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Brock & Company Sterling Art Nouveau vase - 17 ½ inches tall. Beautiful poppy flower design. Slender stem with attached tendrils. Marked: Brock & Company, Sterling, 7369, 17 ½ in. Beautiful vase in excellent condition. Measures: 17.5" H x 4.75" D. Brock & Company was a nationally-prominent jewelry firm, and it certainly was the most important jewelry and giftware store in Los Angeles. It was considered to be the jewelry store of the stars and was shopped by many notable Los Angeles actors of the day including Mary Pickford and others. It's jewelry workshop was housed in the top floor of the building on West Seventh Street. Brock & Co. was founded by George A. Brock in 1903. George C. Brock, George A.'s son, took charge of the company, and it continued to grow and thrive. A second store was opened on Wilshire Boulevard, in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Tiffany and Co. even approached Brock's to do a merger to become Tiffany-Brock & Co. That merger did not take place, and Angelenos continued to buy their jewelry, watches, silver, fine china, and crystal at Brock & Co. Brock retired in 1964 and the building and inventory were sold. This vase had a note attached upon purchase that attributed it to Clemens Friedell...

Robert Whitton one off aluminum chair circa late 1980s. This example has been newly powder coated in green and features a bar on the front of the chair that spins to ease getting in ...

A beautiful winter scene by Polish artist Victor (Wiktor) Korecki. This painting, an oil on canvas is in excellent condition and is signed lower left. The work measures 20"h x 24"w. ...

Fermin Rocker (1907-2004) original pencil signed lithograph. The subject is a very atmospheric rendering of the Brooklyn Heights area of New York. The image measures 11 x 14 and rest...

Fred Karoly (1897-1987) Oil on Canvas created 1963. In excellent condition. A very attractive abstract subject and typical for the artist. Signed and dated 1963 on the verso. Framed simply in a modern black wood frame. Measures 28"h x 24"w. Frame size: 29.5"h x 25.5"w x 1.25"d. Fredric Karoly was born in Budapest in 1897. According to Karoly's own vitae, his exhibition history began in New York in 1947, when at the age of 54 he took part in a four-person group show at Hugo Gallery. His involvement with visual art however was apparently lifelong. In a brief introduction to his solo show at Galerie Mai in Paris in June of 1949, Jen Luc de Rudder, reports that Karoly began painting at the age of 12 in Budapest. After several years of studying, then working in London, Paris and Berlin, Karoly emigrated to the United States in 1925 or 1926. In New York, Karoly worked in women's fashion as a designer. By the early 1950's, Karoly started experimenting with the drip...

Stunningly beautiful Italian Glass Centerpiece Bowl. Clear with a black web pattern. Artist signed: Toso, Cenedese, Murano and dated 1982. ...

painted wood Peter Millett is a seasoned traveler, who draws inspiration from his extensive trips through North America, South America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East; explorin...

monoprint with drypoint and chine colle; unframed image size: 10 x 7 inches

Wonderful woodblock by Taos artist Howard Cook (1901-1980). Titled: “Giant’s Thumb” (alternate title: Monument Rock).” Edition: 50. Image size: 14"h x 8 1/8"w. Sheet size: 14 1/2"h ...

Orignal pencil signed lithograph by Adolf Arthur Dehn (1895-1968). Titled “Easter Parade” and created 1933. Lumsdaine/O'Sullivan 270. Edition 300, Contemporary Print Group. Image si...

b. 1942, Elgin, OK Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain ...

Carved teak pelican sculpture from Japan by Zooline. The pelican's top beak opens and closes like a lid.

Original vintage British Railways advertising poster "Progress: Every week British railways modernization plan goes further ahead." Print from a painting by Terence Cuneo for the cov...

Excellent ceramic designed by well-known Wiener Werkstätte artist Gudrun Baudisch. Executed by the Wiener Werkstätte, circa 1920s. Pinch top vase with cityscape design. The ceramic...

Excerpts from William Peterson, Tom Waldron, 1985 They cut through space like beautiful and efficient tools. No bases or pedestals are required. They sit ...

Beautifully Painted Porcelain tile signed “Wagner” lower right. The work rests in an ornate gilded frame with a rose-colored velvet liner. The work is in mint condition with no repai...

Kurt Weiser porcelain slip cast cup sculpture featuring Weiser's whimsical drawings and line work.

Russian subject by Anatoly Sokoloff (1891-1971). "Russian Village, Winter Fun". Oil on canvas laid on board, circa 1960s. Size: 20" H x 24" W. Frame size: Approximately 28" H x 32" W. Excellent condition. Anatoly Sokoloff was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in July, 1891. He completed studies at the Academy of fine Arts in St. Petersburg. He became the Commissioner of fine Arts in the Crimea, and later Academic Professor of Art. By the 1940s Sokoloff had settled in San Francisco. In Europe, his works are to be found in museums and private galleries of Germany, Romania, and Austria. Many are Royal portraiture. In 1953, the government of Argentina commissioned the artist for the painting, The Great Captain for their House of Congress. In 1961, again commissioned by the government, he completed the work, Crossing of the Parana River. His panoramic murals...

C. Jeré uncommon kinetic brass and chrome wall sculpture. It’s made of a brass frame with two separate parts that connect or can be displayed separately. It can also be positioned offset (not pictured). Polished brass and chrome bent diamonds hang on hooks. These can slightly move under a fan or if touched, providing movement and an op art sparkling...

Robert Cottingham (b. 1935) “Rolling Stock #27." Woodbock, 1992. 26 blocks, 40 colors. Image Measures: 10 1/4" H x 13 ½" W. Edition: 100. Robert Cottingham is an American Pop-artis...

Original pencil signed etching by Ukraine/Pennsylvania artist Louis Lozowick (1892-1973). The print, created 1929, measures 8 3/4 x 15 inches and is unframed. It is in excellent cond...

Boxing subject original stone lithograph by Robert Riggs (1896-1970) Pencil titled lower left “Afternoon at Max’s” Pencil signed lower right “Robert Riggs” Image measures 15 1/8"h x ...

Wonderful abstract ceramic tray or plaque with applied copper by well known midcentury Italian potter, Guido Gambone (1909-1969). Measures: 9 ½ H x 15 W. In excellent condition. Signed Gambone Italy with his donkey motif. Guido Gambone (1909–1969), one of the most important Italian ceramic artist in the mid-20th century, was born in Montella, Avellino in Italy in 1909 and moved with his parents to Vietri in 1927. He started his career at the local Avallone pottery, continued his training at Manifattura Artistica Ceramica Salernitana before moving to the famous I.C.S. (Industria Ceramica Salernitana). He became artistic director at I.C.S. in 1935. Following, he started his own potteries, La Faenzerella in Vietri and later La Tirrena...

Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contain the landscape painted...

acrylic on canvas 1927 - 2017 Mala Breuer grew up attending classes in painting and drawing from a young age at the California College of Arts and Crafts. After high school she att...

Excerpts from William Peterson, Tom Waldron, 1985 They cut through space like beautiful and efficient tools. No bases or pedestals are required. They sit ...

Florence Knoll T-angle coffee table. Excellent condition. 2-piece white laminate top with black steel legs and frame. Bears the original Knoll label, circa 1960s. Measures: 15 1/2...

mixed media on paper; unframed Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light i...

Carl Brandien Oil on Board. Florida Subject. In excellent condition. Canvas size: 16"h x 20"w. Frame size: 17 ½h x 21 ½w. Signed lower right “Carl Brandien ‘44. Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.”...

silver deposit and acrylic on canvas b. 1961 The surfaces of Jimi Gleason’s paintings have always responded to both the light and space of the environm...

Original mixed media in gray and black by well-known Phoenix, Arizona black artist Eugene Grigsby, Jr. Created 1963. Signed lower left. Framed beautifully and in excellent condition. Painting measures 23"h x 17 3/4"w. Frame measures 29 1/2"h x 24"w. This item is a preparatory work for the oil painting by Grigsby also titled “The Family.” Art professor, fine artist, and high school art teacher, Jefferson Eugene Grigsby, Jr. (1918-2013) in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1933, Grigsby attended Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina. Within a year, Grigsby transferred to Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where he first met his long time mentor, Hale Woodruff. Grigsby graduated from Morehouse College in 1938, with B.A. degree and because of Woodruff, he was equipped with extensive artistic experience that he would retain throughout his life. Grigsby went on to obtain his M.A. degree in art (1940) from Ohio State University and his Ph.D. degree from New York University (1963). In 1942, Grigsby volunteered to serve in World War II and became a master sergeant of the 573rd Ordinance Ammunition Company under U.S. Army General George Patton...

ACRYLIC ON CANVAS b. 1978 I explore the temporality of representation through abstraction by constructing new systems and modes in which the material of painting converges with the ...

Oil on board by Carl Brandien (1886-1965) - Street in Kyoto with red lanterns. Titled on the verso: “Street in Old Kyoto, Japan” Signed lower right and titled lower left “Kyoto” Mea...

Blue Rain Glaze on White, Dutch Series (28.5 x 21.5 x 2.5 inches, each) Publication, Jun Kaneko, Dutch Series Between Light and Shadow, page 48 b. 1942, Nagoya, Japan Jun Kaneko’s ...

A Mexican Peso dated 1924 is embedded in the cup of this sterling wine taster. Marked: Sterling, Hecho en Mexico, 925, J.V.P. and Tane. The length includ...

Wooden Sculpture in black featuring a central hand within a framework and containing metal coins by Spanish artist Antoni Abad. Abad's works have been exhibited in major museums and...

A set of (3) antique German porcelain tea / coffee pot trivets. Each plate is a 6.5' in diameter and about 1" thick. Each trivet plate features gentle victorian flower design. All tr...

SIGNATURE AND YEAR ON VERSO b. 1942, Elgin, OK Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. ...

acrylic on linen b. 1964, Arnhem Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are based on simple geometric...

Original lithograph by Texas artist Alexandre Hogue (1898-1994). Title: Oil Field Christmas Tree. Created: 1941. Image size: 14 ½ x 9 1/8. Frame size: 22 ½ x 17. Edition size is ...

James Lovera (1920-2015) ceramic studio vase. This beautiful vase by James Lovera has a wonderful and unusual copper colored glaze and dates to the 1960s, perhaps as early as the ...

encaustic on canvas Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the sky a...

Bud Tullis wenge and woven aluminum screen circa late 1980’s. This all original example is hand sculpted and has multicolored aluminum on one side is monochromatic on the other.

Ellen Key Oberg exhibited with all the major artists of her time including Alexancer Archipenko and William Zorach. This piece received an honorable mention in one of the many exhibi...

Modern Mexican painting - acrylic on Masonite by Jesus Leuus (1948-) This painting is in excellent condition and is signed and dated lower righ...

mixed media on paper; unframed full sheet 22.5 x 30.25 inches signed, dated and titled on lower right Neoromantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint ...

mixed media on paper Jim Waid creates abstract worlds saturated with color, layered with mark, filled with rhythm and movement, and intricately textured. His canvases barely contai...

Lovely original etching, a portrait of a local girl by Anders Zorn (1860-1920) $1500 Created 1912 and titled “Skerikulla." The image measures 9 3/4" H x 7 3/4" W. Paper size: 15 3/8"...

Rococo style porcelain figurines. Made in Japan between 1940-1950. Hand-painted. Each figurine is 10.5" tall and and about 6" in diameter, has no cracks, chips or any other damages.

acrylic on linen 53 x 45.25 x 4 inches b. 1964, Arnhem Jan Maarten Voskuil stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are b...

A wonderful and colorful oil on masonite by Indonesian artist Lucien Frits Ohl (1904-1976). Oil on board created Circa 1960's. Measures 23 ½ x 35 1/4. Frame is 29 ½ x 41 ½. The work ...

This beautiful, limited edition original color woodblock is by the famous Showa Shin Hanga woodblock master Clifton Karhu (1927-2007). It bears the original frame and has a label on the back from a Tokyo gallery. The work is a beautiful impression with rich color. It and the frame are in excellent condition. The print measures 16 x 16 inches. The frame is 23 ½ x 23 ½ inches. It is numbered lower left as AP5 - Artist Proof #5 and is pencil signed and dated ‘74 lower right. An American of Finnish descent, Clifton Karhu was born in Minnesota in 1927. Raised together with his twin brother Raymond, Karhu was the son of painters Arne and Anna Karhu. After his graduation in 1946 he served in the military at an American Navy base in Japan. Returning to America following his military service in 1950, Karhu enrolled at the Minneapolis School of Art but quit two years later to pursue missionary work as a Lutheran minister. Karhu left the missionary work in 1958 and chose to move his new family to Gifu City, a small provincial town northwest of Kyoto, Japan where he set about returning to his art. Karhu soon found local success in 1961; obtaining first prize at the Chubu Taiheijo Bijutsu Kyokai Ten (The Middle Pacific Art Group Exhibition) and fixing his first single, professional exhibition at the Shin Gifu Gallery. In hopes of providing their three children with an international education, Karhu settled in Kyoto in 1963. The next few years proved heavily influential in Karhu’s work. Arguably forming the foundation for all his future success, Karhu found tutelage under recognized woodblock artist and gallery owner Tetsuo Yamada and colour theorist Stanton Macdonald-Wright. Responsible for shifting Karhu’s artistic doubts, Karhu proceeded to fulfill a very successful career in woodblock printing - carving his own works largely by himself. Clifton Karhu passed away in 2007 after an illustrious career that saw him viewed and celebrated as a local Kyoto celebrity, as well as having exhibited widely in many countries around the world. His woodblock prints have been collected by many famous museums including the Tokyo Modern Art...

Jean Charlot original color lithograph created 1933. In excellent condition. Title: "Woman Standing - Child on Back." Edition: 500. Pencil signed by the artist lower right. Also sign...

Emmanuel Cooper (1938 - 2012) UK Ceramist - flared footed studio bowl. The interior is decorated with an alternating pink and blue pinwheel design. Excellent condition. The EC mark...

Dazzling set of fireplace tools in clear lucite and polished chrome by Alessandro Albrizzi.

Known for her abstract expressionistic figures in both painting and sculpture, this large Brutalist patinated steel sculpture by Arizona artist Agnese ...

Cecil Crosley Bell (1906-1970) Pen & ink with watercolor. The artist’s blind stamp reading “Cecil C. Bell” is seen lower left. The work is also signed in ink “C.Bell” lower right. ...

Flared studio bowl with lava glaze by well-known California potter James Lovera (1920-2015). Perfect for a centerpiece bowl in a modern home. Measures 4"h x 9 1/4" diameter. Bears ...

Wood, patinated steel and iron sculpture by Rick Lussier, circa early 1980s. This unusual example mixes different elements seamlessly and is striking from every angle.

Lon Megargee 1883-1960 "The Sheepherder" Wood block print Signed in plate, lower right Image size: 10 x 10 inches Frame size 22 x 22 inches Creator of Stetson's hat logo "Last Drop from his Hat" Lon Megargee 1883 - 1960 At age 13, Lon Megargee came to Phoenix in 1896 following the death of his father in Philadelphia. For several years he resided with relatives while working at an uncle’s dairy farm and at odd jobs. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898 – 1899 in order to attend drawing classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Back in Phoenix in 1899, he decided at the age of 16 to try to make his living as a cowboy. Lon moved to the cow country of Wickenburg, Arizona where he was hired by Tex Singleton’s Bull Ranch. He later joined the Three Bar R. . . and after a few years, was offered a job by Billy Cook of the T.T. Ranch near New River. By 1906, Megargee had learned his trade well enough to be made foreman of Cook’s outfit. Never shy about taking risks, Lon soon left Cook to try his own hand at ranching. He partnered with a cowpuncher buddy, Tom Cavness, to start the El Rancho Cinco Uno at New River. Unfortunately, the young partners could not foresee a three-year drought that would parch Arizona, costing them their stock and then their hard-earned ranch. Breaking with his romantic vision of cowboy life, Megargee finally turned to art full time. He again enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and then the Los Angeles School of Art and Design during 1909 – 1910. The now well-trained student took his first trip to paint “en plein air” (outdoors) to the land of Hopi and Navajo peoples in northern Arizona. After entering paintings from this trip in the annual Territorial Fair at Phoenix, in 1911, he surprisingly sold his first oil painting to a major enterprise – the Santa Fe Railroad . . . Lon received $50 for “Navajos Watching the Santa Fe Train.” He soon sold the SFRR ten paintings over the next two years. For forty years the railroad was his most important client, purchasing its last painting from him in 1953. In a major stroke of good fortune during his early plein-air period, Megargee had the opportunity to paint with premier artist, William R. Leigh (1866 – 1955). Leigh furnished needed tutoring and counseling, and his bright, impressionistic palette served to enhance the junior artist’s sense of color and paint application. In a remarkable display of unabashed confidence and personable salesmanship, Lon Megargee, at age 30, forever linked his name with Arizona art history. Despite the possibility of competition from better known and more senior artists, he persuaded Governor George Hunt and the Legislature in 1913 to approve 15 large, historic and iconic murals for the State Capitol Building in Phoenix. After completing the murals in 1914, he was paid the then princely sum of roughly $4000. His Arizona statehood commission would launch Lon to considerable prominence at a very early point in his art career. Following a few years of art schooling in Los Angeles, and several stints as an art director with movie studios, including Paramount, Megargee turned in part to cover illustrations for popular Western story magazines in the 1920s. In the 1920s, as well, Lon began making black and white prints of Western types and of genre scenes from woodblocks. These prints he generally signed and sold singly. In 1933, he published a limited edition, signed and hard-cover book (about 250 copies and today rare)containing a group of 28 woodblock images. Titled “The Cowboy Builds a Loop,” the prints are noteworthy for strong design, excellent draftsmanship, humanistic and narrative content, and quality. Subjects include Southwest Indians and cowboys, Hispanic men and women, cattle, horses, burros, pioneers, trappers, sheepherders, horse traders, squaw men and ranch polo players. Megargee had a very advanced design sense for simplicity and boldness which he demonstrated in how he used line and form. His strengths included outstanding gestural (action) art and strong figurative work. He was superb in design, originality and drawing, as a study of his prints in the Hays collection reveals. In 1944, he published a second group of Western prints under the same title as the first. Reduced to 16 images from the original 28 subjects, and slightly smaller, Lon produced these prints in brown ink on a heavy, cream-colored stock. He designed a sturdy cardboard folio to hold each set. For the remainder of his life, Lon had success selling these portfolios to museum stores, art fairs and shows, and to the few galleries then selling Western art. Drawing on real working and life experiences, Lon Megargee had a comprehensive knowledge, understanding and sensitivity for Southwestern subject matter. Noted American modernist, Lew Davis...