Theocritus, et al., Idyllia, with contemporary hand- coloring, , 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 , 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 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, , 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: van Rijn, Christ Healing the Sick: The Hundred Guilder Print (detail), etching, , 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 , 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.