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Waddington Custot
Barry Flanagan (Prestatyn 1941-2009 Santa Eulària des Riu) Large Troubador, 2004 Bronze 185 x 140 x 114 cm (cast 2019) Edition of 8 + 3 AP (AP 2) Stamped with the artist’s monogram, casting date and edition number ‘f-/19 AP 2/3’ and foundry mark Provenance: Plubronze Limited (the Estate of Barry Flanagan) Literature: Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Waddington Galleries, London, 2004, n° 29 (rep. in colour p.63) (1/8 catalogued) Barry Flanagan, Clare Preston (ed.), Jo Melvin, Teresa Gleadowe, Mel Gooding and Bruce McLean, Waddington Custot in association with The Estate of Barry Flanagan, London, 2017 (repro. in colour pl 137) Exhibitions: ‘Barry Flanagan: Sculpture 1965–2005’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in collaboration with Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 28 June-24 September 2006, catalogue p. 160 (rep. in colour) (3/8 exhibited); ‘Barry Flanagan: Sculpture’, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 23 February-31 March 2007 (3/8 exhibited); ‘Barry Flanagan: Sculptures 2001-2008’, Waddington Galleries, London, 30 April-23 May 2008, catalogue n° 7 (rep. in colour p.[23]; detail pp.[18–19]) (4/8 exhibited); ‘Beyond Limits’, Chatsworth House, Bakewell, Derbyshire, 7 September-28 October 2012 (AP 1/3 exhibited); ‘Barry Flanagan’, IKON, Birmingham, 18 September-24 November 2019 (rep. in colour in catalogue on p. 2-3, 5, 88) (another edition exhibited outside); ‘Mayfair Sculpture Trail’, London, 1-31 October 2020, catalogue n° 8 (rep. in colour p. 41) (AP 2/3exhibited)
Harold t’Kint de Roodenbeke
Jane Graverol 60 x 73 cm Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1949 Provenance Collection of his friend and artist Tom Gutt Exhibited Le surréalisme en Belgique, Musée de Mons, march-august 2007 Histoire de ne pas rire, Bozar, Bruxelles, fev-june 2024, illustrated p. 221 An important work by Jane Graverol, created in the very year she met the painter René Magritte. In it, she depicts herself as if trapped in a cage, like a bird. Yet the door is open, like a breath of freedom and hope offered to the artist.
Galerie de la Présidence
Geer van Velde (Lisse 1898-1977 Cachan) Composition, circa 1953 Oil on canvas 81 x 100 cm Signed with the initials 'GvV' lower right Signed on the reverse 'G. van Velde' Certificate of authenticity issued by Pierre François Moget This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Geer van Velde Painted Work currently in preparation by Pierre François Moget son of Piet Moget, under the n°118 059 Provenance: Michel Guy collection, Paris; private collection, Paris; private collection, France
Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery
Pierre ALECHINSKY L’Or du Rien, 1967-68 acrylic on paper mounted on canvas, and border in China ink on paper mounted on wood 210 x 295 cm Signed and dated lower right, and signed, dated and titled on the verso PROVENANCE : Collection Stéphane Janssen, Beverly Hills, USA Sotheby’s London, Contemporary Art Part I, 1996 Collection privée, Bruxelles Sotheby’s Paris, 2011 Galerie Lelong, Paris, France Collection privée, Bruxelles EXPOSITIONS : Bruges, Stadshallen, Triennale voor Plastiche Kunsten in Belgie, 1968, no.6 Charleroi, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Prix de la critique, 1968-1969, no.29 Brême, Ausstellung Kunsthalle Bremen, Pierre Alechinsky, Gemälde, 1958-1968, 1969 Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Pierre Alechinsky, 1969, itinérante : Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum & Düsseldorf, Kunstverein Anvers, ICC - Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Prijs van de Kritiek, 1969-1970 Cagnes-sur-Mer, IIème Festival International de la Peinture, 1970 Prix du Lauréat 1970, Deuxième Palette d’Or Venise, Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, Pavillon Belge, 1972; Darmstadt, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Pierre Alechinsky, 1974 Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Alechinsky 1965-1974, 1974-1975; itinérante : Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1975; Zurich, Kunsthalle, 1975 Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, International Series, Alechinsky, Paintings and writings, 1977-78; itinérante : Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1978 Scottsdale, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, A Museum in the Making : Alechinsky and Alquin From the Janssen Collection of Fine Art, 1996 Dunkerque, LAAC (Musée de Dunkerque), Octobre 2012 – Mars 2013
Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery
Karel APPEL People, Birds and Sun, 1951 gouache and pastel on paper, mounted on canvas 65 x 100 cm Signée et datée en bas à droite PROVENANCE: Karel Appel estate Galerie Max Hetzler , London EXHIBITIONS: Karel Appel – Cobra / Non Cobra, Galerie Max Hetzler, London, Jan - Feb 2024
Lemaire
Pot-pourri en porcelaine du Japon et de Chine, époque Kangxi et Edo. La pièce se compose de deux parties bien distinctes. Une base circulaire en Japon à décor végétal qui est sertie d'une moulure finement ciselée en bronze doré d'où s'élancent trois petits pieds. Ensuite trois chiens en biscuit de Chine portent le pot-pourri de forme boule surmonté d'une fleur en porcelaine. H. 23 cm, L. 16 cm. Il s'agit là d'un travail typique des marchands-merciers. Vers 1760-1770.
Dalton Somaré
Slit Drum, nedundu Uele Region, Northeastern D. R. of Congo Early 20th Century Wood with dark brown patina 52 x 122 cm Provenance: collection Monsieur H., (Agricultural Engineer), France, collected in situ before 1950; thence by descent; private collection, France; Sotheby’s, Paris, Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie, 21 June 2017, Lot 29; private collection, New York
Galerie Raf Van Severen
Elena Laverón (Spain, Ceuta, 1938) Pareja Sentada (Seating Couple), 1975 Cast bronze with dark patina H 170 x W 193 x D 116 cm Edition of 3 + 2 AP Literature: Antonio Abad, 'Elena Laverón, The flight of forms', 1987, p. 168; Juan Ibáñez Plaza (com.), 'de Elena Laverón', Roquetas de Mar (Almería), Ayuntamiento de Roquetas de Mar, 2008, p. 115; Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Telmo de Málaga, Anuario 2016 (n° 16), Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Telmo, 2016, p. 389; Tania Fernández de Toledo, Raya Fayad, Sotheby's France, 'UNESCO : La collection d'art', 2017, p. 431 Reference: In 1993, Pareja Sentada was installed at UNESCO's Bonvin building
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
Chambre professionnelle belge de la Librairie Ancienne et Moderne (CLAM)
Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881-1973 Mougins) and Hélène Parmelin (Nancy 1915-1998 Paris) Woman portrait in 'Les Dames de Mougins', 1965 Feltpen drawing on paper 29.8 x 27 cm Copy of the doctor René Gutmann Signed and dated 'pour mon cher ami Gutmann. Diego Picasso, le 8.11.65' Provenance: Dr. René-Albert Gutmann (1885-1981); thence by descent Librairie Lardanchet, Antiquarian bookseller
Victor Werner
Svend Rathsack (Fredericia 1885-1941 Frederiksberg) Eve with the Serpent, 1941 Bronze garden sculpture with natural green patina H 128 x W 47 x D 37 cm Signed with the artist's monogram, dated '1941', and inscribed 'n°1' on the base Bears the foundry mark 'Lauritz Rasmussen, broncestøber, København' Provenance: acquired by the previous owner's aunt in 1941, where it remained in a garden in Charlottenlund until 2016; thence by descent
Repetto Gallery
Carla Accardi (Trapini 1924-2014 Rome) Carminio su tela grezza, 1997 Vinyl on raw canvas 50 x 70 cm Signed lower right; signed, titled, dated and archive number on the reverse Certificate of authenticity on b/w photograph signed by the artist, n° 18/98 Registered at Studio Accardi, Rome, archive n° 629A Provenance: Soffiantino Arte Contemporanea, Turin; private collection Literature: Germano Celant (edited by), 'Carla Accardi. Catalogo ragionato', (Charta, Milano) 1999, p. 419, n° 1997 62 (B&N), ill.
Desmet Fine Art
Odoardo Fantacchiotti (Rome 1809-1877 Florence) Musidora, Firenze 1859 Inspired by the James Thomson’s poem ‘Summer’, originally published in 1727 Marble H 167.6 x W 49 x D 49 cm Plinth: H 95.3 x D 63 cm (at base) Total height: H 262.9 cm Signed 'Per commis del meritis / ... / Odoardo Fantachiotti / Scolpiva in Firenze / l'anno 1859 Art Loss Register: S00258863 Provenance: commissioned by August Belmont (1813-1890) USA; Randall family, Clarendon Court (Newport, USA) Literature: Ricordi fotografici degli artisti contemporanei in Toscana: ‘La Musidora’(Firenze-1858); V. Lia Bernini, G. Moradei, Odoardo Fantacchiotti scultore (1811-1877): atti delle giornate di studio nel bicentenario della nascita 1811-2011, (Toscana 2021), Volume 227, pp. 37-41 Other verions: 1862, for Baron Belper, Edward Strutt (Israele collection); 1865, for the King of Portugal (Lisbon Palacio Nacional da Ajuda)
Gallery de Potter d’Indoye
Empire chandelier, circa 1810 Crystal, chiseled and gilded bronze H 117 x Ø 81 cm Chandelier with 18 lights in crystal and finely chiseled and gilded bronze. It is composed of two circles of fillets bordering a frieze of laurels and flowerets separated by eight arrows, joined at the centre by a blue enameled globe and scattered with gilt stars. The basket ends with a rose and a seed-shaped knob. A panache and small palm leaves crown the chandelier from which hang garlands of crystals. Crystal: by Ladoupède du Fougerais, entrepreneur and owner of the Manufacture de cristal du Mont-Cenis de leurs Majestés Impériales et Royales. Ladoupède du Fougerais delivered a very similar chandelier with 16 lights on 24 April 1810, for the small salon of the apartments of the Empress at the Petit Trianon in Versailles. This chandelier is illustrated in 'Versailles, le Petit Trianon', by Denise Ledoux-Lebard, published by Editions de l'Amateur, 1989, р. 95, n° 6l.
Galerie Alexis Bordes
Constant Montald (Ghent 1862-1944 Woluwe-Saint-Lambert) View of Houses in Spring, 1917 Gouache on paper laid down on cardboard 70 x 88.5 cm Signed and dated lower right 'C. Montald 17' Provenance: private collection, Belgium (acquired at public auction in 1993); private collection, France