HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SEASON

Swann is very pleased to announce our outstanding line up of auctions for Autumn 2012—with 15 sales in just four months. The season begins with our first Fine & Vintage Writing Instruments auction and continues with scarce, sought-after prints; significant historical documents and photographs; collectible books and manuscripts; dazzling posters and exceptional examples of African-American Fine Art.

Among the notable private collections offered this fall are the most extensive selection of Aldine Imprints to appear at auction in nearly two decades; one of the largest collections of European and Western printed Japan-related maps in private hands; and a remarkable collection of movie posters dedicated to images of monsters with maidens caught in their clutches.

Beyond our salesrooms, several of our officers will lend their auctioneering talents to worthy causes. Todd Weyman will officiate Eat, Bark, Bid on September 22 to raise money for animal rescue group Lulu’s Rescue; Daile Kaplan will be the auctioneer at the Aperture Foundation 60th Anniversary Gala Dinner & Photography Auction on October 23; George Lowry will help raise money for Search and Care, a charity that assists elders living at home on November 1; and Nicholas Lowry, always in demand, will wield the gavel for SHARE (Self-Help for Women with Breast or Ovarian Cancer) on September 24, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans on October 13, City Harvest’s Bid Against Hunger on October 16, and several other high-profile fundraisers.

THE TRUMPET • FALL / WINTER 2012 • VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1 FINE & VINTAGE WRITING INSTRUMENTS SEPTEMBER 13

Top: Pelikan #111, Toledo. $3,500 to Headlining Swann’s inaugural sale of Fine & Vintage Writing Instruments is the finest group of vintage Chiltons $5,000. Bottom: Pelikan #M710, early West German. $300 to $500. ever presented at auction, which includes unique examples of early Boston pens as well as Wingflow and Golden Quill models.

There is also an excellent collection of vintage Montblancs, with pens in azurite, coral, jet and pearl, as well as faceted models in colored celluloid and gold-filled metal. Included will be 128, 138, 139 and early silver band 149 models in addition to tiger eye 244 and 264 models and a stunning gray stripe 146 set, near mint in the pouch.

The same collection includes a significant number of signature vintage Aurora pens such as the Etiopia and Asterope, as well as colored and black celluloid vintage OMAS pens in standard and grande sizes, and many other Italian pens from Ancora, Columbus and others.

19TH & 20TH CENTURY PRINTS & DRAWINGS SEPTEMBER 20 This well-rounded sale features exceptional works by American and European masters. Among 19th century highlights are fine pieces by Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Monet, Renoir, Rodin and Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as Whistler’s scarce 1875-76 drypoint, The Boy, which is appearing at auction for the first time.

There are prints by American artists such as Avery, Benton, Cadmus, Hassam, and Lewis, with highlights including Wood’s Sultry Night, 1937 and Hopper’s iconic Night Shadows, 1921.

Picasso prints and drawings that span the artist’s lifetime include Dompteur de Chats, pencil study, circa 1903; Scène bachique au minotaure, etching, 1933; and Figure Composée I, lithograph, 1949. Also featured are an early Braque cubist etching Pal (Bouteille de basse et verre sur une table), 1911; Chagall’s Esel uber dem Dorf, 1951, an etching with extensive hand coloring in watercolor; and works on paper by Dalí, van Dongen, Giacometti, Léger, Magritte, Matisse, Miró, Munch and Rouault.

Pablo Picasso, Tête de femme, color linoleum cut, 1952. $80,000 to $120,000.

PRINTED & MANUSCRIPT AMERICANA OCTOBER 2

American Revolution material stands out in this sale, with an issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette dated July 3, 1776 announcing independence a day ahead of the formal Declaration; Benjamin Tyler’s 1818 engraving of the Declaration on rollers; and a 1775 plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill, published in London. From the collection of James M. Ransom—whose main interests were the American Revolution and the iron mines of the New York/New Jersey border region—is a scarce first printing of the New York state constitution from 1777.

The top Civil War highlight is a large archive of correspondence and papers of Capt. Isaac Plumb, which includes three of his swords. A small baseball section features a record book of amateur baseball clubs in Washington, D.C. from 1867 to 1871. A small but impressive Judaica section offers Isaac Leeser’s 1845 translation of the Pentateuch. Californians may enjoy an 1834 first edition of Duhaut-Cilly’s Voyage autour du monde, and group of lively ink sketches of early Chinese immigrants in San Francisco circa 1860.

Elisha Faxon, The Agreeable Surprize, manuscript broadside valentine, Connecticut, Previous Page: Gustav Klimt, Das Werk von Gustav Klimt, Einleitende Worte: Hermann Bahr, Peter Altenberg, 50 plates in 1793. $3,000 to $4,000. original case designed by Julius Dratva, Vienna and Leipzig, 1918. $30,000 to $40,000. At Auction October 11. Cover: Photogravure from Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian. At auction October 4. FINE PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOBOOKS OCTOBER 4

Headlining this sale is Edward S. Curtis’s masterpiece The North American Indian, Curtis’s documentation of the customs, manners and rituals of more than 80 tribes west of the Mississippi. This complete set, with 20 folios on Japan tissue (featuring 722 large-format photogravures), and 20 text volumes (with more than 1500 small-format photogravures on vellum), is one of the most stunning and ambitious photographically illustrated books ever produced. Ink numbered 113/500, it appears to be the only version containing a treasure trove of 111 large-format photogravures signed by Curtis.

Other early photographic highlights include Alexander Gardner’s photographically illustrated volume Rays of Sunlight in South America, 1859, and the Charles Lummis album Picturesque New Mexico containing 95 cyanotypes, 1889-1891.

Among featured vintage prints are Robert Frank’s For David Heath (Self-Portrait One), 1985; Berenice Abbott, Pennsylvania Station, 1936; Vera Lutter, Lower Manhattan Skyline, 1986; Sally Mann, New Mothers, 1989; Irving Penn, Cuzco Children, 1948-49; and a signed, uneditioned Richard Avedon portrait of Bob Dylan from 1965-66, which was given by Avedon to Bob Cato, a friend, colleague at Harper’s, and designer of Dylan’s most famous album cover. A Polaroid of Teddy Kennedy by Andy Warhol is also among the sale highlights.

Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian, 20 folios, 20 volumes including 111 signed photogravures, 1907-30. $1,250,000 to $1,750,000.

ART, PRESS & ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OCTOBER 11

This sale features a rich and varied selection of material on the visual and printed arts. There are five uncommon books on Gustav Klimt in this celebratory year focusing on the 150th anniversary of his birth, including his earliest and most impressive monograph, Das Werk von Gustav Klimt, 1918.

Also featured are desirable limited editions by the great private presses such as Doves, Kelmscott, and Allen; PRINTED & MANUSCRIPT AMERICANA OCTOBER 2 and a rich selection of fine art books with prints by Albers, Chagall, Giacometti, Dalí, Goya, Miró, Toulouse- Lautrec and Picasso.

Contemporary artists’ books including a fine copy of the popular Warhol story 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy; Roy Lichtenstein’s iconic lithograph of Mao Zedong in Frederic Tuten’s The Adventures of Mao on the Long March; and Cy Twombly’s 8 Odi di Orazio.

Octave Uzanne, L’Art dans la Décoration Extérieure des Livres, one of 60 copies on Japan paper, bound and owned by master bookbinder Charles Meunier, Paris, 1898. $2,500 to $3,500. Theocritus, et al., Idyllia, with contemporary hand- coloring, Venice, 1495/96. $40,000 to $60,000.

ALDINE IMPRINTS & EARLY PRINTED BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF KENNETH RAPOPORT OCTOBER 23

Swann is pleased to offer Aldine Imprints and Early Printed Books from the Library of Kenneth Rapoport, featuring 100 books from the Venetian press of the scholar-publisher Aldus Manutius and his successors. This is the most extensive selection of Aldines to appear at auction since the mid-1990s. Included are three incunables, nine Greek editiones principes, and 47 first Aldine editions of works by classical and later authors, many in contemporary fine bindings. Particularly noteworthy are Aristotle, Organon, 1499; Epistolae diversorum philosophorum, oratorum, rhetorum, 1499; Petrarca, Le Cose Volgari, 1501; Euripides, Tragoediae septendecim, 1503; Plato, Omnia Platonis opera, 1513; Galen, Librorum pars prima[-quinta], 1525; and Castiglione, Il Cortegiano, 1528.

Among the non-Aldine highlights are Le Bible en Francoys, Lyon, 1547, in a contemporary Parisian binding made for Marcus Fugger; and Chevallier, Alphabetum Hebraicum, Geneva, 1566.

Eldzier Cortor, Classical Composition No. 4, oil on canvas, circa 1973. $200,000 to $250,000.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN FINE ART OCTOBER 18

Sale highlights include a collection of Henry Ossawa Tanner oil studies for Biblical paintings, including Christ and Nicodemus, 1923; The Flight into Egypt, circa 1916-22; and The Good Shepherd, circa 1917, obtained from Grand Central Art Galleries by the current owner more than 40 years ago. Also offered is a fine drawing study in conté crayon and charcoal for Tanner’s Head of Christ.

Paintings by Eldzier Cortor are incredibly rare at auction, and this sale boasts two. His large, figurative Classical Composition No. 4, circa 1973, is the day’s Left: Vincent van Gogh, Homme à la Pipe: Portrait du Docteur Gachet, etching, 1890. $60,000 to $90,000. top lot, and Tête-à-Tête, oil on canvas,1934, is one of his earliest known works. Also featured are paintings by Norman Lewis, Robert Duncanson Bottom Left: Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ Healing the Sick: The Hundred Guilder Print (detail), etching, engraving, drypoint & burin, circa 1649. and Hughie Lee-Smith; Charles White’s 1953-54 pen and ink drawing Songs $150,000 to $200,000. of Life; and a Romare Bearden collage, Girl in a Garden, 1972. OLD MASTER THROUGH MODERN PRINTS OCTOBER 31 This auction of exceptionally scarce, museum-quality Old Master through 20th-century prints offers examples from the entire history of printmaking, ranging from Dürer and Rembrandt to Renoir and Whistler, Cadmus and Hopper, and Picasso and Miró.

Swann remains the only U.S. auction house to devote regular sales to Old Master prints. Among the extraordinary impressions to be offered are Rembrandt’s Christ Healing the Sick: The Hundred Guilder Print, circa 1649, a bright and strong lifetime impression of the second, final state, still printing with burr; and van Gogh’s only etching, Homme à la Pipe: Portrait du Docteur Gachet, 1890, an intimate portrait of the doctor who taught the artist etching and administered to him in the final weeks of his life.

Select highlights from this auction will be on view at Swann’s International Auctioneers partner Artcurial, in Paris October 4 through 8. Southern Pacific’sSouthern New Daylight, 1937. $3,000to$4,000. and Andy Warhol.and Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein,Motherwell, Rauschenberg, Robert Robert Wayne Thiebaud Bacon, Alexander Calder, RichardDiebenkorn, KeithHaring, David Hockney, Robert prints, paintings,There arecontemporary andsculptureby drawings Josef Albers, Francis Walt Kuhn, JackLevine, andEverett DiegoRivera Shinn. Avery, Benton,Thomas Hart IsabelBishop, Paul Cadmus, JaredFrench,Gwathmey, Robert paintings, highlightsinclude20th-century andsculptureby drawings Milton art American AMERICAN ART •CONTEMPORARY ART Canadian Pacific, Pan Amandmore. 1934; andimagesfor American Airlines, Railways, British Decennale, 1933andJeanCarlu’s to Morocco;diLazzaro’s Umberto Ambassador JosephReed, U.S. former ambassador fromtheCollectionof The salefeatures 10posters ofWagonsvariant LitsandChateaudelaRoche Vasouy . A.M.artist Cassandre, such as Decoposter by celebrated There arealsoworks Art and EdwardEggleston. Pennsylvania Railroadby SaschaMaurer, LeslieRagan railway imagesfor theNew York Lineandthe Central toever cometomarket.travel posters These include we believe tobethebestcollectionof American The November Travel Posters auctionfeatures what NOVEMBER 8 RARE &IMPORTANT TRAVEL POSTERS Vija Celmins, Ocean, oneofasetfour lithographs, 1975. $25,000to$35,000. NOVEMBER 15 Statendam, Italian a rare Grand FetedeParis Crociera Aerea del Crociera Aerea , © Vija Celmins

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19TH & 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE CENTURY 20TH & 19TH 20 NOVEMBER Offers fine examples of works by master Offersexamples of works master fine by 19th-centurygraphicEnglish humorists including and sportingThomas Rowlandson illustrated subjects by Henry Alken. Numerous signed first editions appear in the modern literature portion including works by of the sale, There Mitchell and Steinbeck. Hemingway, Faulkner, of modernis also an excellent selection crime first Willeford Hammett, including works Cain, by editions, and Woolrich. , first edition, first issue of Steinbeck’s first book, first first issue of Steinbeck’s first book, edition, Cup of Gold, John Steinbeck, $8,000 to $12,000. 1929. York, New Handwritten letter signed by Robert E. Lee as Superintendent of West Point to George W. Callum, 13 March 1855. $20,000 to $30,000. 13 March 1855. Callum, W. to George Point West Handwritten Robert Lee as Superintendent letter signed by of E. NOVEMBER 29 NOVEMBER AUTOGRAPHS including a letter from The fall autographs auction will contain a large selection of Presidential autographs, There are also excellent Civil William Henry his inauguration. for presumably Harrison ordering a new suit, expressing his regret Cullum, W. Robert Lee to GeorgeALS by and literary including an E. War items, to lead the 2nd Cavalry. Point West to relinquish his post as Superintendent having of for Writing from Thompson. Charles is an Ernestbuddy, to his fishing letter amusing Especially Hemingway In .” . . will fish the Gulf Friday we Thursday. here next “Get the Florida over remarks, Hemingway Cuba, and others. musicians entertainers, artists, scientists, astronauts, there are addition,

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104 EAST 25TH STREET NEW YORK, NY 10010-2977 , paper & fabric collage, 1972. & fabric paper collage, Girl in a Garden, $150,000 to $200,000. At auction October 18. $150,000 to $200,000. Romare Bearden, Romare Bearden, FOLD ALONG THE LINE AND SEAL WITH TAPE BEFORE MAILING TAPE WITH AND SEAL THE LINE ALONG FOLD MAPS & ATLASES, NATURAL HISTORY & HISTORICAL UPCOMING IN JANUARY PRINTS, EPHEMERA DECEMBER 6 We are delighted to be reinstating our Old Master We are pleased to offer one of the finest collections of maps relating Drawings auction this January to coincide with Master to Japan in the West. Gathered by Dr. Stephen and Michiko Levine Drawings week in New York. This sale will include fine over 40 years, the collection shows drawings by artists who worked in Europe between the the emerging knowledge of Japan through four centuries. 15th and 19th centuries. For inquiries, please contact fine art specialist Todd Weyman. Highlights from the rest of the sale include maps and atlases of American subjects, and a fine selection of books Also in January, we will offer work by 20th-century about birds, all with splendid plates. Ortelius / Teixeira, Japoniae Insulae Descripto, first printed map of Japan to appear in an atlas, Antwerp, 1595. $5,000 to $7,500. illustrators and cartoonists, including Sorel, Hirschfeld and Arno. A private collection of works by the late Maurice Sendak contains over 50 signed books FINE PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOBOOKS and illustrations. Contact: George Lowry, ext 15, DECEMBER 11 [email protected] An excellent assortment of photobooks includes Robert Frank’s The Lines of My Hand, 1972; Alvin Langdon Coburn’s The Cloud, with six platinum prints, 1912; Jack Smith’s groundbreaking The Beautiful Book, 1959; and Christian Boltanski’s Les Modeles, 1979. DEPARTMENTS

Featured vintage prints are a suite of four snowflakes Phone: 212-254-4710 by W.A. Bentley, 1903-10; Edward Steichen’s Mrs. Fax: 212-979-1017 Steichen and the Steichen Children, Voulangis, France, 1908; Harry Callahan’s Cape Cod, 1973; and Robert African-American Fine Art Nigel Freeman ext 33 Adams’s view of Southwest from the South Jetty, [email protected] Oregon, 1990-95. African Americana Wyatt Houston Day ext 300 [email protected]

Alvin Langdon Coburn, The Cloud, with poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Americana Rick Stattler ext 27 one of 60 signed copies, Los Angeles, 1917. $25,000 to $35,000. [email protected]

Autographs Marco Tomaschett ext 12 MONSTERS WITH MAIDENS: A FILM POSTER COLLECTION [email protected] DECEMBER 18 15th-18th Century Books, Tobias Abeloff ext 18 Medical, Scientific & Travel Books [email protected] Get ready to be carried away! Our specialized December posters 19th & 20th Century Literature John Larson ext 61 sale features a private collection [email protected] of movie posters from a specific, peculiar and most engaging genre Art & Illustrated Books Christine von der Linn ext 20 of imagery: monsters with maidens [email protected] caught in their clutches. While not all of the posters depict monsters Maps & Atlases Gary Garland ext 17 [email protected] (there are robots and even some heroes, too) the theme of a beautiful Photographs & Photobooks Daile Kaplan ext 21 woman slung over the arm of some [email protected] villain is campy iconography sure to capture imaginations for a number Prints & Drawings, Todd Weyman ext 32 of reasons, from the psychological Paintings & Contemporary Fine Art [email protected] to the primal. Vintage Posters Nicholas D. Lowry ext 53 [email protected]

Le Jour ou la Terre S’Arreta, 1951. Fine & Vintage Writing Instruments Rick Propas ext 304 $1,200 to $1,800. [email protected]

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