Mid-20th Century More Art

This set is composed of 2 items, around 1929/30: An Authograph Diaghilev Commemorative Card written and signed by Boris Kochno, Signed by Serge Lifar to...

Volume III of the collection dedicated to Picasso's lithographs. It includes reproductions of the etching created between 1949 and 1956. Copy on Velin paper. Cover and frontispiece a...

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 ...

Mid Twentieth Century Still Life Oil painting of Fruits and a Wine Carafe on a table with a neutral background. Another highly detailed and exceptionally well painted Still Life by ...

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...

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

Ex-Libris  - J. Jove is an Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century. Woodcut print on paper. Good conditions. The artwork represents a balanced harmonious composition through a marked...

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Paradise, Canto 24 - The Joy of the Blessed Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of work: 33 x 26.2 cm Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris. The wo...

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Purgatory, Canto 27 - The Last Words of Virgil Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of work: 33 x 26.2 cm Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris. The...

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Purgatory, Canto 17 - Leaving the Terrace of Anger Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of work: 33 x 26.2 cm Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris. ...

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Purgatory, Canto 12 - The Beauty of Sculptures Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of work: 33 x 26.2 cm Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris. The...

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Inferno, Canto 20 - Devins et sorciers Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of work: 33 x 26.2 cm Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris. The work is...

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Inferno, Canto 15 - The Hard Margins Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of work: 33 x 26.2 cm Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris. The work is i...

Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - The Inferno, Canto 2 - Virigil comforts Dante Woodcut print from 1960. Dimensions of work: 33 x 26.2 cm Publisher: Les Heures Claires, Paris. The work...

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...

Georges Braque (1882-1963) - Cubist Portrait Lithograph from 1939. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure ...

In the correspondence, Antonio Barrera writes to the Countess Pecci Blunt sending her a business card to invite her to his exhibition.

Album is an extraordinary collection of 30 linocut plates by Mino Maccari, each numbered and hand-signed by the artist. Issued in 89 copies. In-folio, 30 plates, cm 49 x 2.5 x 37, ...

Ex- Libris de Julio Cesar Salvatierra  is an Artwork realized in 1951, by the Artist Julio Cesar Salvatierra . Woodcut colored print on ivory paper. The work is glued on grey cardbo...

Editions including original etchings by Milly Possoz. Very good condition.

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.

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...

André Breton, Anthologie de l'Humour Noir, Editions du Sagittaire, Paris 1950. N° d'éditeur: 93. The "Anthologie de l'Humour Noir" (Anthology of Black Humor) is an anthology of 45 wr...

This heterogeneous lot “Ungaretti –Futur Prix Nobel” deals with the Ungaretti's ambitious race for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. A Correspondence, with different senders a...

Hand signed dedication by the author on frontispiece to Paola Masino (Pisa 1908 - Roma 1989), famous italian writer. Original editorial soft cover. Excellent conditions and partially...

Edition of 1010 copies. Copy on Alfa paper. Language: french. Superb copy in perfect conditions, as new. Uncut.

Very rare. From part of a limited edition bound catalog produced by Galleria Flaviana on the occasion of Lucio Fontana's exhibition in 1966, during the artist's lifetime. There are t...

Ex- Libris - Fr. Novy is an Artwork realized in 1967 by the Artist Ladislav Rusek (1927-2012) Woodcut print on ivory paper. The work is glued on green cardboard. Hand Signed on the ...

Edition of 255 copies including 25 original etchings/sanguine, 13 of which full page, by Hans Erni. One of 200 copies on Auvergne pur chiffon paper, signed on colophon by André and Pierre Gonin and by Erni himself. Hard editorial cover...

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

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

Lord Wellington, Central Park, NY, 1969 11x14" (Edition: 1 of 10) Silver Gelation Iconic Photography About the Artist: My intent is to create a mythic...

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...

Modern pastel blue abstract painting by Texas born artist Clark Fox. The work features an intricate geometric pattern in various tones of light blue against ...

Chain measures 19.5 inches in length Pendant measures 2.4 X 1.5 X .5 inches Pal Kepenyes is a sculptor and researcher of Hungarian art, whose artistic production includes sculptures of small and medium format, jewelry and miniature decorative pieces, all made by hand, without any machinery. Wearable art. Sculptural pendant on matching chain cast in polished bronze or brass. Reminiscent of Harry Bertoia. Organic Modernism. Mod, space age, handmade artisan, studio jewelry. Pal Kepenyes, wearable art pioneer. sculptor, goldsmith, jeweler, artist, was born in 1926 in Hungary. His creative talent, specifically in creating sculpted works, was evident early on. He moved to Budapest, where he first studied at the University of Arts and Crafts and later at the Academy of Fine Arts. His professor, Beni Ferenczy was one of Hungary's most influential sculptors. Pal Kepenyes (20/21st century) is active/lives in Hungary, Mexico. Pal Kepenyes is known for sculpture, jewelry making, miniature decorative pieces especially influenced by Mexican folk art and folklore. His work also includes animals, lions, tigers, fish, nude figures and milagros. He began his studies at the School of Decorative Arts in Budapest, and then was a prisoner of war during the Stalinist regime. In 1956, at the end of the Hungarian Revolution, he finally was released and left the country for Paris, where he studied at the School of Fine Arts. In 1956, he also traveled to Mexico, a country to which he has been devoted for the rest of his life because of his attraction pre-hispanic cultures. Along with Pedro Friedeberg, Arnold Coen, Vladimir Cora, Byron Galvez, Mathias Goeritz, Leonardo Nierman, Gabriel Orozco...

L.A.S. (Lettre Autographe Signée) Autograph Letter Signed by A. Masson to N. Jacometti. Paris, 28th March 1950. In back some autograph greetings by Marie and Dominique, Massons’s children. One page two-sided 24.1 x 16 cm. In 8°. In French. Perfect condition with usual folds of paper. Thank-you letter: “Grâce à ta gentillesse tu es à la base d’un...

This set is composed by 2 Autograph Letters Signed by Renato Guttuso and addressed to Gaetano Chiurazzi. In 8. In Italian. One page, One side. Signed and dated. On ivory colored pa...

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,...

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 ...

Georges Braque (1882-1963) - Carnets intimes de Braque X Lithograph from 1955. Dimensions of work: 52 x 35 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast...

"Georges Braque (1882-1963) - Carnets intimes de Braque XII Lithograph from 1955. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. F...

Georges Braque (1882-1963) - Carnets intimes de Braque IX Lithograph from 1955. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fas...

Georges Braque (1882-1963) - Carnets intimes de Braque V Lithograph from 1955. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast...

The last works of Henri Matisse  is a catalogue of the artist realized by the search of Monroe Wheeler.  64 pages, 44 plates ( 13 in color).  Distribuited by Doubleday & Co, Inc. G...

Georges Braque (1882-1963) - Le Coq Lithograph from 1952. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.

Henri Matisse (1869-1954) - La Femme Lithograph from 1939. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.

André Masson (1896 - 1987) - The Sun Lithograph from 1939. Dimensions of work: 35 x 26 cm Publisher: Tériade, Paris. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure shipment.

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Le Poete Decadent Pochoir from 1961. The edition: 442/500 written in pencil. Dimensions of work: 53.8 x 41.5 cm Publisher: Au Vent d'Arles, Paris. Im...

Vintage and rare catalogue of the works exhibited by Hamaguchi at Berggruen Gallery in 1958. Includes reproduction of works and their descriptions. Language: French. Very good condit...

Autograph Letter signed by Renato Guttuso to Gaetano Chiurazzi, called "Tanino". Velate, October 29th 1958. Two pages ( front and back), in 8°, in Italian. Excellent conditions, with...

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

Ex libris - Pragensiis J - Ev - Böhm is an Artwork realized in 1963,  by the Artist J .Ev . Böhm.  Woodcut print on ivory paper.  Good conditions. The artwork represents a minimal...

Propos sur L'Intelligence  is a book written by Paul Valery de L'academiè Francaise.  Copyright by Paul Valery, 1926. 16 x 11 cm. Contessa Anna Laetitia Pecci collection stamp - B...

Ex Libris - Johannes Parvis is a Modern Artwork realized in 1981 by Vilnis Resnis. Woodcut on ivory paper. Signed on plate and dated on back. The work is glued on cardboard. Tot...

This is a private writing between the Countess and mentor, Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt and the artist Franco Gentilini, after a sale of his artwork at the Rive Gauche Galery, Paris. ...

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...

"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 ...

Autographs by Édouard Pignon to Nesto Jacometti. This lot is composed of 2 items: Autograph Letter Signed by E. Pignon to N. Jacometti. April 28th 1...