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REYNOLDS BEAL, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER, "SELLS FLUTO
CIRCUS, 1936
"Sells
Floto Circus", mixed media on paper by Reynolds
Beal, c. 1936; 16" x 17-1/2", matted to 18" x 29-1/2"; wonderful
American scene: children holding balloons and flags, playing baseball
,and pushing a pram, elephant, horse and circus wagon, banners with
clown and "Pin Heads"; fine condition; signed lower left" "Reynolds
Beal, 1936, Fells Floto Circus;" fine condition.
The Sells Floto Circus was a combination of
the Floto Dog & Pony Show and the Sells Brothers Circus that toured with
sideshow acts in the United States during the early 1900s.
Reynolds Beal (1867 - 1951) was a
prominent American painter in his day and his work is widely collected
today. He studied painting at William Merritt Chase's Shinnecock
Summer School in the 1890s. With his younger brother Gifford Beal (also
a painter), H. Dudley Murphy and Childe Hassam, Beal painted and
traveled, going to Europe to study with Henry Ward Ranger.
In 1919 he was selected with Hassam, Glackens and other prestigious
painters to exhibit at the Luxembourg in Paris. He exhibited at the
Clauson Gallery (NY) and Kraushaar Gallery (NY) as early as 1929 and by
1934 he was an active participant in the Salmagundi Club, Lotus Club,
Century Club, National Academy of Design and the American Water Color
Society. Considered a "modernist," he helped found the Society of
Independent Artists and the New Society of Artists with Bellows, Hassam,
Sloan, Glackens and Prendergast.
Beal used a variety of styles, including Impressionism and Tonalism, and
as he aged, his work became more complex and vibrant with a mosaic of
brush strokes. In addition to oils, he was admired as a watercolorist,
and he, along with Gifford, made Rockport, Massachusetts their home. His
studio overlooked Rockport's Inner Harbor, from where he drew and etched
many harbor scenes. After the late 1920s, Beal was stricken with an
illness and ceased to produce many paintings. His most prolific artistic
period falls between 1910 - 1920. Beal died in 1951.
Taken directly from
http://www.gratzgallery.com/inventory/index.php?page=out&id=206
$4,500.00 + shipping, (item #TA003) |
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DANCERS, MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY DAVID SINCLAIR
NIXON (American/New Orleans, 1904 to 1967)
"Dancers," mixed media on paper--gouache and
pencil--by David Sinclair Nixon, c. 1944; about 11" x 10"; signed:
"David Nixon, May, 44, For Honóre, and titled "Dancers;" mounted and
glued down at the corners; matted to approximately 23" x 21."
$850.00 + shipping, (item #TA002) |
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"LES VASES," CUBIST ETCHING BY JACQUES VILLON, French, 1875 -
1963 A wonderful, original,
pencil signed etching by French artist, Jacques Villon,
titled "Les Vases;" plate
size bout 8-1/4" x 6-1/4"; matted to approximately 20" x 15"; signed in
plate: "Jacque Villon, '50" and pencil signed: "Jacques Villon;" fine
condition.
Villon, Jacques (Gaston
Duchamp) (1875-1963) was the brother of Marcel Duchamp,
Raymond Duchamp Villon and Suzanne Duchamp. He began his
career in art in 1894, in Paris, where he earned a
living as a draughtsman, producing drawings for
magazines such as Le Chat noir, Gil Blas, Lassiette
au Beurre and Le Courrier franqais. In 1904 he
became a founder member of the Salon d'Automne, in which
he regularly exhibited. In 1912 he helped to organize
the Section d'Or exhibition, and in 1913 took
part in the International Exhibition of Modern Art (the
Armory Show) in New York, at which he sold nine
pictures. Between 1921 and 1930 he produced thirty-four
prints for Architectures.
In 1937 he won an award for
painting and graphic art at the International Exhibition
of Art in Paris; in 1940-1 he was in Bernay with Mme
Andre Maren 1944 he became friendly with Louis Carre and
exhibited in his gallery. In 1949 he won the Grand Prix
for graphic art in Lugano, and in 1950 took part in the
Twenty fifth Biennale in Venice, and won the Carnegie
Prize in Pittsburgh. In 1954 he was made Commandeur de
la Legion d' Honneur and Commandeur des Arts et Lettres.
In 1956 he won the Grand Prix for painting at the
Twenty-eighth Biennale in Venice and in 1958 the Grand
Prix at the International Exhibition in Brussels. In
1961 he was made an honorary member of the American
Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute
of Arts and Letters in the United States.
During his early period,
when he worked primarily as a draughtsman and etcher,
Villon was influenced by Steinlen and Toulouse-Lautrec.
In 1906 he became more interested in painting, and
during the next five years took his lead from Degas and
the Fauves. Then, in 1911, he embraced Analytical
Cubism, which satisfied his need for order and
discipline. Subsequently, he tried to develop a new
style of painting based on mathematical proportions
corresponding to the golden section. Later, between 1919
and 1929, he painted abstracts, in which he sought to
represent the essence of objects by means of signs and
not properties. During this period he restricted his
palette to greys and browns. In 1930 he began to use
colours from the prismatic sequence of tones. After this
abstract phase Villon reverted, in 1933, to natural
forms and pure colours. In c. 1950 he stopped painting
landscapes and figure compositions, and evolved a new
and carefully thought-out form of abstract painting, for
which he used cool colours.
(Information mostly quoted from
http://www.masterworksfineart.com/inventory/villon/)
SOLD (item #TA001)
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JOSEPH TRIPPETTI ENAMEL PAINTING ON METAL
Great, modernist enamel
on metal painting by Joseph Trippetti, c.
1950s-60s; approximately 9" x 7", mounted on wood and framed to about
11-1/2 x 9-3/4"; signed in enamel: "TRIPPETTI" lower right; fine
condition.
Born in 1923, Joseph
Trippetti, who was trained as both an artist and silversmith, is best
known for his work in enamels. He opened a studio in New Hampshire in
1951. His work was inspired by medieval imagery he had seen in
England while studying at the Sheffiled School of Arts and Crafts
in England. "Flattened, abstracted figures rendered in bold colors
became recurring motifs in his work." He later turned to cloisonné
as his preferred method. His work has won many prizes throughout
his career and is part of the collections of the Wichita Center of the
Arts; the Lowe Gallery, University of Miami; the Currier Museum of Art;
the New Hampshire Historical Society; and the Long Beach Museum of Art.
From Painting with
Fire, Masters of Enameling in America, 1930-1980 by Jazzar and
Nelson.
SOLD (item #MSE001) |
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JOSEPH TRIPPETTI ENAMEL PAINTING ON METAL
A masterpiece by
Joseph Trippetti--fishing village scene in
beautiful colors of enamels on metal; about 16" x 11-1/2", mounted on
wood, but unframed, though wired on the back for mounting on the wall;
signed in enamel: "TRIPPETTI" lower right; fine condition.
SOLD (item #HPM035) |
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ORIGINAL SERIGRAPH BY HIROYUKI TAJIMA, "FANTASY
A"
Original serigraph by Japanese artist,
Hiroyuki Tajima; image size 25" x 19-1/2"; signed in pencil:
"Fantasy A, 50 - 6, Hiroyuki Tajima '66; matted, but
somewhat yellowed and matte
burned so should be re-matted, otherwise fine condition.
$350.00 (item #SE001) |
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KALMAN OSWALD, ORIGINAL PENCIL DRAWING
Beautifully executed pencil drawing of two
nudes in landscape by Hungarian/American artist Kalman
Oswald, 1888-1975; great antique frame; drawing is about 8" x 10",
framed to 11-3/4" x 13-3/4"; drawing is in excellent condition, frame
has one small chip lower left that does not distract; drawing is signed
lower right: "Kalman Oswald."
$450.00 (item #SP004) |
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DONALD MACKEY MODERNIST DRAWING
Modernist pen and ink with wash drawing of two
dancers by mid-20th century New Orleans artist, Donald J.
Mackey; drawing size about 8-3/4" x 7-1/2", trimmed
to 9-3/4" x 8"; a few stains around the edges, paper is a bit yellowed
and a soft crease lower right corner;
otherwise good condition; "signed on reverse: "Donald J. Mackey."
$350.00 (item #SP003) |
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ERNEST TROVA INK & CRAYON DRAWING
Rare, original ink and crayon drawing by
Ernest Trova, c. 1949; framed and matted with linen matte and gold tone
over wood frame; signed "T.T." and dated, 1949, lower left;
approximately 10" x 7-1/2" framed to about 14" x 16-1/2"; fine
condition.
$1,200.00 (item #SP001)
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ERNEST TROVA INK & CRAYON DRAWING
Rare, original ink and crayon drawing by
Ernest Trova, c. 1949; framed and matted with linen matte and gold tone
over wood frame; signed "Tino Trova" and dated, 1949, lower left;
approximately 10-1/4" x 7" framed to about 16-1/2" x 13-1/2"; fine
condition.
$1,200.00 (item #SP002)
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MARJORIE NICHOLS & DALE NICHOLS, ORIGINAL
WATERCOLOR
A beautiful, original watercolor of a woman
carrying a basket of fruit on her head; probably a collaboration between
Marjorie Nichols and Dale Nichols when they were in Guatemala;
approximately 21" x 10" (sight), professionally matted and framed to
about 32" x 20-1/4"; signed lower left with "MARJORIE + NICHOLS"
(the "M" from Marjorie and the "N" from Nichols are inside of what
appears to be a large "D"); paper may have yellowed a bit and the is a
slight bit of soft wrinkling of the paper, otherwise fine condition.
Dale Nichols was born in David City, Nebraska
on July 13, 1904. At twenty, Nichols went to study at Chicago's Acadmey
of Fine Arts. He remained in Chicago for approximately fifteen years,
spending one year as the Carnegie Professor in Art at the University of
Illinois. In 1943 he became the Art Editor of the Encyclopedia
Britannica. Nichols spent the remainder of his life moving between
Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, Guatemala, and Alaska. He died in
Sedona, Arizona on October 19, 1995 at 91.
Marjorie Tolkin
Nichols, originally a student of Dale Nichols, became his fourth wife.
They may have met in Tubac, Arizona where, in 1945, Nichols began an art
school that was to be modeled after Frank Loyd Wright's Taliesen West in
Scottsdale. The school did not fulfill his dreams, however, and he
left in 1949. Marjorie Nichols returned to Tubac in 1959, where
she managed a gallery housed in one of the adobe buildings that her
husband had used for his school. In 1964 she arranged for a national
juried art fair in Tubac. She continued to live and work in a
studio next to the gallery in Tubac. Dale Nichols returned to
Tubac in 1989 at the age of 89. (information
taken from Google Books and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Nichols)
Dale Nichols painted a
lovely portrait of Marjorie in the mid 1950s that was recently offered
for auction in New Orleans.
$1,250.00 (item #PT003) |
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ORIGINAL HANS BOLEK GOUACHE ON PAPER, "GOBLETS 1"
Great cubist painting by Austrian artist,
Hans Bolek; about 22" x 12" (sight), framed to 30" x
18"; signed "Bolek" (lower right) and "Goblets I" (lower left); fine
condition.
Hans Bolek was a painter, designer and teacher in
Vienna, Austria. He was born there in 1894. He studied at the Kunstgewerbe
Schule in Vienna and worked with Josef Hoffmann. He created designs for
Loetz Glass. He taught at the Fashion School in Vienna. He died in
Vienna in 1978.
SOLD (item #PT001) |
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XAVIER DE CALLATAY, ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR FROM 1959
Original watercolor by Belgian/New Orleans artist
Xavier De Callatay, about 10" x 14" (sight), matted and framed
to8-1/2" x 15"; signed lower right: "23-I-59, Callatay;" fine condition.
SOLD (item #PT002) |
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HAND WOVEN WALL HANGING BY MASTER WEAVER ALLYN
DEVRIES Beautiful, multicolored
hand woven wall hanging by Allyn DeVries; about 23" x 19-1/2"; fine
condition.
Allyn DeVries is a current resident of
Natchez, Mississippi. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts
degree from the University of Akron in 1972. She shows and sells
her work through many fine galleries throughout the Southern U.S.
$395.00 (item #DA001) |
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SCULPTURE |
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CHER FOX HANDWROUGHT STEEL BIRD SCULPTURE
A exceptional, steel sculpture by Cher Fox,
completely handwrought; about 18-1/2" high x 13" long (an excellent size
for display in a home); Cher makes steel come to life in her amazing
one-of-a-kind bird sculptures. See
http://www.modernsilver.com/CHERFOX.htm and
http://www.modernsilver.com/CHERFOX2.htm
SOLD + shipping (item #CFMM001) |
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CHER FOX HANDWROUGHT STEEL LAMP
Another exceptional, steel sculpture by Cher
Fox, completely handwrought, footed lamp; about 31" high; makes an
exquisite statement as a piece of sculpture and is beautiful when lit.
See
http://www.modernsilver.com/CHERFOX.htm and
http://www.modernsilver.com/CHERFOX2.htm
$750.00 + shipping (item #CFMM002) |
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PHOTOGRAPHY |
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"NAGASAKI PARK BENCH," GICLEE PRINT BY MIKE KEHOE
Giclee montage print by Mike Kehoe, "Nagasaki
Park Bench;" c. 2006; printed on Epson photographic paper; 8-1/2" x 11";
marked "MK" in the print and titled on reverse: "NAGASAKI PARK BENCH,
7/40, M. Kehoe, '06"; fine condition.
Mike Kehoe is a very talented artist who, a
few years ago, began creating giclee prints by combining images,
including many of his original photographs, using his computer. Most of
the montages he creates are beautiful and emotionally evocative.
Mike lives and works in West Branch, Iowa and is the owner of Tombo
Gallery.
$65.00 (item #PT004) |
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FRANTISEK DRTIKOL STAMPED PHOTOGRAPH
Stamped photograph by Frantisek
Drtikol, c.
1996; posthumously printed on original paper stored in a Prague museum;
image is approximately 9" x 11" (sight only), matted to 15-1/2" x 19";
stamped lower right: "ODEPHIL EDITIONS, PRAGUE;" fine condition.
$1,800.00
(item #PH059) |
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FRANTISEK DRTIKOL STAMPED PHOTOGRAPH
Stamped photograph by Frantisek Drtikol, c.
1996; posthumously printed on original paper stored in a Prague museum;
image is approximately 11-1/2" x 9-1/2" (sight only), matted to about
19" x 15-1/2"; stamped lower right: "ODEPHIL EDITIONS, PRAGUE;" fine
condition.
$1,800.00
(item #PH060) |
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"ESTHER'S STUDIO" FROM
ESTHER'S STUDIO
SERIES BY
SHIRLEY BYRNE Original black and
white photograph by Mississippi contemporary photographer Shirley Byrne;
"Esther's Studio" from Esther's Studio series, with soft white
archival matt.
8" x 10" print, $220.00 (item
#PH075A)
5" x 7" print, $195.00 (item #PH075B) |
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"WINDOW" FROM
ESTHER'S STUDIO SERIES BY
SHIRLEY BYRNE Original black and
white photograph by Mississippi contemporary photographer Shirley Byrne;
"Window" from Esther's Studio series, with soft white archival
matt.
8" x 10" print, $220.00(item #PH076A)
5" x 7" print, $195.00
(item #PH076B) |
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"OAK TREE, BAY SAINT LOUIS,
MISSISSIPPI," PHOTOGRAPH BY KEITH KARLSON
Black and white photograph by Keith
Karlson;
"Oak Tree, Bay Saint Louis;" approximately 19" square, matted to about 29" square; fine condition.
$395.00 (item
#PH041) |
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D.F. RUZICKA, "BOYS FISHING"
D.F. Ruzicka; "Boys Fishing;"
photogravure; written on verso: "Gravure from Photographique, ca.
1906, Berlin;" printed on margin lower left: "D.F.Ruzicka, New York;"
printed lower right: "Photogr. Vertagages, m. b. Halle, a/s;" upper
right margin: "Mezzotinto, Bruckmann;" approximately 7" x 8-1/2";
excellent condition.
$750.00 (item #PH035) |
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ZEE AMER,
"POW!"
Zee
Amer, "Pow!"; Signed
on verso and
numbered: "5/10, 3/97," stamped: "Z. Amer, 1996," also paper label
stamp; approximately 20" x 16"; excellent condition.
$700.00
(item #PH036) |
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"PORTRAIT LADY
H." , VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH BY EDUARD J. STEICHEN
Framed vintage photograph of "Lady
H." by Eduard Steichen; c. 1908; four-color halftone, approximately
8" x 6"; professionally matted and framed to 18" x
15"; fine condition.
$1,100.00 (item
#PH002) |
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"KUTENAI MAIDEN," PHOTOGRAVURE BY
EDWARD S. CURTIS Beautiful,
original photogravure by Edward S. Curtis, "Kutenai
Maiden;" photograph ca. 1910; image
size approximately 7-1/4" x 4-5/8", paper size about 11-3/4" x 9-3/8";
fine condition.
There are
several other Curtis photogravures available.
Please email for information and photographs.
marbeth1@aol.com
SOLD
(item #PH042) |
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"IRON PLUME - OGALALA," PHOTOGRAVURE
BY EDWARD S. CURTIS Original
photogravure by Edward S. Curtis, "Iron Plume -
Ogalala;" photograph ca. 1907; image size
approximately 7-1/4" x 5-1/4; paper size about 11-3/4" x 9-3/8"; outer
edges of paper are slightly ragged and there is a small stain at the top
right edge; otherwise fine condition.
There are
several other Curtis photogravures available.
Please email for information and photographs.
marbeth1@aol.com
SOLD
(item #PH043) |
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"HÁSTĬN YÁZHĔ - NAVAJO,"
PHOTOGRAVURE BY EDWARD S. CURTIS
Original photogravure by Edward S. Curtis, photograph ca. 1906; image
size approximately 7-3/8" x 3-7/8" paper size about 11-3/4" x 9-3/8";
matted to about 18" x 14"; photograph is floated with photo corners on
acid free backing; mat is slightly dirty, paper and photograph are in
fine condition.
There are
several other Curtis photogravures available.
Please email for information and photographs.
marbeth1@aol.com
SOLD
(item #PH044) |
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"PIEGAN WAR-BONNET AND COUP-STICK," VINTAGE
PHOTOGRAVURE BY EDWARD S. CURTIS
Original photogravure by Edward S. Curtis, "Piegan
War-Bonnet and Coup-Stick," ca. 1909; image size approximately 7-3/8" x
4-5/8"; matted to about 14" x 11"; some soft wrinkling of the paper,
otherwise fine condition.
$1,250.00
(item #PH054) |
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"SLOW BULL'S WIFE, " VINTAGE PHOTOGRAVURE BY EDWARD
S. CURTIS Original photogravure
by Edward S. Curtis, "Slow Bull's Wife," ca. 1907;
image size approximately 7-3/8" x 4-1/2"; matted to about 14" x 11";
fine condition.
$600.00
(item #PH055) |
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"FLATHEAD WARRIOR, " VINTAGE PHOTOGRAVURE BY EDWARD
S. CURTIS Original photogravure
by Edward S. Curtis, "Flathead Warrior," ca. 1910;
image size approximately 7-1/8" x 5-1/4"; matted to about 14" x 9-3/8";
fine condition.
$950.00
(item #PH053) |
