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Herwig Simons Fine Arts
Large Siena marble models from the Roman Forum Rome, circa 1800 H 87 cm Provenance: former noble collection, The Netherlands Fine and unusual large grand tour Siena marble models of the Temple of Castor and Pollux, and the Temple of Vespasian, from the Roman forum. Made as souvenirs for visitors on the Grand Tour in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde
wassily kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow 1866-1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine) Kleine Welten, 1922 The Little Worlds consists of twelve prints, including six colour lithographs, four etchings (drypoint), and two woodcuts on Japanese paper, accompanied by a title page and a colophon page Each print is signed and numbered on the colophon page 30/30 (12 prints) 36.4 x 27.8 cm (sheet size) Produced in 1922, this is one of 30 deluxe copies on Japanese paper, published by Propyläen Verlag, Berlin, and printed at the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar Literature: Hans Konrad Roethel, 'Kandinsky: Das Graphische Werk', Dumont, Cologne, 1970, ill. pp. 164-175; Helmut Friedel et Annegret Hoberg, Kandinsky. 'Das druckgraphische Werk, Complete Prints, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau', Munich, 2008-2009, ill. pp. 225-23
Gilden's Art Gallery
Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh 1928-1987 New York) Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup Box, 1986 Acrylic and ink on canvas 50.8 x 50.8 cm Signed in felt tip pen 'Andy Warhol' and dated '86' [1986] on the upper canvas overlap, verso Stamped by the Andy Warhol Authentication Board and numbered in ballpoint pen A104.056, on the lower canvas overlap, verso Provenance: Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles; private collection, Arizona; Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York; Demisch Danant, New York; private collection, Atlanta; Sotheby’s New York, May 13th, 2010, lot 191; private collection, Hong Kong; Christie’s Shanghai, September 21st, 2019, lot 310; private collection, Asia Literature: exh. cat. (1986), Warhol. Campbell’s Soup Boxes 1986, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, reference n° 153, pp. 19, 30, ill. in colour
Galerie Jean-François Cazeau
martial raysse
Martial Raysse (Nice, 1936) Green on green, 1964 Spray paint, xerography, collage, oil and cardboard mounted on canvas 33 x 22 x 7 cm Signed Martial Raysse, dated 64 and titled Green on green (on the reverse) This work is registered in the inventory 'l'Oeuvre de Martial Raysse' under n° IMR-0193 Provenance: William Copley collection, USA; Christie's, New York, Contemporary Art - Including property from the collection of William Copley, 8 November 1993, lot 8; private collection, Paris; acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibition: New York, Galerie Luxembourg & Dayan, Martial Raysse: 1960-1974, 11 May-13 July 2013
Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery
Hans Hartung (Leipzig 1904-1989 Antibes) P1971-20, 1971 Crayon and acrylic on baryta board 50 x 73 cm Signed and dated lower right This work is registered in The Hans Hartung and Anna-Eva Bergman Foundation archive with number P1971-20 and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Hans Hartung Provenance: Galerie Ludorff, Germany; Sotheby's London, July 2020; private Collection, Brussels; acquired from the above by the present owner
Van Pruissen Asian Art
yoshitsugu
Hattori Taira Yoshitsugu Yagami School Tsuba with 'Thousand Monkeys' Carved iron Japan, late 18th century Ø 7.1 cm Signed 'Yoshitsugu' An iron tsuba intricately carved in openwork (nikubori ji-sukashi) with a lively multitude of monkeys, including the famous Three Wise Monkeys. Their eyes and the rim are accented in gold using nunome-zōgan. The maker, Hattori Taira Yoshitsugu, was a pupil of Yagami school founder Noda Mitsuhiro and teacher of Onitake Toshiyoshi. The Yagami school, active in Nagasaki in the late 18th century, is renowned for its 'Thousand Monkeys' motif, as also seen in a comparable example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. n° 91.1.751).
Galerie Alexis Pentcheff
pierre bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (Fontenay-aux-Roses 1867-1947 Le Cannet) Promenade à Paris, circa 1911 Oil on canvas 40 x 60 cm Estate stamp lower left Provenance: collection of Pierre and Marie-Françoise Vernon Literature: Dauberville Jean et Henry, Bonnard, Vol. IV, Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, 1974, repr. p. 312 under n° 01992 Exhibitions: Pierre Bonnard, A. Tooth & Sons, London, 17 June-12 July 1969, repr. in exh. cat. n° 8; Matisse e Bonnard. Viva la pittura!, Rome, 2006, repr. in exh. cat. (ed. Skira) p. 340 under n° 125; Bonnard, Le Cannet, une évidence, Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet, 2020, repr. in exh. cat. p. 42 The creation of this work by Pierre Bonnard reminds us that the artist was also a photographer, experimenting with daring compositions. Though his painting captures the fleeting moment, it shares little with the tentative realism of early photography. Made entirely of color and sensation, it constructs a fragile world of subtle harmony. Just before embracing the South - before letting the Mediterranean light burst into color across his canvases - Bonnard explored a quieter, more muted sensuality in the early 1910s, while working in a studio in Paris, not far from the avenue depicted here. The “very Japanese Nabi,” as his friends from the group of his youth liked to call him, knew how to let color whisper on the canvas, how to conjure the intimacy of a letter. On one side of the painting, cool tones — blues and violets placed side by side - contrast with the russet hues of this autumnal Parisian avenue, bringing to the foreground, beneath a hat bathed in light like a reinvented halo, the lowered face of a woman reading. Her eyes are hidden, absorbed in the text. Though she has removed her gloves, she surely no longer feels the sharp chill of that November afternoon… Elegant silhouettes glide through the landscape; yet they endure — along with this hat-wearing heroine - on our retinas and in our memories, as companions to a shared intimacy, lasting only the time it takes to read a love letter. Unseen on the art market since the 1960s, this painting has been shown in several museum exhibitions, the most recent in 2020 at the Musée du Cannet, dedicated to the artist.
Francis Janssens van der Maelen
Maurice Daurat (Bordeaux 1880-1969 Meulan-en-Yvelines) Art Deco table centrepiece Paris, circa 1927-1931 Sterling silver, Macassar ebony, marble H 42.5 x W 104 x D 20 cm This striking early 20th century French silver and alabaster centrepiece on a Macassar ebony base is a superb example of Art Deco design. Designed by Maurice Daurat in Paris, circa 1927-1931. Maurice Daurat was famous for his limited editions and large commissioned works. His style is characterised by geometrical, strict shaping, emphasising volume and material.
Objects With Narratives
ben storms
Ben Storms (Ghent, 1983) Crushed room divider, 2024 H 195 x W 160 x D 45 cm Stainless steel, gold leaf Provenance: the artist's studio The purpose of this volume is deliberately ambiguous. The object is primarily sculptural, a monumental entity that redefines a space. Yet in doing so, it also reveals its potential function. In the way that the work structures a space, it turns out to be a divider that demarcates and defines compartments or areas. The starting point for this room divider and sculpture is essentially a provisional form. A composition of several sheets of metal welded together with air in between - think of Ben’s In Hale series, but in a different sense. The actual form is then created by subjecting this makeshift composition to external forces, crushing the surfaces until the volume finds its current state.
Galerie Alexis Bordes
paolo anesi
Paolo Anesi (Rome, 1697-1773) View of the Ponte Cestio from the Tiber island Oil on canvas 28 x 48 cm Provenance: anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Maître Baudoin), May 31st, 1919, lot n° 98 (Vanvitelli, View of a city-houses rise on both banks of a river crossed by a stone bridge. In the foreground, on the ground to the right, a fragment of a fluted column and a broken capital); private collection, France Literature: Olivier Michel, Biographical Research on Paolo Anesi, in Publications de l'École Française de Rome, Vivre à peindre à Rome au XVIIIe siècle, vol. 217, 1996, pp. 319–334 Praised during his lifetime as one of the most brilliant vedute painters of the eighteenth century in Italy, Paolo Antonio Anesi nevertheless remains a figure whose life and work are still little studied. Active in Rome, Anesi never left his native city. The panoramas offered by its hills provided him with a multitude of striking viewpoints. The Aventine, one of Rome’s seven hills, appears to have been a favourite subject. To produce his painting, Anesi positioned himself on the Isola Tiberina, a small island in the middle of the Tiber, connected to the left bank by the Ponte Cestio and to the right bank by the Ponte Fabricio.
Stone Gallery
Quartz crystal cluster Weight: 350 kg 87 x 135 x 75 cm Origin: quarries of Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA, discovered in 1993 Provenance: Paul Membrini collection until 2023 Rock crystal is the crystallised, colourless variety of quartz, also known as clear quartz. All the crystals with their countless facets are 100% natural. With its transparent and colourless appearance, it is revered for its purity and clarity. This giant group of quartz crystals weighs approximately 350kg and is 87 x 135 x 75 cm. It displays remarkably perfect and water-clear crystals on all sides. Discovered in one of the famous crystal quarries of Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA, in 1993. The piece was once part of the Membrini Collection from Switzerland, a phenomenal museum-quality crystal collection, meticulously assembled over the years by Membrini Kristall, a firm based in Chur, Switzerland. Founder Paul Membrini was a renowned “strahler,” a professional crystal hunter who explored the Alps. Stone Gallery acquired the Membrini Collection in early 2023. Martin Garrix Stone Gallery proudly announces that the larger sibling of this piece, a great cluster weighing an impressive 4500 lbs, is now on display at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, in part thanks to Dutch DJ Martin Garrix.
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Galerie Jean-François Cazeau
zao wou-ki
Zao Wou-Ki (China, Beijing 1920-2013 Nyon, Switzerland) Untitled (Composition), 1978 Ink on paper 70 x 70 cm Dedicated, dated and signed on the lower bord Certificate from the Zao Wou-Ki Foundation Provenance: the artist's studio, Paris; Robert Rousseau collection, Belgium, gift from the artist (curator of the Zao Wou-Ki monographic exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi in 1980); private collection by descent, Belgium
Finch & Co
Turned standing cup and cover on knopped foot Germany, late Renaissance, first half 17th century Rhinoceros horn and ivory, old smooth patina, age cracks to foot H 33 cm - Ø 11 cm Belgium CITES: 2025/BE01678/CE Provenance: Finch and Co, item n° 77, catalogue n° 20, summer 2013; private collection Comparative literature: a cup and cover of similar shape engraved with the inscription ‘the exalted Roman Emperor Rudolf II’s goblet which protects against poison – the unconquerable Emperor’s hand shaped this ingenious goblet’ D 406.766 / 339 Royal Danish Kunstkammer, Copenhagen, National Museum A fine and large late Renaissance turned standing cup and cover on knopped foot of impressive size The Milanese master instructor of turning Giovanni Ambrogio Maggiore visited Bavaria on various occasions between 1574 and 1593 to teach the Duke Wilhelm this newly invented form of art, creating marvellous objects from natural substances. Maggiore also trained the artist Georg Wecker who went on to become Dresden’s ‘court turner for life’ to the elector Augustus of Saxony in 1578. Regarded at the time as a form of advanced mechanical technology, the art of turning in ivory, ebony and rhinoceros horn became a princely pastime for ‘Drechselnder souverän’. Rhinoceros horn objects were regarded as items of great rarity and prestige in Renaissance Europe, but they had been seen as objects of great value with inherent magical properties for well over one thousand years before this time in China, and by the early 17th century Chinese cups and vessels of carved rhino horn were being exported to Europe to meet the demand for exotic curiosities for the cabinets of wealthy collectors.
De Jonckheere
pieter brueghel the younger
Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Brussels 1564-1638 Antwerp) The Payment of the Tithe or the Village Lawyer, 1622 Oil on panel 78.9 x 123.2 cm Signed and dated: P. BREVGHEL, 1622 Provenance: private collection, Belgium; Galerie Legenhoek, Paris, 1991; private collection, France Literature: Ertz, Klaus, Pieter Brueghel der Jüngere: Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog, Lingen, Luca Verlag, Vol. I, 2000, p. 513, cat. E 507, repr.; Curie, Christina, Allart, Dominique, The Brue[H]el Phenomenon, Brussels, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, vol. III, p. 1030-1031 This Payment of the Tithe, or The Village Lawyer, is marked by Pieter Brueghel the Younger’s verve, meticulous execution, and vibrant colours. The satirical subject mocks the profession of the lawyer responsible for collecting the heavy tax that the poorest peasants struggled to pay. The grotesque faces of the petitioners, as well as the lawyer’s prognathous jaw - associating him with the Spanish authorities then in power - fascinate through their caricatural force. This original composition by Pieter Brueghel the Younger stimulated the market of the time, generating strong demand. The success of this still-relevant satire has endured to the present day.
Univers du Bronze
roger godchaux
Roger Godchaux (Vendôme 1878-1958 Paris) Toomai des éléphants or Le Retour de chasse au tigre (1928 or earlier) Circa 1932 H 57.5 x W 70.5 x D 22.7 cm Lifetime bronze signed 'Roger Godchaux' and numbered '2/15' Old edition by 'Susse Frères Éditeurs Paris' (mark and seal), inscribed 'cire perdue'
Grusenmeyer-Woliner
Portrait of a young boy Antonine Period, circa the end of the 2nd century Marble H 21 cm Provenance: Roger Peyrefitte (1907-2000) collection, Paris; sale of Roger Peyrefitte collection, Hôtel George V, Paris, 26 May 1977, lot n° 12; Art Market, 1978; Antiquities and Islamic Art, Sotheby’s, New York, 14 December 1993, lot n° 94; Dr. Anton Pestalozzi (1915-2007), Zurich, acquired from the previous owner; thence by descent Literature: Auction catalogue, Roger Peyrefitte Collection, Hôtel George V, Paris, May 26th, 1977, lot n° 12; Auction catalogue, Antiquities and Islamic Art, Sotheby’s, New York, December 14th, 1993, lot n° 94; I. Jucker, Skulpturen der Antiken-Sammlung Ennetwies, Mainz on the Rhine, 1995, Vol. 1, pp. 41-42, n° 24, pls. 49-50; K. Fittschen, Prinzenbildnisse Antoninischer Zeit, Mainz on the Rhine, 1999, p. 93, cat. n° 97