18 mars 2023

Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, 1955

Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, 1955. Oil and glass on canvas, 51 x 75 cm. Signed and dated (lower right): “L. Fontana, ’55“; signed, titled and dated (on the reverse): L. Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, 1955". Courtesy MAZZOLENI at TEFAF Maastrich 2023 Provenance: Private Collection, Paris (186/48)Galerie Michel Couturier, ParisGalleria Medea, MilanGalleria Seno, Milan (11/50)Private Collection, Milan (1983) Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) founded his poetics of “Spatialism” on the analysis of the virtual... [Lire la suite]
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14 mars 2023

Amedeo Modigliani, Cariatide Rouge sur Fond Noir (Red Caryatid on Black Ground), c. 1913-1914

Amedeo Modigliani, Cariatide Rouge sur Fond Noir (Red Caryatid on Black Ground), c. 1913-1914. Red and black gouache with admixtures of white and blue water-based thickened paint and stick charcoal on thin white wove paper laid down to medium weightwove paper, 62.5 x 42.5 cm (24.6 x 16.7 in.). Courtesy DAVID TUNICK, INC. at TEFAF Maastricht 2023. Provenance: The artist; c. 1913-14 direct to his friend,Mariska Diederich (1884?-1953?), Paris; sometime between the teens and mid-1940’s toSydney G. Biddle... [Lire la suite]
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13 mars 2023

Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of Cléo de Mérode, 1901

Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of Cléo de Mérode, 1901. Oil on canvas, 97.8 x 81.3 cm (38.5 x 32 in.). Courtesy WILDENSTEIN & CO. INC. Provenance: Commissioned in 1901 by Sigismond Bardac (1856-1919), Paris; acquired sometime after his death byBaron Maurice de Rothschild (1881-1957), ParisGeorges Wildenstein (1892-1963), Paris, by 1925, until 1942; sold under duress in December 1942 (during the liquidation of Wildenstein property in Paris by the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives), toCount Renato... [Lire la suite]
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07 mars 2023

Sotheby's to offer works from the collection of Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem including Picasso painting

Maria Manetti Shrem, pictured with her husband, Jan Shrem in 2016, bought the Picasso 25 years ago for £1.2 million. Getty Images. NEW YORK, NY.- This May in New York, Sotheby’s will offer some 17 exceptional works from the collection of Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem, passionate collectors, highly successful entrepreneurs and visionaries and, not least, philanthropists of the highest order whose transformative support has benefitted a wide-range of causes in the fine arts, music, education, and medical... [Lire la suite]
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19 février 2023

Sotheby's to offer one of Gerhard Richter's greatest monumental abstract masterpieces

Property from a Private American Collection. Lot 112. Gerhard Richter (b. 1932), Abstraktes Bild, signed Richter, dated 1986, numbered 596 and inscribed Teil A (on the reverse of left panel); numbered 596 and inscribed Teil B (on the reverse of right panel), oil on canvas, in two parts, overall: 260 by 400 cm. 102⅜ by 157½ in. Executed in 1986. Estimate Upon Request. Courtesy Sotheby's. LONDON.- A monumental masterpiece from... [Lire la suite]
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16 février 2023

Gerhard Richter (B.1932), Abstraktes Bild (704-2)

Lot 18. Gerhard Richter (B.1932), Abstraktes Bild (704-2), signed, numbered and dated ‘704-2 Richter 1989’ (on the reverse), oil on canvas, 28 3/8 x 24 1/2in. (72 x 62.2cm.). Painted in 1989. Estimate GBP 2,500,000 – GBP 3,500,000. © Christie's 2023 © Gerhard Richter 2023  Provenance: Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich.Private Collection, Munich.Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York.Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002. Literature: Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik... [Lire la suite]
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16 février 2023

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Concetto spaziale, Attese

Lot 34. Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Concetto spaziale, Attese, signed, titled and inscribed 'Concetto Spaziale ATTESE l. fontana 1+1 88884' (on the reverse), waterpaint on canvas, 24 1/4 x 18 3/8in. (61.5 x 46.7cm.). Estimate GBP 1,500,000 – GBP 2,000,000. © Christie's 2023 Provenance: Jean-Paul Meulemeester, Brussels.Serge de Bloe Collection, Brussels.Private Collection, Brussels (acquired from the above in 1966).Anon. sale, Christie's London, 4 February 2004, lot 8.Private Collection,... [Lire la suite]
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01 janvier 2023

Pierre Soulages, Peinture 81 x 102 cm, 9 février 1987

Lot 4. Pierre Soulages (1919 - 2022), Peinture 81 x 102 cm, 9 février 1987, oil on canvas, 81 x 102 cm. Executed in 1987. Lot sold: 906,200 EUR (Estimate: 800,000 - 1,200,000 EUR). © 2022 Sotheby's. Provenance: Galerie de France, ParisPrivate Collection, Paris (acquired from the above in 1987). Literature: Pierre Encrevé, Soulages. L'Oeuvre Complet. Peintures III. 1979-1997, Paris, 1995, p. 158, no. 933, illustrated in colour. Sotheby's. Art Contemporain... [Lire la suite]
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01 décembre 2022

"Yves Klein, intime" à l'Hôtel de Caumont

Yves Klein dans son atelier entouré de ses Sculptures Éponges, Paris, 1959 © Succession Yves Klein c/o ADAGP, Paris, 2022 - © Photo : Georges Véron Yves Klein est assurément l’un des artistes français de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle les plus célèbres. Depuis sa disparition prématurée en 1962, à 34 ans, la reconnaissance internationale de son œuvre n’a jamais cessé de grandir. Le bleu lumineux et profond qu’il a fait breveter, le fameux IKB (International Klein Blue), est connu bien au-delà du cercle des amateurs d’art. ... [Lire la suite]
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06 juillet 2022

Jill Newhouse Gallery's summer exhibition features paintings and drawings of flowers

NEW YORK, NY.- Artists of all periods have been drawn to depicting flowers, using their natural variety of form as a basis for experimentation with line and color. As varied as the flowers themselves, these artworks reveal so much about the artists and their different worlds.The title of this show is a poem by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) whose written works echo the aesthetics of the artists included here. Her works were published posthumously in 1890 just as the painters in our exhibition were coming to their artistic... [Lire la suite]