Brian P Coppola
1914 Royal Delft Netherlands Blue Porcelain Tile, after Gathering Fuel by Ter Meulen
11 5/8 x 7 7/8 in, Blue Porcelain Tile
The tile depicts “Gathering Fuel,” which is after Ter Meulen circa-1910. This blue Delft porcelain tile is signed on the front with the Royal Delft mark on the back, along with the painter’s initials and the Delft code for 1914.
19thC Antique Resurrection of Christ Russian Orthodox Painted Wood Icon (ca. 1845)
12 x 14 in, oil on wood panel
No one ever said that a secular humanist could not appreciate and collect examples of art depicting religious subjects. At 7/8″ thick, this 19th-century Icon depicts the Resurrection of Christ and is in very good unrestored condition.
19thC Antique Russian Orthodox Quadripartite Wood Icon Paintings Madonna, Jesus (ca. 1845)
10 x 12 in, oil on wood panel
No one ever said that a secular humanist could not appreciate and collect examples of art depicting religious subjects. This 19th century Russian Icon has four separate Icon paintings in one (a quadripartite). 1 1/8” thick, this depicts the Madonna & Jesus in the top two paintings, and the bottom two depicts the miracle of Jesus walking on water and Saint Peter.
Antique Russian Orthodox Paval Ovchinnikov Icon Mother of God Silver Oklad (ca. 1875)
8 3/4 by 10 1/2 in, oil on wood panel with silver oklad/riza (cut-out trim)
No one ever said that a secular humanist could not appreciate and collect examples of art depicting religious subjects. The 19th Century Russian Icon Painting depicts The Mother of God holding the Child Jesus. Hand painted on a wood panel, this Russian Icon still retains its original Silver Hallmarked Oklad. One hallmark reads “84” and “no 1895” (which is PO in Cyrillic.) This hallmark as the important Russian Silversmith, Pavel Ovchinnikov, Moscow (1853-1916).
Russian Icon Painting of Mother of God, Consolation of all the Afflicted (ca. 1845)
8 ¾ x 7 in, oil on wood panel
No one ever said that a secular humanist could not appreciate and collect examples of art depicting religious subjects. Russian Icon Painting of Jesus holding the Old Testament, from a historian’s collection. This early 19th century Russian Icon Painting is titled “Mother of God, Consolation of all the Afflicted.” This hand-painted Icon is in very good original condition. Measuring 1/2″ thick, there is some shrinkage and slight bowing to the wood panel, and a tight old shrinkage crack at the bottom. There is also some minor paint loss in a few spots, but there are no restorations.
Antique Russian Orthodox Jesus Christ Pantocrator Icon Kuznetsov Silver Oklad (ca. 1875)
8 3/4 by 10 1/2 in, oil on wood panel with silver oklad/riza (cut-out trim)
No one ever said that a secular humanist could not appreciate and collect examples of art depicting religious subjects. The Antique 19th Century Russian Icon Painting depicts Pantocrator, Jesus Christ. Hand painted on a wood panel this 19th-century Russian Icon still retains its original Silver Hallmarked oklad. One hallmark reads “84” and “EK.” which is for Yemelyan Kuznetsov (1886-1897) from Moscow who was known for his fine silversmithing.
Russian Icon Painting of Ascension of Jesus (ca. 1845)
12 1/8 by 14 1/8 in, oil on wood panel
No one ever said that a secular humanist could not appreciate and collect examples of art depicting religious subjects. Russian Icon Painting of Jesus holding the Old Testament, from a historian’s collection. This early 19th century Icon depicts “The
Ascension of Humanity to Divinity” or “The ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Measuring 1″ thick, this early icon retains the original mortice braces at the top and bottom. The boards are slightly shrunken, and the braces stick out a bit on either side. There is also wear and craquelure to the original gold gilding plus some in-painting of the blue clouds under the three angles and some in-painting of the gold gilt in the top two corners.
Russian Icon Painting of Madonna and Baby Jesus (ca. 1875)
7 x 8 ¾ in, oil on wood panel with silver oklad/riza (cut-out trim)
No one ever said that a secular humanist could not appreciate and collect examples of art depicting religious subjects. Russian Icon Painting of Jesus holding the Old Testament, from a historian’s collection. This 19th-century Russian Icon still retains its original Silver Oklad.
Genie (1956)
by Peter Macchiarini (1909-2001)
24 x 30 in, Limited edition #19 of #25 signed by Peter Macchiarini lithograph reproduction printed on archival handmade paper from the original drawing.
Coppola Collection
From Danny: While my father was mainly a metal artist, he constantly did sketches and in the 1950’s a series of major graphic drawings using a black crayon pencil. He did 13 different designs in this series which he felt were so important that he had them reproduced in a limited edition of 25 each which he sign in mid 1990’s much later in his life.
This drawing was his response to the nuclear tests that were going on at the time, mid-century, by the US, USSR and other newly arrived atomic powers. The title of this graphic combined with the image says it all, “Genie”, as in “Genie out of the Bottle.”
One definition is a great idea is that when you see or hear it, you so sincerely wish you had been the one who had it. I do not deal much with social media and the proliferation of cute images, but I thought this one was genuinely hilarious.
Not that anyone asked, but the concept of the three monkeys originated from a simple play on words in the 10th C, located at a Shinto shrine. According to our friends at the Wikipedia, the philosophical saying in Japanese is mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru “see not, hear not, speak not,” where -zaru is a negative auxiliary suffix meaning “not” and happens to sound like a different -zaru, the voiced form of saru (monkey) used in compounds.
And collect just 8 more monkeys and you can initiate a chrono-apocalypse.