Mid-20th Century More Art

Confidential Autograph Letters Signed by the French poet, Abel Bonnard (Poitier, 1883-Madrid 1968) to the Countess A.L.Pecci-Blunt. In French. One page, single-sided. On letterhea...

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...

This Lot of Autographs by the Italian artist Giovanni Omiccioli to Silvio Perina, the director of the CIM warehouses in Rome, includes 3 items, written around 1953, in Italian : - ...

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. ...

Ex Libris Arno is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the 20th Century. Original Ex Libris. Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right corner. Original B/W wo...

Plate is in perfect condition. and measures 1.75 x 9.75 x 9.75 inches.

Hand written postcard by Mario Ferrari realized in the 1940s. Good conditions.

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...

Lyman Kipp Kipp, at Betty Parsons Gallery, 1968 Rare Minimalist silkscreen announcement poster 24 × 13 1/4 inches Unframed Extremely rare. If you're reading this listing, you know wh...

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Soleil aux amoureux Etching from 1968. Trial proof - unique work. Dimensions of sheet: 51 x 34 cm Dimensions in frame: 63.2 x 53.2 cm Publisher: Maegh...

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Letter from Arrigo Benedetti to Mino Maccari, L.T.S. Fagnano, November 18, 1934. 1p. two-sided with adjustments and underlines, on letterhead (in the back) Gino Benedetti, Box 2, Luc...

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...

L.T.S. addressed to Countess Pecci Blunt, on letterhead Reform Club, Pall Mall. November 3, 1937. In English. Letter in which they decide the fee in lire and the date of the confere...

Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston Business Cards (hand signed by Ed Ruscha and Billy Al Bengston), 1968 Mixed Media Artist's Book: Softback monograph with a latigo leather thong, silver g...

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...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Femme nue Lithograph, pochoir from 1962. An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 262. Dimensions of work: 48.5 x 36 cm Publisher: Leda, Éditions ...

Nature Morte is a joyful lithograph realized by the Italian Futurist artist Gino Severini. Signed on plate on the lower right margin. This original artwork representing a modern s...

Josef Albers Album Art circa late 1950s: A set of 4 vinyl record covers (containing their records) brilliantly designed by Josef Albers between 1958 and 1960. Looks fantastic framed ...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - De mémoir d'homme, Planche IV Lithograph from 1950. An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of 350. Dimensions of work: 32 x 25 cm Publisher: Éditio...

Confidential Letter by Le Grix is a Autograph Letter Signed by François Le Grix, to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. Rome, September 30th 1934. In French. Two pages, double-si...

S.  Marino  Republic - Vintage Photo is a black-and-white photograph and postcard with hand written note on the rear. Realized in the 1960s. Good condition.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Jacqueline with Trees Phototype and pochoir from 1962. From the edition of 1,000 copies, this example is number 334, as noted in the colophon. Dimensio...

This is an Autograph Letter Signed by Enrico Prampolini to the Countess A.L. Pecci Blunt. Paris, June 12th 1935. One page, double-sided. Excellent c...

A new Passport for Sir Solti - A.L.S. is the main content of this unique Autograph Letter Signed by Georg Solti to Nesto Jacometti. Paris, July 4th 1946. ...

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...

Ex Libris - M. Stais a Modern Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Woodcut print on paper.  The work is glued on a cardboard. Good conditions.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Hic Phototype and pochoir from 1962. From the edition of 1,000 copies, this example is number 334, as noted in the colophon. Dimensions of sheet: 40 x ...

This "Viva La Cometa!" Correspondence by Enrico Paulucci to the Countess Pecci Blunt, written in Italian, from 1932 to 1937, is composed of 4 Authograph Lett...

Ann Eliza Reed is an original modern rare book illustrated by Oskar Kokoschka (Pöchlarn, 1886 – Montreux, 1980) in 1952. Original Edition. Published by Maximilian Geselschaft, Hamb...

Autograph Postcard Signed by Mimi Quilici Buzzacchi to Silvio Perina. Ferrara, May 5th 1958. In Italian. On the front, a black and white photo of the Duomo of Ferrara. On the back...

Ex Libris - Maria Souverein is a Modern Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Woodcut print on paper.  The work is glued on a cardboard. Good conditions.

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This is a 16mm film With Archie, George Millaway Written on box in Andy Warhol’s hand: Archie, MARY + (illegible word) George b&w, silent, 100’ Footage...

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - La Femme Lithograph from 1939. Dimensions of work: 35.5 x 26.4 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure ship...

Circle, Mid-Century Abstract Woven Tapestry, Textile Wall Sculpture, Hand dyed wool, 87" x 63" (1976) by Czech textile artist, Jan Jladik, (192...

Abstract lithograph of a black mass with a painterly appearance around the mass. Painting is signed by the artist on the bottom right corner. It is framed in a light wood frame with ...

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...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Man with Cats II Phototype and pochoir from 1962. From the edition of 1,000 copies, this example is number 334, as noted in the colophon. Dimension...

Alan Caiger-Smith MBE (8 February 1930 – 21 February 2020) Alan Craiger-Smith was a British ceramicist, studio potter and writer on pottery who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...

Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - The Angel Original Lithograph from 1960. Dimensions of work: 32 x 24 cm. Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition.

Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American socialite, writer, and photographer who became First Lady of the United States as the wife of P...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Man with Cats I Phototype and pochoir from 1962. From the edition of 1,000 copies, this example is number 334, as noted in the colophon. Dimensions...

Wonderful contemporary abstract signed painting Series of 4 canvas assembled to form a single painting signed Kozo Inoue dated 1974 This painting, never before on the market, comes f...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Goat on the Horizon Phototype and pochoir from 1962. From the edition of 1,000 copies, this example is number 334, as noted in the colophon. Dimens...

A minimalist ceramic cone vase by Ü-Keramik (Uebelacker) with rugged vertical striations against a pink and white mottled glaze. Numbered in the base. Form 455/25. Ü Keramik, or Üeb...

Mowgli, Buzzie, Dizzy MEDIUM: ​Original Production Cel on Printed Background IMAGE SIZE: 16" x 12.5" PRODUCTION: The Jungle Book, 1967 SKU: CCV3121 ABOUT THE MEDIUM: Original Production Cels are one-of-a-kind pieces of art that were used in the creation of an animated film or television show. Each has been hand-painted by studio artists on a piece of celluloid acetate and has been photographed over a background painting to create a frame of the finished production. ABOUT THE FILM: The Jungle Book is a 1967 American animated musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions. Based on Rudyard Kipling's 1894 book of the same name, it is the 19th Disney animated...

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

MEDIUM: ​Original Production Drawing IMAGE SIZE: 12" x 9" YEAR: 1967 SKU: CCV1969 ABOUT THE IMAGE: This impressive final animation drawing of Colo...

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...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Tohu Phototype and pochoir from 1962. From the edition of 1,000 copies, this example is number 334, as noted in the colophon. Dimensions of sheet: 40 x...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Portrait of Sebastia Junyer-Vidal Pochoir from 1961. The edition: 442/500 written in pencil. Dimensions of work: 53.8 x 41.5 cm Publisher: Au Vent d'A...

Chaim Gross Three little girls, three Graces. 1981. Bronze sculptural relief plaque mounted to verdigris marble. signed and dated on marble Marble approx 7.5" x 7" x 1.5". Bronze: 5.25" x 4" x 1" Chaim Gross, born in Wolowa, Austria in 1904, was educated at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and at the Art Student's League in New York. Chaim Gross's work was greatly influenced by his experiences during a period of international conflict, World War II. He had moved to Kolomyia from Wolowa to get a better education, but the Germans came to occupy, killing, raping, and looting. Gross and his family were chased from one village to the next. He wrote, "We were sleeping on roofs and in the fields, with the sound of cannon fire always in the distance,". Eventually, he ended up in Budapest with his two brothers, where Anti­ Semitism was not as severe, and that is where he began to sculpt and draw. He even had a few odd jobs there as a gold­ and silversmith. When he was seventeen, Gross immigrated to America where his older brother was. There he was a student and then a teacher at the Educational Alliance on the Lower East Side. Teaching became a big part of his philosophy, as he believed that an artist must pass on the knowledge which he had received from others in his artwork. He was part of an artist emigre community which included Raphael Soyer, Moses Soyer, Arnold Newman, Max Weber and David Burliuk. His daughter is the artist Mimi Grooms and his son in law was Red Grooms. Chaim Gross works reflect his Jewish and Austrian roots and his Hasidic Jewish upbringing. The figures in his art reflect the Hasidic spirit of being happy and making other people happy. This opiece has children playing and is perfect for a kids room. In his pieces, Jews sing and dance in celebration of the Jewish Sabbath and festivals. They are shown rejoicing in the great gifts of love and life. Chaim Gross was honored with a number of prestigious awards including: the Award of Merit Medal from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1963, and the Gold Medal award from the National Academy of Design in 1985. He often used his creative abilities to explore and experiment with media. In his artwork he retains an optimistic philosophy, even when facing somber issues such as war, depression, and the Holocaust. Gross was born to a Jewish family in Austrian Galicia, in the village of Wolowa (now known as Mezhgorye, Ukraine), in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1911, his family moved to Kolomyia (which was annexed into the Ukrainian USSR in 1939 and became part of newly independent Ukraine in 1991). When World War I ended, Gross and brother Avrom-Leib went to Budapest to join their older siblings Sarah and Pinkas. Gross applied to and was accepted by the art academy in Budapest and studied under the painter Béla Uitz, though within a year a new regime under Miklos Horthy took over and attempted to expel all Jews and foreigners from the country. After being deported from Hungary, Gross began art studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna, Austria shortly before immigrating to the United States in 1921. Gross's studies continued in the United States at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, where he studied with Elie Nadelman and others, and at the Art Students League of New York, with Robert Laurent. He also attended the Educational Alliance Art School, studying under Abbo Ostrowsky, at the same time as Moses Soyer and Peter Blume. In 1926 Gross began teaching at The Educational Alliance, and continued teaching there for the next 50 years. Louise Nevelson was among his students at the Alliance (in 1934), during the time she was transitioning from painting to sculpture. In the late 1920s and early 1930s he exhibited at the Salons of America exhibitions at the Anderson Galleries and, beginning in 1928, at the Whitney Studio Club. In 1929, Gross experimented with printmaking, and created an important group of 15 linocuts and lithographs of landscapes, New York City streets and parks, women in interiors, the circus, and vaudeville. The entire suite is now in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gross returned to the medium of printmaking in the 1960s, and produced approximately 200 works in the medium over the next two decades. In March 1932 Gross had his first solo exhibition at Gallery 144 in New York City. For a short time they represented Gross, as well as his friends Milton Avery, Moses Soyer, Ahron Ben-Shmuel and others. Gross was primarily a practitioner of the direct carving method, with the majority of his work being carved from wood. Other direct carvers in early 20th-century American art include William Zorach, Jose de Creeft, and Robert Laurent. Works by Chaim Gross can be found in major museums and private collections throughout the United States, with substantial holdings (27 sculptures) at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. A key work from this era, now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is the 1932 birds-eye maple Acrobatic Performers, which is also only one and one quarter inch thick. In 1933 Gross joined the government's PWAP (Public Works of Art Project), which transitioned into the WPA (Works Progress Administration), which Gross worked for later in the 1930s. Under these programs Gross taught and demonstrated art, made sculptures that were placed in schools and public colleges, made work for Federal buildings including the Federal Trade Commission Building, and for the France Overseas and Finnish Buildings at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Gross was also recognized during these years with a silver medal at the Exposition universelle de 1937 in Paris, and in 1942, with a purchase prize at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Artists for Victory" exhibition for his wood sculpture of famed circus performer Lillian Leitzel. In 1949 Gross sketched Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, at several functions in New York City where Weizmann was speaking, Gross completed the bust in bronze later that year. Gross returned to Israel for three months in 1951 (the second of many trips there in the postwar years) to paint a series of 40 watercolors of life in various cities. This series was exhibited at the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in 1953. In the 1950s Gross began to make more bronze sculptures alongside his wood and stone pieces, and in 1957 and 1959 he traveled to Rome to work with famed bronze foundries including the Nicci foundry. At the end of the decade Gross was working primarily in bronze which allowed him to create open forms, large-scale works and of course, multiple casts. Gross's large-scale bronze The Family, donated to New York City in 1991 in honor of Mayor Ed Koch, and installed at the Bleecker Street Park at 11th street, is now a fixture of Greenwich Village. In 1959, a survey of Gross's sculpture in wood, stone, and bronze was featured in the exhibit Four American Expressionists curated by Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art, with work by Abraham Rattner, Doris Caesar, and Karl Knaths. In 1976, a selection from Gross's important collection of historic African sculpture, formed since the late 1930s, was exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum in the show The Sculptor's Eye: The African Art Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Chaim Gross. Gross was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full Academician in 1981. In 1984, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with Jacob Lawrence and Lukas Foss. In the fall of 1991, Allen Ginsberg gave an important tribute to Gross at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is published in their Proceedings. In 1994, Forum Gallery, which now represents the Chaim Gross estate, held a memorial exhibition featuring a sixty-year survey of Gross's work. Gross was a professor of printmaking and sculpture at both the Educational Alliance and the New School for Social Research in New York City, as well as at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the MoMA art school, the Art Student's League and the New Art School (which Gross ran briefly with Alexander Dobkin, Raphael Soyer and Moses Soyer). Gross was a member of the New York Artists Equity Association and the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors. He was a founder and served as the first president of the Sculptors Guild. He is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.He is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. And the EIN HAROD Museum's Holdings: Israeli art is represented by the works of Reuven Rubin, Zaritzky, Nahum Gutman, Mordechai Ardon, Aharon Kahana, Arie Lubin, Yehiel Shemi, Yosl Bergner and others. The graphic arts collection contains drawings and graphic works by Pissaro, Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Marc Chagall (almost all of his graphic work), and numerous other artists. The sculpture collection includes works by Jewish sculptors from all over the world including leading Israeli sculptors; Ben Zvi, Lishansky, David Palombo, Yehiel Shemi, Aharon Bezalel and Igael Tumarkin. Many Jewish sculptors from all parts of the world, beginning with Mark Antokolsky, are represented in the collection. In the sculpture courtyard there are works by Chana Orloff, Jacob Epstein (the works he bequeathed to the Museum), Enrico Glicenstein, Loutchansky, Joseph Constant and Leon Indenbaum from Western Europe; Glid from Yugoslavia; William Zorach, Chaim Gross and Minna Harkavy from the United States; and most of the outstanding sculptors of Israel : Zeev Ben-Zvi, Lishansky, Ziffer, Rudi Lehmann, Dov Feigin, Sternschuss, David Palombo ( who executed the iron...

Autograph Card Signed by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini to their costume designer, Mara De Matteis. Around 1950s. One page, double-sided. In Ital...

Beryl Sutcliffe (b.1926) is from Wigginton, York She is known for her minimalist tableware and individual pieces in reduced stoneware and porcelain.

This beautiful vase was in the mid century ceramic collection of George and Ann Dannatt.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Goat at the Packing Crate Phototype and pochoir from 1962. From the edition of 1,000 copies, this example is number 334, as noted in the colophon. ...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - The Goat at the Fence Phototype and pochoir from 1962. From the edition of 1,000 copies, this example is number 334, as noted in the colophon. Dimensio...

Ex Libris Sven Roos is a Modern Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century. Lithograph on paper. The work is glued on ivory cardboard. Total dimensions: 20x 15 cm. Good conditions. T...

L.T.S addressed to the collector Nesto Jacometti, on headed paper "Marcello Mascherini - Sculptor - Trieste - Via Fabio Severo 20". Trieste, 2 May ...