Yousuf Karsh Photographic Portrait Karl Pollak, circa 1960

A stunning and very finely produced antique Georgian original framed silhouette portrait of a gentleman dating from the 18th century. The portrait mounted in a thick carved wooden fr...

A Peter Howson limited edition framed print titled 'Shadwell' from The Underground Series derived from quick sketches which he drew while travelling around London. The print is numbe...

Åke Holm (Swedish, 1900-80) was one of Sweden’s leading ceramic artists in the 20th century. He worked at the Höganäs factory in his early years before opening his own studio in the area. Åke became a master of and glazing and often used biblical themes in his work, but always with a distinct modernist styling. He produced figurines and wall plaques with rustic and mythological expression and his work is getting the recognition it deserves for its unique quality and style. His monumetal stoneware sculptures of figures from the Bible as well as his wall plaques are now recognisd as some of the finest ceramics produced in Sweden in the second half of the Twentieth Century. His work is represented at the Swedish National Museum of Art & Design. One of three we are offering is this superb Swedish Höganäs glazed ceramic wall plaque depicting a man with a flagon by Åke Holm (Swedish, 1900-80) and probably made in the 1960’s. The heavy stoneware plaque is of rectangular landscape shape and depicts a man’s head with moustache and hairdo with similar styled partings next to a large flagon of similar size to the head. The head and flagon are hand carved in high relief forming a slight indentation to the surface of the plaque. The image is decorated in dark blue and brown (tones) with a chestnut glaze applied to the back. The plaque has a hanging indent...

Claes Thell (Swedish, 1943-2019) was one of Sweden’s leading ceramic artists of the 20th /21st Century. He worked as a ceramicist at the Hoganas factory before starting his own studio where he gained recognition as an artist who experimented with both shapes and glazes leading to unique stoneware pieces. Examples of his work are in the National Museum in Stockholm. An unusual modernist Swedish ceramic wall...

Autographed Portrait of Carl Lange is a b/w postcard reproducing the photographic portrait of the German actor around the 1960s, with the additional value of a blue ink autograph on ...

Title: Noel Coward Print: Platinum palladium print, printed on strathmore cotton paper Date: 1936, printed later Signature: Signed Horst in Pencil on Re...

Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973) posing at a desk, East Germany late 1950s. Keywords: GDR; DDR; German Democratic Republic; East Germany; politics; politician; glasses; sitting; desk; of...

Studio stamp in black ink, verso; Also inscribed 'Lincoln Kirstein' in pencil, verso This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City. Contact gallery for price.