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Oswald Haerdtl / J. C. Klinkosch Vienna Hand mirror c. 1940

OSWALD HAERDTL (1899-1959) Austria
J.C. KLINKOSCH Vienna
Hand mirror c. 1940
Handwrought and hand hammered silver in a contoured organic form, the top inset panel is turquoise and peach colored champleve enamel with silver cloisons in the form of a meandering branches.
Marks: J.C.K. (maker’s monogram), Klinkosch touch marks, 800 and toucan mark (Vienna silver standard marks)
For more information and other works see: Oswald Haerdtl 1899-1959, introd. Johannes Spalt (Vienna: Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, 1978); Oswald Haerdtl, Architekt und Designer (1899-1959), Adolphe Stiller (Salzburg: Verlag Anton Pustet, 2000); Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver, Annelies Krekel-Aalberse (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1989).
L: 10 1/2″
Price: $4,200
Haerdtl shared an architectural practice with Josef Hoffmann in the early 1930s, was later honored by the Austrian government to design the Austrian pavilion at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris.
Oswald Haerdtl / J. C. Klinkosch Vienna Hand mirror c. 1940
TIM LIDDY (b. 1963) Missouri
“Lie Cheat and Steal” (1971) The Game of Political Power 2006
Oil and enamel on copper, plywood back
Signed in script: Tim Liddy “circa 1971” 2006, red circular ring
Provenance: William Shearburn Gallery (St. Louis, MO)
H: 12” x W: 9” x D: 2”
With his recent paintings, Liddy has both reasserted the construct of hyperrealist painting and developed a thoroughly unique advancement of that mode by extending the cultural reality of the indexed original. Based on the illustrated box lids of vintage board games, Liddy has recontextualized a subject, which evokes the underlying rules of life. Painted on copper or steel in the precise dimensions of the original, the metal is then manipulated to demonstrate the exact rips and tears from years of usage and includes trompe-l’oeil renditions of the scotch tape that might be holding the cardboard box together, the assorted stains, or the various graffiti of time. Liddy leaves no possibility of ambivalence, these works speak to a concurrent understanding of their original object identity and to themselves as works of art engaged in historical and psychological dialogue.
EDMUND F. WARD (b. 1892 – 1991) USA
“The Swimming Hole” c. 1930
Oil on canvas
Marks: signed Edm. F. Ward (lower right); partial labels verso:Westchester Arts and Crafts Guild; 4 Edmund F. Ward
For more information on the artist see: Who Was Who in American Art,Peter Hastings Falk, ed. (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 658.
Canvas H: 18” x W: 24”
Framed H: 27 9/16” x W: 33 9/16”
Price: $14,000
Ward studied at the Arts Student’s League with Edward Dufner, George Bridgeman, and Thomas Fogarty. He was an illustrator for several national magazines and books. In 1925, Ward exhibited an award winning work at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is perhaps best known for his WPA mural in the Federal Building, White Plains, New York.
REINHOLD KLAUS (1881-1963) Vienna, Austria
CARL GEYLING ATELIER (founded 1841) Vienna, Austria
Man with tophat and flowers c. 1930
Window of stained and hand-painted leaded glass
Provenance: Estate of Carl Geyling (1814-1880), Vienna
H: 17 3/4″ x W: 14 1/2″
Reinhold Klaus studied from 1898-1902 with Alfred Roller at the Kaiserlich-Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna. In 1914 Klaus married into the Carl Geyling family and became extensively involved with with stained glass painting. As early as 1918 Klaus worked on a stained glass window for the Siegestempel am Bisamberg in Vienna. In 1934 he became a professor of stained glass painting at the Kunstgewerbeschule, as well as creative director of the C. Geylings Erben glass painting company. Reinhold Klaus, a member of the Künstlerhaus since 1924 received many prizes and honors. He worked on commissions for the St. Veits cathedral in Prague, the St. Stephan cathedral in Vienna and many others.