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WELCOME 2013 The dawn of a new year is a time for reflection—and what a year we have to look back on. 2012 saw the most successful book department sale in our 70-year history, when Revolutionary Americana from the Allyn Kellogg Ford Collection brought more than $2 million. And, in October, the first lot to hammer down at Swann for more than $1 million—a complete set of Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian—brought $1.44 million. The following week we achieved an auction record price of $144,000 for Gustav Klimt’s only monograph, Das Werk von Gustav Klimt, and, in November, we sold the A.M. Cassandre poster L.M.S / Best Way, London, 1928 for $156,000—an auction record price for any poster by the artist. Of course, the changing of the calendar is also an occasion for looking forward and anticipating what’s to come. Old Master Drawings make their return to Swann’s auction block for the first time in several years, and for the first time ever illustrations take center stage, with a sale of 20th Century Illustration that features a collection of Maurice Sendak works. There are also winsome Art Nouveau posters; stellar examples of African-American Fine Art, including works to be sold by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for the benefit of the collection; our second Fine & Vintage Writing Instruments sale; and our annual auction of Printed & Manuscript African Americana, with material from slavery through the modern civil rights movement. Check out the schedule on page 7 for a complete list of sales through June 2013, and have a happy, healthy and peaceful new year! THE TRUMPET • WINTER / SPRING 2013 • VOLUME 27, NUMBER 2 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATION ORIGINAL ART • BOOKS, FEATURING MAURICE SENDAK JANUARY 24 This visual treat of a sale—scheduled during Bibliography Week in New York—includes an extensive selection of original 20th-century illustration art and books. There are illustrations by Charles Addams, Ludwig Bemelmans, Edward J. Detmold, Disney Studios, Al Hirschfeld, Ed Koren, Beatrix Potter, Jessie Willcox Smith, Dr. Seuss, Edward Sorel, Garth Williams and others. Of special note is an iconic book jacket design by Fred Marcellino for Thomas Pynchon’s Slow Learner, which represents the first public offering of work from this influential designer and illustrator, and several cartoon strips and drawings such as Li’l Abner, Mickey Mouse and an early Sunday Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz. The book section contains a private collection of works written and/or illustrated by Maurice Sendak from the library of the late Reed Orenstein, bookseller and longtime Sendak collector. Included are most of his important works in first edition, many signed, and several with small sketches and inscriptions. There are unique copies of Where the Wild Things Are; scarce, signed firsts of Seven Little Stories on Big Subjects and In the Night Kitchen; as well as some related ephemera. Edward Gorey lovers will find a small section of signed, limited first editions, and an unpublished original watercolor. Desirable classic works illustrated by Edmund Dulac, Willy Pogány and Arthur Rackham represent the earlier part of the century. Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are, 25th Anniversary Edition, signed and with an ink drawing, New York, 1988. $5,000 to $7,500. François Bouçher, Two Satyrs, chalk drawing, circa 1740s. $12,000 to $18,000. OLD MASTER DRAWINGS JANUARY 29 Recognizing a resurgence of interest in Old Master Drawings—including recent exhibits at the Frick and the Morgan Library—Swann is reinstating our Old Master Drawings sale following a five-year hiatus. The auction coincides with Master Drawings Week in New York, and features Guido Reni,Head of a Woman Looking to the Left, black and red chalk drawing, circa 1639-40, which may be related to the head of Cleopatra in Sir Denis Mahon’s collection; François Bouçher, Two Satyrs, black and white chalk study for two figures in the Beauvais tapestry of Neptune Rescuing Anymone; and Joris Hoefnagel, Still Life with Flowers, Insects and a Snail, watercolor, gouache and gold on vellum, 1589, with a Latin inscription reading, “Omnia mutantur, nihil interit,” i.e. “Everything changes, nothing perishes,” from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Previous Page: Alphonse Mucha, Moet & Chandon / Grand Cremant Imperial (detail), 1899. $10,000 to $15,000. At auction February 5. Cover: Barkley L. Hendricks, The Hawk, Blah, Blah, Blah, oil and DayGlo on canvas, 1970. $75,000 to $100,000. At auction February 14. VINTAGE POSTERS FEBRUARY 5 This diverse sale features a section of rare and important Art Nouveau posters that reads like a who’s who of the artists of that era: Jules Chéret, Eugène Grasset, Privat Livemont, Alphonse Mucha, PAL, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Highlights include two Mucha masterworks, the inimitable advertisement for French rolling paper company Job, 1896, and a hand-signed and numbered variant of Salon des Cent, also 1896. Skiing and winter sports posters are a growing market, and this sale doesn’t disappoint, with a large selection of images for the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, ski posters by Sascha Maurer and iconic advertisements for Sun Valley. There is also a section devoted to Hebraic and Judaic posters with American posters printed in Yiddish during the First World War, as well as Mather Work Incentive posters and excellent international posters from across the political and geographical spectrum. Dwight Shepler, Sun Valley / Ketchum, Idaho. $10,000 to $15,000. AFRICAN-AMERICAN FINE ART FEBRUARY 14 This sale features a significant group of works to be sold by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for the benefit of the collection, including Meeting Place, 1941, the first of Norman Lewis’s WPA-era oil paintings to come to auction and Charles White’s Trumpet Player, a 1959-1960 charcoal and gouache drawing. Also from the collection are works by Charles Alston, Richmond Barthé, Beauford Delaney and Laura Wheeler Waring. Barkley L. Hendricks’s The Hawk, Blah, Blah, Blah, William T. Williams’s Up Balls and large canvases by Frank Bowling and Sam Gilliam represent bold, graphic compositions from the latter half of the 20th century. The sale also includes an exceptional group of scarce prints by Elizabeth Catlett, including the iconic color lino- leum cut, Sharecropper. Norman Lewis, Meeting Place, oil on canvas, 1941. $150,000 to $200,000. FINE PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOBOOKS FEBRUARY 26 Remarkable 20th-century offerings include Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian, Portfolio 1, 1904, with 39 large-format photogravures; Bert Stern’s The Last Sitting Portfolio, 1962, with 10 color prints of his famous shots of Marilyn Monroe; Ansel Adams’s large-format The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, 1942, printed 1970; Doris Ulmann’s Roll Jordan Roll, 1933; Man Ray’s carte-postale A Regarder d’Un Oeil, De Près, Pendant Presque Une Heure, 1920, with the Société Anonyme imprint and Robert Adams’s Longmont, Colorado, 1985, from Summer Nights. There are rare and early Asian photographs from the Estate of Fong Chow, with an 1860s album contain- ing photographs of Japan by Felice Beato and a late 1860s suite of Korean photographs. Joshua Beal’s scarce three-part panorama of New York City, 1876; a Hammerschmidt album of Egyptian views from 1860 and Francis Frith’s photographically illustrated volume Cairo, Sinai, Jerusalem, and the Pyramids of Egypt, 1860, are also among early photographic highlights. © Ansel Adams Publishing Trust Rights Ansel Adams, The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, silver print, 1942, printed 1970. $50,000 to $75,000. EARLY PRINTED, MEDICAL, SCIENTIFIC & TRAVEL BOOKS FEBRUARY 28 A diverse sale including Aldine imprints, Bibles, classics, post-medieval manuscripts, music, books by and relating to Samuel Johnson, and works on law, astronomy, the occult, China and the 15th-century Albanian national hero Skanderbeg. Among the highlights are Euripides, Tragoediae septendecim, Venice, 1503; Pindar et al., Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia, Venice, 1513; Lavardin, The Historie of George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, London, 1596; Samuel Johnson’s copy of Novum Jesu Christi . Testamentum, Frankfurt am Main, 1601; Botero, An Historicall Description of the most Famous Kingdomes and Common-Weales in the Worlde, London, 1603; Cartwright, A Confutation of the Rhemists Translation, Glosses, and Annotations on the New Testament, Leiden, 1618; Spinoza, Tractatus theologico-politicus, Hamburg, 1670; Archimedes, Monumenta omnia mathematica quae extant, Palermo, 1685; and Wright, An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe, London, 1750. Juan González de Mendoza, The Historie of the Great and Mightie Kingdome of China, London, 1588. $20,000 to $30,000. Golden Age sale includes fine examples from the leading manufacturers in Germany, Italy and the United States. andtheUnitedStates. Italy sale includesfine examplesfromtheleading manufacturers inGermany, The vintage portion Parker OMAS, and Namiki, of Montblanc, Pelikan. the DuPont, Cartier, Aurora, from enhance beginning and Among advanced the collections. highlights are modern limited edition offerings sale offers pens to please the most discriminating connoisseur as well as outstanding opportunitiesWriting Instrumentsthis in Vintage fall 2012, the inauguralFollowing to success of Swann’s auction of Fine & Highlights 1915 Cubist engraving include Picasso’s Rouault. Georges and Picasso Pablo Munch, Edvard Miró, Joan Magritte, René FernandLéger, Alberto Giacometti, offers Feininger, section European Lyonel The Dongen, van Kees Lozowick. Louis Martinand Dalí, Lewis GeorgesSalvador Braque,Hopper, Chagall, Marc Edward Hassam, Childe Cadmus, Paul HartThomas Benton, Baumann, Gustave Whistler. Americanartists Avery, Among Milton are note of A.M. James and Toulouse-Lautrec de Henri Renoir, Pierre-Auguste Monet, Claude Gauguin, masters. 19th century highlights include works by Features exceptional 19th & 20th CenturyMary Prints and Drawings importantby American and European Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul PRINTS&DRAWINGS 19TH &20THCENTURY FINE & VINTAGE WRITING INSTRUMENTS VINTAGE FINE & Henri Matisse, Henri Matisse, Montblanc Patron of Art $1,500 to$2,000.