20th Century More Art

L’Antipatico - Almanacco per il 1960 is an original modern rare book written by Italo Cremona and illustrated by Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 – Rome, 1989) in 1959. Original First Edi...

USA 1927. Album de photographies lyrique. First edition of 650 copies on Velin paper, including 18 illustrations by Pierre Legrain. From the "Plaisir de Bibliophile" series, and or...

The Ewe people from Ghana are master weavers. People of means commission cloths called adanudo ("skilled/wise cloths"). Ewe adanudo textiles often display a tweed effect by twisting ...

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

Jack Scott "#20" 1980 Interwoven, continuous line charcoal drawing on paper 40"x30" site, black wood gallery frame float mount 42.5"x32.75" museum glass Sig...

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...

It happened ... Paper, ink, pencil, 20x26 cm As a black and white comic, the absence of color allows the artist to focus on using shading, line work, and contrast to convey the narrative and emotions effectively. Black and white comics creates a distinct and dramatic atmosphere, emphasizing the story's mood and capturing the readers' attention. Ivars Poikans 1952. Riga Ivars Poikāns works in painting, graphics, book illustration, cinema art...

Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) Colombe à la lucarne, 1949 Stamped, marked, and numbered Madoura Plein Feu/Edition Picasso/ 80/200/ Edition Picasso/Madoura (underneath) White E...

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...

Two letters from Milena Barilli to the Countess Pecci Blunt. The first one is one piece, plus envelope included (dimensions 27 x 17 cm). The other on...

This is a Autograph Card Signed by Giacomo Manzù to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Milan, May 28th 1937. In Italian. One page-single-sided. Excellent condition, on laid ivory-colored cardboard. Thanks Card by the Italian sculpture of bronze cardinals...

Die Nonnen von Murano is an original modern rare book engraved by Rudolf Grossmann (Freiburg, 1882 - Freiburg, 1941) and written by Giacomo Casanova in 1923. Original First Edition. Published by Pontos Verlag and Freiburg, Berlin. Format: small 8°. The book includes 247 pages with 21 full page color Lithographs. Good conditions. Rudolf Grossmann (Freiburg, 1882 - Freiburg, 1941) was a German painter and graphic artist. He is particularly well known for his portrait drawings of famous contemporary figures. With his friend, Jules Pascin, he travelled to Belgium and Holland. Later study trips took him to Northern and Southern France, then to Vienna, Budapest and Stockholm. In 1910, he stayed briefly in Berlin, then continued his travels; this time to Engadin (near Munich), the Tegernsee and Italy, where he lived with his friend, Hans Purrmann...

St Ives School Twentieth Century view of Pier at St Ives Cornwall, Oil Painting with Sailing Boat and Silvery Seas. Fantastic Post Impressionist Oil Painting of her native town whic...

This is an Invitation Autograph Letter Signed by Franco Gentilini to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Not dated. Around 1950s. One page, single-sided. In Italian. In Excell...

Gandin's 'sandwriters' demonstrate the physics of the pendulum as they draw their kaleidoscope-like ribbons in the sand. The sculpture is signed and numbered by the artist on the base of the piece. Artist Biography: Andre’ Gandin...

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...

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...

Kuznetsov porcelain - Butter dish duck, porcelain h 13 cm; L 19 cm; W 10 cm Kuznetsov Porcelain Factory in Riga was founded in 1841 as a factory ...

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...

Oxygen Cutting is an original artwork realized by Italian artist, painter as well as sculptor, Angelo Bozzola in 1983 in Turin. Flame cutting on bronze...

"Il Selvaggio, no.7-8- 1935", "Annual supporter subscription - Una Copia 40 Cent - Fortnightly Newspaper of arts and science", including original woodcut prints by the artist Mino M...

Dennis Oppenheim Dennis Oppenheim: Selected Works 1967-90 : And the Mind Grew Fingers (with handwritten signed letter laid in separately), 1992 Softback book with separate hand signe...

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...

Litho and Autograph Postcard Signed by Mimi Quilici Buzzacchi to Silvio Perina. Rome, July 22nd 1958. In Italian. On the front, a black and white lithograph "Tetti di Roma" "Roman...

Rare antique enamel Vintage Singer Sewing Machine advertisement Sign in Hebrew or Yiddish. Please see photos for condition. Rare early Je...

SUSIE Q. SMITH Medium: Newspaper comics Distributed by: King Features Syndicate First Appeared: 1945 Creators: Linda and Jerry Walter 5.5 X 19.5 Dated August 13, 1954 in top right corner. 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...

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...

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...

Autograph Letter Signed with Original Sketch by Hans Erni to Nesto Jacometti. October 26th, 1938. Signed "ton Erni". One page, double-sided. On ivory colored paper with black paper ...

Autograph Letter Signed by arturo Martini to Gaetano Chiurazzi. Milan, January 25th 1938. One page, single-sided. on letterhead paper " Nuovo indirizzo -Via Jacopo della Quercia, 7...

"Un Rendez-vouz au café Flore" is the main request of this Autograph Letter Signed by Ossip Zadkine to Nesto Jacometti. Les Argues par Cazals, France, July...

Cups is an original screen print on aluminum realized by Tito Stefanoni in 1972. Signed lower right. Edition of 2100. Specimen no. 302 (as marked on rear) The artwork is depicted...

Autograph Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Card Signed by Nicolas Nabokov to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Paris, December 23rd 1954 . In 24°. In French. Excellent condition: As good as New. A Mr. and Mrs. Nicols Nabokov Business card with autograph notes of thanks, attached ( on letterhead paper "American Academy in Rome". Original envelope included. Collect or present this unique pieces of the Russian master. Background: During the Fifties, Nicolas Nabokov became General Secretaryof the newly formed Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), backed by the CIA, and remained in the job for more than fifteen years, organizing music and cultural festivals, and was musical director of the American Academy in Rome (Villino Aurelia, Porta S. Pancrazio). Never forgot to write to the mentor and patron of art A.L. Pecci Blunt, with this touching postcard he reveals the "naissance du petit Alexandre". Nicolas Nabokov (Russia 1903 –1978) The Russian-born composer and cultural figure, was the first cousin of the talented writer of "Speaks Memory", Vladimir Nabokov...

This is the Serge Lifar's Business Card with authograph notes to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. A message of greetings to the great patron of arts, loved and kn...

Haren Das - Khatal Etching on Paper 11.8 x 14 inches, 1976 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Born in Dinajpur in present day Bangladesh on 1 February 1921, Das took a diploma in fine art, wi...

Synchromist Exhibition in Rome is the main content of this Autograph Letter Signed by Morgan Russell to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. Aigremo...

Autograph Postcard signed without indication of place nor date, addressed to Countess Pecci Blunt with letter-dressing games recalling Apollinaire's calligrams and some small sketche...

Haren Das - Jagannath Gate Woodcut on Paper Edition 2/5 13 x 10 inches, 1991 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Born in Dinajpur in present day Bangladesh on 1 February 1921, Das took a diplo...

Meister Floh is an original modern rare book illustrated with woodcut engravings by Otto Nückel (Cologne, 1888 – Cologne, 1955) in 1922 and written by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffma...

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...

Illustrated with 13 drawings by Leonard Baskin. Large Folio in cloth-backed portfolio in cardboard slipcase. New York: Medicina Rara, 1972. One of 2500 copies (there were 300 copi...

Voyeur is an original collage, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1974, from the series of "La mappa del Tatuaggio" on the lower left. Hand-signed on the lower right and dated. Titled ...

Autograph postcard signed by Renato Guttuso to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. On the front, there is a black and white reproduction of a landscape of Bagheria. On the back, there is a sta...

Autograph Letter Signed by arturo Martini to Gaetano Chiurazzi Milan, January 25th 1938. One page, single-sided. on letterhead paper " Nuovo indirizzo -Via Jacopo della Quercia, 7,...

Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 40 prints. In good conditions, except some stains on the lower left margin. Antonio Corpora (Tunis, 1909 - Rome, 2004) was an Italian artist and...

Exhibition Leaflet is an original rare vintage catalogue by the Chilean artist Roberto Sebastián Matta (1911-2002). This color artwork is the rare exhibition leaflet realized in occ...

Book Sculpture for Children is an original rare book on trichromy realized by Tommaso Cascella. Good condition and bright colors. Editor Tricomia Illustrator's international artgal...

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'...

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...

Edition of 145 copies including 45 original coloured lithographs by Jean Lurçat. 3 of the lithographs are hand coloured by the artist. Copy on Grand Vélin à la forme des papeteries ...

Back Cover is an original China ink and Watercolor artwork realized by Gabriele Galantara in 1913. In good conditions, there is some pencil notes on the back of the card. Gabriele ...

Milano e la sua Esposizione Internazionale del Sempione Magazine is a vintage Italian colored newspaper. published in 1906 With illustration, Editors" Fratelli T...

Sanat Kar - Ikebana Memories-2 22 x 19 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on Paper 1991 Style: Majority of Sanat Kar's works are surrealistic and have a curious dream-like appearan...

"Il Selvaggio, no.9 - 1933", "Annual supporter subscription - Una copia 40 Cent - Weekly Newspaper letters arts and sciences", including original woodcuts by the artist Mino Maccari....

Political Comics is an original comics drawing in China ink, realized in 1978 by the Italian cartoonist Alfredo Chiappori. Very good conditions. Wit...

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 ...

ABECEDA is an original modern Rare Book written by Vítezslav Nezval (Prague, 26 May 1900 – 6 April 1958) and illustrated by Karel Teige (13 December 1900 – 1 October 1951) in 1926. ...

Sima Lavis d'Encre is a vintage poster print realized in occasione of Sima's exhibition at Di Meo Gallery, Paris, in 1992.. Good conditions.