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Francis Maere Fine Arts
fernando botero
Fernando Botero (Medellin 1932-2023 Monaco) Lying nude, 1985 Bronze H 35 x W 60 x D 23 cm Signed and numbered: Botero 3/6 Provenance: collection Emile Veranneman, Kruishoutem; private collection, Belgium Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Botero, Emile Veranneman, Kruishoutem, 1990 Exhibition: 1990 Kruishoutem, Stichting Emile Veranneman, Fernando Botero
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
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 Marc Maison
Gilded plaster statuette by Pierre Braecke (Belgium, 1858-1938) surmounting a sideboard made by Victor Horta (Ghent 1861-1947 Brussels) Four original gilded plaster statuettes by Pierre Braecke surmount the pair of sideboards This is part of a interior decor made of a suite of three paneled rooms designed by Victor Horta for a private owner in Kortrijk and including two fireplaces, a pair of sideboards, a stained-glass ceiling and windows, a screen with period fabric Circa 1903 Mahogany, oak and maple, bronze, marble, american glass, fabric: moiré damask Surface: approximately 80 sq meters, H 3.80 m Provenance: Kortrijk, Belgium
Galerie Hadjer
fernand léger
Fernand Léger (Argentan 1881-1955 Gif-sur-Yvette) Shell composition Conceived in 1938, realised in 1965 Wool Workshop Gisèle Glaudin-Brivet, Tapestry Aubusson/Savonnerie, Aubusson, France Fernand Leger on the back, bolduc workshop Unique piece H 262 x W 220 cm Certificate from the Comité Leger Provenance: private collection, USA
Gilden's Art Gallery
sam francis
Sam Francis (San Mateo 1923-1994 Santa Monica) Untitled SF73-287 (Tokyo), 1973 Acrylic and gouache on wove paper 37.4 x 55.2 cm Signed, dated and inscribed Archive n° SF73-287 Provenance: Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern, Switzerland; Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida; acquired from the above in 1987; private collection, United States of America
Claes Gallery
Dan Mask Ivory Coast, late 19th century Wood H 23 cm Provenance: Dr. Alexander Rafaeli collection (1910-1996), Israel Literature: Masks of Primitive Peoples from The Collection of Dr. Alex Rafaeli, written mention p. 6; n° 15; Back cover; Art of Primitive People. Masks from the collection of Dr. Alex Rafaeli. Sculptures from other Collections, written mention p. 4, n° 16 Exhibition: The National Museum Bezalel, Jerusalem, 7 February-7 March 1953; Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, November 1955
Studio 2000 Art Gallery
theo van rysselberghe
Theo van Rysselberghe (Ghent 1862-1926 Saint-Clair, Var) Portrait of Mrs. H. Aubry, 1907 Oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm Signed and dated middle left with monogram 'April 07' Provenance: private collection, The Netherlands; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 13 December 1999; Campo & Campo, Antwerpen, 18 October 1998; Me Cousin, Les Andelys, France, 9 December 1990 Literature: Ronald Feltkamp, Théo van Rysselberghe Catalogue raisonné, Editions Racine, Brussels, 2003, p. 367, n° 032 (ill.); G. Van Zype, Notice Théo van Rysselberghe, in: Annuaire de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1932 Exhibitions: Théo van Rysselberghe, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 27 April-9 May 1908
Galerie Christophe Gaillard
hélène delprat
Hélène Delprat (Amiens, 1957) Turritopsis nutricula, 2010 Pigments, silver pigment, acrylic and glitter on canvas 200 x 160 cm Signed Provenance: the artist's studio; Galerie Christophe Gaillard Literature: Hélène Delprat, Les Travaux et les Jours, Éditions Dilecta/Galerie Christophe Gaillard, 2017, p. 247 Exhibition: Hélène Delprat, I Did it My Way, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France, 2017
Galerie de la Présidence
jean dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet (Le Havre 1901-1985 Paris) Tasse de thé, 18 mai 1967 Marker on paper 25 x 16.5 cm Signed with the initials and dated lower right Provenance: Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris; private collection, Paris Literature: Max Loreau, Catalogue des Travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Cartes, Ustensiles, fascicule XXII, Suisse 1972, p. 53, n° 166 Exhibitions: Dubuffet, L’Hourloupe, Kunsthalle, Basel, 1970; Dubuffet, Paysages du mental, Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris, 1989; Dubuffet, obras sobre papel, Fundaçao Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva, Lisbon, 2000; Dubuffet L’Hourloupe, Grand-Palais, Paris, 2006; Cent dessins de Jean Dubuffet, Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris, 2009; Jean Dubuffet-Le Cours des choses, Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris, 2022
Dr. Lennart Booij Fine Art & Rare Items
pablo picasso
Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881-1973 Mougins) Bull in the Arena plate, 1948 White earthenware with engobes H 32 x W 39 cm Edition Picasso Madoura, from the unnumbered edition of 450 Provenance: private collection, France Literature: A. Ramié, Picasso, Catalogue of the edited ceramic works 1947-1971, p. 52, n° 80
Floris van Wanroij Fine Art
Relief with the The Flight into Egypt and Miracles during the Journey (Matthew 2:13) Low countries, possibly Antwerp, Renaissance, last quarter of the 16th century, circa 1590 Pear-wood, carved in high relief, on later brass base H 19.6 x W. 16.8 cm (excl. base) Provenance: Jan Dirven Works of Art, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; collection Dreesmann-Houtkooper, The Netherlands; thence by decent private collection, Breda, The Netherlands Literature: Schuckman, Christiaan (1996). Hollstein's Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, vol. XLIV: Maarten De Vos. Rotterdam, p. 65, cat. n° 263 This relief, probably carved in Antwerp, is based on a design by the influential Renaissance artist Maerten de Vos (Antwerp, 1532-1603). The original drawing is kept now in the collection of the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig (inv./cat. n° Z. 1086) and is dated shortly before 1579. The drawing was published in engraving by Johannes Sadeler I, as the eighth prints of a twelve-part series on the birth and the first years of Christ. The series was published between 1579-1582 and the current sculpture probably originated shortly afterwards, ca. 1590, which indicates a date of the current sculpture around 1590. The Flight the Holy Family to Egypt, here represented as Joseph on foot and Mary sitting on a donkey with the Christ Child in her arms was, according to tradition, surrounded by miracles. At the top right in a chapel on a tree, a statue of a pegan god breaks in two. At the top left a group of accompanying Angels in the Heavens is depicted and trees bow down their branches in reverence to Christ.
VKD Jewels
Angela Cummings (Austrian-American, 1944) Mother-of-pearl and 18k yellow gold necklace Composed of oval-shaped gold links inlaid with mother-of-pearl USA, circa 1980 Signed Angela Cummings Provenance: private collection Literature: Juliet Weir-de La Rochefoucauld, Women Jewellery Designers, pp. 134-139
Zebregs&Röell Fine Art and Antiques
A Mammoth ivory figure of an African Amor Flanders or Southern Germany, 17th century H 17.3 cm Provenance: private collection, United Kingdom; with Peter Petrou, London This figure has many iconological meanings. With the bow and arrows, it is an Amor, but since the bow, the quiver of arrows and one single arrow are lying on the ground together with a shield, they may symbolise unsuccessful or fended-off love. The Amor playing with his penis and blowing a whirligig together may be symbols of the fickleness and transitoriness of love. The chain with a cross around his neck is a Roman Catholic symbol and may point to a Catholic country of origin, probably South Germany or Flanders.
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.
Galerie Kevorkian
luristan
Two zoomorphic finials Finial with rampant ibexes and finial with confronted ibexes and pin with a double-headed feline framed by antelope protomes Bronze Luristan, Iron Age II, early 1st millennium BC H 14 and H 21 cm Provenance: former collection of M. & R. Stora, Paris, before 1938; collection of Dr. C. assembled between 1960 and 1993, Paris Literature: A.U. Pope, A survey of Persian Art, vol. VII, 1938, pl. 44 C
Univers du Bronze
françois pompon
François Pompon (Saulieu 1855-1933 Paris) Grue couronnée au repos, 1926 Bronze with slate patina, specific to Pompon H 26.5 x W 10 x D 15.4 cm Artist's edition signed by Pompon in the wax, cast by Cire C.Valsuani perdue, confidential edition of few examples only, circa 1926-1933
Helene Bailly
pablo picasso
Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881-1973 Mougins) Le Peintre (Mousquetaire aux 2 visages), 1967 Oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm Signed: Picasso and dated: 21/2/67 at the top left Provenance: Louise Leiris Gallery; Galerie Taménaga (label on reverse); former Pierre and Jeannine Consten collection Literature: Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso vol. 25 - oeuvres de 1965 et 1967, Editions Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1972, n° 281, repr. in black and white pl. 126; Catalogue Exposition Internationale du Figuratif, 1971, ed. Tokyo ado banku, repr. in colour; Alan Wofsy, The Picasso's Project, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Sixties, Part II, 1964-1967, enlarged second edition, San Francisco, 2023, p. 302, n° 67-075
Röbbig München
johann joachim kaendler (1706-1775)
Johann Joachim Kaendler (Germany, 1706-1775) A pair of swans Porcelain models circa 1748, Meissen manufacture and decoration, circa 1750-1755 H 27.5 x W 23 cm and H 26.5 x W 22 cm Cobalt blue crossed swords mark Provenance: private collection With their majestic figure, swans were still considered royal animals in the eighteenth century and were modelled several times in the Meissen manufactory as table decorations, especially in connection with table fountains. They are also mentioned in the 1753 confectionery inventory of Count von Brühl, the Prime Minister of Saxony. In their timeless elegance, they may be seen as a design by the famous Meissen modeller Johann Joachim Kaendler, which he produced in porcelain together with his assistant Peter Reinicke around 1750. The minimalistic decoration of the reeds in a turquoise-green on-glaze colour suggests an early artistic style.
Galerie Alexis Pentcheff
paul delvaux
Paul Delvaux (Belgium, Antheit 1897-1994 Veurne) La mise au tombeau, 1953 Oil, gouache, watercolour and ink on paper laid on canvas 68 x 120 cm Signed and dated lower right Certificate of authenticity issued by the Paul Delvaux Foundation dated 24 June 2017 Provenance: private collection, France Preparatory work for 'La mise au tombeau', kept at La Boverie, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège. A work on the same theme, La mise au tombeau, 1951, can also be found in the Musée d'Ixelles © Foundation Paul Delvaux, Belgium/SABAM, 2023-2024
Franck Anelli Fine Art
Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot (Utrecht, 1586-1666) Village scene, 1643 Oil on panel 71.8 x 106.5 cm 93 x 129 cm - framed Provenance: With Hans Trojanski, Dusseldorf, 1957; Private collection of Baroness Viktoria Dagmar von Rochow (1931–2022); By descent, private collection, Switzerland This painting is registered at the RKD, The Hague as by the hand of Joost Cornelisz. Droochsloot.