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Galerie Raf Van Severen
tsuguharu foujita
Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (Tokyo 1886-1968 Zurich) Les Deux Amies, 1920 Mixed media on canvas 46.5 x 38.5 cm Signed in the bottom right in Japanese: T. Foujita Signed and dated at the back Provenance: label from Maison Manteau on the back; collection van Buuren; private collection, Belgium Literature: Lechien-Durant, F., Le musée David et Alice van Buuren. Maison de mémoire, Brussels, 1995, p. 100 (repr.) This work will be included in the forthcoming fourth volume of the Catalogue Raisonné of Foujita's work currently being prepared by Sylvie Buisson under the n° B 20.031.H. Exhibitions: 1927, Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, n°4, Deux femmes I.; 1995, Antwerp, Campo Vlaamse Kaai, Autour de Gustave Van de Woestyne, Réserve du Musée David et Alice van Buuren
Art et Patrimoine - Laurence Lenne
Large ceremonial covered vase Castelli, first half of the 18th century Polychrome tin-glazed earthenware H 52.5 cm It depicts an animated landscape representing a camp of Roman soldiers Literature: Fernando Filipponi, Aurelio Anselmo Grue. La Maiolica nel Settecento fra Castelli e Atri, Ed. Verdone, 2015; Luciana Arbace, Francesco Antonio Saverio Grue (1686-1746). L'attivita del Dottore maiolicaro da Castelli a Napoli, Ed. Andromeda, 2005
Victor Werner
carl max kruse
Carl Max Kruse (Berlin, 1854-1942) Messenger of Victory on Marathon, circa 1900 Life-size bronze with green patina of an athlete carrying the Olympic palm H 210 x W 120 x D 50 cm Signed Max Kruse Literature: Amtsblatt Lutherstadt Eisleben, ill. p.17; Carl-Peter Steinmann: Sonntagsspaziergänge 2. Entdeckungen in Charlottenburg, Friedrichshain, Gesundbrunnen, Grunewald, Karlshorst, Prenzlauer Berg, Transit Verlag Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-88747-286-3; Fritz Stahl: Max Kruse. Wasmuth, Berlin 1924 Other examples can be found in the collection of the museum 'Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin', in Lutherstadt Eisleben (a town in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt) and at the sports facility in 'Gladbacher Straße', Krefeld (a town in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia)
Galerie Van den Bruinhorst
William Hendrik Gispen (Amsterdam 1890-1981 The Hague) Saturnuslamp, Giso n° 2055, 1931 Executed by N.V. Gispen, Culemborg The Netherlands, 1945-1957 Matte brass nickel-plated pendant with an opal glass sphere and two frosted glass discs with bright edges H 105 x Ø 60 cm William Hendrik Gispen was a Dutch designer and manufacturer of modernist furniture and lighting. He was an important representative of the functionalist movement, promoting and selling modern interior designs at the beginning of the 20th century through his salesrooms in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Paris, London and Nottingham. This design was introduced in his lighting-catalogue 29 as n° 66 in 1931. It changed to no. 2055 in 1936, and later on the pendant was called ‘Saturnuslamp’ which means ‘Saturn-lamp’. The possibility to move around the world at high speed in cars, planes, trains but also rockets and space traveling were an inspiration for designers creating futuristic designs at the beginning of the 20th century. W.H. Gispen designed a lamp with two glass disks around an opal glass sphere that looks like the planet Saturn. Lighting by W.H. Gispen is part of the permanent collections of The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, V&A Museum London, The MOMA in New York and the MFAH in Houston USA.
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)
Chambre professionnelle belge de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne (CLAM)
Jean Clair, Considérations sur l’état des beaux-arts. Critique de la modernité. Paris, Gallimard, 16 février 1983, 8to, semi-flexible bluish-grey calf boards with sanded flower (found as such) with sharp edges in head and tail and bordered at edge with a strip in black elephant skin. Relief strip at the joints of the same calf skin, printed with the burnt vein of a pine board, attached with stainless steel eyelets. Board on two thongs of black elephant skin. Grey faux lizard spine cover, natural edges (J. de Gonet, dated 1984) First edition This essay by Jean Clair (Paris, 1940) is the first true critique of artistic modernity. There was no large paper edition. The copy is dedicated by the author to the aesthete and music lover Claude Bernard (1939-2022): Pour Claude Bernard, Ces Essais, au Prince des perversions, à l’aimable tyran des peintres et au dernier des grands mécènes, dont le règne s’étend de la Rue à l’empire des Beaux-Arts, en espérant qu’ils affirmeront son pouvoir, et en hommage très cordial Jean Clair 17 juil. LXXXIII To Claude Bernard, These Essays, to the Prince of perversions, to the amiable tyrant of painters and to the last of the great patrons, whose reign extends from the Rue to the empire of Fine Arts, hoping that they will assert his power, and in very cordial homage Jean Clair 17 July LXXXIII And with a watercolour by Sam Szafran (1934-2019), signed and dedicated to Claude Bernard, with whom he exhibited for the first time in 1965, an event organised by Jacques Kerchache (1942-2001). His encounters with Kerchache, Jean Clair and Claude Bernard profoundly influenced his life as a painter. Claude Bernard seemed to enjoy bookbinding and commissioned works to Jean de Gonet and Monique Mathieu. Watercolour: 203 x 197 mm Provenance: Claude Bernard, Paris Literature: Le Bars (F.), Jean de Gonet. Catalogue raisonné, t. II, 1983-1993, 0379 (from which the description of the binding was borrowed) Librairie Lardanchet, Antiquarian bookseller
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde
jean brusselmans
Jean Brusselmans (Brussels 1884-1953 Dilbeek) Les Roses, 1948 Oil on canvas 122.5 x 112.5 cm Signed and dated lower right: Jean Brusselmans 1948 Literature: La Collection Tony Herbert, Brussel, 1957, n° 51; Robert-L Delevoy, Jean Brusselmans, ed. Laconti 1972, p. 403 n° 568 ill.; Dirk De Vos, Retrospectieve Jean Brusselmans, Groeningenmuseum, 1980; Hans Janssen, Jean Brusselmans 1884-1953, Den Haag, 2018, p 115 ill. Exhibitions: Den Haag, Groningen, Charleroi, Oostende, Hasselt, Gent, Collection Tony Herbert, 1957; Luxemburg, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Collection Tony Hebert, 1963; Brussels, Paleis van Schone Kunsten, n° 53, 1979; Brugge, Groeningenmuseum, 1980, retrospectieve Jean Brusselmans, 1980; Den Haag, Jean Brusselmans 1884-1953, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2018
Finch & Co
Headrest Kali Hahapo Patinated wood, sennet (coconut fibre), glass beads Tonga, late 18th-early 19th century H 19 x W 53 cm Provenance: Captain A.W.F. Fuller (1882-1961) given to Dr Roland Force, in recognition of Force’s work in cataloguing the Fuller collection (see below); Julian Harding collection; Wayne Heathcote; Patricia Withers collection (1934-1998), London; Sotheby’s London, 1988; Nasser Gallery, 2010; private collection Literature: The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection, 2010, p. 246, ill. 146; The Fuller Collection of Pacific Artefacts, Lund Humphries, London, 1971; Pierre Loos, Bayet et Caltaux, La tête dans les étoiles. Appuis-nuque d’Afrique et d’ailleurs, BRUNEAF, 2012, p. 157 Exhibition: BRUNEAF, Bruxelles, Belgium, La tête dans les étoiles. Appuis-nuque d'Afrique et d’ailleurs, 6-10 June 2012 A comparable example in the Tongan National Museum, Tofoa. Also several neck-rests part of the collections in the National Museum of Australia, Canberra (inv. Oz 347 and inv. Oz 348) Of elegant arching form and carved in one piece from a dense, fine grained wood, possibly ‘Intsia bijuga’. Neck-rests of this type were used in Tonga as pillows to ensure that the elaborate coiffure of the owner would not be disturbed during sleep. ‘Kali’ acquired ‘mana’ (the spiritual force) by repeated contact with the owner’s head and in the case of a chief became objects of great prestige. This example, from the renowned Captain Fuller collection, is exceptional for the elegance and purity of its form, especially evident in the strongly curved legs ending in subtle horizontal flange feet. To each end of the ‘cross-bar’ glass beads have been inserted to enhance the decorative appeal and importance of this piece. In the opinion of George Ortiz no civilisation has equalled the Pacific Islanders’ superb furniture and domestic objects. Writing of Tongan neck-rests the great connoisseur of Polynesian Art Edward Dodd said: ‘What wonderful springing forms!’ For a comparable neck-rest (no. 689) in the James Hooper collection. Of classic Tongan form, it was however collected at Mbau, Fiji, in 1865. Compare also two ‘kali’ previously in the Fuller collection ( n° 274498 and 274499) and now in the Field Museum, Chicago.
Herwig Simons Fine Arts
Sculpture representing Emperor Augustus of Prima Porta Italy, 19th century Bronze, roso levanto and nero Belgio marble base, smooth medal patina H 110 cm Signed by the foundry A. Röhrich Roma The original statue was discovered on April 20, 1863, during archaeological excavations directed by Giuseppe Gagliardi at the Villa of Livia owned by Augustus' third and final wife, Livia Drusilla in Prima Porta. The Augustus of Prima Porta is now displayed in the Braccio Nuovo (New Arm) of the Vatican Museums.
Serge Schoffel - Art Premier
Bamileke Ku n'gan society mask Cameroon, 19th-early 20th century Wood, hair, cowrie shells, St. Christopher's medal H 33 cm (with the hair: circa 110 cm) Provenance: collected in situ circa 1960 by Klaus Paysan, photographer and author from Stuttgart, Germany (1930-2011); the mask was a gift from King Fon Happi III of Bana; Boris Kegel-Konietzko, Hamburg, Germany Literature: published in Kosmos magazine, 1961
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Stern Pissarro Gallery
yayoi kusama
Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, 1929) Fire (3), 1952 Gouache and pastel on paper 27.7 x 20.3 cm Signed, titled and dated 1952 on the reverse This work is accompanied by a registration card issued by Kusama Enterprise, Tokyo Provenance: Christiaan Paul Damsté, Amsterdam, gifted from the artist; private collection, London; Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco; private collection, Canada; private collection, Japan
Dr. Nöth kunsthandel + galerie
lotte laserstein
Lotte Laserstein (Preußisch Holland/Königsberg 1898-1993 Kalmar/Sweden) Young couple turned to the left (The Neumans), 1970 Oil on canvas 49 x 59 cm Signed and dated upper left: Lotte Laserstein 1970 Provenance: purchased directly from the artist by the present owner
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
Galerie des Modernes
paul delvaux
Paul Delvaux (Belgium, Antheit 1897-1994 Veurne) Les deux Amies, 1972 Watercolour and ink on paper 35.5 x 27 cm Signed and dated lower right: P. DELVAUX 1972 Certificate of authenticity from Mr. Charles Van Deun of the Foundation Paul Delvaux Provenance: private collection, Brussels, acquired directly from the artist; Galerie Eric Gillis Fine Art, Belgium; private collection, France © Foundation Paul Delvaux, Belgium/SABAM, 2023
Costermans & Pelgrims de Bigard
ernest louis jean cremer
Ernest Louis Jean Cremer (France, 1731-1793) Mahogany quartet table, circa 1780 Louis XVI period H 74.5 x W 53.5 x D 38 cm Stamped by Cremer, received Master on July 13, 1777 Literature: P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle, Les Editions de l'Amateur 2008, p. 218
