20 février 2014

Tran Tam Van (b. 1966), Hendryx on Aspirin. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014 signed, titled and dated '"Hendryx on aspirin" 2002 Tran Van Tam' (on the reverse); acrylic on canvas; 27¼ x 22¼ in. (69.2 x 56.5 cm.). Painted in 2002. Estimate $5,000 – $7,000 Provenance: Cohan and Leslie, New YorkAcquired from the above by the present owner Christie's. FIRST OPEN. 6 March 2014. New York, Rockefeller Plaza. www.christies.com

Shirin Neshat (B. 1957), Games of Desire, Solo 2. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014 signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Shirin Neshat "Games of Desire" 2009 Solo 2 3/5' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse); c-print with ink; 50 1/8 x 33 3/8 in. (127.3 x 84.8 cm.). Executed in 2009. This work is number three from an edition of five plus two artist's proofs. Estimate $10,000 – $15,000 Provenance: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, BrusselsAcquired from the above by the present owner Literature: M. Abramovic and A. C. Danto, Shirin... [Lire la suite]

Lot 12. The Wu Dacheng Jijintu Scroll, Qing Dynasty, Late 19th Century; 211 by 15 1/2 in., 535.9 by 39.4 cm. Estimate 100,000 — 150,000 USD. Lot sold 605,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's Ink rubbings on paper, handscroll, signed Yin Bohuan shouta (hand rubbed by Yin Bohuan), with three seals of the artist, bo huang zi ta, ming yu yue ding, yin bo huan, three collector’s seals of Lu Shusheng, lu shu sheng jin shi zhang. Frontispiece by Song Suian（1873-1926) signed suian, dated renyin (1902), summer, with... [Lire la suite]

Lot 3. The Ji Zu Yi Zun. A Magnificent And Important Bronze Ritual Wine Vessel, Late Shang Dynasty, 13th-11th Century BC. Height 12 1/8 in., 31 cm. Estimate 300,000 — 400,000 USD. Lot sold 1,265,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's of cylindrical form with four heavy notched flanges on the sides, boldly cast around the slightly bulging waist with two taotie masks with rounded eyes, ‘C’-shaped horns, fangs and clawed arms, the splayed foot decorated with further taotie masks with rectangular slit pupils, upright... [Lire la suite]

The Fu Ding Jue. A bronze ritual wine vessel, late Shang Dynasty, 13th-11th century BC. Photo Sotheby's the deep ‘U’-shaped body rising from three blade-like legs, decorated in relief with a band of four stylized dragons with raised central eyes and thread-like bodies, reserved on a leiwen ground, interrupted on one side by a loop handle issuing from a bovine head, the rim set with a pair of posts adorned by mushroom caps with sunken whorl patterns, a three-character inscription underneath the handle, the surface with... [Lire la suite]

The Rong Fu Jue. A bronze ritual wine vessel. Late Shang Dynasty, 13th-11th century BC. Photo Sotheby's The deep 'U'-shaped body supported on three splayed blade-like legs, decorated on each side with a frieze of taotie mask with prominent eyes on a fine leiwen ground, below a band of scale motifs between two borders of circles, centered by a vertical flange and a loop handle issuing from a bovine head, the long spout and pointed tail forming the rim, surmounted by a pair of posts capped by conical tops with sunken whorl... [Lire la suite]

Ludwig Deutsch, The Procession of Al Mihmal, Cairo. Estimate: 1,000,000 - 1,500,000 GBP. Photo Sotheby's. LONDON.- On 8 April 2014 in London, Sotheby’s will present The Orientalist Sale as part of Sotheby’s Orientalist & Islamic Week. The auction comprises masterpieces by leading European and American Orientalist painters, including Ludwig Deutsch, David Roberts, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Etienne Dinet and Frederick Arthur Bridgman, as well as select works of sculpture.  The genre of Orientalist art has undergone a revision in... [Lire la suite]

Adrien Carpentiers, Louis François Roubiliac Modelling His Monument to Shakespeare, between 1760 and 1761, oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.  NEW HAVEN, CONN.- Opening in February 2014, the Yale Center for British Art, in collaboration with Waddesdon Manor, will present an exhibition on the eighteenth-century literary fi gure and poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744), whose sculpted portraits exemplified his fame at a time when the portrait bust was enjoying new popularity. Fame and Friendship:... [Lire la suite]

Tenzing Rigdol (b. 1982), Afloat, 2014. Collage, silk brocade and scripture, 152 x 152 cm (60 x 60 in). Rossi & Rossi, Stand 166. US$25,000.  Rossi & Rossi will unveil a new work by the contemporary Tibetan artist Tenzing Rigdol at TEFAF Maastricht, from 14 to 23 March 2014.  Entitled Afloat, it is an immaculately executed collage of some considerable size, which references traditional and contemporary notions of Tibet.  The result is an aesthetically simple yet intellectually complex work of art, which... [Lire la suite]