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A wonderful handmade Santa collage. c. 1900. 4 3/4 inches tall. Fine condition.

Original watercolor sketch for a Father Christmas costume. London 1910. 10 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. On heavy paper. Minor soiling and creasing.

A charming original watercolor of a fantasy costume design of a cup and saucer. The English watercolor is on two ply board, which measures 11 x 7 1/4 inches. The figure is 6 1/2 inches tall. On the verso is stamped C.A. 1910.

The lovely young lady wears the cup and saucer so it just covers her bust. She has a spoon attached to her back and a sugar cube on her head.

An ink and gouache drawing, the original artwork for an issue of Scientific America. c. 1890. The drawing depicts workers making plaster architectural elements. The drawing is on three ply board and measures 4 1/4 x 11 inches. The drawing is in fine condition. There are remnants of glue and paper on the verso.

A printed business/calling card (in his own design) for Henri Riviere with an extensive signed note. In French. The card measures 2 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches and is in fine condition.

Henri Riviere (1864 - 1951) was a French painter, engraver, lithographer, commercial artist, book illustrator and scene designer. As an illustrator, he worked for the magazines, "Revue", "Illustree", and "Chat Noir." He deigned sets at the "Theatre Francais", "Theatre Antoine," and the "Opera Comique." He was known for using shadows as a graphic technique, and he used this technique in set design, fine prints, books, and books.

Portfolio of 20 large silk screened prints of precolumbian designs. 18 1/2 x 12 inches. Loose in a pictorial white cloth portfolio. Light soiling and foxing to portfolio.

The second series of precolumbian serigraphs by Arnulf. Born in 1921 in Monaco, Georges Arnulf won the Grand Prix de Rome for engraving in 1950, Arnulf's interest in pre-Columbian art took him to South America from 1957 to 1966, working in stained glass and fresco painting. He returned to France, taught drawing, and produced an impressive body of work.

Exhibition catalog. Introduction by Sidney Janis. 35 pages. 8 x 5 3/4 inches. Stiff paper wrappers. In fine condition.

This traveling exhibition featured 85 artists. The artists were divided into five groups: American Pioneers of XXth Century Painting; American Abstract Painters; American Surrealist painters; American Works by Artists in Exile. There are black and white illustrations for works by Joseph Stella, Francisco Cristofanetti, A.D.F. Reinhardt, Stanley William Hayter, Evsa Model, Jackson Pollack, Max Ernst, Fernand Leger, Andre Masson, and Piet Mondrian. Included among the artists are Marin, O'Keeffe, Sheeler, Albers, Calder, De Kooning, Davis, Hoffman, Rothko, Bayer, Cornell, Gorky, Motherwell, and Tobey. An important early catalog.

16 pages of text + 16 pages reproducing artwork. 9 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches. Pictorial wrappers designed by G. Valmier. splitting at spine extremities.

The text includes articles by Van de Velde, Gleize and Oud. Reproduction of paintings, sculpture, theatre design and architecture by Beaudin, Sonia Delaunay, Lauens, Leger, Metzinger, Picasso, Braque and others. An uncommon, modernist periodical.

32 pages. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Printed blue wrappers; one corner chipped on cover.

Mrs. Jackson, having acquired a folio volume containing the artist's personal examples, created a small industry reproducing his English and American silhouettes.

151 pages. Illustrated from photographs. Octavo, 7 3/4 x 5 inches; later red cloth. With the signature of "Wm. Campbell, Oct., 1946. Cambridge." A fine copy.

First edition of this important collection of 169 pieces, dating from 1660 to the nineteenth century. "Recent investigations have resulted in the discovery that true stanniferous faience was made in Mexico by Spanish potters and their native pupils as early as the sixteenth century, and continued to be produced on a considerable scale until the present time. The ancient seat of manufacture was Puebla, and for more than three centuries that city enjoyed a monopoly of the maiolica industry." - p. 4.

4 pages of text and 15 silk-screened plates, 14 x 11 inches. Folio, loose as issued in printed board portfolio

A follow up to the 1946 portfolio "Norwegian Design in Wisconsin. The silk screened designs are bold and quite handsome.

38 pages. Illustrated, including two, double-page color lithographed plates of works by Kandinsky and Marc, and a full page color lithograph after Rousseau. 15 x 11 inches. Loose, as issued in printed wrappers. Fine.

Discussed in the text are the works of Marc, Franz, Kandinsky, Wassily, Volboudt, Pierre and other members of "Der Blaue Reiter" group.

32 pages + 14 page catalogue of original lithographs issued by Maeght Editeur for 1962. Included in the illustrations are an original lithograph cover by Reverdy and a double page original color lithograph by Braque. 15 x 11 inches. Loose as issued. Fine.

26 pages. Illustrated with three original lithographs: a colored cover, a double-page spread and black and white lithograph. 15 x 11 inches. Loose as issued; a fine copy.

Four leaves of text + 19 pages of high quality photographic reproductions of the artist's sculptures. Loose, as issued in pictorial wrappers. Fine.

Eight page introduction and twenty four pages, with 13 colored photo-lithographed illustrations and one, double page, original color lithograph ("Le Peintre et Son Double").15 x 11 inches. Loose as issued; some light damp staining on cover; interior quite clean.

587 pages. Illustrating and annotating over 200 engravings. Thick quarto, 11 x 8 1/2 inches; pictorial wrappers. A fine, bright copy.

131 pages. Illustrated in color with reproductions of photographs depicting masks and dancers using masks. Qaurto ( 12 x 9 inches); beige cloth with chipped dust jacket that has been taped on the back; very light soiling.

79 pages. With a frontispiece portrait of the author by Marc Chagall. 7 1/4 x 5 inches. Printed gray wrappers. A fine, bright copy.

First edition, one of 550 numbered copies.

222 pages. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Large quarto, 11 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. White cloth with title in gilt; dust jacket; minor chipping to jacket in upper portion.

First edition. Part of the notable series "Historia General del Arte Mexicano." An excellent overview of the numerous aspects of 'arte popular.'