EditorialOver 1,200 of Hollywoods biggest blockbuster film Artifacts and 20th and 21st century screen gems including John Travoltas Pulp Fiction suit and casino chips from James Bond film Casino Royale to dazzle the auction block
EditorialFrom Stanzstadt against Hergiswyl, View of the stare of Stanssstad against Hergiswil from the 19th century, signed: J. R. ..., no. 22, after p. 148, Roux, J., 1805, Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard: Malerische Reise durch einen grossen Theil der Schwei...
EditorialPlate, painted with a riddle, Plate of faience, painted in blue with a riddle inside a purple cartouche with volutes. The riddle is: It has turned out to be an Egte Case // To a Man Who Nears His Woman // A Young Soon Gewan But After a // Ruijmen Tijt ...
EditorialAmedeo Modigliani: L?opold Zborowksi, Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, Oil on canvas, Leopold Zborowski was a Polish-born artist, poet, and art dealer who moved to Paris in 1913. He began acting as Modigliani's manager in 1916, commissioning and selling his wo...
EditorialPaul C?zanne: Young Man and Skull (Jeune homme ? la t?te de mort), Paul C?zanne, 1896?1898, Oil on canvas, Seated at a wooden table covered with books, a young man leans on his elbow in a pose recalling Renaissance representations of Melancholia, one o...
EditorialPaul C?zanne: Madame C?zanne with Green Hat (Madame C?zanne au chapeau vert), Paul C?zanne, 1891?1892, Oil on canvas, C?zanne painted at least 29 portraits of his wife, Hortense Fiquet. Here she appears in a green upholstered chair with her elbow resti...
EditorialAmedeo Modigliani: L?opold Zborowksi, Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, Oil on canvas, Leopold Zborowski was a Polish-born artist, poet, and art dealer who moved to Paris in 1913. He began acting as Modigliani's manager in 1916, commissioning and selling his wo...
EditorialPaul C?zanne: Madame C?zanne with Green Hat (Madame C?zanne au chapeau vert), Paul C?zanne, 1891?1892, Oil on canvas, C?zanne painted at least 29 portraits of his wife, Hortense Fiquet. Here she appears in a green upholstered chair with her elbow resti...
EditorialPrague, Czech Republic. Escutcheon on the facade of a building with depiction of a jug. "The Golden Jug" (U Zlate). Melantrichova Street. Old Town (Stare Mesto).
EditorialThe Hardy Tin Soldier."Tin Soldier!" said the Goblin, "Don't stare at things that don't concern you". . Fairy Tales ... Illustrated by Harry Clarke. F.P. London : G. G. Harrap & Co., [1916]. Source: K.T.C.102.a.15 frontispiece.
EditorialAfter World War II Warsaw was in ruins. The rebuilding of Stare Miasto, the Old Town, was done after 18th century paintings by Canaletto. The painstaking recon-struction lasted until 1963. Scaffoldings in a narrow, reconstructed street in the Old Town....
EditorialThe Hardy Tin Soldier."Tin Soldier!" said the Goblin, "Don't stare at things that don't concern you". . Fairy Tales ... Illustrated by Harry Clarke. F.P. London : G. G. Harrap & Co., [1916]. Source: K.T.C.102.a.15 frontispiece.
EditorialCzech Republic. Prague. Old Town Square. (Stare Mesto). The Old Town Hall (right) and The House at the Minute. Franz Kafka lived from 1889-1896.
EditorialCape starling, Lamprotornis nitens (Shining stare, Sturnus nitens). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806.
EditorialBrahminy myna or Brahminy starling, Temenuchus pagodarum (Subrosaceous stare, Sturnus subroseus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Mi...
EditorialRed-breasted blackbird, Sturnella militaris (Magellanic stare, Sturnus militaris). Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by H. Kearsley from a specimen in the Linnean Society Museum from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, ...
EditorialCzech Republic. Prague. Old Town Square. (Stare Mesto). The Old Town Hall (right) and The House at the Minute. Franz Kafka lived from 1889-1896.
EditorialREPUBLICA CHECA. PRAGA (PRAHA). Detalle de la TORRE DE LA POLVORA. Edificio g?tico del 1475, realizado por Matej Rejsek. Restaurada en 1875-1886 por J. Mocker y B. Schnirch. Durante la Edad Media era una de las puertas de acceso a la ciudad amurallada....
EditorialWarsaw's "Stare Miasto",the old market,totally destroyed during World War II, was rebuilt in its original Renaissance splendour between 1950 and 1963.This was an extraordinary effort at a time when Poland was impoverished after the war.Warsaw,1956.
EditorialRebuilding Warsaw:while the old town and Stare Miasto square were lovingly rebuilt from Belotto's 18th ct. paintings,the district with the new administration buildings was sharply criticized in the Polish press for its "Stalinist"architecture.Warsaw,1956.