Stanford Auctioneers Fine Art, Pop Art, Photographs: Day 1 of 3 Friday – January 26Th, 2018
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Stanford Auctioneers Fine Art, Pop Art, Photographs: Day 1 of 3 Friday – January 26th, 2018 www.stanfordauctioneers.com | [email protected] 1: PAUL KLEE - "M" Garden Gate ["Portail du jardin M"] USD 300 - 400 Paul Klee (Swiss/German, 1879 - 1940). ""M" Garden Gate ["Portail du jardin M"]". Original color collotype. 1932. Printed 1957. Signed in the image, lower left. Felix Paul Klee stamp, verso. Small edition. Thin cream wove paper. Printed to the edge of the sheet. Fine impression. Bright, fresh colors. Fine condition. Provenance: Acquired directly from Felix Paul Klee. Image size: 8 5/16 x 9 3/16 in. (211 x 233 mm). This edition was authorized by Klee shortly before his death in 1940 but delayed by World War II and its aftermath until 1957. It was printed under the immediate supervision of Felix Paul Klee (1907-1990), Klee's son. [23634-2-225] 2: ANDY WARHOL - $$ [dollar signs] USD 4,000 - 5,000 Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987). "$$ [dollar signs] [drawing]". Marker drawing on paper. c1979. Signed in black marker, lower center. White wove bond paper. The "full sheet". Fine condition. Provenance: Private collector, Sweden, acquired c.1991 possibly from Frederick W. Hughes (Warhol's business manager); thence to our consignor. Overall size: 11 x 8 1/2 in. (279 x 216 mm). Marker drawings of dollar signs by Warhol are scarce/rare. Our example is rare as it was drawn on Warhol’s “Andy Warhol Enterprises, Inc.” letterhead at the Factory (or as it was known then, “the office”). Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [29037-2-3000] 3: ROBERT INDIANA - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 USD 300 - 400 Robert Indiana (American, b.1928). "1 - 2 - 3 - 4". Color lithograph. 1963. Edition of 2,000. White wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression with fresh colors. Fine condition; centerfold as issued. Overall size: 16 3/16 x 22 13/16 in. (411 x 579 mm). Image size: 14 5/8 x 19 7/8 in. (371 x 505 mm). For Walasse Ting's "1¢ Life." Prints from the One Cent Life portfolio are in most major and public collections worldwide including MOMA (New York), Tate Modern (London), Museum of Contemporary Art (Montreal) and the Andy Warhol Museum (Pittsburg). Text and/or image may be on verso. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [26834-4-225] 4: DIANE ARBUS - A Family One Evening in a Nudist Camp, Pennsylvania USD 1,200 - 1,500 Diane Arbus (American, 1923-1971). "A Family One Evening in a Nudist Camp, Pennsylvania". Original photogravure. 1965. Printed 1978. Stamped with photographer's name, verso. High-grade archival paper. Ample margins. Fine, qualty printing. Very good to fine condition; with tissue guard. Overall size: 15 3/4 x 11 5/8 in. (400 x 295 mm). Image size: 10 1/16 x 9 15/16 in. (256 x 252 mm). Image copyright © The Estate of Diane Arbus, LLC. [27159-3-800] 5: LEWIS HINE - A Group of "Newsies" at the Brooklyn Bridge Starting Out USD 600 - 700 at 1:00am in a Blizzard on a Sunday Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940). "A Group of "Newsies" at the Brooklyn Bridge Starting Out at 1:00am in a Blizzard on a Sunday". Original photogravure. 1908. Printed later. Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edition unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Full margins. Fine, quality printing. Fine condition; with tissue guard. Overall size: 11 5/8 x 15 11/16 in. (295 x 398 mm). Image size: 9 5/16 x 11 13/16 in. (237 x 300 mm). A gelatin silver print of this image sold for $22,500 at Phillips, NY, October 8, 2015, lot #142. Lewis Wickes Hine was an American sociologist and photographer who used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing child labor laws in the United States. [27164-3-400] Copyright ©2018 Stanford Auctioneers | www.stanfordauctioneers.com | [email protected] Page 2 of 125 6: LEWIS HINE - A Group of the Youngest Coal Breaker Boys in a USD 600 - 700 Pennsylvania Coal Mine, South Pittston, Pennsylvania Lewis Hine (American, 1874-1940). "A Group of the Youngest Coal Breaker Boys in a Pennsylvania Coal Mine, South Pittston, Pennsylvania". Original photogravure. 1911. Printed later. Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edition unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Full margins. Fine, quality printing. Fine condition; with tissue guard. Overall size: 11 5/8 x 15 11/16 in. (295 x 398 mm). Image size: 9 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (241 x 298 mm). Lewis Wickes Hine was an American sociologist and photographer who used his camera as a tool for social reform. His photographs were instrumental in changing child labor laws in the United States. [27163-3-400] 7: KARIMA MUYAES - A Traves de la Vida USD 2,000 - 3,000 Karima Muyaes (Mexican, b.1960). "A Traves de la Vida ["Throughout Life"]". Oil, pigments, and marble dust on canvas. 2007. Signed and dated, lower right. Fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: This work will be included in James Orr's forthcoming catalogue raisonne of Muyaes’s oeuvre. Provenance: Private collection, Dallas, Texas. Overall size: 23 3/8 x 23 3/8 in. (594 x 594 mm). A listed artist, Muyaes is currently one of the most innovative and talented international painters/printmakers. A major monograph on her work with an introduction by Avelina Lesper, the foremost contemporary Mexican art critic, will be published mid-2018. Muyaes’s work has sold at Sotheby's (New York City), Swann Galleries (New York City), Martin Gordon Auctions (Phoenix), Louis C. Morton (Mexico City), and Casa de Subastas Odalys (Madrid/Caracas). In April of 2013 she was chosen as one of the top 34 currently active Mexican artists and featured in a series of articles in the prestigious Mexican newspaper "Milenio" as well as TV appearances. Muyaes has an extensive worldwide exhibition history which includes a show that travelled throughout Sweden for two years, 2010-2012. In 2018 her work and that of the noted African-American artist David C. Driskell will be showcased in a two person exhibition at The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Image copyright © Karima Muyaes. [29416-0-1500] 8: PEDRO CORONEL - Abstraction 'B' USD 12,000 - 15,000 Pedro Coronel (Mexican, 1923-1985). "Abstraction 'B'". Watercolor on paper. 1984. Signed on the verso (as was his custom), once in upper right "Pedro Coronel. Mex 84" and once in lower right "Pedro Coronel.". Watermarked Arches paper. Painted to the edges, the full sheet, deckle edges. Vibrant, fresh colors. Provenance: Private collection, Key Biscayne, Florida; ex- estate/collection Dr. Augusto Lodi, former gallery director of the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Lodi loaned many works from his private collection for such exhibits as the “Three Generations of Mexican Masters” show held at the Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, D.C., in 1999. Our example was included in the “Mexican Exhibit” show held at the City of Los Angeles’ Lankershim Arts Center, Los Angeles, California, June 15 – July 13, 1990, and is accompanied by its exhibition label. Image size: 30 1/16 x 22 9/16 in. (764 x 573 mm). Accompanied by a letter from Rejane Coronel Lalonde, the recognized authority on Coronel's oeuvre, authenticating this work. Painter, sculptor, and printmaker, Pedro Coronel was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in 1923. He studied painting and sculpture in La Esmeralda National School of Painting and Sculpture from 1940 to 1945 under Juan Cruz, Francisco Zuniga and Santos Balmori, and was later a teacher there himself. In 1946, Coronel went to Paris, where he attended workshops directed by the painter Victor Brauner and the sculptor Constantin Brancusi. From then on he lived alternately in Mexico and Paris. His first individual exhibition was at the Galeria Proteo in 1954. Later he exhibited in France, Italy, Japan, the United States and Brazil. Dramatization of the colors of the ancient cultures and the recovery of their shapes and motifs are basic features of Coronel’s work. Image copyright © The Estate of Pedro Coronel. [23420-5-8000] 9: KARL BLOSSFELDT - Aconitum (Common Monkshood) USD 200 - 250 Karl Blossfeldt (German, 1865 - 1932). "Aconitum (Common Monkshood)". Original vintage photogravure. c1900-1928. Printed 1942. Stamped with photographer's name, verso. High-grade archival paper. Ample margins. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition. Image size: 10 3/16 x 7 5/8 in. (259 x 194 mm). Probably the most famous and highly sought after of all of Blossfeldt's images. Printed on one side of the paper only ("sur blanc"). An original gravure, not a later copy. [22550-2-150] Copyright ©2018 Stanford Auctioneers | www.stanfordauctioneers.com | [email protected] Page 3 of 125 10: KARL BLOSSFELDT - Adiantum Pedatum (American Maidenhair Fern) USD 200 - 250 Karl Blossfeldt (German, 1865 - 1932). "Adiantum Pedatum (American Maidenhair Fern) [Young rolled-up fronds enlarged 8 times]". Original vintage photogravure. c1900-1928. Printed 1929. Stamped with photographer's name, verso. High-grade archival paper. Ample margins. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition. Overall size: 10 7/8 x 8 3/4 in. (276 x 222 mm). Image size: 10 3/16 x 7 1/2 in. (259 x 190 mm). Original photogravure edition, not a later, modern reproduction. [22452-2- 150] 11: ANDY WARHOL - African Elephant USD 2,500 - 3,000 Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).