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"Les Appartements du Baron de Redé en l'Hôtel Lambert, Isle Saint-Louis" 1954

1954

[117] pp. First Edition Exemplaire No 90 imprime specialement pour le Baron et la Baronne de Rothschild 10 1/4" x 12" Privately Printed: Monaco (1961). oblong 4to. The lavishly ...

Architectural rendering on parchment paper depicting an imposing French style residence Drawing Sz: 4 1/4"H x 13"W Frame Sz: 6 3/4"H x 15 1/2"W

Charming pencil c.1930's drawing of a French chateau with elaborate gardens. Image Sz: 5.75"H x 7.5"W in coral mat w/ gilt bamboo frame

w/ 356 lots Sotheby Parke Bernet New York October 8-9, 1976 9 1/4" x 8 3/4" Ronald Tree was a former editor of Forum Magazine who had moved to England in the 1930s and set up residence in the magnificent Ditchley Park Manor. A member of Parliament, Tree was also a friend of Churchill, who visited Ditchley Park often during the Second World War. After the war the Trees packed up the “country house” contents of the manor and moved it to New York, where they lived until the contents were sold at this auction. A wonderful auction of “country manor” furnishings and decorations. Churchill smoked and drank in these chairs... While involved with Huston and married to FitzGerald, Marietta began an affair with Ronald Tree, who was a grandson of retail magnate Marshall Field and MP for Harborough, Leicestershire. Tree and Peabody divorced their spouses at the end of World War II and married on July 26, 1947. Marietta moved into Tree's home, Ditchley Park, but found herself bored with English country life. Tree and most of his friends were Conservatives, and Democrat Marietta again found herself politically isolated. Their daughter Penelope was born in 1949. Short of money, Tree sold Ditchley and agreed to return to New York City with Marietta, her daughter Frances Fitzgerald and their own daughter, future '60s fashion model Penelope Tree...

L'Oeuvre Gravée - Correspondance between the French artist Édouard Pignon and Nesto Jacometti, his graphic art editor, written during the 1955 and composed of 2 items: Typewritten L...

Edition of 143 copies. One of 25 copies on pur fil. Near perfect conditions and partially uncut. Louis Aragon was born in 1897 and died in 1982. He was a French poet and writer,long-...

Exposition de l’Affiche en Couleurs de Chéret à Nos Jours (July-August 1939), published by the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, is a catalog from the renowned exhibition t...

Edition of 562 copies. Copy on pur fil Lafuma paper. Includes preface and notes by Jacques Crepet and an unpublished portrait of Charles Baudelaire. Cover very lightly worn on top, ...