EditorialBonhams Knightsbridge's Film, Rock and Pop sale on 17 November where the Yamaha G3 acoustic grand piano, used on records by Paul Weller, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Ash, The Manic Street Preachers and, most famously, Oasis's (What's The Story)
EditorialCourtesan Japan, Edo period, about 1710-20 CE The Kaigetsud? group of artists, led by Kaigetsud? Ando, specialized in the early years of the eighteenth century in paintings and large-format prints of single standing figures of high-ranked Edo courtesan...
Editorial"- Sir, you who are so good, can't you get me small position?.... I am able to furnish you the best references on my honesty.... - You have always remained honest?... But in that case, my worthy man, why the devil have you come to me? You ought to know...
EditorialStudies of reflections from concave mirrors. On the right-hand page Leonardo is arguing that in concave mirrors of equal diameter, the one which has a shallower curve will concentrate the highest number of reflected rays on to a focal point, and 'as a ...
EditorialTorso, modeled probably ca. 1877 or 1878, cast 1979, French, Bronze, on a marble base, H. w/base 23 in. (58.4 cm.); H. w/o base 20-1/4 in. (51.4 cm.); W. 9-3/4 in. (24.8 cm.); D. 8-1/2 in. (21.6 cm.), Sculpture-Bronze, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840...
EditorialThe Tring Tiles, Medieval, c1325. Set of outstanding tiles with images drawn from apocryphal legends from the 'unofficial' life of Christ. Most contain two scenes, and can be read like a comic strip, although missing scenes disturb the continuity of th...
EditorialTorso, modeled probably ca. 1877 or 1878, cast 1979, French, Bronze, on a marble base, H. w/base 23 in. (58.4 cm.); H. w/o base 20-1/4 in. (51.4 cm.); W. 9-3/4 in. (24.8 cm.); D. 8-1/2 in. (21.6 cm.), Sculpture-Bronze, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840...
EditorialTorso, modeled probably ca. 1877 or 1878, cast 1979, French, Bronze, on a marble base, H. w/base 23 in. (58.4 cm.); H. w/o base 20-1/4 in. (51.4 cm.); W. 9-3/4 in. (24.8 cm.); D. 8-1/2 in. (21.6 cm.), Sculpture-Bronze, Auguste Rodin (French, Paris 1840...
EditorialFlight Into Egypt, 1923, Oil on canvas, 29 x 26 in. (73.7 x 66 cm), Paintings, Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1859?1937 Paris), Tanner's eloquent 'Flight into Egypt' is a canonical mature work by the increasingly esteemed Ameri...
EditorialFishboat, 1930, Oil on paperboard nailed to wood strainer, 24 1/4 ? 33 1/4 in. (61.6 ? 84.5 cm), Paintings, Arthur Dove (American, Canandaigua, New York 1880?1946 Huntington, New York), Dove spent much of his artistic career either living on a boat (in...
EditorialKabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebizo (Ichikawa Danjuro V) in the play The Colored Reins of a Loving Wife (Koi nyobo somewake tazuna), ??????????, Edo period (1615?1868), 5th month, 1794, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper with mica ground...
EditorialTaima Mandala, ?????, Edo period (1615?1868), 1750, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on silk, 41 13/16 x 37 1/16 in. (106.2 x 94.1 cm), Paintings, The Taima Mandala represents the Pure Land of the Buddha Amida (Sanskrit: Amitabha) bordered o...
EditorialCourtesan Japan, Edo period, about 1710-20 CE The Kaigetsud? group of artists, led by Kaigetsud? Ando, specialized in the early years of the eighteenth century in paintings and large-format prints of single standing figures of high-ranked Edo courtesan...
EditorialThe Tring Tiles, Medieval, c1325. Set of outstanding tiles with images drawn from apocryphal legends from the 'unofficial' life of Christ. Most contain two scenes, and can be read like a comic strip, although missing scenes disturb the continuity of th...