Valerio Adami
‘Il Duomo di Firenze 1/150” 1992
serigraph
36 1/8 x 26 ½ inches (image)
(91 x 67 cm - image)
Note: 149 serigraphs of 150
Provenance: Marisa del Re Gallery
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot(French, 1796-1875)
Mlle. Léotine Desavary tenant une tourterelle
signed 'COROT' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 14 7/8 in. (59.6 x 37.8 cm.)
Painted in 1872
Provenance:
Charles Desavary, Arras.
Alfred Robaut, Paris.
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1904.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1912
Literature:
A. Robaut, L'Oeuvre de Corot, Paris, 1965, vol. III, pp. 298-9, no. 2151 (illustrated).
C. Bernheim de Villers, Corot: peintre de figures, Paris, 1930, no. 322 (illustrated).
Notes:
The model of this painting, Léotine, was the daughter of Corot's friend, the painter and photographer Charles Desavary, the first owner of this painting.
The present work has been examined and authenticated by Martin Dieterle.
Kees Van Dongen
(1877-1968)
Portrait de la Comtesse Anatole de Bremond d’Ars
Signed ‘Van Dongen’ (upper right)
25 ¼ x 19 ½ in
(64 x 50cm)
Painted in 1947
Provenance:
Comtesse Anatole de Bremond d’Ars (acquired from the artist)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
Anon. Sale, Sotheby’s, London, 30 March 1988, lot 210
Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Kees van Dongen oeuvres de 1890 a 1948, 1949, no.169.
Jacques Chalom des Cordes will include this painting in his forthcoming Van Dongen catalogue raisonne being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute
Salvador Dali
1904-1989
TRIUMP IF THE TOREADOR
Signed
Watercolor, pencil, AND OIL on card
19 ½ x 15 ¾ in
(49.5 x 40cm)
executed in 1968
Robert Descharnes has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.
This work is an idea for a set design for the opera Carmen actIV
SIGMAR POLKE (B. 1941)
Untitled
Acrylic on canvas
43 ¼ x 35 ½ in. (109.9x90.2cm)
Painted in 1994
Provenance:
Gift from the artist to the present owner.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1088)
‘Number 4’
signed ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat’ on the reverse acrylic, colored oil sticks and colored Xerox collage on canvas 65 ¾ x 54 in.
(167 x 137.2 cm). Painted in 1981.
Provenance:
Gagosian Gallery, NY
Marlborough Gallery, NY
Literature:
E. Navarro, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paris 1996, p.52, pl. 4 (illustrated).
In the early eighties a young Jean-Michel Basquiat stepped through the doors of establised Conceptualism and became the crowned prince of American Neo-Expressionism. Abandoning the traditionalgallery incubated styles of decades past, his work was born from and grew on the streets of New York where he himself was raised. This never-ending parallel between Jean-Michel Basquiat’s own personal development and that of his artistic expression isevident in Number 4, a work prduced at the beginning of his all too brief career.
‘Number 4’ has an undeniable vibrancy and fluidity that characterizes Jean-Michel ‘s work. Descending directly from the influence of artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Basquiat’s painterly style incorporates a sense of immediacy with a highly refined schematic composition. The strong linear quality of the work pronounces Basquiat’s intent of relaying specific emotions and underlying meanings to the viewer. His line bounces in all directions across the surface of the canvas in an erratic manner much like the jumpy, unpredictable lines of a polygraph. With his use of language and symbol he strips down and then builds up his own identity and that of society’s.
Jean-Michel’s experience as a graffiti artist (SAMO) in the late 1970s adds a certain street sense to Number 4. His use of Xerox collage becomes symbolic of the city and its inhabitants. Handbills, announcements, want adds and flyers flashed their individual messages in an unending procession down the streets and avenues of New York. Basquiat transported this familiar urban wall paper into the gallery and applied them periodically to his new walls of canvas.
Frank M. Boggs
1855-1926
“The Harbor at rouen”
oil on canvas
15” x 22”
signed and titled lower left ‘Frank Boggs Rouen’
Provenance: Sotheby’s LA, Nov. 13, 1972
Roy Lichtenstein
“As I opened fire…”
each panel 25 ¼” x 20 7/8” (64 x 53 cm)
The set of three offset lithographs printed in colos, 1964, signed in pencil on the third panel, from an edition of 3000 (only a few impressions were signed), published by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, on strdy wove paper, with full margins, in apparently good condition, framed* (not examined out o frame)