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Elizabeth Geisler is best known for contemporary paintings of water that bridge realism and abstraction. At close range, her surfaces appear loose and ambiguous, but from a distance ...

A handsome 18th century carved pine blanket chest in the Dutch baroque style with a paneled façade and storage space. Crafted in a rustic Baroque alpine Central European style, likel...

Well well well. If only this tiara could talk - I'd just love to know the people and outfits this significant piece has graced. Let's start with the tiara. Circa 1900, the theme co...

These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across the bay from San Francisco. Shortly after sunrise. The iconic Monterey cypress trees can be found all up and down the coast ...

Rare Comme des Garçons layered coat from Rei Kawakubo’s Fall/Winter 1998 “Fusion” runway collection. Designed in black wool, the coat is cut as a sharply tailored blazer with structu...

Living large. this one of a kind, rich asian red lantern would cool up just about any room. ( I see it in a kitchen.) 4 x 60 warm LED bulbs included.

Trio - a highly regarded maker - designed this vintage 18k gold cuff bracelet. In classic 1970's style. It has carved, domed black onyx panels, accented at the center with 32 round b...

Brazilian rosewood five-drawer dresser designed by Kai Kristiansen. Features a minimalist design with beautifully grained Brazilian rosewood and pattern-matched drawers, raised on sq...

ABOUT An original Underwood typewriter No.6 with a 16 inch carriage and an open-frame design. The typewriter works well and functions properly. New ribbon installed. The serial nu...

1970's Emilio Pucci silk blouse in a lightweight printed silk. The pattern is a tight, all-over geometric in shades of soft green, yellow, and black. It has a shallow V neckline wit...

Elegant ancient cedar wood sweet large Egyptian mummy mask, 13 Inches high. Soft weathered surface and great expression. Areas of chips, erosion an...

Chanel suede pump in the classic contrast cap toe design in deep fuchsia pink and black. Stitched logo detail at toe and quilt-stitch detail at plat...

Georgian-era brooch/pendant featuring a finely executed miniature portrait painted on ivory, a common artistic practice during the 18th and 19th centuries. Miniatures were often comm...

Imagine lightly clad maidens dancing together in the sun amid the spring grasses. Some scenes never lose their allure, even after 2600 years. Nineteenth-century Europeans were inspir...

A large vintage glass salad bowl in a vibrant green color. Beautiful curvy shape and folded edge detailing. Made by Anchor Hocking. Perfect for using as a large serving bowl or frui...

Rare set of four Japanese Showa period door panels known as Fusuma in Japanese architecture. Similar to a Shoji room divider but made of an opaque materia...

Ulysse Nardin Coin watch Made from a U.S. 1891 Twenty dollar gold coin. Hollowed out with a fold out manuel wind 17 jewel movement. with the original black leather strap and Nardin ...

1960's Jean Dinh Van for Cartier 18K Yellow Gold Modernist Diamond Wrap Ring A striking example of 1960's modernist design, this very rare ring from Jean Dinh Van in collaboration ...

Dramatic 19th century English library table, writing table, or desk hand-crafted from oak. The table features a trestle style base with Greco-Roman corinthian columns in the neoclass...

Early 1980s Issey Miyake skirt in a hand block-printed fabric with an asymmetrical flounced hem. The varied pattern and uneven cut create movement and texture. A strong example of hi...

18th century pair of French Louis XV carved walnut armchairs The chairs currently have a lightly distressed green linen fabric. Ea...

Was she a gift to the Sultan, deliciously bejeweled and enrobed in the finest embroidered silks? By this time, resigned to her fate, the once Christian Circassian girl would have bee...

Gail Chase Bien creates luminous oil on linen paintings that unfold slowly, both in their making and in their viewing. Built through thin, layered applications of paint over months a...

ABOUT A solid Oak machinist's factory tool box used to store cutting tools for a lathe. Dovetail joints. Shown with life size hand model. CREATOR Unknown. DATE OF MANUFAC...

Origin: England Designer: Robert Heritage Manufacturer: Fyn Layde Furniture Era: 1966 Materials: Tola Measurements: 36.25" wide x 16.75" deep x 72" tall, Desk: 34.5" wide x 15" deep ...

Rare and important display cabinet by the master Gio Ponti, model 4120 for Singer & Sons. Elegant and architectural display cabinet in gorgeous Italian walnut with brass sabots and p...

The Egg is one of the triumphs of Jacobsen’s total design, a sculptural contrast to the building’s almost exclusively vertical and horizontal surfaces. The Egg sprang from a new tech...

Equestrian inspired Dalton dining chair or side chair designed by Ralph Lauren. The Dalton chair features a bench made construction in Italy and finished in the U.S. by Theodore Alex...

Iconic sofa designed by Marcel Wanders studio for Roche Bobois. The Montgolfiere sofa measures over 9 feet long and features round armrests inspired by the 18th century French Montgo...

From the iconic Paris–Moscow collection, this cuff features the signature matryoshka doll motif and embodies Chanel’s distinctive storytelling and craftsmanship. Circumference: 1" W...

Opulent regency style mahogany veneered nightstand designed by Barbara Barry Collection for Baker. The table case is fronted by a single drawer and supported by an x-form trestle sty...

A brilliant space-saving solution from 1960s Germany. Closed, this piece presents as a clean walnut cabinet just 32" wide. Open, it unfolds into a full 64.5" home office with a writi...

Signed large scale original photograph of the Mediterranean marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, iconic material source of classic Italian art and architecture, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details Marmo di Carrara...

Late 19th Century Ceremonial Wood and Coconut Ladle, Bali Indonesia This is a rare coconut shell holy water dipper from the Bali Aga people of the Kintamani region of Bali, Indonesi...

ROBERTO CAVALLI flats in a black leather featuring strappy rhinestone in a gladiator style . Made in Italy.Very Good Pre- Owned Condition. Minor marks. Marked: IT 37Outsole: 9.2...

LOVE this Chunky Vintage 18K Yellow Gold Bracelet Charm Bracelet! It would make a fabulous, unique gift for any, and is sure to become a family he...

Large-scale photographer Troy House celebrates people’s primordial attraction to the beach. He travels the world capturing iconic, breathtaking scenes – often from a bird’s-eye view ...

Artist's statement: In my series Critical Masses, I explore the relationship between our species and various small marine creatures to illustrate in symbolic form various narrative...

Make a striking statement with this bold and beautiful Retro-era fringe necklace, crafted in luxurious 18K tri-color gold. Featuring a dynamic blend of yellow, rose, and white gold, ...

Elevate your stacking look with this modern classic. Our Mini Cuban Chain, crafted in solid 14K yellow gold, delivers bold style in a sleek, refined silhouette. Designed for effortle...

Hanging cabinet attributed to Milo Baughman for Directional furniture, Crafted out of Philippine Mahogany with a dark rosewood finish. The cabinet has two drawers with brass pulls an...

Thick Silver Twisted Rope Bracelet, Taxco .950 A dramatic thick hand-made twisted rope .950 silver bracelet from Taxco, Mexico, with a toggle clasp. It measures 9.5 inches long and ...

Stunning vintage turned brass vase with modernist design by noted Japanese metal artist, Toshio Ichibashi c1970s. Comes with original signed box.

This 1990's jet black runway dress by Azzedine Alaia is cut close through the body with a clean, sculpted fit that follows the torso and hips. It has a wide scoop neckline with a rib...

This artwork titled "Left Bank Cafe, Paris" 1987 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist LeRoy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered H.C 166/175 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 26 x 38 inches, sheet size is 32.25 x 44 inches. With the blind stamp of the printer Styria Studio at the lower left corner margin. It is in excellent condition, two small pieces of hanging tape remain on the back. About the artist: Mr. Neiman's kinetic, quickly executed paintings and drawings, many of them published in Playboy, offered his fans gaudily colored visual reports on heavyweight boxing matches, Super Bowl games and Olympic contests, as well as social panoramas like the horse races at Deauville, France, and the Cannes Film Festival. Quite consciously, he cast himself in the mold of French Impressionists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and Degas, chroniclers of public life who found rich social material at racetracks, dance halls and cafes. Mr. Neiman often painted or sketched on live television. With the camera recording his progress at the sketchpad or easel, he interpreted the drama of Olympic Games and Super Bowls for an audience of millions. When Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky faced off in Reykjavik, Iceland, to decide the world chess championship, Mr. Neiman was there, sketching. He was on hand to capture Federico Fellini directing "8 ½" and the Kirov Ballet performing in the Soviet Union. In popularity, Mr. Neiman rivaled American favorites like Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses and Andrew Wyeth. A prolific one-man industry, he generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, watercolors, limited-edition serigraph prints and coffee-table books yearly, earning gross annual revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. Although he exhibited constantly and his work was included in the collections of dozens of museums around the world, critical respect eluded him. Mainstream art critics either ignored him completely or, if forced to consider his work, dismissed it with contempt as garish and superficial — magazine illustration with pretensions. Mr. Neiman professed not to care. Maybe the critics are right," he told American Artist magazine in 1995. "But what am I supposed to do about it — stop painting, change my work completely? I go back into the studio, and there I am at the easel again. I enjoy what I'm doing and feel good working. Other thoughts are just crowded out." His image suggested an artist well beyond the reach of criticism. A dandy and bon vivant, he cut an arresting figure with his luxuriant ear-to-ear mustache, white suits, flashy hats and Cuban cigars. "He quite intentionally invented himself as a flamboyant artist not unlike Salvador Dalí, in much the same way that I became Mr. Playboy in the late '50s," Hugh Hefner told Cigar Aficionado magazine in 1995. LeRoy Runquist was born on June 8, 1921, in St. Paul. His father, a railroad worker, deserted the family when LeRoy was quite young, and the boy took the surname of his stepfather. He showed a flair for art at an early age. While attending a local Roman Catholic school, he impressed schoolmates by drawing ink tattoos on their arms during recess. As a teenager, he earned money doing illustrations for local grocery stores. "I'd sketch a turkey, a cow, a fish, with the prices," he told Cigar Aficionado. "And then I had the good sense to draw the guy who owned the store. This gave me tremendous power as a kid." After being drafted into the Army in 1942, he served as a cook in the European theater but in his spare time painted risqué murals on the walls of kitchens and mess halls. The Army's Special Services Division, recognizing his talent, put him to work painting stage sets for Red Cross shows when he was stationed in Germany after the war. On leaving the military, he studied briefly at the St. Paul School of Art (now the Minnesota Museum of American Art) before enrolling in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where, after four years of study, he taught figure drawing and fashion illustration throughout the 1950s. When the janitor of the apartment building next door to his threw out half-empty cans of enamel house paint, Mr. Neiman found his métier. Experimenting with the new medium, he embraced a rapid style of applying paint to canvas imposed by the free-flowing quality of the house paint. While doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store in Chicago in the early 1950s, he became friendly with Mr. Hefner, a copywriter there who was on the verge of publishing the first issue of a men's magazine. In 1954, after five issues of Playboy had appeared, Mr. Neiman ran into Mr. Hefner and invited him to his apartment to see his paintings of boxers, strip clubs and restaurants. Mr. Hefner, impressed, showed the work to Playboy's art director, Art Paul, who commissioned an illustration for "Black Country," a story by Charles Beaumont about a jazz musician. Thus began a relationship that endured for more than half a century and established Mr. Neiman's reputation. In 1955, when Mr. Hefner decided that the party-jokes page needed visual interest, Mr. Neiman came up with the Femlin, a curvaceous brunette who cavorted across the page in thigh-high stockings, high-heeled shoes, opera gloves and nothing else. She appeared in every issue of the magazine thereafter. Three years later, Mr. Neiman devised a running feature, "Man at His Leisure." For the next 15 years, he went on assignment to glamour spots around the world, sending back visual reports on subjects as varied as the races at Royal Ascot, the dining room of the Tour d'Argent in Paris, the nude beaches of the Dalmatian coast, the running of the bulls at Pamplona and Carnaby Street in swinging London. He later produced more than 100 paintings and 2 murals for 18 of the Playboy clubs that opened around the world. "Playboy made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings — not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself," Mr. Neiman told V.I.P. magazine in 1962. Working in the same copywriting department at Carson Pirie Scott as Mr. Hefner was Janet Byrne, a student at the Art Institute. She and Mr. Neiman married in 1957. She survives him. A prolific artist, he generated dozens of paintings each year that routinely commanded five-figure prices. When Christie's auctioned off the Playboy archives in 2003, his 1969 painting Man at His Leisure: Le Mans sold for $107,550. Sales of the signed, limited-edition print versions of his paintings, published in editions of 250 to 500, became a lucrative business in itself after Knoedler Publishing, a wholesale operation, was created in 1975 to publish and distribute his serigraphs, etchings, books and posters. Mr. Neiman's most famous images came from the world of sports. His long association with the Olympics began with the Winter Games in Squaw Valley in 1960, and he went on to cover the games, on live television, in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid in 1980, and Sarajevo and Los Angeles in 1984, using watercolor, ink or felt-tip marker to produce images with the dispatch of a courtroom sketch artist. At the 1978 and 1979 Super Bowls, he used a computerized electronic pen to portray the action for CBS. Although he was best known for scenes filled with people and incident, he also painted many portraits. Athletes predominated, with Muhammad Ali and Joe Namath among his more famous subjects, but he also painted Leonard Bernstein, the ballet dancer Suzanne Farrell...

The Zabuton Sofa is available in infinite configurations. It is customizable through modular system of wood partitions, futon, Zabuton, and bolsters. Star...

Fantastic Mid-Century Modern Italian double pedestal dining table crafted from split reed rattan. The organic modern design features are demilune or "C" shaped pedestal forms topped ...

On offer is a traditional Russian Orthodox icon known as "Joy of All Who Sorrow.” It’s a highly venerated image of Mary that emerged in the late 17th century and remained revered thr...

Pair of interesting brutalist sconces in the manner of Paul Evans, 20th Century. Created from metal and resin, the sconces are perfect in many interiors, including arts & crafts...

A set of 2 vintage burlwood tealight candle holders. Simple disk shapes with a beautiful unique grain to the wood. Each measures 3.75"Dia x 1"H Interiors are 1.5"Dia

This very unusual and attractive lamp was done by Enos Company of New York, and ca. 1900. The highly detailed bronze base has a perpendicular arm extended which holds a period art g...

Gucci loafers are masterfully crafted in Italy from premium red leather. This men’s size 9.5 slip-on features a signature navy, red, and white ribbon detail. Made in Italy. Good Pr...

Beautiful Danish dining table designed by Henning Kjaernulf Denmark, 1960s. Handcrafted from solid white oak, the table features quarter-sawn grain, softly rounded edge, and sculptur...

There’s an instant in a competitive horse race—whether it’s at Churchill Downs, Del Mar, Santa Anita Park, Saratoga or Belmont—of the utmost ferocity. That’s when the riders are jamm...

Dolce & Gabbana body con dress is impeccably tailored in Italy from premium black virgin wool. Featuring precise apex dart details for a structured feminine fits. Made in Italy.Excel...

Chanel Champagne Gold Lucite and Black Fabric Ribbon Pearl Clutch Gold Hardware, 2005 The interior is lined with Black leather Height: 5.51 inches / 14 cm Width: 5.51 inches / 14 cm...

A bold Ralph Lauren Home organic seagrass and wicker armchair, featuring wrapped construction and woven paneling. The design is composed of a tall, reclined back with gracefully curv...

A 36 x 36" acrylic painting on canvas. Framed in a 2-inch deep white solid wood floater frame which accentuates the pale yellow sky. The framed dimensions are 38 x 38 inches. The sam...

Billowy, jet-black high neck top with button back closure from Dries Van Noten dating to the 1980's. Size 40. Has an oversized/loose fit. Approximate measurements: shoulder 18", bust...

For Sale: Stunning Italian Yellow Vase by Ceramiche Tadinate Add a touch of Italian elegance to your space with this gorgeous tall yellow vase, fea...