Great Estates Live! Antiquity to Post Modernism Fine Art & Design

Ripley Auctions & Appraisals: Books and works on paper highlight our November Great Estates Live! auction, including a twelve-volume study of ancient and tribal art, a Marc Chagall title page with a signed sketch, and original drawings by Camille Pissarro and Henry James Soulen.

Featured is Materials for the Study of Social Symbolism in Ancient & Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition & Continuity, based on Carl Schuster's research and written by Edmund Carpenter, published by the Rock Foundation. Chagall's Bible series title page bears a hand-signed sketch and inscription dated 1963.

Additional highlights include Pissarro's The Church at Eragny, a graphite drawing circa 1894; two groups of Soulen sketchbook works comprising 28 figure studies and 15 figural and landscape paintings and drawings; Robert Delaunay's La butte Montmartre et le Sacré-Coeur lithograph; woodcuts and etchings by Leopold Survage; and Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita's Le Petit Garcon, an aquatint etching from Les Enfants. Five Paul Colin jazz lithographs from Le Tumulte Noir are also featured.

These selections join a broader auction of fine art, antiquities, Art Deco and Machine Age design, sculpture, and art glass.

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