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Lot 2912
A late 19th Century oval collage and woolwork picture of a lady wearing a tartan skirt and blue jacket and a youth wearing a brown jacket and breeches within a landscape and floral border, worked in coloured wools and silks with colour lithographic facial detailing, approx 41.5cm x 37.5cm, within an oval giltwood frame.
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Sheng Qi, B.1965 UNTITLED (MY LEFT HAND SERIES) signed and dated 2006 on the reverse oil and collage on canvas 90 by 80cm. 53.5 by 31.5in. To accurately draw ones own left hand has long been seen as a qualifying mark of an accomplished artist, but in the case of Sheng Qi, images of his four fingered left hand means infinitely more than that; they are the iconic works that sum up the entire life and Ïuvre of one of Chinas most celebrated contemporary artists. Sheng Qi emerged in the 1980s as one of Beijings key performance artists. Using himself as his artistic material he focused on the body as a lived existence of impulse and passion freed from the constraints of rational thought. The modest artistic freedom that was allowed in China during the 1980s came abruptly to an end with the events in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 leading the government to respond with reinforced suppression and state control. Sheng Qi, who took part in the protests, found himself forced to flee his country but before his departure he committed what could be read as an extreme act of performance art: he cut off the little finger on his left hand and buried it in Chinese soil so that a part of him would always remain in his homeland. The present and previous lots portray the artists left hand with a found image placed in his palm. When Sheng Qi places a found photograph in his mutilated hand, he is playing at the sudden rush of memories that is often evoked when one looks at a scar or an old photograph. A young boy with a Communist Party uniform and a propaganda image of a muscular party cadre are images of bygone times. With a sense of nostalgia they represent an era quickly dwindling away for the Chinese. In Sheng Qis hand, their sense of na•ve idealism contrasts with the bitter reality that led him to injure himself and therefore become startlingly sensitive and powerful examples of the artists most poignant work. Provenance Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
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Jean Dubuffet, 1901-1985 CORTEGE FUNEBRE signed with initials black felt-tip pen and paper collage on card 41 by 65.5cm.; 16.125 by 25.75in. Executed on 7th January 1974. Provenance Estate of the Artist Exhibited London, Waddington Galleries, Jean Dubuffet: L'Hourloupe, 12th May - 11th June 1994, no.30, illustrated p.47 Literature Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Roman burlesque, Sites tricolores, Fascicule XXVIII, Paris 1979, no.105, Illustrated p.77
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Jean Dubuffet, 1901-1985 NUAGES signed with initials coloured felt-tip pen and collage on paper laid down on card 31 by 63cm.; 10.25 by 24.75in. Executed on 8th January 1974. Provenance Estate of the Artist Exhibited London, Waddington Galleries, Jean Dubuffet: L'Hourloupe, 12th May - 11th June 1994, catalogue no.32, illustrated p.49 Florida, West Palm Beach, Waddington & Tribby, Jean Dubuffet: The Late Works, 15th January - 10th February 2001 Literature Max Loreau, Catalogue des travaux de Jean Dubuffet: Roman burlesque, Sites tricolores, Fascicule XXVIII, Paris 1979, no.107, illustrated p.78
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Juli‹o Sarmento, B. 1948 UNTITLED #562 signed, titled and dated 87 on the reverse mixed media collage on paper 98 by 68cm.; 38.5 by 26.75in. Provenance Galeria Comicos, Lisbon Fredrik Roos Collection, Stockholm Sale: Stockholms Auktionsverk, Auction The Frederik Roos' Collection, June 1994, no. 7151
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Gianni Dessi, b. 1955 Rosaspina oil and canvas collage on canvas 220 by 180cm; 86.5 by 70.875in. Executed in 1984. Provenance Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome Private Collage Exhibited Rome, Lo Spazio Umano, January-March 1985, p. 47, no. 1, illustrated Literature Achille Bonito Oliva, Nuove trame dell'arte, Castello Colonna di Genazzano 1985, p. 65, illustrated in colour
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Property from a Private German Collection Imi Knoebel, b. 1940 Drachenzeichnungen each signed and dated 80 (I) metallic paint, acrylic and enamel on glass and paper (II) felt-tip pen, black crayon, cellotape, card collage, metallic paint, acrylic and enamel on glass and paper each: 100 by 70cm.; 39.375 by 27.5in. (2) Executed in 1980-81. Provenance A gift from the artist to the present owner Exhibited Berlin, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Private/Corporate III, 2005, pp. 9, 15Ê& 33, illustrated in colour
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(ER400/1) MIHAIL MIENKOV (1885-1926) AKTERA Signed in pencil with initials and dated 1921, collage 38.5cm x 25.4cm (15.25in x 10in) Note: Born in Wilno in 1885, Mienkov became involved with the Suprematists, exhibiting with them between 1915 and 1916, at the 0,10 exhibition in 1917 and also at the 10th Exposition Nationale, Creation sans object et suprematisme in Moscow in 1919. His work can be found in numerous state museums in Russia.
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Sally Hargreaves b.1946- Seagulls; black chalk, graphite and black ink heightened with white, signed and dated 1980 on mount, 27x37cm: together with a coastal landscape scene in watercolour and collage by the same hand, signed, titled and dated 1981 on the mount, 21x16cm., (2) (may be subject to Droit de Suite)
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The original artwork for the frontispiece of the book Football Parade Presented By Stanley Matthews, portraying Matthews in Blackpool playing kit, collage and artist's paint over photographic bases laid down on board; sold with a copy of the aforementioned book published by Marks and Spencer Ltd. in 1950, unframed 34.5 by 28cm., 13 1/2 by 11in. (2)
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An original artwork portraying goalkeepers and famous captains for the book Tommy Lawton's All Star Football Book published by Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. in 1950, collage and artist's paint over photographic bases, laid down on board, reproduced as two separate colour plates in the 1950 book; sold with a copy of the aforementioned Tommy Lawton Book, mounted, unframed, the image 29 by 44.5cm., 11 1/2 by 17 1/2in. (2)
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Man Ray, 1890-1976 LANDSCAPE WITH COW leather and plastic assemblage mounted on board 50 by 70cm.; 19.75 by 27.5in. Executed in 1973 this work is number 46 from an edition of 75 plus 5 artist's proofs made after the original (now lost) made in Hollywood in 1944. In this composition the cow is represented by the leather collage.. Provenance Galleria il Fauno, Turin Literature Jean-Hubert Martin, Rosalind Krauss & Brigitte Hermann, Man Ray, Objet de mon affection, Sculptures et Objets, Catalogue raisonne, Paris, 1983, p. 151, no. 90, edition catalogued; p. 85, illustration of the original object
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