Category: Artwork

The Secret Life of Catherine the Great. A Painting by O. D. Benoliel

By: Benoliel, O.D. With an introduction by Alain Robbe-Grillet

Price: $400.00

Seller ID: 004201

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1998. Closed, 24.5 by 19 cm. 22 panels with artwork, stretching to close to 420 cm. Printed, but it would appear, unpublished, leporello reproducing a panoramic watercolor painting depicting the alleged sordid aspects of Catherine the Great's life, including, it would appear, the plotting against her husband and her sexual escapades, among them, her final equine moments. The episodic painting, though, is rife with ambiguity, and this is not clarified much by the cryptic captions which are deliberately written as if they were code or perhaps Urdu script. A close examination of ...
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La Belle Poule. A l'Enseigne des Mille Pertuis

By: Fay, Clark(1894-1955)

Price: $3,000.00

Seller ID: 004181

Binding: Folder. Paper pastedown.

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1930s. Folio, 39 by 29 cm. Eleven plates, including title page, housed in a silver folder. The artwork depicts showgirls and their patrons of the shadowy Parisian nightlife demimonde. The style is very much in the style of George Grosz, who almost certainly was a strong influence on Fay in this project. Here we see the lecherous patrons, generally looking like gluttonous capitalists, and the jaded, lewd showgirls generally in a state of dishabille. Coming across very clearly, though, is their solidarity with one another, and there is a strong whiff of lesbianism in their bond...
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[Manuscript Copy] Facillima Methodus Delineandi Omnes Humani Corporis. Nouveau Livre du Dessein Qui Continent XXV Figures Dessinee Par le Celebre Jean Baptista Piazzeta

By: Piazzetta, Giambattista [after]. Anonymous copyist,

Price: $2,750.00

Seller ID: 005298

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Very Good

N.d., but late 18th century, after the publication of the original work in 1760, published in Venezia by Remondi. Large 8vo, 25 by 20 cm. 25 pen and ink pages of illustration. These begin with the elaborate pen and ink Baroque title page, with architectural decoration, followed by page showing drawings of hands, a second title with what we presume the one more fully original work by the copyist of seraphs holding up drapery with the title and a woman painter working before an easel, and other illustrative decoration (a broken sculpted head on the ground, etc.). Then 23 pages of pen and ink...
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Category: Artwork

The Secret Life of Catherine the Great. A Painting by O. D. Benoliel

La Belle Poule. A l'Enseigne des Mille Pertuis

[Manuscript Copy] Facillima Methodus Delineandi Omnes Humani Corporis. Nouveau Livre du Dessein Qui Continent XXV Figures Dessinee Par le Celebre Jean Baptista Piazzeta