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Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art
Manolo Valdés (Valencia, 1944) 'The Cartier', 2008 Oil and mixed media on canvas 188 x 188 cm H 200 x W 200 x D 10 cm (in artist's frame) Signed 'MAVALDES', dated '2008', titled 'The Cartier' and inscribed with measurements on the reverse Provenance: acquired directly from the artist's studio
Virginie Devillez Fine Art
Jean Brusselmans (Brussels 1884-1953 Dilbeek) Le chemin creux, 1936 Oil on canvas 80 x 70 cm Signed and dated lower left 'Jean Brusselmans 1936' Provenance: Galerie de la Madeleine, Brussels; Dr H. Morlon collection, Brussels (acquired in 1962 from the above); private collection, Belgium; thence by descent to the present owner Literature: Robert-L. Delevoy, 'Jean Brusselmans' (Catalogue raisonné established by Gita Brys-Schatan), Laconti, Brussels, 1972, CR 419, pp. 252 & 373 (ill.)
Heutink Ikonen
‘Weep not for Me, Mother’ Russia, mid 17th century Egg tempera on gesso on linen-covered wood 31 x 26 cm Provenance: private collection, Belgium; Morsink Ikonen, Amsterdam Among the most moving images of Orthodox art is the icon known as ‘Weep Not for Me, Mother’. Its title is drawn from the liturgy of Holy Saturday, where Christ addresses his grieving mother from the tomb: 'Weep not for Me, O Mother... for I shall arise and be glorified…' The icon depicts a moment between the crucifixion and the Resurrection: the profound silence of Holy Saturday. Christ stands or rises from the tomb, whilst the Mother of God tenderly embraces him and mourns for him. The intensity of their encounter lends the image an extraordinary emotional power. Although the scene may remind Western viewers of the Pietà, its spiritual focus is different. Whilst the Pietà centres on the grief of the Blessed Virgin, ‘Weep Not for Me, Mother’ looks forward to Easter and the promise that death does not have the final say.
Galerie Flak
Goli Glin Buffalo Mask Baule, Ivory Coast, early 20th century Carved wood and pigments H 65.5 cm Provenance: Frank Crowninshield collection, New York, acquired before January 1936, presumably with the assistance of John D. Graham, New York; Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York; collection of the Surrealist artist Enrico Donati (1909-2008), New York, acquired in the 1940s Exhibitions: Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, 'Exhibition of Sculptures of Old African Civilizations', 4-22 January 1936; Brooklyn Museum, New York, 'African Negro Art from the Collection of Frank Crowninshield', 20 March-25 April 1937
Artimo Fine Art
Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger (Besançon 1814-1883 Paris) Lucrèce mourante (The Death of Lucretia), 1868 White Carrara marble H 165 x W 206 x D 82 cm Signed and dated 'J. Clésinger Rome 1868' Provenance: Émile de Girardin (1802–1881), Paris; sale of the Émile de Girardin collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, December 1887, lot 176; private collection, Château de Vallière, Mortefontaine (Oise), France Literature: Catalogue des marbres, bronzes et terres cuites composant l’atelier de M. Clésinger, Paris, sale of 5 June 1868, lot 2, with a preface by Théophile Gautier; Catalogue de la vente des œuvres de M. Clésinger, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 6 April 1870, lot 2; Catalogue de la vente de la Société des marbres et bronzes artistiques de Paris, 2-3 April 1883, lot 17 (mentioning the original marble belonging to M. de Girardin); Alexandre Estignard, Clésinger, sa vie, ses œuvres, Paris, 1900 Created in Rome between 1863 and 1867, Lucrèce mourante ranks among Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger’s most ambitious monumental compositions. The sculptor depicts the Roman heroine at the moment when, having revealed the outrage committed against her, she has just taken her own life. Seated, her body abandoned, her eyelids half-open and her gaze turned upwards, Lucretia lets the dagger fall as her drapery reveals the fatal wound. Her loosened chignon, with several strands falling onto the nape of her neck, heightens the sense of abandonment that pervades the composition. The work combines a particularly sensitive observation of human anatomy with the nobility of a composition inspired by classical sculpture. In his preface to the 1868 sale catalogue, Théophile Gautier emphasised the expressive power of this figure, whose inner suffering is conveyed with remarkable restraint. Listed in the catalogues of the Clésinger sales of 1868 and 1870, the sculpture subsequently belonged to Émile de Girardin, the celebrated French journalist and politician. Its presence in his collection is confirmed by the 1883 catalogue devoted to Clésinger’s models, which explicitly states that the original marble belonged to M. de Girardin. The work reappeared in December 1887 at the Hôtel Drouot sale of the Girardin collection, before entering, at an as yet undetermined date, the collections housed at the Château de Vallière in Mortefontaine.
Artimo Fine Art
Cesare Lapini (Florence, 1848-after 1890) La Sorpresa (Surprise) White Carrara marble H 128 x W 36 x D 48 cm Signed 'C. LAPINI' Provenance: private collection, Belgium Literature (related to the model): Torino e l’Esposizione italiana del 1884, Cronaca Illustrata, Part IV, Turin, Roux e Favale and Fratelli Treves, 1884, p. 45, model illustrated; Angelo De Gubernatis, Dizionario degli artisti italiani viventi, pittori, scultori e architetti, Florence, 1889, p. 580, model mentioned Exhibition: model presented in Turin at the Esposizione Generale Italiana, 1884 In La Sorpresa, Cesare Lapini captures the moment when a young woman, surprised in her intimacy, delicately gathers the folds of her nightdress. Her subtle smile and lowered gaze convey a delicate ambiguity between modesty and coquetry. When presented in Turin in 1884, the model was associated with the myth of Diana surprised bathing by Actaeon. The finely rendered lace, the fluidity of the drapery and the delicate treatment of the figure’s flesh tones demonstrate the sculptor’s virtuosity and the refinement of the Florentine school in the late 19th century.
Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery
Karel Appel (Amsterdam 1921-2006 Zurich) People, Birds and Sun, 1951 Gouache and pastel on paper, mounted on canvas 65 x 100 cm Signed and dated lower right Provenance: the estate of the artist; Galerie Max Hetzler, London Exhibition: Karel Appel-Cobra/Non Cobra, Galerie Max Hetzler, London, January-February 2024
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 23 June 2021, lot 59
Gallery Sofie Van de Velde
Victor Servranckx (Diegem 1897-1965 Vilvoorde) Opus 20, (Calm Blocks Fallen from an Obscure Disaster), 1927 Oil on canvas 146 x 81 cm Signed and dated lower left Provenance: Félix Carlier, Watermael-Boisfort (purchased from Galerie Le Centaure, Brussels, 1929); Galerie J.-P. Alaerts, Brussels; London, Christie’s, 16 October 1990, lot n° 61 (ill.); Lokeren, De Vuyst, 6 October 2001, lot n° 489; private collection, Brussels; Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp Literature: La Nation belge (Brussels), 12th year, n° 48, 17 February 1929, ill. p. 3; Le Peuple (Brussels), 5th year, n° 48, 17 February 1929, ill. p. 1 Exhibitions: Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1929 (no catalogue); Brussels, Galerie Le Centaure, Exhibition De Boeck, Flouquet, Gailliard, Servranckx, 1929, n° 33; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 1947, n° 45 '146 x 92 cm'; Brussels, Musée d’Ixelles/Museum van Elsene, Retrospective Le Centaure. Homage to Walter Schwarzenberg, 1963, n° 117; Brussels, Musée d’Ixelles/Museum van Elsene, 1965, n° 107; Hasselt, Provinciaal Begijnhof, 1970, n° 57 (ill.) Thanks to a photograph showing the artist during his solo exhibition at the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels) in January 1929, we know that the painting was exhibited there. Félix Carlier acquired the work at the group exhibition (featuring works by De Boeck, Flouquet, Gailliard, and Servranckx) at Galerie Le Centaure in Brussels in 1929. As one of the leading pioneers of the abstract movement in Flanders, Servranckx explored the new possibilities of modern art with extraordinary intensity. Opus 20, (Calm Blocks Fallen from an Obscure Disaster), dating from 1927, can rightly be regarded as a pivotal work in his oeuvre. It represents a remarkable synthesis of geometric abstraction and the artist’s lyrical imagination, while also anticipating the emergence of Surrealism. Jacques Lipchitz (Lithuania, Druskininkai 1891-1973 Capri) Sitting figure, 1915 Bronze H 87 cm Signed 'JLipchitz' and numbered 2/7 (on base) Provenance: the estate of the artist; acquired from the above mentioned in 1989 by current owner Exhibition: Musée des Années 30, 'Lipchitz, Les Années Françaises de 1910 à 1940', 2005-2006, n° 10, pp. 16-17, ill. in colour
Vagabond Antiques
A Neoclassical painted and parcel-gilt console table Italy, late 18th century Marble and painted wood H 90 x W 110 x D 54 cm Italian neoclassical console table retaining its beautifully faded original painted and parcel-gilt decoration. The original shaped solid Breccia Violette marble top rests on a panelled frieze decorated with scrolling acanthus, flower-filled classical urns and carved paterae. The table is raised on four beautifully proportioned fluted legs, tapering to an unusually fine point and giving the table a particularly elegant and refined profile.
Galerie Édouard Ambroselli
Georges Aubert (Paris, 1866-1961) and Odilon Redon (Bordeaux 1840-1916 Paris) The Shadow, circa 1896-1900 Carved, engraved and painted wood H 25 x W 18.5 x D 2 cm Provenance: Ambroise Vollard collection (1866-1939) Plate for The Shadow, illustration from Gustave Flaubert’s Tentation de Saint Antoine, Paris, Éditions Ambroise Vollard, 1938, p. 21
Van Pruissen Asian Art
Ban'ura Shogo (Nanao 1901-1982 Kyoto) Paper and writing box with pea plant design Japan, 1950-1960 H 20.8 x W 32 cm Signed Shogo saku Provenance: Ben Janssens collection, UK Literature: Jan Dees, Splendour in detail-20th century Japanese lacquer from the Ben Janssens collection, 2021 Exhibition: Japan museum SieboldHuis, 2021
Galerie von Vertes
Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh 1928-1987 New York) Patty Raynes and son, 1985 Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas 102 x 102 cm Signed on the reverse and dated 'Andy Warhol 85' Provenance: Patty Raynes, USA (1985 directly acquired from the artist); private collection, USA (2022 acquired from the above) In 1985, Patty Raynes commissioned two works, this one with a yellow background and a second one with a white background. ‘Patty Raynes and Son’ from 1985 is one of a series of portraits in which Warhol no longer exclusively depicted global celebrities, but increasingly portrayed members of his social environment - individuals whose social position exerted a symbolic aura, even if they remained outside the pop-cultural canon. Patty Raynes came from a respected family of American industrialists, socialite and daughter of oil tycoon Marvin Davis, a fact that inevitably lends the work the character of a status portrait. Warhol, who was always concerned with the relationship between appearance and identity, addresses the portrait here as an expression of social affiliation. The subject, the depiction of a mother and child, is immediately reminiscent of the archetypal motifof the Madonna and Child. Warhol adopts this traditional pictorial form but transforms it into a contemporary icon: the sacred content isdisrupted by the screen-printing technique, giving the scene a cool, distanced character. Patty Haynes and son emerge from this mature period in Warhol’s oeuvre, when the artist extended his repertoire of subjects to include his panoply of famous friends, artists, actors, and socialites. A collection idolising the who’s who of New York, Warhol intended for the 40 by 40-inch series to be exhibited together in a 'Portrait of Society', a dream eventually realized at the artist’s retrospective Andy Warhol - From A to B and Back Again at the Whitney Museum in New York in 2018.
Laurent Schaubroeck
Rick Owens (USA, Porterville, 1961) Small Plug Table, 2013 Black stained plywood H 41 x W 140 x D 75 cm Stamped Rick Owens 02/08 Edition of 8 + 4 AP Produced in France A monolithic composition in black plywood, the Plug Table reflects Rick Owens’ uncompromising approach to furniture: reduced geometry, architectural weight and an almost brutalist sense of proportion.
Galerie Haesaerts-le Grelle
Gustave Serrurier-Bovy (Liège 1858-1910 Antwerp) Paravent, circa 1905 Padauk, brass and embroidered fabric H 146 x W 59 cm (each panel) Saint-Saëns series, produced by Serrurier et Cie Provenance: private collection, Liège Literature: F. Bigot du Mesnil du Buisson & E. du Mesnil du Buisson, Serrurier-Bovy-un créateur précurseur-1858-1910, Paris, Faton, 2008 p. 200; Jacques-Grégoire Watelet, Serrurier-Bovy, Ateliers Vokaer, Bruxelles, 1986, p. 102; Art Nouveau Belge: Vers l’idéal (tome 3), 2024, Les Éditions du Musée Horta, pp. 163-164
Galerie bei der Albertina ▪ Zetter
Johann Lötz Witwe, Klostermühle and Gustave Serrurier-Bovy (attributed to) Table Lamp, around 1900 Metal with hammered décor, square-shaped lampshade, twelve square-shaped glasses, in blue and violet, with melted splashes in silver-yellow, iricised, by Johann Lötz Witwe, Klostermühle, single light, electrification renewed H 55 cm, D 25 cm Gustave Serrurier-Bovy was one of the most acclaimed architects and designers of Belgian art nouveau, next to Victor Horta or Henry van de Velde. After a trip to London in 1884, he was strongly influenced by the British Arts and Crafts movement, as well as by William Morris and John Ruskin. His asymmetrical and organic furniture and lighting designs alternated between curvilinear, plant-inspired motifs and a highly functional, almost industrial simplicity that is considered a precursor to modern industrial design. As with objects designed by Josef Hoffmann or Adolf Loos, this lamp combines an architectural composition with functional finesse and a uniquely modern aesthetic. Around 1900 Lötz Witwe maintained an extensive international distribution network of sample warehouses - including one located directly in Brussels. While Serrurier-Bovy provided the structural designs (often made of wood or metal), Lötz Witwe contributed the brilliance of color and materials. This makes the lamp a good example for the international exchange happening in the design world from the late 19th century onwards and the extension of art nouveau ideas. Lamps in this style with the original glass inlays are extremely rare on the market. Works by Serrurier-Bovy are on display at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other places.
Francis Janssens van der Maelen
Ravinet d'Enfert Art Deco centrepiece, Paris, circa 1930 Sterling Silver 950 Jardinière: H 9 x W 35 x D 23 cm Mirrored plateau: H 3 x W 50 x D 38 cm Total net silver weight: 4,990 gr Total gross weight: 9,210 gr French Minerva hallmark Important sterling silver centrepiece comprising a jardinière and its mirrored plateau. The jardinière, of geometric canted rectangular form, has a plain body highlighted by stepped moulded borders around the rim and base. It rests on small rectangular feet. Removable silver-plated metal liner bearing the square Ravinet d’Enfert maker’s mark in full. The plateau, of matching rectangular form with canted corners, echoes the geometric lines of the jardinière. It consists of a solid silver frame with stepped geometric mouldings, raised on small feet and enclosing a mirrored glass panel.
