25 janvier 2011
Rares éléments d'une Chinoiserie « pour meuble » en indiennes appliquées, XVIIIème siècle

25 janvier 2011
Chinese Export, blue and white, garniture, Kangxi period,
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A Chinese Export blue and white part dinner service, circa 1740. photo Sotheby's
each piece painted with a scene from 'The Western Chamber', within a patterned border, comprising: a pair of soup tureens, covers and stands, a pair of circular small tureens and covers, a pair of butter tubs, covers and stands, a pair of sauce tureens and stands, two 15-inch circular plates, two 12½-inch circular plates, two 17-inch platters, two 14-inch platters, two 12½-inch platters, four 11-inch circular bowls, two 10-inch circular... [Lire la suite]
25 janvier 2011
Papiers peints au Chinois @ Thierry De Maigret
Exceptionnel papier peint au Chinois polychrome. Courtesy Thierry De Maigret
très vraisemblablement de la manufacture Réveillon, et sans doute coordonné à une toile imprimée à Jouy, non encore retrouvée. Estimation : 600 - 900 €
En effet le dessinateur est l'auteur d'autres modèles au Chinois connus en coordonné toile Oberkampf - papier Réveillon (dessins au Musée des Arts Décoratifs inv. BAD ens.5150, côte AA24 I). Autres papiers peints de ce dessinateur, 1ère vente Le Manach 9.12.2009, n° 198. - superbe document, fond non... [Lire la suite]
25 janvier 2011
Comfortably Above Low Estimate, Sotheby's Americana Week Brings $14.4 Million
The Ptarmigan Vase: A Monumental Copper, Silver and Gold Mokume Vase, the design attributed to Paulding Farnham, circa 1900-05. Photo Sotheby's
NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s Americana Week concluded with a 3-day auction total of $14.4 million, comfortably above the cumulative low estimate of $11.5 million. The sales brought significant prices for American furniture, silver and folk art, led by An Important Searls Family Chippendale Highly Inlaid Cherrywood and Mahogany Chest of Drawers that achieved $872,500 in the Saturday... [Lire la suite]
25 janvier 2011
Jean-Michel Fauquet, "Poids et mesures de l'obscur" @ Maison d´art Bernard Anthonioz

25 janvier 2011
Germany's Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Refuses to Return Nefertiti Bust to Egypt
This Oct. 15, 2009 file photo shows the famous 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti seen at the "Neues Museum", New Museum, on the so-called Museum Island during a media preview in Berlin, Germany. Egypt has officially requested the return of the bust, which has been in Berlin decades. Dating back to the 14th century B.C. monarch, it tops Egypt's wish list of artifacts the country hopes to bring back as part of a campaign to retrieve thousands of antiquities spirited out during the colonial period and afterward. AP... [Lire la suite]
24 janvier 2011
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Westphalia 1577-1640 Antwerp), Portrait of Ferdinando Gonzaga as a boy
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen, Westphalia 1577-1640 Antwerp), Portrait of Ferdinando Gonzaga as a boy; Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2011
oil on canvas; 32 x 22¼ in. (81.2 x 56.5 cm.) - Estimate $700,000 - $1,000,000
Provenance/ Presumably painted for Vincenzo I Gonzaga (1562-1612), Duke of Mantua. Probably one of the Gonzaga pictures acquired by the Contarini family, Venice.Dr. Martin Schubart (1808-1891); his sale, Hugo Helbing, Munich, 23 October 1899, no. 97, as 'Moroni'.Acquired by the present owner in 2000.
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24 janvier 2011
Jean-Pierre Fizet(1942), Romy Schneider.

24 janvier 2011
Luc Fourniol (1931-2007), Maria Callas & Jackie et J.F Kenedy

24 janvier 2011
"Eye to Eye: European Portraits 1450–1850" @ Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Portrait of a Man, c. 1530, by Parmigianino. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- A special exhibition of European portrait painting, featuring works by master artists from the late fifteenth century through the early nineteenth century, is on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute from January 23 through March 27, 2011, in the exhibition Eye to Eye: European Portraits 1450–1850. Representing the range of styles and themes in Old Master portraiture as practiced in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy,... [Lire la suite]