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  Italian Futurist 1950’s “Auntie Mame” Handwrought Pewter Pitcher c.1950

  1950’s ITALIAN DESIGN

  Futurist pitcher  c. 1950

  Handwrought and hand hammered pewter in an overall footed ovoid form with a traingle form spout body and an elongated arching contoured handle

  Marked:  PELTRO with lion, MADE ITALIA

  H: 15″ x W: 9″ x D: 4″

  Price: $6,000

  The 1958 classic film, Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell, features this sculptural pitcher on the coffee table in the surrealist interior of Mame Dennis’ penthouse on Beekman Place #3, New York City.

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  Charles Martin, “Bal Masque”, Pencil, ink, gouache and watercolor on paper 1927

  CHARLES MARTIN (1884-1934) France

  Bal Masque 1927

  Pencil, ink, gouache and watercolor on paper.

  Signed: Martin (lower right corner); A l’Ami Koval, l’Ami Martin, Bien Amicalement (upper left corner)

  H: 8” x W: 11 7/16”

  Price: $12,500

  Charles Martin was a notable French illustrator, graphic artist, posterist, fashion and costume designer. His drawings are charming, amusing and sophisticated. The artist studied at the Montpelier Ecole des Beaux Arts, Academie Julian and Ecole Des Beaux Arts, Paris. Throughout his career, Martin was also a contributor to the French fashion journals Gazette du Bon Ton, Modes et Manieres d’Aujourd’hui, Journal Des Dames et Des Modes, and Vogue. His illustrated books include the hat catalogue “Les Modes en 1912,” the erotic “Mascarades et Amusettes” 1920, and “Sports et Divertissements” 1919, written in collaboration with composer Erik Satie.

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  S O G A T A New York, NY “Harlem: Cabaret” Watercolor and pencil on paper 1931

  S O G A T A   New York, NY

  “Harlem: Cabaret”   1931

  Watercolor and pencil on paper

  Signed: SOGATA, HARLEM · 31(painted, lower right corner of image); HARLEM: CABARET. (in pencil beneath image on left)

  For contextual history and similar art see: Rhapsodies in black : art of the Harlem Renaissance,(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997); Harlem Renaissance Artists. Jordan, Denise (Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2003).

  Image H: 11″ x W: 7 3/4″

  Frame H: 19 1/4” x W: 16”

  *This SOGATA New York Watercolor and pencil on paper has been gifted to The Wolfsonian – FIU, Miami Beach, FL.

   

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  Forrest “Frosty” Myers Orange cube 2008

  FORREST (FROSTY) MYERS (1941- ) USA

  Orange cube 2008

  Orange anodized and contoured aluminum wire manipulated into a cube form

  Signed: Orange Cube, 08, Forrest Myers (on plaque)

  For more information see: Who Was Who in American Art (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 2003-2004 25^th Edition), Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18^th Century to the Present, Glen Opitz (Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1984).

  Dimension: 10 1/2″ cube

  Price: $15,000

  A sculptor and art teacher born in Long Beach, California, Forrest Myers settled in Brooklyn, New York. Myers studied at the San Francisco Art Institute. His teaching venues include the San Francisco Art Institute, School of Visual Arts in New York, Kent State University, and the Parsons School of Design. His studio is in Brooklyn.

  In the early 1980s, Forrest Myers was applying Buckminster Fuller's principles of tensegrity and repeated tetrahedrons into his designs for furniture. This exploration culminated in the use of aluminum wire that becomes structural when bent and pressed into a dense tangle.