IMPORTANT LITHO of BOXING EVENT by Joseph Sheppard Lstd Start Price USD 75.00 Current Price USD 75.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, July 02, 2008 End Time Saturday, July 12, 2008 Location Varied Westchester County Estates See more about 'IMPORTANT LITHO of BOXING EVENT by Joseph Sheppard Lstd' Description Your browser does not support JavaScript. To view this page, enable JavaScript if it is disabled or upgrade your browser. Sell more with every listing. Get Vendio Gallery today!As the title states and the pictures show. Up for bid is this limited edition Print by Very well listed artist Joseph Sheppard and dated 1964..Entitled "Descent from the Ring"..Our Family's Gallery Braverman Sport in Art Galleries was off Madison Avenue next door to Hirschl & Adler in the 1960s thru 1968..We showed Sheppards works and obtained an exclusive on the listed Art work below..as you can see on the bottom right it is copyrighted by Renee Braverman my mother..I just came upon a catalog of the Butler Institute of American Art in addition to the National Art Museum of Sport..The Forbes family (Malcom Forbes)ownes the original Painting Descent from the ring and is in the collection of Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr of New York..These are the only prints of this painting and have considerable worth on todays art market..We have only a few left of each Boxing and Football.....Originally we had 3 of his Oil Paintings that he rendered into Lithographs There were 3 of them representing Baseball Football and Boxing..Sheppards works fetch  high prices at auction check out Marin-Price Galleries in Baltimore to see more of his  works.. I would appraise the print pictured at from 500 to 700 dollars..This is a great investment on a great artwork, approx 22" by 18" unframed.Sheppard is considered one of the best Painters of Boxing subjects alive today.. Please also see my other auctions for a Joseph Sheppard Boxing Oil on Panel."Mack Lewis's Gym" and the UNUSUAL in Fine Art Sculpture Architectural items and the unusual in Fine Antiques ..Most all Estate purchases and Fresh to market...Please click below anywhere on my Guarantee or on any pictures to bring you to my current offerings............. Private Auctions Please note that as of September 1st 2006 all our e bay auctions will be Private. This measure is solely intended to protect you, our customers, from the rash of Phony e mail second chance offers..Spoofs..and other Shenanigans by Fraudulent "SELLERS" with offers of similar or identical items. 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Seller will provide any necessary paperwork to help buyer with his/her claim.On Feb-16-08 at 07:38:34 PST, seller added the following information:From Ring to Antiques  by Phil Berger NY Times March 9th 1996During the week, Al Braverman, King's director of boxing for 28 years, may be knee-deep in the tumult that has recently surrounded his boss's business. But on weekends and if Braverman ever gets a Vacation Braverman shifts gears changes his stance and becomes involved in a world quite far removed from the rowdiness and fisticuffs of the fight game. Unlikely as it seems, Braverman and wife Renee and their Children are antique dealers and Art Gallery Owners specializing in works of Art only having to do with Sporting Games. Previously Big Al had been involved with his Dad Lou Braverman in the Pawn Shop industry where he garnered a wealth of Information on anything and everything of Value.. Al's knowledge is most impressive in antiques and art as well as his ledgendary status in Boxing as an Exceptional Man in the Sport, some say the absolute BEST total talents as a Corner man/ Cut Man, His other duties in the Ring encompassed that of a Trainer, Manager, Promoter and Undefeated heavyweight. He ran all the Boxing in Africa putting on events and training prospects in his Gym in Accra for our forces during  WWII. Big Al spoke fluent Ga which was the Nat'l language. He legitimatly challenged Joe Louis to an exhibition bout for the troops in Ghana the Gold Coast which Big Al now said in retrospect Thank God he didn't accept my challenge. Big Al was the most colorful and talented Manager Trainer Cut Man and Pronoter in the Industry.Braverman now operates out of an antique center in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan 31st street & 3rd Ave. and has booths in Hyde Park, N.Y.,and Southington, Vt. and does Brimfield and other select shows like the Indiana Antique Advertising show...His son Gary speaks about his Dad (rightly so) as one of the greatest Men in the Boxing Industry..Boxing was his complete Life..Antiques took a second Love But his antique dealer friends know He is a total character who stands no guff and is well loved by his fellow Antique dealers..Big Al unlike Boxing where because of the nature of his job..That of Kings 2nd in command is adored in the Antiques Business..In Boxing all the key figures and Journalists do not like him in the least because he takes no crap from anyone putting down or talking bad about the Man..Don King..If this takes place with you I suggest you look to step away if you see Big Al is not in his infectiously funny mood..You cannot make a mistake when looking at his face when he was serious, You find  that you are scared to death of his outbursts temper or advice if it  was not listened to. He is undoubtedlly the last of the Damon Runyonesque Characters and can still drop a guy with 1 shot..He called Liston out in the Wepner Fight where Liston was quoted as saying that Braverman and not Wepner was the one to fear)..I saw him slap Foreman in the face in Foremans dressing room in Fla. at the Dino Dennis fight..Braverman had Dennis  Big Al also put a 6ft 9" trpoblemaker monster up against the wall in Scranton Pa dressing room after this monster pulled a gun on another of my Dads entourage..The Gun was never found and the Monster was taken out of the dressing room unconcious on a gurney.I was told by his closest friend that.Big Al flattened this guy with 1 shot to the jaw. .and would back up any wolf ticket he sold.Another words if you threatned to do some violence to Big Al there was violence  Just not Big Als Face that was smashed just the menancing look Big Al gave was enough for most to get the picture''How I got into it,'' said Braverman,''goes back to the 1950's, when I worked fighters' corners. In those days I'd drive up to places like Holyoke, Mass., and Portland, Me.,getting there usually at midday. I'd be bringing in the fighters from New York, who fought the local talent. 'Anyway, promoters on that level didn't spend for hotel rooms, so we all had time to kill.I'd drop the fighters at a movie theater and tell them I'd pick 'em up at 5. For four, five hours I'd be antiquing. I'd grab the front money from the promoter and go looking for something to buy. Stick it in the trunk or tie it on top of the car, an old Franklin. I can remember coming back from the road, and lugging stuff up five flights to our apartment in the Bronx, The Pickwick Arms at 3224 Gr Concourse the same building that Carl and Bob Reiner lived in we were all close and directly across the street at 3035 Gr Concourse lived the entire Marshall clan Garry Marshall, Major film producer, and his sister Penny, who's the actress and director, and Bigwig in Films As it turned out the Reiners Bob and Marshalls Penny moved out to the Coast. Pretty soon I had so much stuff I didn't have room for it in the apartment. I decided to open up an antique shop. The first place was up  in the Bronx. under the El at Woodlawn Between burglaries and fires we didn't last long there.'' But some heavy hitters now were eager customers back in the 60s..Al had great taste for fighters and works of art and antiques..Al's son Gary and Mother Renee sister Cory and wife Nancy head up the antiques end now. Also during the 60s on Madison Ave on 67th street Braverman Galleries Sport in Art opened their doors at 23 East 67th street right next to Hirschl & Adler Galleries..Big Al Braverman..A Ledgend in Boxing and top entrepeneur in the Art and Antiques Business     Place a Bid!