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Anthony Short Antiques
An Exceptional 18th-Century George III Period Mahogany 6-Door Breakfront Secretaire Library Bookcase Stamped Gillows of Lancaster A magnificent late 18th-century George III period six-door breakfront library bookcase, in beautifully figured mahogany of exceptional quality. The moulded cornice sits above six astragal-glazed doors enclosing fully adjustable shelves, providing generous and elegant book storage. The lower breakfront centre section is fitted with a superb secretaire drawer, finely veneered and opening to reveal an arrangement of compartments beneath a sliding, tooled leather-inset writing surface, complete with concealed secret compartments. Below are six richly figured mahogany panelled doors, each opening to adjustable shelving, all raised on a moulded plinth base. The central drawer is stamped “Gillows of Lancaster,” as shown in the accompanying photograph. The bookcase displays outstanding colour and patina throughout, and its impressive scale, refined proportions, and the exceptional quality of the timber strongly suggest that it was made as a special commission. The Gillow family were among the most important British cabinetmakers of the 18th and 19th centuries, renowned for their superb craftsmanship, use of the finest woods, and designs that combined elegance with practicality and often ingenious mechanical details. Unusually, the firm operated both from Lancaster and from their London branch (opened in 1770), cementing their reputation and influence at the very forefront of British furniture making. A highly important, showstopping library piece for the serious collector. Height 252cm (99.2in) Width 340cm (133.9in) Depth 64cm (25.2in)
Bernier/Eliades
Tony CRAGG (b. 1949, UK) lives and works in Wuppertal, Germany. Title work: Stand, 2025 Corten steel 115 x 36 x 108 cm Photo credits: GRAYSC He was a professor and the Universität der Künste Berlin (2001-2006), taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1978-2001) before serving as its Director (2009-2013), and held the Chaire de Création Artistique at the Collège de France in Paris (2013-2014). Cragg was elected a Royal Academician in 1994, represented the United Kingdom at the Venice Biennale in 1988, and received the Turner Prize the same year. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2002, received the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture in Tokyo in 2007, was awarded the First Class Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2012, and was knighted in 2016. This year, Cragg is set to receive the European Culture Prize 2026 at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. He is also the founder of Waldfrieden Sculpture Park in Wuppertal, where he exhibits works from different artists and different generations, such as Rebecca Horn, Berta Fischer, Anthony Caro, Heinz Mack, and Joseph Beuys, among others.
Galeria Jordi Pascual
Joan Miró (Barcelona 1893-1983 Palma de Mallorca) Painting III, 1960 Acrylic and pastel pencil on canvas 92 x 65 cm Certificate of authenticity from ADOM Provenance: Galerie Maeght, Paris; Galerie Adrien Maeght, Paris; Private collection, Barcelona Literature: Dupin, J. Miró, Flammarion, 1961, nº 928, p. 554; Dupin, J., Lelong-Mainaud, A. Joan Miró, Catalogue Raisonné, paintings, volume IV: 1959–1968, Polígrafa, 2010, nº 1118; Weelen, G. Miró. Nouvelles Éditions Françaises, 1984, nº 8, p. 9 Exhibitions: Grand Palais, Paris, 1974, cat. nº 77; Villeneuve d'Ascq, Musée d'Art Moderne, cat. nº 16
Bernardini Milano
Rolex, Bienne. Rare yellow gold “oyster chronograph” in pristine condition, 1956 One of the 36 made of this version of chronographs in 18kt. gold in the late 50’s. The untouched case and extensible bracelet host a perfect creamy silvered dial. The watch is complete of its original box, papers, invoice and various communications between owner and the Swiss Maison.previously unknown to the market, it’s a benchmark in terms of rarity and conservation.
Galerie Boulakia
KENNY SCHARF Infinitum, 1996 Huile et acrylique sur toile 81.7 x 107 cm 32 1/8 x 42 1/8 in Signé, titré et daté 'Kenny Scharf Infinitum '96' (au dos) Provenance Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York Dennis Hopper Collection (acquis auprès de ce qui précède en 1999). Christie's NY, 2011 Acquis à la vente par l'actuel propriétaire
Galerie Alexis Pentcheff
Henri Le Sidaner (1862-1939) La maison sous l'église, neige, Gerberoy, circa 1935 Huile sur toile, signée en bas à gauche, 80 x 66 cm. Provenance : Cédé par Le Sidaner à Henri Martin, été 1935, à l'occasion de la visite d'Henri Martin à Gerberoy Succession Henri Martin Attestation d'inclusion au catalogue raisonné de l'artiste établie par Yann Farinaux-Le Sidaner
Victor Werner
Louis Tuaillon (Berlin 1862-1919) Stag, ca. 1912 Bronze garden sculpture with natural green patina Signed ‘Louis Tuaillon’ on the base Bears the foundry ‘Martin u. Piltzing Hofbildgiesser Berlin’ H. 110 x L. 90 x D. 32 cm A neoclassical bronze sculpture depicting a stag in a standing sentinel pose. This design was acquired in 1912 by the prominent art philanthropist Eduard Arnhold for his private estate in Hirschfelde (Brandenburg), where a large-scale version still stands today as a public monument.
F. Baulme Fine Arts
Claude-Marie DUBUFE (Paris, 1790 – La-Celle-Saint-Cloud, 1864) Expression Head: Modesty Circa 1827-1828 Oil on canvas 55.5 x 46.5 cm Provenance: England, private collection. Literature: Emmanuel Bréon, Claude-Marie, Édouard et Guillaume Dubufe, Portraits d’un siècle d’élégance parisienne, exh. cat., Paris, Délégation à l’Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, 1988 (engraving after the present painting, p. 70, repr.). Related work: Claude-Marie Dubufe, Modesty, 1828, engraving.
Galerie von Vertes
Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh 1928-1987 New York) Patty Raynes and son, 1985 Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas 102 a 102 cm Signed on the reverse and dated 'Andy Warhol 85' Provenance: Patty Raynes, USA (1985 directly acquired from the artist); private collection, USA (2022 acquired from the above) In 1985, Patty Raynes commissioned two works, this one with a yellow background and a second one with a white background. ‘Patty Raynes and Son’ from 1985 is one of a series of portraits in which Warhol no longer exclusively depicted global celebrities, but increasingly portrayed members of his social environment - individuals whose social position exerted a symbolic aura, even if they remained outside the pop-cultural canon. Patty Raynes came from a respected family of American industrialists, socialite and daughter of oil tycoon Marvin Davis, a fact that inevitably lends the work the character of a status portrait. Warhol, who was always concerned with the relationship between appearance and identity, addresses the portrait here as an expression of social affiliation. The subject, the depiction of a mother and child, is immediately reminiscent of the archetypal motifof the Madonna and Child. Warhol adopts this traditional pictorial form but transforms it into a contemporary icon: the sacred content isdisrupted by the screen-printing technique, giving the scene a cool, distanced character. Patty Haynes and son emerge from this mature period in Warhol’s oeuvre, when the artist extended his repertoire of subjects to include his panoply of famous friends, artists, actors, and socialites. A collection idolizing the who’s who of New York, Warhol intended for the 40 by 40-inch series to be exhibited together in a “Portrait of Society,” a dream eventually realized at the artist’s retrospective Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again at the Whitney Museum in New York in 2018.
Univers du Bronze
François-Xavier Lalanne (Agen 1927-2008 Ury) Lampe pigeon, circa 1991 Copper with patinated bronze, polished glass H 21.1 x W 26.5 x D 13.5 cm Monogramed 'FXL' on the right side of the tail, stamped 'Artcurial' and numbered '539/900' on the left side of the tail Edition produced circa 2000
Repetto Gallery
Christo (Gabrovo 1935-2020 New York) and Jeanne-Claude (Casablanca 1935-2009 New York) The Pont Neuf, Wrapped (Project for Paris), 1985 Graphite, charcoal pastel, wax crayon, fabric, photograph collage on cardboard mounted on a stretcher 144.5 × 165 cm Upper element: 38 x 165 cm; lower element 106,5 x 165 cm Signed, dated and titled lower on the upper element The artwork’s details have been reviewed and confirmed by the Foundation Christo and Jeanne-Claude Provenance: Michael Cullen, London; Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt (acquired from the above in 1985)
Maison D'Art
Karel van Vogelaer called Carlo dei Fiori (Maastricht 1653-1695 Rome) Still Life with Flowers Oil on canvas 64.5 x 46 cm Literature: From Light to Enlightenment, Exhibition catalogue, Shanghai Art Museum, 2005, n° 30, pp. 114-116, 150 Exhibition: From Light to Enlightenment, Exhibition in the Shanghai Art Museum, China, 12 -17 November 2005
Franck Anelli Fine Art
Transition period secretary in wardrobe stamped Charles TOPINO (1742-1803) and Jurande hallmark Rectangular in shape, the front uprights with cut sides, the front legs arched, the hind legs straight, the oak frame, it opens with a drawer, two leaves and a flap revealing a compartmentalized interior of seven drawers and four compartments. Top of breccia marble from Aleppo. Inlaid decoration in rosewood, amaranth, holly, sycamore, lemon tree, stained wood, tobacco wood, drawing lattices on the uprights and the upper drawer, those of the latter, embellished with flowers, and trompe-l'oeil on the front and on the sides, a decoration of garlands of oval cartouches of stylised acanthus leaves uniting the panels of the toilet seat and the leaves, each also presenting, in the upper part, a leafy garland that can be found on the side panels. The latter are decorated with two gadrooned urns close to the flowered vases of the leaves. The toilet seat has a trompe-l'oeil perspective decoration, an orangery whose open shutters give a glimpse of a wooded landscape in the distance, a perspective accentuated by the checkerboard paving, also present on the leaves. Eight boxes of fruit trees are spread around a table on which are placed two flowered vases and under which is a watering can. The interior reveals six side drawers in three rows, inlaid with a floral vase pattern, as well as a central drawer. Stamped TOPINO and hallmark of Jurande Charles TOPINO received master in 1773 The art of marquetry The bronzes are discreet on our desk and this is intended to give pride of place to marquetry, qualified as wooden painting. If it is possible and tempting - rightly to link a cabinetmaker to his marquetry and this is regularly the case for Topino whose utensil marquetry inspired by the borders of Chinese Coromandel lacquer screens of the time is a characteristic of the artist - it turns out that the models circulated and that inlaid panels could be used by the same circle of cabinetmakers. If the vases, potiches, flowers, utensils reproduced, invented, associated, allow us to recognize Topino's art, it should be noted that the framing motif made up of oval reserves with quartefeuilles and spandrels can be found on secretaries, a chest of drawers and a dressing table stamped Jacques Bircklé. By this same cabinetmaker, a secretary also presents the same vases present on our furniture. Very similar marquetry panels. both in their compositions and in their frames can be found on a chest of drawers attributed to Jacques Bircklé, illustrated in the book by Pierre Kjellberg, who also defines the paving pattern as Bircklé's "almost exclusiveness". our secretary thus witnessed the circulation of drawn or engraved models -
