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, from1968. sale includes fine examples from the leading manufacturers inGermany,sale includesfine examplesfromtheleading manufacturers Italy and the UnitedStates. from Aurora,Cartier, DuPont, the Pelikan.Montblanc,of Namiki,and OMAS, Parker portion vintage The offerings edition limited modern are highlights collections.the advanced Among and beginning enhance to opportunities outstanding as well as connoisseur discriminating most the please to pens offers sale & Fine of auction Swann’s of success Followinginaugural the 2012,fall Vintage in this Instruments Writing Picasso’sinclude engraving Cubist 1915 Léger,Fernand René Magritte, Joan Miró, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso and Georges Rouault.Marc Chagall,Braque, Salvador Georges Dalí,Highlights Kees van Dongen, Lyonel Feininger, Giacometti,Alberto Childe Hassam, Paul Edward Degas, Edgar Hopper, of note are Milton Among Lewis Avery, artists and Martin American Louis Lozowick. Gustave Cézanne, Baumann, Benton, The European Thomas Hart Paul Cadmus,section Paul offers Cassatt, Mary Gauguin, by Claude Monet, works Pierre-Auguste Renoir, include Henri highlights de Toulouse-Lautrec century and 19th James A.M. masters. Whistler. European and American byimportant Drawings and Prints Century 20th & 19th exceptional Features 19TH &20THCENTURY PRINTS&DRAWINGS MARCH7 FINE & VINTAGE WRITING INSTRUMENTS MARCH12 Henri Matisse,Henri Montblanc Patron of Art Series Karl derGrosseLimitedEditionfountain pen. Karl Montblanc Patron Series of $1,500to$2,000. Art Jeune femme levisageenfoui danslesbras , etching, 1929. $15,000to$20,000. L’Homme àlaGuitare and Chagall’s vibrant color lithograph,color Chagall’s and vibrant
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- - - Fire MARCH 21 MARCH Bible in Hebrew Bible Uncle Tom’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Regola da imparare da imparare Regola , , 1905; 1920s film , London, 1839. London, , Provisional Constitution for Provisional , Copenhagen, 1709; Jackson, Jackson, 1709; Copenhagen, , Biblicae historiae artificiossimeBiblicae depic , London, 1754; a hand-colored copy copy hand-colored a 1754; London, , The National Era magazine, in 1851-52; , Venice, 1491; Arrighi, Arrighi, 1491; Venice, , Opera Colored American Magazine , De arte navigandi, Coimbra, atque ratione 1573; scribing a battle; a collection of 38 photographs of Buffalo Soldiers the and West; origiWild the nal manuscript Washington’s notes for T. Booker Bucket Your speech; Down Throw and, as always, books and prints. engravings, numerous materialof collection a includes Twentieth-century Pullman porter items; an almost complete run of the a posters; contemporary charcoal portrait of Marcus magazine Renaissance Harlemrare the Garvey; (signed by all autographedcontributors); Martin Luther King and items; the earliest known Black Alabama. material County, Panther from Lowndes This year’s sale of African Americana covers almost almost coversAmericana African of sale year’s This 300 years of history, from slavery and through abolition, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the into 20th century. High spots include the earliest American engraving of a slave ship’s hold, 1789; a commemorative Prince Hall Masonic medallion, 1807; the earliest appearance of serialized in Brown’s John of copy a and States,United the of which People the has 1858, not in the past 30 years.appeared at auction Other notable highlights include the only known letter from a black soldier in the de Civil War, Frankfurt the small-format 1537; am Main, Det er: Den Souveraine Konge-Lov Souveraine Den er: Det PRINTED & MANUSCRIPT AFRICAN AMERICANA AFRICAN MANUSCRIPT & PRINTED APRIL 11 , Imperial Folio Edition, New York, 1845-48. $250,000 to $350,000. to $350,000. $250,000 1845-48. York, New Imperial Folio Edition, AmericaViviparous Quadrupeds, of North The , Moscow, 1810; and Darwin et et Darwin and 1810; Moscow, Godu, 1626 v proiskhodivshago Torzhestva, Litsakh v Opisanie , Venice, 1472; Plato, Plato, 1472; Venice, Genealogiae deorum gentilium, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle of His Majesty’s Ships Voyages Narrative of the Surveying Audubon and Bachman, Audubon and Bachman, printed by Robert Estienne, Paris, 1544-46; Nunes, Frederik III, King of Denmark, Lex Regia, Regia, Lex Denmark, of King FrederikIII, An Essay on the Invention of Engraving and Printing of Engraving in Chiaro Oscuro An Essay on the Invention Beketov, of al., tae, Biblische Historien, figürlich Biblische Historien, tae, fürgebildet, , Venice, 1533; Aemilius, Aemilius, 1533; Venice, le penne, modo et il di temperare . . scrivere . FINE BOOKS comprisedis of auction this AntiquarianFair, Book York New the of opening the with always as Coinciding There is a substantial chiefly selection from of the incunabula collection of choice works fields. from many Kenneth Rapoport, early illustrated Noteworthybooks and calligraphy and writing items include manuals. Boccaccio, Colored Draft Men / Off to Camp Dodge, Dodge, Men / Off to Camp Colored Draft 1918. broadside poster, Iowa, $4,000 to $6,000.
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Civil War manuscripts are featured in the Spring Americana sale, with letters and a diary JAN 17 Shelf Sale – 2:00pm Sale B69 of Private Julius Hall, fighting Rebs and Indians in the southwest as part of the 1st California JAN 24 20th Century Illustration: Original Art • Books – 1:30pm Regiment. Two important early Mormon items Sale 2300 will also be featured: an 1840 Nauvoo edition JAN 29 Old Master Drawings – 1:30pm of The Book of Mormon, and the first two years Sale 2301 of The Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate, FEB 5 Vintage Posters – 10:30am & 1:30pm 1834 to 1836. Also look for a beautiful extra-illus- Sale 2302 trated set of The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, FEB 14 African-American Fine Art – 2:30pm which includes documents signed by both Franklin Sale 2303 and Thomas Jefferson. The auction will also include FEB 26 Fine Photographs & Photobooks – 2:30pm the renowned Theodore Roosevelt collection of Sale 2304 Peter Scanlan, including signed first editions, FEB 28 Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books – 1:30pm scarce pamphlets, letters, a family photograph album Sale 2305 and much more. MAR 7 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings – 10:30am & 1:30pm The Book of Mormon, first state of the third edition, Sale 2306 1840. $4,000 to $6,000. MAR 12 Fine & Vintage Writing Instruments – 1:30pm Sale 2307 MAR 21 Printed & Manuscript African Americana – 10:30am & 1:30pm Sale 2308 APR 11 Fine Books – 10:30am FINE PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOBOOKS APRIL 18 Sale 2309 Our April auction includes Berenice Abbott’s Brooklyn Bridge, 1936; APR 16 Printed & Manuscript Americana – 1:30pm Ruth Bernhard’s Triangles, 1949, printed 1980s; Diane Arbus’s Topless Sale 2310 Waitress, 1963-67; two stunning Paul Strand photographs, The White APR 18 Fine Photographs & Photobooks – 1:30pm Horse, Rancho Taos, 1932 and Camargue, 1951; Sebastião Salgado’s Sale 2311 Brazilian Workers, 1986; and Sally Mann’s Virginia Asleep, 1988. Among MAY 1 Old Master Through Modern Prints – 10:30am & 1:30pm photojournalism highlights are Nat Fein’s Babe Ruth emerging from Sale 2312 the dugout, 1948, printed 1980s; while sets and portfolios include Karl MAY 9 Art, Press & Illustrated Books – 1:30pm Struss’s Portfolio 1920-29, with 15 platinum prints, published 1979, and a Sale 2313 group of Fred Kovert’s vintage photographs of American bodybuilders. MAY 13 Modernist Posters – 1:30pm Featured photobooks include Camera Work #40, 1912 and Jack Smith’s Sale 2314 avant-garde classic The Beautiful Book, 1960. MAY 16 Contemporary Art – 1:30pm Sale 2315 MAY 23 Autographs – 1:30pm Sale 2316 JUN 6 Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Historical Prints, Ephemera – 1:30pm Sale 2317 JUN 13 American Art – 1:30pm Sale 2318 JUN 20 19th & 20th Century Literature – 1:30pm Sale 2319 JUN 27 Discovery Sale – 1:30pm Sale 2320
James Ensor, Les Patineurs (detail), etching, 1889. $12,000 to $18,000. At auction March 7.
Jack Smith, The Beautiful Book, New York, 1960-62. $14,000 to $18,000. Schedule subject to change: 212-254-4710 • swanngalleries.com