Mid-20th Century More Art

In the letter the italian painter Silvano Bozzolini (1911-1998) writes about a project for an exhibition to his friend Nesto Jacometti.

PABLO PICASSO Spanish, 1881-1973 CHOPE VISAGE (A.R. 432) stamped and marked 'Edition Picasso / Madoura Plein Feu / Edition Picasso / 268/300 / Madoura' (...

Ex Libris Carl Aberg is a Modern Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century. Ex Libris. Woodcut on ivory paper. The work is glued on ivory cardboard Total dimensions: 20x 15 cm. The ...

Louis Emiel Chappel (1888-1963) floral still life II oil painting, circa 1950s Beautiful full basket bouquet of flowers on a pedestal by listed artist Louis Chappel. Original oil o...

This is an Autograph Letter Signed by Carlo Levi to the Countess A.L. Pecci Blunt. Rome, December 9th 1950. In Italian. One page, single-sided. Excellent condition, perfecly readable. Including original envelope. Carlo Levi (Tourin,1902 – Rome, 1975), the Italian painter, writer, activist, anti-fascist, best-known for his "Cristo si è fermato a Eboli" (Christ Stopped at Eboli),writes this letter to the Countess and patron of arts, A.L. Pecci Blunt to introduce the Italian playwright and director Alessandro Fersen (Łódź, 1911 - Rome, 2001). Artistic Intentions and common initiatives could arise. The background: In the same year of this letter, in 1950, Alessandro Fersen together with Walter Cantatore and Emanuele Luzzati...

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

Hard cover designed and handmade by Ardengo Soffici, in excellent conditions. On the frontispiece we can read handwritten: "Silvio e Luigi Perina Roma 5 Marzo 1916". Language: Italian.

Budd Hopkins, American (1931-2011) Strike Red Oil on canvas, 1965, signed 'Hopkins' and dated lower right. Dimensions: 85 x81 in., 86 x 52 in. with frame. Provenance: bears partial label remnant verso from Poindexter Gallery. (a major gallery founded in 1955 in New York City by Elinor Poindexter. The gallery specialized in sculpture, abstract, and figurative art and featured the works of such artists as Richard Diebenkorn, Jules Olitski, Nell Blaine, Al Held, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Earl Kerkam, Milton Resnick and Robert De Niro, among others. Budd Hopkins was one of the leading proponents of the "hard-edge" abstract minimalist school of painting in the 1950s and 1960s, Budd Hopkins (born 1931) created works that show the strong influence of Jackson Pollock and other leading painters of the Abstract Expressionism movement. Hopkins' paintings are now in numerous major collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Hirshhorn Collection in Washington, DC. Recently, he has also been recognized for his research into the matter of UFOs and one of his books, "The Intruders", printed by Random House, was on the New York Times best-seller list and was the basis for a television show on CBS. Born in 1931, he is a graduate of Linsly Military Institute (now Linsly School) in 1949 and Oberlin College in 1953. He first displayed artistic abilities when, as a child recovering from a long-term illness, he began to create sculptures of ships made out of modeling clay. But it wasn't until he arrive at Oberlin that he made a serious study of art. Later, Hopkins included abstracted figures in his sculptural pieces. While moving away from Abstract Expressionism, Hopkins retained in his work the use of intense colors and hard-edged forms. His works of the 1980s, including Temples and Guardians, featured these "sentinels" who were, according to Hopkins, "participating in a frozen ritual, fixed – absolutely – within a privileged space..." Though Hopkins denied any connection, some critics viewed these ritualistic pieces as an extension of Hopkins' fascination with alien beings. Hopkins viewed his sculpted guardians not as human per se, but as magical, fierce, noble robots of the unconscious. He settled in New York after obtaining his degree and has had a residence there ever since. He and his wife, April Kingsley, and their daughter, Grace, divide their time between their home at Cape Cod, Mass., and that in New York City. In his work, he travels widely. He has exhibited in England, Finland, Italy and Switzerland. In 1963, Hopkins was selected by the Columbia Broadcasting System as one of the 15 painters featured in the network's first television special on American art. In 1958, Art News picked him as one of 12 Americans for exhibition in Spoleto, Italy, in the "Festival of Two Worlds." His brilliance has won him a number of fellowships and awards. In 1972, the West Virginia Arts and Humanities Council awarded him its Commission Prize. In 1976, he received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Painting and in '79 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. He also won a special project grant from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1982. He was friends with Robert Ryman and many of the other 10th street avant garde artists. He was an original member of March Gallery which showed Alice Baber, Elaine de Kooning, Mark di Suvero, Lester Johnson, Matsumi Kanemitsu. His art has been featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, Corcoran Gallery, Guggenheim Museum, Queens Museum in New York, and the Public Library of New York. He was included in Young America 1960: Thirty American Painters Under Thirty-Six buy Lloyd Goodrich at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. Artists included: Sonia Gechtoff, Edward Giobbi, Ron Gorchov, James Harvey, Budd Hopkins, Wolf Kahn, Alex Katz, Robert Natkin, Rudy Pozzatti, Dean Richardson...

Mythologies is an original Rare Book engraved by André Masson (Balagny, Oise, 1896 - Paris, 1987) in 1946. Original Edition. Published by Editions de la Revue Fontaine, Paris. Fo...

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...

Edition of 1010 copies. Copy on Alfa paper. Superb copy in perfect conditions and uncut.Paul Eluard was born in 1895 and died in 1952. He was a French poet and one of the founders of...

Suhas Roy - Untitled Watercolour on Paper, 11 x 15 inches, 1954 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or soft colored past...

Roy Lichtenstein (after) 1960s exhibition invitation for Galleria Apollinaire, 1965 Offset lithograph poster Unsigned Frame included This poster/invitation was published for Lichtens...

Framed wooden icon with a depiction of a winged devil in chains in the center. This could be Lucifer, the rebel angel who fell from Heaven and became the prince of all demons and was...

Ex Libris - Anne Marie is an Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century. Woodcut colored print on paper. The work is glued on yellowed cardboard. Total dimensions: 20 x 15 cm. Excelle...

Edition of 30 copies including one coloured linocuts and 29 b/n linocuts realized by Mino Maccari from 1924 to 1931. Double sheets Japanese style. Probably the only copy with each s...

Not dated nor located, this interesting collection of letters is addressed to Nesto Jacometti Graphic Art Editor and Collector. It's entirely hand written and in very good condition...

These are Autographs by the legendary bullfighters Antonio Ordoñez, Manolo Vazquez (Sevilla, 1930-2005) and Juan José Rueda, with autograph notes by A. Ordoñez (Ronda, 1932 - Siviglia, 1998). Around 1960. A card addressed to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt. In spanish. Original envelope included. Short sentence of greetings with the ending hope to see the Countess agains. "Millones de Gracias, esperamos poder corresponder en España". Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci - Blunt (Rome, 1885 - Marlia, 1971) Best-known as "Mimì" Pecci-Blunt , the Italian noblewoman was an art collector, patron and nephew of Pope Leo XIII. Extremely volcanic, she was very active in the cultural field, opening numerous lounges, galleries and theaters. In 1919 she married Cecil Blumenthal, later changed to Blunt, a wealthy Jewish banker from New York, heir to an important collection of nineteenth-century French painting. His Parisian and Roman salons was frequented by artists and intellectuals of the caliber of Salvador Dalì, Paul Valery, Poulenc, Paul Claudel...

Ex Libris Gheri Mantero is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in Italy in the mid-20th Century. Original Ex Libris. The artwork has been realized by Alina Kalczinska. Origin...

Le Dur Désir de Durer is an original Modern Rare book and written by Paul Éluard (Saint-Denis, 1895 – Charenton-le-Pont, 1952) and illustrated by Marc Chagall (Lëzna, 1887 – Saint-Pa...

Business card with a message of the artist's hand addressed to Silvio Perina. Dimensions : 9,5x6 cm. Very good condition. Thanksgiving card, together with the sum of "5000 Lire (p...

This lot is composed of 2 items, 1960's by Gina Lollobrigida to Maria De Matteis: a Typewritten Letter Signed by Gina Lollobrigida to Maria De Matteis. Rome...

Mickey or Micky Mouse Brooch in gold and Enamels. Mid 20th century. Italian hallmarks: 750 , 18 ct gold. Eyes made with red precious stones. Fully functional closure. High quality , ...

Ed Ruscha Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass 1968: 1st edition of Ed Ruscha's Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass. The highly collectible Ed Ruscha artsit book featuring prin...

Ex-Libris - Nec Pluribus Impar is an Artwork realized in 1908. Lithograph print on paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensions: 21 x 15 cm. Good conditions. The arti...

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Man with Pipe (1911) Lithograph from 1946. Dimensions of work: 48 x 32.8 cm Publisher: Pantheon. The work is in Excellent condition. Fast and secure ...

Die Salzige Taufe is an original two volumes book written by A. Nowikow and A. Priboj and illustrated by Karl Rössing (1897) in 1933. Original First German Edition. Published by B...

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

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...

Ivan Chermayeff born London, United Kingdom, 1932 Chermayeff was one of the greatest American graphic designers, the son of the Russian born, British architect Serge Chermayeff. Ivan...

Edition of 920 numbered copies. Copy on velin de rives B.F.K.. including 43 tables with printed tissue guards, in black and white and in colour reproducing the works of Michaux from ...

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 ...

S. Teresa del Bambin Gesù is a Autograph Letter Signed by the Italian artist Alberto Gerardi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Rome, April 24th 1939. One page, single-sinded. In Italian. Excellent condition. Perfectly readable, thanks to an elegant calligraphy. Touching letter addressed to the Countess and patron of arts, thanking her for her purchase proposal of a hand study drawing...

Collect this unique Autograph Letter Signed by Nino Franchina to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Rome, March 1st 1952. One page, single-sided, on light blue ...

Measures about 3.75 X 3.5 inches. Box is 11 X 11 inches. (Piece is in excellent condition. box frame has some minor wear and piece might need to be remounted, it has been removed and...

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

Beautiful colored lithograph, Il Bisonte Publishing, Florence, 1967. Artist's Proof, representing a female nude. Hand-signed with pencil on lower-right margin by the Italian artist, ...

Oil on canvas, 1961. Signed in oil in lower right. Signed and dated in oil on verso. Per the Guggenheim Musuem (New York), whose collection has works by Sugai., he "was part of th...

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...

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...

“The Critic Smiles”. Lead relief with etched signature, Jasper John’s (b. 1930). 41/60 Published by Gemini Gel. Dated 1969. Aluminum frame and Lucite shadowbox.

This is a Autograph Letter Signed by Alberto Gerardi to the Countess Pecci-Blunt. Rome, December 9th (1939-40). One page, single-sinded. In Italian. Excellent condition, including original envelope. Perfectly readable, thanks to an elegant calligraphy. The Italian artist writes this letter to his mentor and patron of arts, the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt, to inform her he was sending her two artworks she was interested in (a drawing representing a study of hands and a little wax model called Santa Teresa del Bambino Gesù...

"Il Selvaggio, no.12- 1932", "Annual supporter subscription - Una copia 40 Cent - Fortnightly Newspaper letters arts and sciences", including original woodcuts by the artist Mino Mac...

Oil on canvas. Signed, titled on stretcher on recto. Bartolomucci was an Italian painter who became one of the founders of Astralism. He moved to New York in 1960 where he remain...

Incredible Brutalist torch-cut wall mountable sculpture by artist Gene Montez Flores. Designed to hang as shown. Produced during in the early 1960s in his California studio. Has neve...

Brush and black and gray inks and wash on cream wove paper. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower center. Titled in pencil, lower right. Inscribed with the artist's name and addre...

Autograph Happy New Year Card Signed by Afro Basaldella to the Countess Anna Laetitia.Pecci-Blunt. Rome, January 2nd 1963 . In 24°. In Italian. Excellent condition: As good as New....

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

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

Feu central is an original modern Artwork written by Benjamin Péret (Rezé, July 4, 1899 - Paris, September 18, 1959) and illustrated by Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955) in 1947. Original Edition. Published by K éditeur, Paris. 1030 numbered copies. Format: in 4°. The dimensions and the weight are indicative. The book includes 101 pages with Four Full page illustrations. Mint conditions. Raymond Georges Yves Tanguy (January 5, 1900 – January 15, 1955), known as just Yves Tanguy, was a French surrealist painter. Tanguy's paintings have a unique, immediately recognizable style of nonrepresentational surrealism. They show vast, abstract landscapes, mostly in a tightly limited palette of colors, only occasionally showing flashes of contrasting color accents. Typically, these alien landscapes are populated with various abstract shapes, sometimes angular and sharp as shards of glass, sometimes with an intriguingly organic look to them, like giant amoebae suddenly turned to stone. Benjamin Péret (Rezé, July 4, 1899 - Paris, September 18, 1959); he was a French poet. Alongside Breton he was among the most important and influential protagonists of the surrealist movement. He wrote poems characterized by a vehement anti-bourgeois aggression, by the rejection of the clichés of morality, by the parody of official rhetoric: Le Passager Du Transatlantique, Je Ne Mange Pas De Ce Pain-La, Feu Central. Faithful to the libertarian and internationalist ideal, communist militant, then Trotskyist, he enlisted in the international brigades...

Photographic portrait with autograph dedication signed by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald (Newport, 1917 - Beverly Hills, 1996). In fine cond...

This is a Fabrizio Clerici's Autograph Letter Signed, to the Countess and Patron of arts, Anna Laetitia Pecci-Blunt. Rome, July 24th. Around 1957. Signed "Fabrizio". One page, singl...

Original Title: Visite à Picasso. Un film de Paul Haesaerts. Prix International du documentaire au Festival d'Art Cinématographique de Venise, 1950. Direction, scenario and commentary by Paul Haesaerts. Spoken by Gérard Philipe...

This Correspondence by Arturo Tosi to the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt is composed of three Autograph Letter Signed and written between 1937-38, in I...

Harriet Thorpe "Fire Bird" Original Abstract Oil Painting c.1960s Excellent vintage abstract painting by California artist Harriet Thorpe. Created wit...

Artistes Américains Modernes de Paris, vintage catalogue printed in 1932. Vol in folio, pp. 138, cm 32 x 1 x 25, In French. Catalogue of the "Artistes Américains Modernes de Pari...

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...

Mid Century Portrait in Oils of artists daughter the renowned horticulturist Henrietta Phipps. Large oil painting of his beloved first daughter and a toned plain background that per...

Edition of 180 copies including 23 etchings by Marie Laurencin. Copy n. 91 on pur fil Lana paper. Good Condition.

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...