Stories is an original modern rare book illustrated by George Grosz (Berlin, 1893 – Berlin, 1959) and written by O. Henr...

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...

The paintings of Ezio Sclavi is a vintage Catalogue issued by Galleria della Cometa for the painter's third year of exposure at the Galleria della Cometa in Rome. 4 pages, black an...

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