Genesis-Sumo Book
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Quarter-leather bound, it is presented with a bookstand in cherry wood veneer designed by Tadao Ando and a clothbound caption book explaining each stunning shot.
Paper
Sebastião Salgado GENESIS Signed Limited Edition with bookstand
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Collector's Edition comes with a book stand designed by Tadao Ando. The GENESIS book stand was conceived by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the only living person to have won ...
Cherry, Paper
Sebastião Salgado, Genesis. Art Edition North of the Ob River, Yamal Peninsula
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Art Edition comes with a book stand designed by Tadao Ando The Genesis book stand was conceived by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the only living person to have won architecture...
Leather, Paper
Sebastião Salgado, Genesis. Art Edition Black-Browed Albatrosses Falkland Island
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Art Edition comes with a book Stand designed by Tadao Ando. The Genesis book Stand was conceived by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the only living person to have won architectur...
Leather, Paper
Sebastião Salgado, Genesis. Art Edition Marine Iguana, Galápagos, Ecuador
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The art edition comes with a book Stand designed by Tadao Ando. The Genesis book stand was conceived by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the only living person to have won architectur...
Leather, Paper
Sebastião Salgado, Genesis. Art Edition Two Mursi Women, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Art Edition comes with a book Stand designed by Tadao Ando. The GENESIS book Stand was conceived by Japanese architect Tadao Ando, the only living person to have won architectur...
Leather, Paper
Sebastião Salgado: GENESIS, Art Edition D
By Sebastião Salgado, Tadao Ando
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Every set comes with a gelatin silver print, signed by Sebastião Salgado and printed under his personal supervision. BOOK STAND DESIGNED BY TADAO ANDO: The GENESIS book stand wa...
Sebastião Salgado: GENESIS, Art Edition C
By Tadao Ando, Sebastião Salgado
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Every set comes with a gelatin silver print, signed by Sebastião Salgado and printed under his personal supervision. BOOK STAND DESIGNED BY TADAO ANDO: The GENESIS book stand wa...
Sebastião Salgado: GENESIS, Art Edition A
By Tadao Ando, Sebastião Salgado
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Every set comes with a gelatin silver print, signed by Sebastião Salgado and printed under his personal supervision. BOOK STAND DESIGNED BY TADAO ANDO: The GENESIS book stand wa...
Sebastião Salgado: GENESIS, Art Edition B
By Tadao Ando, Sebastião Salgado
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Every set comes with a gelatin silver print, signed by Sebastião Salgado and printed under his personal supervision. BOOK STAND DESIGNED BY TADAO ANDO: The GENESIS book stand wa...
Sebastião Salgado: GENESIS, Art Edition E
By Sebastião Salgado, Tadao Ando
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Every set comes with a gelatin silver print, signed by Sebastião Salgado and printed under his personal supervision. BOOK STAND DESIGNED BY TADAO ANDO: The GENESIS book stand wa...
$150 / item
H 14.1 in W 10.2 in D 1.8 in
Sebastião Salgado's Amazônia: A Photography Book in Hardcover
By Sebastião Salgado, TASCHEN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hardcover Photography book, 14.1 x 10.2 in., 9.21 lb, 528 pages. For six years Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this ext...
Paper
$1,000 / item
H 16.1 in W 17.7 in D 2.5 in
Sebastião Salgado, Gold. Limited Edition, signed Photography book
Located in Los Angeles, CA
For a decade, Serra Pelada evoked the long-promised El Dorado as the world’s largest open-air gold mine, employing some 50,000 diggers in appalling conditions. Today, Brazil’s gold r...
Other
Jurassic Oceans - Solnhofen, Coffee Table Book, Stefano Piccini
By Stefano Piccini
Located in Tucson, AZ
An exclusive look at the famous “lithographic limestones” of Solnhofen Germany, as only expert paleontologist, geologist and gemologist Dr. Stefano Piccini can tell it. This collecto...
Paper
Kyonen - Nobuyoshi Araki - 1st Edition, AaT Room & Eyesencia, 2002
By Nobuyoshi Araki
Located in CA, CA
First edition, published by Aat Room, 2002. A photo-diary collection of Araki’s works created over the course of 2001. Digitally dated, full bleed black and white images in typical ...
Paper
$1,489
H 14 in W 11 in D 0.001 in
"Alleluia" Fátima Sanctuary 2001 Black & White Photography Gelatin Silver Print
By Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Coimbra, PT
Street Photography /2001. Sanctuary of Fátima, Portugal / Analog camera photo / B&W 35 mm film. 400 iso / Gelatin Silver Print Signed, titled, negative date and print date on verso. ...
Other
$676Sale Price|30% Off
H 9.06 in W 7.09 in D 0.2 in
Original Exhibition Catalog – 347 Grabados by Pablo Picasso, Sala Gaspar, 1968
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Barcelona, ES
Original Exhibition Catalog – 347 Grabados by Pablo Picasso, Sala Gaspar, 1968 Artist: Pablo Picasso Exhibition: 347 Grabados – Sala Gaspar, Barcelona Year: 1968 Language: Spanis...
Paper
$3,500
H 27.6 in W 19.7 in D 6 in
David Bailey Sumo, Signed, Limited Edition Book with Marc Newson Stand
By David Bailey, TASCHEN, Marc Newson
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The David Bailey SUMO. Over 300 of the greatest portraits of our time, printed big and bold. In 1965, portrait and fashion photographer David Bailey released his groundbreaking boo...
Aluminum
$1,489
H 14 in W 11 in D 0.001 in
"Nightfall" Black & White Photography Gelatin Silver Print by Ana Maria Cortesão
By Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson
Located in Coimbra, PT
Street Photography /2000, Portugal / Analog camera photo / B&W 35 mm film. 400 iso / Gelatin Silver Print Signed, titled, negative date and print date on verso. Ana Maria Cortesã...
Other
Mata Tea Plantation Worker, Rwanda
By Sebastião Salgado
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed, titled and dated by artist in pencil on verso
Silver Gelatin
$8,500 / item
H 13.4 in W 20.2 in D 5 in
Salgado, Amazônia, Signed Sumo Book with Black & White Photographic Print
By Renzo Piano, Sebastião Salgado, TASCHEN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Sumo-sized art edition (No. 301–400), designed by Lélia Wanick Salgado and signed by Sebastião Salgado, is presented with a clothbound companion volume, the signed print The Par...
Steel
$2,250
H 26.5 in W 29.75 in D 1 in
Signed Black & White Photograph "Bombardment of Moscow" by Margaret Bourke-White
By Margaret Bourke White
Located in San Diego, CA
A signed black and white gelatin silver print photograph of a "Bombardment of Moscow" taken by noted photographer, Margaret Bourke-White, circa 1941. The print was reissued by Time ...
Paper
$8,500 / item
H 14.6 in W 19.9 in D 5 in
Sebastião Salgado, Amazônia, Signed Sumo Book, Black & White Photographic Print
By Renzo Piano, Sebastião Salgado, TASCHEN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This SUMO-sized Art Edition (No. 1–100), designed by Lélia Wanick Salgado and signed by Sebastião Salgado, is presented with a clothbound companion volume, the signed print Adão Yawa...
Steel
$99
H 12 in W 11 in D 1 in
Sahara, an Immense Ocean of Sand by Paolo Novaresio, Gianni Guadalupi Hardcover
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Sahara : an Immense Ocean of Sand by Paolo Novaresio, Gianni Guadalupi Hardcover Book. The Sahara Desert is not just a wasteland of sand and sun, but a teeming wilderness. Sahara: An...
Paper
$8,500 / item
H 14.6 in W 19.9 in D 5 in
Salgado, Amazônia, Signed Sumo Book with Black & White Photographic Print
By Sebastião Salgado, TASCHEN, Renzo Piano
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Sumo-sized Art Edition (No. 101–200), designed by Lélia Wanick Salgado and signed by Sebastião Salgado, is presented with a clothbound companion volume, the signed print Young H...
Steel
$1,750
H 14 in W 11 in
SUO SARUMAWASHI – photo-eye Editions portfolio, Deluxe Edition
By Hiroshi Watanabe
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Photo-eye editions is pleased to announce our second publication, suo sarumawashi by hiroshi watanabe. Sarumawashi, "monkey dancing," has been in existence for over a thousand years ...
Archival Pigment, Silver Gelatin
$102Sale Price / set|50% Off
H 7.88 in W 5.91 in D 1.97 in
Books - 2 books - The most beautiful churches in Portugal
Located in Porto, PT
Books - 2 books - The Most Beautiful Churches of Portugal. The Most Beautiful Churches of Portugal. Text by Júlio Gil and photography by Nuno Calvet. Editorial Verbo. 1988. Folio of ...
Paper
Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
By George Romney
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be on one of its covers. The e...
Oil, Canvas
English Ironstone Vase and Cover, Morley Ashworth Ironstone
By Ashworth Ironstone
Located in Downingtown, PA
"Rococo Revival": Large Morley Ashworth Ironstone "India Jar" Vase, Circa 1855-62 A monumental and opulent Victorian ironstone vase and cover, produced by Morley & Ashworth (Hanley,...
Ironstone
$3,450
H 15 in W 10 in D 0.65 in
Wonderful French Ormolu Purple Enamel Gilt Bronze Bow Picture Frame Miniature
Located in Roslyn, NY
A wonderful and rare French ormolu bronze and purple enamel picture frame with a miniature on the top with bows and tassels. Frame: 10" W X 15" H Picture:7" W X 9&q...
Bronze, Enamel
$2,031
H 27.4 in W 20.2 in D 1.9 in
Antique George V Sterling Silver Photo Frame by E.F. Braham Ltd, 1911
By E.F. Braham Ltd
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
An exceptional, fine and impressive antique George V English sterling silver photograph frame; an addition to our ornamental silverware collection. This exceptional antique George...
Silver, Sterling Silver
Antique French Art Nouveau Period Glass Lamp by Daum Studio
By Daum
Located in London, GB
This exquisite Art Nouveau lamp is by the celebrated French glasswork studio Daum which was founded in 1878 in Nancy, France. The lamp is inscribed ‘DAUM, NANCY’. The lamp is of ...
Glass
$898 / item
H 5.91 in Dm 5.52 in
Country Crystal Vase with Easter Rabbit Decor in Blue Sofina Boutique Kitzbuehel
By Sofina Boutique Kitzbühel
Located in Kitzbühel, Tirol
Handblown crystal vase in blue with a country style easter design. Hand-carved by Bavarian glass artists . A rich garland of trees and flowers with rabitts all around. One rabbit sit...
Crystal
Edgar Brandt and Daum French Art Deco Torchère
By Edgar Brandt
Located in Bridgewater, CT
Edgar Brandt. French Art Deco floor lamp on a wrought iron base, with mottled orange glass shade by Daum, 1920s. Measures: H 67.7 in.
Wrought Iron
$6,850
H 4.5 in W 9.38 in D 3.38 in
Pair of French Art Deco Wrought Iron and Glass Cachepots by Muller Freres, 1930s
By Edgar Brandt, Louis Majorelle, Muller Frères
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A wonderful pair of Muller Freres art glass and nickel-plated wrought iron cachepots. Dating to the Art Deco period. In the style of Edgar Brandt or Louis Majorelle with blown ...
Wrought Iron
The Glory of Byzantium and Early Christendom
Located in New York, NY
Byzantine art established the images of the Christian religion that are still current today: the appearance, dress and attributes of Biblical figures all owe their invention to these...
Paper
$9,850Sale Price|23% Off
H 5.25 in W 26 in D 22 in
A French 19th-20th Century Ebonized Wood & Plated Surtout de Table Centerpiece
By Gianmaria Buccellati
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine French 19th-20th century neoclassical revival style ebonized wood and figural silver plated mounted plateau Surtout de Table centerpiece in the manner of Buccellati. The ...
Wood
Pair of Edgar Brandt & Daum Art Deco Table Lamps
By Edgar Brandt
Located in Bridgewater, CT
Edgar Brandt & Daum Nancy French Art Deco pair of table lamps, with pierced spherical wrought iron bases and decorated with garland of mistletoe. Marbelized glass shades with or...
Wrought Iron
Pre-Columbian Gold Quimbaya Necklace with Six Frogs
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Gold Quimbaya necklace with beads in the shape of six frogs of delicate and slender shape with a beautiful gold color and patina, very nice expression with two narrow lines on the ba...
$14,000 / set
H 19 in Dm 12 in
Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Planters
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pair of Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Sèvres Style Porcelain Planters Each urn mounted with bow tied ribbons connected in the front and back with a foliate swags. In late 1...
Bronze, Ormolu
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Renaissance style Entree Dish
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
Renaissance-style round sterling silver entree dish. The bottom of the entree dish is smooth, while a border made with the casting technique with acanthus leaf motifs has been welded...
Sterling Silver
French Daum Nancy attr. Art Nouveau Cameo Glass Mushroom Vase
By Daum
Located in Niederdorfelden, Hessen
French Daum Nancy attr. Art Nouveau cameo glass mushroom vase from the turn of the century. Wheel cut with raised designs in colored enamels on an etched ground with a raised cameo...
Blown Glass
Vienna Polychrome Bronze Jester on Onyx Stand, circa 1900
Located in New York, NY
Vienna polychrome bronze jester on onyx stand, circa 1900.
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