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05/09/2026

From the library of the esteemed, Professor Donald Gunn MacRae.

04/09/2026

What a delight to see one of our pieces featured in the October issue of House & Garden Magazine A sincere thank you to Noni Ware for the beautiful curation and for highlighting our collection. Swipe to view the feature, or explore our collection via the link in our bio.

03/09/2026

Giacometti's portraits emerged from an intense scrutiny of his subjects. He continually reworked his images, recording his shifting visual impressions. Seated Man depicts his brother Diego, one of Giacometti's most frequent models. Yet, even this familiar face became an object of investigation and discovery for the artist, who commented,
'When he poses for me I don't recognise him'

02/09/2026

The composition of Grande Ourse is structured around a deliberate double entendre, serving as a literal visual abstraction of the Ursa Major constellation.The title translates from French directly as The Great Bear,which is the classical astronomical designation for the northern star cluster. Rather than mapping a literal star chart, Miró synthesised astronomical structure into his surrealist iconography. The large, heavy black circular ring defines the main body or torso of the cosmic bear, whilst the radiating thin lines extending outward mimic the imaginary geometric boundaries used in celestial maps to connect distinct stars

01/09/2026

The unrecorded, complete four-page critical typescript captures a rigorous contemporary dialogue between two prominent figures of post-war British social science. Charles Madge (celebrated in the 1930s as a Surrealist poet under T. S. Eliot’s editorship at Faber, and later as a co-founder of the Mass-Observation project) published Society in the Mind during his tenure as Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham. The book attempts to formulate a theoretical framework around ‘social eidos’, the dominant, systemic mindset regulating a given society. MacRae’s review offers an analytical, historically grounded assessment of Madge’s thesis. Across four pages, MacRae contextualizes Madge's ideas alongside the foundational theories of Vilfredo Pareto, Talcott Parsons, Auguste Comte, and Karl Marx. He notes that Madge's progression follows ‘three Comte-like stages, from the world of mythical thought... to the eidos of scientism in our own age,’ while observing that Madge's construction of an ‘aesthetic utopia’ provides a stark conceptual alternative to traditional Marxist paradigms. The manuscript preserves MacRae’s commentary regarding institutional shifts within mid-century academia. He commends Madge’s work as a ‘great relief after the indiscriminate moralising of most sociologists,’ specifically targeting contemporary ‘tough-minded empiricists and statisticians’ whom he views as excessively occupied with localised, immediate social issues of the 1960s (citing ‘the glue-sniffing problem, Purple Hearts, and V.D.’) rather than broader theoretical developments.
The manuscript serves to document the intellectual landscape of the post-war London School of Economics and mid-century British sociology.

31/08/2026

An excellent example of Horst Gerson’s critical revision of Abraham Bredius’s classic catalogue raisonné. Serving as Professor of History of Art at the University of Groningen, Gerson famously established the baseline methodologies for modern Rembrandt connoisseurship by down-attributing and reassessing works previously attributed to the master. This edition bears the notable copyright notice of Meulenhoff International, Amsterdam, and features the rigid print distribution restriction prohibiting export back to the Netherlands

30/08/2026

Basil Ivan Rakoczi’s Still Life with Flowers; original watercolour with Indian ink, 1957.

28/08/2026

Detail from Joan Miró’s Great Bear; fine lithograph of 1965.

27/08/2026

In the Toros y Toreros suite of 1961, the drawings of Jacqueline Roque are among the most personal and experimental, frequently portraying her as a figure of royalty or classical beauty integrated into the Spanish bullfighting tradition. It also serves as a visual documentation of Picasso's deep engagement with the bullfight and its importance as his definitive metaphor

26/08/2026

A very rare first edition of Polanyi’s seminal work; from the library of the esteemed Professor MacRae.

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