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Galerie von Vertes
Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh 1928-1987 New York) Patty Raynes and son, 1985 Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas 102 x 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 idolising 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.
Finch & Co
Ancient Celtic Bust of a Radiate Deity ‘Sol Invicta’ Wearing a Halo of the Rays of the Sun Limestone British, 1st Century BC - 1st Century AD H 42 x W 40 x D 20 cm Provenance: private collection West Country UK; Finch and Co, item number 1, catalogue number 30, Summer 2018; private collection Comparative reference: Dr Anne Ross ‘Pagan Celtic Britain’ n° 916, for a similar 'stone radiate deity'
Waddington Custot
Barry Flanagan (Prestatyn 1941-2009 Santa Eulària des Riu) Large Troubador, 2004 Bronze, cast 2019 185 x 140 x 114 cm 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)
Galerie Jean-François Cazeau
Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo dit Corneille (1922-2010) et Michel Macréau (1935-1995) "Vendredi 14 novembre - Nous allons Corneille et moi essayer de travailler ensemble - A toi Cérès" 1968 Oil on canvas, collaborative work Signed « Corneille 68 » and « Macréau. M ». 100 x 200 cm Provenance: Artist's studio Collection Cérès Franco, collector and curator of Brazilian origin and patron of the Art Brut and CoBrA mouvements. Succession Cérès Franco. Private collection, France, acquired from the former. Exhibitions: - "En grand format, exposition inaugurale La Coopérative Musée Cérès Franco", Montolieu, 1er juillet – 31 octobre 2015. - "La Peau et les mots", La Coopérative - Musée Cérès Franco, Montolieu, 1er mai – 31 octobre 2016.
Verdini Antiques
Vincenzo Raffaelli (Rome, 1783-1865) Round table, circa 1835-1845 Various coloured pebbles and marbles Tabletop: ⌀ 91.2 cm - 5.2 cm Vincenzo Raffaelli Rome, Via del Babuino 93 Performed between 1835 and 1845 ca. Round top in coloured marbles 'pebble' samples 200 ca. The round top in coloured marble that we are dealing with, is a real 'pebble' sample made of ancient 'excavation' marble and modern marble, that is, used after the sixteenth century such as Malachite, Portoro or Napoleonic Orbicular Granite etc. The particularity and rarity of this table is given by the fact that the samples of marbles used, in addition to being rare then (and even more so today), were worked differently from all the other types of samples that were made between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The sample tables of this period generally have a frame in black marble from Belgium or other fine marbles, which contains all the rare colored samples committed.
Stern Pissarro Gallery
Pablo Picasso (Malaga 1881-1973 Mougins) Guitare, 1923 Pastel on paper 21 x 14 cm Signed upper right 'Picasso' Provenance: Galerie István Schlégl, Zurich; private collection, acquired from the above in 1988 Literature: C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso Oeuvres de 1923 à 1925, Vol. V, Editions cahier d'art, Paris, 1952, n° 70 (ill. in black and white)
Argento Gallery
Master of the portrait of the Van Collen family Portrait of a family in a wood, circa 1660 Oil on canvas 95 x 108 cm Provenance: sale of the Dr F. Koser collection, Keller & Reiner, Berlin, 6-7 March 1906, lot 87; private collection, Stockholm, 1938; sale, Bukowski, Stockholm, 19 April 1961, lot 136, ill. as Ferdinand Bol, signed and dated 1666; private collection Literature: Bukowskis, 100 Years, 1870-1970, Stockholm, 1970, pp. 36-37, ill. as Ferdinand Bol; Albert Blankert, Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680): Rembrandt’s Pupil, 1982, pp. 191-192, n° R276 (attribution to Bol rejected) Attributed to the unidentified artist known as the Master of the portrait of the Van Collen family, who also painted the portrait of Jeremias van Collen, Susanna van Uffelen and their children in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Probably painted around 1660, the present work shows the influence of Jan Mijtens in its arrangement of the family within a wooded landscape.
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
Galerie Nicolas Bourriaud
André Bizette-Lindet (Savenay 1906-1998 Sèvres) Diane the Huntress, circa 1937-1938 Bronze with a nuanced brown-green patina, on a blackened wooden base H 64 x W 70 x D 20 cm Signed ‘Bizette-Lindet’ Cast by Susse, bears the foundry’s mark ‘SUSSE Fres / PARIS / CIRE PERDUE’ and the inscription ‘BRONZE’ Literature: Amandine Delcourt, Bruno Gaudichon and Fanny Legru, 'Faire le Beau. Le bestiaire de La Piscine', Ghent, Snoeck, 2017, p. 57 A similar example is held at the Musée de la Piscine in Roubaix (Inv.: FNAC 6463)
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
Galerie Oscar De Vos
Rik Wouters (Mechelen 1882-1916 Amsterdam) Rik with a patch, 1916 Brush drawing with Chinese ink on paper 40 x 29 cm Provenance: Nel Wouters, Overijse; Marcel Mabille, Brussels Literature: Avermaete, Rik Wouters, 1962, pp. 145, 242; De Pesseroey & Langui, Honderd zelfportretten, 1976, pp. 46-47; Van den Bussche et.al., Rik Wouters (1882-1916), pp. 20, 234; Hautekeete, Simon & De Nijn, Rik Wouters, De menselijke figuur, 1999, n° 74b, p. 100; Damman et.al., Ik of een ander. Zelfportretten van Belgische kunstenaars, 2003, pp. 148-149 Exhibitions: Palais des Beaux-Arts, Exposition Rik Wouters, 1935, Brussels; Gemeentemuseum & Museum Boijmans, exhibition Rik Wouters, 1946, Den Haag & Rotterdam; Feestzaal, Retrospectieve Rik Wouters, 1946, Mechelen; KMSKA, Rik Wouters, 1947, Antwerp; Seconda Rassegna Internazionale di Scultura all'aperto, 1953, Varese; 1957, Antwerp, KMSKA, Retrospectieve Rik Wouters; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Rétrospective Rik Wouters, 1957, Paris; Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service, Belgian Drawings: From Ensor to Delvaux (Le dessin belge), n° 61; 1999, Mechelen, CC Antoon Spinoy, Rik Wouters. De Menselijke figuur, n° 74b
W. Apolloni - Laocoon Gallery
Leoncillo Leonardi (Spoleto 1915-1968 Rome) Plate with abstract design, circa 1950 Glazed ceramic Ø 28 cm Signed below on the edge 'Leoncillo' Literature: M. F. Apolloni, M. Cardarelli (edited by), Leoncillo - Le Ceramiche, Rome 2018 Exhibition: Leoncillo: Earth, Fire and Colours. A retrospective exhibition 1939-1955
Gallery de Potter d’Indoye
An Empire bronze carousel automaton clock French, circa 1815 Chased and fire gilded bronze H 51 x W 26 x D 17 cm This rare clock, entirely composed of chased and fire gilded bronze, takes the form of a hexagonal pedestal with chamfered corners, housing a movement with a circular white enamel dial on its front. A rich repertoire inspired by antiquity adorns this pedestal: winged griffins, musical putti, cornucopias, scrolled palmettes and rosettes, and, flanking the short sides, two horse heads, chased in the round, each supporting a 'pike' enriched at the base with a corolla of lanceolate water leaves, and punctuated by a ringed tablet for one, and a laurel wreath. An imposing carousel, structured around a richly chased central column ending in a ball, distinguishes the clock. Three putti riding swans—one winged, the second wearing Mercury's helmet, and the third dressed as a court jester—each attempt to grasp the tablet's ring with a curved object. The clock rests on a projecting hexagonal base decorated with a frieze of alternating stylized palmettes and fleurons. A spring mechanism, wound with a key accessible on the rear right-hand chamfered edge of the pedestal, sets the carousel in motion. This mechanism is activated either when the clock strikes or, at other times, by operating a small lever visible beneath the keyhole. A very similar model is held in the clock collection of the François Duesberg Museum in Mons, Belgium. It differs only in its dial and, most notably, in the inscription 'Nicolas Esterhazy, SOUVENIR D’ENFANCE' (Nicolas Esterhazy, Childhood Memory), visible on the front of the base. Also noteworthy is a clock of the same type, signed VAILLANT A PARIS, which was part of the collection of Countess Valtesse de La Bigne Ville d’Avray (1859-1910) and is now in private hands. Another similar example was presented at Drouot on September 15, 2016 (Mac-Arthur Kohn lot 83). It came from the former collection of the Marchioness of Tweeddale.
Galerie Flak
Okvik 'Madonna' Okvik culture, Old Bering Sea, 250 BC-100 AD Archaic Eskimo, St. Laurent Island (Sivuqaq), Alaska Marine ivory 15.9 cm Provenance: Perry J. Lewis collection, USA; collection Galerie Flak, 2021; private collection, acquired from the above Exhibition & Literature: 'Espíritus del Agua', Fundación La Caixa, Madrid & Barcelone, 1999-2000, pl. 2, p. 76; Arctic Dreams, Parcours des Mondes, 2021 (Galerie Flak)
Galerie Ary Jan
Moïse Kisling (Kraków 1891-1953 Sanary-sur-Mer) Landscape of Sanary-sur-Mer, 1932 Oil on canvas 64 x 73.5 cm Signed lower left and dated 1932 Provenance: acquired directly from the artist in the 1930s; private collection, France; Christie's Paris, sale of 1 December 2009; private collection, France Literature: J. Kisling, Kisling, 1891-1953, Turin, 1982, ill. vol. II, p. 273, n° 70