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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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Tobogan Antiques
giuseppe ghedina (1825-1896)
Giuseppe Ghedina (Italy, 1825-1896) The music lesson, circa 1860 Oil on canvas H 141 x W 179 cm Signed: G. Ghedina Painting representing a music lesson, composed of a group of three elegantly dressed ladies, listening to a musician playing the lute and accompanied on vocals by a man holding a musical score in hand. This artist’s genre scene is distinguished by the softness of the eyes, the romanticism of the attitudes and the harmony of the tones used Provenance: Château de Prépinson, Sologne
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
Repetto Gallery
Christo (Gabrovo 1935-2020 New York) The Pont Neuf, Wrapped (Project for Paris), 1980 Quai du Louvre, Quai de la Megissérie, Île de la Cité, Quai de Conti, Quai des Grands Augustins Graphite, charcoal, wax crayon, oil pastel, fabric and thread, aerial photograph and architectural drawings on card collage, in artist's plexiglass box frame with tape 83.8 x 71 cm
Opera Gallery
Paul Delvaux (Belgium, Antheit 1897-1994 Veurne) La Fin du Voyage, 1968 Oil on canvas 165.1 x 145 cm Signed: P. DELVAUX and dated 10-68 on the lower right; signed again, titled and dated: 1968 on the stretcher Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Morton D. May, St. Louis, USA, by 1969; Marlborough Gallery, London; Don Bartolomé March, Madrid (until at least 1991); Christie's London, 3 February 2003, lot 168; Collection of Paul Yeou Chichong Literature: Jerrold Lanes, New York, The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXI, n° 794, May 1969, p. 325, ill.; Michel Butor, Jean Clair, Suzanne Houbart-Wilkin, Delvaux, Catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Brussels, 1975, n° 309, p. 271, ill.; Jacques Sojcher, Paul Delvaux ou la passion puérile, Paris, 1991, p. 78, ill. Exhibitions: New York, Staempfli Gallery, Paul Delvaux, 1969, n° 15; Madrid, Fundacion Juan March; Barcelona, Funacio Caixa Catalunya and Florence, Pallazzo Corsini, Delvaux, 1998, n° 72, p. 113, ill. in colour © Foundation Paul Delvaux, Belgium/SABAM, 2023-2024
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Stéphane Renard Fine Art
henri-pierre danloux
Henri-Pierre Danloux (Paris, 1753-1809) Pair of portraits: Portrait of the Duc d'Angoulême & Portrait of the Duc de Berry Oil on canvas pasted on wood panels Duc d'Angoulême: oval canvas 25 x 21 cm - framed: 35.5 x 30 cm Duc de Berry: oval canvas 26.5 x 21 cm - framed: 35.5 x 30.3 cm Rectangular frames in the neoclassical style with pearl and rais-de-coeurs motif surrounding an oval medallion. The frames are surmounted by cartouches reading 'Donné par S.A.R. le Mgr Le Duc d'Angoulême à Lord Adam Gordon' and 'Donné par S.A.R. le Mgr Le Duc d'Berri à Lord Adam Gordon' Signed 'HP Danloux 1797' on the portrait of the Duc d'Angoulême Provenance: gifted by the models to Lord Adam Gordon and then by family descent
Zebregs&Röell Fine Art and Antiques
Jan van Mekeren (Tiel 1658-1733 Amsterdam) 't Blommenkabinet Dutch floral marquetry cabinet-on-stand Amsterdam, late 17th century H 206 x W 171 x D 61 cm The present and V&A cabinet were both possibly ordered by Jens Wijbergen, a Dutch merchant living in Copenhagen. According to the van Mekeren archives, an order was placed by Wijbergen in 1700, probably for two cabinets, because the price was comparable to other orders for a pair of van Mekeren cabinets. The previous owner of the present cabinet, living in Austria, is a descendant of a patrician family from Riga. Some members of the Danish Wijbergen family are known to have moved to Riga in the early eighteenth century. The cabinet and all its oak bases have been retained in their original state. The whole cabinet is covered with a floral marquetry veneer of various kinds of wood, including walnut, holly, laburnum, boxwood, satiné rubané, amaranth, tulipwood, barberry, elm, sycamore, olive wood, padouk and kingwood. A modest rectangular cornice over a frieze inlaid with marquetry of various flowers over two doors with marquetry depicting urns on a plinth issuing bouquets of tulips, bluebells, cornflowers, marigolds, irises, peonies, daffodils, crown imperials, roses, lilies, anemones, chrysanthemums and carnations; several different species of butterflies and moths, including Arctia caja, swallowtails, garden white, meadow brown, and a brimstone butterfly, at least three different bird species, including turtle dove, thrush, and warbler, and a garden snail, Cepaea hortencis. Jan van Mekeren, born in Tiel 1658, moved to Amsterdam in 1687, where he was recorded as ‘kabinetmaker’ or ‘kistenmaker’. Before moving to Amsterdam, he had been in London in 1682, where he had asked to be admitted to the Dutch Reformed Church. He apparently wanted to stay for some time in London, presumably to learn the art of furniture marquetry under Gerrit Jensen. In 1687, he was back and mentioned as a guildsman, a member of the St. Josef guild in Amsterdam. He was successful as a cabinetmaker because, in 1693, he bought a house in the expensive Kalverstraat and extended his business into the wood trade as well. Since the headquarters of the VOC was in Amsterdam, the city was the foremost European market for exotic woods in the seventeenth century. Despite a 1624 regulation stipulating that members of the Amsterdam cabinetmaker’s guild offer their wares for sale in the guild’s shop, furniture makers in seventeenth and eighteenth century Holland hardly ever marked their work. However, thanks to the inventory after Jan’s death, there is a good list of his workpieces with thorough descriptions, prices, and the names of his clientele. The estate included many finished and unfinished pieces of furniture, an extensive collection of cabinet woods, and, most interesting, a long list of claims with names of the debtors and the amounts due. Most debtors were well-known Amsterdam patricians; only a few were from outside Amsterdam, including Jens Wijbergen from Copenhagen, who still owed Jan van Mekeren fl. 33,13. Because of a very close resemblance, this cabinet possibly is the pendant of the Van Mekeren cabinet now in the Victoria & Albert Museum (W.5:1 to 14-1986). There are minor differences in the flower decorations on the doors and sides of the cabinet. Still, a pair of Van Mekeren cabinets in Amerongen Castle, ordered as a pair, look less like each other than the present cabinet and its possible pendant in the V&A. Only six other floral Van Mekeren cabinets are known: one in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (inv. R.B.K. 1964-12), one in the Metropolitan Museum New York (1995, 371a, b), one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, one in Charlecote Park, Warwickshire, and a pair in Amerongen Castle, the Netherlands.
Galerie Hadjer
fernand léger
Fernand Léger (Argentan 1881-1955 Gif-sur-Yvette) The builders with the aloe Conceived in 1953 and realised in 1961 Wool Workshop Pinton-Fréres, Tapestry Aubusson/Felletin, France H 165 x W 201 cm Bolduc workshop on the back Numbered 3/6 Certificate from the Comité Leger Provenance: Nadia Leger; Jane Kahan Gallery; private collection Literature: Tapisseries, Céramiques, Bronzes, Lithographie, Palais de la méditerranée, Nice, 1962 Exhibition: Tapisseries, Céramiques, Bronzes, Lithographie, Palais de la méditerranée, Nice, 1962
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Francis Janssens van der Maelen
henry van de velde
Henry van de Velde (Belgium, Antwerp 1863-1957, Oberägeri, Switzerland) Art Nouveau flat desk (detail), circa 1898 Sycamore wood, double-sided, the top is covered with black leather in its centre 129.50 x 73 cm Certificate of authenticity from Professor Klaus-Jürgen Sembach This desk is a variation of a games table that was in the collection of Villa Esche Provenance: private collection, France Literature: Catalogue of the exhibition L'Art Nouveau en Belgique, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 19 December 1980-15 February 1981, p. 266 n° 143; Wolf D. Percher, Henry van de Velde - Das Gesamtwerk, Edition Factum, p. 94, ref 1318, p. 151, ref. 3406, p. 229, ref. 1317. This desk will be presented in a book about Henry van de Velde written by Bea Maybach from the Bauhaus-Museum in Weimar in Germany Exhibition: L'Art Nouveau en Belgique, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 19 December 1980-15 February 1981
Epoque Fine Jewels
rené lalique
René Lalique (Ay 1860-1945 Paris) Art Nouveau nymph pendant/brooch Designed as a winged nymph, part female, part butterfly, the naked nymph decorated with skin colour enamel, the outstretched wings in pale green ‘plique-à-jour’ enamel, edged with a dark green ‘plique-à-jour’ border, highlighted with old mine cut and rose cut diamonds, mounted in 18 karat gold. Greenish ‘contre-émail’ on the reverse. The nymph can also be worn as a pendant. With detachable brooch fitting Paris, circa 1900 8.3 x 4.1 cm Signed Lalique and Lalique maker's mark In fitted box marked R. LALIQUE, 40 Cours-La-Reine, Paris A similar nymph by Lalique is part of the collection of the Lalique Museum in Hakone, Japan
Galeria Jordi Pascual
joan miró
Joan Miró (Barcelona 1893-1983 Palma de Mallorca) Peinture, projet pour une tapisserie, 1973-1974 Paint, oil and wool on wood 197 x 122 cm Provenance: private collection Literature: Lelong, Daniel. Joan Miró. Catalogue raisonné. Paintings, vol. V, 1969-1975, Successió Miró, 2003; p. 238, fig. 1641
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.
Galerie des Modernes
serge poliakoff
Serge Poliakoff (Moscow 1900-1969 Paris) Abstract composition, 1960 Gouache on paper 50 x 65.5 cm Signed lower left: SErgE PoliakoFF Provenance: private collection, Switzerland Literature: Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre de Serge Poliakoff by Alexis Poliakoff, vol. III, 1959-1962, desc. and repr. in colour on p. 226, n° 60-202
robertaebasta
Lucio Fontana (Argentina, Rosario 1899-1969 Comabbio, Italy) Concetto Spaziale Natura, 1967 Artwork made of two pieces in polished brass H 26 x W 20 x D 21 cm Both signed: Lucio Fontana on the reverse and numbered 186/500, cast by Berrocal founderies Provenance: private collection, Italy
Francis Maere Fine Arts
paul delvaux
Paul Delvaux (Antheit 1879-1994 Veurne) Femmes devant la mer, 1928 Oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm Signed and dated upper right: P. DELVAUX 28 Provenance: Jean Giron, Brussels; private collection, Belgium Literature: A. Eggermont, Les arts plastiques in Le Thyrse, Brussels, March 1931, p. 104; M. Butor, J. Clair, S. Houbart-Wilkin, Paul Delvaux-catalogue de l'oeuvre peint, Cosmos Monographies, Brussels, 1975, cat. n° 35, p. 156 Exhibitions: 1928 Brussels Galerie Manteau, Paul Delvaux et Robert Giron, 1931 Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paul Delvaux, 1969 Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs; 1974, Sint Martens Latem, Georges Buysse Gallery, Delvaux, Spilliaert, Pérot; 1985 Paris, Centre Culturel Wallonie-Bruxelles, Hommage à Paul Delvaux © Foundation Paul Delvaux, Belgium/SABAM, 2023-2024
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
Galerie de la Béraudière
germaine richier
Germaine Richier (Grans 1902-1959 Montpellier) L'Ogre, 1949 Bronze with black patina H 81.2 x W 45 x D 40.3 cm Signed and stamped on the base: G Richier, C. Valsuani cire perdue Foundry: Claude Valsuani, Paris, conceived in 1949, cast in 1951 Edition of 12 (1/8 – 8/8 + 4 AP ) Original certificate of authenticity by Francoise Guiter, dated 5 March 2014 Provenance: Galerie Creuzevault, Paris (1962); Galerie Odermatt, Paris; Sale Prescheteau-Badin, Paris, 20 March 2006; private collection Literature: P. Levy, London's Frenetic Gallery Scene: O'Keeffe sinks; Freud is missing, in The Wall Street Journal Europe, 11 June 1993; Brassaï, Germaine Richier, in Les artistes de ma vie, Paris, 1982, pp. 194-197; R. Barotte, A la rencontre de Germaine Richier (1904-1959), le sculpteur qui va... au-delà de, in Vision sur les arts, Béziers, November 1978; G. Marchiori, Modern French Sculpture, London 1964, pp. 52-53; M. Seuphor, XXIII. Biographies: Richier, Germaine, in La sculpture de ce siècle, dictionnaire de la sculpture moderne, Neuchâtel, 1959, p. 322; M. H. Vieira da Silva, Tribune de Paris - Adieu à Germaine Richier: Son atelier était plein d'une étrange musique, in Tribune de Lausanne, Lausanne, 9 August 1959, n° 7; A. Giacometti, Tribune de Paris - Adieu à Germaine Richier: Assise parmi ses sculptures, in Tribune de Lausanne, Lausanne, 9 August 1959, n° 7; C. Roger-Marx, Cette héritière, inspirée des grands maîtres: Germaine Richier, in Le Figaro littéraire, Paris, 8 August 1959; R. Couturier, Tribune de Paris - Adieu à Germaine Richier: La force de son œuvre, in Tribune de Lausanne, Lausanne, 9 August 1959, n° 7; M. Conil-Lacoste, Chroniques: Germaine Richier ou la confusion des règnes in Cahiers du sud, Marseille, February 1957, pp. 307-311; D. Chevalier, Sculpture encore: dans son atelier, vaste forêt de plâtres et de bronzes, Germaine Richier, chef d'école sculpte les grands mythes sylvestres, in Femme, Paris, October-November 1956, pp. 71-83 (another cast ill.); A. Chastel, Germaine Richier: la puissance et le malaise, in Le Monde, Paris, 13 October 1956; B. Milleret, Envoûtement de Germaine Richier, in Les Nouvelles littéraires, Paris, 11 October 1956; D. Chevalier, Un grand sculpteur: Germaine Richier, in Prestige français et Mondanités, Paris, September 1956, pp. 60-65, n° 19 (another cast ill.); G. Waldemar, Germaine Richier, in Prisme des arts, Paris, April 1956, n° 2; J. Grenier, Germaine Richier, Sculpteur du terrible, in L'Oeil, Paris, September 1955, pp. 26-31, n° 9 (another cast ill.); R. M. Claude, Venise XXVI Biennale: Présence française, in Arts, Paris, 26 June 1952, n° 365 (another cast ill.) Exhibitions: 2014-2015 Genève, Galerie Jacques de la Béraudière, Germaine Richier, Retrospective, p.32; 2013 Berne, Kunstmuseum, Germaine Richier Rétropective, ill. n° 43 p. 146 (another cast exhibited); 2007 Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Richier pp. 131-135 (another cast exhibited and ill.); 2000-2001 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Le Nu au XXe siècle, n° 129 (another cast exhibited and ill.); 1996-1997 Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-arts, De Vallotton à Dubuffet p. 46, n° 28 (another cast exhibited and ill.); 1997 Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Germaine Richier, n° 39 (another cast exhibited and ill.); 1996 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Germaine Richier, Rétrospective, n° 36 (another cast exhibited and ill.); 1993 London, Tate Gallery, Paris Post War: Art and Existentialism 1945-55, n° 98 (another cast exhibited and ill.); 1993 Paris, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Dominique Rolin, le temps approuvé, (another cast exhibited); 1988 Humlebaeck, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Germaine Richier, n° 12 (another cast exhibited); 1966 Paris, Galerie Creuzevault, Germaine Richier 1902- 1959 (another cast exhibited); 1964 Arles, Musée Réattu, Germaine Richier, no. 22 (another cast exhibited and ill.); 1963 Zurich, Kunsthaus, Germaine Richier, n° 46 (another cast exhibited); 1959 New York, Museum of Modern Art, New Images of Man, n° 90 (another cast exhibited and ill.); 1959 Antibes, Musée Picasso, Germaine Richier, n° 67 (another cast exhibited); 1959 Boston, University School of Fine and Applied Arts, Sculptures by Germaine Richier, n° 30 (another cast exhibited); 1959 Paris, Musée Grimaldi, Créations et récréations de Germaine Richier, exhibition cat.; 1958 Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Sculpture by Germaine Richier, n° 10 (another cast exhibited); 1956 Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Germaine Richier, n° 16, pl. XIV (another cast exhibited and ill.); 1955 London, The Hanover Gallery, Germaine Richier, n° 7 (another cast exhibited); 1955 Lille, Galerie Marcel Evrard, Germaine Richier, Roger Vieillard, n° 5 (another cast exhibited and ill.); 1955 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Vieira da Silva, Germaine Richier, n° 35 (another cast exhibited and ill.); 1954 Bienne, Collège des Près Ritter, Exposition Suisse de sculpture en plein air, n° 170 (another cast exhibited); 1954 Basel, Kunsthalle, Germaine Richier, Bissière, H. R. Schiess, Vieira da Silva, Raoul Ubac, n° 9 (another cast exhibited); 1954 Chicago, The Allan Frumkin Gallery, The Sculpture of Germaine Richier, n° 11 (ill.); 1952 São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, II Biennale, n° 3 (another cast exhibited); 1952 Venice, French Pavilion, XXVI Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte, n° 151 (another cast exhibited)
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 Alexis Pentcheff
Henri Martin (Toulouse 1860-1943 Labastide-du-Vert) L’Eglise de Labastide-du-Vert un matin de printemps Oil on canvas 101 x 79 cm Signed lower right Notice of inclusion in the archives for the Catalogue Raisonné of Henri Martin drawn up by Madame Marie-Anne Destrebecq-Martin dated 18 September 2020 © Foundation Paul Delvaux, Belgium/SABAM, 2023
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
Galerie Kevorkian
persian art, samanid dynasty
'Buff ware bowl' with seated figure, animals and inscriptions Persian art, Samanid dynasty Earthenware pottery, painted in black, yellow and green under a transparent glaze Eastern Iran (Khurasan), Nishapur, 10th century H 6.2 cm; Ø 18.2 cm Provenance: former collection P.M., Paris; Hôtel Drouot, 10 July 1980, lot 9
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