Product Description
Brassai, “Transmutations 1934-35” 1967
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.
Dimensions:
Book: H: 15 ½” x W: 12” x D: 1 ½”
Custom leather box: H: 17 ¾” x W: 13 ½” x D: 4 ½”
Custom silk slipcase: H: 18 ¾” x W: 14 ¼” x D: 6”
Brassai, “Transmutations 1934-35” 1967
ARCHIBALD
EDWARD BARNARD & SONS London, UK
Coffee pot 1903
Sterling silver
Marks: B WMJS RD into a shield (Barnard & Sons), hallmarks, “h” (London Silver hall mark for 1903), 419 (on bottom of pot)
H: 8 3/4″
Price: $19,500
Silver lidded bowl with ebony finial and rectangular ebony handles, decorated with enamel in fan shapped tiers of three shades of blue and black
Marks: French Touchmarks (Head of Minerva) 2x, Lapparra diamond shape silver touch mark, Red Lacquer Cranbrook Museum Accession No. 1930.77
Exhibited: Third International Exposition of Contemporary Industrial Arts, 1930-1931 The American Federation of Arts 1930-1931, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, October 15 – November 10, 1930, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, December 1 – December 28, 1930, The Art Institute of Chicago, January 19 – February 15, 1931, The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, March 11 – April 5, 1931; Art Deco, 1971 (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
Model illustrated: Art Deco, A Guide for Collectors, Katherine Morrison McClinton (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1972) p. 162; Art Deco, Judith Applegate (New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1970) illustr. 392; The Cranbrook Collections, Sotheby, Parke-Bernet, New York, 1972, illustr. 31, pp. 7 & 9, Third International Exposition of Contemporary Industrial Arts, 1930 (New York: Finch College Museum of Art) No. 392; Art Deco, 1971 (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts) No. 164; International Exhibition of Metalwork and Cotton Textiles exhibition catalogue (The American Federation of Arts, 1930) No. 169
H: 4” x W: 4 ½” x D: 4”