2 septembre 2018

 Irving Penn, Cuzco Town Photographer with Barefoot Girl, Cuzco, 1948, 11 3/4 x 11 5/16 inches. Signed, titled, dated, and annotated with stamps and pencil verso. Printed in 1989. Copyright © by The Irving Penn Foundation LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Fahey/Klein Gallery is presenting Irving Penn: Worlds in a Small Room, Seen & Unseen, a solo exhibition of works by renowned photographer Irving Penn. This exhibition will feature a powerful retrospective of Penn’s ethnographic studies, which illustrate the diversity of... [Lire la suite]

  Lot 1315. A very rare Yaozhou tripod censer, Northern Song-Jin dynasty, 12th-13th century; 4 5/8 in. (12 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 25,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018. The compressed globular body is raised on three lion's-paw feet, and decorated with a band of foliate scroll below a triple-grooved band. The neck is decorated with a band of upright petals below the everted rim. The censer is covered overall with a pale greyish-green glaze.  Note: A yaozhou... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1317. A carved Yaozhou dish, Northern Song-Jin dynasty, 12th-13th century; 7¼ in. (18.3 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 12,000 - USD 18,000. Price realised USD 30,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018. The shallow dish has rounded sides and a slightly everted rim, and is freely carved in the interior with a leafy stem bearing one blossom, with combed details, and is covered all over in a greyish-green glaze stopping short of the foot burnt orange in the firing.  Provenance: Mottahedeh Collection; Sotheby's New York, 8 November... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1293. A small carved Yaozhou bowl, Northern Song-Jin dynasty, 12th-13th century; 4 ¼ in. (10.9 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 4,000 - USD 6,000. Price realised USD 16,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018. The bowl is carved in the center with a lotus spray below six slightly raised ribs that rise up the rounded sides to the correspondingly notched rim, and is covered inside and out with an olive-green glaze. Provenance: J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 19 September 2002.Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1293. A rare small Yaozhou figure of a girl, Northern Song-Jin dynasty, 12th-13th century; 3 in. (7.7 cm.) high. Estimate USD 2,000 - USD 3,000. Price realised USD 15,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018. The hollow figure is shown seated cross-legged and holding a fruit. Her head is tilted slightly to one side and her hair is tied with a ribbon into two loops at her shoulders, all under a glaze of greyish-green tone, zitan stand. Provenance: Luen Chai, Hong Kong, 29 October 1998.Peter Scheinman (1932-2017)... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1292. A rare pair of small molded Yaozhou conical bowls, Northern Song-Jin dynasty, 12th-13th century; 5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price realised USD 27,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018.  Each bowl with widely flared sides is molded on the interior with a phoenix standing at the base of a flowering stem bearing two fanciful leaves that flank a large central flower centered by a plaque inscribed with the family name Gao jia, and is carved on the exterior with a band of upright petals,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1290. A Yaozhou conical bowl, Song dynasty, 12th century; 7 5/8 in. (19.4 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 4,000 - USD 6,000. Price realised USD 4,000. Unsold. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018. The deep, slightly rounded conical sides are applied on the interior with six slender ribs of slip that define six petals, and the bowl is covered inside and out with an olive-green glaze that thins on the ribs. Provenance: Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York. Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1288. A Yaozhou conical bowl, Song dynasty, 12th century; 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 4,000 - USD 6,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018. The slightly rounded, widely flared sides are subtly lobed as six petals that rise to the notched rim and are covered inside and out with a glaze of greyish-olive color. Provenance: Dries Blitz, 5 November 1998.Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York. Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 13 - 14 September 2018 ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1286. A large carved Yaozhou bowl, Northern Song dynasty, 12th century; 8 7/8 in. (22 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018. The slightly rounded, widely flared sides are well carved on the interior with two leafy, flowering peony stems bearing two large blossoms and a third smaller blossom in between, the design ending at the plain area below the rim, and the exterior is freely carved with curved lines suggesting large blossoms. The bowl is covered overall with a glaze of greyish-olive... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1307. A Jizhou splashed brown-glazed stoneware jar, Southern Song dynasty, 12th-13th century; 5 ¼ in. (13.3 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 5,000 - USD 7,000. Price realised USD 5,250. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018. The jar is covered with a dark brown glaze that stops above the foot to expose the pale grey ware and is decorated with sweeping brushstrokes of buff color shading to milky blue in areas. Provenance: Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York. Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of... [Lire la suite]