Washington D.C.

Tibetan Rug 6'0" x 9'0". The generally small rugs of the plateau region, with dragon, tantric and allover patterns. Bright colors. Older are all wool, later with cotton wefts. A few large carpets. Shaggy...

Antique Sumak Rug 7'9'' x 9'4''. A classic Kuba sumac-technique carpet with wool pattern wefts and a madder red ground displaying three reticulated dark blue flattened medallions, supported by eight yellow octagons and edged by "rocket ships". Dark brown main border with zig-zag and filler triangle design. Kuba sumac carpets...

Poured beeswax work by Mary Early from her "Study for Līnea" series. "The production, or “pouring,” of beeswax elements has become a meditative process that is integral to my art practice, serving as an observation of time, materials, and space. The raw beeswax I use has taken its form at the end of a long series of natural processes followed by a manufacturing process, and once it is in my hands, the studio becomes a factory. I apply my own methods of transforming the material by casting the beeswax into three-dimensional forms. Once I have fixed both a place and a time in the future for a potential installation, I begin to determine how the beeswax lines will take their aggregated shape in that space and, simultaneously, how many lines might be manufactured for that particular space in the amount of time available." Mary Early (born 1975, Washington, DC) lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), and the American University Museum (Washington DC) among other regional and national galleries. Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, increasingly over the years, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record. In 2014 she exhibited her first large-scale installation of wax lines at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, followed by temporary installations in response to various historical sites in Salem, Germany (2016) and Tubingen Germany (2017). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Twist-Layer-Pour” at the American University Museum, which included Untitled [Curve], an installation of thousands of beeswax lines assembled on the floor of the museum. In spring 2018 she was commissioned to create a temporary installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Idaho. This work took the form of two intersecting curtains of hanging beeswax lines bisecting a 12’ foot x 18’ foot room, providing an immersive and enclosed viewing space. Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama, Kimpton Hotels, and the District of Columbia Art Bank among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007). Early is the director of HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including the work of William Christenberry, Colby Caldwell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Linling Lu, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout...

Vintage Afghan Rug 1'7'' x 3'2''. The primarily Ersari Turkmen pile tribal carpets of NW Afghanistan, characterized by red fields with repeating medallion (gul) designs, geometric dr...

Fine Antique French Savonnerie Rug 8'0" x 8'2''.

Antique Bidjar Rug 4'1'' x 6'11''. This extremely solid and robust, well-woven Kurdish city scatter presents a navy field with a cartouche lattice ...

Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Beige Haze". Work is signed and dated 2020 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Ital...

Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Maze l". Work is signed and dated 2018 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy. S...

Aubusson Rug 7'8'' x 9'10''.

Aubusson Rug 5'10'' x 9'0".

Aubusson Rug 10 x 13.9. Refers generally to modern carpets in tapestry technique and inspired by French Aubusson designs of the 18th and later centuries. Geometric or semi-floral. Sc...

Vintage Morrocan Rug 4'10'' x 7'5''. Three rugs in one. Horizontal bands, a central golden river of dashes and a side panel of rows of lozenges. Black bands occur on each selvage. Co...

Antique Karajeh rug, measures: 4'10'' x 6'3''. The lancet leaves have shrunk on this all-Herati, all the time, well-woven scatter with a navy-black field divided into diamond-shaped reserves by a small flower trellis...

Swedish Kilim Rug 4'3'' x 6'7''. Looks Navajo, but with a wider palette and looser, shared warp construction. Rust and tangerine panels alternate along the sides, enclosing stepped d...

Antique Farahan Sarouk Rug 13'2'' x 19'. The tall, navy pointed octogramme medallion is detailed with palmettes growing from the longer points of the 16 point central rust sub-medallion. At each internal end of the medallion are off white...

Needle Point Runner 2'7'' x 7'9''. Usually English or French, often with repeating allover designs executed with wool cross-stitches. Larger carpets are workshop productions, smaller...

Turkish Sumak Rug 9'0" x 12'0".. A technique rather than a specific type, in which warps are wrapped by colored wefts to create a pattern. Caucasian, Turkish, Persian and other types...

Antique Persian Lavar Kerman Rug 4'8'' x 7'0". A trade term applied to better quality pre-WWI Kermans. ‘Laver’ is corruption of ‘Ravar’, a town near Kerman city, reputed to have wove...

Antique Lavar Kerman Rug 4'6'' x 6'7''. SE Persian city, famous since 17th century for an artistic variety of scatter rugs and large carpets in medallion and allover styles, changing...

Turkish Sumak Flat Weave Wool Rug 4'0" x 10'2''. A technique rather than a specific type, in which warps are wrapped by coloured wefts to create a pattern. Caucasian, Turkish, Persia...

Turkish Sumak Rug 10'0" x 14'0".

Antique Shirvan Rug 3'10'' x 5'11''. From the west Caspian just north of the Shirvan area, this scatter, from what is now Azerbaijan, this Kuba presents an offset hexagonal lattice o...

Vintage European Rug 6'0" x 9'0".

Sumak Rug 6'0" x 9'0". A technique rather than a specific type, in which warps are wrapped by colored wefts to create a pattern. Caucasian, Turkish, Persian and other types. Produces...

Extremely Fine Persian Silk Qum Rug 3'6'' x 6'0". Fine to very finely woven, silk and wool rugs, mostly scatters, from the central Persian religious capital. Industry began in the 19...

Vintage Khotan Rug 6'6" x 9'4". City in western China (Xinjiang Province), active since the 18th century. Moderate weave on cotton. Long rugs (kng formats) and more recently room siz...

Pak Tabriz Rug 9'1'' x 12'0''. The enormous output of carpets and scatters in virtually every style: medallion, centralized, directional or allover, trein a variety of densities from...

glass white opal US Base black With his Bell Table design, which kicked off his cooperation with ClassiCon in 2012 and was the designer’s first step towards international recognitio...

Gabbeh Rug 6'10'' x 9'11''. Wool pile rugs, usually scatter formats, woven by the Qashghai tribes of SW Persia (Fars Province), in moderate weave, uncluttered geometries and unshaded...

Vintage Persian Design Rug 9'10'' x 12'10''.

Antique Kazak Rug 4'3'' x 8'10''. SW Caucasus/Armenia. Boldly patterned, strongly colored, totally geometric, all wool, coarse to moderate weave, medium to long pile, scatter format ...

Vintage Bidjar Rug 9'3'' x 12'5''. The town and surrounding Kurdish carpets of the eponym city, often in room or larger sizes. All wool before 1920, cotton warp afterward. Medallion ...

Turkish Sumak Rug 9'0" x 12'0". A technique rather than a specific type, in which warps are wrapped by coloured wefts to create a pattern. Caucasian, Turkish, Persian and other types...

Turkish Rug 4'8'' x 6'11''. The carpets, scatters, runners, long rugs and bags of the towns, villages and tribes of Anatolia, including: Oushak, Ghiordes, Kula, Ladik, Hereke, Konya,...

Gabbeh Rug 6'10'' x 10'5''. Wool pile rugs, usually scatter formats, woven by the Qashghai tribes of SW Persia (Fars Province), in moderate weave, uncluttered geometries and unshaded...

Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Totem". Work is signed and dated 2018 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy. She continued studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran College of Art and Design and American...

Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Alizarin Maze lll". Work is signed and dated 2020 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Ro...

Vintage Khotan Rug 8'3" x 10'4". A stiffly branched pomegranate tree grows from each end of the sandy field while lesser pomegranate motives appear on the sides, all positioning a ro...

Indian Modern ikat Design Rug 6'0" x 9'0". Refers to a very wide range of Sub-Continental pieces, both pile and flatweave, in virtually any style and weave quality, from the 17th cen...

Vintage Moroccan Cowhide Rug 4'8'' x 5'7''. The minutely stepped central ecru open diamond with short lateral extenders at the ends, stands out sharply from the predominant plain oli...

Shirvan Rug 3'5'' x 5'5''. Eastern Caucasian, west Caspian Caucasian rugs, primarily scatters, in geometric layouts, some prayer, from a wide range of local villages. Marasali prayer...

Photorealist oil painting by Manon Cleary (1942-2011). Painting is signed on reverse "Cleary". Painting is stretched on aluminum stretcher and dates to the 1990s. Manon Cleary had a remarkable ability to draw and paint with photographic fidelity, but she was also known as a charismatic teacher at the University of the District of Columbia and as a free spirit whose exuberant life may have been her most enduring work of art. Since the 1970s, Ms. Cleary had been at the center of a group of artists in Adams Morgan. She exhibited her meticulous artwork throughout the city and around the world, but she also became known for her striking presence, her colorful love life and the rats she kept as pets. As an artist, Ms. Cleary borrowed classical techniques from her deep study of Renaissance masters to create paintings and drawings memorable for their frank realism and sometimes disturbing themes. In addition to her many nude self-portraits, Ms. Cleary made erotically charged paintings of flowers. She took inspiration from a painful personal history in a series of works depicting the terror of rape and, in later years, of not being able to breathe without mechanical assistance. Critics considered her a leading figurative artist of the photo-realist school, in which painters render their subjects with camera-like precision. In fact, Ms. Cleary occasionally won awards for photography when adjudicators didn’t realize her works were free-hand creations. She was “widely acknowledged to be among the best, if not the best, of the city’s figurative painters,” Washington Post critic Michael O’Sullivan wrote in 2006. “There is a tension between the cool, clinical detachment of photography and painting’s warm idealization of form.” Ms. Cleary exhibited her art in galleries and museums from Moscow to Paris to Hickory, N.C., but Washington was her home for the past 42 years. In 1974, she settled in the decrepit Beverly Court apartments on Columbia Road NW, where a coterie of artists soon grew up around her. She painted her walls purple, and her fourth-floor apartment — even with the pet rats — became something of a bohemian salon. “She was a star,” painter Judy Jashinsky told the Washington City Paper in 2004. “She was stunning, beautiful; long, brownish–black hair; real thin; wore . . . little sundresses and sandals. She was just very cool, and there was always a crowd around her.” Ms. Cleary had a long list of male admirers, including several whose confrontational attempts at “performance art” led to their arrests. She had a brief marriage in 1981 to a Danish artist known as Tommy — “just Tommy,” Ms. Cleary said — whom she divorced in less than a year. As a kind of graphic homage to her various lovers, Ms. Cleary made a series of intimately revealing portraits that were featured years later on the HBO program “Real Sex.” She met her second husband after a gallery opening in Baltimore. By way of introduction, Kijek, a dancer, stripped naked at a crowded party, walked up to Ms. Cleary and said, “Wouldn’t you like me to pose for you?” They were married in 2001. In spite of her unconventional life, Ms. Cleary was more than a mere provocateur. After a day of teaching at UDC, she would return to her studio, with its windows painted over to block out sunlight, and work late into the night, with a bottle of Dr Pepper at her side. She took nude photographs of herself from every angle, then painstakingly created lifelike images that seemed alive with the warmth of human flesh. After studying in Rome in her youth, she developed what she called “an obsession” with Caravaggio, an iconoclastic painter who lived from 1573 to 1610. She often copied paintings at the National Gallery of Art and, in her own work, blended Renaissance styles with a distinctly modern sensibility. Manon Catherine Cleary was born Nov. 14, 1942, in St. Louis. Her father was a doctor, and her identical twin sister, Shirley Cleary-Cooper, is an artist in Helena, Mont. She was a 1964 graduate of Washington University in her home town and, for the rest of her life, was proud of having been a member of the Pi Phi...

French Art Deco Rug 9'8'' x 9'9''. In particular, the NE Chinese room size, scatter, runner and round pieces of the 1920's and 30's with purely abstract, or Chinese-y designs, in eit...

Antique Mohtasham Kashan Rug 4'0" x 6'10''. More than 95% of all "Mohtasham" rugs are wool-piled, but a few, as here, are executed in silk. The short and recumbent silk pile shows a ...

Needle Point Runner 2'5'' x 10'0". The tone on tone, lightly patterned light blue field is framed by an ecru border of swags featuring roses. Wool stitchery. Recent. 

Northwestern Persia This urban carpet clearly shows a Heriz influence, with its semi-geometric drawing of a buff octofoil medallion centred by a light blue concentric sub-medallion. ...

Antique Kurdish Rug 4'3'' x 6'9''.

Vintage European Needle Point Rug 1'11'' x 2'3''. Usually English or French, often with repeating allover designs executed with wool cross-stitches. Larger carpets are workshop produ...

Sumak Rug 3'0' x 5'0".

Turkish Geometric Runner 2'7'' x 7'0". This small runner/long rug has a subtle lozenge lattice pattern of two complete and two half columns of dark brick stepped, nested crosses, wi...

Antique Bakhtiari Rug 6'6'' x 6'7''. Western Persian tribal weaving, with a diagonal, color stripe boteh pattern on darkest blue. Narrow border set with an ivory ground major frame s...

Vintage Balouch Rug 2'9'' x 4'10''. The camel-tone field shows a simplified tree of life with two columns of characteristic fan leaves and rosette-centred ashiks. Red Turkmen-style b...

French Aubusson Design Rug 10' x 14'. Usually English or French, often with repeating allover designs executed with wool cross-stitches. Larger carpets are workshop productions, smal...

Antique Persian Afshar Rug 4' x 5'10''. Refers to the tribes of SE Persia (Kerman Province) who weave a wide variety of styles, including Herati,. boteh, medallion, textile, stripes,...

Vintage Balouch Rug 3'5'' x 6'0". The Aryan tribes of Khorassan, Sistan and NE Afghanistan, mostly nomadic, weaving small rugs in allover, medallion and niche (prayer) designs, often...

Vintage Bijar Rug 4'6'' x 8'0". Red Herati corners, navy Herati field, but stepped red medallion and navy/light blue sub-medallion, all with palmette...

Vintage Chinese Rug 2'0" x 4'2''. The straw beige field shows a red Shou (Good Luck) round medallion embedded in an end-to-end fret work accented with paeonies. Royal blue border wit...

Artist: Robert Motherwell Title: Trieste - Zurich - Paris Medium: Etching on Johannot paper Date: 1988 Edition: 27/40 Sheet Size: 13" x 10" Image Size: 6" x 6" Signature: Initialed (...

Artist: Robert Indiana Title: Spring (Silver), from Four Seasons of Hope Medium: Serigraph Date: 2012 Edition: 55/125 Frame Size: 41" x 35 1/4" Sheet Size: 35" x 29 1/2" Image Size: ...

Vintage Bakhtiari Rug 4'3'' x 6'7''. This central Persian Chahar Mahal weaving area scatter shows a five by nine windowpane "garden" panel design of red, navy and ecru squares formin...