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ALEXANDER McQUEEN S/S 2010 “Plato’s Atlantis” Gray Jellyfish Print Sheath Dress Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: S/S 2010 “Plato’s ...

This mask, created by an unknown Indonesian artist, features round eyes, a white face, and a painted mustache. It is approximately 7" tall and 5 1/2" wide.

Virginian by Oneida sterling silver flatware set, 36 pieces. Great starter set! This set includes: six knives, 9", six forks, 7 1/8"...

ALEXANDER McQUEEN Resort 2010 Agate Geode Print Strapless Draped Bubble Dress Brand / Manufacturer: Alexander McQueen Collection: Resort...

Stunning monumental Marie Antoinette by Revinet D'Enfert French vintage Silverplated Flatware set - 275 pieces. This set features a c...

Over half of the 200 largest yachts on the planet are fitted out with Robbe & Berking silver. The manufacturer's restaurant clients are distinguished by hundreds of Michelin stars. Thus, among connoisseurs across the world, the name Robbe & Berking stands as a quality seal for uncompromising and unrivaled quality combined with German workmanship. "Alta" by Robbe & Berking (Germany) 925 Sterling Silver...

"Koi Fish II" is an original oil painting on linen by Leslie Parke. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This hyper-realist painting depicts a school of multi-colored koi ...

Beautiful Renaissance by Dominick and Haff flatware set, 95 pieces. This scarce figural pattern features a Renaissance Man's face on the handle and on the back of the soon bowl - in ...

Camellia by Gorham sterling silver flatware set of 24 pieces. Great starter set! This set includes: Six knives, 8 3/4". Six forks, 7 3/8". Six sala...

Fine Platinum Genuine Natural Emerald and Diamond Ring (#J4857) Platinum emerald and diamond ring with specialty cut emerald accents, 1.50 car...

"Red & White Tondo" is a signed silkscreen print by Ilya Bolotowsky. It is a geometric circle with red, yellow, and black lines of differing widths going vertically and horizonta...

Scarce modern AKA arvesolv No. 17 by Hans Hansen Danish sterling silver flatware set - 55 pieces. This set includes: 6 Knives, 8 7/8" 6 Forks, 7" 6 Salad Forks, 6 3/8" 6 Teas...

Gorgeous Spring Glory Gold by International sterling silver flatware set of 48 pieces. Gold flatware is on trend and makes a bold statement on your table. This set is vermeil (comp...

Beautiful, heirloom quality WEDGWOOD BY INTERNATIONAL Sterling Silver flatware set - 40 pieces. This set includes: 8 KNIVES w/French stainless blades, 9" 8 FORKS, 7 1/4" 8 SALAD FO...

"Autumn Trees" is an original, unique landscape oil painting on canvas by Michael Boyle. The artist signed the piece lower right and dated it lower left. This piece depicts a line of...

This 3'1" x 3'5" hand-knotted wool rug features a clean geometric pattern composed of repeating linear and square motifs in soft gray and ivory tones. The structured design creates a...

Monumental Acanthus by Georg Jensen & Wendel sterling silver flatware set, 171 pieces. This set includes: 12 dinner knives, short handle, 9" 12 dinner forks, 7 1/4" 12 luncheon kniv...

Stately by State House sterling silver flatware set - 40 pieces. This set includes: 8 knives, 9 1/8" 8 forks, 7 1/8" 8 salad fork...

Gorgeous Violet by Wallace sterling silver flatware set - 52 Pieces. This set includes: Eight knives, 8 3/4". Eight forks, 7 1/8". Eight salad forks...

The Parisian silversmith Puiforcat is regarded as one of the legendary names in European silver craftsmanship. Inspired by cutlery designed by silversmith Fransois-Thomas Germain in the 18th century and revived by Martin-Guillaume Biennais a century later, this silver-plated classic continues to charm with its smooth, balanced forms and simple threaded design. Gorgeous pristine Consulat by Puiforcat silverplated flatware set...

"Grecian" originated in the year 1877 with Henry Hebbard of New York City, but eventually became a line pattern within Whiting. The design features a raised ram's head at the hand...

"Little Wolf's Last Camp" is a colored woodblock A/P signed by Carol Summers. In the image, a mountain looms over a circle of teat the edge of a lake, a scene likely inspired by the life events of the Northern Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf (c. 1820-1904) and his leadership during the Northern Cheyenne Exodus. The drama of the image is enhanced by Summers' signature printmaking technique, which allows the ink from the woodblock to seep through the paper, blurring the edges of each form. Frame: 37 x 37 in This is an artist's proof from the edition of 100 Carol Summers (1925-2016) has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of Triumph, a new look prevailed. These woodcuts were larger in size and in color. Some incorporated metal leaf in the creation of a collage and Summers even experimented with silkscreening. Editions were now between 20 and 50 prints in number. Most importantly, Summers employed his rubbing technique for the first time in the creation of Fantastic Garden in late 1957. Dark Vision of Xerxes, a benchmark for Summers, was the first woodcut where Summers experimented using mineral spirits as part of his printmaking process. A Fulbright Grant as well as Fellowships from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation followed soon thereafter, as did faculty positions at colleges and universities primarily in New York and Pennsylvania. During this period he married a dancer named Elaine Smithers with whom he had one son, Kyle. Around this same time, along with fellow artist Leonard Baskin, Summers pioneered what is now referred to as the “monumental” woodcut. This term was coined in the early 1960s to denote woodcuts that were dramatically bigger than those previously created in earlier years, ones that were limited in size mostly by the size of small hand-presses. While Baskin chose figurative subject matter, serious in nature and rendered with thick, striated lines, Summers rendered much less somber images preferring to emphasize shape and color; his subject matter approached abstraction but was always firmly rooted in the landscape. In addition to working in this new, larger scale, Summers simultaneously refined a printmaking process which would eventually be called the “Carol Summers Method” or the “ Carol Summers Technique”. Summers produces his woodcuts by hand, usually from one or more blocks of quarter-inch pine, using oil-based printing inks and porous mulberry papers. His woodcuts reveal a sensitivity to wood especially its absorptive qualities and the subtleties of the grain. In several of his woodcuts throughout his career he has used the undulating, grainy patterns of a large wood plank to portray a flowing river or tumbling waterfall. The best examples of this are Dream, done in 1965 and the later Flash Flood Escalante, in 2003. In the majority of his woodcuts, Summers makes the blocks slightly larger than the paper so the image and color will bleed off the edge. Before printing, he centers a dry sheet of paper over the top of the cut wood block or blocks, securing it with giant clips. Then he rolls the ink directly on the front of the sheet of paper and pressing down onto the dry wood block or reassembled group of blocks. Summers is technically very proficient; the inks are thoroughly saturated onto the surface of the paper but they do not run into each other. The precision of the color inking in Constantine’s Dream in 1969 and Rainbow Glacier in 1970 has been referred to in various studio handbooks. Summers refers to his own printing technique as “rubbing”. In traditional woodcut printing, including the Japanese method, the ink is applied directly onto the block. However, by following his own method, Summers has avoided the mirror-reversed image of a conventional print and it has given him the control over the precise amount of ink that he wants on the paper. After the ink is applied to the front of the paper, Summers sprays it with mineral spirits, which act as a thinning agent. The absorptive fibers of the paper draw the thinned ink away from the surface softening the shapes and diffusing and muting the colors. This produces a unique glow that is a hallmark of the Summers printmaking technique. Unlike the works of other color field artists or modernists of the time, this new technique made Summers’ extreme simplification and flat color areas anything but hard-edged or coldly impersonal. By the 1960s, Summers had developed a personal way of coloring and printing and was not afraid of hard work, doing the cutting, inking and pulling himself. In 1964, at the age of 38, Summers’ work was exhibited for a second time at the Museum of Modern Art. This time his work was featured in a one-man show and then as one of MOMA’s two-year traveling exhibitions which toured throughout the United States. In subsequent years, Summers’ works would be exhibited and acquired for the permanent collections of multiple museums throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Summers’ familiarity with landscapes throughout the world is firsthand. As a navigator-bombardier in the Marines in World War II, he toured the South Pacific and Asia. Following college, travel in Europe and subsequent teaching positions, in 1972, after 47 years on the East Coast, Carol Summers moved permanently to Bonny Doon in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California. There met his second wife, Joan Ward Toth, a textile artist who died in 1998; and it was here his second son, Ethan was born. During the years that followed this relocation, Summers’ choice of subject matter became more diverse although it retained the positive, mostly life-affirming quality that had existed from the beginning. Images now included moons, comets, both sunny and starry skies, hearts and flowers, all of which, in one way or another, remained tied to the landscape. In the 1980s, from his home and studio in the Santa Cruz mountains, Summers continued to work as an artist supplementing his income by conducting classes and workshops at universities in California and Oregon as well as throughout the Mid and Southwest. He also traveled extensively during this period hiking and camping, often for weeks at a time, throughout the western United States and Canada. Throughout the decade it was not unusual for Summers to backpack alone or with a fellow artist into mountains or back country for six weeks or more at a time. Not surprisingly, the artwork created during this period rarely departed from images of the land, sea and sky. Summers rendered these landscapes in a more representational style than before, however he always kept them somewhat abstract by mixing geometric shapes with organic shapes, irregular in outline. Some of his most critically acknowledged work was created during this period including First Rain, 1985 and The Rolling Sea, 1989. Summers received an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Bard College in 1979 and was selected by the United States Information Agency to spend a year conducting painting and printmaking workshops at universities throughout India. Since that original sabbatical, he has returned every year, spending four to eight weeks traveling throughout that country. In the 1990s, interspersed with these journeys to India have been additional treks to the back roads and high country areas of Mexico, Central America, Nepal, China and Japan. Travel to these exotic and faraway places had a profound influence on Summers’ art. Subject matter became more worldly and nonwestern as with From Humla to Dolpo, 1991 or A Former Life of Budha, 1996, for example. Architectural images, such as The Pillars of Hercules, 1990 or The Raja’s Aviary, 1992 became more common. Still life images made a reappearance with Jungle Bouquet in 1997. This was also a period when Summers began using odd-sized paper to further the impact of an image. The 1996 Night, a view of the earth and horizon as it might be seen by an astronaut, is over six feet long and only slightly more than a foot-and-a-half high. From 1999, Revuelta A Vida (Spanish for “Return to Life”) is pie-shaped and covers nearly 18 cubic feet. It was also at this juncture that Summers began to experiment with a somewhat different palette although he retained his love of saturated colors. The 2003 Far Side of Time is a superb example of the new direction taken by this colorist. At the turn of the millennium in 1999, “Carol Summers Woodcuts...

Beautiful Royal Windsor by Towle sterling silver Flatware set, 53 pieces. This set includes: 8 Knives 8 3/4", 8 Forks 7 3/8", 8 Salad Forks 6 5/8", 8 ...

In natural tones of gray and cream with some brown, this 2' x 3' wool rug inspired by art deco aesthetic traditions, is titled "Empire State" and showcases the beauty of authentic ca...

Wildflower by Royal Crest sterling silver flatware set of 65 pieces. This set includes: Eight knives, 9 1/8". Eight forks, 7 1/8". Eight salad forks, 6 1/4". Eight teaspoons, 6". Ei...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...

American Victorian by Lunt Sterling Silver Flatware set - 59 pieces. This set includes: 8 Knives, 8 5/8" 8 Forks, 7 1/4" 8 Salad Forks, 6 3/8" 8 Teaspoons, 5 3/4" 8 Cream Soup Spoon...

Old Danish by Cohr Danish sterling silver flatware set of 66 pieces. This pattern has a great modern design! This set includes: Eight knives, 8 ...

Lovely Peachtree Manor by Towle circa 1956 Silver Flatware set, 52 pieces. This set includes: 8 Knives, 9" 8 Forks, 7 1/4" 8 Salad Forks, 6 3/8" 8 Teaspoons, 5 7/8" 8 Place So...

This pattern was launched in the year 1953 and features an unadorned asymmetrical handle and Mid-century Modern design. Unused silver rhythm by Internati...

Lovely French Scroll by Alvin sterling silver Flatware set - 33 pieces. This set includes: Eight knives, 8 7/8". Eight forks, 7 1/4". Eight sal...

Stunning woodwind by Reed & Barton sterling silver flatware set, 54 pieces. This set includes: 12 Knives, 9" 12 Forks, 7 1/2" 12 Salad Forks, 6 1/2" 12 Teaspoons, 6 1/8" 1 Serving S...

Paramount by Kirk sterling silver flatware set, 69 pieces. This modern design is based on the New York city skyline and architecture. This set includes: 12 knives, 9 1/8" 12 fork...

Beautiful Sea Rose by Gorham sterling silver flatware set, 44 pieces. This set includes: Eight knives, 9 1/4". Eight forks, 7 1/2". Eight salad forks, 6 5/8"...

Emeco side tables of brushed aluminum. Offered as a matching pair. From the company that created the famed Navy Chair. Specializing in a simplified industrial style that is lightweig...

The work of Ruth Leavitt (1944, Saint Paul, Minnesota) employs computation to manipulate and alter abstract forms by virtually stretching, rotating and deforming them across three ax...

Violet by Wallace sterling silver Flatware set - 64 pieces. This set includes: 12 Knives, 8 3/4" 12 Forks, 7 1/8" 12 Salad Forks, 6 1/4" 12 Teaspoons, 6" 12 Cream Soup Spoons,...

Presented here as a group are four original etchings of women in European national dress from the master printmaker Wenceslaus Hollar's series "Aula V...

Superb English Gadroon by Gorham sterling silver flatware set - 86 pieces. This set includes: 12 knives, 8 7/8" 12 forks, 7 1/8" 12 salad forks, 6 1/4" 12 teaspoons, 5 7/8" 12 cream...

Dinner Size King Philip by Watson, circa 1904, sterling silver flatware set, 56 pieces. This set includes: 6 Dinner Size Knives with blunt silverplated blades, 10 1/4" 6 Dinner Siz...

Outstanding cromwell by Gorham sterling silver flatware set with "G" monogram in fitted box - 141 pieces. This set includes: 12 dinner size knives, 9 3/4" 12 dinner size forks, 7...

Stradivari by Wallace sterling silver flatware set - 78 pieces. This set includes: 12 knives, 8 3/4", 12 forks, 7 1/8", 12 salad forks, 6 1/2...

Hand-woven with hand-spun, vegetable-dyed wool, this 2' x 3' contemporary carpet offers a refined take on traditional weaving techniques while maintaining a warm, modern aesthetic. I...

'O'Tannenbaum' (Artist's #30129) is an original color silkscreen print by Ruth Grotenrath, signed by the artist on verso. Influenced by the works of Expressionists like Henri Matisse and the woodblock prints of early modern Japanese artists like Katsushika Hokusai, Ruth Grotenrath's 'O'Tannenbaum' combines the expressive use of color of the former with the precision of the latter to create a Christmas card that is as vibrant as it is subtle. Depicting a pine tree decked with ornaments and stockings, Grotenrath has rendered the tree-topping star as a ball of flames to analogize the warmth and spirit of the holiday season. Original color silkscreen 6.625 x 4 inches, silkscreen 14.375 x 11.375 inches, frame Signed in screen on verso inside-letter Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting and mounting materials, Museum Glass to inhibit UV damage and reduce glare, and housed in a gold finish wood frame. "The paintings of Ruth...

Formality by State House sterling silver flatware set, 61 pieces. This set includes: 12 knives, 8 1/2", 12 forks, 7 5/8", 12 s...

Shona sculpture from Zimbabwe

Newport scroll by Gorham sterling silver flatware set - 27 pieces. This set includes: six place knives, 9 1/8", six place forks, 7 1/2", six salad f...

Art Deco "Rhythm" by Wallace circa 1929 sterling silver flatware set - 79 pieces. This set includes: 8 Dinner Knives, 9 1/2" 8 Dinner Forks, 7...

Framed dimensions: 17.38 x 14.5 in Signed on the verso in blue pen "Kara Ziebelman" Kara Ziebelman’s work is rooted in dreams, the human condition, and a deep reverence for both the...

Rose Tiara by Gorham is an elegant and timeless sterling silver pattern, introduced in 1963. Graceful curves and beautifully flowing lines lead to a delicate rose motif at the tip of...

Wassily Kandinsky Woodcut in black on Dutch laid paper Cut from the folio Klänge, conceived 1911-1912, published in 1913 Published by R. Piper, Munich Book is signed and edition to ...

Gorgeous sterling silver stuns in this rich pattern that features a natural theme reminiscent of old world grace. A classic design yet with an understated touch, this pattern focuses...

Mid-Century Modern cantone by Wilkens German 800 silver flatware set - 108 pieces. This set includes: 18 Knives, 8 1/2" 18 Dinner Forks, 7 3/4" ...

Andante by Gorham sterling silver flatware set of 33 pieces. This set includes: Eight knives, 9". Eight forks, 7 1/4". Eight salad forks, 6 1/2". Eight teaspoons, 6". One sugar spoo...

Coquille by Puiforcat 950 sterling silver flatware and unknown maker French sterling set of 78 pieces. This set includes: 18 dinner size knives, pistol grip, 9 7/8" (Puiforcat), 1...

Signed and dated lower right and on back Full title: The Pentecostal Experience, Anointed Touch of the Holy Spirit - Series 2

"Vachere au Bord de L'Eau" is an original etching and aquatint by Camille Pissarro, the 8th state. It can be found in the catalogue raisonne Delteil #93. It features a woman sitting ...

Beautiful Florentine Lace by Reed & Barton sterling silver dinner and luncheon size flatware set of 59 pieces. This set includes: 8 dinner size knives, 9 1/2" 8 dinner size forks, 7...

8 Knives 9", 8 Forks 7 3/8", 8 Salad Forks 6 5/8", 8 Teaspoons 6 1/8", 8 Hollow Handle Butter Spreaders 6 5/8", 1 Gravy Ladle 6 3/4", 1 Serving Spoon 8 5/8", 1 Pierced ...

This outstanding pattern is named Esplanade, derived from a French word meaning a long, open, level area, typically beside the sea, along which people may walk for pleasure. This sen...