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Old Master brings together the finest in traditional Early Victorian design motifs with skillful artistry. The crown of leaves, the center rosette, scrollwork, flutes and the violin-...

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ALEXANDER McQUEEN A/W 2007 Black Sheer Long Sleeve Sweet Heart Gown Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: A/W 2007 Style: Evening gown Colo...

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ALEXANDER McQUEEN SS 2009 Iconic Crystal Skeleton Kaleidoscope Print Oversized Clutch Bag Brand/Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: Spring Summer 2009 "Natural Dis-tinction,...

Brand / Manufacturer: Givenchy Couture Circa: 1998 Designer: Alexander McQueen Style: Bodysuit Color(s): Shades of black Lined: Only at bodice and crotch Marked Fabric Content: "97% nylon, 3% elastane" Unmarked Fabric Content (feel of): metal (hardware) Additional Details / Inclusions: Givenchy Couture circa 1998 Alexander McQueen...

The Giorgio pattern is part of the Italian Collection by Wallace Silversmiths, inspired by traditional European continental size sterling silver flatware. Each place setting is made ...

COURREGES Paris c.1960's Vtg Mint Green Tie Front Overall Midi Day Dress Brand / Manufacturer: Courreges Paris Circa: 1960's Designer: Andre Courreges Style: Overall Day Dress Color...

Brand / Manufacturer: Gucci Collection: S/S 2019 Designer: Alessandro Michele Style: Sleeveless Dress Color(s): Shades of pink, white, gold Lined: Yes Marked Fabric Content: "64% cot...

Danish Crown by Frigast Silversmiths of Copenhagen, Denmark sterling silver flatware set of 40 pieces. This set includes: Eight knives, 8 1/2" Eight fork...

"Arabesque XXXIV" is an original abstract carved Bubinga wood sculpture by Robert Longhurst. The artist signed and dated the piece. It features a dark...

GIORGIO ARMANI c.1980’s Brown Tweed Wool Pleated Wrap Buckle A-Line Skirt Circa: 1980’s Designer: Giorgio Armani Style: Wrap / A-Line Skirt Color(s): Shades of brown and gray Li...

Rare Vintage Late 1980's Early 1990's Sandler Seating Chrome Upholstered Architectural Curved Bar Stools - Set of 2 A pair of beautifully designed b...

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The Cairn collection by Alvaro Uribe for Wooda challenges the perception of furniture being purely functional. We believe furniture brings a sense of spirituality and magic to our li...

Beautiful "SOUTHERN COLONIAL" BY INTERNATIONAL sterling silver flatware set, 32 pieces. This set includes: 8 KNIVES, 9 1/8" 8 FORKS, 7 3/8" 8 SALAD FORKS, 6 1/2" 8 TEASPOONS, 5 7/8"...

Designed with an eye for balance and proportion, each piece of Tiffany & Co. flatware is a masterpiece of form and function. Introduced in 1956, the Linenfold pattern was designed by...

ALEXANDER McQUEEN A/W 2013 Skull Embroidered Beaded White Short Sleeve T-Shirt Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: A/W 2013 Style: T-shirt Color(s): Shades of white...

The Sine Wave console by Michael Dreeben for Wooda is a bespoke-quality solid walnut cabinet. The sine waves that ornament the door panels function most i...

The present hand-colored lithograph was produced as part of the funeral and mourning culture in the United States during the 19th century. Before the printmaking boom of the 1830s, however, such inexpensive memorial images were not widely available. These prints became popular as ways of remembering loved ones, an alternative to portraiture of the deceased or to meticulous hand-embroidered memorials often made by female academy students. In the image, the urn-topped monument contains a space where a family could inscribe the name and death dates of a deceased loved one, though this example was never used. In the variations of this image type produced by the Kellogg...

Gorgeous Dinner Size Majestic by Alvin sterling Silver flatware set - 43 pieces. This set includes: 8 Dinner Size Knives, 9 5/8" 8 Dinner Size Forks, 7 1/2" 8 Luncheon/Dessert F...

This artwork embodies a profound sense of freedom in both exploration and expression. While creating it, my focus was on its aesthetic qualities. The harmonious arrangement of vibran...

Poppy by Gorham Sterling Silver Flatware set - 62 pieces. This set includes: 12 Knives, 8 1/2" 12 Forks, 6 3/4" 12 Salad Forks, 5 5/8" 12 Teaspoons, 5 7/8" 12 Bouillon Soup Spoons, ...

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"Self Portrait" is an original oil painting on masonite board by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. It depicts the artist holding a pipe in front of a...

"Derriere Le Miroir" is an original color lithograph signed by the artist Saul Steinberg. The artist's signature is in the bottom left margin. Image Size: 14"x20" Frame Size: 25 5/8...

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ALEXANDER McQUEEN A/W 1996 “Dante” Charcoal Gray Mohair Coat Button Up Overcoat Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: A/W 1996 “Dante” Designer: Alexander McQueen Style: Overcoat Color(s): Charcoal gray Lined: Yes Unmarked Fabric Content (feel of): Mohair wool (shell); nylon (lining) Additional Details / Inclusions: Charcoal gray long mohair...

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Marlborough by Reed & Barton dinner size sterling silver flatware set, 53 pieces. This set includes: 12 dinner size knives, 9 3/4" 12 dinner size forks, 7 3/4" 12 salad forks, 6" 12...

Vintage Emilio Pucci c.1950's two-piece beige floral signature print shirt gathered skirt set. Multi-color tribal floral signature print in shades of orange, pink, and brown on beige wool. Mandarin collar shirt...

John Steuart Curry "Sketching Wisconsin," 1946 oil on canvas 31.13 x 28 inches, canvas 39.75 x 36.75 x 2.5 inches, frame Signed and dated lower right Overall excellent condition Presented in a 24-karat gold leaf hand-carved wood frame John Steuart Curry (1897-1946) was an American regionalist painter active during the Great Depression and into World War II. He was born in Kansas on his family’s farm but went on to study art in Chicago, Paris and New York as young man. In Paris, he was exposed to the work of masters such as Peter Paul Rubens, Eugène Delacroix and Jacques-Louis David. As he matured, his work showed the influence of these masters, especially in his compositional decisions. Like the two other Midwestern regionalist artists that are most often grouped with him, Grant Wood (American, 1891-1942) and Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975), Curry was interested in representational works containing distinctly American subject matter. This was contrary to the popular art at the time, which was moving closer and closer to abstraction and individual expression. Sketching Wisconsin is an oil painting completed in 1946, the last year of John Steuart Curry’s life, during which time he was the artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The painting is significant in Curry’s body of work both as a very revealing self-portrait, and as a landscape that clearly and sensitively depicts the scenery of southern Wisconsin near Madison. It is also a portrait of the artist’s second wife, Kathleen Gould Curry, and is unique in that it contains a ‘picture within a picture,’ a compositional element that many early painting masters used to draw the eye of the viewer. This particular artwork adds a new twist to this theme: Curry’s wife is creating essentially the same painting the viewer is looking at when viewing Sketching Wisconsin. The triangular composition of the figures in the foreground immediately brings focus to a younger Curry, whose head penetrates the horizon line and whose gaze looks out towards the viewer. The eye then moves down to Mrs. Curry, who, seated on a folding stool and with her hand raised to paint the canvas on the easel before her, anchors the triangular composition. The shape is repeated in the legs of the stool and the easel. Behind the two figures, stripes of furrowed fields fall away gently down the hillside to a farmstead and small lake below. Beyond the lake, patches of field and forest rise and fall into the distance, and eventually give way to blue hills. Here, Curry has subverted the traditional artist’s self-portrait by portraying himself as a farmer first and an artist second. He rejects what he sees as an elitist art world of the East Coast and Europe. In this self-portrait he depicts himself without any pretense or the instruments of his profession and with a red tractor standing in the field behind him as if he was taking a break from the field work. Here, Curry’s wife symbolizes John Steuart Curry’s identity as an artist. Compared with a self-portrait of the artist completed a decade earlier, this work shows a marked departure from how the artist previously presented and viewed himself. In the earlier portrait, Curry depicted himself in the studio with brushes in hand, and with some of his more recognizable and successful canvases behind him. But in Sketching Wisconsin, Curry has taken himself out of the studio and into the field, indicating a shift in the artist’s self-conception. Sketching Wisconsin’s rural subject also expresses Curry’s populist ideals, that art could be relevant to anyone. This followed the broad educational objectives of UW’s artist-in-residence program. Curry was appointed to his position at the University of Wisconsin in 1937 and was the first person to hold any such position in the country, the purpose of which was to serve as an educational resource to the people of the state. He embraced his role at the University with zeal and not only opened the doors of his campus studio in the School of Agriculture to the community, but also spent a great deal of time traveling around the state of Wisconsin to visit rural artists who could benefit from his expertise. It was during his ten years in the program that Curry was able to put into practice his belief that art should be meaningful to the rural populace. However, during this time he also struggled with public criticism, as the dominant forces of the art market were moving away from representation. Perhaps it was Curry’s desire for public acceptance during the latter part of his career that caused him to portray himself as an Everyman in Sketching Wisconsin. Beyond its importance as a portrait of the artist, Sketching Wisconsin is also a detailed and sensitive landscape that shows us Curry’s deep personal connection to his environment. The landscape here can be compared to Wisconsin Landscape of 1938-39 (the Metropolitan Museum of Art), which presents a similar tableau of rolling hills with a patchwork of fields. Like Wisconsin Landscape, this is an incredibly detailed and expressive depiction of a place close to the artist’s heart. This expressive landscape is certainly the result of many hours spent sketching people, animals, weather conditions and topography of Wisconsin as Curry traveled around the state. The backdrop of undulating hills and the sweeping horizon, and the emotions evoked by it, are emphatically recognizable as the ‘driftless’ area of south-central Wisconsin. But while the Metropolitan’s Wisconsin Landscape conveys a sense of uncertainty or foreboding with its dramatic spring cloudscape and alternating bands of light and dark, Sketching Wisconsin has a warm and reflective mood. The colors of the foliage indicate that it is late summer and Curry seems to look out at the viewer approvingly, as if satisfied with the fertile ground surrounding him. The landscape in Sketching Wisconsin is also revealing of what became one of Curry’s passions while artist-in-residence at UW’s School of Agriculture – soil conservation. When Curry was a child in Kansas, he saw his father almost lose his farm and its soil to the erosion of The Dust Bowl. Therefore, he was very enthusiastic about ideas from UW’s School of Agriculture on soil conservation methods being used on Wisconsin farms. In Sketching Wisconsin, we see evidence of crop rotation methods in the terraced stripes of fields leading down the hillside away from the Curry’s and in how they alternate between cultivated and fallow fields. Overall, Sketching Wisconsin has a warm, reflective, and comfortably pastoral atmosphere, and the perceived shift in Curry’s self-image that is evident in the portrait is a positive one. After his rise to favor in the art world in the 1930’s, and then rejection from it due to the strong beliefs presented in his art, Curry is satisfied and proud to be farmer in this self-portrait. Curry suffered from high blood...

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Les Cinq Fleurs by Reed and Barton sterling silver flatware set, 60 pieces. This set includes: 12 knives, 8 7/8", 12 forks, 7 1/4", 12 salad forks, 6 1/4", 12 teaspoons, 5 7/8",...

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"Original Lithograph VI" is an original color lithograph by Joan Miro, published in "Miro Lithographs II, Maeght Publisher" in 1975. It depicts Miro's signature biomorphic abstract s...

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Marc Chagall "L'Artist Phoenix Poster" for Galerie Maeght from 1972. It is from the edition of 5000. 30 1/2" x 20" art 40 1/2" x 32 1/4" frame Marc Ch...

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Dinner size Marie Louise with gold accent by Blackinton sterling silver flatware set, 45 pieces. This set includes: 8 dinner size knives, 9 3/4" 8 dinner size forks, 7 3/4" 8 salad forks, 6 3/8" 8 teaspoons, 6" 8 place soup spoons, 6 3/4" 1 gravy ladle, 6 1/2" 1 serving spoon, 8 1/2" 1 pierced serving spoon, 8 1/2" 1 cold meat fork, 7 3/4" 1 hollow handle master butter, 6 3/4" Includes bonus brand new storage chest - styles vary. Excellent condition, with no monograms. This set will be beautifully professionally polished prior to shipping. Marie Louise'- Blackinton contracted with the State Department to make Marie Louise (circa 1939) for all American Embassies. This timeless pattern was used in all of the American Embassies for dinners and events. This pattern was re-introduced by Lunt as Embassy Scroll...