Thursday, June 30, 2011
Bonhams & Butterfields Sells Indiana Jones, Tim Burton, Norma Shearer and Animation Art
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48650
[The Nightmare Before Christmas original set and puppet. A complete set with puppet used in the production of Tim Burton's groundbreaking 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas. The base of the set is a large framework of plywood covered with textured and painted plaster adorned with twenty-two painted headstones and accessories, three segments of fence and a tombstone herb patch with "Hen-Bane," "Witch Hazel," and "Deadly Night Shade." Together with original, painted foam over metal armature, stop motion animation puppet of Sally, voiced by Catherine O'Hara in the film. The set can be seen in the film when Sally visits the graveyard herb patch to collect poisonous herbs. Labels on base of set read "CEM +8 Sally's Herb Patch." Set 24 x 69 x 64in, Sally 16in. Est. $20,000-25,000, sold for $29,280. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields]
[The Nightmare Before Christmas original set and puppet. A complete set with puppet used in the production of Tim Burton's groundbreaking 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas. The base of the set is a large framework of plywood covered with textured and painted plaster adorned with twenty-two painted headstones and accessories, three segments of fence and a tombstone herb patch with "Hen-Bane," "Witch Hazel," and "Deadly Night Shade." Together with original, painted foam over metal armature, stop motion animation puppet of Sally, voiced by Catherine O'Hara in the film. The set can be seen in the film when Sally visits the graveyard herb patch to collect poisonous herbs. Labels on base of set read "CEM +8 Sally's Herb Patch." Set 24 x 69 x 64in, Sally 16in. Est. $20,000-25,000, sold for $29,280. Photo: Courtesy of Bonhams & Butterfields]
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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The Little Mermaid... of Folkestone
A bronze statue of a mother striking the same pose as Copenhagen's landmark Little Mermaid model has been unveiled at the start of a seaside town's arts festival.
Georgina Baker, 38, was chosen from a shortlist of 50 people to model for the £25,000 nude statue which has been installed at Folkestone harbour in Kent.
The statue, by Turner Prize-nominee Cornelia Parker, was created after Mrs Baker responded to an advert dropped through 20,000 letterboxes in the resort requesting a model.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2007832/The-Little-Mermaid--Folkestone-Mother-chosen-nude-model-copy-Copenhagen-landmark.html#ixzz1QO7wJSsR
Saturday, June 25, 2011
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Arthur Rackham - A princess in a landscape, a turreted castle beyond
signed 'Arthur Rackham' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour
7½ x 6 in. (19 x 10.7 cm.)
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is best remembered for his success as a painter and illustrator. The rise of his popularity coincided with the beginnings of the fashion for lavishly produced gift books, the most notable of his commissions included his illustrations to The Ingoldsby Legends (1898), Gulliver's Travels (1900), and Grimm's Fairy Tales (1900).
The outbreak of World War I effectively destroyed the illustrated gift book market, but Rackham continued to contribute to charitable publications, of which, perhaps the most important to mention here was his contribution to 'Princess Mary's Gift Book', published by Hodder & Stoughton, in 1914.
Princess Mary was only 17 at the outbreak of the war. She lent her name to a volume of tales and illustrations put together as a charitable effort for the Queen's Wartime "Work for Women" fund. Among the contributing authors were J.M.Barrie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling. In addition to Rackham, the illustrators Russell Flint and Edmund Dulac provided drawings for the coloured plates.
Arthur Rackham - illus from Undine
LA MOTTE-FOUQUE, Friedrich H.C. de (1777-1843) & Arthur RACKHAM (1867-1939). Undine. Adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney.
London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday Page & Co, 1909. 4o (193 x 233mm). Half title, title printed in green and black, 15 coloured illustrations by Rackham, mounted on brown paper (some browning caused by offsetting from endpapers onto half title and final page of text and also onto text following illustrations). Original publisher's vellum, lettered and decorated in gilt on titel and spine, top edges gilt, others uncut (lacking ties, lightly soiled). NO. 825 OF 1,000 COPIES, SIGNED BY RACKHAM. Latimore & Haskell pp.
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5458295&sid=b36f4f72-9da6-449e-9e4f-2ca9e4ae6667
Gordon Browne -Sallie's Children
A complete set of illustrations to 'Sallie's Children': 'The dark man had come to the rescue'; 'Blake, I want to tell you something'; 'She saw a man's figure looming before her' (illustrated); and three others
the majority variously signed with intials 'GB'
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour
8 x 5 in. (21.6 x 14.6 cm.)
Margaret Batchelor, Sallie's Children, Edinburgh.
Beatrix Potter - Peter was very naughty, he ran straight away to Mr. McGregor's garden, and squeezed under the gate
POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). "Peter was very naughty, he ran straight away to Mr. McGregor's garden, and squeezed under the gate," signed in full by the artist and dated August 1927. Watercolor drawing comprising a redrawing in full color of the black-and-white illustration first published in The Tale of Peter Rabbit (privately printed December 1901). 4½ x 3 1/8 in. ( 114 x 78 mm), sight size. (Some pale mat burn, mounted.) Matted and framed.
A delightful Peter Rabbit image, created in 1927 to raise money for the National Trust, and sold in America at Bertha Mahony's Boys & Girls Bookshop in Boston. The design shows Peter, having lost his shoes, running for his life from Mr. McGregor. It appears only in the first two privately printed editions of Peter Rabbit, and not in the regular trade edition published in 1902 (which canceled four images and had all the remaining ones re-done in color). Potter prepared only 50 drawings for charity sale in 1927: re-doing each of the original 42 Peter Rabbit images and then adding 8 drawings from The Tailor of Gloucester.
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