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Two Clarinets and other works

Lot 545
29.09.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1029196
Lot 545 | Two Clarinets and other works
Estimate value
£ 1 500 – 2 500
David Stone MARTIN (1913-1992).

Two Clarinets, c.1956. Gouache on paper, signed ‘D.S.M.’, 357 x 115 mm; accompanied by a portfolio of six lithograph prints, the portfolio cover displaying similar clarinet imagery.

Best known as a prolific and influential designer of jazz album covers – he designed over 400 of them – David Stone Martin was producer Norman Granz’ designer of choice, with Martin creating almost all the covers for his Asch, Clef and Jazz at the Philharmonic labels through the 1940's and 1950's. ‘His album portraits, mostly done in distinctive heavy black-ink lines, included likenesses of Stan Getz, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Art Tatum, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Jelly Roll Morton and Duke Ellington. “He was essentially the first to develop an independent, serious image of jazz" and provided "an intimate insight into the music and life of jazz people," said Martina Schmitz, an art historian and musician who once assembled an exhibition of his work at Lincoln Center.’ New York Times obituary.

[With:] – An Impression of Herman Kahn, original artwork for Ramparts magazine, c.1968. Ink and watercolour on board, signed ‘David Stone Martin’, the margins marked up for publication, with tracing paper overlay inscribed 'Ramparts magazine, Insure for $500.00, Please send to David Stone Martin, 160 West End Avenue N.Y.', 392 x 299 mm. Provenance: Estate of Cipe Pineles and William Golden.

[With:] – a woodcut print of a turtle dove and French hen on wove paper, inscribed in pencil by David Stone Martin ‘Turtledove and French hen for Cipe – David’, 206 x 241 mm; with four Christmas folios comprising 41 lithograph prints, the majority jazz themed, one folio cover signed and inscribed ‘Cipe and Bill, from David’, one folio with original mailing envelope, the largest lithographs 380 x 295 mm; and a bifolium flyer for the Coffee House Positano signed and inscribed to Bill and Cipe by David Stone Martin. Provenance: Estate of Cipe Pineles and William Golden.

[And:] – a group of seven posters for Philip Meister and Elaine Sulka’s National Shakespeare Company, 1960s, two signed and inscribed by David Stone Martin and dated 1967, the other five signed ‘DSM’ over his printed signature, each 558 x 355 mm; together with a handbill for Langston Hughes on Asch Records, signed by David Stone Martin, 305 x 230 mm; and another small lithograph, unsigned; all individually window mounted to 840 x 590 mm and housed in a black cloth box.
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