Nude. 1960. A six-color woodblock print in dark blue, grey, red-brown, light-brown, black and white, 34 inches x 22 inches, on a sheet of handmade Japanese paper made especially for this artist to hold his unusually thick colors 36 ½ inches x 24½ inches, framed under glass 40½ in x 29¾ in since 1960. Signed Read More »
Walter Williams (1920 – 1988) was an African-American painter and printmaker, born in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School, studying with Ben Shahn, Gregorio Prestopino, Reuben Tam and Victor Candell. Williams held a Whitney fellowship 1955-1956 and, in 1960, he received the National Institute of the Arts and Letters Grant. Read More »
(pseudonym of Chauncey Weiner). Sportin’ House: a History of the New Orleans Sinners and the Birth of Jazz. Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, Inc., [1965] 26 cm, brick-red paper boards with black lettering and publisher’s colophon on the front cover, endpapers are reproduced sketches of the author-artist. First edition. Extra-illustrated copy, with 20 original watercolor Read More »
ARÊTÉS DU COMITÉ MILITAIRE, IMPRIMÉS En vertu de l’article 31 du décret du 7 Fructidor, l’an deuxième de la République française une et indivisible. (Extrait du registre des procès-verbaux des séances.) A PARIS, DE L’IMPRIMERIE NATIONALE. Brumaire, l’an III. [1794] In-8vo. 32 pages. Disbound, trimmed, resewn using original sewing stations. Two copies were located at Read More »
