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Item # Banks 27-B. An original work by Richard Banks. Not Signed by the Artist; from his personal portfolio. Circa 1960's. Titled "Louis Bernardo" possible a dancer with the New York City Ballet. Banks drew many dancers from the troupe. Medium: Pencil on vellum mounted onto artist paper. Condition: the glue used to attach the vellum onto the artist paper has caused brown streaking in the background giving the appearance an ancient effect, not altogether unattractive. Size: 21" x 9.5". Banks was a friend of Doris Duke who attended parties giving by Banks at his Newport Rhode Island Greek Revival Mansion. This drawing has a Federico Fellini Satyricon spirit about it. Photographed behind shrink wrap and loose mounted on foam core. Price: $250.00.
Item PAN. Pictured is a rare terra-cotta figural group of "Pan teaching his pupil Olympos to play the Syrinx" Size: approximately. 14" tall with a base of approximately. 4.5" x 6.5". This Grand Tour statue was made at the Chiurazzi Foundry in Naples, Italy and is so marked. Much of their production was bronze. Condition: some of the Syrinx that Olympos is holding is missing. If there were restorations to his left hand, it is not apparent. No other losses or restorations apparent. This figural group is rare, especially in Terra-cotta. Evidence of much hand modeling. Age: between 1880 and 1900. Price: $1,750.00.
Item reference "PALM": A theater cabaret poster from the Palm Casino Reveue performed in May 1974 at the Bouwerie Lane Theatre in New York City. Performing were: Tish and Snooky, Gorilla Rose, Joujouka, John Flowers, Sweet Pam, Kiki, Tomato Du Plenty, Michael, Adrian Milton, Jan Kroeze, Albe Murphy, Fayette, Emilio, Jose Arrango, Steve and Shelly, Antonio, Sheyla, Kate Parker, Norman Rollins, Carla, Bob Diaz and his girls, Juaquin, Mario Montez, James Morfogen, Paul Ambrose and last but not least John Heys. At midnight there was a special guest: Lola Pashalinski. I can't imagine that many of these posters have survived. A singularly rare bit of gay New York history. Condition: good; no tears(mabye a few tears though) Value: priceless. . . This poster has been sold
RB 27. A drawing by Richard Banks; signed in the lower left corner. A crayon on paper. Size: 18" x 22". Condition: smudge to the back and front upper left of the paper/ does not interfere with the drawing. A young male reclines wearing a flowered robe open to reveal his full features. Banks drew from models and this young man combines both male and female qualities. Startling green eyes; at ease with the artist, the finished work reminds one of drawings by Alexandre Benois . From Banks private collection. c. 1965. Price: $1,500.00.
RB 16. A Richard Banks pen and ink and colored ink on paper mounted on artist board. Dickie Banks does Jim Morrison: at least it looks a little like a feminine Jim Morrison. This signed and dated (Richard Banks - Newport - 1965) drawing by Mr. Banks is provocative with the sitter showing his most prized possession (next to his hair)! The stars on the shirt and the hair are a dead giveaway to an era of drugs, love and rock and roll. Size: 24" x 30". Condition: estate condition, showing use but not abuse. Price: $350.00.
RB 14. A typical Richard Banks pen and ink on paper with a blue gouache overcolor. With overtones of "The King and I" this Eastern Asian 'prince' poses in a ballet stance. Defined dancers muscles with Banks' standard full 'basket' is appealing and well crafted. Size: 15" x 24". Mounted loosely on foam core. Condition: estate condition, showing use but not abuse. No signature. This original Richard Banks drawing has been sold.
RB 11. A work on paper by Richard Banks (unsigned). This work we believe is part silk screen and part pen and ink. Size: 18" x 24". Condition: there are several scuffs to the lower right quadrant and a water mark at the right thigh level of the figure in red pants. Again, Banks creates a "Homosexual" (Gay) themed fantasy of attractive men this time playing badmitten in a court obviously not suited for sports (at least not this sport). Dressed in English Empire attire, these clearly erotic figures pose for the viewer with the object of 'turning you on" . . . and they do. Price: $950.00.
# 4626. A bronze statue of a Classical Male. Artist: Louis Rochet. 19th century. Size: 17.5" tall. Base footprint: 5.25" x 7.25". Condition: the horns are bent and the surface has been patinated a long time ago with what appears to be gold paint. Inscribed: "To Professor Harry Burnes Hutchins Retiring Associate Dean as a token of love and respect from the members of the Cornell University School of Law 1894-95." Information about this fine French Sculptor is as follows: b Paris, 24 Aug 1813; d Paris, 21 Jan 1878). French sculptor and anthropologist. Rochet studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Pierre-Jean David d’Angers, but withdrew from the Prix de Rome competition to pursue Oriental languages (especially Chinese) and natural history, at the same time providing models for commercial sculpture. He returned to monumental sculpture in 1838 and followed the example of David d’Angers in sculpting commemorative statues for the provinces, such as Marshal Drouet d’Erlon (bronze, 1844–9; Reims, Place de la Couture). Rochet distinguished himself in the costumed pageantry of figures from earlier French history, such as the equestrian William the Conqueror (bronze, 1846–51; Falaise, Hôtel de Ville), the Marquise de Sevigné (bronze, 1857; Grignan) or Charlemagne Accompanied by Roland and Olivier (bronze, 1853–67; erected 1878, Paris, Place du Parvis Notre Dame). The most popular of these historical re-creations was Napoleon Bonaparte as a Student at Brienne (plaster, exh. Salon, 1853; marble, exh. Exposition Universelle, 1855; bronze, 1855, erected 1859; Brienne, Hôtel de Ville). The bronze monument to Don Pedro I of Brazil (1855–62; Rio de Janeiro) involved Rochet in anthropological and zoological research, as its granite base was enriched by sculptures of groups of natives and local fauna, symbolizing South American rivers. A historicizing approach to style, first used by Rochet in his colossal bronze Notre Dame de Myans, erected near Chambéry in 1855, re-emerged in a later series of Classical subjects, initiated by the ‘Archaic’ Minerva (plaster, gilded bronze and silver plated, exh. Salon 1864). Signature inscribed on the plateau base. Price: $3,500.00.
# 4458. A Contemporary porcelain figure of Minotaur who was the bull headed monster in the Cretan Labyrinth and was the offspring of Pasiphae, wife of Minos. Size: 11.5" tall. Condition: The Minotaur is holding a small bird in his right hand and one of the two wings appears to be broken; the wing if it was even there was inside the figures closed hand. This exceptional well designed and decorated figure was created by Kati Zorn and was produced at the Aelteste Volkstedter Porzellanmanufaktur in Thuringia Germany. Fully marked. Price: $1,750.00.
# 4159. A German Porcelain figure of Pan playing his pipe. The form has 10 holes surrounding the figure in the rock outcropping meant to hold flower stems, so the figure was originally placed in a dish or bowl of water. Realistic colors of moss and rock support the pan. Size: app. 8.5" tall. Mark for the Company: Muller & Co. Volkstedt - 1907-1949. Condition: loss to gold paint decoration; no porcelain loss or repairs. Price: $950.00.
# 3502. A bronze figure of Pan playing his pipes sitting on a decorative urn. Size: 10.5" tall. On a footed antique verde marble base. Exceptionally well detailed. Aged patina. Age: probably late 19th century and possibly earlier. Also possibly a model for a larger garden item. Allard of Paris decorated many of the Newport Rhode Island Cottages and this statue could have been a model for a very large garden statue. We purchased this from a Newport Rhode Island Estate Auction about 15 years ago. Condition: small discoloration on the bronze base at the foot of the urn. There are no foundry marks or signatures on this bronze of a young nude boy pan. Probably European: French; German; Austrian, etc. Price: $2,500.00.
# 3878. In a series of images we offer a Bronze statue. Signed Ferdinand Lugerth and marked Made in Austria, he worked between 1885 and 1915 and pictured in Berman on Bronzes # 3390. Patina is original; c.1905. This bronze is app. 19.5" tall and sits on a short green/black marble base which is app. 6" x 7". Price: $3,850.00.
# 4642. A Grand Tour Bronze. The Dancing Faun, marking time by snapping his fingers. The original excavated from Pompeii in 1830. Size: 11.75" tall. Figure attached to the base with two screws. Condition: fine and aged patina. Age: sometime before 1900. Price: $950.00.
E1. Pre-Colombian Peruvian Pottery. (Reproduction) This replica of Moche and Chimu ceramics gives a descriptive look at life during the height of these ancient cultures, which preceded the Inca Empire. This Moche pot illustrates with remarkable explicitness, the sexual practices of this particular Peruvian culture. The material is painted terra-cotta. Size: app. 6" tall. Price: $125.00 which includes shipping and insurance within the continental United States.
E2. Pre-Colombian Peruvian Pottery. (Reproduction) This replica of Moche and Chimu ceramics gives a descriptive look at life during the height of these ancient cultures, which preceded the Inca Empire. This Moche pot illustrates with remarkable explicitness, the sexual practices of this particular Peruvian culture. The material is painted terra-cotta. Size: app. 6" tall. Price: $125.00 which includes shipping and insurance within the continental United States.
E3. Pre-Colombian Peruvian Pottery. (Reproduction) This replica of Moche and Chimu ceramics gives a descriptive look at life during the height of these ancient cultures, which preceded the Inca Empire. This Moche pot illustrates with remarkable explicitness, the sexual practices of this particular Peruvian culture. The material is painted terra-cotta. Size: app. 6" tall. Price: $125.00 which includes shipping and insurance within the continental United States.
E4. Pre-Colombian Peruvian Pottery. (Reproduction) This replica of Moche and Chimu ceramics gives a descriptive look at life during the height of these ancient cultures, which preceded the Inca Empire. This Moche pot illustrates with remarkable explicitness, the sexual practices of this particular Peruvian culture. The material is painted terra-cotta. Size: app. 6" tall. Price: $125.00 which includes shipping and insurance within the continental United States.
E5. Acrylic on paper. Size: 8.5" X 11". A rather horny pan plays his pipe. Signed in the lower left: " Jurich" Probably from the 1960's. Condition: good. Price: $100.00. Includes shipping and insurance.
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