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De Brock
ethan cook
Ethan Cook (USA, Texas 1893) Untitled, 2014 Hand woven cotton canvas and industrial canvas, framed 193 x 193 cm Provenance: the artist's studio, Brooklyn, NY, USA; T293 Gallery, Rome, Italy; private collection, Europe; Phillips, London, 26 June 2018, lot 276; private collection, UK; Phillips, London, 5 December 2018, lot 71; De Brock, Knokke, Belgium (acquired at the above sale)
Galerie des Modernes
max ernst
Max Ernst (Brühl 1891-1976 Paris) Fleur de coquillage, circa 1932 Gouache on paper 23 x 30.7 cm Signed lower right 'max ernst' Certificate of authenticity by Mr. Werner Spies dated 29 November 2007 Provenance: Edward Weston collection, Carmel Highlands; Galerie Tarica, Paris; Galerie Heyram-Mabel Semmler, Paris; Galerie des Modernes, Paris; private collection, France
Galerie Taménaga
marie laurencin
Marie Laurencin (Paris, 1883-1956) Deux fillettes et chien, 1942 Oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm Signed and dated lower left 'Marie Laurencin 1942' Provenance: private collection Literature: Beaux-Arts, Paris, 24-30 July 1952; Daniel Marchesseau, Marie Laurencin, Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, Tokyo: Marie Laurencin Museum, 1986, vol. I, n° 804, repr. p. 327
Heutink Ikonen
Week Icon (Sedmitsa) Russia, Palekh Late 18th century 44.5 x 36 cm This icon depicts a rare iconography showing the seven days of the week. Each feast represents a day of the week, starting with Sunday. In order: the Anastasis, Synaxis of the Archangel Michael, the Beheading of John, the Annunciation, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion of Christ. The large image at the bottom is All Saints' Day. The icon's refined details, bright colour palette and complex composition make it a very fine example of Palekh icon painting.
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 Bernard De Leye
Umbilicated dish and gadrooned basin in enameled copper Venise, circa 1500-1530 Ø 33 cm Provenance: collection Messel, Darmstadt; collection Ludwig and Anne Messel, London; collection Leonard and Maud Messel, London until 1953; Galerie Kugel, Paris; private collection, Switzerland Literature: Les cuivres émaillés dits Vénitiens, Corpus des œuvres en collections publiques et privées, Silvana Editoriale, 2018, Volume II, n° 34, p. 92 Twelve convex, curved white gadroons with blue highlights on a green background. This enamel production in Venice spans over a very short period within Venetian Decorative Arts. The basin is adorned with two rows of 24 concave, curved gadroons, then with scale-like motifs. The entirely blue reverse is richly decorated with gilded patterns.
Repetto Gallery
jean dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet (Le Havre 1901-1985 Paris) Topographie, January 1959 Oil on paper collage applied on paper [assemblage d’empreintes (huile noire)] 47 x 59 cm Certificate of authenticity by Galerie de l’Ile-de-France, Paris Provenance: Galerie de l’Ile-de-France, Paris; private collection, Italy Literature: Max Loreau (Ed.), Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet. Fascicule XIX : Célébration du sol II, texturologies, topographies, Weber éditeur, Paris, n° 173
Stone Gallery
Woolly rhinoceros skull Approx. 50.000 years old 100 x 100 x 35 cm Origin: Siberia This woolly rhinoceros skull is approximately 50,000 years old, belonging to one of the most impressive mammals in the recent history of Northern Europe and Northern Asia. There were even people who lived alongside these giants between around 30,000 and 15,000 years ago! Stone gallery has previously conducted expeditions in various countries but recently acquired this skull through a swap with a local museum. Roy says, 'It is the best-preserved and most complete skull I’ve ever seen. Even the teeth are all original.' Researchers and students from Maastricht University have digitised mammoth and rhinoceros fossils from the Ice Age, including this skull. With this technique, it’s possible to bring these extinct species back to life in motion and conduct new studies. 'We’re investigating how strong the bone structure is. For this, we use Finite Element Analyses, a method commonly applied in the construction of buildings and bridges. The study explores the forces exerted on the bones, such as during chewing. This helps us predict how and what the animal ate, as well as how well it was adapted to its enormous size.' - Paleontologist Dr. Jesse Hennekam, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University -
Galerie AB - Agnès Aittouarès
pablo picasso
Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881-1973 Mougins) Two characters, séduction, 1953 Produced in Cannes on 16 December 1953 Ink on paper 20.9 x 26.4 cm Signed upper left and dated upper right Provenance: Scheffel Gallery, Bad Homburg, Germany; private collection, acquired from the Scheffel Gallery in 1989; private collection; private collection, Paris Literature: Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1953 à 1955, vol. 16, Paris, 1965, n° 57, p. 20; Dore Ashton, Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views, New York, 1972, p. 125
Galerie von Vertes
tony cragg
Tony Cragg (Liverpool, 1949) Nea Relatives, 2020 Bronze Conceived and cast in 2020 6 casts H 77 x W 44 x D 47 cm Signature and foundry stamp on the base Certificate of authenticity by the artist on 10 April 2025 Provenance: Buchmann Galerie, Berlin (acquired directly from the artist)
Artimo Fine Arts
charles-auguste fraikin
Charles-Auguste Fraikin (Herentals 1817-1893 Brussels) Emerging from the Sea Bath White Carrara marble H 123 x W 37 x D 33 cm Provenance: Francis Meyer collection, Switzerland Literature: Fraikin, Charles-Auguste. Catalogue de la galerie. Musée Fraikin de Herenthals offert par l'artiste à sa ville natale l'an 1891. Herentals: Typ. L. Bongaerts-Verbeeck, 1891; Engelen & Marx. La sculpture en Belgique à partir de 1830. Tome III: Devreese-Hecq. Bruxelles : Éditions Ars 2006, pp. 1550-1557 With this work, Charles-Auguste Fraikin celebrates feminine beauty captured in the intimacy of a daily gesture: that modest and natural act of a young woman emerging from the water and wringing out her long hair. The sculptor excels here in the art of suggestion rather than revelation. The delicately fitted drapery clings to the body’s contours whilst gracefully concealing them, playing on the translucency of the marble and the softness of the volumes. The work bears witness to the dual influence of classical ideals and the romantic taste for a sensitive evocation of femininity. Through his treatment of surfaces - silken, clean, almost vibrant - Fraikin achieves a remarkable degree of refinement whilst preserving a clear narrative: that of a moment suspended in time, poised between genre scene and allegory. Emerging from the Sea Bath brilliantly illustrates Fraikin’s ability to combine modesty with sensuality, simplicity with virtuosity, in a sculpture that speaks both to the eye and to the imagination.
Repetto Gallery
valerio adami
Valerio Adami (Bologna, 1935) La firma del muro antico, Odisseo (per E. Pound), 1977 Acrylic on canvas 204 x 152 cm Signed, dated and titled on the reverse: Adami 8.8.77 17.11.77 La firma del muro antico. Odisseo (per E. Pound) Label on the reverse by Galerie Rive Gauche Marcel Strouk, Paris Certificate of authenticity by Archivio Valerio Adami n° 878 Provenance: Galerie Maeght, Paris; private collection, France (acquired from the above) Exhibition: Valerio Adami, 7 October-12 November 1978, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi; Valerio Adami. Ripensando la realtà, Dep Art Gallery, Milan, 6 March-17 May 2025
Galerie de la Béraudière
jean fautrier
Jean Fautrier (Paris 1898-1964 Châtenay-Malabry) Les feuilles vertes, 1934 Oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm Signed lower left 'Fautrier' Provenance: Jean Paulhan collection, France; Dominique Aury collection, France; private collection, France (by descent); Tajan, Paris, November 23rd, 2022, lot 44; private collection, Belgium Literature: Marie-José Lefort, Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint de Jean Fautrier, Norma éditions, 2023, p. 293, n° 478 (ill.); Palma Bucarelli, Jean Fautrier, Pittura e materia, édition Il Saggiatore, Milan, 1960, ill. n° 107 p. 306 Exhibitions: 1974, Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Jean Paulhan à travers ses peintres, cat. n° 563, p. 218
Galerie BG Arts
jean dunand
Jean Dunand (Lancy 1877-1942 Paris) Cobra vase, circa 1913 Patinated and hammered copper, patinated bronze, wrought iron and lacquered wood base H 28.5 cm Signed Provenance: property of Bernard Laurent, France Literature: Art et Décoration, July 1914-December 1919, p. 121
Herwig Simons Fine Arts
Game box with chess and backgammon Eger, 17th century 48 x 48 x 11.5 cm Provenance: Lothar Schmid (1928-2013), German chess Grandmaster Literature: publications World of Art: Art chamber games by the Kunsthistoriches Museum in Vienna Double-sided game box : one side shows a bas-relief depicting the meeting of Aeneas and Dido, accompanied by a Putto. The other side features a chessboard in finely executed marquetry. The interior reveals an elegant backgammon board decorated with double-tailed dolphins. Eger, a Bohemian Free City (now Cheb, Czech Republic), was well known in the 17th century for a specialised type of woodworking, particularly for intarsia panels. This set belonged to Lothar Schmid, the German chess Grandmaster and collector of chess books, boards and pieces. He is best known as the chief arbiter of the World Championship of chess in 1972 between Bobby Fisher and Boris Spassky in Reykjavik.
Galerie de la Présidence
Nicolas de Staël (Saint Petersbourg 1913-1955 Antibes) Composition, 1949 Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm Signed lower left Provenance: Henriette Gomès collection, Paris; private collection, Paris; private collection, Luxembourg Literature: J-P Jouffroy, Nicolas de Staël, p. 161; Jacques Dubourg and Françoise de Staël, Nicolas de Staël, Catalogue Raisonné des peintures, ed. Le temps, Paris, n° 195, p. 121; Françoise de Staël, Nicolas de Staël, Catalogue Raisonné des peintures, ed. Ides et Calendres, Switzerland, n° 189, p. 259; Françoise de Staël, Nicolas de Staël, Catalogue Raisonné des peintures, ed. Ides et Calendres, Switzerland, revised and expanded by Marie du Bouchet and Gustave de Staël, n° 189, p. 209 Exhibition: Nicolas de Staël, Musée Réattu, Arles, June-September 1958, n° 18 The year 1949 was a crucial period for Nicolas de Staël: he continued to explore and refine his style, marking an important transition towards painting that would become more fluid and expressive. Among his notable works this year is this 'Composition', which reflects his continued use of thick layers of paint and his extensive play with materials, moving from impasto to knife painting. For Nicolas de Staël, although abstract his paintings are 'images of life', his coloured masses generate vibrations. Lastly, this painting has always been kept in private hands until now, and was never presented at auctions.
Gallery de Potter d’Indoye
georges jacob
Pair of bergères 'à la Reine' Georges Jacob (Cheny 1739-1814 Paris) France, Louis XVI period Carved and gilded wood H 100 x W 69 x D 61 cm Stamped Georges Jacob Provenance: Jacques Perrin, Paris, 1997 Pair of carved and gilded wood Bergères with rounded backs, decorated with acanthus leaves and an interlacing frieze. Tapered and caned legs with gadroons. The arched crest surmounts padded armrests, the frames carved with guilloche patterns and foliage, resting on turned fluted legs, stamped G. Jacob. Georges Jacob, received as master on the July 5th, 1765, is the most famous of all the 18th-century French menuisiers. Unlike his colleagues, Jacob founded his company from scratch in 1765 and moved his workshops to Rue Meslée in 1775. This is where the most brilliant period of his career took place and where the major royal commissions were produced. From 1773 he was solicited by the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, for which he continued to work until the Revolution. In addition to the Queen and, to a lesser extent, the King, his clientele included the main members of the royal family and its entourage. As ordinary carpenter to Monsieur, Count of Provence and brother of the King, the future Louis XVIII, he furnished most of his homes. He also worked for the Count of Artois, another brother of the King and future Charles X, Madame Élisabeth, sister of Louis XVI, the Prince of Condé, the Duke of Penthièvre, the Duke of Bavaria and Deux-Ponts Charles-Théodore, etc.
Galeria Bessa Pereira
Carlo Hauner (Brescia 1927-1996 Salina) & Martin Eisler (Vienna 1913-1977 São Paulo) Coffee table, 1960s Jacarandá wood and glass H 46 cm - Ø 89 cm Origin: Brasil Provenance: private collection, Rio de Janeiro; Galeria Bessa Pereira collection, 2025 Literature: Vicente, A., & Vasconcellos, M. (Comps.), Móvel moderno brasileiro (1st edition), São Paulo: Olhares, 2017, p. 231
Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art
heinz mack
Heinz Mack (Germany, Lollar 1931) Weisse Vibration, 1958 Synthetic resin in wood (relief) H 28 x W 68 x D 4 cm Signed and dated lower middle 'Mack 58', verso titled 'Weiße Vibration' Provenance: estate of Franz Swetec, Düsseldorf (acquired from the artist)