22 novembre 2015

Elizabeth Taylor by Richard Avedon (1956)

pour vos cadeaux de Noël, vente privée, 20 r Hallé 75014 Paris les vêtements de la styliste Liên Pham autour du Vietnam avec Loan de Fontbrune  les tissus des minorités ethniques, les broderies, l’artisanat et les antiquités :  argenterie, bronze, céramique, nacre, bois etc. les sacs à main de la créatrice Dominique Wagner Lamainausac Le mercredi 25 de 12h30 à 20h les jeudi 26 et vendredi 27 novembre de 12h30 à 17h

A Fine 4.37 carats Kashmir Sapphire and Diamond Ring. Estimate 67,500 – 82,500 USD (63,000 – 77,000 EUR). © 1996-2015 Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers Set with a cushion-shaped sapphire weighing 4.37 carats, flanked by a pair of trilliant-cut diamonds, mounted in platinum With report 2165080219 dated 27 May 2014 from the Gemological Institute of America stating natural sapphire, geographic origin Kashmir, no indication of heating. With report 12110169 dated 24 April 2014 from the Gubelin Gem Lab... [Lire la suite]

An Antique Sapphire and Diamond Pendant-Brooch, circa 1880. Estimate 12,000 — 13,500 USD (11,200 — 12,600 EUR). © 1996-2015 Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers Designed with curling ribbons, floral motifs and a garland swag, suspending a pear-shaped sapphire weighing approximately 5.60 carats, and centering a later added oval sapphire weighing approximately 3.00 carats, set throughout with old-cut diamonds, mounted in silver and gold Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers. Fall 2015. NOVEMBER 22, 2015, WINDSOR... [Lire la suite]

An Antique Diamond Starburst Brooch-Pendant, circa 1875. Estimate 5,250 – 6,750 (4,900 – 6,300 EUR). © 1996-2015 Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers The starburst design centering an old mine-cut diamond weighing approximately 0.80 carat, surrounded by twenty undulating rays set with old mine and rose-cut diamonds weighing approximately 6.50 carats, mounted in silver and gold Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers. Fall 2015. NOVEMBER 22, 2015, WINDSOR ARMS HOTEL, 18 St. Thomas Street, Toronto

A Georgian Diamond Floral Brooch, circa 1800. Hammer Price: $10,000. © 1996-2015 Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers Designed as a flowerhead decorated throughout with old mine and rose-cut diamonds weighing approximately 12.25 carats, mounted in silver and gold.  Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers. Fall 2015. NOVEMBER 22, 2015, WINDSOR ARMS HOTEL, 18 St. Thomas Street, Toronto

A 4.94 carats Diamond Ring. Estimate 31,500 — 37,500 USD (29,400 — 35,000 EUR). © 1996-2015 Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers Set with a marquise-cut diamond weighing 4.94 carats, flanked on either side by a trio of marquise-cut diamonds, mounted in platinum and 10k white gold With report 2175173710 dated 20 May 2015 from the Gemological Institute of America stating that the diamond is D colour, SI2 clarity Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers. Fall 2015. NOVEMBER 22, 2015, WINDSOR ARMS HOTEL, 18... [Lire la suite]

PARIS - La Maison des Cultures du Monde rendra hommage au Professeur Trần Văn Khê le 26 novembre 2015 à 19h.  «Rendre hommage à la mémoire du Professeur Tran Van Khê est un devoir que la Maison des cultures du monde se doit d’accomplir. Elle le fait par admiration et respect pour cet éminent musicologue qui lui a fait l’honneur de son attention et de sa collaboration. Elle le fait aussi par amitié, celle qui lie les passionnés de découverte et de connaissance des cultures du monde.Lui rendre hommage c’est aussi... [Lire la suite]

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, A presumed self-portrait, 1640s. Etching, platemark; overall: 188 x 138 mm. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2015. FORT WORTH, TX.- He was one of the most innovative artists of the Italian Baroque. Yet Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–1664) was also a violent and impetuous man, who was repeatedly in court for assault, allegedly attempted to throw his sister off a roof, destroyed his own work in front of powerful patrons, and was forced to flee Rome in mysterious... [Lire la suite]

Irving Penn, Iceland Poppy (B), New York, 2006, 18 5/8 x 21 in. (47.3 x 53.3 cm.). Edition of 9 © The Irving Penn Foundation LONDON.- Hamiltons presents Irving Penn: Flowers, marking the third occasion on which gallery owner Tim Jefferies is presenting an entire series of photographs printed by the legendary photographer as an edition. As with Hamiltons’ previous Penn exhibitions, Cigarettes (2012) and Cranium Architecture (2013), this exhibition of Flowers is the first time this whole series of... [Lire la suite]