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Art Collecting Books & Ephemera
Artist dossier of Silvano. Bozzolini. (1911-1998)
by Bozzolini, Silvano (1911-1998
Paris: 1974. 2 ALS with reproductions of this works to the gallerist Solange Simon... Silvano. Bozzolini. (1911-1998) Bozzolini was a prominent exponent of European post-war abstraction and co-founder of the avant-garde group “Espace” that championed geometric abstraction during the 1950's. Provenance: gallerist Solange Simon,....Solange Simon est décédée en 2016; elle est née en 1920...Solange Simon fut galeriste à Lille dans les années 60-80, puis collabora avec la galerie Convergences...
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Letter from Allene Katzman Misch to the printer Ernest F. De Soto . Signed.
by Misch, Allene Katzman (1928-2014)
Las Vegas: 1978. Detailed description of her color requirements. Signed in ink by Allene Katzman Misch. DSW Edition no. 46 Allene Katzman Misch, 86, was born Jan. 27, 1928, in Utica, N.Y. She entered into eternal peace June 10, 2014, in Las Vegas. Allene was an award-winning artist and a concert pianist. Her love of the arts continued throughout her life, creating and displaying charcoal sketches, oils and acrylic paintings throughout galleries in the United States. An advocate for literacy in the...
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XXe Siècle. No. 4. Christmas 1938. (lacking the original prints)
by Lazzaro, G. di San
Paris: XXe Siècle, 1938. . 4to. Original wraps. 40pp. (lacking the original prints). Full page drawings by Paul Klee and max bill. Spine defective, partially detached. American edition. From the collection of the art historian, Peter Selz.
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NZ$257.19
A collection of letters and color samples from Timothy J. Clark, (to the printer Ernest F. De Soto regarding the lithograph "Regina Resting".
by Clark, Timothy J. (born 1951)
Fountain Valley, CA, 1982-1986. 2 Als and 2 color flyers with annotations Ernest De Soto edition number 151. He was born and raised in Santa Ana, California and attended Otis Art Institute and then the Art Center School of Design where he worked with Harry Carmean in 1969. He graduated from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (CFA '72) and the California Institute of the Arts (BA 1975) where he worked with Harold Kramer, Emerson Woelffer, and Donald W. Graham. Clark received his master's...
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NZ$3,429.20
Contract for the lithograph "Couple of Girls" from 10 West Coast Artists by Manuel Neri. Signed.
by Neri, Manuel
San Francisco: Collectors Press, 1967.. 2 pages,. Signed in ink by the artist . Collectors Press no. 104 Manuel Neri. Manuel Neri (born April 12, 1930) is an American sculptor who is recognized for his life-size figurative sculptures in plaster, bronze, and marble, as well as for his association with the Bay Area Figurative Movement during the 1960s. Provenance: Estate of Ernest F. De Soto.
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NZ$428.65
Figures Contemporaines: Jeanine Echard, ; Claude-René Carré; Michel Welply; Vincent -Charles Richet; Christian Goupil. Exposition 1973.
by Echard, Jeanine; Claude-René Carré; Michel Welply; Vincent -Charles Richet; Christian Currien; Christine Goupil
Lille : la Galerie Saint-Jacques-Solange Simon,, 1973. Vernissage chez la Galerie Saint-Jacques-Solange Simon, Lille, 1973; Exposiiton groupe. price list; coupures de presse; Als à Simon from Jeanine Echard . ..Solange Simon, 1920-2016 fut galeriste à Lille dans les années 60-80, puis collabora avec la galerie Convergences à Nantes dans les années 80-90. Elle fut également peintre, s'inspirant beaucoup de Pignon, Chagall ou de Staël entre autres. Expertise by Vincent Cesbron.
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NZ$342.92
Artist dossier of Sándor Torok (1936-2006)
by Torok, Sándor (1936-2006)
Lille and Subotica :1973. Vernissages chez la Galerie Saint-Jacques-Solange Simon, Lille, 1973; ; various price lists; coupures de presse; Als and signed xmas card with lithograph..... Festő. 1958-ban kezdett festészettel foglalkozni. Először Belgrádban, majd 1966-1968-ig Újvidéken, a tanárképző főiskolán folytatott tanulmányokat. Első kiállítása 1962-ben volt, amit több egyéni és csoportos követett itthon és külföldön is. Művészetét több díjjal is jutalmazták,...
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NZ$771.57
A collection of annotated photographs and documentation by and about the artist Christopher Lane
by Lane, Christopher (b. 1937)
San Francisco: 1982-1997. 6 TLs to the art historian Peter Selz with a group annotated photographs and slides; price lists; press releases; biographies; flyers and catalogues from shows, including one with Hiromichi Iwashita; drawing of a layout for a show; and other documentation. Christopher Lane was unique member of a group of modernist painters who completely altered the idea and process of what a painting becomes. They addressed a painting as an extension of the human condition through an...
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NZ$857.30
Catalogue Jacques Bosser à l'espace Athanor de Guérande.
by Bosser, Jacques (born 1946)
Guérande, France: 2002. Original wraps. 16pp. One of 500 numbered copies. Jacques Bosser est né au Havre en 1946. Depuis 1986, ce peintre, sculpteur et photographe vit et a fixé son atelier à Montrouge. De longs séjours à l’étranger font naître des œuvres ou des pistes de travail pour de nouveaux projets. En 1988 il travaille et expose à Los Angeles. En 1992 et 1994, lors de ses séjours en Inde, il prend des photographies autour des temples des pèlerins aux abords des fleuves qu’il...
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NZ$85.73
An archive letters and Reviews and Exhibition correspondence relative to the artist Romare Bearden.
by Selz, Peter (born 1919) and Neal Benezra, Carl Worth, Janet Bishop
Berkeley, California; San Francisco; New York, Washington D.C. : 2003. Letters between Peter Selz and curators and directors at the National Gallery for Art relative to the Bearden retrospective at the NGA in 2003 and the show at SFMoMA for spring, 2004; and events in Berkeley. From the collection of the art historian, Peter Selz.
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NZ$857.30
A collection of letters from Joop Sanders, to the printer Ernest F. De Soto regarding his lithograph.
by Sanders, Joop (born 1921)
1968. 3 ALs and 2 pages of layouts. Collectors Press edition number 140 Joop Sanders (born October 6, 1921 in Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch-born, American painter, educator and founding member of the American Abstract Expressionist group. He is the youngest member of the first generation of the New York School. Provenance: Estate of Ernest F. De Soto .
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NZ$514.38
Letter to Peter Selz about a proposed Max Beckmann exhibition and a commission for Oliveira's own sculptures.
by Oliveira, Nathan (1928–2010)
Stanford, California: 1982. 2 pp. ALS about Max Beckmann and a commission to do "15 or so bronze sculptures." Nathan Oliveira was an American artist and prominent member of the second generation of the Bay Area Figurative artists. Though he worked with a variety of media, subjects, and disciplines over the course of his long career, Oliveira is best remembered for the brilliantly colored figurative and landscape paintings he created while associated with the California movement. “For me, painting is...
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M. Kisling. Signed. presentation copy.
by Kisling, Moise (1891-1953) and Carl Einstein
Leipzig: Klinghardt & Biermann, 1922. Original pictorial boards, tear along linen spine. 8vo. 16pp and unnumbered plates. Signed presentation copy "à mon cher Thadé Bloch . . . St. Tropez, le 24 II, 1923. Part of a collection from his friend Thadé (Thódore, Tadé) Bloch.
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NZ$600.11
In Place. Signed.
by Ford, Gordon Onslow (1912-2003)
Inverness, CA: 1982. Card with a reproduction of the acrylic "In Place" with the annotation "All good wishes for 1982 affectionately Gordon" on the verso . 7 x 5 inches. From the collection of the late San Francisco artist Vesta Kirby (1936-2016) who was a designer at SOM and the studio and restoration assistant and to Ford (1987-1992).
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NZ$171.46
Through the Eyes of Rachel Marker. (Journal, Zurich, 1916). Signed.
by Roth, Moria (born 1933)
Berkeley, CA: 2011. Handbound typescript, ca. 150 pages. 4to. Signed and dedicated with a TLs. "Begun in 2001, this is a fragmented narrative about a fictional Czech Jew who first appears in World War 1 in Zurich in the Dada Cabaret Voltaire, lives through the 20th century, and now resides in California. After the 1924 death of Franz Kafka Rachel Marker writes to him daily about her own writing, experiences and thoughts, and describes to him events in European history in the 1920s and 1930s,...
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Prospectus for "Dutch Hearts" by Jim Dine.
by Dine, Jim
London: Petersburg Press, 1971. One page prospectus for the portfolio with original color photographs stapled on.
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NZ$600.11
Invitation to a double lecture: Kaethe Kollwitz: Her life and work and a Personal Reminiscence by Mrs. Fritz Kortner (in Los Angeles)
by Kollwitz, Kaethe and Kate Steinitz and Mrs. Fritz Kortner (speakers)
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Arts Association, 1947. 1 page flyer 8vo. Kate Steinitz : Käte Steinitz Kate Traumann Kate Trauman Steinitz (after emigration to USA, 1936) Biography Jewish (but family baptised in Lutheran faith c1914). Born Käte Traumann 2 August 1889 in Beuthen (Upper Silesia, now Bytom, Poland), Germany. 1910-11: student of Käthe Kollwitz and Anny Loewenstein at the Women Artist’s Association (Künstlerinnenverein, also referred to as the Berlin School of Art for Women), Berlin....
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NZ$128.60
Print Documentation for "Untitled," lithograph in Green, Red, Violet and Blue.by Raymond K. Parker (Ray Parker). Signed.
by Parker, Raymond K. (1922 - 1990)
San Francisco: Collectors Press, 1968 . Detailed description of the edition of the lithograph. Signed in pencil by Ray Parker. This describes each color, the proofs and the edition. Edition of 75. Collectors Press no. 126 Raymond K. Parker (Ray Parker) was born in Beresford, South Dakota on August 22, 1922. Parker entered the University of Iowa in Iowa City in 1940 where he earned his MFA in 1948. From 1948 to 1951 he taught painting at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. During the 1940s his...
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NZ$300.06
Print Documentation for "Dog Howling at Moon" by Rufino Tamayo. Signed.
by Tamayo, Rufino (1899-1991)
San Francisco: Ernest F. De Soto Workshop, 1988. . Detailed description of the edition of the lithograph, signed by Rufino Tamayo in pencil. This describes each color, the proofs and the edition. Provenance: Estate of Ernest F. De Soto .
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NZ$857.30
Prospectus for the etching "The Black Wall. " First edition.
by Motherwell, Robert (1915 – 1991)
London and New York: Petersburg Press, 1981.. 4 page flyer with original photograph inset. 20.5 x 15cm. The actual etching is: Etching and aquatint, 1981, initialed in ink and numbered x/36 (total edition includes ten artist's proofs), on Georges Duchêne of Larroque handmade paper, published by the artist and with his blindstamp, released by Petersburg Press, London and New York, framed plate: 271 by 696 mm 10⅝ by 27⅜ in framed: 561 by 998 mm 22⅛ by 39¼ in. Ref: Belknap 242.
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NZ$171.46
Print Documentation for "Self Portrait from Budapest" by Masuo Ikeda. Signed.
by Ikeda, Masuo (1934 - 1997)
San Francisco: Ernest F. De Soto Workshop, 1968.. Detailed description of the edition of the lithograph. Signed in ink by artist and printer.This describes each color, the proofs and the edition. Masuo Ikeda (1934 - 1997) was born in 1934. Masuo Ikeda is well known a Japanese painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, ceramist, novelist, and film director. Provenance: Estate of Ernest F. De Soto.
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NZ$428.65
Artist dossier of Pierre Berjole (1897- 1990)
by Berjole, Pierre (1897- 1990); Pierre Mauroy (1928-2013)
1967-1977. Vernissages chez Maison de Van Gogh, 1967 & Galerie Saint-Jacques-Solange Simon, Lille, 1974; several Tls and Als regarding his shows; various price lists, printed and manuscript; coupures de presse; lettre Tls de Pierre Mauroy alors Président du Conseil Régional concernant l'exposition. Provenance: gallerist Solange Simon,....Solange Simon est décédée en 2016; elle est née en 1920...Solange Simon fut galeriste à Lille dans les années 60-80, puis collabora avec la galerie...
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Catalogue Jacques Bosser à la Galerie du Forum. Maison de la Culture Loire-Atlantique - Nantes.
by Bosser, Jacques (born 1946)
Nantes, France: 2003. Original wraps. 16pp. One of 500 numbered copies. Jacques Bosser est né au Havre en 1946. Depuis 1986, ce peintre, sculpteur et photographe vit et a fixé son atelier à Montrouge. De longs séjours à l’étranger font naître des œuvres ou des pistes de travail pour de nouveaux projets. En 1988 il travaille et expose à Los Angeles. En 1992 et 1994, lors de ses séjours en Inde, il prend des photographies autour des temples des pèlerins aux abords des fleuves qu’il...
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Letter from Bernard Koura to the Lille gallerist Solange Simon
by Koura, Bernard (1923 – 2018)
Moulins-Le-Carbonnel:1973. Als regarding exhibitions and his career to la Galerie Saint-Jacques-Solange Simon, Lille, 197.. ..Solange Simon 1920-2016 fut galeriste à Lille dans les années 60-80, puis collabora avec la galerie Convergences à Nantes dans les années 80-90. Elle fut également peintre, s'inspirant beaucoup de Pignon, Chagall ou de Staël entre autres. Expertise by Vincent Cesbron.
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NZ$257.19
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Print Documentation for "Untitled [1983]" by Roy DeForest. Signed.
by DeForest, Roy (1930 - 2007)
San Francisco: Ernest F. De Soto Workshop, 1983.. Detailed description of the edition of the lithograph. Signed in ink by artist and printer.This describes each color, the proofs and the edition. Provenance: Estate of Ernest F. De Soto.
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NZ$428.65
