Washington D.C.

Artist: Karel Appel Title: Cat in the Night Portfolio: 1978 Cats Medium: Lithograph in colors on Japon paper Date: 1978 Edition: XV/LXV Sheet Size: 24 3/4" x 32 1/4" Signature: Hand ...

Artist: Karel Appel Title: Frightened Cat Portfolio: 1978 Cats Medium: Lithograph in colors on Japon paper Date: 1978 Edition: XV/LXV Sheet Size: 24 3/4" x 32 1/4" Signature: Hand si...

Antique Kazak Rug 3'5'' x 4'0''.

Wonderful and one of a kind nude sculpture by Noche Crist (1909-2004). Sculpture is made from polyester resin. Catalogue of a postumous retrospective in 20...

Artist: Alexander Calder Title: Derriere le Miroir #221 Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #221 Medium: Lithograph in colors Year: 1975 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 15" x 11" Image Siz...

Fine Antique Kazak Wool Rug 4'9" x 7’2". SW Caucasus/Armenia. Boldly patterned, strongly colored, totally geometric, all wool, coarse to moderate weave, medium to long pile, scatter ...

Turkish Oushak Rug 9'0" x 12'0". Town in Western Anatolia, weaving mostly room sizes, in coarse to moderate weave, high pile. Antiques are all wool, changing to cotton foundations in...

One of a kind painting by Noche Crist (1909- 2004). Noche Crist was an American artist born in Romania. Acrylic painting is on plaster on wood which gives the painting a wonderful te...

Antique Caucasian Shirvan Rug 5’6" x 6’1". Eastern Caucasian, west Caspian Caucasian rugs, primarily scatters, in geometric layouts, some prayer, from a wide range of local villages....

Photorealist oil painting by Manon Cleary (1942-2011). Painting is signed on reverse "Cleary". Painting is stretched on aluminum stretcher and dates to the 1990s. Manon Cleary had a remarkable ability to draw and paint with photographic fidelity, but she was also known as a charismatic teacher at the University of the District of Columbia and as a free spirit whose exuberant life may have been her most enduring work of art. Since the 1970s, Ms. Cleary had been at the center of a group of artists in Adams Morgan. She exhibited her meticulous artwork throughout the city and around the world, but she also became known for her striking presence, her colorful love life and the rats she kept as pets. As an artist, Ms. Cleary borrowed classical techniques from her deep study of Renaissance masters to create paintings and drawings memorable for their frank realism and sometimes disturbing themes. In addition to her many nude self-portraits, Ms. Cleary made erotically charged paintings of flowers. She took inspiration from a painful personal history in a series of works depicting the terror of rape and, in later years, of not being able to breathe without mechanical assistance. Critics considered her a leading figurative artist of the photo-realist school, in which painters render their subjects with camera-like precision. In fact, Ms. Cleary occasionally won awards for photography when adjudicators didn’t realize her works were free-hand creations. She was “widely acknowledged to be among the best, if not the best, of the city’s figurative painters,” Washington Post critic Michael O’Sullivan wrote in 2006. “There is a tension between the cool, clinical detachment of photography and painting’s warm idealization of form.” Ms. Cleary exhibited her art in galleries and museums from Moscow to Paris to Hickory, N.C., but Washington was her home for the past 42 years. In 1974, she settled in the decrepit Beverly Court apartments on Columbia Road NW, where a coterie of artists soon grew up around her. She painted her walls purple, and her fourth-floor apartment — even with the pet rats — became something of a bohemian salon. “She was a star,” painter Judy Jashinsky told the Washington City Paper in 2004. “She was stunning, beautiful; long, brownish–black hair; real thin; wore . . . little sundresses and sandals. She was just very cool, and there was always a crowd around her.” Ms. Cleary had a long list of male admirers, including several whose confrontational attempts at “performance art” led to their arrests. She had a brief marriage in 1981 to a Danish artist known as Tommy — “just Tommy,” Ms. Cleary said — whom she divorced in less than a year. As a kind of graphic homage to her various lovers, Ms. Cleary made a series of intimately revealing portraits that were featured years later on the HBO program “Real Sex.” She met her second husband after a gallery opening in Baltimore. By way of introduction, Kijek, a dancer, stripped naked at a crowded party, walked up to Ms. Cleary and said, “Wouldn’t you like me to pose for you?” They were married in 2001. In spite of her unconventional life, Ms. Cleary was more than a mere provocateur. After a day of teaching at UDC, she would return to her studio, with its windows painted over to block out sunlight, and work late into the night, with a bottle of Dr Pepper at her side. She took nude photographs of herself from every angle, then painstakingly created lifelike images that seemed alive with the warmth of human flesh. After studying in Rome in her youth, she developed what she called “an obsession” with Caravaggio, an iconoclastic painter who lived from 1573 to 1610. She often copied paintings at the National Gallery of Art and, in her own work, blended Renaissance styles with a distinctly modern sensibility. Manon Catherine Cleary was born Nov. 14, 1942, in St. Louis. Her father was a doctor, and her identical twin sister, Shirley Cleary-Cooper, is an artist in Helena, Mont. She was a 1964 graduate of Washington University in her home town and, for the rest of her life, was proud of having been a member of the Pi Phi...

Antique Bibikabad Rug 4'3'' x 6'5''. One of the more individual villages in the Greater Hamadan Weaving Area, Bibikabad tends to specialize in larger room size carpets with camel-to...

Artist: Henri Matisse (after) Title: Decorations - Fruits Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse Medium: Lithograph Date: 1958 Edition: 2000 Frame Size: 21 1/2" x 37" Sheet Size:...

Painting by Brazilian-born artist Elizabeth Freire. Work is acrylic on canvas. Signed on reverse and titled "What is the world if not a flo...

Vintage Balouch Rug 3'5'' x 6'0". The Aryan tribes of Khorassan, Sistan and NE Afghanistan, mostly nomadic, weaving small rugs in allover, medallion and niche (prayer) designs, often...

Artist: Henri Matisse (after) Title: Lierre en Fleur Portfolio: The Last Works of Henri Matisse Medium: Lithograph Date: 1958 Edition: 2000 Frame Size: 17" x 17" Sheet Size: 14" x 10...

Artist: Pablo Picasso Title: Square Face Smirking (Plate XXX) Portfolio: Carmen Medium: Etching on Montval wove paper Year: 1949 Edition: 289 Frame Size: 21" x 18" Sheet Size: 13" x ...

Artist: Francesco Scavullo (after) Title: Bernadette Peters, 1977 Portfolio: A Photographic Retrospective, Volume I: Song Medium: Gelatin Silver Print Year: 2004 Edition: 106/150 Sig...

Artist: Alexander Calder Medium: Original lithograph Title: Cover (Derriere le Miroir #141) Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #141 (Stabiles) Year: 1963 Edition: Unnumbered Framed Size: ...

Vintage Heriz rug 7.8'' x 10.8''. Mehriban weavers just love oblique leaves with fringed or serrated edges. Here the design is nothing but, with a few petal palmettes tossed in, acce...

Artist: Joan Miro Title: La Femme Au Miroir Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir: 10 Ans d'Edition Medium: Lithograph Date: 1956 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 21 3/4" x 28 3/4" Sheet Size...

Artist: Francesco Scavullo (after) Title: Lena Home, 1982 Portfolio: A Photographic Retrospective, Volume I: Song Medium: Gelatin Silver Print Year: 2004 Edition: 106/150 Signed: Sig...

Sumak Rug 8'0'' x 10'0''. A technique rather than a specific type, in which warps are wrapped by colored wefts to create a pattern. Caucasian, Turkish, Persian and other types.  Prod...

Artist: Salvador Dali Title: Queen Iseult and Her Daughter Portfolio: Tristan and Iseult Medium: Color engraving Year: 1970 Edition: XII/XXV Frame Size: 25 1/4" x 20 3/4" Sheet Size:...

Vintage Persian Gabbeh Wool Rug 3'2'' x 4'6''. Wool pile rugs, usually scatter formats, woven by the Qashghai tribes of SW Persia (Fars Province), in moderate weave, uncluttered geom...

Fine Antique Persian Malayer Rug 4'7'' x 6'1''. A large town in the Greater Hamadan Weaving Area, specializing in single-wefted scatters, room sizes, gallery carpets, long rugs and o...

Poured beeswax work by Mary Early from her "Study for Līnea" series. "The production, or “pouring,” of beeswax elements has become a meditative process that is integral to my art practice, serving as an observation of time, materials, and space. The raw beeswax I use has taken its form at the end of a long series of natural processes followed by a manufacturing process, and once it is in my hands, the studio becomes a factory. I apply my own methods of transforming the material by casting the beeswax into three-dimensional forms. Once I have fixed both a place and a time in the future for a potential installation, I begin to determine how the beeswax lines will take their aggregated shape in that space and, simultaneously, how many lines might be manufactured for that particular space in the amount of time available." Mary Early (born 1975, Washington, DC) lives and works in Washington, DC. She studied visual art, film, and video at Bennington College, and her work has been exhibited at the United States Botanic Garden, Washington Project for the Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), Hemphill Fine Arts (Washington DC,) the Austrian Cultural Forum (Washington DC), Galerie Im Ersten (Vienna, Austria), Kloster Schloss Salem (Salem, Germany), Kunstlerbund Tubingen (Tubingen, Germany), and the American University Museum (Washington DC) among other regional and national galleries. Her early work incorporated formed concrete, tarpaper and paraffin wax, fabricated wood structures, and, increasingly over the years, surfaces coated with wax as a method of preserving or concealing an object within. Recent works have relied solely on solid forms cast in wax, abandoning the use of any permanent armature. Temporary installations are guided by schematic drawings and plans, which then serve as a permanent record. In 2014 she exhibited her first large-scale installation of wax lines at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, followed by temporary installations in response to various historical sites in Salem, Germany (2016) and Tubingen Germany (2017). In 2017 she participated in the exhibition “Twist-Layer-Pour” at the American University Museum, which included Untitled [Curve], an installation of thousands of beeswax lines assembled on the floor of the museum. In spring 2018 she was commissioned to create a temporary installation at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley Idaho. This work took the form of two intersecting curtains of hanging beeswax lines bisecting a 12’ foot x 18’ foot room, providing an immersive and enclosed viewing space. Early’s work is included in the collections of the US Department of State/Embassy of Panama, Kimpton Hotels, and the District of Columbia Art Bank among other public and private collections. She is a recipient of the Artist Fellowship Grant from the DC Commission on Arts & Humanities, Washington DC (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2009, 2007). Early is the director of HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington, DC, and serves on the boards of Hamiltonian Artists and Washington Sculptors Group. She handles the work of contemporary artists and artist estates, including the work of William Christenberry, Colby Caldwell, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Linling Lu, Mingering Mike, Robin Rose, Renée Stout...

Fine Antique Persian Qashqai Tribal Wool Rug 4'9" x 8’2”. The best SW Persian, Fars Province nomadic rugs, mostly in scatter formats. Geometric Gabbehs, lion rugs, adapted Persian cu...

Ugo Rondinone The Sun Artist: Ugo Rondinone Title: The Sun Medium: Archival pigment ink print on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm with Deluxe Rizzoli Hardcove...

Artist: Alexander Calder Title: Plate 3 Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #173 Medium: Lithograph Date: 1968 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 17 1/4" Sheet Size: 15" x 11" Image...

Artist: Georges Braque Medium: Original lithograph Title: Grecian Urn Year: 1959 Framed Size: 20 1/8 x 16 5/8 inches Sheet Size: 15 x 11 inches Signed: Uns...

Gabbeh Rug 7'0" x 9'10''. Wool pile rugs, usually scatter formats, woven by the Qashghai tribes of SW Persia (Fars Province), in moderate weave, uncluttered geometries and unshaded c...

Antique Farahan Sarouk Rug 7'11'' x 14'1''.

Artist: Joan Miro Title: Plate XI Portfolio: Lithographe II Date: 1975 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 19 5/8" x 16 3/4" Sheet Size: 12 1/2" x 9 1/4" Image Size: 12 1/2" x 9 1/4" Sig...

Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Alizarin Maze ll". Work is signed and dated 2019 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome...

Antique Heriz rug. Measures: 9.2'' x 12.2''.

Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Beige Haze". Work is signed and dated 2020 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Ital...

numbered from an edition of 150

Antique Persian Kashan One of Pair Rug 4'3" x 6’8". Central Persian city known for finely woven. room size and scatter rugs, with dominant reds and navy, and medallion patterns and s...

Painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Alizarin Maze lll". Work is signed and dated 2020 on reverse. Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Ro...

Comes with excellent museum provenance. Was included in Takashi Murakami's book "The Octopus Eats its Own Leg"obtained from the museum shop. Shipped fully insured with secure punctur...

Keiko Mkta's lovely Majorelle Necklace is handmade from a rich blue pear-shaped Tanzanite (2.91 Carats) set in a textured 14 Karat Yellow Gold frame. The beautiful Tanzanite rests di...

Antique Tapestry 5'0" x 5'9''. In the 18th century style, with a rustic lad climbing a ladder in a grape arbour pergola, with two village girls assisting in the wine grape gathering....

Antique Caucasian Fakhralou Kazak Rug 5’2” x 6’0". SW Caucasus/Armenia. Boldly patterned, strongly colored, totally geometric, all wool, coarse to moderate weave, medium to long pile...

Artist: Marc Chagall Title: The Clown with Flowers Portfolio: Mourlot Lithographe II Medium: Lithograph Date: 1963 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 20 3/4" x 17 1/2" Sheet Size: 12 3/...

Extremely Fine and Rare Antique Persian Silk Heriz Rug 5'4" x 7'9".

Artist: Joan Miro Title: Plate 15 Portfolio: Peintures sur Cartons Date: 1965 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 21 1/4" x 17 1/4" Sheet Size: 15" x 11" Image Size: 15" x 11" Signature:...

Antique Persian Bakhshayesh Long Rug 3'2" x 12’0". A type of Heriz, generally in squarish sizes, allover patterns and coarse to moderate weaves, wool or mixed constructions; woven be...

IMI THREE Top Color: Blue Center Color: Gold Base Color: Black Colorful, shiny, round: imi is dedicated to the minimal artist with the same first name! The glazes, handpicked by imi...

Artist: Alberto Magnelli Title: Untitled Portfolio: XXe Siecle No. 4 Medium: Linocut Date: 1938 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 19 3/4" x 16 3/4" Sheet Size: 12 5/8" x 9 5/8" Signatu...

Exceptionally executed painting, signed lower left corner, titled "La Perle Noire...", dated 1985. Frame is also hand painted by the artist. Measures 13" x 10...

Artist: Robert Indiana Medium: Original serigraph Title: Decade: Autoportrait 1969 Portfolio: The American Dream Year: 1997 Edition: 76/395 Image Size: 14 1/8 x 14 inches Sheet Size:...

Fine Mid Century Sonia Delaunay Design Rug 6’8" x 8’2”.

Artist: Flowers, Halim Title: Color of Love (Lyft Up Love) Date: 2025 Medium: Acrylic and oil sticks on canvas Unframed Dimensions: 48" x 36" Signature: Signed Edition: Unique...

Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Au Coin d'une Rue Portfolio: Poesies Antillaises Medium: Lithograph Year: 1972 Edition: 250 Sheet Size: 14 7/8" x 11 1/8" Image Size: 14 7/8" x 11 1/8" S...

Artist: Joan Miro Title: Plate IV Portfolio: Lithographe I Medium: Lithograph Date: 1972 Edition: Unnumbered Frame Size: 18 1/2" x 26" Sheet Size: 12 1/2" x 20" Image Size: 12 1/2" x...

Mid Century Tapestry Signed Lurcat 3’10” x 7’8”.

French Aubusson Design Rug 8' x 10'.

Artist: Sam Francis Medium: Two lithographs printed on full page sheet Title: 1¢ Life (Left) and Uncle Sam Loves Marilyn (Right) Portfolio: 1¢ Life Year: 1964 Edition Size: 2000 Fram...

Antique Caucasian Talish Rug 4'4'' x 8'0". In the Talish style, this SW Caucasian rug shows an abrashed open green field, with a red main border of bug-like polychrome palmettes tota...

Earthly Flavors is one of the twenty-odd pieces I did while participating in Palette 22 Restaurant's artist-in-residence program. Amorphous islands of yellow, pink and blue dominate ...