7 février 2017

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796-1875), Venise, vue du Campo della Carita en regardant le Dôme de la Salute, 1834. Vente Corot stamp lower right, oil on paper laid down on canvas, 10 1/2 by 15 in. Price on request. Gallery 19c. There is only one master here - Corot. We are nothing compared to him. - Claude Monet Provenance: Estate of the artist (and sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Vente Corot, May 29 - June 9, 1875, lot 80) Collection Hector Brame Ernest May, Paris (and sold, his sale June... [Lire la suite]

Lino Tagliapietra, Angel Tear, 2016, blown glass, 53.5 x 17.5 x 7.5" [LT1066].  Price Upon Request © Schantz Galleries 2016  Lino Tagliapietra, Angel Tear, 2016, blown glass, 61 x 15 x 8" [LT1067]. Price Upon Request © Schantz Galleries 2016 Lino Tagliapietra, Angel Tear, 2016, blown glass, 47¼ x 16½ x 7½" [LT02282]. Price Upon Request © Schantz Galleries 2016 Lino Tagliapietra, Angel Tear, 2015, blown glass, 42 x 23.5 x 7.5"... [Lire la suite]

“Lucky Money” Têt Stamp, hardwood with original polychrome, Vietnam, circa 19th century. (Primary Source) Height on stand: 16.50” Width: 9.50”. This stamp was used to create "lucky money" for the celebrations on Tết Nguyên Đán, more commonly called Tet - the Vietnamese New Year. Children are given red envelopes containing lucky money such as this stamp was used to create. This tradition is known as mừng tuổi (happy new age) in the northern parts of Vietnam and lì xì in the south. Primary Source

“Lucky Money” Têt Stamp, hardwood with original polychrome, Vietnam, circa 19th century. (Primary Source) Height on stand: 16.50” Width: 9.50”. This stamp was used to create "lucky money" for the celebrations on Tết Nguyên Đán, more commonly called Tet - the Vietnamese New Year. Children are given red envelopes containing lucky money such as this stamp was used to create. This tradition is known as mừng tuổi (happy new age) in the northern parts of Vietnam and lì xì in the south. Primary Source

LOS ANGELES, CA.- When the 2017 San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show opens at Fort Mason Center on February 9, an eye-alluring range of ancient artifacts from Primary Source will take center stage. Running through February 12, the San Francisco Tribal & Textile Art Show is the largest, most comprehensive and rigorously vetted fair in the United States.  Says John Strusinski, who founded Los Angeles-based Primary Source 28 year ago, “The Tribal & Textile Art Show is a must-attend destination for top... [Lire la suite]

Peter Doig, Cobourg 3 + 1 More (1994), estimate £8,000,000 -12,000,000. © Christie’s Images Limited 2017. LONDON.- Christie‘s Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction will present Peter Doig’s Cobourg 3 + 1 More (1994, estimate: £8,000,000-12,000,000), which stands among the great icons of Doig’s early oeuvre. A visionary apparition rendered on a majestic scale, Cobourg 3 + 1 More conjures a distant, half-remembered reality beneath a shimmering membrane of scattered pigment. Recently awarded the Art Icon Award at... [Lire la suite]

Andrea della Robbia, Bust of a Young Boy, c. 1475, glazed terracotta, overall: 13 x 11 13/16 x 7 7/8 in. (33 x 30 x 20 cm), pedestal: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm), Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Firenze.  WASHINGTON, DC.- More than 500 years after their creation, Della Robbia terracotta sculptures endure as some of the most innovative and expressive examples of art from the Italian Renaissance. On view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, West Building from February 5 through June 4, 2017,... [Lire la suite]

Mikhail Larionov, The Spider’s Web. Buccellati one-of-kind yellow gold, white gold and diamonds pendant inspired by Mikhail Larionov’s The Spider’s Web. 95.000,00 €  © Buccellati 2016 Nothing else but the Buccellati's signature honeycomb technique could fit with the interpretation of Larionov’s painting, “The Spider’s Web”: the ring has been masterly handcrafted to reproduce an impenetrable and light web with scalloped borders in white gold. On the top of the tulle mounting, the spider imposes itself with... [Lire la suite]

Pierre Bonnard, Deux Vases de Fleurs Buccellati one-of-kind yellow gold, white gold and diamonds pendant inspired by Pierre Bonnard’s Deux Vases de Fleurs  © Buccellati 2016  Flowers always inspired Buccellati and this brooch/pendant perfectly shows how the House’s techniques perfectly apply to the representation of Nature. The mimosa branch lazily leaning out from a vase gets new life in the brooch with seven flowers with yellow gold petals set with yellow brilliant-cut diamonds, centering white gold bezels... [Lire la suite]

Winslow Homer, Light Blue Sea at Prout’s Neck Buccellati one-of-kind white gold and diamonds bracelet inspired by Winslow Homer’s Light Blue Sea at Prout’s Neck. 300.000,00 €  © Buccellati 2016  Inspired by Homer’s painting this white gold bracelet, handcrafted with the Tulle technique, reproduces the sensual movement of the waves, the tumultuous splashes of the white foam upon them and it is entirely set with diamonds. An expression of strength and passion, both innate in the immensity of the ocean, it... [Lire la suite]