BRASSAÏ (1899-1984) Austria-Hungary
“Transmutations 1934-35” 1967
Published by Lacoste: Galerie Les Contards, France.
12 gelatin silver prints each flush-mounted to a presentation folder with printed sequential number and title, with colophon contained in a linen covered, velvet lined clamshell folio with gilt lettering on the spine.
Signed and numbered 32 in ink on the colophon. This work is from an edition of 100. The titles include: I. Femme-fruit; II. Sevillane denudee; III. Odalisque; IV. Femme-mandoline; V. Femme-amphore; VI. Fille de Joie se Deshabillant; VII. Visage mineral; VIII. Tentation de Saint Antoine; IX. Jeune fille revant; X. Offrande; XI. Femme aux voiles; XII. Fete foraine.
Archibald Knox / Liberty & Co. Rare Sterling and Opal caviar server 1904
ARCHIBALD KNOX (1864-1933) UK
LIBERTY & COMPANY London, UK
Cymric tri-handled covered server 1904
Sterling silver with repoussé Celtic knot motifs and three buttress handles; the handle of the domed lid inset with a jelly opal, cylindrical crystal bowl.
Marks: No. 5199, Liberty & Co., CYMRIC and Birmingham assay marks for 1904 (all the marks appear both on the underside of the base and on the cover)
*** An example of this poster is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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Archibald Knox / Liberty & Co. Clutha bowl on tri-leg Tudric stand c. 1902
ARCHIBALD KNOX (1864-1933) UK
LIBERTY & CO. London
JAMES COUPER & SONS Glasgow
Clutha bowl on tri-leg stand c. 1902
Clutha glass with inclusions of aventurine streaks and bubbles, polished tri-leg Tudric pewter stand.
Marks: Tudric, 0276
Illustrated: Liberty’s 1875-1975, An Exhibition to mark the Firm’s Centenary (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1975), p. 89, number D 250 A; The Designs of Archibald Knox for Liberty & Co., A.J. Tilbrook (London: Ornament Press Ltd., 1976), p. 114; Liberty Style, The Classic Years: 1898-1910, Mervyn Levy (New York: Rizzoli, 1986), p. 31; Archibald Knox, ed. by Stephen A. Martin (London: Academy Editions, 1995), p. 96.
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