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  Jan de Swart, Handcarved “Peach” Sculpture, c.1970

  JAN DE SWART (1908-1987) Netherlands / USA

  Peach sculpture  c. 1970

  Hand carved and formed jelutong wood in a symbolic / erotic form of a peach

  For more information see: Jan de Swart: A Day That Becomes a Lifetime, exhibition catalogue (California: Fine Arts Gallery at the San Fernando Valley State College, February 1972); Jan de Swart, Mike McGee and William G. Otton (Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Art Museum, 1986).

  H: 7 ½” x D: 4”

  Price: $7,500

  Constantly seeking and inventing new materials Jan de Swart was a true modernist.  He was influenced by artists such as Isamu Noguchi, Harry Bertoia, Charles Eames, and later Sam Maloof and Wendell Castle.  Although he had been creating small sculptures since his arrival in California from Holland in 1929, he had not been widely recognized until being introduced to John Entenza, publisher of Arts & Architecture magazine in 1947.  Soon thereafter, he was able to create larger works and began collaborating with architects such as Whitney Smith and Victor Gruen on special commissions.  His work is in the permanent collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Smithsonian, and the Ford Foundation.  He was honored with the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal for Sculpture in 1965.

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  Giovanni Battista Filosa, In the Garden, Watercolor, 1884

  GIOVANNI BATTISTA FILOSA (1850-1935) Naples, Italy

  “In the Garden” 1884

  Watercolor, gilt frame and filet with silk mount.

  Signed: G Filosa '84

  ***Filosa exhibited at the Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1895 – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

  An extremely fine and exquisitely painted watercolor “In the Garden” by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Filosa (1850-1935). It is a radiant painting with a wonderful subtle coloration and very charming late 19th century “en plein-air” imagery. Filosa's technique is similar in quality to the work of the 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist, Albert Moore. Gilt frame and filet with silk mount. Signed: G Filosa '84 Filosa exhibited at the Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia 1895 – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

  Watercolor: H: 7 1/2″ x W: 5 1/4″
  Framed: H: 14 1/2″ x W: 12″

  Price: $11,500

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  Raymond Barger Post-War Polychrome wood Sculpture c. 1955

  RAYMOND BARGER (1906-2001) USA

  Sculpture c. 1955

  Polychrome contoured wood of interlocking circular forms in white, blue and pink on a bronze base.

  Signed: RB (artist initials), USA, Z0I

  H: 8 1/2” x L: 12 ¾” x D: 8

  Price: $5,800

  Raymond Granville Barger was a sculptor working in metal, plastelin, and bronze among other materials. Barger was educated at Carnegie Institute of Technology and Yale University School of Fine Art. He received a Winchester Fellowship from Yale, and a special fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. Barger moved to California, where he died in 2001.

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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.