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Galeria Jordi Pascual
manolo valdés
Manolo Valdés (Valencia, 1942) Matisse como pretexto, 1987 Mixed media on burlap 170 x 240 cm Provenance: collection Guillermo Caballero de Luján, Valencia Literature: Fundación Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Art of this Century, 2022. Manolo Valdés. Painting and sculpture, 18 October 2002-19 January 2003, p. 105; de Barañano, Kosme, 1999, Manolo Valdés. Ediciones Polígrafa and Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, p. 51
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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
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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 Oscar De Vos
emile claus
Emile Claus (Sint-Eloois-Vijve 1849-1924 Astene) Return from school/Girls in the field, 1892 Oil on canvas 132 x 99 cm Signed lower left: Emile Claus Provenance: collection Mrs. G.C., Brussels; Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels, 1929, n° 28; collection Mrs. F. Soethoudt, Brussels; auction Guillaume Campo, Antwerp, 1982, n° 25; Galerie Oscar De Vos, Sint-Martens-Latem; private collection, Belgium Literature: G. Giroux, Catalogue de la collection de Madame G.C. (Brussels: Galerie Georges Giroux, 1929), n° 28, ill. n° 12 (ill.); P. Eeckhout, Retrospectieve tentoonstelling Emile Claus 1849-1924, cat. (Gent: MSK, 1974), p. 49, n° 49; R. Bombeke, e.a., Schilders van het Leieland, cat. (Deinze: MuDeL, 1991), n° 144; P. Boyens, Sint-Martens-Latem. Kunstenaarsdorp in Vlaanderen (Tielt: Lannoo, 1992), 535 (ill.); M. Ruyters, Campo 1897-1997 (Antwerpen: Stefan Campo, 1997), p. 85, n° 11 (ill.); J. De Smet, e.a., Emile Claus en het landleven, cat. (Gent: MSL, 2009), p. 145, p. 93 (ill.); R. Hoozee, e.a., Lights of Flanders. Images of a beautiful Belgian village, cat. (Tokyo: The Mainichi Newspapers, 2010), p. 71, n° 36 (ill.); J. De Smet, e.a., Emile Claus and Belgian Impressionism, cat. (Kobe: The Kobe Shimbun, 2013), p. 46, n° 6 (ill.) Exhibitions: 1929, Brussels, Galerie George Giroux, n° 28; 1974, Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Retrospective Exhibition Emile Claus 1849-1924, n° 49; 1982, Antwerp, Guillaume Campo, 1982, n° 25; 1991, Deinze, Museum van Deinze en de Leiestreek, Schilders van het Leieland, n° 144; 2009, Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Emile Claus and Rural Life, n° 93; 2010-2011, Himeji, City Museum of Art; Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art; Miyoshi, Okuda Genso Museum, Light of Flanders. Images of a beautiful Belgian village, n° 36; 2013, Himeji, City Museum of Art; Tokyo, Station Gallery; Ishikawa, Prefectural Museum of Art; Hekinan, City Tatsukichi Fuji Museum of Contemporary Art, Emile Claus and Belgian Impressionism, n° 6; 2021, Mechelen, Heilige Geestkapel, Het Kunstuur
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De Brock
serge poliakoff
Serge Poliakoff (Moscow 1900-1969 Paris) Composition Abstraite, 1968 Oil on canvas 161.9 x 129.9 cm Signed lower center: Serge Poliakoff Provenance: the artist's studio, Paris, France; collection Doctor Bachmann, Teufen, Switzerland; Galerie Malingue, Paris, France; private collection, Italy; Connaught Brown, London, UK; private collection, Belgium; De Brock, Knokke, Belgium Literature: Programme des concerts du domaine musical de la ville de Paris, Saison 1969-1970 (ill. in colour); Plaisir de France, nº 372, p. 34, November 1969 (ill. in colour); Giuseppe Marchiori, Serge Poliakoff, Paris, Les Presses de la Connaissance, p. 107, 1976; Françoise Brütsch, Serge Poliakoff, Neuchâtel, Ides et Calendes, p. 144, 1993 (ill. in colour); La Collection T, une collection privée suisse, Zurich, J & P Fine Art, nº 15, p. 31, 2003 (ill. in colour); Marie Victoire Poliakoff, Serge Poliakoff, mon grand-père, Paris, Éditions du Chêne, p. 82, 2011 (ill. in colour); Beaux-Arts Éditions, hors série, p. 41, 2013 (ill. in colour); Connaissance des Arts, hors série, nº 601, p. 32, October 2013 (ill. in colour)
Dr. Lennart Booij Fine Art & Rare Items
emile gallé
Emile Gallé (Nancy, 1846-1904) Vase, circa 1895 Aquamarin enamelled and hand etched vase with applied handles H 25 cm Provenance: private collection, France Literature: Alistair Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, vol. IV, p. 228 for a similar model
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Galerie Mathivet
carlo bugatti (1856-1940)
Carlo Bugatti (Milan 1856-1940 Molsheim) Side table, circa 1902 Parchment stool with polychrome decoration of dragonflies, enhanced with gilding and stamped copper with rectangular top. Lateral X-shaped base with a large circular lower part in copper and stamped brass H 39 x W 44 x D 44 cm Signed with the stamp: Marca depositata Bugatti Carlo Provenance: French collection Literature: Fabbrica italiana mobili artistici-A. De Vecchi e C. (gia C. Bugatti & C.), trade catalogue, Milan, circa 1902-1905, repr. under n° 699 (n.p.); M-M Massé, Carlo Bugatti au Musée d'Orsay-Catalogue sommaire illustré du fonds d'archives et des collections, Musée d'Orsay & RMN, Paris, 2001, repr. pp. 72 and 99
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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.
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Galerie Hurtebize
alfred sisley
Alfred Sisley (Paris 1839-1899 Moret-sur-Loing) Matinée d'octobre près de Port-Marly, 1876 Oil on canvas 46.5 x 54.3cm Signed lower left: Sisley Provenance: Durand-Ruel and Co. Gallery, Paris; Feder & Picq, Paris; Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Paris, June 1892; Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago, August 1892; Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, March 1893; J.M. Schley, New York, February 1899; Katherine Schley Variell, New York by descent from previous owner, August 1915; Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, Maine by bequest of previous owner, 1960; sale, Sotheby's, London, April 24, 1963; O'Hana Gallery, London; acquired from the latter by the family of the last owner, October 1963 Literature: F. Daulte, Alfred Sisley: Catalogue raisonné of the painted work, Lausanne, 1959, n° 224 (ill. titled Morning of October); S. Brame and F. Lorenceau, Alfred Sisley: Critical catalogue of paintings and pastels, Paris, 2021, p. 118, n° 236, ill. p. 43 Exhibitions: New York, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Works by Alfred Sisley, February-March 1899, n° 23; Waterville, Colby College Bixler Art and Music Center, 1961-62 (on extended loan); London, O'Hana Gallery, Summer Exhibition of French Paintings and Sculpture of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, June-September 1963, n° 52
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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
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Galerie Taménaga
kees van dongen
Kees van Dongen (Delftshaven 1877-1968 Monaco) Place de la Concorde, 1920 Oil on canvas 81 x 100 cm Signed lower right: van Dongen Provenance: A. Rueff; Galerie Urban, Paris; Galerie Paul Pétridès, Paris; private collection Literature: Louis Chaumeil, Van Dongen Geneva, 1967, n° 160; Jean Melas Kyriazi, Van Dongen après le Fauvime, Lausanne, 1976, p. 105, ill. in colour p. 143; New York, Galerie Taménaga, Kees Van Dongen, mai 1990, n° 9; Tokyo, Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art, Kees Van Dongen: From Fauvism to Les Années folles, 2022, n° 37 ill. in colour p. 70 Exhibitions: Munich, Ausstellung der Secession, n.d.; Venice, XVII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Citta di Venezia, 1930, n° 18; Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Van Dongen, 1967, n° 106; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Van Dongen, 1967-1968, n° 106; Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d’Automne, Van Dongen, 1972, n° 35; Geneva, Musée de l’Athénée, Van Dongen, 1976, n° 20; New York, Galerie Taménaga, Kees Van Dongen, mai 1990, n° 9; Tokyo, Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art, Kees Van Dongen: From Fauvism to Les Années folles, 2022, n° 37
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Willow Gallery
Marc Chagall (Vitebsk 1887-1985 Saint-Paul de Vence) Flûtiste jaune et bouc dans l’arbre en fleurs, circa 1960-1964 Gouache, pastel, oil pastel and Indian Ink on paper 51 x 34 cm - framed: 70 x 53 cm Stamped with artist’s signature This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Comité Marc Chagall Provenance: estate of the artist; thence by descent
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Lemaire
Two Vincennes porcelain jardinières fitted with porcelain flowers France, Louis XVI period Soft paste porcelain jardinière with pink monochrome decoration holding porcelain flowers on painted metal stems H 9.3 and H 9.5 cm; overall 26.8 cm Marked with a double L in blue bearing the letter-date C for 1755-56 Marked by the painters Jean-Charles Sioux l'aîné (French, active from 1752 to 1792) and Mutel (active from 1754 to 1759). 3rd size A flower jardinière with the same decoration has been published by GWILT (J.), Vincennes and Early Sèvres Porcelain from de Belvedere Collection, V & A Publishing, 2014, p. 147
Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery
tom wesselmann
Tom Wesselmann (Cincinnati 1931-2004 New York) Study for great American nude #90, 1966 Liquitex on paper 46.4 x 55.2 cm Signed and dated Provenance: Sidney Janis Gallery, New York; David Janis Gallery, New York; Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York Literature: Tom Wesselmann: a Pop Art Legend, Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery, Knokke, 2023, ill.