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    MONET, PICASSO AND KANDINSKY TO LEAD CHRISTIE’S NEW YORK SALE

    Tuesday, November 1st, 2016

    Monet, Picasso and Kandinsky will lead Christie’s auction of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York on November 16.   The evening sale of 49 works by the major artists of the era is expected to achieve more than $200 million.

    Brooke Lampley, Christie’s Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, New York, remarked: “This sale constitutes an exceptional line-up of masterpieces and fresh to market gems perfectly suited to collectors’ taste. From Monet to Kandinsky, Cézanne to Matisse, and a great range of works by Picasso, all of the sought after artists of the period are well represented in this sale, with offerings at every price level.”

    Chaim Soutine - Le garçon d'etage ($6-9 million. Courtesy Christie's Images Lt.d, 2016.

    Chaim Soutine – Le garçon d’etage ($6-9 million. Courtesy Christie’s Images Lt.d, 2016.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $6,519,500

    Claude Monet - Meule (Grainstack) Courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2016

    Claude Monet – Meule (Grainstack) Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2016  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $81,447,500

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    GUN USED BY VERLAINE TO SHOOT RIMBAUD AT CHRISTIE’S PARIS

    Friday, October 21st, 2016
    The revolver used by Verlaine. © CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LIMITED 2016

    The revolver used by Verlaine. © CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LIMITED 2016  UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR 434,500 

    The gun bought by Paul Verlaine bought with the intention of killing Arthur Rimbaud comes up at Christie’s Exceptional Sale in Paris on November 30.  The poets had known each other since 1871 and were inseparable.  Verlaine was married but decided to flee to London with Rimbaud in 1873.  In May and June of that year in London they quarrelled violently.  On July 3 Verlaine left London to seek refuge in Brussels. Rimbaud soon joined him, but then decided to return to Paris.  Verlaine then shot him twice with a gun he bought from a gunsmith in Brussels on July 10, 1873. He managed only to to shoot the wrist. Rimbaud then spent ten days in the hospital, and Verlaine was sent to jail for two years.  The story of the Brussels affair in well documented statements and depositions taken at the time is now kept at the Royal Library in Belgium.  The gun is estimated at 50,000-70,000.

    UPDATE:  It was sold to an anonymous bidder on the telephone for 434,500.  The Exceptional Sale realised 4,031,150.

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    WADDINGTON COLLECTION A SELLOUT IN LONDON

    Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
    JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985) Visiteur au chapeau bleu avril 1955 signed and dated 'J. Dubuffet 55. Courtesy CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LTD. 2016

    JEAN DUBUFFET (1901-1985)
    Visiteur au chapeau bleu avril 1955
    signed and dated ‘J. Dubuffet 55. Courtesy CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD. 2016

    The Collection of Leslie Waddington was a sellout at Christie’s in London on October 4.  Spirited bidding for the personal collection of a pioneering art dealer saw 80% of works selling over estimate in an auction which achieved £28,285,525.  Bidders registered from 37 countries across six continents. It was an electric start of the much anticipated Frieze Week auctions.  The top lot was Jean Dubuffet’s Visiteur au chapeau bleu (Visitor with a Blue Hat)  which sold for £4,813,000.

    Born in Dublin Leslie Waddington, who died last year aged 81, was son the art dealer Victor Waddington and his wife Zelda (nee Levine).  In 1927 Victor had founded a pioneering gallery in Dublin that represented contemporary Irish artists including Jack Yeats. Leslie Waddington received a classical education at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, whose old boys included Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett.  He revered the Irish literary tradition and later on, in Paris, befriended Beckett, with whom he played chess.   In 1958 he joined his father’s new gallery at Cork St. in London and in 1966 set up on his own. In 2003 he was one of the first dealers to participate in Frieze.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for July 19, 2016)

    ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976) Le serpent rouge (The Red Snake) Courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2016

    ALEXANDER CALDER (1898-1976)
    Le serpent rouge (The Red Snake) sold for £4,421,000.  Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2016

    FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953) Lampe

    FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953) Lampe sold for £3,637,000.  Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2016

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    GLOBAL INTEREST IN REAGAN PRIVATE COLLECTION SALE

    Friday, September 23rd, 2016
    PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN’S COWBOY BOOTS, BY TONY LAMA BOOTS, CIRCA 1980

    PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN’S COWBOY BOOTS, BY TONY LAMA BOOTS, CIRCA 1980

    With strong participation from across Europe and Asia bidders from 34 countries took part in the sale of the private collection of President Ronald Reagan and Mrs. Nancy Reagan at Christie’s.  Part I of the sale totalled $5,740,625. There were 1,200 registered bidders and the auction was 100% sold by lot.  The top lot was a diamond, sapphire and ruby ring by Bulgari which sold for $319,500.  President Reagan’s cowboy boots, which had been estimated at $10,000-20,000 – sold for $199,500.

    A signed fragment of the Berlin Wall made $277,500, a painting by Frank Sinatra – Fourth of July Fireworks – made $233,500 and a series of pencil sketches signed Ronald Reagan on White House stationary sold for $100,000.

    An online auction continues until September 27-28.  The sale will benefit the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute.

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for June 2, 2016)

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    FRIEZE WEEK SALES ANTICIPATE AUTUMN EXHIBITIONS

    Monday, September 19th, 2016
    Thomas Schütte, Bronzefrau Nr. 13 (2003) Bronze figure on steel table (£1,200,000-1,800,000)

    Thomas Schütte, Bronzefrau Nr. 13 (2003) Bronze figure on steel table (£1,200,000-1,800,000)

    Christie’s Frieze Week auction of Post-War and Contemporary Art in London on October 6 will bring together over 200 of the foremost names in the contemporary art world today. The sale focuses on artists who are the subjects of the most anticipated exhibitions this autumn, including Glenn Brown, David Hockney, Per Kirkeby, Gerald Laing, Thomas Schütte, Henry Taylor, Günther Uecker and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.  The sale will be followed on the the same evening by the Italian Sale.  Together with the Leslie Waddington Collection on October 4 and the Post War and Contemporary Day Auction on October 7 it adds up to what Christie’s say is one of the most important weeks in the contemporary art-world calendar.

    Cristian Albu, Specialist, Head of the Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction: ‘This October my aim was to put an emphasis on names that are fresh and relevant to the current art landscape and it is remarkable in the selection the number of artists who are currently the subject of major solo or participating in important group shows across the world. Alongside the Waddington Collection and the Italian Sale we are looking forward to seeing another season at Christie’s of the highest quality works alongside new talent that promises major results.’ 

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    KANDINSKY HIGHLIGHT AT CHRISTIE’S NEW YORK SALE

    Saturday, September 17th, 2016
    Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Rigide et curb signed with monogram and dated '35'

    Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Rigide et curb signed with monogram and dated ’35’  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $23,319,500

    Wassily Kandinsky’s Rigide et courbé will be a highlight of  the Impressionist and Modern Art evening sale at Christie’s in New York on November 16. Estimated at $18-25 million Rigide et courbé (Rigid and Curved) is one Kandinsky’s dynamic compositions of grand scale. The canvas is densely packed with lively geometric vignettes and a thoughtfully textured surface composed of sand mixed with paint, a technique Kandinsky used only in his Paris paintings of 1934-1935. Solomon R. Guggenheim acquired it from Kandinsky in 1936. It was extensively published and highly exhibited from 1937-1949. The work is being offered from an important private American collection and has not been on the market since 1964.

    Conor Jordan, Deputy Chairman of Impressionist and Modern Art said: “With its dynamic sweep of upward energy, Kandinsky’s Rigide et courbé, a late masterpiece from the mid-1930s, unseen in public for over fifty years, evokes an epic paean, a rhapsodic song of thanksgiving suggesting the bright hope the artist saw in his new home in Paris following his flight from Nazi Germany. Abstract forms, runic symbols and mythic references, summoning Kandinsky’s life and career, intertwine with veiled allusions to contemporary events, across the broad dimensions of this technically audacious canvas which is richly worked in oil and sand. It ranks among the greatest Kandinskys still in private hands.”

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    MAJOR JEAN DUBUFFET WORK TO HIGHLIGHT CHRISTIE’S NEW YORK AUCTION

    Monday, September 12th, 2016

    dubuffetJean Dubuffet’s Les Grandes Artères, 1961 will highlight Christie’s November 15 evening sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York. The  masterful canvas from Dubuffet’s  Paris Circus series is estimated at $15-20 million. Many examples from the Paris Circus series are housed in international collections. These include the Tate Gallery, London; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Les Grandes Artères has been in the same private American collection since 1964, and has not appeared publically since 1973, when it was featured in the Guggenheim’s Dubuffet retrospective.

    Brett Gorvy, Chairman and International Head of Post-War and Contemporary Art, remarked: “Les Grandes Artères is an extraordinarily vibrant and complex canvas that encapsulates the vitality of Paris, and the dynamism of city life. The detail with which he depicts each of his figures gives them their own individual character and the line-up of glamorous cars shows what a cosmopolitan city Paris had become—a scene which Dubuffet captures this with particular skill and spirit. We are particularly pleased to be bringing this work to auction on the heels of a pinnacle year for Dubuffet, which included a range of important international exhibitions of his work. With a retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, a monographic show at the Acquavella Gallery in Manhattan, and an installation of his monumental sculpture, Welcome Parade, in front of New York’s historic Seagram Building, it is clear that the global interest in Dubuffet has never been stronger.”

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    UNDISCOVERED RARITIES IN COLLECTION OF BRIAN SEWELL

    Sunday, September 4th, 2016
    Undiscovered rarities have been found in the collection of Brian Sewell which comes up at Christie’s in London on September 27. One of Britain’s best loved art critics he had a flair for spotting quality, even where the identify of the artist had been long lost. A number of new attributions have been made since the catalogue to the auction Brian Sewell: Critic and Collector was published.
    An oil on paper study on blue paper of a soldier carrying a ladder towards a besieged town, thought to have been by a follower of Michelangelo, was spotted by a museum curator in the US as by the Florentine artist Agostino Ciampelli (1565-1630). The technique with black chalk heightened by white on blue paper is characteristic of Ciampelli.  The drawing, made in connection with a Medici marriage in 1589, was acquired by Brian Sewell in the early 1960’s. It is now estimated at £20,000-30,000.
    A profile study has been found to be typical of the technique of Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) when using red chalk (£6,000-8,000). A two-sided study in oil on paper by Domenico Tintoretto (1560-1635) has just been associated with a series of pictures in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice. A meticulously drawn view from 1794 was identified as the Schmadribach Waterfall near Lauterbrunnen, a favourite subject of German Romantic Joseph Anton Koch (1768-1839) (£20,000-30,000).
    Dido Reclining, Asleep by Daniele da Volterra (1509-66) was identified through extensive research at Christie’s and is estimated at £100,000-150,000.  Estimates in the auction range from £600 to £600,000.  UPDATE:  The auction achieved £3,741,313

    (See post on antiquesandartireland.com for June 3, 2016)

    This drawing of a soldier carrying a ladder turns out to be a work by Agostine Ciampelli (1565-1630). It is estimated at £20,000-30,000. © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    This drawing of a soldier carrying a ladder turns out to be a work by Agostine Ciampelli (1565-1630). It is estimated at £20,000-30,000. © Christie’s Images Limited 2016 UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £95,000

    A Man's head in Profile has been attributed to Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto (1591-1652)

    A Man’s head in Profile has been attributed to Jusepe de Ribera, lo Spagnoletto (1591-1652)  UPDATE: THIS MADE £22,000 AT HAMMER

    Daniele da Volterra (1509-1566) Dido reclining, asleep (£50,000-80,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2016

    Daniele da Volterra (1509-1566) Dido reclining, asleep © Christie’s Images Limited 2016  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £660,000

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    THE LEICA FAMILY TREE OF CAMERAS AT CHRISTIE’S

    Monday, August 22nd, 2016
    The Leica family tree. Courtesy Christie's Images Ltd., 2016.

    The Leica family tree. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2016.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £362,500

    THE Leica Camera Family Tree comes up at Christie’s Out of the Ordinary sale in London on September 14.  This is a history of the Leica camera comprising 107 of the principal models.

    These show the evolution of the marque from pre-production models, the screw-fit Leica series, M-series, R-series, to digital models, from c1923 to 2006.  The display, formerly part of the Leica Sölms factory museum, is mounted as a family tree by model and date of production.

    The introduction of the Leica heralded a new type of photographer: the photojournalist, who made use of the camera’s small size and ability to work unobtrusively in low-light or fast-moving conditions with previously difficult subjects.

    Users like Robert Capa, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Leni Riefenstahl, Robert Doisneau and Henri Cartier-Bresson created some of the world’s best known images using a  Leica.

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    JACK DEMPSEY’S TITLE BELT AT CHRISTIE’S

    Friday, August 12th, 2016

    Jack Dempsey’s title belt and a set of keys from the Titanic are among the collectibles on offer at Christie’s Out of the Ordinary sale in South Kensington, London on September 14.  The 250th anniversary edition of this celebration of the unusual and unique comprises over 90 lots.  All are now on view at a five week summer exhibition at Christie’s in the weeks leading up to the sale. Jersey based collector David Gainsborough Roberts has spent the last 40 years amassing an extraordinary selection of memorabilia from the worlds of film and entertainment, royalty and politics, sport, and travel and exploration. His collection includes personal possessions of an array of celebrities as diverse as Queen Victoria, Sir Winston Churchill, Lawrence of Arabia, the Duchess of Windsor, William Harrison “Jack” Dempsey and Captain Robert Falcon Scot. Highlights include the Titanic keys(£7,000-10,000); a pair of ear clips owned and worn by the Duchess of Windsor (£8,000-12,000); a silk head scarf and agal owned by Lawrence of Arabia (£3,000-5,000 and £10,000-15,000); and a Stetson presented to Sir Winston Churchill by the City of Calgary (£4,000-6,000).

    A further highlight is the Leica Camera Family Tree, an artwork displaying 107 Leica cameras that chart the history of the camera maker from c1923 to 2006 (£350,000-450,000).  Here is a small selection:

    WILLIAM HARRISON "JACK" DEMPSEY (1895-1983) A 14K GOLD, DIAMOND AND ENAMEL WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BELT 1919

    WILLIAM HARRISON “JACK” DEMPSEY (1895-1983)
    A 14K GOLD, DIAMOND AND ENAMEL WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BELT 1919 Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2016  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR £25,000

    A set of keys to the Titanic

    RMS Titanic – set of four keys on brass fob c1912 (£7,000-10,000) Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd., 2016  UPDATE: THESE SOLD FOR £20,000

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