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DAVIS, EDMUND W. 1853-1908.:Salmon Fishing on the Grand Cascapedia. [New York]: Printed for private distribution [by the De Vinne Press], 1904.
8vo. 16 photogravure and 3 color half-tone plates of flies, captioned tissue guards. Publisher\'s half vellum and boards, letterpress spine label, publisher\'s card slipcase. Spine slightly soiled and scuffed, bookplate on front free endpaper.

LIMITED EDITION, number 91 of 100 copies. First printing, with 143 pages (rather than the later printing with 152 pages). Edmund Davis came into his inheritance at 27 years old, and turned most of his attention to angling. He was a founding member of the Cascapedia Club, and his work on one of the great North American Salmon rivers is scarce. Bruns D25; Gee 88; Litchfield 71.

埃德蒙·戴维斯，1853-1908年。 Grand Cascapedia上的三文鱼钓鱼。[纽约]：1904年[由德维恩出版社]私人发行。

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AMERICANA. :6 titles:
1. DE BRY, THEODOR, and ULRICH SCHMIDEL. Das VII Theil America. Warhafftige und lieblich Beschreibung estlicher fürnemmen indianische Landschafften und Insulen.... Frankfurt: 1597. Folio. Engraved title page, one engraved illustration in text, 31 leaves. 20th century decorative paper wrappers.
2. A Curious Collection of Voyages, Selected from the Writers of All Nations.... London: 1761. Volume V (only). 8vo. Engraved illustrations. Modern quarter morocco and marbled boards. Edges trimmed, with some losses, paper repair to front flyleaf, browning and spotting.
3. [ANONYMOUS]. The North-American and the West-Indian Gazetteer. London: 1778. Small 4to. 2 folding maps. Rebacked contemporary calf. Corners chipped, tape residue on spine, browning and spotting.
4. ROBERTSON. Histoire de l\'Amerique. 1779. Volume III (only). 8vo. Folding map. Contemporary sheep, gilt decorations on spine. Rubbed, some chipping to corners, library stamp to title, toning.
5. GOSSE, PHILIP HENRY. Letters from Alabama (U.S.), Chiefly Relating to Natural History. London: 1859. 8vo. Wood engraved illustrations in text. Early 20th century red morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Rubbed, spine darkened, corners bumped, scattered spotting and toning.
6. HARIOT, THOMAS. Voyages en Virginie et en Floride. Paris: 1927. 4to. Portrait of Theodor De Bry, reproductions of woodcut engravings in text. Publisher\'s wrappers printed in red and black. Covers soiled, bumped and chipped, library blind stamp on title page, toning.

美洲。 6个标题：

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丹尼尔·里希特，当代艺术I-

Daniel Richter * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(born in Lütjenburg in 1962)
Jump from the towers, 2009, signed, dated Daniel Richter 09 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm, framed

Provenance:
Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia

Daniel Richter is one of 德国y\'s best-known contemporary artists. In a constant balancing act between his left-wing political origins as a squatter in Hamburg and his new lifestyle as a 德国 star painter, Richter uses iconographic representations from art history, mass media and pop culture in his works. He places these as if on a stage onto a reduced, mystical pictorial background often characterised by darkness, depicting the figures themselves in a painterly excess of light and colour.

This pictorial composition is typical of Richter and can also be found in his stage designs for the 2010 Salzburg Festival.

In Jump from the towers, it seems as if the figures are jumping out of the screen with wide-open eyes, as if in panic, in reference to the images of the 9/11 terrorist attack circulating in the media. Their bodies dissolve into streaks and splashes of colour as they move, and their colourfulness is reminiscent of the view through a thermal imaging camera. This connotation fits Richter\'s recurring theme of the total surveillance of society. The figures\' leap into the unknown triggers fascination and at the same time nervousness in the viewer.

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Hans Hartung，当代艺术I-

Hans Hartung * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Leipzig 1904–1989 Antibes)
T 1964 - E 40, 1964, signed, dated Hartung 64, titled and inscribed and with directional arrow on the stretcher, acrylic on canvas, 81 x 130 cm, framed

This work is registered at the Foundation Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman, Antibes, and will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné being prepared by the Foundation Hartung Bergman, Antibes (confirmation via email 3. October 2022).

Provenance:
Galerie Kallenbach, Munich
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 18 June 2021, lot 302 - acquired there by the present owner

Hans Hartung\'s entire oeuvre is characterised by abstract, non-objective painting. This interplay of light and shadow, structure, texture and airiness would become the formative elements of his later works. The non-figurative painting T 1964 - E 40 offered here also belongs to his catalogue of work. The canvas is primed in yellow, the upper part of the painting is dipped in a rich black. Above this is a layer of dark blue paint splashes with white accents, which the artist has worked on with a steel brush and scraper. A particular focus of the work is the complementary contrast of blue and yellow as well as the contrast between surface and stroke. The pictorial space is composed of light, shadow and their contrast.

The multitude of brushstrokes and scratches, the result of the painter\'s activity on the canvas, represent Hartung\'s style of the 1960s. The compositional scheme of the work offered here is reminiscent of the depiction of fireworks. The rockets explode in the night sky and colour it a sulphurous yellow.

“The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints.”
Hans Hartung

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Heinz Mack，当代艺术I-

Heinz Mack * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(born in Lollar, Hessen 1931)
Wing relief, 1989, signed, dated Mack 89, on the reverse again signed, dated, inscribed and with directional arrow, relief of aluminum grid, board and mirror, 81.5 x 101.5 cm, framed

Certificate:
Atelier Mack, Mönchengladbach, signed by the artist

Provenance:
Private Collection, Rhineland Palatinate
Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia - acquired from the above in 2006
Private Collection, Venice
Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 5 December 2006, lot 335

Literature:
Exhibition catalogue Galerie Ludorff, Düsseldorf 2020, p. 88

The Zero artist Heinz Mack discovered the effect of light on a piece of aluminium foil by accident. When he stepped on a piece of the foil lying on the floor, he created a carpet of light, a light reflector with the embossed pattern of his sisal carpet. This showed him how the light from the aluminium foil refracts and at the same time reflects the embossed pattern of the carpet. From then on, the effect of light in his works played a decisive role for Heinz Mack in the conception of his art. The character of the reliefs is that they capture the light and at the same time return it to the room.

The work offered here is from the series of so-called ‘wing reliefs’ (Flügelreliefs). Here Mack - unlike in his painting - does not experiment with colour, but with material and form, with the reflection and location of the viewer in the work. Mack uses a fine-meshed flexible expanded metal aluminium fabric for his wing reliefs, originally created for the aerospace industry. Its technical materiality allow the metal mesh to be given soft contours and to form varied patterns from the individual honeycombs. The artistic intention of making light, structure and movement visible is accentuated in a special way in the wing reliefs by the fine structure of the honeycomb fabric.

The structure of the relief allows the viewer to experience the refraction of light from different angles anew each time. The light refracts in the depths of the honeycombs and captivates the viewer.

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西格马尔·波尔克，当代艺术I-

Sigmar Polke * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Oels/Niederschlesien 1942-2010 Cologne)
Untitled, 1994, on the reverse signed, dated twice S. Polke 94, natural resin and pigments (malachite, lapis lazuli and realgar) on canvas, 95 x 75 cm, framed

We are grateful to Michael Trier, Cologne, for his scientific advice in cataloguing this work.

Provenance:
Private Collection, North Rhine-Westphalia - directly from the artist
Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, 01 December 2021, lot 301 - acquired there by the present owner

Sigmar Polke has left us an extensive oeuvre, centred first and foremost on his irrepressible interest in colour. The production of colours was of great importance to the artist, who was often described as an alchemist, and he wanted to explore it from the bottom up. With the aid of the most modern techniques and motifs he was constantly searching for the origin of painting, sometimes also with a great deal of irony. Art ought to be an experiment with an open outcome, and he, the artist, ought to elicit the hidden beauty from the material world with his works.

Polke worked with the so-called \"Schüttbilder\" from the early 1970s on, colour samples and \"Probierbilder\", in which calculated chaos is elevated to a creative principle. Ten years later, Polke\'s painting showed a change \"that was much discussed in connection with the works for the exhibition Zeitgeist in 1982, for Documenta 7 in the same year and reached a climax in his contribution to the 德国 pavilion at the 42nd Venice Biennale (1986). Figuration recedes in favour of the more gestural and process-like use of colour, its lush or veil-like overlays and fusions.\"
(Katharina Schmidt, quoted from: Sigmar Polke – Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Skizzenbücher 1962 – 1988, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bonn 1988, p. 194).

The 1994 work offered here is in the tradition of the colour samples of the 1970s and refers pictorially to the colour plates from 1992, which are in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Its presentation is very painterly and overall reminiscent of the wall painting at the Venice Biennale (1986), for which Sigmar Polke was awarded the Golden Lion.

In the present work, the artist mixed a total of three dyes with natural resin and applied them to the canvas. In the lower area, the ultramarine blue of the dark blue semi-precious stone lapis lazuli dominates. Lapis lazuli is one of the oldest pigment stones of all and was already used as pigment in prehistoric Europe. For the upper part of the picture, Polke used the powdered pigment of the semi-precious stone malachite. The coarser the grain, the more intense the shade of colour. Malachite pigment was prized in antiquity as a cold green for wall paintings. It was used in panel paintings in the Renaissance. Next to green earths, malachite was the most important green pigment until the 18th century. On the left-hand side in the central area of the canvas, Polke painted an oval with the chemical pigment realgar. Realgar, also called ruby sulphur or ruby of arsenic, has a changing hue, which depends on the grind of the pigment. The darker shades are an orange-red, the lighter ones a yellow-orange, as seen in this painting. Although there are modern alternatives, Polke seems to have found processing the colours and pigments of the old masters with an awareness of modern times highly interesting.

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皮耶罗·多拉齐奥-

Piero Dorazio * - Zeitgenössische Kunst I-

(Rome 1927–2005 Perugia)
Untitled [Contro il rassegnarsi], 1967, Signed, dated, dedicated and inscribed on the reverse, oil on canvas, 100 x 100, framed

This work is registered in the Archivio Piero Dorazio, Milan and is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity

Provenance:
V. Pirozzi Collection, Rome
Sale Farsetti, Prato, 27 May 2000, lot 303
Anfiteatro Arte, Milan
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Milan, Galleria Anfiteatro Arte, 1999, exh. cat. p. 47 no. 15 with ill.
Genoa, Dorazio, Marco Canepa Arte Contemporanea, 2006, exh. cat. with ill.
Padua, Piero Dorazio, Anfiteatro Arte, 1 February – 18 March 2007, exh. cat. p. 74 and 75 with ill. (label on the reverse)


Literature:
M. Volpi Orandini, J. Lassaigne, G. Crisafi, Dorazio Catalogo ragionato delle opere, Alfieri Editore, 1977, no. 8 (in the addenda at the end of the catalogue)

The subject of the painting always drives from the previous painting, hence there is no reason for inspiration. One tries again, keeps on trying to do what he has already done…
Piero Dorazio

Of all the great first and second generation 美国 painters I have known since 1953 (the third generation is not yet discernable), Kenneth Noland is a truly singular case.

He is from North Carolina and Washington, i.e. the provinces, rather than the artistic milieu of New York.

[...]In the 1950s and 1960s I never understood whether some artistic circles in the Metropolis or certain isolated artists like Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, Georgia O\'Keeffe in New Mexico or Andrew Wyeth in Pennsylvania were more provincial. Although isolated, Louis and Noland were already the most modern of modern 美国 painters in the early 1960s. They were a surprising revelation when discovered and presented by the critic Clement Greenberg at the 法国 and Co. Gallery in New York. Their exhibitions in that gallery between \'59 and \'60 remain by far the most exciting of the decade.

Kenneth Noland\'s painting has nothing to do, therefore, with all the clichés of 美国 painting disseminated here by European critics who have framed all expressions into schools or categories or groups (Action Painting, New Dada, Abstract expressionism, Pop Art, Minimal Art etc.) letting what were actually the most creative values and personalities slip through their fingers. [...]

Ken Noland established himself, from the late 1960s and 1970s, among those few artists defined as \'Colour field painters\' or \'Post Painterly Abstraction\' not as a group but rather as a trend: Helen Frankenhaler, Morris Louis, Jules Olitsky, Friedel Dzubas, Larry Poons. There was a convergence of interests among these painters for colour as an element that defines large spaces and long periods of time for the observer, who is induced to meditate because he is immersed in the rhythm of the lines and chromatic masses of a truly abstract painting, devoid of any allusion or reference to the real, the metaphysical or the subjective temperament. Painting that refers on the one hand to the decorative character of early Matisse, and on the other to the secular spirit of Constructivism. Among those painters, Noland was always the one who, with tenacity and clarity of purpose, was best able to sublimate \'pure visibility\' into a highly lyrical personal poetics. His nature as a colourist and his technique inspired his constant formal research into surface-colour and material-colour relationships. [...]

In these works chromatic fantasy and refined sensitivity, arranged in a precise structural order, bring the brushstrokes and pictorial matter to life in decisive and delicate spaces and lights and rhythms, expressing a constant reflection on the inevitable characteristics of reality. Constancy and appearance, the negative and the positive, fullness and emptiness; our gaze is entertained and delighted by this repertoire of perception, emotion and mind.

(Piero Dorazio, Il singolare caso di Kenenth Noland, in “Rigando dritto. Piero Dorazio Scritti 1945-2004, pp. 425-427)