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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer Christian Marclay b. 1955 Bouche-Oreille i. signed, dated 1990, numbered AP 1/3 and inscribed A (on the underside) ii. signed, dated 1990, numbered AP 1/3 and inscribed B (on the underside) terracotta, in 2 parts diameter: 3 in. 7.6 cm. Executed in 1990, this work is artist’s proof 1 from the edition of 10 plus 3 artist’s proofs.

bouche-oreille

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer Christian Marclay b. 1955 Untitled signed and dated 2004 (on the reverse) photogram on C-print paper, mounted on Sintra board Sheet 19¾ by 23¾ in. 50.2 by 60.3 cm. Executed in 2004. Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Montserrat Palacios at Montserrat.Palacios@sothebys.com

untitled

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer Christian Marclay b. 1955 Untitled signed and dated (on the reverse) photogram on c-print paper, mounted on Sintra board 19¾ by 23¾ in. 50.2 by 60.3 cm. Executed in 2004. Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Montserrat Palacios at Montserrat.Palacios@sothebys.com

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer Christian Marclay b. 1955 Telephones single-channel video on DVD running time: 7 minutes 30 seconds Executed in 1995, this work is number 114 from an edition of 250. © Christian Marclay. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

telephones

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer Christian Marclay b. 1955 Stool signed and dated 1992 (underside of seat) painted wood, brass horn with braided cord with 2 tassels 30 by 16½ by 16½ in. 76.2 by 41.9 by 41.9 cm. Executed in 1992. Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Montserrat Palacios at Montserrat.Palacios@sothebys.com

stool

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer Christian Marclay b. 1955 Breasts silicone rubber and metal clips Each: 17 by 9 by 2 in. 43.2 by 22.9 by 5.1 cm. Executed in 1989.

breasts

Fine Old Master & 19th Century European Art

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Old Master and British Paintings

river landscape with a windmill; river landscape with a fortified house

after pierre-imbert drevet (1697-1739), portrait of christian huygens, engraving...

a winter river landscape with figures gathering wood near farm houses

a miniature of william gooch, esq. (1716-1742), circle of christian friedrich...

Johann Christian Roedig The Hague 1751 - 1803 The Hague a still life of various fruits and flowers by a terracotta urn on a marble ledge; a still life of roses, tulips and other flowers in a sculpted vase on a marble ledge a pair, both oil on panel, in carved and giltwood frames (2) each:71.1 by 54.6 cm., 28 by 21 1/2 in. Provenance: The Earls of Eglinton, Skelmorlie Castle: James N. Graham, Cerfin Carluke, Lanarkshire, sold Christie's, 11 May 1923, lot 53, £399 to Shoebridge; Frank Partridge and Sons, Ltd., invoice January 1939, for £793.15s as by Jan van Os.

johann christian roedig

Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale

soester häuser (houses in soest)

after alfred edward chalon, r.a. (1780-1860) leopold george christian frederick;...

The Collection of A. Alfred Taubman: Modern & Contemporary Art

Oil on canvas with a Flemish School painting of Peasants in an Ale House

manner of christian wilhelm ernst dietrich (1712-1774)

an american silver soup ladle, christian wiltberger, philadelphia, circa 1800, the...

gisborne (t.), a familiar survey of the christian religion, 1801--keill (j.) an...

Children's Illustrations

Two miniature Doll-House Cabinets: Chest and Wardrobe of black lacquered wood with decoupage decorations comprising applied cut-out Oriental motifs and designs: Egyptian figures, birds and fishes, various animals and bouquets of flowers, the inside of these cabinets painted matte grey/white, circa 1840s. 

Two miniature Doll-House Cabinets: Chest and Wardrobe of black lacquered wood with decoupage decorations comprising applied cut-out Oriental motifs and designs: Egyptian figures, birds and fishes, various animals and bouquets of flowers, the inside of these cabinets painted matte grey/white, circa 1840s.  Created by Hans Christian Andersen for Jonas Stampe’s three children: Astrid, Rigmor and Christine - for whom Andersen created his famous series of scrapbook albums. Measurements: 1) A Four-drawer flat-top Casket/Chest on four knob feet and two brass side handles. Decorated with on front, top and sides, lacquered in black, the interior stained white. With paper label pasted on back with inventory “6373/44”. Measures 10-1/4 x 7 x 12-3/4 inches; 2) A hanging cabinet with two-panel doors on raised feet, with crenelated top (repaired). Decorated with on front and sides, lacquered in black, the interior with two shelves stained white. With paper label pasted on back with inventory “6373/44”. Measures 20-3/8 x 7-5/8 x 13-3/4 inches.

two miniature doll-house cabinets

Modern Discoveries

Picasso, Pablo — Christian Zervos Pablo Picasso par Christian Zervos, catalogue raisonné. Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1942-1978 33 volumes (of 34, vol. 31 lacking), with vol. 2 in 2 parts as often issued (325 x 244 mm). French language set, titles printed in black and red, each containing photographic reproductions of Picasso's works; occasional spots, leaves overall clean. Uniformly bound in beige cloth over boards, original wrappers and spines bound in, vols. 1-10 with lettering to foot of spine reading "Pablo Picasso"; cloth slightly soiled, a few lettering pieces with loss, wrappers to earlier volumes lightly spotted, foxed, and dampstained but majority clean, though lacking original glassine. Mixed set, a few volumes limited and numbered editions, of the most comprehensive record of Picasso's work. In 1926, three years after he first met Pablo Picasso, Christian Zervos founded the influential publishing house and art journal Cahiers d'Art. Over the following decades, Picasso served as the subject of many of the publication's studies and exhibitions. But he would also go on to share a nearly 50-year friendship with Zervos—a creative collaboration epitomized in the present lot. Zervos's monumental project, pursued in collaboration with Picasso himself, spanned over 46 years. The first volume was printed in 1942; the final in 1978, years after both Zervos and Picasso had died. Over 16,000 works are reproduced across 34 volumes, here an incomplete 33, comprising the definitive reference for Picasso's oeuvre. Sold not subject to return.

View 1 of Lot 237: Picasso, Pablo — Christian Zervos | Catalogue raisonné, 33 vols.

picasso, pablo — christian zervos | catalogue raisonné, 33 vols.

Shrubland Park, Suffolk, England - Country House Sale

a naval engagement

hms shannon and uss chesapeake, off boston; the battle between hms shannon and uss chesapeake

the british fleet at anchor,  making ready to set sail, figures gathered on the quay in the foreground, traditionally identified as portsmouth harbour

shipping studies

Lithographs by Louis Haghe, five plates, published by Smith & Co., stained and torn, some foxing, surface dirt and water stains, in contemporary rosewood; and a duplicate of plate one, (unexamined out of frames)

the shannon and the chesapeake

L14314

an evening landscape with fishermen by a lake and animals sheltering beneath a cliff;a winter landscape with travellers by an inn;an evening landscape with travellers by a classical ruin, a lake beyond;a landscape with travellers on a road, a ruined house on a cliff above

Contemporary Day Auction

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer Christian Marclay b. 1955 Facade (from the Body Mix series) signed and dated 1991 (on the reverse) 3 record album covers stitched with thread, in artist's chosen frame 27 ¼ by 16 ¼ in. 69.2 by 41.3 cm. Executed in 1991.

View 1 of Lot 460: Facade (from the Body Mix series)

facade (from the body mix series)

A Scholarly Journey: The Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection　

Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection

Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection A collection of 28 reference books on Chinese bronzes 雪月藏亞洲藝術珍品 中國銅器參考書籍一組28本 This lot will be sold as a collection and not subject to return. 此拍品恕不設退款。 Including: Later Chinese Bronzes: A Special Exhibition of 14th to 18th century examples, Hong Kong, 1984Ancient Chinese Bronze Gallery, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 2000/ 中國古代青銅館，上海博物館，上海，2000Ancient bronzes from China, Ordos and the Steppes, Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, 2007China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900, Phoenix Art Museum, 1993The Chinese Bronze Exhibition, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai/ 中國青銅器陳列，上海博物館Orientations, December 1988Chinese Bronzes: Selected articles from Orientations 1983-2000The Problem of meaning in early Chinese ritual bronzes (Colloquies on art & archaeology in Asia) , London, 1994George Kuwayama, The Great Bronze Age of China: A symposium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1983Art from Ritual: Ancient Chinese Bronze Vessels from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, 1983Bronzi dell'antica Cina dal XCIII al III secolo A.C., Milan, 1988Rose Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1990Chinese Bronzes: 70 Plates in Full Colour, Milan, 1966René-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argence, Bronze Vessels of Ancient China in the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco , 1977Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982Michael Goedhuis, Chinese and Japanese bronzes A.D. 1100-1900, Colnaghi Oriental, London, 1989Chen Peifen, Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 1995Toshio and Eiko EgawaAgraffes and Bronze Animals: Ancient Chinese Ornaments, Tokyo, 1994Max Loehr, Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China, Asia House Gallery, 1969RITUELS POUR L'ETERNITE, Christian Deydier/Oriental Bronzes Ltd, Paris/London, 2001Yixi et al. ed, The Sublime Grandeur of Yongle Imperial Bronzes=永樂氣象, Hong Kong, 2006Jessica Rawson and Emma Bunker, Ancient Chinese and Ordos bronzes, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1990Ancient Chinese Bronzes in the Collection of the Shanghai Museum=上海博物館珍藏中國青銅器中華人民共和国古代青銅器展， 1976Masks of Mystery: Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Sanxingdui, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000新修泉屋清賞，1971Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Volumes IIA , Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 1990Chinese Bronzes, Christian Deydier, 1980洛陽出土銅鏡, 洛陽博物館, 洛陽, 1988Li Xueqin=李學勤, The Glorious Traditions of Chinese Bronzes=中國青銅器萃賞，Singapore=新加坡，2000

View 1 of Lot 3163: A collection of 28 reference books on Chinese bronzes 中國銅器參考書籍一組28本

a collection of 28 reference books on chinese bronzes 中國銅器參考書籍一組28本

Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern

Christian Zervos. Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1895 à [1972]. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'Art, 1949-1986. 33 volumes in 34 (volume 2 in two parts), small folio (325 x 252 mm.), numerous plates, blue cloth with original wrappers bound in A FINE SET OF THE PICASSO CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ. Zervos first met Picasso in Paris. In 1926 Zervos founded the publishing house Cahiers d'Art and 16 years later Picasso approved his wish to create as close to an exhaustive catalogue raisonne of the artist's paintings and drawings as possible. Picasso was an enormously prolific creator—when he died there were more than 45,000 unsold works in his estate. Published between 1942 and 1978, extending to thirty-four volumes, Zervos's work reproduces over 16,000 works and covers Picasso's lifetime. As often, this is a mixed set: the majority of the volumes are first editions but volumes 2, 4, and 6-15 are from the 1980s reprint.

View 1 of Lot 142: Christian Zervos | Pablo Picasso, Œuvres, 1949-1986, 34 volumes, the monumental catalogue raisonné

christian zervos | pablo picasso, œuvres, 1949-1986, 34 volumes, the monumental catalogue raisonné

Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Autograph letter signed ("Goethe"), to Christian Gottlob von Voigt referring to his summer house which, in anticipation of the approaching spring, he has recently repaired ...Vermelde schuldigst: daß ich bey herannahendem Frühling jenen alten Gartenpacht pure erneuert und also diese Angelegenheit, gewiss auch mit Ihrer Beystimmung, beseitigt habe... 1 page, 8vo, autograph address panel, Weimar, 11 March 1813, seal tear, light browning This letter by Goethe was written to Privy Councillor Christian Gottlob von Voigt (1743-1819) and mentions the author's famous summer house, his first place of residence in Weimar following his arrival in 1775. Over the following fifty years it offered Goethe a valuable place of creative retreat. LITERATURE: Repertorium der Goethe-Briefe WA-Nr.06529c+; 750 Autographen aus der Sammlung Heinrich Hinterberger, Wien und anderem Besitz. Mit einer Einleitung von Oliver Matuschek (Vienna, Tutzing, 2003) no.89 (facsimile)

View 1 of Lot 45: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Autograph letter signed, to Christian Gottlob von Voigt, 11 March 1813

johann wolfgang von goethe | autograph letter signed, to christian gottlob von voigt, 11 march 1813

Christian Zervos Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1895 à [1972]. Paris: Éditions Cahiers d'Art, 1949-1986. 33 volumes in 34 (volume 2 in two parts), small folio (325 x 252 mm.), numerous plates, blue cloth with original wrappers bound in A FINE SET OF THE PICASSO CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ. Zervos first met Picasso in Paris. In 1926 Zervos founded the publishing house Cahiers d'Art and 16 years later Picasso approved his wish to create as close to an exhaustive catalogue raisonne of the artist's paintings and drawings as possible. Picasso was an enormously prolific creator---when he died there were more than 45,000 unsold works in his estate. Published between 1942 and 1978, extending to thirty-four volumes, Zervos's work reproduces over 16,000 works and covers Picasso's lifetime. As often, this is a mixed set: the majority of the volumes are first editions but volumes 2, 4, and 6-15 are from the 1980s reprint.

View 1 of Lot 62: Christian Zervos | Pablo Picasso, Œuvres, 1949-1986, 34 volumes, the monumental catalogue raisonné

Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 1

Virginia House of Delegates The Proceedings of the Convention of Delegates, Held at the Capitol, In the City of Williamsburg, In the Colony of Virginia, on Monday the 6th of May, 1776. Williamsburg: Printed by Alexander Purdie, Printer to the Commonwealth, [1776]. [Bound with:] Ordinances Passed at a General Convention of Delegates and Representatives, From the Several Counties and Corporations of Virginia, Held at the Capitol, In the City of Williamsburg, on Monday the 6th of May, Anno Dom: 1776. Williamsburg: Printed by Alexander Purdie, Printer to the Commonwealth, [1776] 2 works bound in one volume, 4to (208 x 162 mm, deckle preserved on many lower edges of Ordinances). Some browning throughout. Contemporary reverse calf, covers ruled and rolled in blind, spine lettered in ink "Journal of Convention 1776," possibly by Capt. J. H. B. Smith (see Provenance); extremities rubbed, hinges a trifle cracked with a little loss to front hinge. Blue morocco folding-case. First editions, with significant provenance, of the Proceedings and Ordinances of the fifth Virginia Convention at Williamsburg in May and June 1776, containing the Virginia Declaration of Rights, one of the most important and influential documents in American history. The Proceedings also publishes the momentous resolution of 15 May 1776 "that the delegates appointed to represent this colony in the General Congress be instructed to propose to that respectable body to declare the the United Colonies free and independent States. …" This resolution, introduced by Richard Henry Lee to the Continental Congress on 7 June 1776 —just two days after the adjournment of the Virginia Convention—led directly to the appointment of a committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. Covering the crucial period from 6 May to 5 July 1776, the Proceedings describe an integrated series of events and decisions, including the adoption of Virginia's Constitution—in which the state separately declared independence—and the election of Patrick Henry as the state's first governor. "When the convention adopted the new constitution on June 29, 1776, it transformed Virginia's political landscape by giving the people an unprecedented role in running their government" (CCC, p. 40). But the Virginia Declaration of Rights is the cornerstone of the Virginia Convention. "Written primarily by George Mason and adopted on June 12, 1776, the Virginia Declaration of Rights comprised, in the words of historian Gordon S. Wood [in The Creation of the American Republic], 'a jarring but exciting combination of ringing declarations of universal principles with a motley collection' of more specific legal customs that Americans had long prized. It began by stating that 'all men are by nature equally free and independent' and that 'all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people.' Because of this, 'a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish' their government whenever they deemed the current one 'inadequate.' The similarity between these phrases and those found in the Declaration of Independence was no coincidence. Jefferson eagerly drew on Mason's drafts as he composed his own text in Philadelphia. … Importantly, the Declaration of Rights did not grant the people their rights but rather guaranteed them. Since all power came from the people, their rights were not limited to what they chose to emphasize and write down at this particular moment" (CCC, pp. 37, 40). The sixteen points of the Declaration of Rights also allowed for the separation of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government; frequent free elections; elimination of hereditary offices; the right to trial by a jury of one's peers; reasonable bail; no cruel or unusual punishment; reasonable warrants for searches; freedom of the press; subordination of the military to civil authority; and freedom of religion. This final clause was introduced by James Madison: "That religion, or the duty to which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity, towards each other." According to Lance Banning, Madison's contribution to the Declaration of Rights established "a standard that no society had ever recognized in its organic law" (ANB). The Ordinances Passed at a General Convention of Delegates and Representatives also includes the texts of the Virginia Declaration of Rights and Virginia Constitution. Both publications are very scarce on the market, with about a dozen copies of each being held in institutional collections. Only William & Mary, the Huntington, John Carter Brown, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the New York Public Library, and the Library of Virginia have copies of both imprints. We find only one other copy of the works together and one copy of the Ordinances separately in the auction records for the past five decades. This set of the two works is signed on the title-page of the Proceedings by Cyrus Griffin, a Virginia attorney who was in private practice in 1776. In 1778, Griffin was chosen, with James Madison, as one of Virginia's delegates to the Continental Congress, serving until 1781. He returned to Congress in 1787–1788, serving as the last President of the Congress under the Confederation from January to November 1788, when the Confederation Congress adjourned in favor of the new federal government. Griffin subsequently held various government posts, finally serving as a judge in the U.S. District Court for Virginia from 1790 until his death in 1810. REFERENCE Colonists, Citizens, Constitutions 5; ESTC W18823, W18822; Evans 15198, 15199; Sabin 100028, 100026 PROVENANCE Cyrus Griffin (signature on first title-page) — Capt. J. H. B. Smith (nineteenth-century note on front free endpaper and initials on front cover) — Mrs. J. H. B. Smith (penciled ownership note on front free endpaper) — Sarah H. Miller (penciled ownership note, "since 1908" on front free endpaper)

View 1 of Lot 74: Virginia House of Delegates | The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights

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