Hand-coloured gelatine silver print on paperExecuted in 2007, this work is number 2 from an edition of 10.

Shirin Neshat (Yellow Odalisque), Casablanca

A Japanese&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/collectibles/vintage-poster/film" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">movie poster</a>&nbsp;for the film <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Casablanca&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Casablanca</a>.<ul><li>Produced for the re-release in 1962.</li><li>Linen backed.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This is the rarer large size Japanese poster. It was printed in two sheets, and has been joined when linen backed.

Japanese Casablanca Movie Poster

Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections

Emanuel Lasker Three autograph manuscripts (i) Autograph manuscript relating to the St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, entitled "Schachtaktik" ("Chess tactics") Notebook containing analyses of openings and endgames (“Angriff im Ruy… Endspiel der Riga Variante… Damengambit-Pillsbury… Ruy… Rubinstein Petersburg 1914”) (6 pages) and also notes on general tactical rules (“Allgemeine taktische Regeln…Das Prinzip der Teilung”) (12 pages), with autograph title page (“Schachtaktik / Emanuel Lasker / Aschaffenburgerstr. 6a / Berlin-Wilmersdorf. / Angefangen Petersburg / 25. Apr. 1914”); also containing 38 pages of mathematical studies, including notes on differential forms, reciprocal curves, and other topics, 56 pages in all, plus blanks, 4to (211 x 169 mm), with a loose reproduction of a signed and inscribed photograph of Lasker from June 1940, wrappers, red edges, St Petersburg, 1914 (and later?), first two leaves loose, cracked at hinge, some leaves torn out, browning (ii) Autograph manuscript of draft notes apparently for lectures on chess in Russia Notebook containing analyses and commentaries on openings, various positions and problems, with many hand-drawn diagrams illustrating positions, including those in matches played by Wagner, Alekhine, Berger, Capablanca, Grigoriev, Bogoljubov, Spielmann, Verlinsky, Rabinovich, Zubarev, Ballodit, Kmoch, Maroczy, Grau, Fairhurst, Vidmar and others (some diagrams annotated “1927”), 43 pages, plus blanks, 4to (212 x 171 mm), some later pencil notes, including to lower pastedown (“Em. Lasker / Notes for lectures on chess in Russia”), stiff decorated wrappers, gilt lettering to upper cover (“Obshchaya tetrad [Exercise Book]”), no place or date [Russia, 1930s?], browning, cracking at hinge (iii) Autograph manuscript of notes apparently for lectures on chess in Russia Notebook containing remarks on and analyses of openings and endgames (“Eröffnungen… Zur Methodik der Analyse von Endspielen… Endspiele… Über die Methode der Analyse vorgehender Stellungen…”), including 158 numbered positional diagrams, 160 pages, 4to (202 x 156mm), later pencil note to lower pastedown (“…MS. for Lectures on Chess in Soviet Russia (?) ca. 1936”), blue card wrappers, no place or date [c. 1936?], vertical crease to upper cover, light wear to covers, small ink stain affecting upper cover and lower edge of first seventeen leaves A remarkable collection of autograph notebooks, including one dating from the time of the 1914 St Petersburg chess tournament (21 April to 22 May), regarded in some quarters as the greatest single tournament ever staged. Featuring a formidable cast of chess stars, it transfixed Europe, and seemed to offer temporary respite from the headlong rush to world war. It was the wily Lasker who sensationally prevailed, winning by just half a point over the brilliant Cuban José Raúl Capablanca, twenty years his junior.

View 1 of Lot 40: Emanuel Lasker | Three autograph notebooks, including for the St. Petersburg 1914 tournament, 1914 and later

emanuel lasker | three autograph notebooks, including for the st. petersburg 1914 tournament, 1914 and later

Emanuel Lasker Three autograph manuscripts (i) Autograph manuscript of "Die Elemente des Schachs [The elements of chess]" beginning with an assessment of the value of games (“Der Wert des Spiels”), and including a description of the rules of the game (“Die Spielgesetze des Schach”), the opening position, the notation of games, the rules for moving each piece (“De Regeln der Beweglichkeit”), pawn promotion, capturing en passant, illegal moves, fundamental facts of the game (“Grundlegende Tatsachen”), the values of the pieces (“Die Werte der Figuren”), tactics, strategy, and many other matters, concluding with an extended series of reflections on chess and life (“Schach und Leben”), 2 volumes, 4to (203 x 170 mm), c. 82 pages, plus blanks, written mostly on rectos, autograph manuscript labels to each volume (“die Elemente des Schachs”, “Elemente des Schachs II.”), signed on the label to the first volume (“Em. Lasker / Lützowstr. 85B”), later pencil annotation by Lothar Schmid to blank first leaf of first volume, cloth-backed marbled boards, no place [Berlin?] or date, browning to edges, extremities worn (ii) Autograph notebook containing observations on chess and notes for a lecture at the Lessing-Hochschule, Berlin, on conflict beginning with two pages of pencil notes on the game of chess, entitled “Das Schachspiel”, followed by eighteen pages of notes for a lecture on conflict, entitled “Streit. Vortrag Lessing Hsch. 10ten Feb.”, 20 pages, 4to (260 x 170 mm), autograph inscription on first page (“Von Malchen zum Geburtstag 1912. Angefangen den 13ten Januar 1914 im Zuge nach Krummhübel [Karpacz]”), later pencil annotation to front free endpaper, diced roan gilt, gilt edges, Berlin and elsewhere, 1912-1914?, first gathering splitting at hinge, covers worn (iii) Autograph notebook containing drafts for a 1921 lecture at the Lessing-Hochschule, Berlin, on happiness (“Das Glück”) A substantial, multi-layered manuscript, in six numbered sections (“I. Alte Theorien vom Glück…II. Was ist das Glück? Es wohnt in der Phantasie…III. Gesetze im Reich der Phantasie. IV. Wie erringe ich Glück?...V. Neue Leitsätze über Genuss, Arbeit, Glückzüchtung. VI. Der glücklichste Mensch: Der sittliche Kämpfer, der an das Walten überragender Kräfte, an Wahrheit und Gerechtigkeit unerschütterlich glaubt.”), with autograph title page (“Das Glück. / Vortrag Okt 1921 Lessing Hochschule”), containing extensive cancellations and revisions, c. 106 pages, plus blanks, including an inserted loose bifolium, 4to (250 x 163 mm), original wrappers, later pencil annotations to title and lower pastedown, [Berlin?,] October 1921, covers chipped and worn, old repairs to covers and spine with translucent adhesive tape, browning Lasker was the author of a number of books on chess, including the classic 1925 Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (Manual of chess), one of the greatest guides to the game ever written. The exact relationship of the first manuscript to Lasker’s other publications cannot be determined here (the initial chapter of the Lehrbuch is also entitled ‘The elements of chess’). That the final section of the first manuscript is a series of observations on ‘chess and life’ is entirely characteristic of Lasker the supreme philosopher-chess master. The third manuscript here illustrates his deep interest in purely philosophical matters, and dates from the year (1921) which saw him relinquish his title of World Chess Champion to the Cuban Capablanca.

View 1 of Lot 39: Emanuel Lasker | Three autograph manuscripts, including "Die Elemente des Schachs [The Elements of Chess]"

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