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Galerie Raf Van Severen
fernand léger
Fernand Léger (Argentan 1881-1955 Gif-sur-Yvette) Le Cordage Jaune, 1935 Oil on board 39 x 53 cm Signed and dated bottom right: F. Léger, 1935 Provenance: collection Robert Guiette; private collection, Belgium Literature: Zervos, C., Fernand Léger. Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1935, n°1-4, repr. pp. 65 and 67; Bauquier, G., Fernand Léger. Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint 1932-1937, 1996, repr. pp. 870-871
Galerie Oscar De Vos
gust. de smet
Gustave De Smet (Ghent 1877-1944 Deurle) Landscape with church, 1930 Oil on canvas 66 x 81 cm Signed lower left: Gust. De Smet Provenance: Galerie Le Centaure, 1932, lot 76, bought by Théo Bogaerts for Mr. Nijkerk; collection M.B.B. Nijkerk, Amsterdam; collection Dr. K. Nijkerk, Amsterdam; private collection, Brussels Literature: Haesaerts, Gustave De Smet (1936), n° 115; Langui, Gustaaf De Smet. De mensch en zijn werk (1945), p. 239, n° 432; Van Hecke & Langui, Gustave De Smet. Sa vie et son oeuvre (1945), p. 249, n° 428; Vanbeselaere, Gustave De Smet. Retrospectieve tentoonstelling, cat. (1961), p. 75, n° 147; Kikkert, Gustave De Smet 1877-1943, cat. (1978), n° 32; Milo, Vie et survie du Centaure (1980), p. 105, n° 76; Boyens, Retrospectieve Gust. De Smet (1989), p. 166, n° 120 (ill.); Boyens, Gust. De Smet (1989), p. 229, p. 399, n° 846 (ill.); Denninger-Schreuder, Vlaamse expressionisten (1993), p. 31 (ill.); Boyens e.a. , De maat der dingen (2003), p. 30 (ill.) Exhibitions: 1936, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Gustave De Smet, n° 115; 1961, Antwerp, KMSKA, Gust. De Smet Retrospectieve, n° 147; 1973, Sint-Martens-Latem, Gemeentehuis, Latemse kunstenaars in Nederlandse verzamelingen, n° 13; 1978, Warmenhuizen, Oude Ursulakerk, Gustave De Smet, n° 32; 1989, Ostend, PMMK, Retrospectieve Gust. De Smet, n° 120; 1993, Kortenhoef, Kunst aan de dijk, Vlaamse expressionisten, 31; 2003, Deinze, MuDeL, De maat der dingen, n° 39
F. Baulme Fine Arts
nicolas bertin
Nicolas Bertin (Paris, 1668-1736) Achilles entrusted by Thetis to the centaur Chiron, circa 1725 Oil on canvas 62 x 79.5 cm Provenance: private collection, Paris Literature: Thierry Lefrançois, Nicolas Bertin, 1668-1736, Paris, 1981 Nicolas Bertin has begun his career as a painter under the reign of Louis XIV and has ended it under Louis XV. He was part of this pivotal generation of 'Trianon painters' who switched from large historical painting, to smaller pictures – frequently easel paintings, which seduced a new generation of clients. Painting in the early years of the 18th century was ahead of the evolution of society, and it was only during the Regency that France freed itself from the rigorous artistic rules of the end of the reign of Louis XIV. The country undertook reforms and its morals evolved. It was just after this political and artistic revolution that Bertin painted this picture. The choice of theme itself is significant of lighter times: the nymph Thetis entrusts her son Achilles to the centaur Chiron.
Gallery Desmet
Seated Venus with sandal Marble Hellenistic, circa 1st century BC H 21.5 x W 10 x D 13.5 cm Certificat d'un bien culturel (France): 216730 Accompanied by Art Loss Register certificate S000786578 Provenance: Simone de Monbrison, Paris (1970s); collection Pierre Moussa (1922-2019), Paris; public auction, France, 2019
Cabinet of Curiosities-Honourable Silver Objects
leysen frères
Pair of Art Deco silver ice buckets Marked at the bottom LEYSEN & FRERES in rectangle and silver mark A800 in oval (silvermarks for Leysen: before 1942) Brussels, circa 1930 H 14 x 16 Ø (top) x 13.5 cm Ø (bottom base) Provenance: private collection, Belgium Literature: R. Steel & W. Nijs, Art Deco Zilver. Antwerp-Brussels-Ghent, Sterckshof Studies 3 (1996), pp. 176-177, 282, n° M38 The smooth body, equipped with two semi-circular and silver mounted ivory handles, ends on round and constricted base, the top is decorated with a folded edge
Dalton Somaré
Guardian Head Tsogho, Gabon Wood, metal H 23 cm Provenance: Georges Vidal collection, Paris; Alain Bovis, Paris; private collection, Paris Literature: Tsogho. Les icônes du Bwiti, Paris, 2016, n° 178, p. 212; Art primitif, Loudmer-Poulain, Paris, 21 juin 1976, lot 182; Statuaire de l'Afrique Noire, ABC Collection, 1979, p. 16
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
Willow Gallery
Henri Martin (Toulouse 1860-1943 Labastide-du-Vert) Jour de Pluie sur la Terrasse Fleurie de Marquayrol, circa 1920 Oil on canvas 79 x 108 cm - framed: 99 x 128 cm Signed This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Cyrille Martin Provenance: Tajan Paris, 24 March 1999, lot 17; Richard Green Gallery, London; private collection, Canada
Kunsthaus Kende
hans bolek
Hans Bolek (Vienna, 1890-1978) An 800 grade silver coffee and tea service, Vienna, 1909-1912 Designed by Hans Bolek, executed by Franz Schediwy for Alfred Pollack silversmithy A five piece coffee and tea service Provenance: private collection, San Francisco Literature: In 1912, the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) acquired the tea service, consisting of a teapot, a small milk jug and a sugar bowl on a tray. It is still in the museum’s collection under inventory number WI 1102. An identical composition can be found in the Bröhan Museum, Berlin and is ill. in: Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, D. von, Bröhan Museum, von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, D. & Kanowski, C. (2001). Metallkunst der Moderne: Bröhan-Museum, Landesmuseum für Jugenstil, Art Deco und Funktionalismus (1889-1939), Berlin. P. 521, cat. n° 464 Exhibition: This tea service was designed prior to 1909 and exhibited for the first time by the silversmith Alfred Pollack in 1910/11 at the winter exhibition in the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts (currently the Museum der angewandten Kunst, Vienna, known as MAK)
Stern Pissarro Gallery
auguste herbin
Auguste Herbin (Quiévy 1882-1960 Paris) VENUS I, 1945 Oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm Titled, signed and dated lower left, vénus-herbin 1945 Provenance: private collection, Stockholm; Galerie des Etats-Unis, S. Stoliar, Cannes; Sotheby's London, 2002; Dorval Gallery, Lille; private collection, France Literature: Geneviève Claisse, Herbin, Catalogue raisonné de l'Œuvre Peint, Paris, 1993, n° 846, (ill. in black and white p. 429) Exhibition: Cannes, Galerie des Etats-Unis, 1965, n° 29
Harold t’Kint de Roodenbeke
Paul Delvaux (Belgium, Antheit 1897-1994 Veurne) La danse macabre, 1934 Watercolour and ink on paper 59.5 x 75 cm Signed and dated lower right: Spy 2-34 Provenance: Walter Delvaux, artist family; sale Sotheby's, 6 February 2014, lot 469; private collection Important and early composition from 1934, a key year for Delvaux's development of his surrealist world © Foundation Paul Delvaux, Belgium/SABAM, 2023-2024
De Brock
antoni tàpies
Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona 1923-2012) Ocre Amb Cinc Entallats, 1964 Marble dust and oil on canvas 162 x 130 cm Signed and dated on the reverse: Tàpies 1964 Provenance: the artist's studio, Barcelona, Spain; Galerie Stadler, Paris, France; private collection, Madrid, Spain; Josep Suñol Soler collection, Barcelona, Spain; Christie’s, London, UK; private collection; De Brock, Knokke, Belgium Literature: A. Cirici, Tàpies: Witness of Silence, Barcelona, 1972, p. 273, n° 268 (ill. and titled 'Ochre with five incisions'); A. Agustí, ed., Antoni Tàpies: The Complete Works, vol. 2, 1961-1968, Barcelona, 1996, p. 211, n° 1301 (ill. in colour); Fundació Josep Suñol, Col·lecció Josep Suñol Catàleg raonat, Barcelona, 2004, p. 110, n° 736 (ill. in colour); Fundació Josep Suñol, Col·lecció Josep Suñol Les Escales, Barcelona, 2004, pp. 79 and 164 (installation view ill. in colour) Exhibitions: Cannes, Galerie Jacques Verrière, Tàpies. Oeuvres récentes, September 1966, n° 6; Barcelona, Fundació Antoni Tàpies; Valencia, Institut Valencià d’art Modern Centro Julio González; London, Serpentine Gallery, Tàpies. Comunicació sobre el mur, January-August 1992; Barcelona, Fundació Suñol, Col·lecció Josep Suñol 1915-1995, May 2007-January 2008
Epoque Fine Jewels
marcel bing
Marcel Bing (1875-1920) Art Nouveau gold, ivory, opal and enamel brooch, designed as an woman’s ivory face in profile, her long hair in billowing waves of gold, her headdress set with two cabochon opals, decorated with green iridescent enamel and dark red enamel highlights Paris, circa 1900 3.6 x 3.2 cm Maker’s mark of Marcel Bing Marcel Bing (1875-1920) was the fourth child of Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), the great collector of Japanese art and founder of the gallery 'La Maison Art Nouveau Bing', located at 22 rue de Provence in Paris. Marcel trained as a jeweller, creating jewelry and vase mounts for the gallery, and took over its management upon his father's death in 1905. The shop and its owners were so influential in their day that it was from the name of this Parisian Shop 'La Maison Art Nouveau Bing' that the entire 'Art Nouveau' movement got its name. Bing(s importance in the development of the Art Nouveau movement cannot be over-stated.
Zebregs&Röell Fine Art and Antiques
Indo-Portuguese colonial mother-of-pearl veneered casket with silver mounts India, Gujarat, 2nd half of the 16th century, the silver mounts Goa or probably Lisbon H 16 x W 24.6 x D 16.1 cm An exceptional Gujarati casket with a rectangular box and truncated pyramidal lid (with slopes on each side and a flat top) made from exotic wood, probably teak (Tectona grandis), covered with a mother-of-pearl mosaic. The tesserae, cut from the shell of the green turban sea snail (Turbo marmoratus, a marine gastropod) in the shape of fish scales, are pinned to the wooden structure with silver ball-headed nails. The casket is set on bracket feet on the corners. The masterfully engraved decoration of the silver mounts follows the most refined and erudite Mannerist repertoire of rinceaux and ferroneries dating from the mid-sixteenth century. The high quality and refinement of the silver mounts and, likewise, the silver nails that replaced the original brass pins used to hold the mother-of-pearl tesserae in place indicate the work of a silversmith probably working in Lisbon in the second half of the sixteenth century. The Indian origin of this production, namely from Cambay (Khambhat) and Surat in the present state of Gujarat in north India, has been consensual and fully demonstrated for the last three decades, not only by documentary and literary evidence - such as descriptions, travelogues and contemporary archival documentation - but also by the survival in situ of sixteenth-century wooden structures covered in mother-of-pearl tesserae. A fine example is a canopy decorating the tomb (dargah) of the Sufi saint, Sheik Salim Chisti (1478-1572) in Fatehpur Sikri in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, north India. This is an artistic production, geometric in character and Islamic in nature, where usually the mother-of-pearl tesserae form complex designs of fish scales or, similar to the dishes also made using the same technique with thin brass sheets and pins, stylised lotus flowers. The truncated pyramidal shape corresponds, like their contemporary tortoiseshell counterparts also made in Gujarat, to a piece of furniture used in the Indian subcontinent within the Islamic world prior to the arrival of the first Portuguese. This shape is very old and specific to East-Asian caskets, chests or boxes used to contain and protect Buddhist texts, the sutras. A similar chest is the famous and large reliquary chest from Lisbon Cathedral that once contained the relics of the city's patron saint, Saint Vincent. Both match in shape, having the same kind of pedestal and bracket feet, and in their engraved silver mountings, featuring the same type of refined, erudite decoration. Their differences lie in the silver borders that frame the entire length of the edges of the chest (both the box and the lid), pinned with silver nails, and on the lock plate, shaped like a coat of arms in the Lisbon example. Given the exceptional dimensions of the reliquary casket from Lisbon Cathedral (48 x 65 x 42 cm), the goldsmith responsible for its mounting opted to place two bracket-shaped side handles instead of a top handle, as in our casket. Another similar example, probably mounted in the same Lisbon workshop as the other examples from this small group, belongs to the Seville Cathedral and still needs to be discovered. It shares many features in common with the one in the Lisbon cathedral, namely the use of engraved silver borders running along the edges, protecting the casket. An aspect that distinguished it from the others is the use of tesserae cut from Turbo marmoratus, which show a higher iridescence but also cut from the shell of the pearl oyster, probably Pinctada radiata or Pinctada maxima, given the whitish hue of the base colour. Nevertheless, the type of square-like lock plate is similar to our casket. Another example, slightly larger but with fewer silver mounts, is in the collection of the Kunstkammer Wien in the Kunsthistorischen Museums in Vienna (inv.no. GS Kap 5) and belonged to the Habsburger Family. The same type of large silver ball-headed nails seems to be characteristic of this small, rare and important group, of which the present example is the second known example in private hands, given that the others have been in their current place since the time they entered their collections in the late sixteenth century or the first years of the seventeenth century.
Galerie Cento Anni
philippe wolfers
Philippe Wolfers (Brussels, 1858-1929) The garland or frieze of garlands, circa 1928 Bronze sketch on marble base H 28 cm Signed Philippe Wolfers Lost wax, Foundry Ateliers Wolfers Provenance: private collection, Belgium Literature: La Dynastie Wolfers, Ed. Pandora, p. 425 Exhibitions: Brussels 1928, n° 197; Antwerp 1929, n° 69
Galerie Boulakia
pierre alechinsky
Pierre Alechinsky (Brussels, 1927) L'affaire du bois de Meillant, 1990 Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas 60 x 100 cm Signed and dated lower right: Alechinsky, signed, titled, and dated on the reverse: L’AFFAIRE DU BOIS DE MEILLANT 1990 Alechinsky Provenance: acquired directly from the artist Exhibitions: Alès, Musée Pierre André Benoit, Pierre Alechinsky, peinture - livres, June-October 1990, n° 42; Salzburg, Rupertinum, Pierre Alechinsky: Reisende Tusche, May-July 1991, n° 28 Born in 1927, Pierre Alechinsky moved to France in 1951 where he became a part of the CoBrA movement, sharing the same passion for the freedom of form and colour as other artists belonging to this group. After travelling around Japan in 1955, he became interested in Asian artistic techniques, ultimately adopting a style which incorporated the processes of Japanese calligraphy. The incorporation of calligraphic signage is apparent, set up against a blue border which elegantly frames the central composition. The title provides a playful backstory for the figures in the painting, whose wide eyes and claw-like hands draw us into a thrilling aesthetic narrative.
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
Osborne Samuel Gallery
Lynn Chadwick (London 1914-2003 Lypiatt Park) Short Horn, 1954 Iron and composition H 41 x W 61.5 x D 20.5 cm Unique piece Provenance: The artist; Mrs. Helen Lessore O.B.E.; Acquired by René Gaffé at the Venice Biennale, 15th September 1956; Private collection, The Netherlands; Osborne Samuel, London; Private collection, Canada Literature: J.P. Hodin, Lynn Chadwick, Werk, vol. 44 (n° 3), March 1957, p. 113; Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-2003, Lypiatt Studio, Stroud, 1997 p. 92, cat. no. 143 (prepatory drawing illustrated; with incorrect dimensions height: 45 cm.) Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Lynn Chadwick, Sculptor, With a Complete Illustrated catalogue 1947-2003, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2014, p. 111, cat. n° 143 (ill. b&w) Exhibitions: London, New Burlington Galleries, 53rd London Group: British Painting and Sculpture, November-December 1954, n° 264; Venice, XXVIII Biennale, June-October 1956, p. 412, n° 51 (titled Vacca Shortorn), lent by Mrs H. Lessore