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Patrick Kapty
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Author, historian, curator, reseller - I sell wearable and other art, and I am fascinated by cultures and artifacts from around the world!
My shop is: California Dreaming Art Jewelry Etc:
https://www.rubylane.com/shop/california-dreamin-art-jewelry-etc
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Boxing Day, the day after Christmas in the UK Canada and many other commonwealth countries, is roughly concurrent with the religious holiday for St Stephen the martyr (see first photo).
Boxing Day is a day that you eat leftovers, and share your bounty with those less fortunate. Fritters, anyone?
December 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Merry Merry 🎄
December 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Christmas trees just want to have fun!

#happyholidays #christmastree #couture #vintagefashion
December 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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A daring fashion statement? In any case, she's got a lot of balls...

#merrymerry #seasonsgreetings #happyholidays #christmastree #couture #vintagefashion
December 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Early photograph of Santa with his best pal, Bigfoot, circa 1904.

Best wishes for the Holiday Season!

#merrychristmas
#happyhannukah #happykwanza #bestwishes #holidayseason #santaclaus #bigfoot #northpole #bromance
December 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Apparently, Santa Claus and his sleigh were just spotted over Guam...
Watch at...https://www.noradsanta.org/en/map for latest updates!
Merry Merry!
December 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Happy Holidays to all!

#merrychristmas #happyhanukkah #happykwanzaa #seasonsgreetings
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Medusa

📷 Jean Claude Sanchez
#monochrome #bnwphoto #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhitephoto #BWPhotography #blackandwhitephotography #dark #noir #conceptual
December 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Physical

📷 Pavel Horak (Angeleyes)
#monochrome #bnwphoto #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhitephoto #BWPhotography #blackandwhitephotography #dark #noir #portrait #sensual #sensualart #conceptual
December 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Christopher Columbus
oil on canvas
circa 1938
Victor Brauner
Romanian, 1903–1966

#art #painting #modernart #surrealism #surrealistart #christophercolumbus #victorbrauner #circa1938
December 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Oskar Schlemmer - House of Dr.
Rabe Zwenkau 1930-31

#design #interiordesign #art #sculpture #oneofakind #oskarschlemmer #germany #bauhaus #moderndesign #modernism #earlymodern #circa1930 #germandesign
December 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Anatase crystals
Zard Mts., Kharan,
Balochistan, Pakistan

#anatase #mineral #crystal #geology #mineralogy #mineralspecimen #rock #nature #black #beauty #geometry #mineralcollector #rockcollector
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Le papillon de Tulle
(The Tulle Butterfly)
Choreographed by P. Thiriot
circa 1930
Studio Delbo

#dance #photography #costumedesign #lepapillondetulle #thetullebutterfly #photograph #circa1930 #studiodelbo #pauldelbo #photographer #choreography #pthiriot #Paris #france #moderndance
December 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A one of a kind Betty Seaver San Diego California handmade copper enamel modernist Angel & Star design artwork circa 1970.

Available...

#bettyseaver #copperenamel #enamelart #art #sandiego #california #enamel #design #californiamodern #californiadesign #alliedcraftsmen #angel #star #copperenamel
A rare one of a kind vintage 1970s handmade copper enamel modernist Angel design artwork by California artist/enamelist Betty Seaver of San Diego. A wonderful unique signed artwork by this rarely seen artist/enamelist! Enameled in multiple bright and cheery colors on a cut-out plaque that is attached to a rectangular wood backing. The design is of an angel or winged goddess holding a star sign in one hand, and with another star sign off to the left. Very brightly colored and immaculately crafted by this master of the art! Here's a short biography of the artist that I compiled from online sources: Betty Seaver (1919-2002) was born and raised in San Diego. She got her degree in art from San Diego State, and afterwards taught art in the public school system for several years. In the 1970s, she took up enameling. She was a member of the Allied Craftsmen, and the Enamel Guild, and sometimes volunteered at the Spanish Village Art Center in Balboa Park. She sold her artworks mainly in local galleries, and her enamel art pieces are in several important private and public collections. The outer edges of the wood backing measures 11" by 6" by about 3/4" at thickest points. Signed at back as shown in my photos, "Enamel on copper Betty Seaver San Diego, California". A rare no doubt one of a kind artwork by a hard to find California enamel artist! Excellent vintage condition.
December 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Sigale Gale puppet head
carved wood, pigment, shell
19th century
Batak people
Sumatra Island, Indonesia

#funeral #puppet #sigalegale #batakpeople #sumatra #indonesia #carvedwood #oneofakind #19thcentury #oceanicart #tribalart #art
A unique tradition within Batak sculpture are the puppets known as si galegale. In former times, si galegale appeared at funerals, where they served as stand-ins for the sons of men who had no male children to perform their mortuary rites. Moved by a complex system of internal strings controlled by a puppeteer, si galegale participated in funerary dances alongside the deceased's family. With the aid of moistened balls of moss inside its head, some were even able to shed tears for their dead fathers.
December 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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A rare and very large vintage 1960s Kay Whitcomb copper enamel and wood modernist Cat design box

Available...

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#kaywhitcomb #enamelart #enamelartist #sandiego #californiadesign #handmade #art #alliedcraftsmen #enamelguild #oneofakind #box #americancraft #metalsmith
A rare vintage 1960s handmade copper enamel in wood modernist Cat design box by California artist/enamelist Kay Whitcomb of San Diego. Entirely handmade one of a kind piece of vintage modernist enamel art by one of the preeminent mid century American enamelists! Here is a short biography of the artist from the Enamel Arts Foundation website: A major figure in American enameling, Kay Whitcomb was born in 1921 in Arlington, Massachusetts, to a long line of New England metalsmiths. Her work explored diverse subjects, and she incorporated words, phrases, and proverbs into it. She became versed in numerous techniques and started exploring unconventional methods of fusing glass to metal. By the late 1960s she was experimenting enameling on steel at factories in Germany and Belgium. Among her many large-scale works produced at Crahait Emailleries in Gosselies, Belgium, was a pair of eighty-four-by-thirty-two-inch doors, which were shown at California Design 11 at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1971. Her desire to share her knowledge led her to teach enameling at the La Jolla Art Museum and the San Diego Museum of Art shortly after her move to the region. She juried and curated numerous exhibitions and went to great efforts to keep enameling on public display. Besides exhibiting in Europe, she led the effort to have several American enamelists included in the prestigious International Biennial of Enamel Art in Limoges. Measures 10" long by 6.5" wide by 2.5" high at rim. Marked at front in lower right corner, "Kay Whitcomb '61", also has hand etched signature and date on back into the wood as shown. No doubt a one of a kind piece of enamel art, though I have seen a very similar design in a wall-hanging version in the collection of the Enamel Arts Foundation. There is some wear and discoloration to the wood sections of the box, and the white plexiglass liner inside as shown. Excellent vintage condition.
December 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Oskar Schlemmer
Costumes for the Triadic Ballet
Bauhaus
1927

#oskarschlemmer #bauhaus #dated1927 #costumedesign #triadicballet #germany #germanart #modernism #moderndesign #vintagemodern
December 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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An Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley vintage 1950s copper enamel and wood modernist Harlequin or Jester design box.

Available...

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#oneofakind #copperenamel #enamelart #vintage1950s #ellamariewoolley #jacksonwoolley #sandiego #california #design #modernism #art #box
A superb vintage 1940s 50s handmade copper enamel in wood modernist Jester Harlequin design box by California artist/enamelist couple Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley of San Diego. From their earliest work, this box is unique and numbered, you’ll never see another of this design! Super mcm design by perhaps the greatest husband/wife American enameling duo of the mid 20th century! Here is a short biography of the Woolleys from the Enamel Arts Foundation website: The San Diego-based artists Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley were introduced to enameling in 1947 through a demonstration given by ceramist Richard Petterson at Scripps College in Claremont, California. After serving in the army during World War II, Jackson moved with his wife Ellamarie, whom he had married in 1940, to Claremont to pursue studies in art at the Claremont Graduate School. The Woolleys’ earliest enamels, made between 1947 and 1953, were for the most part functional, intended for use or display in homes and offices. Among their favorite forms were plates, ashtrays, and boxes. While occasionally each artist worked separately, most of this early work was produced through a close collaborative partnership between husband and wife. Over time, each artist adopted an increasingly inventive approach to form and structure. Active during a period of dynamic growth and development in the enamels field, Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley significantly advanced enameling through their individual work as well as the work they produced in partnership with one another. Their work was prominently featured in the exhibition "San Diego’s Craft Revolution: From Post-War Modern to California Design" held at the Mingei Museum in San Diego in 2011-2012. The book for the exhibition is an invaluable resource. This one of a kind box measures 5-7/8" by 4-5/8" by 1-7/8" tall. Marked inside on reverse side of enamel plaque as shown in photos, also marked with unique design number 4052. Excellent vintage condition.
December 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Dance of the Lanterns
photograph
circa 1920s
Waléry
Paris, France

#photography #dance #dancer #waléry #parisfrance
#circa1920s #surrealism #art #avantgarde #photograph
Stanisław Julian Ignacy Ostroróg (also known as Walery, Stanislas Waléry, Lucien Waléry, and Laryew, born 12 September 1863 – 24 February 1929) was a Polish photographer active in London and Paris between 1890 and 1929. After inheriting his father's name and photographic studio in London, he continued with portraiture for about a decade until the turn of the century when he moved definitively to Paris. There he achieved celebrity as an innovator and accomplished photographer of cabaret stars and of the female form.
December 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Lydia Roberts + Ferry Mohr, 2019
December 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Man Ray • Lydia & Wooden Figures, ‘32
December 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Human Figure with Two Birds
oil on paper mounted on wood
1925/29
Max Ernst
French, born Germany, 1891–1976

#surrealism #maxernsst #Paris #surrealistart #painting #Frenchmodernism #circa1925 #humanfigurewithtwobirds #oilpainting #loplop #selfportrait #dada
Like Constantin Brâncusi, Max Ernst was fascinated with birds, and among his earliest works incorporating this motif are some two dozen small, unconventional pictures made around 1925. One of these works was incorporated as a picture within a picture in Human Figure with Two Birds, a painting that set the stage for an extraordinary series of works that Ernst began in 1930, which featured a large, fantastic bird figure that the artist identified as Loplop. In these works, Loplop, the artist’s “private phantom attached to my person,” generally holds up a picture for presentation. Here the rudimentary figure outlined in white is an early manifestation of Loplop, Ernst’s playful, surreal concept of self-portraiture by proxy.
December 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet.
~ Paul Klee

Sunset, 1930

Oil on canvas
46.1 × 70.5 cm | 18-1/8 × 27-3/4 in
Paul Klee German, b. Switzerland, 1879–1940 Klee was an artist and teacher at the Bauhaus for most of that famed school’s existence. Initially head of the bookbinding department, Klee made his greatest contribution as a lecturer on the theory of form in art for the basic design course. There, he developed his ideas about the “polyphony” of painting, the simultaneous effect of formal elements that produces “a transformed beholder of art.” Klee was also a trained musician and shared with many artists of the early 20th century the idea that music was the key to producing a new, abstract art. He was interested in the temporal character of music and its possible translation into forms of art. Works like "Sunset" reflect the principles of rhythm: linear structures, forms, and tonal values are orchestrated into a measured, vibrating image. To produce such a harmonious effect, Klee layered an intricate pattern of dots over a neutral background. Abstract, geometric, and overlapping shapes balance with recognizable forms, such as the schematic face in the upper left and the red sun and arrow in the lower right. The resulting composition, balancing stillness and movement, shallowness and depth, relates to Klee’s larger project of looking to music to produce an art that “does not reproduce the visible, but makes visible.”
December 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Black and white sunrise
📍Torridon, Scotland.
📷John Murray
#landscapephotography #landscape #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2rDpGku
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Retour n°4 (Return #4), 1956 - Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009), peintre abstrait américain. Figure majeure du mouvement hard-edge, son œuvre se caractérise par des formes géométriques nettes, des aplats de couleur et une grande rigueur formelle.
#peinture
#Hard-edge
#FrederickHammersley
December 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM