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GOYA’S RARE MASTERPIECE, AN EXTRAORDINARY FIRST EDITION OF LOS CAPRICHOS, COMPLETE WITH 80 ETCHINGS, AND WITHOUT A SCRATCH ON PLATE 45
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José de. Los Caprichos. Madrid, 1799. First edition, superb copy, of Goya’s rarest book, Los Caprichos, one of only a few copies sold in Madrid by Goya himself, and in its most desirable first state, without the scratch on plate 45, indicating it was one of the first copies printed. $525,000.
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GOYA’S MASTERPIECE DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA:
EXTRAORDINARY 1863 FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, COMPLETE WITH 80 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José de. Desastres de la Guerra. Madrid, 1863. Two volumes. Total of 80 numbered and titled copperplate etchings done with drypoint, burin, aquatint and lavis, on wove paper with watermark J.G.O. and palmette. First edition, second issue, of “the most brutally savage protest against cruelty and war which the visual imagination of man has conceived”—one of only 500 copies in the first printing. Fine, early impressions, with tonal variations in the lavis that disappear in later editions. $225,000.
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GOYA’S MASTERPIECE TAUROMAQUIA:
EXTRAORDINARY RARE 1855 SECOND EDITION, FINELY PRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL PLATES, WITH ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPPERS BOUND IN
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José de. Coleccion de las diferentes suertes y actitudes [Tauromaquia]. Madrid, 1855. Rare second edition of Goya’s magisterial survey of the “fiesta nacional”—33 dramatic etched and aquatinted plates of bullfighting scenes in early impressions from the original plates etched by Goya. This copy bound with the seven additional plates published for the first time in the 1876 third edition. $140,000.
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GOYA’S EXTRAORDINARY PROVERBIOS: 1864 FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 300 COPIES, COMPLETE WITH 18 ORIGINAL ETCHINGS
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José de. Los Proverbios. Madrid, 1864. First edition of Goya’s allegorical series of 18 etchings with aquatint—one of only 300 copies in the first printing. “This edition is very well printed; the impressions are richly inked and tone is usually left on the highlights” (Harris). $130,000.
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STRIKING ORIGINAL PAINTING, “WAR ORPHANS” BY ARTHUR SZYK
SZYK, Arthur. War Orphans. London, 1940. Extraordinary signed original watercolor and gouache painting of two young Jewish refugees, huddled together, by anti-Nazi caricaturist Arthur Szyk, whose wartime portrayals of brutality, heroism and suffering strongly influenced American attitudes toward the war effort. $35,000.
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“AMERICA’S FIRST CONVINCING TESTAMENT TO THE IDEA OF PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART”
STIEGLITZ, Alfred. Camera Notes. Volume V. WITH: Photograph Album. New York, 1901-1902. First edition of Stieglitz’ Camera Notes, the complete Volume V, an exceptional presentation/association copy inscribed to a leading Pictorialist photographer and editor, “To Dr. John Nicol, who has shown himself as the only square and fair photographic editor in the United States during the past five years. With appreciation & esteem. Alfred Stieglitz, Founder, Editor & Manager, May 5—1902” [date underlined], featuring 30 splendid tissue-guarded photogravure plates, many by Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Accompanied by a rare vintage Photograph Album containing 18 albumen cartes-de-viste and a rare tintype of portraits of Nicol and other major photographers. $21,500.
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ONE OF ONLY 50 SIGNED BY GEORGE BARBIER
BARBIER, George and MIOMANDRE, Francis de. Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky. London, 1913. Limited first edition in English of this lavish visual tribute to the great Nijinsky, with 12 striking full-page line blocks by George Barbier, hand-colored en pochoir. This copy number 46 of only 50 copies signed by Barbier, Francis de Miomandre, and the editor. $19,000.
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WITH 30 FOLIO LTIHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF EGYPTIAN COSTUMES: EMILE PRISSE D’AVENNES’ ORIENTAL ALBUM, 1848,
PRISSE D’AVENNES, Emile. Oriental Album. London, 1848. First trade edition of this beautifully illustrated survey of Egyptian “modes of life,” with lithographic frontispiece portrait of botanist George Lloyd, to whom the work is dedicated, additional chromolithographic title page, and 30 large tinted lithographs finished by hand of contemporary Egyptian dress. $18,500.
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“AMONGST THE GREATEST PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE 20TH CENTURY”
MAN RAY. Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934 Paris. Hartford, Connecticut, 1934. First edition, second issue, of Man Ray’s first photobook, inscribed on the title page to a fellow photographer, “For Charles Fraser with compliments of Man Ray Paris 1960,” with 104 rich heliogravures of his photographs and Rayographs, “regarded by some as amongst the greatest of the 20th century” (Parr & Badger). $18,000.
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SPLENDID ORIGINAL BURNE-JONES COLORED CHALK DRAWING
BURNE-JONES, Edward. Original study for The Sirens. No place, 1870. Splendid original chiaroscuro colored chalk drawing, a large preliminary compositional study for The Sirens. $16,500.
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