252. Mitsch, Erwin
The Art of Egon Schiele

London: Phaidon, 1975

30/60     SOLD: $57.50

253. de Mandiargues, Andre Pieyre
Chagall

New York: Leon Amiel Publisher, 1974
With 148 illustrations; 48 in color. Biography of the artist and a bibliography.

150/300     SOLD: $126.50

254. Matisse, Henri, et al.
Verve. Number 8, Volume 2

Paris: 1940
Folio.

50/100     SOLD: $69.00

255. Teriade, E. (director)
Verve. An Artistic and Literary Quarterly.

Illustrated by Original Lithographs by Masisse, Leger, Miro…..
Paris: December 1937
vol. 1 No. 1. folio.

Photographs by Brassai, Blumenfeld, Cartier-Bresson and Man Ray.

100/200     SOLD: $235.75

256. (Le Corbusier)
Le Corbusier Peintures (1918-1938)

Paris: Balay & Carre, 1938
Quarto.

Wraps. Exibition cataloque (30 Nov. - 17 Dec. 1938)

25/50     SOLD: $51.75

257. Duchamp, Marcel and Robert Lebel
Eau & Gaz a tous les etages

Signed by Signed by Duchamp and Lebel.

Paris: Editions Trianon, 1959
194 pp.

Limited to 137 copies of which this is number 72. Loose as issued in wrappers, enclosed in a brown cloth box with blue and white pochoir title plate on the cover. The front of the case bears a title plate which reads "Eau & Gaz a tous les etages" [Water and Gas on all floors]. This pochoir, inscribed with Duchamp's initials, reproduces the blue and white enamel plates found on apartment building facades all over Paris. Like other "readymades" for which Duchamp was customarily on the lookout, the apartment plaques appealed to Marcel Duchamp both for their graphic design and for their possibilities for "double entendre".

Inside the box is a proof of Duchamp's celebrated work, "The Large Glass," mounted under plexiglass inside a compartment with magnetic enclosure, and a proof of the pochoir of the sketch "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" [the formal title for "The Large Glass"]. Mounted inside the book is "Self Portrait in Profile", numbered and inscribed in ink, Marcel dechiravit. The profile has the appearance of being torn carefully from an orange sheet of paper, hence the Latin term "dechiravit." Duchamp biographer Arturo Schwarz noted that the "Eau & Gaz" plates played into the elaborate sexual iconography of "The Large Glass" with its Bride and her Bachelors. In his fine recent study of Duchamp (Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Abrams, 1999], Francis Naumann offers a number of imaginative insights into reasons for the artist's choice of the terms "Eau & Gaz" as well as for the materials used in the construction of this work. Naumann notes that both water and gas were components that played a major role in the operation of the Bachelor Machine in the Large Glass. He also points out a more personal, even familial connection with these elements as well: "It was recently discovered that one of Duchamp's relatives in the 19th century had strongly advocated establishing a proper water and gas supplies to the village in which he lived, a civic-minded goal that led him to author a series of brochures entitled "L'Eau et le Gaz."

Naumann also suggested that Duchamp's choice of a brown rust-colored linen cover for the box of "Eau & Gaz" was probably meant to suggest the wall of an old building--the kind of structure on which one would find the enamel plaques touting the modern utilities within.

6000/12000     SOLD: $6,900.00

258. Stech, V.V.
Moderni Cesky Drevoryt

Prague: S.C.U.G. Hollar, 1933
Octavo. 46 pp.

Grey pictorial wraps Includes 16 full-page plates. Text in Czech

25/50     SOLD: $34.50

259. Khayyam, Omar [Harriet Fish & Edward Fitzgerald]
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Signed by Harriet Fish.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1922
Quarto. 108 pp.

One-quarter blue cloth with grey paper-covered boards, gilt lettering, and decorated endpapers. Rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald, with 20 color plates and text decorations by Harriet Fish

300/400     SOLD: $201.25

260. Bourdon, et al.
Four Books on Warhol and Lichtenstein

Bourdon, D. WARHOL. 1989. Hendrikson, J. LICHTENSTEIN. 1988. Rosenblum, R. ANDY WARHOL: PORTRAITS OF THE 70'S. 1979. Waldman, D. ROY LICHTENSTEIN. 1993.

60/120     SOLD: $149.50

261. Heritage Magazine, Inc.
Nation's Heritage

New York: B.C. Forbes and Sons, 1949
Six Volume Set.

150/300     SOLD: $103.50