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Dogwood Blossoms. 1949. Dimensions: Tile 6 X 6 Frame 7.75 X 7.75 inches. Provenance: The tile was in the possession of the Beers family and is from the estate. Catalogue raisonné number at Galerie St Etienne: Kallir T #87 An exceedingly rare, authenticated, and hand painted floral decorated tile by Grandma Moses herself, fired by Helen Beers. Tile dated 1949 and signed moses recto as well as 'Moses Fired by Helen C. Beers, painted by Grandma Moses, Pinewold Pottery'. There are only a handful of these known to exist, approximately five, this being one of those five, outside the private collection of Galerie St. Etienne, Manhattan NY. This listing is for the tile only. The photo archive, from the family, will be listed separately and is included here just for provenance and reference. Anna Mary Robertson Moses (1860 – 1961), or Grandma Moses, was an American folk artist. She began painting in earnest at the age of 78 and is a prominent example of a newly successful art career at an advanced age. Moses gained popularity during the 1950s, having been featured on a cover of Time Magazine in 1953. She was a subject of numerous television programs and of a 1950 Oscar-nominated biographical documentary. Her autobiography, titled My Life's History, was published in 1952. She was also awarded two honorary doctoral degrees. She embroidered pictures with yarn, until disabled by arthritis. In her 1961 obituary, The New York Times said: "The simple realism, nostalgic atmosphere and luminous color with which Grandma Moses portrayed simple farm life and rural countryside won her a wide following. She was able to capture the excitement of winter's first snow, Thanksgiving preparations and the new, young green of oncoming spring ... In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild." Moses's work has been a subject of numerous museum exhibitions worldwide and has been extensively merchandised, such as on greeting cards. In 2006, her 1943 painting titled Sugaring Off was sold at Christie's New York for US$1.36 million, setting an auction record for the artist. Her work is fundamental for any Naive art or Americana collection. She was known as either "Mother Moses" or "Grandma Moses", and although she first exhibited as "Mrs. Moses", the press dubbed her "Grandma Moses", and the nickname stuck. As a young wife and mother, Moses was creative in her home; for example, in 1918 she used house paint to decorate a fireboard. Beginning in 1932, Moses used yarn to embroider pictures for friends and family. She created quilt objects, a form of "hobby art". Lucy R. Lippard stated in "The Word in Their Hands" that she found "hobby art" to be "an activity so 'low' on the art lists that it still ranks way below 'folk art'". She found that hobby art often involves reuse of otherwise discarded objects. Moses painted scenes of rural life from earlier days, which she called "old-timey" New England landscapes. Moses said that she would "get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live." From her works of art, she omitted features of modern life, such as tractors and telephone poles. Her early style is less individual and more realistic or primitive, with a lack of knowledge of, or perhaps rejection of, basic perspective. Initially she created simple compositions or copied existing images. As her career advanced, she created complicated, panoramic compositions of rural life. During a visit to Hoosick Falls in 1938, Louis J. Caldor, an art collector who worked as an engineer in the state of New York, saw paintings made by Moses in the window of a drug store. He bought their supply and ten more from her Eagle Bridge house for $3 or $5 each. The next year, three Grandma Moses paintings...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Mother and Child Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 48 x 32.8 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shi...

Got mit uns is an original modern rare book illustrated by Renato Guttuso (Bagheria, 1911 – Rome, 1987) in 1947. Original Edition. 715 numbered copies. Published by La Margherita,...

A fine abstract expressionist painting by well known Italian artist Afro Basaldella, known more as Afro (1912-1976). Afro was born in Udine, Italy, and showed his work when he was si...

A fine impressionist winter landscape by German American artist Charles Jacob Young (aka C. Jac Jung) (1880-1940). Young was born in Rodenbach, Bavaria, Germany, immigrated to the Un...

The Body is an original artwork realized by Maurice Rouzée in the 1940s. Hand-signed by the artist on the upper left margin. Good conditions. The artw...

Edition of 250 copies including 46 original lithographs by Antoni Clavé. One of the 205 copies numbered from 46 to 250, on vélin de Rives. Includes original jacket and slipcase on ca...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Minotaur Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 32,8 x 48 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.

Original Mosaic on cement panel. Ref.: Domus 1948, p. IX and p. 29. An awesome and beautiful example on Campigli's Art of creating imaginative characters following his creativity,...

MEDIUM: ​Original Production Drawing PRODUCTION: Canine Caddy, 1941 IMAGE SIZE: 12" x 10" SKU: CCV2638

Mosaic on cement panel.  Bibliography: Domus 1948, p. 38; Wagner 2003, p. 88. Exhibitions:  - "Massimo Campigli - Mediterraneità e Modernità", Darmstadt 2003, ed. Mazzotta, Klaus ...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Table Before Window Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 48 x 32.8 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure ...

Mosaic on cement panel. Exhibitions: - "Massimo Campigli - Mediterraneità e Modernità", Darmstadt 2003, ed. Mazzotta, Klaus Wolbert, n. 218, p. 333 (full page).   - "Il Tempo dell...

Pablo Picasso Service Poisson (Ramié, 26), 1947 White earthenware ceramic plate, with coloured 9 2/5 in diameter 24 cm diameter Edition of 300

Oil on canvas. Signed in oil, lower right corner.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Saltimbanque Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 48 x 32.8 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.

Mosaic on cement panel, realized by Massimo Campigli in 1947. Unique piece, with certificate of authenticity on photograph by the artist's son Nicola Campigli on photo. Bibliograph...

JANE PETERSON – [VIOLET HARMONY] ⚜ Oil on canvas ⚜ Hand signed lower left ⚜ Framed, ready to hang VIBRANT FLORAL COMPOSITION BY AN AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST [Violet Harmony] showcases ...

Autograph signatures on the cover of the Jazz Festival of Nice held from 22 to 28 February 1948. Among the signatures we find Baby Dodds (1898-1959), drummer for Milton 'Mezz' Mezzr...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Head of a Woman Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 48 x 32.8 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipm...

1001 Afternoons in New York is an original modern rare book written by Ben Hecht (New York,1894 – New York, 1964) and illustrated by George Grosz (Berlin, 18...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Élégie d'Ihpetonga, Masks of Ashes, Planche III Lithograph from 1949. A copy from a limited edition of 16/64 (photocopy of the colophon is included). O...

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Oil on masonite. Sign and dated in oil in lower right corner.

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Taureau gravé, Pablo Picasso, 1940's, plate, Sculpture, Design, Bull Taureau gravé Ed. 84/200 pcs 1947 White earthenware clay, engobe decoration, engrav...

Sèvres terracotta Bust Sculpture of Moliere after Jean Antoine Houdon Bearing the Sèvres mark underneath the base Additional information about the work: Title: Bust of Moliere Med...

PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) QUATRE PROFILS ENLACÉS (A.R. 88) stamped 'Madoura Plein Feu / Empreinte Originale de Picasso' (underneath) white earth...

A wonderful cement sculpture cast of the artist’s Persian cat Pou Pou by American artist Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1970). Harriet was born in Philadelphia, PA, and, as a teenager , she studied sculpture in Paris classes (with critiques by Auguste Rodin) and later enrolled at the Academie Colarossi there. On her return to the United States she studied with Gutzon Borglum at the Art Students League, served an apprenticeship with Karl Bitter...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Four Ballet Dancers Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 48 x 32.8 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure ...

Jacobson (20th Century) Portrait Vase, 1949 Ceramic Signed and dated on bottom 13 x 6 x 6 inches

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Bathers Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 32,8 x 48 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.

Gable like symbol of authority Ibibio, Nigeria, c1940

Drawings is an original modern rare book with illustrations by George Grosz (Berlin, 1823 - 1959, Berlin), published in 1944. Original First Edition. Published by Bittner and Co., ...

"AR 79 Dove on Straw Bed" white earthenware clay platter with decoration in engobes, knife engraved, and white enamel brushed under glaze. Stamped Madoura. Signed R Madoura Picasso a...

Edition of 400 copies. One of the 350 copies on Pur Fil Lafuma-Navarre paper. Includes 5 original etchings and many illustrations by Jules Pascin. Original paperback cover. Perfect c...

Autograph Letter Signed with Original Sketch by Hans Erni to Nesto Jacometti. March 5th, 1949. Signed "ton Erni". One page, one-sided. On ivory colored tissue paper. In French. In very good conditions, except for an horizontal tape connecting two parts of the sheet. Perfectly readabe, although the nervous calligraphy. An original red ink sketch...

Les Chants de Maldoror is an original modern rare book written by Comte de Lautréamont, pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (Montevideo, 1846 — ...

Precious and rare volume of the famous French writer André Gide (Nobel Prize for literature in 1947), including beautiful black and white lithographs of Mas...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Basket Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 32,8 x 48 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.

Piano Lesson Wiehler Handmade Gobelin Tapestry by Maestro Vera Petrova - Sapundjieva, Bulgarian artist 1912 - 1985 About the artwork TECHNIQUE: Wiehle...

Danse Macabre is an original Rare Book illustrated by Frans Masereel (1889 – 1972) in 1941. Original Edition. 950 numbered copies. Published by Lang, ...

A Autograph Letter Signed by Filippo de Pisis accompanies a b/w photographic portrait (cm 11 x 9) of the young Italian artist, with his Basque-hat on his head, smoking a pipe and with his parrot on his shoulder. This composition, in perfect condition, is mounted under passepartout, plexiglass, and gilded frame (cm 40.5 x 2 x 54.5). The manuscript is addresses to Gaetano Chiurazzi. Venice, January 20th 1947. One page, single-sided. On letterhead paper “Ne nous embarbouillons pas dans les métaphores” (Balzac). cm 23 x 14.5. In 16°. In Italian. Signed “F. de Pisis”. Excellent condition, except for usual folds. Perfectly readable An affectionate greeting letter written with a rapid calligraphy by the artist had just returned to Italy, to Venice, after a short stay in Paris, with the first symptoms of a disease that will lead him to death. The artist writes to his friend, the Italian gallerist, Gaetano Chiurazzi (Naples,1899- Rome,1967), best-known as "Tanino". This letter will be delivered to Tanino by a great admirer and collector of de Pesis. A manuscript 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...

Les Chants de Maldoror is an original modern rare book written by Comte de Lautréamont, pseudonym of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (Montevideo, 1846 — Paris, 1870) and illustrated by René ...

Color etching and aquatint, 1946. Third state (of 3). Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right margin, and numbered 199/300 in pencil, lower left margin. Published by Laurel Ga...

Juin 40 is an original Rare Book illustrated by Frans Masereel (1889 – 1972) in 1912. Original Edition. Précédé de “Fragments d’un journal de guerre 1940” de Henry de Montherlant. 1550 numbered copies. Published by Pierre Tisné, Paris. Format: Oblong 4°. The dimensions and the weight are indicative. The book includes 32 + 7 Pages with 32 Full page Lithographs. Good conditions. Frans Masereel (1889 – 1972). He was a Flemish painter and graphic artist who worked mainly in France, known especially for his woodcuts focused on political and social issues, such as war and capitalism. He completed over 40 wordless novels in his career, and among these, his greatest is generally said to be Passionate Journey. Masereel's woodcuts influenced Lynd Ward and later graphic artists such as Clifford Harper, Eric Drooker, and Otto Nückel. Masereel's woodcuts influenced Lynd Ward and later graphic artists such as George Walker, Clifford Harper, Eric Drooker, and New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno. Masereel's woodcut series, mainly of sociocritical content and expressionistic in form, made Masereel internationally known. Among them were the wordless novels 25 Images of a Man's Passion (1918), Passionate Journey (1919), The Sun (1919), The Idea (1920), Story Without Words (1920), and Landscapes and Voices (1929). At that time Masereel also drew illustrations for famous works of world literature by Thomas Mann, Émile Zola, and Stefan Zweig.

La Tapisserie Française Moderne is the title of the solo exhibition of Jean Lurçat, hold at the Kunsthalle Bern, from June 25th to the first July ...

First edition. Original soft cover including the rare coloured illustrated book jacket. Excellent conditions.

First book illustrated by Michaux. Edition of 296 copies including 12 lithographs by Michaux. One of the 250 copies on Pur Fil Johannot. Original slipcase on beige cardboard and insi...

Vita col padre is the main content of these 4 Autograph Letters Signed by Gerardo Guerrieri to Maria de Matteis. Not Dated. Around 1947. In Italian. Excellent condition. Including a map of the scene, sketched in black ink. Suggesting theatrical mood, theatrical staging, stage, costume ideas and stage colors, intellectual references (Orson Welles and Rex Whistler), the Italian dramaturg asks the collaboration of the yung and talented costume designer, Maria De Matteis. Under the supervision of Luchino Visconti, Gerardo Guerrieri signs the direction of Vita col padre, by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse (premiered on January 28, 1947, Teatro Eliseo, Rome). These letters refers to all preparations and adaptations for the theater, from the stage to the costumes. " Io vorrei una scena leggera, a tinte tenui, ariosa(..) Anche per i costumi direi di tenerci su un tono più sottile e spumoso: tutta scena e personaggi svampiti che stiano per volare per aria come coppe di champagne delicatissimi!". "I would like a light scene, with soft colors, airy (..) Also for the costumes I would say to keep us on a more subtle and frothy tone: all scene and dizzy characters who are about to fly in the air like very delicate champagne glasses! Gerardo Guerrieri (Matera,1920 – Rome,1986) The Italian film director, playwright, screenwriter, translator, theater critic, and essayist, Gerardo Guerrieri is particularly remembered for translating in Italian numerous plays by Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, August Strindberg, Eugene O'Neill, William Saroyan...

Tragica Notte by Soldati is a lot composed of two items: Telegram by Mario Soldati to Maria De Matteis. In Italian. May 1941 (from the postmarks on the back). Autograph Letter Sign...

Ex-Libris  - H J De Kost is an Artwork realized in 1946 by the artist Wim Zwiers.  Etching print on ivory paper. Hand signed on the right margin and dated on the back.  The work is...

This lot, concerning the Hunter College's Benefit Evening, consists of three items written in Italian and English, in 1945, by Vittorio Ceroni Gonzaga,...

Edition of 165 copies including 20 etchings by G. Manzù. Copy on carta a Tino di Fabriano. Near perfect conditions. Realised by Officine Bodoni, Giovanni Mardersteig. Italian versi...

L.A.S. (Lettre Autographe Signée) Autograph Letter Signed by A. Masson to N. Jacometti. Paris, 22nd November 1949. One page. 27 x 20.9 cm. In 8°. In French. Perfect condition, with u...

Original Title: Pablo Picasso aus dem graphischen werk. Abbildungen nach Radierungen und Lithographien. Good conditions.

Edition of 300 copies, 116 pp, including 27 original color lithographs by Antoni Clavé, including 8 out of text. Editions Galatea, Paris. Copy on Velin de Rives paper, in very good...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Élégie d'Ihpetonga, Masks of Ashes, Planche IV Lithograph from 1949. A copy from a limited edition of 16/64 (photocopy of the colophon is included). On...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Harlequin and Boy Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 48 x 32.8 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure sh...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Élégie d'Ihpetonga, Masks of Ashes, Planche II Lithograph from 1949. A copy from a limited edition of 16/64 (photocopy of the colophon is included). On...