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HELENE BAILLY MARCILHAC
Henri Martin (Toulouse 1860-1943 Labastide-du-Vert) La terrasse de Marquayrol au soleil du matin Oil on original canvas 65.4 x 92.4 cm Signed lower left 'Henri Martin' This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Henri Martin’s work, currently in preparation by Marie-Anne Destrebecq-Martin
Galerie Cento Anni
Philippe Wolfers (Brussels, 1858-1929) Salomé Drapée, 1928 Bonze and marble base H 52.5 x W 49.5 x D 17.5 cm Signed 'Ph. Wolfers' Bears the foundry mark Montagutelli Provenance: Wolfers' family Literature: Werner Adriaenssens and Raf Steel, The Wolfers Dynasty, p. 426, n° 324 Exhibitions: Antwerp, 1929; Ghent, 1979
Floris van Wanroij Fine Art
Anna Ruysch (The Hague 1666-1754 Amsterdam) Flowers in a glass vase on a partly draped marble ledge Oil on canvas 47 x 37.5 cm Signed Anna Ruysch lower left The present picture is recorded at the RKD in The Hague under n° 194147 as by Anna Ruysch Provenance: sale Piasa, Paris, 27 July 2008, lot 16; Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 2008; Kunsthandel Xaver Scheidwimmer, Munich, 2009; private collection, Ohé en Laak, The Netherlands; thence by decent Exhibitions: Kunsthandel Xaver Scheidwimmer, TEFAF Maastricht, 13-22 March 2009; Rachel Ruysch. Artist, Naturalist and Pioneer (traveling exhibition) Munich, Alte Pinakothek, 26 november 2024-16 March 2025; Toledo OH, Toledo Museum of Art, 13 April-27 July 2025; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 23 August-7 December 2025 Literature: Schindler, R., Ebert, B. & Knaap, A. C. (2025). Rachel Ruysch. Nature into Art. Boston: MFA Publications, exh. cat., p. 24, ill. n° 12, identified as by Anna Ruysch
Galerie Perrin
Eduard Gaertner (Berlin 1801-1877 Flecken Zechlin) Rue Neuve, Notre Dame in Paris, 1826 Oil on canvas 44 x 34.5 cm (unframed) 65 x 54 cm (framed) Signed, located and dated lower right 'E. Gaertner fec / Paris 1826' Provenance: collection Jérôme Carcopino; thence by descent (in the same family)
Stern Pissarro Gallery
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Limoges 1841-1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer) Coco mangeant sa soupe, 1905 Oil on canvas 46.3 x 37.9 cm Signed lower right 'Renoir' Provenance: Ambroise Vollard, Paris; private collection, Zurich, circa 1930; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, March 1942 (on loan from a private collection); Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Los Angeles, 1943-1949; Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, 1953; Chapin and Mary Alexander Riley, Malibu/Worcester, acquired in 1953; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts (inventory n° 1991.238) (one third gifted in 1992 and a second third gifted in 1997) Literature: Principales acquisitions des musées en 1992, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1993, p. 65; Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. IV, 1903-1910, n° 3415, p. 435 Exhibitions: Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Vincent van Gogh en zijn Tijdgenooten, 1930, n° 269; San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery, 1942; Los Angeles, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Renoir (1841-1919), 1943, n° 5; Los Angeles, Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, A Superb Exhibition: Modern French Masters, 1949, p. 5 (travelled to New York, Barbizon Plaza Hotel); Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Renoir: Intimidad, 18 October 2016-22 January 2017, p. 149 (travelled to Bilbao, Museo de Gellas Artes de Bilbao, 7 February-15 May 2017)
Serge Schoffel - Art Premier
Ngoin mask Bamileke, Cameroon, 19th century Wood, pigments, crusty deposits H 65 x W 45 cm Provenance: Jacques Ulmann, Paris, France; Galerie Ratton-Hourdé, Paris, France; Michel Périnet, Paris, France; Christie’s Paris, Michel Périnet collection, on June 23rd, 2021, lot 59
Galerie Raf Van Severen
Jean Brusselmans (Brussels 1884-1953 Dilbeek) Decor for Erwartung, 1936 Mixed media on paper 60 x 90 cm Label at the back; Erwartung; Decor pour 'Erwartung', d’Arnold Schoenberg, 1936; Décor pour le 4e acte Literature: Paul Haesaerts, Jean Brusselmans, 1939, p. 67; Robert L. Delevoy, Jean Brusselmans: CR établi par Mme G. Brys-Schatan, 1972, 421.IV
Desmet Fine Art
Odoardo Fantacchiotti (Rome 1809-1877 Florence) Musidora, Firenze, 1859 Inspired by James Thomson’s poem ‘Summer’, originally published in 1727 Marble H 167.6 x W 49 x D 49 cm Plinth: H 95.3 x D 63 cm (at base) Total height: 262.9 cm Signed 'Per commis del meritis / ... / Odoardo Fantachiotti / Scolpiva in Firenze / l'anno 1859 Art Loss Register: S00258863 Provenance: commissioned by August Belmont (1813-1890) USA; Randall family, Clarendon Court (Newport, USA) Literature: Ricordi fotografici degli artisti contemporanei in Toscana: ‘La Musidora’(Firenze-1858); V. Lia Bernini, G. Moradei, Odoardo Fantacchiotti scultore (1811-1877): atti delle giornate di studio nel bicentenario della nascita 1811-2011, (Toscana 2021), Volume 227, pp. 37-41 Other verions: 1862, for Baron Belper, Edward Strutt (Israele collection); 1865, for the King of Portugal (Lisbon Palacio Nacional da Ajuda)
CKS Gallery
Sam Francis (San Mateo 1923-1994 Santa Monica) Composition, 1990 Acrylic and paper collage on paper 57.2 x 81.3 cm Stamped on the reverse with Sam Francis Estate logo stamp This work is registered in the archives of the Sam Francis Foundation under identification n° SF90-5PRS Provenance: private collection, the Netherlands; private collection, USA Exhibitions: St. Paul de Vence, Guy Pieters Gallery, Sam Francis, July-August 2003 (ill. in colour); Amsterdam, Museum Jan Van Der Togt, Sam Francis Remembering, November 2004-January 2005, pp. 138-139 (ill. in colour)
Stéphane Renard Fine Art
Maerten de Vos (Antwerp, 1532-1603) The Four Elements: Air, Earth, Water and Fire, 1579 Pen and brown ink wash on laid paper 10 x 13.8 cm (each drawing) The drawings of Earth, Water and Fire are signed and dated 1579 Provenance: private collection, Lyon, France These four previously unpublished drawings were used around 1585 to produce the series of four engravings by Johannes Sadeler (Hollstein 529-532). The success of this publication led, a few years later, to the production of a second, smaller series by Raphael Sadeler, Johannes’s brother (Hollstein Dutch and Flemish, Maerten de Vos, XLIV-XLVI, 1360-1364).
WHITFORD
Joseph Lacasse (Tournai 1894-1975 Paris) Dominante Rouge (Dia 385), 1948-1950 Oil on canvas 130 x 89 cm Signed and dated upper left Signed, dated and inscribed on reverse Lacasse estate inventory Dia n° 385 Certificate of authenticity issued by Mme Joostens-Koob Provenance: the estate of the artist
Chambre professionnelle belge de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne (CLAM)
Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881-1973 Mougins) and Hélène Parmelin (Nancy 1915-1998 Paris) Woman portrait in 'Les Dames de Mougins', 1965 Feltpen drawing on paper 29.8 x 27 cm Copy of the doctor René Gutmann Signed and dated 'pour mon cher ami Gutmann. Diego Picasso, le 8.11.65' Provenance: Dr. René-Albert Gutmann (1885-1981); thence by descent Librairie Lardanchet, Antiquarian bookseller
Alexis Lartigue
Victor Vasarely (1906-1997), Untitled, circa 1958, oil on masonite, signed, 120 × 100 cm Provenance: Private Collection, Unites States Christie’s Sale, London Lo Guidice Gallery, Chicago Sotheby's Sale, London Private Collection, London Christie’s Sale, London Galerie Zlotowski, Paris Private Collection, Europe Sotheby's Sale, Paris Private Collection, Switzerland Past exhibitions: - Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loans, 1970
Franck Anelli Fine Art
Secretary Charles Topino (1742-1803), master in 1773 Transition period Oak, Breccia marble top, bronze and marquetry in rosewood, amaranth, holly, sycamore, lemonwood, stained woods and tobacco wood H 139 x W 92 x D 38 cm Stamped TOPINO and bearing the Jurande hallmark Transition period secretary in wardrobe stamped Charles TOPINO (1742-1803) and Jurande hallmark. Rectangular in shape, the front uprights with cut sides, the front legs arched, the hind legs straight, the oak frame, it opens with a drawer, two leaves and a flap revealing a compartmentalized interior of seven drawers and four compartments. Top of breccia marble from Aleppo. Inlaid decoration in rosewood, amaranth, holly, sycamore, lemon tree, stained wood, tobacco wood, drawing lattices on the uprights and the upper drawer, those of the latter, embellished with flowers, and trompe-l'oeil on the front and on the sides, a decoration of garlands of oval cartouches of stylised acanthus leaves uniting the panels of the toilet seat and the leaves, each also presenting, in the upper part, a leafy garland that can be found on the side panels. The latter are decorated with two gadrooned urns close to the flowered vases of the leaves. The toilet seat has a trompe-l'oeil perspective decoration, an orangery whose open shutters give a glimpse of a wooded landscape in the distance, a perspective accentuated by the checkerboard paving, also present on the leaves. Eight boxes of fruit trees are spread around a table on which are placed two flowered vases and under which is a watering can. The interior reveals six side drawers in three rows, inlaid with a floral vase pattern, as well as a central drawer. Stamped TOPINO and hallmark of Jurande Charles TOPINO received master in 1773 The art of marquetry The bronzes are discreet on our desk and this is intended to give pride of place to marquetry, qualified as wooden painting. If it is possible and tempting - rightly to link a cabinetmaker to his marquetry and this is regularly the case for Topino whose utensil marquetry inspired by the borders of Chinese Coromandel lacquer screens of the time is a characteristic of the artist - it turns out that the models circulated and that inlaid panels could be used by the same circle of cabinetmakers. If the vases, potiches, flowers, utensils reproduced, invented, associated, allow us to recognize Topino's art, it should be noted that the framing motif made up of oval reserves with quartefeuilles and spandrels can be found on secretaries, a chest of drawers and a dressing table stamped Jacques Bircklé. By this same cabinetmaker, a secretary also presents the same vases present on our furniture. Very similar marquetry panels. both in their compositions and in their frames can be found on a chest of drawers attributed to Jacques Bircklé, illustrated in the book by Pierre Kjellberg, who also defines the paving pattern as Bircklé's 'almost exclusiveness'. our secretary thus witnessed the circulation of drawn or engraved models.
Galerie bei der Albertina ▪ Zetter
Adolf Loos (Brünn 1870-1933 Kalksburg) Lady's Writing Desk, around 1903/04 Softwood, oil varnish, brass fittings, writing inlay with new leather H 106 (with top) x H 80 (without top) x W 113 x D 67.5 cm Manufactured by Friedrich Otto Schmidt, Vienna Company stamp on the underside: Friedrich Otto Schmidt / Wien / 1 Singerstrasse 16 / Schmidt Miksa / Budapest / 5. Lipotkorut 4 Provenance: Private collection, Vienna Literature: Burkhardt Rukschcio/Roland Schachel, Adolf Loos. Leben und Werk, 1982, Salzburg/Vienna, ill. p. 115, n° 117 cf. Exhibition catalogue ‘Adolf Loos. Private Spaces’, Barcelona Design Museum, 2017, ill. p. 134 Exhibitions: Paris, ‘Adolf Loos – Exposition Du Cinquantenaire’, 1983; Karlsruhe, ‘Gründerzeit, Adolf Loos: Jahrhundertwende: Rückblick und Ausblick im Spiegel der Wiener Architektur’, 1987
Vagabond Antiques
Giocondo Albertolli (Bedano 1742-1839 Milan) (Attributed to) Milan, late 18th century Wall lights H 72 x W 45 x D 37 cm These elegant gilt-metal wall sconces are attributed to the Milanese architect, designer and ornamentist Giocondo Albertolli, one of the leading figures of Italian Neo-classicism. Their design closely relates to the engraved ornament published in Albertolli's celebrated pattern books, particularly Ornamenti Diversi (Milan, 1782), which played a central role in disseminating the new classical taste throughout Lombardy and Northern Italy. The sconces display many of the motifs associated with Albertolli's ornamental vocabulary, including scrolling acanthus brances, finely fluted candle sockets and radiating drip pans. Their unusually tall proportions and boldly projecting arms give them a distinctly sculptural character, creating a sense of movement and depth rarely encountered in wall lights of the period. The open voluted arms, enriched with naturalistic foliage, closely resemble a number of Albertolli's published designs for girandoles and wall lights. Born in Bedano, near Lugano, Albertolli settled in Milan in 1774 at the invitation of the architect Giuseppe Piermarini. As Professor of Ornament at the Brera Academy he exerted a profound influence on the decorative arts of Northern Italy, providing designs for architecture, furniture, metalwork and interior decoration. His published engravings became an important source for craftsmen working in the Neoclassical style throughout the late eighteenth century. The present sconces are attributed to Giocondo Albertolli and were almost certainly produced by craftsmen working within the circle of artists and decorators associated with him in late eighteenth century Milan. Their refined design and high quality of execution reflect the sophisticated decorative arts tradition that flourished in Lombardy during the Neoclassical period.
Stoppenbach & Delestre
Raoul Dufy (Le Havre 1877-1953 Forcalquier) Nu aux papillons, 1930 Watercolour on paper 26 x 51 cm Signed lower left Provenance: sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 February 1951, lot 31; thence by descent to the previous owner, France Literature: F. Guillon-Laffaille, Raoul Dufy, catalogue raisonné des aquarelles, gouaches et pastels, Vol. II, Editions Louis Carré & Cie, Paris, 1982, n° 1853, repr. b/w
Almine Rech
Farah Atassi (Brussels, 1981) The Shadow, 2026 Oil on canvas 195.3 x 114.3 cm Signed and dated on the back Provenance: the artist's studio Exhibitions: Farah Atassi, 'Metamorphosis', 26 June-31 July 2026, Almine Rech New York 'The Shadow' comes from a recent body of work in which Farah Atassi explored themes of metamorphosis and freedom. The central figure is a chimeric half woman-half flower that appears to flourish before our very eyes. Daphne - the nymph turned into a laurel tree to escape the god Apollo - comes to mind, a representation of transformation and transcendence. In 'The Shadow' the flower woman is organic, yet sculptural, retaining a distinct humanity that the artist has simplified, symbolised. While the composition is dreamlike and ethereal, a bold shadow brings a touch of realism, anchoring the twisting form to the pictorial plane. This work is a painting within a painting, a formal choice that allows Atassi to contrast two distinct realms while also interrogating the metamorphic potential of art. Notes of Magritte’s uncanny, atmospheric beauty emerge as the flower woman in 'The Shadow' is captured in the act of liberating herself from a canvas, striking out into the rosy dawn.
