June 2015 Illuminations by Jean Colombe The Florentine origins of a Venus in Dresden John Lavery in Morocco De Chirico fakes his own work The rediscovery of gifts sent to Benito Mussolini 2015 . 1347 . Carpaccio | Reynolds | Wellington | Gauguin | Douanier Rousseau | The studio | On Kawara
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June 2015
Illuminations by Jean Colombe
The Florentine origins of a Venus in Dresden
John Lavery in Morocco
De Chirico fakes his own work
The rediscovery of gifts sent to Benito Mussolini
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Carpaccio | Reynolds | Wellington | Gauguin | Douanier Rousseau | The studio | On Kawara
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Italian, late 18th centuryBust of DionysusWhite marble70 cm (27½ in.) high.
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Exhibition 11–17 June 2015, Mon–Fri 10–18, Sat 10–17, Sun 11–17Catalogue order & information T +43 1 532 42 00, [email protected] Catalogue www.imkinsky.comOnline Bidding registration on online.imkinsky.com
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Old Master PaintingsJan Brueghel the Younger
Still life with flowers in a sculpted vase, circa 1630€ 500.000–1.000.000
19th Century Paintings
Art Nouveau & Design
Isidor KaufmannTalmud student€ 70.000–140.000
Antiques
Jean Antoine HoudonDiana, France, 1777€ 50.000–100.000
Josef Hoffmannbrooch, Wiener Werkstätte, 1908€ 100.000–200.000
Impressionist & Modern Art
Marc ChagallLes Amoureux au Bouquet, 1960€ 250.000–500.000
An Important set of �ve sandstone reliefs with Apostles in Gothic arcades, Middle Rhine, Mainz, circa 1410–20 (detail). Estimate €300,000–500,000. Enquiries: Sculpture +33 (0)1 53 05 53 64; Old Master Paintings +33 (0)1 53 05 53 26; 19th Century Paintings +33 (0)1 53 05 53 10 76 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris. Register now at sothebys.com
OLD MASTER & 19TH CENTURY PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE & DRAWINGS AUCTION PARIS 17 JUNE 2015
London Art Week – 3–10 July 2015PAINTINGS | DRAWINGS | SCULPTURE
A still life of roses on a ledge with a parrot on a hanging perch and abutterfly, by Andrea Scacciati(1642–1710). Oil on canvas, 41 by 32.5 cm. RAFAEL VALLS LTD,11 DUKE STREET, SW1
Portrait of the EmperorNapoleon in coronation robes,studio of Francois PascalSimon, Baron Gerard
The Grand Canal, Venice, with San Simeone Piccolo and Santa Lucia, by Francesco Guardi (1712–93). Oil on canvas, 65.3 by 79.5 cm.
CHRISTIE’S, 8 KING STREET, SW1
Conversation piece entitled The Sayer Family of Richmond, by Johan Zoffany (1733–1810). Oil on canvas, 101.5 by 127 cm.
COLNAGHI, 15 OLD BOND STREET, W1
Pythagoras(?), by AntonioZanchi (1631–1722).Oil on canvas, 110 by 92 cm.MAURIZIO NOBILE.EXHIBITING AT: 37 BURY STREET, SW1
THIS SUMMER, THE auctions and dealer shows in London look tobe particularly diverse and engaging for collectors and curators offine paintings.
Thomas Agnew’s Ltd will open their new St James’s premises withthe exhibition Portraiture through the ages. Among the canvases(including some loans) will be Don Balthasar Carlos on Horseback byJohn Singer Sargent (1856–1925) after the Prado’s magnificentpainting by Diego Velázquez (1599–1660). Rafael Valls Ltd (withTomasso Brothers Fine Art) will stage A Grand Menagerie: AnimalsDepicted by Master Painters and Sculptors, which will include TwoPumas in a landscape by the Liverpool artist William Huggins(1820–84). Showing mainly Italian paintings and drawings, visitingdealer Maurizio Nobile will be selling The Holy Family with St Johnthe Baptist by Gaetano Gandolfi (1734–1802).
An ambitious themed exhibition, Napoleon: From Antiquity toEmpire, will take place at Robilant + Voena, coinciding with the200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Works such as thePortrait of the Emperor Napoleon in coronation robes by the studio ofFrançois Pascal Simon, Baron Gérard (1770–1837) projectNapoleon’s desire for civilisation, power and grandeur.
Christie’s will offer a selection of Old Masters from the Alfred BeitFoundation, including two works on panel by Peter Paul Rubens(1577–1640): Head of a bearded man and Venus supplicating Jupiter. Alsoon offer will be a rare religious scene by Adriaen van Ostade(1610–85) and a Venetian view by Francesco Guardi (1712–93).Sotheby’s will offer many fine paintings including La bocca della verità(The jaws of truth) by Lucas Cranach The Elder (1472–1553).
For more information, please visit: www.londonartweek.co.uk
Still life with basket, cloth, earthenware jar and brush, by Peter De Wint (1784–1849). Watercolour over traces of pen, 24.8 by 32.9 cm.MARTYN GREGORY, 34 BURY STREET, SW1
A scene from the Commedia dell’Arte, by Claude Gillot (1673–1722). Pen and black ink, brush and reddish-brown wash, over traces of graphite, 16 by 21.5 cm.
A young man with an owl on astick, by Giovani FrancescoBarbieri, called Il Guercino(1591–1666). Pen and brownink and brown wash, 22.5 x 15.5 cm.STEPHEN ONGPIN FINE ART,6 MASON’S YARD, SW1
Study for the half-length figure and drapery of St John the Evangelists, by Carlo Maratti(1625–1713). Red chalk with traces of white chalk, on light blue paper, 26.9 by 40.4 cm.
FLORIAN HÄRB5 DALMENY COURT, 8 DUKE STREET, SW1
Princess sabra being led to the dragon, by Morris, Marshall, Faukner & Co., 1862, after a designby Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–82). Pen and india ink on tracing paper, 49.9 by 62.3 cm.MARTY DE CAMBIAIRE. EXHIBITING AT: 7-8 MASON’S YARD, DUKE STREET, SW1
COLLECTORS AND AFICIONADOS of drawings will once more dis-cover a diverse medley of works at the dealer shows and auctions inJuly. The mixed stock and themed hangings will overwhelminglyrepresent British and European schools from the sixteenth to thetwentieth-century.
Stephen Ongpin Fine Art has assembled some sixty Italian draw-ings, including works by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (1483–1561),Salvator Rosa (1615–73) and the Futurist Giacomo Balla(1871–1958). British drawings and watercolours will be well repre-sented by artists such as Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88), PeterDe Wint (1784–1849), Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1829) andJames Ward (1769–1859). Martyn Gregory will be offering thelarge watercolour Waterfall, Betws-y-Coed by David Cox (1873–59)and Lowell Libson Ltd will show Sunset by James Ward. DidierAaron Ltd will show predominantly French drawings, including afigure drawing in black chalk, Study for a Satyr, by the painter andprintmaker Michel Dorigny (1617–63). Later French works willbe available with Stoppenbach and Delestre Ltd, where sheets byPaul Cesar Helleu (1859–1927), Paul Signac (1863–1935) andRaoul Dufy (1877–1953) will be on view.
For more information, please visit: www.londonartweek.co.uk
London Art Week – 3–10 July 2015PAINTINGS | DRAWINGS | SCULPTURE
STE PHEN ONGP IN F INE ARTOld Master, 19th Century and Modern Drawings
ANDREA BOSCOLI (c.1560 – Florence – 1608)A Flayed Male Nude, seen from Behind
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, extensively heightened with white, over an underdrawing in black
and red chalk, on pale blue paper, laid down.
376 x 214 mm. (143⁄4 x 83⁄8 in.)
STEFANO DELLA BELLA (1610 – Florence – 1664)An Elaborate Vase Decorated with Nymphs, Snakes,
a Swan and a Musical ScorePen and brown ink and brown wash. Extensively inscribed on
the musical scores at the centre and at the lower left.
195 x 130 mm. (75⁄8 x 51⁄8 in.)
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Sixty Italian Drawings from the 16th to the 19th Centuryincluding works by Alberti, Balla, Boldini, Canuti, Carracci, Cecco Bravo, Cigoli, Faccini, Gandolfi, Gemito, Guercino, Maratta, Michetti, Palma Giovane, Perino del Vaga, Ricci, Rosa and Tiepolo.
Virgin and Child. France,Basse-Normandie,Cotentin, c.1400.
Limestone, with traces oforiginal polychrome.Height: 105.5 cm.Width: 28.7 cm.Depth: 17.8 cm.
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Large alabaster cylindricalvessel. Egyptian. EarlyDynastic Period.Height: 35.2 cm. RUPERTWACE
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Farnese Hercules. Italian,late 16th or early 17th
century. Bronze.Height: 35 cm.
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THE CHRONOLOGICAL AND cultural net cast by the sculpture deal-ers taking part in London Art Week will be immense in its scope.Several galleries, including Rupert Wace Ancient art, will showantiquities. Shapely Forms: Vessels in Antiquitywill span five millen-nia and include a Roman blue-green glass cinerary urn from the1st–2nd century AD. At Sam Fogg will be Reclaiming Antiquity; cre-ation and revival between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, in whichCosmati-work and Opus Sectile decorative stonework will showthe re-use of ancient marbles, porphyries and other luxury stones.
Tomasso Brothers Fine Art and Rafael Valls Ltd will show an exhi-bition of fauna-related works entitled A Grand Menagerie: AnimalsDepicted by Master Painters and Sculptors. The richly patinatedÉcorché Horse by Fracesco Righetti (1749–1819) is a fine exampleof both anatomical science and artistic endeavour. Other worksdate from the Renaissance and Classical Antiquity.
Daniel Katz Gallery will loosely unify a group of outstandingworks under the banner From the Salon. Works formerly shown atthe Paris Salon, Royal Academy, London, and the VeniceBiennale will include examples by Joseph Chinard (1756–1813),Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) and George Frederick Watts(1817–1904). This year several figures from mythology will makean appearance at a number of showings. With Trinity Fine Art willbe a late Renaissance bronze Farnese Hercules from Italy; KneelingSatyr, a finely rendered bronze by Severo da Ravenna (1465–1538)will be shown at Benjamin Proust Fine Art; and a white marbleVenus by Vincenzo Vitagliano (active 1740) will be available atBrun Fine Art.
For more information, please visit: www.londonartweek.co.uk
London Art Week – 3–10 July 2015PAINTINGS | DRAWINGS | SCULPTURE
We're thrilled to announce that two loans, both watercolours byEdward Burne-Jones, are now on display in the first floor Ideal Bookgallery. They depict St Agnes (with the lamb) and St Dorothy (holding
the sword), who were both martyred for refusing to marry.
They were painted in around 1866 and were originally designs forstained glass, now in All Saints Church, Cambridge.
Edward Burne-Jones, St Agnes (left) and St Dorothy. Designs for stained glass (c.1866). Watercolour on paper.
Private collection. Loan managed by The Sir Denis Mahon Charitable Trust
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Portrait of the Infanta Catalina Micaela of Spain
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SIR DENIS MAHON ESSAY PRIZE 2015This prize comprises an award of £1,000 for an essay of distinction which reflects Sir Denis Mahon’s life and interests.The prize is open to undergraduate or post graduate studentsaged 30 years or below.
Closing date: Friday 31st July 2015. The winning author willbe invited to present their essay as a lecture on Friday 6thNovember 2015 at The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
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