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Douwes Fine Art b.v.
emanuel de witte
Emanuel de Witte (The Netherlands, Alkmaar circa 1616-1691/2 Amsterdam) Interior of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, the transept seen from the South Oil on canvas 64 x 71.5 cm Signed 'E. De. Witte' (c.r.) Provenance: Abraham Dijkman, Amsterdam; his deceased sale, Amsterdam, de Bosch/ Yver, 17-18 July 1794, lot 47; sale, London, Foster, 25 March 1931 (as 'unknown'); acquired at the above sale by Asscher & Welker, London; with D. Katz, Dieren; Dr. A. Welker, London, 1935; with J.D. Klaasen Jr., Rotterdam; P.M. Kerdel, Scheveningen, 1963; with Hans Cramer, The Hague by 1990; acquired by a Dutch Foundation, in 1998 Literature: Noach, 'Het Material tot de Geschiedenis der Oude kerk te Amsterdam', Amsterdam 1937, p. 81; E. Trautscholdt, in U. Thieme and F. Becker, 'Algemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler' Vol. 36, Leipzig, 1947, p. 125; I. Manke, 'Emanuel de Witte', Amsterdam, 1963, p. 92, n° 62 with ill. fig. 31; F. Duparc et al., 'Masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age', exhibition catalogue, Atlanta, 1985, p. 132-3, n° 60 with ill.; H.R. Leppien, 'In Blickfeld: Holländische Kirchenbilder', exhibition catalogue, Hamburg, 1995, pp. 56-7, 66-8, n° 20 Exhibitions: Rotterdam, Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, 'Vermeer, oorsprong en invloed Fabritius, de Hooch, de Witte, 9 July-9 October 1935, n° 116; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Tentoonstelling van schilderijen, beeldhouwwerken en teekeningen uit particuliere verzamelingen in Nederland: onder auspiciën van de 'Stichting Museum Boymans' , December 1939-January 1940, n° 59; Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age, 24 September-10 November 1985, n° 60, p. 132-3; Hamburg, Kunsthalle, In Blickfeld: Holländische Kirchenbilder, 1995/96, n° 20
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.
Barbara Bassi
afro, berrocal, bury, cesar
Afro: Bracelet in yellow gold 18 kt, red coral, diamonds and rubies, unique piece 1960's Miguel Berrocal: Microdavid - 1969/71 - Pendant/sculpture in bronze - Signed and numbered 17388 - cm. 6,5 x 2 Pol Bury: Ring hexagonal in silver - 2005 - Signed and numbered 3/8 - Silver 925 - gr. 20 ca - cm. 3 x 3,5 César: Brooch/pendant in yellow and white gold 18 kt - 1980's - Signed and numbered 1/4 PA - gr. 19 - cm. 5,3 x 4,5
Mearini Fine Art
Capital with column from a Ciborio or Pergula Rome, late 8th-early 9th century White marble H 41 x Ø 20 cm Provenance: formerly in the collection of Elda Francia Gasparrini in Rome Literature: U. Broccoli, Marmi tardo antichi di una collezione privata a Roma, LV 1979, pp. 183-199, ill. p. 193 fig. 10
Galerie Nicolas Bourriaud
marcelle delcour - guinard
Marcelle Delcour-Guinard (Switzerland, Meyrin 1896-1978 France) Bather, 1931 Marble sculpture H 172 x W 45.5 x D 46 cm Signed ‘M Delcour-Guinard’ and dated 1931 Unique piece Provenance: the artist's family collection Exhibition: Salon des Artistes Français, 1932, Baigneuse, statue de marbre, n° 3675 Born in Cointrain (Canton of Geneva), Marcelle Delcour trained at the Regional School of Fine Arts in Rennes and studied under the sculptors Laurent Marqueste (1848–1920) and Victor Ségoffin (1867–1925), the head of the sculpture studio for female students at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. In 1920, she married the painter Robert Raoul André Guinard (1896–1989), with whom she spent two years in Morocco in 1934. Upon returning to France in 1936, the couple settled in a small village called Crécey, in the commune of Saint-Pair-sur-Mer: he painted, she sculpted. Benefiting from the post–Second World War reconstruction projects, she received numerous commissions from Canon Pinel to restore works of art preserved in the churches of the Manche region. Anne Delcour-Guinard exhibited regularly at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1924 to 1932. In 1924, the committee of the Association des artistes peintres, sculpteurs, architectes, graveurs et dessinateurs (Fondation Taylor) awarded her the Prix Galimard-Jaubert on May 27. In 1925, she received an honourable mention, and in 1932, a bronze medal for La Baigneuse, a marble sculpture. The work was then displayed in a place of honour at the centre of the nave of the Grand Palais. The sculpture is indeed remarkable for its life-size proportions and its distinctive 1930s style, which, in the spirit of Art Deco, celebrates the female form - elongated, elegant, and liberated. She is embodied here as the garçonne: short-haired, athletic, and modern, asserting her nudity without false modesty, revealed through the graceful gesture of her folded arm and offered to the viewer’s gaze.
Galerie AB - Agnès Aittouarès
jean-paul riopelle
Jean-Paul Riopelle (Montréal 1923-2002 Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues) Composition, 1964 Gouache on paper 46 x 67 cm Signed and dated lower right Provenance: French-Canadian private collection; private collection, Paris Literature: Pierre Schneider, Riopelle. Signes mêlés, Maeght éditeur, Paris, 1972, no. 124, p. 119; Catalogue of the exhibition 'Les Très riches heures de Jean Paul Riopelle', Musée Le Chafaud, Percée, 2000, reproduced on p. 23; Yseult Riopelle, Jean-Paul Riopelle. Catalogue raisonné, volume 3, Hibou Éditeurs, Montreal, 2004, p. 302, reproduced in colour under reference 1964.010P.1964 Exhibitions: Riopelle. Mixed Signs, Maeght Gallery, 1972; The Very Rich Hours of Jean Paul Riopelle, Le Chafaud Museum, Percée, 2000
Galerie Dina Vierny
aristide maillol
Aristide Maillol (Banyuls-sur-Mer, 1861-1944) Léda, 1901-02 Bronze H 28.3 cm Artist's monogram (on the back of the base) Ambroise Vollard edition from 1902 Foundry Florentin Godard, executed between 1907 and 1937 Provenance: private collection, New York; private collection, London: Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris (acquired from the above in 2025) Litrature: W. George, Les albums d'art Druet, vol. II, Maillol, Paris, 1927, another cast illustrated; J. Rewald, Maillol, Paris, 1939, p. 166 and another cast ill. pp. 110-111 (dated 'circa 1902'); W. George, Aristide Maillol, Berlin, 1965, pp. 137 & 232, another cast ill. p. 137; W. George, Maillol et l'âme de la sculpture, Neuchâtel, 1977, p. 128, another cast and terracotta version ill. pl. 139; B. Lorquin, Aristide Maillol, London, 1995, p. 52, another cast ill. p. 53
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.
Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery
Bram Bogart (Delft 1921-2012 Sint Truiden) Hooigang, September 1964 Mixed media on canvas, mounted on wooden panel 106 x 124 cm Signed, dated and titled on reverse Provenance: D & R Hughes, London, 1989; private collection, Belgium Literature: Bram Bogart, The early years, 1951-1965, D & R Hughes, 1989, ill. n° 49
Maison D'Art
Benvenuto Tisi called Il Garofalo (Ferrara, circa 1476–1559) The Nativity, circa 1525/1540 (Adoration of the Christ Child/Adoration of the Shepherds) Oil on wooden panel 38.1 x 33 cm Literature: A. Bliznukov, Ludovico Mazzolino: catalogo delle opere, Florence (forthcoming; as Garofalo, circa 1525/1540)
Galerie Flak
Yipwon hook figure Korewori river, Papua New Guinea, 19th century or earlier (C-14 test) Carved wood H 200 cm Provenance: Merrin Gallery, New York; Californian artist Tony Berlant collection; acquired from the above in the 1980s; Michael Hamson collection, USA; Dr. Jean-Philippe Beaulieu collection, France; acquired from the previous in 2022
Patrick Derom Gallery
jean arp
Jean Arp (Strasbourg 1887-1966 Basel) Untitled, circa 1930 pencil and gouache on paper 30 x 25.8 cm Signed lower right on the reverse Certificate of authenticity of the Arp Foundation, Clamart, dated 24 March 2009 Provenance: Marguerite Arp-Hagenbach, Meudon (widow of the artist); Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp Foundation, Remagen-Rolandswerth, Germany (since 1977); Galerie Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; private collection Exhibitions: 1990, Moscow, Puschkin Museum, Hans Arp 1886-1966: Sculpture, Reliefs, Drawings, Collages; 1994, Munich, Haus der Kunst, Elan Vital oder Auge des Eros; 1996, Rolandseck, Stiftung Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hans Arp/Sophie Taeuber-Arp, cat. 41 1997-2000, Saint-Petersburg, Hermitage Museum, Thessaloniki, Altes Archäologisches Museum, Mantoue, Palazzo Te, Toyota, Municipal Museum of Art, Krakow, Galerie Bunkier Sztuki, Heino, Stichting Hannema-de Stuers, Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp; 2003, Palma de Majorque, Fundacion Sa Nostra, Diverse Explorations: Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Thomas Deprez Fine Arts
franz binjé
Franz Binjé (Liège 1835-1900 Brussels) Le feu, circa 1894 Watercolour and gouache on paper 42 x 27.5 cm Signed l.l.: 'F. Binjé'. Provenance: private collection, Belgium Exhibitions: Exposition Universelle des Beaux-Arts, section Société Royale belge des Aquarellistes, Antwerp, World Fair, 1894, cat. nr. 699, as: 'Le feu'; Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung, Berlin, World Fair, 1896, Gemälde cat. nr. 228, as: 'Das Feuer. Aquarell.'
Pelgrims de Bigard
joachim beuckelaer
Joachim Beuckelaer (Antwerp, circa 1533-1574/75) and studio A young female seller at a fish market Oil on panel 103 x 76 cm Certificate of authenticity by Dr. Fred Meijer Provenance: possibly Christie’s sale London, 25 November 1966, lot 12; sale London, Bonhams Knightsbridge, 31 October 1996, lot 354; private collection, Spain, until 2023