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Collectors now seek postwar furniture; Current Prices Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions. Peckham Stoves card: color lithograph of Saratoga model, 1890: $28. Fruit bowl: Anchor Hocking, Oyster & Pearl, white and pink, 101 2 inches: $45. Copper pudding mold: tin-lined, crowing rooster with double flutes around sides, ring for hanging, 8 x 41 2 inches: $55. Florence ceramics figurine: Oriental girl, white-and-gold trim, applied chrysanthemums, 8 inches: $60. Thermometer: Puritan Ice Cream, "Newark's Famous Ice Cream," 1920s: $99. Pocketbook: Mark Cross, brown alligator, signed, 1940s: $175. Flash Gordon book: "Tournament of Death," three pop-up pictures, Pleasure Books, King Features Syndicate, 1935, hard cover: $300. Coffee grinder: Golden Rule embossed iron, glass windows, wall-hung: $495. Victorian fan: Tiffany & Co., leaf design, mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, Union Square mark: $520. Upholstered armchair: oversized, with matching ottoman, blond wood feet, brown wool, circa 1954, George Nelson for Herman Miller, 30 x 33 x 34 inches: $700.
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It has been almost five decades since George Nelson, Charles and
Ray Eames and others designed a new style of furniture for the
Herman Miller Furniture Co. Chairs and tables that were introduced
in 1947 shocked many furniture buyers. Such styles are now
collected by those who search for the best of the postwar period.
The Miller designs used metal rods, Masonite, perforated aluminum,
dimpled plywood and startling colors.
The lightweight pieces were made to mix and match in many new and
interesting ways. Shelf units were designed to be placed end to end
against a wall or to be used as a ...
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Ein Fest der Kunste: Paul Cassirer. Der Kunsthandler als Verleger.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...irrepressible Tilla Durieux, his second wife (by Corinth and Max Oppenheimer), portraits of Peter Hille, Julius Maier...include the two older stars of the Paul Cassirer Verlag, Max Liebermann and Max Slevogt, the two younger leading lights, Barlach and Kokoschka...
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Art dealer, publisher, Jew: Vera Grodzinski welcomes an account of the career of Paul Cassirer, the art dealer and publisher who did so much to introduce French modernism to Germany.(EXHIBITIONS)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...Lovis Corinth (Fig. 2), Oskar Kokoschka, Max Beckmann, Georg Kolbe, Max Slevogt, August Gaul and many more. One woman inspired...issue offered some 30 original lithographs by Max Slevogt for the popular Lederstrumpf tales. Other examples...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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The Germans we ought to know better; Art.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...s hard to understand why Menzel, Slevogt and Waldmuller don't have the fame...greatest of modern German painting. Max Beckmann puts in an appearance here...superb, underrated painter such as Max Slevogt comes from. A single lakeside view...
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KÜNSTLER AUF DIE LEINWAND GEBANNT
Magazine article from: Film - Dienst
; ...Hitzberger, Wassily Kandinsky, Hugo Lederer, Georg Kolbe, Kthe Kollwitz, Max Liebermann, Max Oppenheimer, Emil Orlik, Max Pechstein, Max Slevogt, Josef Thorak, Lesser Ury und Heinrich Zille. Aber nur selten gelang es ihm, Entwicklungen...
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Wilhelmine Berlin.
Magazine article from: Art in America
; ...coverage. Jewish artists as well known as Max Liebermann and Ludwig Meidner, as...work done in experimental theater by Max Reinhardt, in film by Ernst Lubitsch...side by side at the same table, and Max Slevogt's affectionate oil portrait of Suzanne...
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Hitler's deadly art criticism
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post
; ...the intervention of the Jewish president of the Prussian Academy of Art, the brilliant painter Max Liebermann, and Impressionist painter Max Slevogt. The military experience made of him a pacifist and a pessimist. He was often depressed. In...
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Death drawn to the life Art
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...some precursors is also included, artists who had depicted the horrors of the First World War such as Otto Dix and Max Slevogt, the latter's lithographic suite Gesichte (Visions), 1917, so disturbing in its condemnation that even the lithographic...
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Obituary: Roman Norbert Ketterer Dealer in and promoter of `Degenerate Art'
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Wolfgang opened their Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett in 1946. Their first sale catalogue was of drawings and graphics by Max Slevogt, the following year. This sale had 183 lots and despite the catastrophic economic climate in Germany did extremely...
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 "Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)")
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Should Congress back Bush's missile-defense plan?: Yes: Saying 'we can't' won't save lives in war
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ...avoid war. It could be fatally foolish of us to assume we've suddenly learned. In reference to World War I, artist Max Slevogt painted "The Mothers," an "endless column of wailing women alongside an endless ditch of dead men." Without a...
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