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Art Collecting Books & Ephemera
Two letters from Florence Grace Putterman, to the printer. Ernest F. De Soto regarding her art
by Putterman, Florence Grace
Selingrove, PA: 1977-1979. 2 Tls regarding her plans for a lithograph and and a later complaining about the colors in Petroglyph IV. Florence Grace Putterman, American (1927 - ) Florence Grace Putterman was awarded a National Endowment Grant in 1979 and has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Europe. Her paintings and prints can be seen in collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Brooklyn Museum (New York), and the Chicago Art...
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A$158.01
Archive of the Filipina American artist Terry Acebo Davis
by Davis, Terry Acebo (born 1953)
Palo Alto: 1999-2001. Archive with flyers, prospectuses, gallery announcements, photographs and transparencies. Terry Acebo Davis (born 1953) is a Filipina American artist and nurse. Born in Oakland, California, Acebo-Davis received her artistic education at San Jose State . From the collection of the art historian, Peter Selz.
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A$276.52
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Around the World with the Artist's [ Pinup- Cheesake] Sketch Pad. Calendar for 1946.
by Munson, (K O) Knute
St. Paul. MN: Brown & Bigelow, [1946]. Spiralbound with all 12 months of pinups. Cover page from Leo Kotzbeck, San Francisco Art dealer and framer. Includes the original printed wrappers, rarely found; ratty around the edges (wrappers not calendar). In 1945, Brown & Bigelow used Munson's pinups for their Direct Mail Calendar line. He continued to produce dozens of pin-up paintings and drawings for the firm until 1949, when he decided to return to Chicago - there he kept busy as a freelancer. - (K O)...
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A$237.02
Print Documentation for "Untitled," lithograph in Brown, Red 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. 122 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...
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The Map of Stones. The Library of Maps, #37.Signed.
by Roth, Moria (born 1933) and Slobodan Dan Paich (artist)
Berkeley, CA: 2009. 5 leaves. 4to. Signed and dedicated. "Begun in 2001, these 41 texts about a fictional library, its map collections, inhabitants and spaces can be found on Picture Projects website. Pauline Oliveros and I are also involved in an ongoing project entitled “The Library of Maps: An Opera in Many Parts, “sections of which have performed in Berlin, Oakland, Troy, NY and Berkeley. In 2009, “The Library of Maps” -- an exhibition, in collaboration with Slobodan Dan Paich, of large...
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Invitation to Vernissage for André Carroy.
by Robert, Claude
Paris: Maitre Claude Robert, 1982.. Card 10 x 14 cm. From the estate of Herb Yellin (1935-2014), the publisher of the Lord John Press.
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A$63.20
Prospectus for "A Muse" (1-10) by Jim Dine.
by Dine, Jim
London: Petersburg Press, 1971. One page prospectus for the portfolio with original monochrome photographs stapled on.
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A$553.04
Situation Juridique de la Fondation Marguerite et Amié Maeght
by Fondation Maeght
Saint-Paul, Fance: Fondation Maeght, circa 1960s. One page on Arches laid paper watermarked MBM. 32 x 23.5 cm.
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A$158.01
The Unruly Map of Threads. The Library of Maps, #9. Signed.
by Roth, Moria (born 1933) and Slobodan Dan Paich (artist)
Berkeley, CA: 2009. 9 leaves. 4to. Signed and dedicated. "Begun in 2001, these 41 texts about a fictional library, its map collections, inhabitants and spaces can be found on Picture Projects website. Pauline Oliveros and I are also involved in an ongoing project entitled “The Library of Maps: An Opera in Many Parts, “sections of which have performed in Berlin, Oakland, Troy, NY and Berkeley. In 2009, “The Library of Maps” -- an exhibition, in collaboration with Slobodan Dan Paich, of large...
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Indeni. Original serigraph. Signed.
by Bosser, Jacques (born 1946)
Montrouge: circa 1998. Original serigraph. 18 x 24cm. One of 150 signed and numbered impressions. 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...
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A$197.51
Photograph of "Still Life with Fish" or "Les Poissons" by Moise Kisling. Signed.
by Kisling, Moise (1891-1953)
Paris: 1920. Original vintage photograph. 147 x 20.5 cm. Tear upper left without loss. Signed and dated ink. Part of a collection from his friend Thadé (Thódore, Tadé) Bloch. Reproduced in the major oeuvre catalogue: "Kisling." Text by Joseph Kessel and Jean Kisling. NY: Harry Abrams, 1971, as Still Life no. 11. Also reproduced on p. 57 in "Les Peintres Francais Nouveaux, no. 30: Moise Kisling," published by Gallimard in 1928.
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A$632.04
Letters from Judith Zilczer to Peter Selz a Richard Lindner exhibiition at the Hirshhorn Museum
by Zilczer, Judith
Washington, DC: 1997.. 2 TLS about the Lindner show from the curator of paintings Judith Zilczer with additional material From the collection of the art historian, Peter Selz.
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A$237.02
Letter from Jacques Bosser to the gallerist Solange Simon.
by Bosser, Jacques (born 1946)
Montrouge, France: circa 2000. Als on rag card to the gallerist Solange Simon. 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...
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A$79.01
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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A$237.02
Autograph letters from the artist Adja Yunkers to the printer Ernest F. De Soto.
by Yunkers, Adja (1900–1983)
San Francisco: Collectors Press, 1977. . Three Als and 2 other handwritten documents to the printer Ernest F. De Soto. They related to the lithographs Pueblo and Veronica; De Soto editions nos. 9 and 10 Adja Yunkers (1900–1983) was an American abstract painter and printmaker. He was born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire in 1900. He studied art in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris, and London. He lived in Paris for 14 years, and then moved to Stockholm in 1939. In Stockholm, he published and...
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A$316.02
Kisling. Signed. Presentation copy.
by Kisling, Moise (1891-1953) and André Salmon
Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1928.. Original wraps; repaired tear outside the text. . 4to. 29pp and 28 plates. One of 15 signed and hand numbered copies on Japan. Signed presentation copy "à mon cher Thadé Bloch . . . Paris, Decembre 1927. Part of a collection from his friend Thadé (Thódore, Tadé) Bloch.
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A$790.05
Collectors Press Catalogue for the Suite "Some Town Without a Name."
by Ikeda, Masuo
San Francisco: Collectors Press, 19701. 4to. 4pp. Reproduces the 5 prints from the Suite with price list and announcements. The de Soto Workshop originally founded in January 1967 as Editions Press, specializes in contemporary Latin American and American lithographs, fine prints and etchings by some of the best-known Latin American and American artists of our time
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A$118.51
Letters from Barbara Buenger to Peter Selz about her work on Max Beckmann's "Ideologen" and portraits of Henirich Mann
by Buenger, Barbara
Madison, WI: 1986-1987. 6 pp. 3 TLS about her work on Max Beckmann with additional material From the collection of the art historian, Peter Selz.
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A$237.02
Draft catalogue essay by Peter Selz on Paul Jenkins with color photos.
by Selz, Peter
Washington, DC: 1997.. 4 page draft essay for the exhibition at Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, California. With 8 8.5 x 11 inch color prints. Maison des Princes, Pérouges. Preface Jacques Boyon, text Patrick-Gilles Persin. From the collection of the art historian, Peter Selz.
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A$237.02
Print Documentation for "Transformation on a Highwire" by Norman Stiegelmeyer. Signed.
by Stiegelmeyer, Norman (1937-1985)
San Francisco: Collectors Press, 1968 . Detailed description of the edition of the lithograph. Signed in ink by Norman Stiegelmeyer. This describes each color, the proofs and the edition. Collectors Press no. 121 A Surrealist painter.and sculptor whose “visionary art” reflected spiritual transformation informed by meditation and Oriental thought, Norman Stiegelmeyer was also an influential teacher at the San Francisco Art Institute. Born in Denver in 1937, Stiegelmeyer enlisted in the U. S....
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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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A$237.02
A portrait of the artist by Francis Bacon." Original polaroid and prospectus for the portfolio.
by Bacon, Francis (1909-1992); Richard Hamilton (1922 - 2011)
London: Petersburg Press, 1971. One page prospectus for the portfolio with original polaroid by Bacon stapled on. NY Met: "In 1969, at the end of a characteristically wine-soaked lunch at Robert Carrier’s London restaurant with the artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992), Hamilton asked Bacon to photograph him against the drapes of the dining room. The first exposure was blurry from Bacon’s tipsy handling of the Polaroid, but Hamilton found the image to have an affinity with Bacon’s distinctive...
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A$1,975.12
Print Documentation and Contract forthe lithograph "Woman Seated at a Table" aka "Untitled from 10 West Coast Artists " by Richard Diebenkorn. Signed.
by Diebenkorn, Richard (1922-1993)
San Francisco: Ernest F. De Soto Workshop, 1967.. 2 documents, each signed in ink. 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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A$2,370.15
Castelli Graphics, 4 East 77, New York.
by Artschwager, Daphnis, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, Stella, Twombly, Warhol et al
New York: Castelli Graphics, circa 1970. . Oblong 4to. Wraps with 3 holes for binder. 16pp. with illustrations and edition information
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A$237.02
Letter from Christian Bernet with a serigraph by Jacques Bosser.
by Bosser, Jacques (born 1946)
Paris: 2001. Als New Year's greeting for 2002 on rag card to the gallerist Solange Simon. Includes the serigraph. 17 x 17cm.... 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...
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A$158.01
