24 décembre 2022
Frans Hals and Studio, Portrait of a man, three-quarter-length, wearing black with a white collar
Lot 5. Frans Hals and Studio (Antwerp 1582/83 - 1666 Haarlem), Portrait of a man, three-quarter-length, wearing black with a white collar, oil on canvas; 78.9 x 66.1 cm.; 31 x 26 in. Lot sold: 604,800 GBP (Estimate: 600,000 - 800,000 GBP). © 2022 Sotheby's.
Provenance: Admiral Sir Montague Edward Browning (1863–1947), London;Sir Hugh P. Lane (1875–1915), London;With Arthur Ruck, London;With John Levy Galleries, New York;From whom acquired by Mrs Benjamin F. Jones Jr. (d.... [Lire la suite]24 décembre 2022
Inspirational Colours from the the V.W.S. collection sold at Christie's Paris
When the owners of the current collection invited Daniel Pasgrimaud - who has been described by Daniel Alcouffe, a former Director of the Department of Art at the Louvre Museum, as ‘one of the greatest decorators of our time’ - to decorate their house on the Riviera in 1990, Pasgrimaud took inspiration from a number of the Chinese pieces in the collection. On the one hand, the pale celadon green of Chinese jades informed the colour palette of the grand salon, while the clear tones of Chinese monochrome porcelains provided inspiration... [Lire la suite]