ART AND ARCHiTECTURE

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Lots 324 - 359

324 KAHLO, FRIDA Frida Kahlo’s own personal copy of The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, vol. III (New York: Thomas Nelson, 1905) containing multiple inscriptions, collages and drawings by Kahlo.

Following the index, Kahlo has inscribed, in black crayon, the following: “Pues si, Frida Kahlo. Auxocromo Cromoforo.” The dates 1922 and 1945 are inscribed to the left of a circle within which is written the number 23. To the right of the circle are the numbers 12 and 35 and an infinity symbol. Beneath the series of numbers is the word “always.”

The book is divided into three parts. While certain poems, such as the “The Man that was Used Up” (p. 44) in the first and second part of the book are marked with dried flowers, Kahlo restricts her collages to the poems within the third part, which begins with Poe’s iconic poem, “The Raven” (p. 9). On the page facing the poem, Kahlo has written in the same black crayon “Auxocromo Cromoforo.” The title of the poem, along with a dried leaf, have been painted over with bold red paint. A similar collage appears on p. 21 with the poem “Ulalume.” Just outside the red painted collage she has again written “Auxocromo Cromoforo.” The third collage appears on pp. 28-29, the poem “Annabel Lea.” In this instance, four leaves are painted over along with all of the text on these two pages. “Auxocromo Cromoforo” is written at the bottom of p. 28. The artist’s final inscription, with the same two words repeated, is written beneath the last stanza of the final poem, signalling the end of the collection.

“Auxocromo Cromoforo,” the phrase repeated throughout, refers to a poem Kahlo wrote in her diary (p. 20) regarding her husband, Diego Rivera. In the poem, she writes: “Mi Diego, Esejo de la noche ... tue te llamaras Auxocromo el que capta el color. Yo Cromoforo - la que da el color. Tu eras todas las combinaciones de los numeros.” [My Diego, Mirror of the Night ... You could be called Auxocromo - the one who takes color. I Cromoforo - the one who gives the color. You are all the combinations of the numbers.]

Dr. Luis-Martin Lozano, a noted art historian and expert on the works of Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism, who has published extensively on the works of Frida Kahlo, has personally examined the item and has provided the following in depth interpretation of the number sequence: Frida Kahlo met Diego Rivera in 1922; she wrote in the book in 1945; she met Diego when she was 12 (actually 15, but she claimed she was born in 1910 to appear younger) and he was 35; the 23 refers not only to the years between when she wrote in the book and she met Diego (1922-1945), but also to their difference in age. These numbers and connections are coupled with the word “always” and the symbol for “infinity.”

The inscriptions and collages in Kahlo’s personal copy of The Works of Edgar Allen Poe form an extraordinary record of the artist’s creative process in addition to revealing an important literary influence of her work. The item demands further study of Frida Kahlo’s motivations, her selection of specific works, and the pointed references to her relationship with Diego Rivera. Property from a Private Texas Collection Provenance: Teresa Proenza, Secretary to Frida Kahlo; Victor Torez Proenza; Private Collection, Texas. Literature: The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Portrait. NY, 1998. $20,000-30,000

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325 (BENTON, THOMAS HART) BAIGELL, MATTHEW Thomas Hart Benton. New York: Harry N. Abrams, n.d.

Oblong 4to, publisher’s cream silk boards, title stamped in brown to spine, dust jacket. First edition. Signed by the artist to the half-title. Some rubbing to dust jacket; otherwise fine. $200-400

326 BRITTO, ROMERO Party Girl. New York: The International Archive of Art, (1994).

Oblong 4to, publisher’s embossed black cloth, dust jacket, decorative endpapers, original glassine, matching slipcase. Limited edition, one of 250 (from a total edition of 1,000) signed by Britto with an original screenprint additionally signed and numbered in pencil 163/250. Minor rubbing to slipcase; otherwise very fine. $200-400

327 BROUET, AUGUSTE Catalogue de son oeuvre grave. Paris: Chez Gaston Boutitie, 1923.

2 vols. 4to, original printed wrappers. Limited edition, one of 900 copies on Velin with an original etching by Brouet numbered 105, and 271 reproductions with lettered tissue guards. Wear to wraps and spine with a small 1/2-inch tear to vol. II. $100-200 328 BROWN, ROGER Family Tree Mourning Print, 1987. Color woodcut. 21/100, signed. Together with catalogue of the exhibition, Roger Brown, by Sidney Lawrence. New York: George Braziller, in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, (1987).

Folder and book housed in custom black cloth clamshell folding case, pastedown label. Fine condition. $600-800

329 (CHAGALL, MARC) LEYMARIE, JEAN Marc Chagall. Monotypes 1961-1965. Catalogue etabli par Gerald Cramer. Geneva: Gerald Cramer, 1966.

4to, publisher’s grey cloth, dust jacket, slipcase and original shipping box. One of 100 copies signed by the artist on the half-title with an original unsigned etching (L’Apparition) on Japon Imperial paper, and numerous other tipped-in reproductions. Edgewear to publisher’s slipcase and some wear to mailing box; otherwise a very fine copy. $1,000-2,000

330 (CHAGALL, MARC) XXE SIECLE XXe Siecle. Nouvelle Serie. No. 26. Quatre themes. Edited by G. di San Lazzaro. Paris: XXe Siecle, 1966.

Folio, illustrated boards, original printed wraparound. With an original two-page lithograph by Chagall and one page lithograph by Vieira da Silva. Some minor soiling to boards and some wear to wraparound; otherwise fine. $100-200 331 DALI, SALVADOR Les metamorphoses erotiques. (London:) l’Erotitiade, (1969).

Folio, contents loose as issued in gilt-lettered red cloth folder, black cloth slipcase, uncut, unsewn. With 47 illustrations by Dali. Limited edition, one of 150 copies printed on Velin Rives and signed by the artist to the limitation page with an additional etching signed by the artist. Some rubbing to edges of slipcase; red tone to edges of title page; otherwise fine. $800-1,200

332 ERNST, MAX Histoire naturelle. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1972.

Folio, loose as issued in linen clamshell folding case. Limited edition, one of 400 copies printed in English from a total edition of 1,200. Illustrated with 34 black and white plates. Wear to case with some soiling; a few finger prints to pages; otherwise a good copy with clean plates. $200-400

333 KEARNS, JAMES The Performers. A Series of Etchings. Philadelphia: Charles Hunsberger, n.d.

Folio, contents loose as issued in publisher’s cloth folder lettered in black. Limited edition, number 27 of 50 numbered copies printed on Rives B.F.K., signed, containing 12 artist proof etchings signed in pencil. Some light soiling to boards; otherwise fine with etchings in very good condition. $200-400

334 LOVET-LORSKI, BORIS Lithographs. Volumes I and II. Paris: impr. Braun, 1929.

2 vols. in one. Folio, contents loose as issued in publisher’s linen folder lettered in black, cloth ties. Limited edition, number 18 of 250 copies printed on Montval paper. The limitation page calls for 10 lithographs signed in pencil to each vol. (total 20). The present set has been shuffled out of order, but contains only 15 signed lithographs. Some soiling to folder with corners scuffed. $600-800 335 MASEREEL, FRANS The Creation: The First Eight Chapters of Genesis. Verona: Pantheon, 1948.

Folio, contents sewn into original printed cream wraps, original glassine, publisher’s slipcase with printed pastedown label. Limited edition, one of 100 copies printed on hand-made Fabriano paper on the hand-press of the Oficina Bodoni with text in English. With 24 woodcut illustrations by Frans Masereel. Very light wear to glassine at spine ends; otherwise very fine. $600-800 336 MATISSE, HENRI Portraits. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1955.

Folio, stiff lithographed wrappers, publisher’s chemise and slipcase, in original glassine. Limited edition, one of 500 copies in English from a total edition of 2,500, with original lithograph frontispiece and numerous tipped-in color reproductions. Wear to slipcase with lower corners split and fading the spine. $800-1,200

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338 337 (MIRO, JOAN) ERBEN, WALTER Joan Miro. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1960.

4to, publisher’s linen-backed boards with blue and yellow design, lithographed dust jacket and original glassine. Limited edition, number 48 of 2,000, with original lithographed dust jacket. Fine in fine jacket. $100-200

338 (MIRO, JOAN) PREVERT, JACQUES & RIBEMONTDESSAIGNES Joan Miro. Paris: Maeght, 1956.

4to, original stiff lithographed wrappers, original glassine. First edition, with seven color lithographed plates, including four fold-out. Chipping to glassine with loss to the spine ends; some small tears to spine ends and corners. $400-600

339* PARKETT MAGAZINE Zurich and New York: Schweizer Kunstzeitschrift, 1985-1997.

A group of seven issues, comprising nos. 5-7 (19851986), 44 (1995), and 47-49 (1996-1997). 4to, photopictorial stiff wrappers. Fine. Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $300-500

340 (PICASSO, PABLO) JANIS, HARRIET AND SIDNEY Picasso. The Recent Years 1939-1946. Garden City: Doubleday, 1947.

Folio, publisher’s black and cream cloth-backed boards lettered in gilt, slipcase with original pastedown wraparound. Limited edition, one of 350 copies signed by Picasso. Without original glassine; wear to slipcase with corners split and loss at edges. $600-800

341* REMINGTON, FREDERIC; FIELD, EUGENE A printed program for The Fellowship Club of Chicago, signed on the front cover and second page by member Eugene Field in pen and signed on the rear cover by other members, including Frederic Remington, who has also included a pen sketch of a bucking horse descending from the bottom curve of the “F” of “Frederic Remington.” Also with bookplate of Eugene Field tipped to rear cover.

Other signatures include A. E. Stevenson, Richard J. Oglesly, A. G. del Campillo and Henry D. Estabrook. The two page thick paper brochure is a Dinner Menu for the February 23, 1893, reception at Kinsley’s. Split at the center fold; some toning to pages and minor soiling to rear cover; otherwise a fine association piece. Property From the Estate of Professor Robert Adelsperger, Beverly, Illinois $800-1,200

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342 RICCI, FRANCO MARIA A group of nine volumes published and designed by Franco Maria Ricci.

The following 3 vols. from the Signs of Man series: 4to, black silk-backed boards, gilt-lettered, pastedown illustrations, decorative endpapers, publisher’s matching folding case with pastedown spine labels, in original publisher’s shipping boxes, comprising: Signs of Man Series: No. 7. Archimboldo. Text by Roland Barthes. With an essay by Achille Bonito Oliva. (Milan & Paris, 1980). Signs of Man Series: No. 8. The Congress of the World. By Jorge Luis Borges. With miniatures of tantric cosmology introduced by Alain Danielou. (Milan & Paris, 1981) Valentino. Testo di Andre Leon Talley. (Milan, 1982)

The following 3 vols. from the Signs of Man series: 4to, black silked-backed boards, gilt-lettered, pastedown illustrations, decorative endpapers, matching slipcase, comprising: No. 2. Italo Calvino. Tarots. The Visconti Pack in Bergamo and New York. Critical examination by Sergio Samek Ludovici. Parma, 1975. No. 3. Lewis Carroll. Photos and Letters to His Child Friends. Edited by Guido Almansi. Notes by Brassai and Helmut Gernsheim. (Parma), 1975. No. 4. Morris Hirshfield. Text by William Saroyan. Introduction by Sidney Janis. Critical notes by Oto Bihalji-Merin. (Milan), 1976.

[also:] Venetian Twilight. The Serenissima in the XVIII Century. (Milan), 2000. 3 vols. 8vo, black silk-backed boards, gilt-lettered, pastedown illustrations, publisher’s matching slipcase. $200-400 343* RODIN, AUGUSTE Autographed letter in a secretarial hand, with bottom portion in the hand of and signed by Rodin (“A. Rodin”), two pages, on a bifolium, letterhead, to an unknown recipient, March 16, 1903. Matted and framed.

Rodin thanks the recipient for their kind letter and apologizes for not being able to fulfill his request, or for having the statue that he asked for. He sends his wishes and offers the recipient a reproduction of his “The Thinker” statue. Property from the Collection of Baroness Kimberly von der Trenck, Newtown, Pennsylvania $200-400

344 (ROUAULT, GEORGES) VOLLARD, (AMBROSE) Reincarnations du Pere Ubu. Paris: Abroise Vollard, 1932.

Folio, contents loose as issued in printed wraps. First edition. One of 250 copies printed on papier de Vidalon, this unnumbered and without the suite of plates on Arches. With 104 wood-engraved illustrations printed in black by George Rouault. Edges of paper wraps curled; lacking board chemise and slipcase. $400-600 345 (BALLET) BARBIER, GEORGE Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky. Translated from the French by C. W. Beaumont. Forward by Grancis de Miomandre. London: C. W. Beaumont, 1913.

Folio, original printed wrappers with pochoir design on upper cover. Limited edition, one of 400 copies “on vellum paper.” With 12 color pochoir plates, and illustrations, by Barbier. Contents detached from backstrip; edges of wrappers worn with some small tears to edges of spine and 1-inch tears to spine ends; light dampstain to bottom right corner of title page; manuscript ex-libris to verso upper wrap. $2,000-4,000

346 (BALLET) BEAUMONT, CYRIL W. The Art of Lydia Lopokova. London: C. W. Beaumont, 1920.

Folio, original printed wrappers. Frontispiece portrait by Glyn Philpot, another portrait by Pablo Picasso, nine hand-colored tipped-in plates and three decorations and cover design by Arabella Yorke. Contents detached from backstrip; wear to wrappers. Together with six ballet programs, circa 1930-1940, all with original illustrated wraps. (7) $400-600

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347* (ART) A group of nine volumes.

Comprising Paris, 1937-1957, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1981. Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, By John Eldridge. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1992). Catalogue de l’exposition Paris-Moscou. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, (1979). Venezia Biennale, 1968. Venice, 1968. 50 Years Bauhaus. Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology, 1969. Futurismo & Futurismi. By Pontus Hulten. Venice: Palazzo Grassi, (1986). The Moderns. By Gaston Diehl. New York: Crown, n.d. Barnett Newman. By Harold Rosenberg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, n.d. The Museum of Modern Art New York. New York: Harry N. Abrams, n.d. (9) Property from the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

348 (ART) A group of nine books pertaining to American and European artists.

Victor Vasarely: Planetary Folklore. By Victor Vasarely, n.d. Vasarely. By Victor Vasarely, 1969. American Illustration Nine. By Edward BoothClibborn, n.d. Piet Mondrian: Life and Work. By Michel Seuphor, n.d. Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974. By Mark Rosenthal, (1989). Georges Braque: His Graphic Work. Introduction by Werner Hofmann, (1961). Homage to Yaacov Agam. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Exhibition 1980. Special issue of the XXe Siecle Review, (1980). Women. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz, essay by Susan Sontag, (1999). Hockney Posters. Harmony Books, (1987). (9) $100-200 349 (PHOTOGRAPHY) ADAMS, ANSEL Taos Pueblo. Photographed by Ansel Adams and Described by Mary Austin. Boston: New York Graphic Society/Grabhorn Press, 1977.

Oblong folio, bound by Vincent Mullins in quarter calf over orange cloth-backed boards, title stamped in blind to upper board, matching slipcase, marbled endpapers, original shipping box. Facsimile edition of the celebrated collaboration (1930) between Adams and Austin printed by the Grabhorn Press, one of 950 copies printed by Lawton and Kennedy and signed by Adams. Illustrated throughout with 12 gravure reproductions of Adams’ photographs. $1,000-2,000

350 (PHOTOGRAPHY) MURAY, NICKOLAS Nickolas Muray 1892-1965. New York: Prakapas Gallery/International Museum of Photography, Rochester, n.d. (c. 1970)

Folio, publisher’s cloth-backed folding case. Portfolio of 12 tipped-in black and white photographs after the originals by Muray from the 1920s, with subjects including Charlie Chaplin, Ruth Draper, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Martha Graham, Michio Ito, Gertrude Lawrence, Claude Monet, Babe Ruth (George Herman), Gloria Swanson, and others. With single sheet biography of the artist laid in. 8 x 10 inches each. $400-600 351 (MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD) STILLMAN, JACOB The Horse in Motion as Shown by Instantaneous Photography... Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882.

Folio. Original brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind, t.e.g. First edition of this famous study of animal movement made by Leland Stanford and Eadweard Muybridge wherein it was proven that all four hooves of a horse are at one point simultaneously off of the ground while at a fast gallop, thanks to Muybridge’s employment of stop-motion photography. Some minor rubbing to boards; portions of frontispiece restored; otherwise fine. $400-600

352 KUNZ, GEORGE FREDERICK AND STEVENSON, CHARLES HUGH The Book of the Pearl. The History, Art, Science, and Industry of the Queen of Gems. New York: Century, 1908.

4to, publisher’s turquoise cloth stamped in gilt and cream, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, t.e.g. Illustrated with frontispiece and plates, some color, with captioned tissue guards. First edition. Some soiling to boards; spine ends bumped; previous owner’s manuscript inscription to f.f.e.p.; otherwise fine. $200-400

353 SYMONDS, R. W. Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England. An Outline for Collectors. London: The Connoisseur, 1955.

Folio, original blue cloth boards with gilt-stamped sun design to upper board and gilt title to spine, remnants of dust jacket laid in. First edition. Signed by the author to the f.f.e.p. Sunning to boards; inner hinge cracked slightly. $300-500

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354 (ADLER, DAVID) PRATT, RICHARD David Adler. The Architect and His Work. New York: M. Evans, (1970).

4to, original blue gilt-stamped cloth, no dust jacket. First and only edition of what is considered the finest monograph of the architect’s work. Illustrated throughout with 157 black and white photographic plates, featuring Adler’s architectural designs and their original furnishings. Ash stain to top edge of title page; otherwise a fine clean copy. $200-400

355* (ARCHITECTURE) LINDEBERG, H. T. Domestic Architecture of H. T. Lindeberg, With an Introduction by Royal Cortissoz. New York: William Helberg, 1940.

Folio, original red linen gilt-stamped boards with red leatherette spine. First edition. One of 1,000. Together with three others, comprising Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue: Architect and Master of Many Arts. New York: The American Institute of Architects, 1925. Folio, original blue and cream gilt-stamped linen boards. Bertram A. Weber copy. A Book of Architectural and Decorative Drawings. By Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. New York: The Architectural Publishing Company; Paul Wenzel and Maurice Krakow, 1914. Folio, original quarter linen printed boards. Bertram A. Weber copy. Backstrip detached. The Work of Cram and Ferguson Architects, including Cram, Goodhue, and Ferguson. With an Introduction by Charles D. Maginnis. New York: Pencil Points Press, 1929. Folio, original red and maroon giltstamped linen boards. Elmer William Marx copy. (4) Property from the Collection of The Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $200-400 356* (ARCHITECTURE) A group of two architectural titles in four portfolios of prints.

L’Architecture et la decoration aux Palais du Louvre et des Tuileries. Paris: Librarie Centrale d’Art et d’Architecture, n.d. 2 vols. Portfolios, original pictorial boards, cloth ties. Fragments d’architecture antique d’apres les releves et restaurations des ancients pensionnaires de l’Academie de France a Rome, by H. d’Espouy. Paris: Librarie Generale de l’Architecture et des Arts Decoratifs; Charles Massin, 1905. 2 vols. Portfolios, original red gilt-stamped boards, cloth ties. Property from the Collection of The Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

357* (ARCHITECTURE) A group of 10 books from the library of Bertram A. Weber pertaining to architecture.

Architectural Acoustics, by Clifford M. Swan. The Story of Architecture in Mexico, by Trent E. Sanford. A Background to Architecture, by Seward Hume Rathbun. Mexico Pintoresco, by Hugo Brehme. Volte E Soffitti Italiani, by Arduino Colasanti. The Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages, by Raphael and J. Arthur Brandon. Recent English Domestic Architecture, by Mervyn E. Macartney, (1908). With two other copies of the same, 1909 and 1910. Color in Architecture, by F. S. Laurence. (10) Property from the Collection of The Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200 358* (ARCHITECTURE, AMERICAN) A group of nine books pertaining to American architecture in New England.

Year Book of the Boston Architectural Club. Piranesi: Reproductions of Some of the Better Known Plates; Boston Architectural Club Year Book for 1920; The Book of the Boston Architectural Club of 1924; Sicily as Seen by George Porter Fernald. The Book of the Boston Architectural Club, 1919; The Petit Trianon. Boston Architectural Club Year Book, 1913; Brick Architecture of the Colonial Period in Maryland & Virginia; Beyond New England Thresholds, by Samuel Chamberlain; Colonial Ironwork in Old Philadelphia, by Phillip B. Wallace; Early Architecture of Delaware, by George Fletcher Bennett. (9) Property from the Collection of The Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

359* (ARCHITECTURE, AMERICAN) A group of eight books from the library of Bertram A. Weber pertaining to American architecture.

American Architecture of Today, by G. H. Edgell. Houses and Gardens, by Scott Baillie. The Architectural Review, January 1904. American Country Homes and Their Gardens, by John Cordis Baker. Distinctive Homes of Moderate Cost, by Henry H. Saylor. American Apartment Houses, Hotels and Apartment Hotels of Today, by R. W. Sexton. American Estates and Gardens, by Barr Ferree. Country Residences in Europe and America, by Louis Valcoulon Le Moyne. (8) Property from the Collection of The Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois $100-200