Search Results: Authors starting with O from Schubertiade

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Hand-colored lithograph depicting a tree tended by angels, one of whom is keeping an axe-bearing Lucifer from chopping the tree down.  The other angel waters the soil, which is labelled "Faith" and "Repentance."  The trunk, labelled "Hope" and "Love," leads up to a canopy bearing fruit with labels such as "Mercy," "Justice," "Chastity," and "Temperance."  The word "Grace" appears in the sky above the crown of the tree.  Beneath the illustration is the title, "The Good Tree or Hieroglyphics of a Christian," and a quotation from the Book of Psalms, "'And he shall like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season.' Psalm.1.ver.3."  ca. 1846.  After a 1791 print by John Hagerty entitled The Tree of Life.  Published by Kellogs & Thayer, New York; E. B. & E. C. Kellogg, Hartford; D. Needham, Buffalo.  An edition of this print is in the collection of the National Museum of American History.  Mild toning, foxing to verso, general… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed photograph of the Soviet violinist and his piano accompanist Frida Bauer (1919–2016; did not sign), also from the Soviet Union, standing on what appears to be a British railway station and chatting with English orchestra manager John Charles.  Mounted and matted; inscription in Russian to lower margin of mat, "With cordial greeting from David Oistrakh."  Oblong format, 7.75 x 10 inches (20 x 25.6 cm).  In fine condition.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Original printed "Revised Release Script / 25.5.60" typescript. Produced, bound and issued for the 1960 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Tony Richardson, produced by Harry Saltzman and adapted by John Osborne and Nigel Kneale from Osborne's stage play of the same name.Blue card wrappers. Title page; 82 pages. Pages and wrapper Fine, bound with three staples. Title with the diminutive ownership signature "Olivier" in blue ink upper right. Light wear and toning around the edges, else fine. The film stars Laurence Olivier as Archie Rice, a failing third-rate music-hall stage performer who tries to keep his career going even as the music-hall tradition fades into history and his personal life falls apart. It was filmed on location in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe.Olivier was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. PLEASE" Chair, 2016.  Stained birch and UV digital printing with felt seat pad.  Numbered 21 in an edition of 100.  Published by Onestar Press, Paris.  29-7/8 x 17-7/8 x 24 inches (75.9 x 45.4 x 61 cm).  Fine. American conceptual artist John Baldessari says: PLEASE... sit on this chair!  Commissioned by Onestar press and designed by Sébastien de Ganay, the intent of the project was to produce a lounge chair that could be produced and assembled anywhere. The production consists of cutting four pieces out of simple plywood on a local CNC machine - in order to make its carbon trace as low as possible - able to be assembled in a matter of minutes with no screws or glue. The "4 Piece Chair" was born in 2015 with a number of artist collaborations with Onestar Press  including Lawrence Weiner (2015), Rirkrit Tiravani (2016), and John Baldessari, who made the customizations to this particular model in 2016.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Collection of 27 Christmas / holiday season cards, mostly pre-printed, and one typed letter from a wide variety of operatic celebrities to the Italian-American painter.  Some addressed to "Luigi and [his] sister."  Undated unless stated otherwise; wide variety of formats.  Authors (in alphabetical order):Chapman, Gladys and Frank (identities unknown).  Printed card in Italian, with printed view of Florence to first page and autograph additions, unsigned (name printed only).Horowitz, Wanda Toscanini.  Daughter of Arturo Toscanini and wife of Vladimir Horowitz.  Two cards, one signed "degli Horowitz" (Italian, "from the Horowitzes"), the other "Wanda."  Not signed by Vladimir.Peters, Roberta. American coloratura soprano affiliated with the Met.  Printed card with autograph addition, signed.Polacco, Giorgio. Italian-American conductor, music director of the Met 1915–17.  Printed card with mounted color photo, "Central Park New York City," on first page and… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Five signed leaves (numbered 47, 48, 49, 51, and 52), apparently cut from a guestbook / registration book from a musical venue in Birmingham, England, with entries dated 1858–60 (insofar as they are dated at all).  All five leaves blank to verso.  Trimmed to a few different sizes, largest 11 x 7 inches (28 x 18.3 cm).  In very good condition overall.The signers are obviously musicians who performed at the venue.  Most of them are singers, but there are some instrumental musicians and composers in between.  Most entries, in English, French, and Italian, are short and limited to signature, date and place, but there are exceptions (see below).  List of persons signed (and deciphered) in order of entry:Clara Novello (1818–1908), English soprano, daughter of Vincent NovelloJohn Sims Reeves (1818-1900), foremost English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor of the mid-Victorian eraMaria Piccolomini (1834–1899), Italian soprano; usually known as "Marietta"… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. An intriguing volume of manuscript excerpts from eighteenth-century French opéras comiques in an unknown hand. The music collected here is from operas first performed between 1752 (Rousseau, Le Devin du village) and 1775 (Philidor, Les femmes vengées); the work that is represented with by far the most excerpts, Grétry's Zémire et Azor, dating from 1771. Oblong octavo, 8 x 6.5 inches (17.3 cm x 21.3 cm). 134 leaves. Title page with elaborate full-page engraving and lettering, "AU MONTPARNASSE RUE S JEAN DE BEAUVOIS PAR ROBERT BALLARD," indicating that the blank volume was likely issued in a much earlier era: the last Robert in the Ballard dynasty of Parisian music publishers, which held a royal privilege for the publication of music in France from 1752 to 1790, known as Robert III, lived from ca. 1610 to 1672, more than a hundred years before the music was entered in this album. Bound in gilt morocco with raised bands, small iron clamps and gilt edge.… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed candid photograph of the important conductor, who has inscribed "To Mr. Paul McMahon / Eugene Ormandy / 1967" in blue ink.  Moderate ink adhesion issues to signature, else in very fine condition.  3.5 x 5 inches (8.9 x 12.7 cm.).From the collection of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene Dietrich as the icon's stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort, and later spent 25 years as an arts and entertainment reviewer and photographer with Gay Community News, Esplanade, Tommy's Connection, The Mirror, Bay Windows and other publications.