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Galerie Nicolas Bourriaud
auguste rodin
Auguste Rodin (Paris 1840-1917 Meudon) L'homme au nez cassé, masque - type II 2e modèle (1903) Bronze with black-green patina H 25.5 x W 20 x D 21.5 cm Total height with onyx pedestal: 37.5 cm Signed: A. Rodin and marked: A. Rodin in relief on the inside Cast by Alexis Rudier, bears the founder's signature, circa 1926
De Zutter Art Gallery
asger jorn
Asger Jorn (Denmark, 1914-1973) The Awakening II, 1953 Oil on panel 152 x 121 cm This work is included in the Catalogue Raisonné under n° 799 Provenance: R. Dahlmann Olson, Copenhagen Exhibitions: 1953, Copenhagen, ‘spiralen’; 1964, Kunsthalle Basel, 'Asger Jorn-Dodeigne'; 1965, 'Jorn', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, 'Jorn'; 2001-2023 long-term loan to the CoBrA-museum Amstelveen
Galerie von Vertes
yayoi kusama
Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, 1929) Hat (ATE), 2001 Acrylic on canvas 22 x 27.3 cm Signed, dated and titled on verso Provenance: private collection, Japan; Mallet Japan, January 25, 2008, lot 92; Opera Gallery, Geneva; private collection, Geneva Literature: Certificate of authenticity from the Yayoi Kusama Studio on 7 December 2007
Galerie de la Béraudière
jean fautrier
Jean Fautrier (Paris 1898-1964 Châtenay-Malabry) Les feuilles vertes, 1934 Oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm Signed lower left: Fautrier Provenance: collection Jean Paulhan, France; collection Dominique Aury, France; private collection, France (by descent); Tajan, Paris, November 2022, lot 44; private collection, Belgium This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of Jean Fautrier’s painted work currently being prepared by Madame Marie-José Lefort Literature: Palma Bucarelli, Jean Fautrier, Pittura e materia, ed. Il Saggiatore, Milano 1960, Ill. 107, p. 306 Exhibition: 1974, Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Jean Paulhan à travers ses peintres, cat. 563, p. 218
Stéphane Renard Fine Art
alessandro oliverio
Alessandro Oliverio (Bergamo or Venice, ante 1500-post 1544) Christ Carrying the Cross, 1505-1510 Oil on poplar panel H 49.5 x W 41.5 cm Provenance: collection Count Hubert Ludwig de la Fontaine and d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt (1789-1846), from 1826 at Hrotovice Castle, Trebic, Czech Republic; purchased in 1836 with the entire collection and the castle by Georg Simon von Sina (1783-1856); transferred around 1847 by his son Simon Sina to Mysliborice Castle, Trebic, Czech Republic; by inheritance, in 1876, to Simon's daughter Iphigenie Sina (1847-1914), Duchess of Castries, sold in 1882 to Baron Anton Dreher of Schwechat; Mysliborice Castle; Antiqua auction sale, Prague, 1921, n° 12 (Italian Master of the 16th century)
Heutink Ikonen
Deesis and Apostle row (four panels) Asia Minor, possibly Smyrna (now Izmir), 17th century Egg tempera with gold leaf on a wooden panel surfaced with gesso and linen 28 x 59 cm, 27.5 x 92 cm, 27 x 102 cm, 27.5 x 67.5 cm A very rare and monumental Deësis ('intercession'), originally a Byzantine composition, in which Christ is depicted centrally as a judge while a number of selected saints are facing him in supplication. In this case, Christ is flanked by the Mother of God and John the Forerunner (the Baptist), with the Apostles at some distance from them. Remarkably, the apostles are not all positioned adjacent to each other, but are interspersed with ornamentation. The panels formed a part of the templon of a modest iconostasis of a church in the region of Asia Minor, possibly from the vicinity of Smyrna (present-day Izmir), where they were displayed directly above the royal doors.
VKD Jewels
gold, diamond, ruby and sapphire earclips
Van Cleef & Arpels Pair of 18k gold earclips, each set with three small flower elements of diamonds, rubies and sapphires France, circa 1960 Signed VCA USA, Made in France, 750, French assay marks for gold and numbered 18695 Provenance: private collection
Zebregs&Röell Fine Art and Antiques
Indo-Portuguese colonial mother-of-pearl veneered casket with silver mounts India, Gujarat, 2nd half of the 16th century, the silver mounts Goa or probably Lisbon H 16 x W 24.6 x D 16.1 cm An exceptional Gujarati casket with a rectangular box and truncated pyramidal lid (with slopes on each side and a flat top) made from exotic wood, probably teak (Tectona grandis), covered with a mother-of-pearl mosaic. The tesserae, cut from the shell of the green turban sea snail (Turbo marmoratus, a marine gastropod) in the shape of fish scales, are pinned to the wooden structure with silver ball-headed nails. The casket is set on bracket feet on the corners. The masterfully engraved decoration of the silver mounts follows the most refined and erudite Mannerist repertoire of rinceaux and ferroneries dating from the mid-sixteenth century. The high quality and refinement of the silver mounts and, likewise, the silver nails that replaced the original brass pins used to hold the mother-of-pearl tesserae in place indicate the work of a silversmith probably working in Lisbon in the second half of the sixteenth century. The Indian origin of this production, namely from Cambay (Khambhat) and Surat in the present state of Gujarat in north India, has been consensual and fully demonstrated for the last three decades, not only by documentary and literary evidence - such as descriptions, travelogues and contemporary archival documentation - but also by the survival in situ of sixteenth-century wooden structures covered in mother-of-pearl tesserae. A fine example is a canopy decorating the tomb (dargah) of the Sufi saint, Sheik Salim Chisti (1478-1572) in Fatehpur Sikri in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, north India. This is an artistic production, geometric in character and Islamic in nature, where usually the mother-of-pearl tesserae form complex designs of fish scales or, similar to the dishes also made using the same technique with thin brass sheets and pins, stylised lotus flowers. The truncated pyramidal shape corresponds, like their contemporary tortoiseshell counterparts also made in Gujarat, to a piece of furniture used in the Indian subcontinent within the Islamic world prior to the arrival of the first Portuguese. This shape is very old and specific to East-Asian caskets, chests or boxes used to contain and protect Buddhist texts, the sutras. A similar chest is the famous and large reliquary chest from Lisbon Cathedral that once contained the relics of the city's patron saint, Saint Vincent. Both match in shape, having the same kind of pedestal and bracket feet, and in their engraved silver mountings, featuring the same type of refined, erudite decoration. Their differences lie in the silver borders that frame the entire length of the edges of the chest (both the box and the lid), pinned with silver nails, and on the lock plate, shaped like a coat of arms in the Lisbon example. Given the exceptional dimensions of the reliquary casket from Lisbon Cathedral (48 x 65 x 42 cm), the goldsmith responsible for its mounting opted to place two bracket-shaped side handles instead of a top handle, as in our casket. Another similar example, probably mounted in the same Lisbon workshop as the other examples from this small group, belongs to the Seville Cathedral and still needs to be discovered. It shares many features in common with the one in the Lisbon cathedral, namely the use of engraved silver borders running along the edges, protecting the casket. An aspect that distinguished it from the others is the use of tesserae cut from Turbo marmoratus, which show a higher iridescence but also cut from the shell of the pearl oyster, probably Pinctada radiata or Pinctada maxima, given the whitish hue of the base colour. Nevertheless, the type of square-like lock plate is similar to our casket. Another example, slightly larger but with fewer silver mounts, is in the collection of the Kunstkammer Wien in the Kunsthistorischen Museums in Vienna (inv.no. GS Kap 5) and belonged to the Habsburger Family. The same type of large silver ball-headed nails seems to be characteristic of this small, rare and important group, of which the present example is the second known example in private hands, given that the others have been in their current place since the time they entered their collections in the late sixteenth century or the first years of the seventeenth century.
Florian Kolhammer
franz hagenauer
Franz Hagenauer (Vienna, 1906-1986) Pair of head sculptures, circa 1981 Designed by Franz Hagenauer and executed by Werkstatte Hagenauer Wien Cast, soldered, nickel-plated and polished brass H 46 x W 49.5 x D 11 cm Each sculpture is marked 'FRANZ', 'Handmade', 'HAGENAUER/WIEN', 'MADE IN/AUSTRIA' and 'wHw' in the circle Literature: Photograph of the female head in the Archiv Hagenauer in the Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, inv. n° HAF 1188
Röbbig München
nicolas petit (1732–1791, maître in 1761)
Nicolas Petit (France, 1732-1791) Ormolu mounted floral marquetry table "en chiffonnière" Paris, Louis XV/Louis XVI (Transition) period, circa 1770 H 68.5 x W 32.5 x D 25.5 cm Stamped 'N.PETIT' maître in 1761 and 'JME' Provenance: the Lesley and Emma Sheafer collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
Floris van Wanroij Fine Art
adriaen van ostade
Adriaen van Ostade (Haarlem, 1610-1685) Interior of a barn with peasants-An allegory of smell Oil on panel 17 x 24 cm Signed and dated middle centre: Av ostade 1637 Provenance: private collection; Floris van Wanroij Fine Art; private collection, Remscheid, Germany Literature: Krol, A.E., Musée de l’Ermitage. Peinture de l’Europe occidentale. Leningrad (Hermitage), 1981, vol. II, p. 155 In his charming and amusing painting Adriaen van Ostade, like his contemporaries David Teniers the Younger and Adriaen Brouwer, depicted a scene from the everyday life of the peasant classes. At the same time it forms an allegory, that of the sense of smell. A variation on this composition by Van Ostade is kept in the collection of the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg (inv. n° 999)
Floris van Wanroij Fine Art
Relief with the The Flight into Egypt and Miracles during the Journey (Matthew 2:13) Low countries, possibly Antwerp, Renaissance, last quarter of the 16th century, circa 1590 Pear-wood, carved in high relief, on later brass base H 19.6 x W. 16.8 cm (excl. base) Provenance: Jan Dirven Works of Art, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; collection Dreesmann-Houtkooper, The Netherlands; thence by decent private collection, Breda, The Netherlands Literature: Schuckman, Christiaan (1996). Hollstein's Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, vol. XLIV: Maarten De Vos. Rotterdam, p. 65, cat. n° 263 This relief, probably carved in Antwerp, is based on a design by the influential Renaissance artist Maerten de Vos (Antwerp, 1532-1603). The original drawing is kept now in the collection of the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig (inv./cat. n° Z. 1086) and is dated shortly before 1579. The drawing was published in engraving by Johannes Sadeler I, as the eighth prints of a twelve-part series on the birth and the first years of Christ. The series was published between 1579-1582 and the current sculpture probably originated shortly afterwards, ca. 1590, which indicates a date of the current sculpture around 1590. The Flight the Holy Family to Egypt, here represented as Joseph on foot and Mary sitting on a donkey with the Christ Child in her arms was, according to tradition, surrounded by miracles. At the top right in a chapel on a tree, a statue of a pegan god breaks in two. At the top left a group of accompanying Angels in the Heavens is depicted and trees bow down their branches in reverence to Christ.
Galerie Kevorkian
mughal art / art moghol
Portrait of nawab 'Ali Mardan Khan Mughal art Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, gold speckled margins Illuminated panel written in nasta'liq script: 'tasvir-e nawab 'Ali Mardan Khan' Mughal India, 18th century Folio: 32 x 22.8 cm, painting: 21 x 12.4 cm Provenance: probably collection of Sir Elijah Impey, chief justice of Bengal from 1774 to 1789; former collection of Jean Pozzi (1884-1967), French diplomat and collector; French private collection (1975-2000) Exhibition: Indian and Oriental Miniatures, Palais Galliera, Paris, 5 December 1970, n° 24
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Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery
tom wesselmann
Tom Wesselmann (Cincinnati 1931-2004 New York) Monica nude in robe and stockings (Var #8), 1986 Enamel on laser-cut steel H 83.5 x W 168 cm Signed, dated and titled on verso Provenance: OK Harris Gallery, New York; private collection, USA Literature: Tom Wesselmann: a Pop Art Legend, Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery, Knokke, 2023, ill.
Galerie Bertrand de Lavergne
Set of seven Chinese pendants for Court Ladies Turquoise, agate, amethyst, carnelian, smoked and citrinated rock crystal, jadeite and bi-colored tourmaline depicting a goddess, different animals, fruits or aquatic plants, some with their original mounts China, late Qing dynasty (1644-1912) From 4 to 5.5 cm
Univers du Bronze
François Pompon (Saulieu 1855-1933 Paris) Bust of André Leproust, 1904 Salon des Artistes français in 1904, n° 3228 Original plaster H 57.4 x W 22.5 x D 22.8 cm Unique piece signed 'F Pompon', dated '1904' Circa 1904 The bust of Pompon is the original plaster cast exhibited at the Salon in 1904 and is one of the rare examples of Pompon's 'classical' work just before he became the animal sculptor we know today. this work is in the same spirit as Cosette that was exhibited two years ago at BRAFA, a model with which he hoped to achieve great success in the late 1880s. André Leproust's bust is particularly modern, with its contrast between the very pure face and the lower part of the bust, where the material is very present. The flowers evoke both the innocence of the young boy and the Eure countryside where the model lived. Finally, the very narrow cut-out at the bottom of the bust lends a greater verticality and contributes to this modern élan.
Victor Werner
camille marc sturbelle
Camille Marc Sturbelle (Brussels 1873-1944 Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe) Pair of outdoor sculptures of shepherd dogs, 1925 Bronze with green patina The dog in a standing position is signed and dated Sturbelle, 1925 - H 88 x W 115 x D 37 cm The dog in a seated position is signed and dated Sturbelle, 1902 - H 113 x W 59 x D 37 cm Both sculptures bear the name of the foundry Fonderie Nationale Des Bronzes, St. Gilles Bruxelles Provenance: private collection Literature: Pas, W. & G., ARTO 2000 Biografisch Lexicon Plastische Kunst in België, p. 370; Museum: A bronze sculpture made by the same artist (depicting an English bulldog) can be found in the collection of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA)