Price: $950 American nature photographer. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, February 6, 1960. On his name imprinted stationery, to “Dear Nick.” “It was good to talk with you the other day – although I must have sounded very dull indeed! This flu is bad stuff!! I am still in bed with it, and I … [ Read More ]
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Cassatt, Mary
Price: $4,750 American Impressionist paper. Autograph Letter Signed, M. Cassatt, one page, octavo, Paris, undated but circa 1904. To M. Anzoli, in French. “Would you please be kind enough to make for me, as soon as possible, a white frame for a pastel, no. 12, that is to say the frame and its number 12 … [ Read More ]
Cassatt, Mary
Price: $3,750 American painter who exhibited with the Impressionists. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, oblong small octavo, [Paris, May 21, 1914]. In English, on her imprinted correspondence card measuring 5 3/8 inches wide by 3 5/8 inches high, to Dear Miss Hester. With the original envelope. “Can you bring your work to me some morning … [ Read More ]
Chagall, Marc
Price: $3,750 Russian painter. Autograph Letter Signed, one full page, quarto, New York, 1945. In Russian. “She always spoke of you with affection. I always feel your sincerity. I will be happy to see you. I sent you a book. Modesty prevented me from getting in touch with you earlier. She was in art as … [ Read More ]
Copley, John Singleton
Price: $17,500 American artist. Partly-printed Receipt Signed, J.C.Copley. one page, narrow oblong octavo, April, 2, 1787. Together with a printed prospectus of the subscription for the engraving of Copley’s painting, “The Siege and Relief of Gibraltar,” three and one half pages, large quarto, [London], undated. The receipt is from Mr. John Fornou Tuffen for “the … [ Read More ]
Cruikshank, George
Price: $500 English caricaturist and illustrator. Autograph Document Signed, in the text, one page, oblong octavo, August 5, 1835. “Messrs. Blackwood & Sons…to Geo. Cruikshank…designing and etching of subjects to illustrate nights …&c., &c., at 6 Guineas each £50.8.” From 1835 George Cruikshank for several years issued the Comic Almanack, one of the predecessors of … [ Read More ]
Currier, Nathaniel
Price: $3,750 American lithographer; Currier and Ives. Autograph Document Signed, Nathl Currier, two lines on a sheet of paper measuring 8 inches wide by 2 1/4 inches high, New York, March 4, 1836. “Received New York March 4th 1836–from A.J. Davis…Twenty dollars…” This item is associated with these categories in our inventory: Americana Art
Dali, Salvador
Price: $4,750 Spanish painter; associated with the Ultra-Modern schools, notably Futurism, Constructivism, Cubism, Abstract Irrationalism, and Surrealism. Original pen and ink sketch, unsigned, full page, large quarto, n.d. Three abstract reclining forms, each propped up on a bent elbow and each extending a hand holding a bowl. A fine example. Framed in russet, caramel and … [ Read More ]
Degas, Edgar
Price: $4,750 French Impressionist painter. Autograph Letter Signed, Degas, one page, octavo, Sunday [February 1896]. On a postal card, to Monsieur Ernest May. “I cannot do it tomorrow nor Tuesday. It will have to be next Sunday and next Monday, Sunday in the morning and Monday in the afternoon. I need these two days in … [ Read More ]
Dore, Gustave
Price: $1,750 French illustrator and painter. Autograph Letter Signed, G. Dore, one full page, octavo, January 28, n.y. “On the request which M. Duvillier had addressed to you on the subject of the letter you mention, I asked him to show it to me and regret very much that in spite of my most sincere … [ Read More ]
Eames, Charles and Ray
Price: $5,750 Inventive designers of the post World War II period; created the “Eames Chairs.” Typewritten Letter Signed by Charles, C, one page, quarto, May 14, 1952. To Alexander Girard (in Grosse Pointe, Michigan). With one word and two corrections in his hand, and one sentence, written in red crayon, in Ray’s hand: ” will … [ Read More ]
Gainsborough, Thomas
Price: $17,500 English painter; excelled in portraits and landscapes; painted The Blue Boy. Autograph Document Signed, one page, 4 1/2 inches wide by 6 3/4 inches high, August 7, 1778. “Recd. of Sir Thomas Clarges sixty-five guineas in full for a portrait of Lady Clarges and a frame.” Blank upper corner is torn away, not … [ Read More ]
Gauguin, Paul
Price: $22,500 French painter. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, small octavo, n.d. In bold pencil to the painter Camille Pissarro. “Upon receiving your letter I set off for the Grande Athenes, hoping to meet you. Since I am busy tomorrow until Wednesday, I will not be able to make a date with you. Anyhow, I’m … [ Read More ]
Houdon, Jean Antoine
Price: $8,750 French sculptor. Document Signed, Houdon, one page, oblong octavo, Paris, May 26, 1800. The sculptor signs a receipt “attesting that I have received from Citizens Moliere, Contremoulin and Texier two hundred and sixty-seven francs, and thirty centimes, net total of the repayment of two-thirds of my annuity plus the interest for the first … [ Read More ]
Hunt, William Holmon
Price: $2,750 English Pre-Raphaelite painter. Autographed William Holmon Hunt, Manuscript, two pages, oblong octavo, undated. Concerning William Holmon Hunt’s comments on Rossetti’s Annunciation and a “new Raffaelle” at the National Gallery. “We will not presume in concert to lay down the law about his merits but I think there is no reason why I should not … [ Read More ]
Ingres, Jean
Price; $1,750 French painter; recognized as the leader among the Classicists. Autograph Letter Signed, Ingres, one page, octavo, February 19, 1861. Jean Ingres tells his correspondent that he has been sick for a month, but has finally returned to work, and is now writing to let him know that he can “be sure to find … [ Read More ]
Laurencin, Marie
Price: $4,750 French modernist painter. Autograph Letter Signed, one and a half pages, octavo, undated. To an unnamed lady, concerning her tapestry designs that the state manufacturer would surely reject, but when the tapestry again comes into vogue, she is certain they will be accepted. This item is associated with the following category in our … [ Read More ]
Leger, Ferdnand
Price: $2,750 French painter; identified with the Ultra-modern school, especially the Cubists. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, oblong octavo, New York, March 10, 1945. In English. “I want to acknowledge…that I have received your check $600.00 for my painting France reborn. Will you please note that I have left 80 W. 40th St. (the address … [ Read More ]
Leger, Ferdnand
Price: $6,750 French painter; identified with the Ultra-Modern School, especially with the Cubists. Signed Photograph of one of his paintings, inscribed on the lower margin Proof that man descends from the ape. To Louis Mangel, his friend F. Leger, dated April 23, 1916. 11 1/2 by 8 inches, a fine example. Framed in gray, plum … [ Read More ]
Manet, Edouard
Price: $7,750 French Impressionist painter. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, small octavo, March 20, no year. On imprinted stationery, to My dear Rodolphe. Go as soon as you can to Mr. Durusquecs 6 impasse de la Madeleine. He is the owner of a manor I told you about. If you two come to an agreement, … [ Read More ]
Moran, Thomas
Price: $2,750 American artist, best known for his landscapes and scenes of the American West. Autograph Letter Signed, T. Moran, one page, octavo, [April 2, 1872]. To Stedman. Fine condition. Excuse my forgetfulness but I intended to have brought your invitation to the private view when I came to varnish the pictures the other day. … [ Read More ]
Morris, William
Price: $5,750 English poet and artist; founded the Arts and Crafts Movement. Printed Proof Sheet Signed, with initials in purple ink in the upper left margin, one page, quarto, undated. With handwritten corrections in purple and black ink. The proof sheet, bearing a large decorated woodcut initial W, is page 78 of the Kelmscott edition … [ Read More ]
Morse, Samuel
Price: $17,500 American artist and inventor of the telegraph. Sketch, in pencil, one page, irregular small octavo sheet pasted onto a quarto sheet, [1848]. Morse has drawn the face of a bearded man, wearing a cap, below which is an Autograph Note of Winfield Scott’s Chief of Staff, B[enjamin] B. French, signed with initials: “Pencil … [ Read More ]
Nast, Thomas
Price: $2,750 American cartoonist whose work was largely responsible for the overthrow of the Tweed Ring in New York. Fourteen sketches and Autograph Manuscript Signed, Th: N, drawn and written on both sides of a dust wrapper for Society as I have found it by Ward McAllister, 8 1/4 by 19 1/2 inches, [1892]. Minor … [ Read More ]
O’Keeffe, Georgia
Price: $2,750 American painter. Autograph Letter Signed, Georgia O’Keeffe, one page, quarto, Abiquiu, July 25, 1969. To Elizabeth Monroe. With the original envelope. “Dear Elizabeth Monroe / When you are in Santa Fe drop me a note and plan to come up some morning. “If you do not have a car I could probably send … [ Read More ]
Pissarro, Camille
Price: $3,750 French Impressionist painter. Autograph Letter Signed, C. Pissarro, two pages, octavo, 28 Place Dauphin, Paris, April 12, 1902. In French, to “My dear Contet.” “Would you have the kindness to have an easel with a baseboard made for me like those you already furnished me with, but about which it should be noted … [ Read More ]
Redoute, Pierre-Joseph
Price: $12,500 French painter of flowers (sometimes called the “Raphael of Flowers”) and lithographer. Autograph Letter Signed, full page, quarto, December 10, 1811. To Aimé Bonpland, Josephines botanist, enclosing a bill that you have been asking me for so long a time, but I dont at all remember what you spent yourself because I didnt … [ Read More ]
Renoir, Pierre Auguste
Price: $7,500 French Impressionist painter. Photograph of one of his paintings of a female nude, standing backward, signed above a stamp, which reads “Seen in order to authenticate the signature of Pierre Auguste Renoir, painter, witnessed January 10, 1911.” The photograph was originally part of the archive of Renoir’s art dealer, the great Ambrose Vollard. … [ Read More ]
Reynolds, Sir Joshua
Price: $12,500 English portrait painter; official painter to George III. Partly printed Document Signed Sir Joshua Reynolds, one page, folio, [25 1/2 by18 1/4 inches], [London], November 30, 1772. With an elaborate engraving occupying the upper half of the document, and the blue wax seal of the Royal Academy of London at the bottom. As … [ Read More ]
Roualt, Georges
Price: $7,500 French Fauvist and Expressionist painter. Autograph Letter Signed, one full page, quarto, August 15, 1938. I am in receipt of your telegram – here is the address of my daughter, Isabelle Rouault, who is my secretary, but is not with me at this time: Chalet Pax, Route de Pau, les Hautes Pyrenées, where … [ Read More ]
Stuart, Gilbert
Price: $17,500 American painter; known for his distinctively American portrait style. Document Signed, as witness, Gilb: Stuart, one page, quarto, London, August 2, 1783. The document itself is signed by a William Richardson and reads: “Recd. from John Murray, bookseller Ten pounds ten shillings in full for the Literary property or Copy right of a … [ Read More ]
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Price: $2,750 English novelist. Pen and ink sketches, unsigned, two pages, octavo, [n.d.]. William Makepeace Thackeray has drawn three profile heads of a man wearing a top hat; a cat; two Egyptian pyramids with a fierce, crouching lion in the foreground; a begging dog; a crowing rooster; and a mouse. On the verso, he has … [ Read More ]
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henry de
Price: $10,000 Autograph Letter Signed, HT Lautrec, one and a half pages, small quarto, [1894]. In French, to the publisher and lithographer André Marty. Requesting a meeting at 6:30 at the Napolitain, Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec writes: “I gave you my last instructions. I am going with Geffroy tomorrow (Friday) to see Yvette in Vaux.” In … [ Read More ]
Turner, J M W
Price: $6,750 English landscape painter. Autograph Letter Signed J M W Turner, one page, small octavo, September 30, n.y. “Have the goodness to present my thanks and the book…together with a new map of the Moselle. The old one has worn out….” This item is associated with the following category in our inventory: Art
Turner, J M W
Price: $6,750 English landscape painter. Autograph Letter Signed, J M W Turner, one full page, quarto, December 27, 1845. To Hawkesworth. “Thanks for the pie. As good as usual — but no letter. I hope you are all well at Farnley for I would…[like] very much to know something of your whereabouts and your health. … [ Read More ]
Vigee-Lebrun, Marie Anne Élisabeth
Price: $4,500 Portrait painter to Queen Marie Antoinette. Third Person Letter, Marie Anne Vigee-Lebrun, one page, octavo, October 28, [1837]. In French. Mme Le Brun, before returning to Paris next Monday, asks Monsieur Vattemare to do her the honor of visiting her tomorrow, Sunday. She will return the engravings he left with her, as she … [ Read More ]
Whistler, James McNeill
Price: $5,750 American artist. Superb sepia tone albumen photograph of James Whistler’s work in White III, Signed Whistler and with his butterfly signature, in pencil on the lower mount. From the private collection of the American painter Chauncey Ryder. A fine example measuring 15 ½ inches wide by 21 inches high.