Sewing Art

Four plates from The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers. “Wolfsmelk Rupsen;" “Wolfsmilch, Raupe und Schmetterling" Amsterdam: J F Bernard, 1730. Each an engraving with hand coloring in watercolor and gouache printed on one sheet of watermarked Honig cream laid paper, each measures 6 1/4 x 5 inches (157 x 121 mm), sheet measures 20 5/8 x 14 inches (522 x 355 mm), full margins. With one 1.5 inch inch tear across the area of the top-left corner, well outside of image area. Handling creases in the lower right sheet quadrant, as well as minor, loose cockling, otherwise in very good condition. The colors are superb with exceptionally fresh and bright saturation. Engraved between 1679 and 1683, printed 1730. Plates included: CXXI, CXXII, CXXIII, & CXXIV. MARIA SIBYLLA MERIAN was one of the most highly respected entomologists of the 17th century, and remains today one of the field's most significant figures. A German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator, she reared herself on the study of caterpillars, and made tremendous contributions to the knowledge of the life cycles of numerous species. Until her detailed and careful study of the process of metamorphosis it was thought that insects were "born of mud," through spontaneous generation. Trained as a miniature painter by her stepfather, she published her first book of illustrations in 1675, at the age of 28. In 1679, Merian published the first volume of the two-volume series on caterpillars, The Wondrous Transformation of Caterpillars and their Strange Diet of Flowers; the second volume followed in 1683. Each volume contained 50 plates that she engraved and etched. In 1699, Merian traveled to Dutch Guiana...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 4.25 x 6 inches Delightful early 20th century French watercolour dep...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 4.5 x 6.25 inches Delightful early 20th century ...

Delicate Watercolor of a Bird Encircled by a Floral Wreath watercolour on artist paper, stuck in black paper painting: 13 x 10 inches provenance: private collection condition: very g...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 5.5 x 8 inches FREE SHIPPING The work is signed...

Benedictus, Edouard. "Relais." Plate 14. Paris, Éditions Vincent, Fréal et Cie, 1930. Original pochoir, printed by J. Saudé. Unsigned and unnumbered from an edition of presumabl...

Brixham Harbour is an Original Painting by Eleanor Woolley. This painting is inspired by the Artist's summer vacations around Devon. Preliminary sketches were made of the harbour and...

"Los Recolectores" (The Gatherers). Symbolic paint. Folk Art Landscape with figures by spanish artist Raquel Fariñas. Acrylic mixed media/ wood panel, 47 x 38 x 3 cm. In inches: 18....

MIKOŁAJ MALESZA (born in 1954) a painter and a stage designer. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, at the Department of Interior Design, where he graduated from in 1979...

Artist: Keiko Minami, Japanese (1911 - 2004) Title: Bird On Flower Year: circa 1985 Medium: Aquatint Etching, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 12...

Still life with a sewing machine. 2019. Oil on canvas, 60x90 cm Arturs Amatnieks (Leon) (1974) Leon (real name: Artūrs Amatnieks) is a professional...

Richard Kagan, born in Philadelphia, followed a circuitous path to become a photographer. Beginning with street photography using a meterless Asahi Pentax as a student at Temple Univ...

The Carillon is an original modern artwork realized in the 19th Century. Original colored china ink and watercolor on paper. Excellent conditions. The Carillon is a small format...

Very fine original antique English botanical watercolour paintings depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, Eng...

Nancy Lasar’s work is described as “drawing with light”, “condensed energy and flow”, “calm and crazy”, and “organized chaos”. The lines in Lasar’s works that are electrifying. They ...

""Mug and Grape Stencil Cut" Oil on Linen 12 x 26 Inches Charlotte Gibbs recently had the distinct honor of being awarded First Prize in The Roddy Compeition held at the Conco...

KAWS Urge (1) 2020; Silkscreen print on Saunders Waterford 425gm HP hi-white paper 17 x 12 3/5 inches Numbered 79 from the edition of 250 plus 50 artist's proofs Signed and dated in ...

Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated portrait of renowned artist Andy Warhol posed with one of his most iconic subject matters, the Campbell's soup can. Similar to pointillism, t...

RINKO KAWAUCHI (*1972, Japan) Untitled, from the series 'Utatane' 2001 C–type print Sheet 101,6 x 101,6 cm (40 x 40 in.) Edition of 6; Ed. no. 4/6 This photograph belongs to the se...

"I am drawn to the aesthetic qualities of jewelry. This interest stems from the color, texture, variety and the association with the female body that jewelry contains. I experiment ...

Original watercolor on archival paper by Rosalind Oesterle. Circa 1970. Signed lower left by the artist. Oval format. Condition is excellent. Profe...

This piece titled "MySpace Tom No. 7" is a one-of-a-kind original piece by Nicole Nikolich (Lace in the Moon) and is made from crochet acrylic. This piece measures 30"h x 33"w framed...

This piece titled "MySpace Tom No. 2" is a one-of-a-kind original piece by Nicole Nikolich (Lace in the Moon) and is made from crochet acrylic. This piece measures 30"h x 33"w framed...

This piece titled "MySpace Tom No. 5" is a one-of-a-kind original piece by Nicole Nikolich (Lace in the Moon) and is made from crochet acrylic. This piece measures 33"h x 30"w framed...

Rendering Memories II (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory #13388. Not mounted. Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence. Written and directed by Stefanie Schneider A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of a newly orphaned girl after losing her parents who lived in the Californian desert in an old travel trailer. -filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice-over monologue - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl's journal. (Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder) Stefanie Schneider By Caroline Ryder Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat. Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies, and dusty gilt-framed photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home and serve as sets for her photoshoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.” Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer. Her name is Heather, and she is played by model Heather Megan Christie, girlfriend of actor Joaquin Phoenix, and former partner of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, with whom she has a son. Heather stars opposite Kyle Larson (who plays ‘Hank’), a real-life gypsy fisherman who catches crab in Alaska when he’s not surfing in Southern California. Neither of the two had ever acted before, and never in the history of movie-making has a director shot a film entirely on Polaroid film. “There was great difficulty shooting a film this way,” says Schneider, who, with her long straight hair, wide innocent eyes, and thick-framed glasses, conjures an art-house Gretel. “If I had used a regular camera I would have had 36 exposures per minute, much faster and easier than using the old Polaroid camera which takes a long time to shoot one frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great because then you miss the perfect moment…and often those are the best shots.” Individually, the Polaroid photographs that comprise 29 PALMS, CA stand alone, but together and in sequence, filmed with super 8 and 16mm film stock and overlaid with poetic voice-over monologues, they create a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick. Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl’s journal. The idea to shoot a movie in this way came about in 2004 when Schneider was working with leading German director Mark Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) on his film Stay. She had met Forster at director Wim Wender’s birthday party in Hollywood. A few years later, Forster asked Schneider to shoot Polaroids of scenes from Stay as he filmed; he used those photographs for dream and memory sequences in the movie. For the first time, Schneider saw her Polaroids strung together in sequence, moving with rhythm like a flipbook, in the context of a story. When Forster urged her to consider making a feature film using that technique, the seed of 29 PALMS, CA was sown. She mentioned the idea to her good friend German actor Udo Kier, who also gave the idea a big thumbs up, and agreed to play the part of a mysterious shaman in the film. Thanks to her strong reputation in the art world and her Hollywood connections, getting talented people on board was the easy part (for a while, Charlotte Gainsbourg was pegged to play the starring role, although she pulled out two weeks before shooting commenced because she was pregnant and not fit to travel to the desert.) The hard part was finding the perfect trailer—and bringing it to the desert. “This trailer almost killed us,” says Schneider’s partner Lance Waterman, who lives and works with Schneider in Morongo Valley. After finding it on eBay, the couple drove to Utah to pick it up, the plan being to tow it all the way back to the high desert themselves. Bad idea. “We were driving down a hill with this enormous trailer behind us when we realized that if we wanted to stop, there would be no way to do so without the trailer crushing us,” says Waterman. Adds Schneider: “Lance was even giving me instructions on how to jump out of the truck if we needed to.” Thankfully the road leveled and as soon as they were able to slow down and pull over, they called a professional towing company, which transported the trailer the remaining distance to Morongo Valley. Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider recently submitted the film to major film festivals in Europe and the US, and it will be broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte. While Schneider may come from a long tradition of photographers-turned-filmmakers—Stanley Kubrick started out as a photographer, as did Ken Russell (Tommy, Women in Love) and Larry Clark, who was a controversial fine art photographer before directing smash hit Kids—she does not see her future in Hollywood, directing blockbusters. Not necessarily. “I don’t think I want to make more films,” she says. “The actors were saying they would love to work with me again, and were asking if I would like to make other movies. But being on movie sets is far too stressful, and at least with this, I was in complete power of what was going on creatively. That said, if this gets a lot of acclaims…we can always think again. One should never say never.” Film features original soundtrack with songs by Adam Weiss, Daisy McCrackin, Billy Harvey, Sophie Huber, Zoe Bicat, Max Sharam, Cheyenne Randall...

A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, England and had been part of an album of works assembled by the artist during the early 1900's. During the Victorian and Edwardian era in Britain, it was very fashionable for ladies of aristocratic and wealthy backgrounds to draw and paint still lifes of flowers and plants that they had picked or seen in gardens. Many were highly accomplished and extremely talented artists, who sadly were not encouraged to exhibit due to society frowning upon such activities. Artist/ School: Caroline Worsley...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) set of 3 watercolour on paper, unframed Left: 7 x 5 inches Top Right: 2.75 x 2.5 inches, signed lower right Bo...

Carol Wax's "Singer Needle" is a mezzotint issued in an edition of 100. It was originally designed to illustrate the step by step mezzotint process in the Abrams publication: "The Mezzotint: History and Technique" authored by Carol Wax. It is FIROS #44 in the catalogue raisonne. This impression is #98 out of 100 Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting. In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...

"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion Mervin Jules (1912 – 1994) "The Tailor" 9 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches Oil on masonite, c. 1930s Signed lower ...

Carol Wax's mezzotint, Singer II looking at the end of the typewriter portrays the incised metal and the wood grain of the machine. It was issued as an edition of 75. This image is i...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) set of 2 watercolour on paper, unframed Leftpainting : 5 x 7 inches, signed bottom right bottom painting: 5.5 ...

G like Giulietta is an artwork realized by Miguel Berrocal (1933 – 2006) in 1975. Linocut print. Good condition.

Rendering Memories (The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence), - 2013 Including Stefanie Schneider's new monograph "A Half Forgotten Dream" signed. 192 pages, hardcover, published by ...

Rendering Memories (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2016 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signatur...

This beautiful photograph Crazy India 4 was shot by the Italian photographer Giulio Gonella. Print on canvas from the print series Crazy India, open edition. Hand-signed by the arti...

Takashi Murakami Assignation of a Spirit, 2015 Offset lithograph with silver Signed and numbered (56/300) in ink lower right Sheet size 68 x 68 cm Frame size 86 x 86 x 2.5 cm P...

"Porcelain Vase" 1890s is a china ink and watercolor drawing on ivory-colorated paper realized by an Anonymous French Artist of the end of 19th Century. In very good conditions. No...

Artist: Michael Lin (Taiwanese, 1964 - ) Title: Untitled Year: 2006 Medium: Lithograph and Woodcut, signed, numbered, and dated in pencil Paper Size: 24 x...

Artist: Boris Serdyuk Work: Original painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Pastel on Paper Style: Impressionism Year: 2020 Title: Seamstres...

JOHN GEORGE SOWERBY (1849-1914) Tailpiece for “A Rainy Day” Watercolour heightened with white, circular Unframed, in mount only Diameter 7 cm., 2 ¼ in. (mount size 25.5 by 20 cm., 10 by 8 in.) Reproduced: J G Sowerby & Thomas Crane, At Home, Marcus Ward & Co, 1881, p.17. The current work was reproduced in Sowerby and Crane’s 1881 children’s book...

Debabrata Basu - Sewing Machine - 26 x 20 inches (unframed size) Watercolor on Paper. Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form. Style : Debabrata derives his style and theme by i...

Rendering Memories (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on an expired Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist ...

Henri Meunier’s Gonthier-Meymans lithographic poster, published by Verlag von Gerhard Kühtmann in Dresden, 1897. While this poster was printed in multiple sizes and formats, this edi...

This vertical piece showcases beautiful fuchsia oriental poppies in their glory. Original painting A/C 20" wide x 36 high", canvas stretched on wood stretcher Signed on the fro...

Pouncing Dragon by artist, Emma Forrester. 50 x 50 cm (painting size) 60 x 60 cm framed  Acrylic on gesso panel She says, ”My paintings are created to evoke not simply the beauty of ...

The painting is 2 cm deep and can be hung without an additional frame, also all picture sides are painted. The painting is signed on front and on the back. A signed Certificate of...

By Raoul Dufy 34.5" x 34.5" Silk Screen Print on wearable scarf.

Marie Gardeski grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and currently lives i...

In this small painting, Sylvia Spicuzza presents the viewer with a simple trillium flower, the white petals framed by blue-green leaves. 4.5 x 8 inches, artwork 13 x 15 inches, fram...

acrylic on paper 22 1/8 x 30 in ; 56.2 x 76.2 cm

An oval still life depicting a vase full of flowers with a butterfly perched on a leaf in the lower register of the composition. Presented glazed in a ...

The painting is 2 cm deep and can be hung without an additional frame, also all picture sides are painted. The painting is signed on front and on the back. A signed Certificate...

The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Micah Evans Singer, 2014 Borosilicate glass 20.50h x 11.25w x 16.25d in

BEAUTIFUL Judith Leiber Vintage Swarovski Crystal Floral Print Oval Minaudiere Evening Bag in excellent condition. Multicolor swarovski crystal exterior in a unique floral print pattern. Button closure opens to a gold leather interior with 2 separate compartments. Hidden gold chain shoulder strap inside to easily convert between clutch and shoulder styles. No stains, smells or missing crystals. Purchase includes gold comb...