Wisconsin

"Le Portrait Equestre" is an original color lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. This piece depicts a number of figures in black robes looking at horses. The a...

14K white gold aquamarine filigree ring. The antique rectangular brilliant cut aquamarine is a very pale icy color. It is the original stone that has been carefully repolished. The a...

OWEN GASTER c.1990's Vtg Black Wool Structured Fitted Zip-Up Back Blazer Jacket RARE Brand / Manufacturer: Owen Gaster Circa: 1990's Designer: Owen Gaster...

ALEXANDER McQUEEN S/S 2001 "Voss" Pink Mauve Cap Sleeve Gathered Ruched Bow Top Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: S/S 2001 "Voss" Designer: Alexander McQueen Style...

WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK Wild & Lethal Trash c.1990's Asymmetric Dual Tone Top Circa: 1990’s Label(s): Wild and Lethal Trash Designer: Walter Van Beirendonck Style: Asymmetric top; h...

GARY GRAHAM 2003 Black Wool Texture Distressed Asymmetrical Maxi Wrap Dress OOAK Brand / Manufacturer: Gary Graham Collection: Dated "7.28.03" Designer: Gary Graham Style: Wrap Dres...

Herve Leger by Max Azria Autumn/Winter 2012 "Avi" burgundy (raisin rum) pleated bandage knit cocktail dress; New with tags. Runway look #14. Sleeveless. Spaghetti straps. V-neckline ...

Dinner Size Silver Flutes by Towle Sterling Silver Flatware set - 47 pieces. This set includes: 8 Dinner Size Knives, 9 3/4", 8 Dinner Size Forks, 7 7/8", 8 Salad Forks, 6 1/2", ...

Masonic 10k Yellow Gold Men's Ring .85ct Genuine Natural Diamond Eagle (#J4838) 10k yellow gold Masonic ring with applied white gold featuring a round brilliant cut diamond weighing...

Givenchy Couture Autumn/Winter 1998 charcoal gray wool overcoat designed by Alexander McQueen. Long sleeves. Bal collar. Five center front button closures with single snap closure at...

"Play" is an original etching by Kenneth Hayes Miller. The artist signed the piece in pencil and in the plate. This piece features a nude figure with two smaller doll-like figures. ...

'Le Pecheur' is an excelletn example of the aquatints of Manuel Robbe, a French artists working during the turn of the 20th century. The image draws upon th...

Second state in yellow etching of bright abstract stars, by American post-war pop artist James Rosenquist. Signed and dated lower right Titled and edition number 33/78 lower left 17...

ROBBIE BEE c.1940's Vtg Brown Copper Hand Beaded Accent Trompe-L'oeil Day Dress Brand / Manufacturer: Robbie Bee Circa: 1940s Designer: Robbie Bee Style: Cocktail Day Dress Color(s): Brown (fabric), Copper (beads) Lined: Yes Unmarked Fabric (feel of): Cotton (exterior), Twill (lining) Additional Details / Inclusions: Vintage Robbie Bee c. 1940's brown day dress...

18K white gold 5.73 carat aquaprase ring. The rectangular cabochon cut chalcedony is a light greenish-blue color and measures about 11.5mm x 9.2mm. This...

Madeira by Towle sterling silver flatware set of 40 pieces. This set includes: Eight knives, 9", eight forks, 7 3/8", eight salad forks, 6 1/2", eight teaspoons, 5 7/8", eight ...

The Margrethe pattern was designed by Rigmor Andersen in the year 1965. Its unadorned style and tapered squared handle is representative of the Mid-Century Modern period. This rare p...

14K yellow gold men's modern garnet ring. The ring has 2 rectangular radiant cut deep red garnet stones. The garnets measure about 10mm x 8mm and are bezel set. The ring measures 5/8...

Rare vintage Germaine Monteil c.1930's black silk velvet belted floral lace evening gown. Long dolman sleeves with six covered button detail and four ...

Givenchy Couture S/S 1999 Black & white abstract "eye" print dress designed by Alexander McQueen. Abstract print on silk in shades of black, white, and gray. Bateau neckline. Cap sle...

ALEXANDER McQUEEN Resort 2010 Red White Blue High Neck Button Down Blouse Top Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: Resort Collection 2010 Designer: Alexander McQueen ...

PRADA c.1990's Brown Knit Wool Dyed Fur Sleeveless Pullover Turtleneck Shirt Top Brand / Manufacturer: Prada Circa: 1990's Designer: Miuccia Prada Style: Turtleneck Top Color(s): Da...

CHANEL black wool short sleeve dress. Draped open panels at front center and back. Front of dress is embellished with six gold-tone metal Byzatine-inspired Gripoix details. Black sil...

Gucci S/S 2018 Ivory Linen & Silk Pleated Embroidered Equestrian Web Midi Skirt Brand / Manufacturer: Gucci Collection: S/S 2018 Designer: Alessandro Michele Style: Midi Skirt Color...

Ntricately carved floral motifs carefully arranged along the handle and by the neck of this fanciful pattern are balanced by a slender central panel edged with delicate borders. Intr...

ALEXANDER McQUEEN c.1996 Pink Denim Structured Fit Midi Flared Pencil Skirt Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen / Gibo Co Spa Circa: 1996 Label(s): Alexander McQueen Designer: A...

Vintage c.1910's Edwardian one of a kind couture black fine wool felt and raspberry red silk cutwork embroidered mantelet. Intricately detailed cutwork with raspberry red silk underl...

ALEXANDER McQUEEN S/S 1997 “La Poupée” Black Tan Asymmetric Mesh Zipper Tank Top Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: S/S 1997 Style: Tank top Color(s): Shades of bl...

This superb 101 piece dinner size 800 silver old Italian (Italy) set is highest Italian quality, large and heavy and includes: 12 dinner size knives, 10". 24 dinner forks, 8 1/4". 1...

14K yellow and white gold Italian cuff bracelet with diamonds. The bracelet has a textured finish and is accented by 12 small diamonds set in whi...

DESCRIPTION: LOUIS VUITTON S/S 2003 Orange Knife Pleated Button Down Tank Top Brand / Manufacturer: Louis Vuitton Collection: Spring / Summer 2003 D...

Designed by Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin Inc., in High Point, North Carolina. Date of manufacturing / order date listed on chair is "7/30/69". Architectural heavy flat bar chrome steel frame. Design features hidden chrome seat support bars to enhance illusion of floating seat. Deep, wide seat offers a subtle inclined design. Original tufted brown polished leather-like (synthetic blend) upholstery with matching upholstered arm cushions / accents at top of each arm rest. Upholstery has a somewhat polished / shiny appearance with variations in brown tones that blend well with any color palette. Solid, intact and a great useable Mid-Century Modern piece as an accent chair; for the home or office. Measurements: (Close approximate measurements noted below. Additional measurements upon request) Height : 30.5" (from base to top of back cushion) Width : 25" (from left edge of armrest to right edge of armrest) Depth : 28" (from back edge of frame to front edge of seat cushion) Seat Height : Approximately 17.5" at front and gradually declines to approximately 16.5" at back. Seat Depth : 20" (front edge of cushion to back) Seat Width : Approximately 22" (left to right) Back Cushion Height : Approximately 14.5" (from seat to top of back). Materials : Exterior cushion...

This ceramic dish was made by an unknown Chinese artist in the 1860s. It features sepia designs on a white background. The dish has a 5 1/4" diameter.

GUCCI S/S 2017 Blue Green Pink Floral Wool Pointed Collar Blazer Jacket Brand / Manufacturer: Gucci Collection: S/S 2017 Designer: Alessandro Michele Style: Blazer Color(s): Shades ...

Victoria by Driade/Follies Italy An example of a setting is pictured in the hardcover book “Flatware that's not flat: Design and Production of innovative Table cutlery, 1890-2015...

The pattern Rambler Rose features a trellis of "rambling roses" down the center of the handle. This pattern was first introduced by Towle in the year 1937. Monumental Rambler Rose...

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...

EMILIO PUCCI c.1960's Orange Geometric Op Art Signature Print Silk Empire Dress Circa: 1960’s Label(s): Emilio Pucci; Made of Lord & Taylor Designer: Emilio Pucci Style: Empire dre...

Harold Altman was born in New York City in 1924. He attended the Art Students League, the Black Mountain College, the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and was a graduate of ...

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...

Pierre Cardin Haute Couture c.1990's classic navy blue pencil skirt. Banded waistline with four front and back knife pleats. Center back invisible zipper with two hook and eye closur...

Large feather edge (formerly known as "Dolly Madison Engraved") by Gorham sterling silver dinner size flatware set of 120 pieces. This set includes: 12 ...

Rarest of rare C. 1880'S Ancient mint condition antique Serapi unusually oversized Narrow Gem W/ Gorg natural Dyes About: Where on planet earth will you ever find another piece like this? The size isn't even my favorite part, although it's hard not to be astonished by its shape. Its color aren't even my favorite part, although century-old vegetable dyes that have perfectly matured over time really cannot get any better than this. It is, alas, the design that steals my heart and I don't even want it back!!! It is amongst the most naive and imaginative designs I've ever seen. This piece is the poster...

DESCRIPTION: GIVENCHY c.1990's Haute Couture Fuchsia Pink Leopard Print Velvet Evening Dress Circa: c.1990’s Label(s): Givenchy; 72310 (Haute Couture numb...

Vintage 14K white gold ruby and diamond ring. The ring features a genuine earth mined round pinkish-red ruby weighing .45cts. The ruby measures about 4.5mm. There are 9 small round b...

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EMILIO PUCCI c.1960’s Multi-color Op Art Signature Print Silk Maxi Dress Circa: 1960’s Label(s): Emilio Pucci Style: Maxi dress Color(s): Shades of green, blue, purple, yellow ...

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RUDI GERNREICH Harmon Knitwear c.1971 Purple Red Op Art Print Wool Day Dress VTG Brand / Manufacturer: Rudi Gernreich for Harmon Knitwear Circa: 1971 Designer: Rudi Gerhreich Style:...

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Chippendale by H B Hammer German 800 silver flatware set of 140 pieces. This set includes: 12 dinner size knives, 10" 12 dinner size forks, 8 1/2" 12 luncheon knives, 8 5/8" 11 lunc...

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