28 décembre 2013

Joseph Mallord William Turner, RA (1775-1851), A windmill with cottage and wagons. Pencil and watercolor; 7 x 9 ¼ inches (178 x 235 mm). Photo courtesy Martyn Gregory. Martyn Gregory. 'British watercolours and drawings 1770-1920'. Exhibiting at Pia Gallo, 53 East 64th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY 10065. Tel +1 212 369 4420 - 34 Bury Street, St James’s, London, SW1Y 6AU. Tel +44 20 7839 3731 - Email: mgregory@dircon.co.uk - Website: www.martyngregory.com. Master Drawings New York. Saturday 25 January to Saturday 1 February 2014

James Ward, RA (1769-1859), Study of two stags’ heads. Oil over pencil on paper. Signed in monogram ‘JWD. RA’; 10 ⅞ x 17⅜ in (275 x 440 mm). Photo courtesy Martyn Gregory. Martyn Gregory. 'British watercolours and drawings 1770-1920'. Exhibiting at Pia Gallo, 53 East 64th Street, Third Floor, New York, NY 10065. Tel +1 212 369 4420 - 34 Bury Street, St James’s, London, SW1Y 6AU. Tel +44 20 7839 3731 - Email: mgregory@dircon.co.uk - Website: www.martyngregory.com. Master Drawings New York. Saturday 25 January to Saturday 1 February... [Lire la suite]

A pair of South German turned ivory and bone candlesticks, late 17th century. Photo Sotheby's each with a circular foot surrounded by eight rings interspersed with florettes, the narrow banded stem punctuated with another eight ringed platform, two cage-form spheres centered by a ring of six upturned and six downturned flowers on stems, two similar rings of floral stems above, the lower with four downturned, the upper with six upturned, the candle socket rising from a circular platform surrounded by ten flat rings and... [Lire la suite]

Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (1483-1520), Two Putti Supporting a Beam or a Plaque, circa 1517-18. Pen and brown ink, over black chalk; 4 1/2 x 2 3/4 in (114 x 69 mm). Photo courtesy Margot Gordon Fine Arts. Margot Gordon Fine Arts. Exhibiting with Crispian Riley-Smith Fine Arts Ltd. Telephone: +1.212.595.4969 - Email: mgordonfinearts@aol.com. Master Drawings New York. Saturday 25 January to Saturday 1 February 2014

A German or French turned ivory 'Tour de Force', 18th century and later. Photo Sotheby's the base comprised of six hexagonally divided radiating lobes each rising to a finial within a spiral, alternating urn and star forms, surrounding a central cylinder comprised of a staggered stack of horizontal discs, a baluster rising above to open with a cup enclosing an urn, rising to a baluster stem supporting a stepped cylinder within a pierced sphere surmounted by a small urn-form finial. height 23 1/4 in., 59 cm. Estimate 40,000 —... [Lire la suite]

A South German turned ivory cup and cover, 17th century. Photo Sotheby's the stepped, scalloped conical base supporting a gradually flaring cup, the cover surmounted by an urn-form finial, the whole decorated with narrow vertical gadrooning interspersed with horizontal bands. height 11 1/2 in., 29.21 cm. Estimate 50,000 — 80,000 USD. Lot sold 43,750 USD Sotheby's. Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra - Volumes I-VI. New York | 18 Oct 2011 - www.sothebys.com

Merce Cunningham (1919-2009), Untitled (Grey Bird), 1998. Ink and colored pencil on paper; 12 x 9 in (305 x 230 mm.). Signed lower center. Photo courtesy Sigrid Freundorfer Fine Art, LLC. Sigrid Freundorfer Fine Art, LLC. 'The Natural World: Modern and Contemporary Drawings'. 790 Madison Avenue, Suite 602, New York, NY 10065. Telephone: +1 212 517 9700 - Fax: +1 212 744 5982 - Email: sffa@earthlink.net - Website:www.artnet.com/sigridfreundorfer.html. Master Drawings New York. Saturday 25 January to Saturday 1 February 2014

Merce Cunningham (1919-2009), Untitled (Grasshopper), 1998. Ink and colored pencil; 9 x 12 in. (230 x 305 mm.). Photo courtesy Sigrid Freundorfer Fine Art, LLC. Sigrid Freundorfer Fine Art, LLC. 'The Natural World: Modern and ContemporaryDrawings'. 790 Madison Avenue, Suite 602, New York, NY 10065. Telephone: +1 212 517 9700 - Fax: +1 212 744 5982 - Email: sffa@earthlink.net - Website:www.artnet.com/sigridfreundorfer.html. Master Drawings New York. Saturday 25 January to Saturday 1 February 2014

A South German turned ivory cup and cover, 17th century. Photo Sotheby's the stepped domed octolobed base below a gadrooned baluster formed stem, the cup similarly gadrooned, with conforming lid decorated en suite, rising to an octagonal platform supporting four spiraling finials terminating in pointed knops and interspersed with smaller tapering spirals, all surrounding a central tower of stepped spiraling form; faintly marked underneath in pencil with "no. 2."; height 15 7/8 in., 40.32 cm. Estimate 50,000 — 80,000 USD. Lot sold... [Lire la suite]

A South German turned ivory cup, 17th century. Photo Sotheby's with stepped octagonal base below scalloped baluster-form stem with flaring rings rising to a section of inverted pierced foliate openwork below a flaring stepped octolobed gadrooned cup with four registers punctuated by narrow moulded bands. height 9 3/4 in., 24.8 cm. Estimate 30,000 — 50,000 USD. Lot sold 27,500 USD Provenance: Sotheby's London, December 10, 1992, lot 245 Sotheby's. Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra - Volumes I-VI. New... [Lire la suite]