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SULTON ROGERS CARVING/DEXTROUS COUPLE /FOLK ART/PINE
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Fine Art:
Sculpture:
Pre 2000 item# 1074743 (stock# DextrousCoup)
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221
$550
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SULTON ROGERS (b. 1922-d. 2004) was the last of the Mississippi self-taught wood carvers and one of the greatest. He settled in Syracuse, New York, and learned something about carving from his father when he was young, taking it up again when he needed something to keep him awake during night shifts at a chemical plant. He eventually moved back to Mississippi to be with his people. From sugar pine, Rogers fashioned snakes, vampires, "haints” (spirits), bodies in coffins, figures with humoro ...click for details
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SALVADOR DALI/ACE OF CLUBS AUTHENTIC LITHOGRAPH
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Fine Art:
Drawings:
Pre 1980 item# 1026793 (stock# 000009)
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221
$3500
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This is an amazing limited edition lithograph of Dali. A lithograph that is full of expression. The colour and illusion of man and animal or man as animal. The watchful eye askew from the ace master and the serpent. The detail and precision. This is a fabulous piece.
Salvador Dali (B. 1904-1989)
Catalonia, Spain
Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance mast ...click for details
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c.1850s PIETRA DURA/ITALIAN WINE MERCHANT
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Fine Art:
Paintings:
Pre 1900 item# 987263 (stock# PietraDura)
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221
$750
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This charming example of Pietra Dura depicts a wine merchant holding his wares in each arm. The frame is new, but the mid-1800s label is on the back of the piece. Dimensions are 9 x 5-1/8 inches, sight size, and 10-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches framed. Pietra dura is an Italian phrase that means "hard stone" and refers to the technique of creating intricate inlaid pictures from shaped colored stones. The stones used are usually silicates, including agates, alabaster, amethyst, jade, jasper, lapis ...click for details
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ORIGINAL RED GROOMS DRAWING/MOULIN ROUGE 1992/26.5x39"
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Fine Art:
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Pre 2000 item# 919179 (stock# RGMoulinRoug)
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Shelton Gallery and Fine Silver
(615) 477-6221
$9500
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This original drawing of the fin-de-siecle French cabaret Moulin Rouge by Red Grooms is marker on tracing paper and measures 26-1/2 x 39 inches, sight size, and 37 x 49 inches in archival blond wood frame. Built in 1889 in the red light district of Pigalle in Paris, the Moulin Royuge was the spiritual birthplace of the can-can. It was the subject of paintings by the post-impressionist painter Toulouse-Lautrec, who is pictured at the bottom left of the drawing. Red Grooms enjoys incorporating fam ...click for details
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