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Willow Gallery
Eugène Boudin (Honfleur 1824-1898 Deauville) Pont sur La Touques, 1890 Oil on canvas, 46 x 66 cm - framed: 64 x 84 cm Signed, dated and inscribed lower left: Touques, E Boudin 90 Provenance: collection Panhard from 1899 Literature: Robert Schmit, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint d’Eugène; Boudin, Paris, 1973, vol. III, n° 3332, ill. p. 278, incorrectly dated 1894 Exhibition: Exposition des œuvres d’Eugène Boudin, Paris, École Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1899, n° 43 (label verso)
Galerie Florence de Voldère
Cornelis Van Cleve (et Atelier) (1527-Antwerp circa 1581) Adoration des Mages Oil on panel 101.5 x 77.5 cm Fils et élève du grand Maître Anversois Joos van Cleve (1485-1541), il a sans doute été très actif au sein de l’atelier paternel entre 1535 et 1540. Son style se rapprochant de celui de son père, il est encore difficile aujourd'hui pour certaines œuvres, de discerner la main du père de celle du fils. Maître à Anvers, il est doyen de la Gilde en 1541 au décès de Joos. Son caractère ombrageux et ses affinités protestantes le font quitter sa ville natale et émigrer en Angleterre où il recherche le patronage de Philippe II d’Espagne. Ses peintures sophistiquées et délicates témoignent aussi de l’influence de Léonard de Vinci. Cette composition dérive du tableau de Cornelis van Cleve aujourd’hui conservé au Musée des beaux-arts d’Anvers. MUSÉES: ANVERS, COLOGNE, DRESDE, PHILADELPHIE, ST P
Galerie Oscar De Vos
gustave van de woestyne
Gustave Van de Woestyne (Ghent 1881-1947 Brussels) Christ in the spring garden, 1907 Oil on board 58 x 40 cm Signed and dated top right: GUSTAVE / VAN DE WOESTYNE 1907 Provenance: René Van Herrewege, Ghent; André Vyncke-Van Eyck, Ghent; Galerie Vanlangenhove, Ghent; Galerie Oscar De Vos, Sint-Martens-Latem; private collection, Belgium Literature: Borchert e.a., Van Eyck. Een optische revolutie (2020), pp. 456-457, p. 497, cat. n° 19.9 (ill.); Boyens, Sint-Martens-Latem. Kunstenaarsdorp in Vlaanderen (1992), pp. 265-266; Boyens, Een zeldzame Weelde (2001), pp. 24-25, p. 69, p. 211, cat. n° 77 (ill.); Boyens, Symbolisme in Vlaanderen (2022), p. 70, n° 60 (ill.); De Geest e.a., Gustave Van de Woestyne 1881-1947 (1997), p. 107, cat. n° 7 (ill.); Gepts, Gustave Van de Woestyne 1881-1947 (1981), p. 76, cat. n° 6 (ill.); Haesaerts, L'Ecole de Laethem-Saint-Martin (1945), p. 162; Hoozee e.a., Gustave Van de Woestyne (2010), pp. 62-63, cat. n° 8 (ill.); Langui, Gustave Van de Woestyne (1967), cat. n° 10; Pauwels e.a., De eerste groep van Sint-Martens-Latem 1899-1914 (1988), p. 101, p. 176, cat. n° 52 (ill.); Pauwels, Als een fonkelenden spiegel (2019), 178 (ill.); Schoonbaert, Religieuze thematiek in de Belgische Kunst 1875-1985 (1986), p. 147, cat. n° 47 (ill); Stubbe, De Vlaamse schilderkunst van Van Eyck tot Permeke (1953), pp. 364-365; Van de Woestyne e.a., Gustave Van de Woestyne 1881-1947 (1970), p. 24, cat. n° 13; Van de Woestyne, Gustave Van de Woestyne (1929), p. 3, cat. n° 7; Van den Abeele, Albijn Van den Abeele (1993), p. 187 (ill.); Vanbeselaere, Vlaamse schilderkunst 1850-1950 (1960), p. 39, cat. n° 112 Exhibitions: 1929, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Gustave Van de Woestyne, n° 7; 1953, Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Schilderijen uit Gentse Verzamelingen; 1960, Laren, Singer Museum, Vlaamse schilderkunst 1850-1950, n° 112; 1967, Mechelen, Cultureel Centrum, Gustave Van de Woestyne, n° 10; 1981, Antwerp, KMSKA, Gustave Van de Woestyne 1881-1947, n° 6; 1986, Brussels, Galerij ASLK, Religieuze thematiek in de Belgische kunst (1875-1985), n° 47; 1988, Brussels, KMSKAB, De eerste groep van Sint-Martens-Latem, n° 52; 1997, Deinze, MuDeL, Gustave Van de Woestyne 1881-1947, n° 7; 2001, Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Een zeldzame weelde n° 77; 2010, Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gustave Van de Woestyne, n° 8; 2012, Deinze, MuDeL, Ecce Homo: de Heilige Bloedprocessie van Meigem; 2020, Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Van Eyck. Een optische revolutie, n° 19.9
Douwes Fine Art b.v.
Paul Delvaux (Antheit 1897-1994 Veurne) Portrait of a young woman, 1966 Pen and watercolour 17 x 12 cm Signed and dated: P.DELVAUX 24-12-1966 stuck on a sheet of paper filigree Wattman England. Provenance: Sale Auction house L’homme, Liège, 24 September 2016, cat. n° 40 Expertise: Certificate of authenticity of the Paul Delvaux Foundation, St-Idesbald, June 10, 2016 Notes In the work of Paul Delvaux we frequently find the female figure, a favorite subject of the artist. He stages the body of the women in antique setting or in scenes of everyday life. Often calm and mysterious, the women Delvaux focusses to represent are the reflection of the complex relationship that he maintains towards them. Indeed, already at a young age, the possessive and authoritarian mother of the artist warned him against women. Since then, the artist nurtured a fascination with the women he places on a pedestal. The woman represented in his work, are the image of his feminine ideal. Always young and beautiful, they are often naked, draped or preciously dressed. They symbolize the fascination and intrigue that Delvaux feels towards them and their bodies. The female figure occupies different roles in his work, from femme fatale to the mythological creature. In the present watercolour Delvaux integrates a contradictory image of the woman as being dangerous, free and independent but also valuable and untouchable. The chosen tones, from the aubergine color of the dress to the blue of the background, are very lively. Part of the bodice remained white, as well as the lighting in the upper left corner, which allows the chiaroscuro effect of the composition. In the same year as he made this drawing, he had a retrospective at the Lille Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Ixelles. A few years before, in 1959, he executed the mural decoration of the Palais des Congrès in Brussels and in 1965 he received the Five-Year Award for the dedication of his career and is appointed President and Director of the Class of Fine Arts of the Royal Academy of Belgium. Delvaux’s love life has not been without complication and this reflected in his art. When Delvaux fell in love with his first and great love Anne-Marie De Martelaere, known as Tam, at the age of thirty, the mother of Delvaux fiercely opposed this relationship, and he married someone else. This great sorrow of a lost love will permeate the image of the woman Delvaux depicts in his work: she is inaccessible and very often the man is excluded. At the death of his mother, the sadness felt by the artist is great but her death was also liberating for the future of his work. Delvaux now represents the woman in a much more libertine way. In 1947 he met Tam again in Sint-Idesbald. This chance meeting leads the two lovers to get married. The following decade will then mark a loss of creativity of the artist, his beloved imposes some constraints on Delvaux. He can no longer use models or represent them the way he desires. Later, Delvaux marries Suzanne Purnal and maintains a platonic love towards her.
Dalton Somaré
Androgynous figure with twins Dogon, Mali, 1406-1512 AD (C14 tested) Wood H 48 cm Provenance: Henri Kamer, Paris; René Rasmussen, Paris; Merton Simpson, New York; Reginald Groux, Paris; private collection, France; private collection, Brussels Literature: Les Mondes Dogon, ed. M. Konaté and M. Le Bris, 2002, p. 167
De Jonckheere
denijs van alsloot
Denijs van Alsloot (Mechelen 1568-1625 Brussels) Wooded Landscape opening onto a Mountain Range With the participation of the workshop of Jan Brueghel The Elder (Brussels 1568-1625 Antwerp) for the figures First decade of the 17th century Oil on panel 117 x 173 cm Provenance: Fournier Art Gallery, Rouen, 1984; Heim Gallery; De Jonckheere, 1984; private collection Literature: S. van Sprang, Denijs Van Alsloot (vers 1568 – 1625/26). Peintre paysagiste au service de la cour des archiducs Albert et Isabelle, Turnhout, Brepols, 2014, p. 104, ill. 25, repr. Denijs Van Alsloot's mastery of nature must be considered from the point of view of the overall effect it produces. The artist knew how to adapt his compositions to his subjects. While the forest can be a frightening place, in the artist's imagination, it is a space that shelters nymphs and humans. This large painting, whose deep, luminous colours have been preserved, provides a vivid example of its marvels, captured by the bluish line of the mountains nestled in a forest opening. It is one of the rare 20 or so landscapes that can currently be attributed to his body of work.
Mearini Fine Art
Bartolomeo di Giovanni D'Astore called Baccio da Montelupo (Montelupo Fiorentino 1469-1536 Florence) Crucifix, circa 1515 Wood, plaster and paper 81.5 x 81.5 cm Provenance: private collection, Italy Literature: David Lucidi, Baccio da Montelupo, Tau, 2022, pp. 154, 342, 343, 413, 414
Giammarco Cappuzzo Fine Art
Giuseppe Vermiglio (Milan, circa 1587-circa 1635/1636) The sacrifice of Isaac, circa 1610-1618 Oil on canvas 132 x 162 cm Provenance: private collection, Italy Literature: Alessandro Morandotti, Gli anni romani di Giuseppe Vermiglio, in Giuseppe Vermiglio. Un pittore caravaggesco tra Roma e la Lombardia, exhibition catalogue Campione d’Italia, Galleria Civica, 10 September-3 December 2000, ed. by D. Pescarmona, Milan 2000, p. 45, fig. 23; Ferdinando Bologna, Tre note caravaggesche, Prospettiva, 33-36, 1983-1984 (Studi in onore di Luigi Grassi), pp. 204-207, fig. 5; Mina Gregori, Il Sacrificio di Isacco: un inedito e considerazioni su una fase savoldesca del Caravaggio, Artibus et Historiae, X, 1989, p. 141, note 16
Galeria Jordi Pascual
antoni tàpies
Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona 1923-2012) Cap amb paper encolat, 1987 Paint, pencil and collage on canvas 54 x 65 cm Provenance: private collection, Barcelona Literature: Agustí, Anna. Tàpies. Obra completa, vol. 6, 1986-1990, Fundació Antoni Tàpies and Edicions Polígrafa S.A, 2000, p. 153, fig. 5465
Gallery de Potter d’Indoye
Jean Prevel (Paris, 18th century) A Louis XVI Ormolu, blued metal and white marble 'Pendule au temple de l’amour', circa 1780 White marble, gilded bronze, blue patinated bronze H 78.7 x Ø 34.9 cm Signed: Prevel à Paris (clock maker, Cour abbatiale, St-Germain, France) Provenance: collection of Dr. & Mrs. Constantin Mamouris The white marble tempietto features an ormolu figure of Athena topped with a dome segmented by blue patinated bronze panels and applied ormolu stars surmounted by a spherical clock with revolving chapter rings. The time is indicated by an arrow held by a perched putto. The striking movement is signed Prevel [à Paris]. In the form of a rotunda, the design of this charming clock was inspired by the ancient Greek and Roman temples, often reproduced or reimagined by talented painters such as Hubert Robert throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. When searching for contemporaneous French buildings that could have influenced the maker of this clock, Richard Mique’s famous Temple of Love comes to mind, designed for Marie-Antoinette in her gardens of the Petit Trianon, see D. Ledoux-Lebard, Versailles, Le Petit Trianon: Le Mobilier Des Inventaires de 1807, 1810 et 1839, Paris, 1989, p. 31. A number of clocks of this popular design exist, although none are exactly the same as this clock. Comparable clocks include one in the Spanish Royal Collection, illustrated in J. Ramon Colon de Carvajal, Catalogo de Relojes del Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, 1987, p. 90, n° 73; one in P. Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française du Moyen Age au XXe siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 292, fig. B; and one is in the British Royal Collections, see C. Jagger, Royal Clocks, The British Monarchy and its Timekeepers 1300-1900, London, 1983, p. 150. Unlike this clock, the above examples have ormolu or pierced marble domes, making the star-studded and blue patinated bronze panels roof of this clock particularly interesting and unique.
Cabinet of Curiosities-Honourable Silver Objects
cartier paris
Bracelet, circa 1960 Signed Cartier Paris, n° 114069 Stamped with French assay marks 18K yellow and white gold, designed with 13 carved fluted round lapis lazuli beads, on a slightly flexible gold shaft, terminating with a hook clasp set with 22 single and full-cut round diamonds, approximately 0.90 ct. Provenance: private collection, The Netherlands Ladybird brooch, circa 1930, signed Cartier Paris, n° 07544, stamped with French assay marks, platinum, designed with a head in enamel and a red coral body set with 8 full-cut round diamonds 22 x 19 x 11 mm Provenance: private collection, London Literature: N. Coleno, Etourdissant Cartier (Paris: Editions du Regards, 2008), pp. 44-45, 81
Dr. Lennart Booij Fine Art & Rare Items
rene lalique
René Lalique (Ay 1860-1945 Paris) Carafe Sirènes et Grenouilles, circa 1911 Blown glass with pressed air with stopper, decorated with four frog fountainheads and four cartouches with swimming mermaids H 39.5 cm Signed: Lalique Provenance: private collection, France Literature: Félix Marcilhac, René Lalique-Catalogue Raisonné de l'Œuvre de Verre, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2011, n° 3150
Tobogan Antiques
charles de marnyhac (1840-1897)
Charles de Marnyhac (France, 1840-1897) 'African Venus', circa 1878 Two patina bronze figure H 168 x W 54 cm Life-size, representing a young African woman taming a snake, dressed with a feathered loincloth and a long drape in her hair, and wearing African jewels Literature: Great Exhibitions 1851-1900, Jonathan Meyer, Antique Collector’s Club, 2006, p. 241; L’Art et L’Industrie de tous les peuples à l’Exposition Universelle de 1878, Librairie Illustrée, Paris Similar model mounted as a floor lamp exhibited by Charles de Marnyhac at the World's Fair in Paris in 1878
Cortesi Gallery
lucio fontana
Lucio Fontana (Argentina, Rosario 1899-1969 Comabbio, Italy) Concetto spaziale, Teatrino, 1965-1966 Waterpaint on canvas and lacquered wood 110 x 110 x 6.5 cm Signed and titled on the reverse: L. Fontana/Concetto spaziale; on the frame label of Galerie Bonnier, Genève, n° 73017 Provenance: Gallery Art Point, Tokyo; Galerie Pierre, Stockholm; Private collection, Milan; Private collection Literature: E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnement spatiaux, vol. II, La Connaissance, Bruxelles, 1974, pp.174-175, n° 65-66 TE 11; E. Crispolti, Fontana. Catalogo generale volume secondo, Electa, Miano, 1986, p. 615, n° 65-66 TE 11; E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana. Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnement spatiaux, vol. II, in collaboration with N. Ardemagni Laurini, V. Ernesti, Skira editore, Milano 2006, p. 802, n° 65-66 TE 11; Sotheby’s, Aste: Londra, 27 giugno 1985, n° 540 Exhibitions: 1984, Lugano; 1990, Lucio Fontana, Spatial conception, Tokyo, Tama Art University Museum, 1 June-4 September 1990, cat. p. 55, n° 50; 1992, Lucio Fontana, la penetrazione dello spazio, mostra itinerante in giappone, April-November 1992, cat. p. 119, n° 88; 2014, Il fantasma dell'Opera. Grandi maestri tra mito e mistero, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Farsettiarte, December-January, ill. on the exhibition leaflet; 2014, Cinquant'anni di Farsettiarte a Cortina, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Farsettiarte, August 2014, cat. n° 31, ill.
Osborne Samuel Gallery
bram bogart
Bram Bogart (Delft 1921-2012 Sint Truiden) Agglomeration, 1959 Homemade paint on canvas H 95.3 x W 158 x D 5 cm Signed and dated lower right Also signed, dated and titled verso Provenance: Arthur Tooth Gallery, UK (March 1959); Martin Summers Art Ltd, London-J P Cochrane Collection (2005); Fine Art Society, London (2006); Rosenfeld Porcini, London (2017); Vigo Gallery, London (2022); private collection Exhibitions: 1960, Matter Painting, ICA, London (Bram Bogart, Lucio Fontana, Nicolas De Stael, Antonio Tapies, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier) (21 Sep-22 Oct, 1960); 2013, The Continuation of Romance painting an Interrupted discourse, Rosenfeld Porcini, London; 2017, Bram Bogart. Zonzucht, Vigo Gallery, London
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.
Florian Kolhammer
johann loetz witwe
Johann Loetz Witwe Vase Phänomen Genre 356, circa 1900 Designed and executed by Johann Loetz Witwe, Klostermühle, Bohemia Mould-blown, freeform, reduced and iridescent glass H 23.5 x Ø 14 cm Signed underneath 'Loetz Austria' Literature: A. Adlerova, E. Ploil, H. Ricke, T. Vlcek (ed.), Loetz-Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940, vol. II, paper pattern catalogue, Prestel, Munich 1989, paper pattern 420, p. 95
Galerie Van den Bruinhorst
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (Utrecht, 1888-1964) Metz & Co sideboard ‘r54', 1936 Executed in The Netherlands, circa 1941 White laquered beech wood and plywood, metal and wire glass H 93 x W 200 x D 51.5 cm Provenance: Mr and Mrs Montagne-Van Lommel, Rotterdam 1941; Mrs. H.H. Van Domisse-Van Lommel, 1947 the Hague; Mrs. Foss-Montagne 1991; Sotheby’s Amsterdam 1995; private collection, Amsterdam Exhibition: Bas van Pelt, The Netherlands, The Hague, 1960 Commissioned by the avant-garde department store Metz & Co in Amsterdam, the Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld designed a small sideboard in 1932 consisting of wire glass sliding doors on a chromed steel base that could be combined with a separate drawer unit. With this design as a starting point he created sideboard r54 in 1936 which is a combination of the small sideboard and the drawer unit in one piece. The first owners bought this sideboard in 1941.
