8 février 2014

Grand élément décoratif en bois sculpté portant deux défenses d'éléphants d’Asie. Indochine, première moitié du XXème. Photo WETTERWALD & RANNOU-CASSEGRAIN Cartouche ivoire mentionnant “Offert par Dao-Minh Butuiliminh II 1952.... H. des défenses 130 cm. Estimation: 6 000 € - 8 000 € WETTERWALD & RANNOU-CASSEGRAIN et Hôtel des Ventes NICE RIVIERA. Samedi 15 février à 14h30 à NICE. Tél. : 04 93 62 14 71 - Fax : 04 93 62 69 97 - hdvnice@wanadoo.fr

Large Aquamarine Carving of a Dragon Goldfish by Luis Alberto Quispe Aparicio. Photo: Bonhams. This room-sized sculpture of generous proportions depicts a large goldfish carved from bright blue aquamarine from the unusual locality of Angola, the cabochon ruby eyes originate from Longido. Mounted with gold vermeil. Raised on a hexagonal base of polished rock crystal, the inclusions in which heighten the effect of the underwater scene. Measures 14 x 12 x 9 1/2 in Estimate US$ 15,000 - 20,000 (€11,000 - 15,000) Bonhams. PERIOD ART... [Lire la suite]

An Hermès blue leather Travel Kelly handbag. Photo: Bonhams. 50cm; date code for 2001; height 15 1/2in; width 19 3/4in; depth 9 3/4. Estimate US$ 8,000 - 12,000 (€5,900 - 8,800) Bonhams. PERIOD ART AND DESIGN. 9 Feb 2014. Los Angeles - http://www.bonhams.com/

An Hermès black crocodile Kelly handbag. Photo: Bonhams. 28cm; date code for 1948; height 8in, width 11in, depth 4 1/2in. Estimate US$ 9,000 - 12,000 (€6,600 - 8,800) Bonhams. PERIOD ART AND DESIGN. 9 Feb 2014. Los Angeles - http://www.bonhams.com/

  An Hermès malachite green matte alligator Birkin handbag. Photo: Bonhams. 35cm; date code for 2013; in pristine unworn condition; height 9 3/4in, width 13 3/4in, depth 7 1/2in. Estimate US$ 60,000 - 80,000 (€44,000 - 59,000) Bonhams. PERIOD ART AND DESIGN. 9 Feb 2014. Los Angeles - http://www.bonhams.com/

Toison d or du Comte de Chambord

Mikimoto, The 'Winter' ring featuring a baroque white South Sea cultured pearl, surrounded by blue sapphires, Paraiba tourmalines, and diamonds. Mikimoto, The ‘Winter’ earrings. Mikimoto, The ‘Spring’ ring featuring a White South Sea cultured pearl with diamonds, green tsavorites, sapphires, amethysts, and Paraiba tourmalines. Mikimoto, The ‘Spring’ earrings. Mikimoto, The ‘Spring’ necklace. Mikimoto, The ‘Summer’ ring featuring a white South Sea cultured pearl surrounded by diamonds and sapphires. Mikimoto, The... [Lire la suite]

Fernand Léger, Contraste de formes. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. VENICE.- In the early 1970s the authenticity of a painting that had been acquired by the American collector Peggy Guggenheim as by Fernand Léger was made questionable when a friend, Douglas Cooper, an expert on Léger, expressed his doubts. It is now a certainty that the painting is a fake thanks to a team from the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), who analysed the canvas using carbon 14 dating.  After decades in which scholars,... [Lire la suite]

Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio, Saint Francis in Meditation from the San Pietro Romano Carpineto (left) and friom the Rome’s Capuchin church (right). WILLIAMSBURG, VA.- Visitors going to the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary will have a rare opportunity to view three famous paintings by, or attributed to, Caravaggio and take sides in an intense debate among the world’s leading authorities on Italian paintings.  Two nearly identical versions of Caravaggio’s Saint Francis in... [Lire la suite]