Search Results: Titles starting with P from Schubertiade

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. PLEASE" Chair, 2016.  Stained birch and UV digital printing with felt seat pad.  Numbered 21 in an edition of 100.  Published by Onestar Press, Paris.  29-7/8 x 17-7/8 x 24 inches (75.9 x 45.4 x 61 cm).  Fine. American conceptual artist John Baldessari says: PLEASE... sit on this chair!  Commissioned by Onestar press and designed by Sébastien de Ganay, the intent of the project was to produce a lounge chair that could be produced and assembled anywhere. The production consists of cutting four pieces out of simple plywood on a local CNC machine - in order to make its carbon trace as low as possible - able to be assembled in a matter of minutes with no screws or glue. The "4 Piece Chair" was born in 2015 with a number of artist collaborations with Onestar Press  including Lawrence Weiner (2015), Rirkrit Tiravani (2016), and John Baldessari, who made the customizations to this particular model in 2016.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Autograph note from the great Spanish composer, conductor, and cellist, one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, boldly signed "Pablo Casals to Pablo Picasso" and inscribed in Spanish "With my greetings, admiration and best wishes" in blue ink to a loose leaf.  In fine condition.  10.5 x 8 inches (26.5 x 20.5 cm.). Provenance: From the Estate of Richard de Grab,  Czech photographer known especially for his many fine portraits of performing artists. We have been unable to find any information about the circumstances of the present inscription linking the two artists, Picasso and Casals, both of whom were deeply committed to advocating for peace and humanitarianism. Casals definitely did not appreciate some of the art of the Picasso.  Kirk (p. 548) quotes from an interview of Casals in Musical America:  "Do not tell me that anyone can understand Picasso when he paints a woman with five noses protruding from different parts of her body.  How… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Pair of striking black and white photographs by Wolfgang von Wangenheim, later reproduced in the book "Danse Africaine" by Germaine Acogny.  Gelatin Silver Prints ca. 1980, one of a female figure with upturned palms oustretched, the other, a male figure with arms extended. 8.75 x 11.75 inches. Each print initialed lower right. Each with surface creasing to the upper left quarter and to a lesser degree, center left, else fine. Provenance: From the Estate of Marcuse "Cusie" Pfeifer (1936 - 2020), founding member and president of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers.The Senegalese dancer and choreographer Germaine Acogny is responsible for developing "African Dance," as well as the creation of several dance schools in both France and Senegal. She has been decorated by both countries, including being an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and a Knight of the National Order of the Lion. In 2021, she received the Golden Lion… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed still from the 1948 comedy, distributed by Paramount, of the actress in "Wild West" costume in the role of Calamity Jane.  Russell, one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols throughout the 1940's and 50's, has signed in blue ballpoint pen to the lower left.  8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm). In very fine condition.From the collection of Paul McMahon, a critic, photographer and artist who worked for more than 13 years touring with Marlene Dietrich as the icon's stage manager, announcer, dresser, secretary and escort, and later spent 25 years as an arts and entertainment reviewer and photographer with Gay Community News, Esplanade, Tommy's Connection, The Mirror, Bay Windows and other publications.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Advertising brochure with title "Paris de Paree: The Original Albert Alberta Sex Family. The European Enigma." Four pages as folded, 9.5 x 12.5 in. A few folds, but overall very good.  Last page with "Albert-Alberta's" autobiographical information. S/he claimed to have been born in 1899 in France and named Alberta at birth. Brought up as a girl, about the age of 10 (plus a few months), the two sides of her body began growing out of proportion, eventually developing male characteristics on the right and female characteristics on the left. There followed four normal siblings, then a young brother, named Albert. At birth a beautiful baby boy (in Alberta's words), but at the age of seven, one breast grew, and at the age of 14, the other breast grew, then later, the neck lengthened and smoothed (changes occurring every seven years according to Alberta). Otherwise, he was a perfectly formed athletic male. They took their show on the road as the "Albert Alberta Sex Family" in… Read More

Offenbach am Main: Chez Jean André, [ca. 1824]. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 8vo.  35 pp.  [PN] 4795.  Lithograph score for Mozart's String Quintet No. 6 in E-flat major, K. 614.  A superb copy of the reissue of the 1800 edition.  RISM MM 5982a.  Very fine condition in original blue wrappers."Completed on 12 April 1791, the String Quintet in E-flat major K.614, Mozart's last major chamber composition, is the most Haydnesque work of his maturity, perhaps a conscious homage to his friend who had left for London a few months earlier.  One of the fascinating things about this work is its balance between a frankly popular, even bucolic manner (the first movement is evocative of the chase, with the violas imitating hunting horns at the outset) and a natural Mozartian grace and refinement.The opening Allegro di molto contrasts a prevailing tone of jocular banter (the horn call is rarely absent for long) with a sinuous second theme, proposed by the first violin and repeated by the cello against… Read More

Offenbach am Main: Chez Jean André, [ca. 1824]. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 8vo.  31 pp.  [PN] 4794.  Lithograph score for Mozart's String Quintet No. 5 in D major, K. 593.  A superb copy of the reissue of the 1800 edition.  RISM MM 5982a.  Very fine condition in original blue wrappers."Mozart composed his last two quintets in the winter and early spring of 1790–91, at the end of a creatively lean period when his finances and, so far as we can infer from his correspondence, his spirits were often at a low ebb.  When Artaria published K593 and K614 in 1793, their title pages carried the dedication 'Composto per un Amatore Ongharesa'.  The identity of the 'Hungarian amateur' who apparently commissioned the quintets remains unknown, though one possible clue is a later statement by Mozart's widow that the composer had 'done some work' for Johann Tost, the second-violinist-turned-entrepreneur of Haydn's Esterházy orchestra.The two late quintets have always been overshadowed by the more… Read More

Offenbach am Main: Chez Jean André, [ca. 1824]. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 8vo.  35 pp.  [PN] 4793.  Lithograph score for Mozart's String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516.  A superb copy of the reissue of the 1800 edition.  RISM MM 5982a.  Very fine condition in original blue wrappers."The contrast between the two quintets of spring 1787 prefigures that between the G minor and 'Jupiter' symphonies: the C major spacious and affirmative, its successor, the String Quintet in G minor K516, shocking in its intense pathos and chromatic disquiet, at least until the finale's apparent 'happy ending'.  Commentators have linked the G minor quintet's despairing tone to Count von Hatzfeld's death and Leopold Mozart's last illness (he died on 28 May, twelve days after Wolfgang entered the work in his thematic catalogue).  Yet as always with the composer, the music transcends emotional autobiography." (Richard Wigmore, Hyperion Records)

Offenbach am Main: Chez Jean André, [ca. 1824]. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 8vo  39 pp.  [PN] 4792.  Lithograph score for Mozart's String Quartet No. 3 in C major, K. 515.  A superb copy of the reissue of the 1800 edition.  RISM MM 5982a.  Very fine condition in original blue wrappers."Not until the spring of 1787, after he had achieved mastery of the string quartet medium in the six 'Haydn' Quartets and the lone 'Hoffmeister' Quartet, K499, did Mozart return to the string quintet with a contrasted pair of works, K515 and 516.  Although he had recently triumphed with Figaro in Prague, prompting the commission for Don Giovanni, this was a troubled period for the composer.  His glory days as virtuoso-impresario were over. His father was now gravely ill, and his 'best and dearest friend' Count August von Hatzfeld, a fine amateur violinist, had recently died at the age of thirty-one.  In April Mozart and his wife were obliged to leave their lavish apartment in the Domgasse for a cheaper… Read More

New York: Imago, 1984. First. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 4to.  144 pp.  Hardcover in dustjacket. The artist has inscribed "To Paul McMahon with good wishes on the occasion of our first meeting / Paul Cadmus / 23 July 1992" in black ink to the title page.  Slightest toning to extremities of jacket's edges, price clipped.  Fiine in a near fine dust jacket. An interesting work on the artist by Lincoln Kirstein, the American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, and cultural figure in New York City who, with George Balanchine, founded the New York City Ballet (first known as the "Ballet Society") in 1948. "Paul Cadmus is best known for his erotic depictions of nude male figures, charged with satire, social criticism, and a strongly idealized sexuality.  Cadmus first gained recognition for his 1934 painting The Fleet's In, where the controversy of a group of sailors he pictured carousing among prostitutes and homosexuals inspired a public outcry.  His work is informed by themes of Surrealism,… Read More

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, [1855]. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Disbound upright folio. Piano score and violin part. Engraved. 13.5 x 10.5 inches (34 x 27 cm). 23 + 7 pp. [PN] 9050. Inscription to head of title: "J.C.D. Parker from his dear [?] friend the composer." Blindstamp, "New England Conservatory of Music / Library" and shelf mark 78.721 /  P41" to title page and first page of violin part. The first of two "cahiers," or "Hefte" (as described in headers of first pages of music). It contains three pieces. The second "cahier" I lacking. Browned and frayed to edges and gutter; some pages detached, else in good condition.Perkins was a leading figure in Boston's arts scene from the 1850s to the 1880s. While better known for work in the visual arts and his writings on these, he was also an accomplished musician and won over the German publisher Breitkopf & Härtel to publish his chamber music, including the present collection, between 1853 and 1855. It was the first music by an American… Read More

Bulògna: Voulp al Sass., 1830. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 16mo.  12 pp.  Unusual and rare panegyric poem composed in dialect by Italian writer Caméll Minarèll, honoring Maria Malibran, creator of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda and works by Bellini and Mendelssohn, one of the most celebrated singers in history, whose early death at the age of 28 contributed to her status as a figure of legend. An extraordinary association copy from the collection of the 20th Century's greatest soprano, originally acquired in the historic 2007 Sotheby's Auction "Maria Callas and her Pygmalion - Her life with Giovanni Battista Meneghini."  Bound in pale pink paper boards. Light toning and foxing throughout, overall in fine condition. Very rare, only one other copy recorded (Stanford)."On the unexpected death of Maria Callas in 1977, aged only 53, two portraits were found in her Paris apartment.  One was of Elvira de Hidalgo, a leading opera singer who became Callas' teacher in Athens between 1940 and 1945 and… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Glossy half-length portrait of the American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter playing his instrument on a stage.  10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.6 cm).  Small holes from needles to upper corners (through the margin).  Else in fine condition.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Glossy photograph of the three saxophone players of the Duke Ellington orchestra with Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone) in the center; two trombones, one trumpet and Sonny Greer at the drum set behind.  10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.6 cm).  In fine condition.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Glossy half-length portrait of the legendary musician playing the trumpet on a stage.  10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.6 cm).  Small holes from needles to upper corners (through the margin).  Else in fine condition.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Glossy photograph of the bandleader on stage playing the trumpet, accompanied by his band, beneath a shell.  An evocative shot taken with the camera rotated by 45 degrees.  10 x 8 inches (25.5 x 20.6 cm).  Somewhat faded, else in fine condition.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Glossy photograph of Krupa and an unidentified trumpeter performing on stage.  An evocative shot taken from below and with the camera rotated by 45 degrees.  10 x 7.75 inches (25.5 x 19.8 cm).  Scratch to top left corner, minor cracks along edge, else in fine condition.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Photograph of the (then) doyen of American composers, his younger colleague and the Ukrainian-American violinist, with printed caption to head, "11/9/80 New York: Violinist Isaac Stern (L) and conductor Leonard Bernstein congratulate Aaron Copland 11/9 on his 80th birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall.  Bernstein conducted the American Symphony Orchestra in a special Copland Birthday Celebration for the dean of American composers."  Oblong format, 9.5 x 7 inches (17.6 x 24 cm).  In fine condition.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Glossy half-length portrait of the tenor saxophonist performing on a stage.  Taken from a low angle.  10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.6 cm).  Small holes from needles to upper corners (through the margin).  Else in fine condition.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Photograph of the American composer, conductor and pianist and the Italian stage director and filmmaker seated at a table, talking and smiling at each other, with Bernstein hugging Visconti's head.  From Agence France-Presse.  Extended caption printed to verso explaining that the photo was made after the opening performance of Verdi's Falstaff at the Vienna State Opera, a production directed by Visconti and conducted by Bernstein.  No date is given, but the performance took place in 1966.  Oblong format, 5 x 7 inches (12.8 x 17.8 cm).  Small crease to lower left corner; else in very good condition.