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Fukusa, Pair of Lobsters

Meiji Period (1868-1912)

An Indonesian offer post from the Tetum people of Timor Island. The work is stone and is unsigned.

A six panel Japanese Byobu in gold and green, paint on paper and wood by an unknown artist from the Meigi or Taisho peiord. The artwork is unsigned. Provenance: Private Collection Heather James Fine Art...

A Rimpa School six-panel screen with a chrysanthemum motif in gold, red, green, and white by an unknown Japanese artist from the Meiji Period. The artwork is unsigned. Provenance: Pr...

"Porter Series: Carte L'Europe (Shower Woman)" is a tapestry by South African artist William Kentridge. It is edition 1 of 5 (plus 2 APs) and signed verso "W. Kentridge". William Kentridge is a South African graphic artist, filmmaker, and theatre arts activist especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The pungent humanism he revealed in these and other works echoed a larger European tradition of artists such as Honoré Daumier, Francisco de Goya, and William Hogarth. Kentridge, whose father was a noted antiapartheid lawyer, attended the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (1973–76) and the now-defunct Johannesburg Art Foundation (1976–78). At various times in the 1970s and ’80s, he worked as an actor, playwright, set designer, and theatrical director, and he studied mime and theatre in Paris in the early 1980s. In 1992 he began an ongoing collaboration involving multimedia performances with Handspring Puppet Theatre (founded 1981) in Cape Town. As is clear from both his early training and his later artistic output, Kentridge’s interest in the visual arts was rooted in its connection with the theatrical arts. The narrative structure and character development in his films reflect this connection. While Kentridge pursued several avenues as an artist, at the centre of his work was a sequence of short animated films. To produce them, he made a rough charcoal drawing, photographed it, altered the drawing slightly, photographed it again, and so on. Kentridge’s original drawings are often completely effaced by their successors. Many of these films—including Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City After Paris (1989) and Felix in Exile (1994)—follow the fortunes of the greedy capitalist Soho Eckstein and his alter ego, the sensitive and artistic Felix Teitelbaum. They present modern South Africa as reflective of the spiritual, ecological, and emotional crises of late capitalism. Kentridge later established himself as a consummate figure in the performing arts, particularly for his innovative stagings of the operas The Nose (2010) and Lulu (2015) at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Wozzeck (2017) at the Salzburg Festival...

Gary Goldberg Animal Figure, 2023 Dry wool needle felting 32 x 48 in Edition of 3 One of Gary Goldberg’s photographs from his Mesa Prieta Petroglyphs (in New Mexico) series has been...

Basket, Panama, Darien, Rainforest, Butterfly, Flower, white, red, yellow, green unique hand woven extremely finely woven

This mask, depicting a western character with only partly slanted eyes and a mustache, was created by an unknown Indonesian artist. It is a deep mustard green and is about 7" tall by...

Frog and Spider Basket, Panama Rain Forest, Wounaan Tribe, handwoven, white, red