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The Royals of Monaco H.R.H. Grace and Rainier III
MONACO, H.R.H. RAINIER III (1923-2005) and H.S.H. GRACE (1929-82) Royal heads of the principality of Monaco. Beautiful 4”x6” black and white glossy formal portrait (on a photo postcard) of Their Royal Highnesses, surrounded by children. Very boldly signed by both royals. Professionally double-matted in eggshell white silk board with gilt filets, encased in museum conservation glass, and a high-end gilt, wooden frame. Accompanied by an original, 1956 postal first day of issue cover with stamps commemorating their marriage of April 19, 1956. Singularly regal. $ 825
HAUSNER, RUDOLF (1914-95) Austrian painter, printmaker and sculptor. Hausner has been described as a "psychic realist." Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1931-36. In 1939 he was designated a "degenerate" artist and his work was banned in Germany, although he served in the German military from 1941-45. Before allying himself with and co-founding the Vienna School of Fantastic Realistic, his works were mainly Expressionist-influenced images of suburbs, still-lifes, and female models, most of which were destroyed. His art evidenced the ability to depict a subject in a realist style while simultaneously overturning the laws of one-point perspective. Hausner went on to serve as a guest professor at the Hochschule fur Bildenke Kunste in Hamburg. He also taught at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Among his students were Joseph Bramer, Friedrich Hechelmann, Gottfried Helnwein, Michael Engelhardt, and Siegried Goldberger. Haunser was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Painting in 1970. Signed color litho print postcard os his 1955 painting Narrenhut (now in the Verlag Galerie Welz, Salzburg). Signed card is mounted with Mylar hinges to a larger, acid-free, artboard in siena tones, and further protected with a Mylar envelope. $ 150
Men seldom make passes, at girls who wear glasses. -- Dorothy Parker
PARKER, DOROTHY (1893-1967) American writer and poet, critic and screenwriter; married twice to writer Alan Campbell. She was twice nominated for Academy Awards. Her involvement in left-wing politics of the day led to a place on the infamous Hollywood blacklist. At the height of their Hollywood writing career, husband and wife were earning upwards of $5,000 a week for various free-lance projects. Parker was a celebrated member of The Algonquin Round Table. She was highly regarded and reviled for her scintillating, razor-edged wit and intelligence. A few of her memorable quotes are worth repeating: I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't teach her to think. Her first break came when she filled in at Vanity Fair for vacationing regular columnist, P.G. Wodehouse (1918). There she met Robert Benchley and Robert Sherwood. The trio began lunching at the Algonquin Hotel on a near-daily basis and became founding members of the Algonquin Round Table. The Round Table numbered among its members the newspaper columnists Franklin Pierce Adams and Alex Woollcott. Through their re-printing of Parker's lunchtime remarks and short verses, particularly in Adams' column The Conning Tower, Dorothy began developing a national reputation as a raconteur. Sadly, Parker's caustic wit led to her dismissal from Vanity Fair in 1920 after her criticisms began to offend powerful producers too often. In solidarity, both Benchley and Sherwood resigned. Parker went on to join the board of editors of The New Yorker in 1925. Her very first piece in the second issue of the magazine. Perhaps her greatest output and success came in the ensuing 15 years. In the 1920's alone, Parker published some 300 poems and free verses. her first volume of poetry, Enough Rope, was published in 1926, sold 47,000 copies and received impressive reviews. The Nation described Parker's verse as "caked with a salty humor, rough with splinters of disillusion, and tarred with a bright black authenticity." In 1928 and '31 Parker released two more volumes of verse along with the short story collections Laments for the Living (1930) and After Such Pleasures (1933). Parker's best known short story, Big Blonde, published in The Bookman magazine, was awarded the O. Henry Award as the best short story of 1929. her short stories, though often witty, were also spare and incisive, and more bittersweet than comic. Her one attempt at motherhood resulted in an aborted pregnancy, about which Parker is alleged to have uttered "How like me, to put all my eggs into one bastard," followed by a depression that culminated in her first attempt at suicide. In the early 1930s, Dorothy began to become politically aware and active. What would become a lifelong commitment to left-leaning causes began with the pending executions of Sacco and Vanzetti in 1927. She travelled to Boston to protest the proceedings. She and fellow Round Tabler Ruth Hale were arrested. Parker eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of "loitering and sauntering" and paying a $5 fine. Off to Hollywood in 1934 where she and husband Alan Campbell, (reputed to be bisexual -- Parker claimed in public that Parker was "queer as a billy goat") signed ten-week contracts with Paramount. She and Campbell worked on more than 15 films. Two years later, Parker contributed lyrics for the song I Wished on the Moon. With Robert Caron and husband Campbell, Parker wrote the script for the 1937 film A Star is Born, for which they were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing - Screenplay. She wrote additional dialogue for The Little Foxes and received another Oscar nomination, with Frank Cavett, for the 1947 Smash-Up, The Story of a Woman, starring Susan Hayward.
Parker helped foound the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League in 1936 and served as chair of the Joint Anti-Facist Rescue Committee. She organized Project Rescue Ship to transport Loyalist veterans to Mexico, headed Spanish Children's Relief and lent her name to many other left-wing causes and organizations. Dorothy Parker's first screenplay was The Fan, a 1949 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, directed by Otto Preminger. She was occasionally heard on the radio and wrote for the Columbia Workshop (and both Ilka Chase and Tallulah Bankhead used her material for radio monologues). In 1952, Parker returned to New York and drew upon her experiences there to co-write, with Arnaud d'Usseau, the play Ladies of the Corridor. The play opened in October 1953 to uneven reviews and closed after six weeks. From 1957 to 1962, Miss Parker wrote book reviews for Esquire, though these pieces were increasingly erratic owing to her continued abuse of alcohol. In 1961, she returned to Hollywood and reconciled with her ex-husband Alan Campbell. They worked together on a number of unproduced projects; among her last was an unproduced film for Marilyn Monroe. parker found Campbell dead in their home in 1963, a suicide by drug overdose. Shortly after Campbell's death, Parker returned to New York and came to denigrate the group that had brought her such early notoriety, the Algonquin Rouond Table. She observed: These were no giants. Think who was writing in those days -- Lardner, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Hemingway. Those were the real giants. The Round Table was just a lot of people telling jokes and telling each other how good they were. Just a bunch of loudmouths showing off, saving their gags for days, waiting for a chance to spring them...there was no truth in anything they said. It was the terrible day of the wisecrack, so there didn't have to be any truth. Dorothy parker died of a heart attack at the age of 73 in 1967. In her will, she bequeathed her estate to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Foundation. Following King's death, Parker's estate was passed on to the NAACP. her executrix, Lillian Hellman, bitterly but unsuccessfully contested this disposition. Extremely rare fountain pen signature on a pale green album leaf, professionally matted with a small black and white photo print, (very melancholy shot) along with her now famous poem which ends "nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live." On the reverse of the display piece is the signature of her ex-husband and literary collaborator, Alan Campbell. CAMPBELL (1904-63) was a successful screenwriter. Among his credits are: A Star Is Born; Tales of Manhattan; The Little Foxes; Lady Be Careful. Campbell was nominated for an Oscar. Accompanied by a plate of US commemorative stamps honoring Parker. $ 525
EISENHOWER, MAMIE GENEVA DOUD - (1896-1979) First Lady of the United States from 1953-61. Wife of the 34th President of the United States (retired five-star general; former supreme commander of the Allied Forces). Vintage signature accomplished in black fountain pen ink. Professionally matted with a 5"x7" black/white UPI newswire photograph of the quintessential Mamie. $ 150
CADMUS, PAUL (1904-99) American artist-illustrator. A fifteen-page booklet published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, containing an interview with Cadmus and featuring several illustrations. Nicely signed on the cover by Cadmus in black marker pen. $ 95 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-65) 16th President of the United States. Vintage (1902) litho print image of the great emancipator on a sepia-tone background. $ 65
Father of the Hydrogen Bomb - Edward Teller Scientist, Peace Activist & Educator - Linus Pauling
PAULING, LINUS CARL (1901-94 and TELLER, EDWARD (1908-2003). American scientists and theoretical physicist. Pauling was a peace activist, author and educator. Teller was known colloquially as the "father of the hydrogen bomb," even though he claimed he did not care for the title. Autograph display piece consisting of a cacheted postal first day cover, 1978, honoring Dr. George Papanicolaou. Signed by Teller and Pauling. Matted along with two small black and white images with haunting quotations. Teller: "Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and the only catastrophe is clearly visible." Pauling: "...The time has now come for man's intellect to win out over the brutality, the insanity of war..." Prophetic words in these challenging times and a most relevant autograph piece. Perfect for a researcher, scientist, teacher or peace advocate. $ 175
DOMINGO, PLACIDO (1941 - ) Spanish operatic tenor. Striking 8”x10” color glossy performance pose with his hand uplifted. The tenor has boldly signed his initials with a flourish in black marker pen. Professionally matted in a rich, aubergine, damask-esque board. Shrink-wrap protected. Ready for framing. $95 KISSINGER, HENRY ALFRED WOLFGANG (1923 - ) German-born American political scientist, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Appointed National Security Advisor and, later, concurrently, as Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration. Bold signature accomplished in black marker pen on a white card (huge signature) professionally matted in off-white board along with a black and white litho print formal portrait of Dr. Kissinger, from an original photograph by Canadian photographer Yousef Karsh. Further protected in a Mylar envelope. $ 125
"...I am just a common, cautious woman and surely not a daredevil...I knew that if I would not help, my conscience later in life would torture me, causing me many sleepless nights..."
GIES, MIEP (1909-2009) One of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during WWII. She discovered and preserved Anne's diary after the Franks were arrested. Born Hermine Santrouschitz in Vienna. She and her family escaped food shortages prevailing in Austria after WWI and relocated to Amsterdam. She eventually became a close friend of the Frank family as did her husband, Jan. After she refused to join a Nazi woman's association and was threatened with deportation back to Austria, she was determined to help the Frank family assimilate into Dutch society and became regular guests at the home of the Franks. With her husband and colleagues, Miep Gies helped hide Edith and Otto Frank, their daughters Margot and Anne, Hermann and Auguste van Pels, their son Peter, and Fritz Pfeffer in a secret upstairs room that was not used in the Frank spice company office building on Prisengracht. In theory, Miep and the other helpers could have been shot if they had been caught hiding Jews. Acting on information provided by an informant, the Grune Polizei arrested the people hidden in the attic. A few days later, Miep unsuccessfully tried to bribe the Austrian Nazi officer to release her friends. Three separate criminal investigations after the war all failed to identify the informant. Before the stowaways were arrested, Miep retrieved Anne Frank's diaries and saved them in her dest drawer for Anne's return. Once the war was over and it was confirmed that Anne had perished in Bergen-Belsen, Gies gave the collection of papers and notebooks to the sole survivor from the family, Anne's father Otto. After transcribing sections for his book's publication in 1947, his daughter's literary ability became apparent and he arranged for the book's publication in 1947. Otto Frank did not read the diaries before turning them over because Anne had named all five of the helpers (the Gestapo had only named two) as well as their black market suppliers. He was eventually persuaded to read the book in its second printing. Miep Gies was awarded the Order of Permit of the Federal Republic of Germany. She received the Yad Vashem Medal and, in 1997, was knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. Revealing Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, 2008, responding to an admirer's words about her heroic actions. Mint. $ 225
GARFIELD, JAMES (1831-81) 20th President of the United States. Vintage litho print image (1902) on a sepia-tone background. Perfect for display. $ 65
SIMON, NEIL (1927- ) Playwright and screenwriter. One of the most enduring hitmakers of Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world. Signed Photograph: 8"x10" black and white, matte-finish, informal portrait, signed in black marker pen. Professionally matted in an off-white, "handwriting embossed" motif board and further protected by shrink-wrap. $ 125
(CALLAS, MARIA) HIRSCHFELD, AL. American-born Greek soprano and, perhaps, the most renowned opera singer of the 20th Century. Celebrated American caricaturist-illustrator. Display piece consisting of a 8"x10" black and white, matte-finish (unsigned) limited edition print from a negative in our possession. Print limited to 10 copies. Professionally matted with a smaller black and white reprint of a Hirschfeld caricature of Mesdame Callas. Incorporated into the display is a card signed by Hirschfeld dated 1992. Overall dimensions of this attractive display are 16"x13". Must see to appreciate. $ 300
McKINLEY, WILLIAM (1843-1901) 25th President of the United States. The last veteran of the Civil War to be elected president. Handsome litho print image of the slain president on a sepia-tone backdrop. $ 65
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