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with our first Fine & Vintage Writing Instruments auction and continues with scarce, sought-after prints; significant historical documents and photographs; collectible books and manuscripts; dazzling posters and exceptional examples of African-American Fine Art.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.