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Lot 487
Bernard Dunstan, R.A. (b.1920), St. Quirico, signed with initials BD bottom left, further signed, inscribed with title and dated 1.10.68 on a label attached to the reverse, oil on board, 19.5 x 14cm. Bernard Dunstan. Painter, draughtsman and teacher brought-up in the Sickert-Degas-Vuillard tradition who studied at the Byam-Shaw School of Art and The Slade. Dunstan taught at The West of England School in Bristol, in Camberwell, at the Byam-Shaw School, Ravensbourne and London City & Guilds School of Art. He exhibited at Roland Browse & Delbanco and Agnews. He was elected R.A in 1968 and married the painter Diana Armfiled, see lots 489 & 490.
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Art reference -- Thomson, B. Vuillard. 1988; Tucker, P.H. Monet at Argenteuil. 1982; House, J. Monet. Nature into art. 1986; Ives, C. Pierre Bonnard, the graphic art. New York, 1990; Cogeval, G. Vuillard. Washington, 2004; Rewald, J. The history of Impressionism. 1980; Terrase, M. Bonnard at Le Cannet. 1988; Young, A.M. Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928). 1968; Cogniat, R. Bonnard. [N.d.]; Shone, R. Sisley. 1992; Schwartz, G. Rembrandt. 1985; Preston, S. Vuillard, [N.d.] ; Ayres, J. The artist`s craft. 1985; Shanes, E. Turner`s picturesque views in England and Wales. 1979; Shone, R. The post-impressionists. 1980; mostly with dust-jackets; Werner, A. Degas pastels. 1969; Wilson, M. The National Gallery, London. 1981; Laclotte, M. Painting in the Musée d`Orsay. 1986; and c. 6 boxes of art books, hardbacks and paperpacks & exhibition catalogues (quantity)
Lot 216
SEREBRIAKOVA, ZINAIDA 1884-1967 Nude signed and dated 1932 Oil on canvas, 73 by 50 cm. Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist’s family. Private collection, France. Authenticity has been confirmed by Vladimir Kruglov. Exhibited: Zinaida Serebriakova, The Embassy of the Russian Federation, Paris, 1995. Literature: Exhibition catalogue, Zinaida Serebriakova, Syseca, France, 1995, p. 13, illustrated. Related literature: For similar works, see V. Kruglov, Zinaida Serebriakova, Zolotoi Vek, St Petersburg, 2004, pp. 155, 167, 168. Nude is a typical example of Zinaida Serebriakova’s work in the 1920s to 1930s – full of harmony, purity and poetry. She had by this time developed her recognisable, special painting style, which was distinguished by its free, flowing brushstrokes and its precise, clear form. The interpretation of the life model motif in this work conveys the poetics of the naked human body that the artist devoted herself to in the second decade of the 20th century. This period saw the appearance of Serebriakova’s first two versions of The Bathhouse (1912 and 1913), in addition to her sketches and studies for Bathing (1917). As was always the case with Serebriakova, the artistic image she created in Nude was distinguished by the harmony of its spiritual and physical principles and by its delicacy and lively grace. The portrayal of the naked body occupied a central role in Serebriakova’s painting during the 1920s and 1930s. From her memoirs we know that her models were Russian girls, a number of whom married around 1934 and ceased to model, thereby forcing the artist to “close” the subject. She could not afford to pay professional life models. 1926 saw the appearance of two compositions bearing the title The Bathhouse. They effectively convey, particularly in the horizontal composition, the beauty and suppleness of young women’s bodies. The vertical canvas appears more “contrived” in comparison. The artist evidently felt that girls from Russian intelligentsia families in Paris did not fit well with the image of rural Russian bathhouses, and abandoned her plan to continue The Bathhouse series. She did not wish to follow in the footsteps of Konstantin Korovin, who would on demand produce nostalgic, cheap popular print-type paintings depicting winter scenes and troikas next to inns. From then on she only worked on studies, without attempting, like Kabanel, to transform her life models into “bathers” or into heroines of ancient mythology. The principles of E. Degas and A. Renoir were closer to her heart. Her young women and girls pose serenely, lying on sheets or sleeping, coming out of the bath, towel drying themselves or relaxing in the fresh air. Constantine Somov rated these works very highly, and in his diary and letters he always remarked upon her taste and mastery of painting. Alexander Benois described them as “incomparable”. In 1927 Serebriakova created one of the most poetic nudes, featuring a sleeping adolescent girl. The girl’s pose and the angle – a view from above – bear some resemblance to Modigliani. In this canvas the artist has achieved a sense of harmony between the physical form and the space. The light colours deployed here are extraordinarily well-suited to the nature of the image. Serebriakova painted high quality nudes using both pastels and oils. Pastels were well-suited to conveying the fine nuances of light and delicate colours, and poeticised the femininity of amateur models (Nude (1929) and Nude (1932)). Her oils were more austere and more direct in their interpretation of the physical form and state of the models (Nude Braiding her Hair (1930) and Nude (1932)). Specifics of the imagery and the level of completion were also determined by the tasks that the artist had set herself – whether she was working on a light and lively study in which even an apparently misplaced stroke of pastel seemed to convey the thrill of life (Standing Nude, 1932), or studying the formal rules of form as she was painting in oil (Nude, 1932). In the early 1930s Serebriakova began to exhibit a proclivity for tackling the issues of dimension and volume, and created a lot of studies featuring standing models. This tendency cannot be linked to her personal artistic development only: around this time, Serebriakova gradually began to practice for a new commission of monumental works from Baron J.-A. de Brouwer of Belgium. After 1934, Serebriakova would from time to time return to her favourite topic, delighting art connoisseurs with such indisputable masterpieces as Nude with a Book (1940) and Nude Leaning on Her Elbow (1940). Nude Plaiting her Hair (1930) and Nude with a Book (1940), full of internal movement and featuring dreamy models, seem to be particularly potent in eliciting the quintessential “Russianness” of these girls – a feature so poeticised by the artist. Alexander Benois wrote enthusiastically of such works: “In these studies of the nude female body there lives not sensuality in general, but something more specific, something familiar to us from our very own literature, our very own music, as well as from our personal experiences. This truly is flesh of our flesh; here we see the grace, the sensuality and a certain intimacy and domesticity of Eros which is more alluring, more delicate and at the same time also more cunning and dangerous than what Gauguin had found in Tahiti.” Vladimir Kruglov, author and compiler of the monograph on Zinaida Serebriakova Dmitry Sarabyanov once shrewdly noted that the critics wishing to compliment Serebriakova would invariably muse about her “male hand”. Even Alexander Benois once referred to the artist’s works as “masculine”. Sarabyanov, however, believes that it is Serebriakova’s femininity that is the most appealing aspect of her art. It is hard to argue with him, inasmuch as this femininity “is expressed in equal measure in her art, her life, as well as in her appearance. Her whole appearance is marked by the purity of her soul, the shining of her eyes; her feelings are all so natural, whilst her motives, embodied in the paintings, reflect her clear understanding of human purpose. There is simple beauty in all of this. The artist herself seems to be translating these qualities onto the world around her. The natural beauty of life – assumed [by Serebriakova] to have an independent existence – becomes the aesthetic criterion that defines her artistic position, her opinion about herself and her surroundings.” Nude presented for the auction is one of the best, most expressive manifestations of this femininity in Serebriakova’s oeuvre. It is as if Serebriakova imbues her young model with the poetry and cordiality typical of the artist herself. In fact, Serebriakova had long before been noted for the practice of “personalising” every image, or instilling her models with a vague self-resemblance. It is true that Serebriakova’s sister modelled for her famous Bathers of 1911; however, it sometimes appears as if all the nudes of her multiple Bathhouses were painted after her sisters or perhaps the artist herself. Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, writing about this feature of Serebriakova’s works, noted that even in the artist’s portraits “there is a lot of grace and artistic revelation but… no resemblance [of the model]. In general, her por
Lot 299
† AFTER EDGAR DEGAS (FRENCH, EARLY 20TH CENTURY), LA DANSEUSE REGARDANT LA PLANTE DE SON PIED DROIT, Bronze, the female nude craning to look at her right foot, base stamped `Cire Perdue/ A.A. Hebrard`, numbered 1/250 and letters `EX NY` and with facsimile signature, on a mottled marble rectangular stand, 49cm high (overall)
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A pair of Jules Loebnitz & Fils faience architectural panels, modelled in high relief by J Hugues, signed and brightly painted with the full length figures of a dancing girl or windswept young woman with flowers, both with blue painted mark J LOEVNITZ & FILS PARIS, one inscribed "A Monsieur Clemencet Souvenir d'Avril 1894" and signed J Blanchard, 55 x 25.5cm, impressed J LOEBNITZ PARIS, 1894 These rare panels of the Belle Epoque are contemporary smaller versions of the pair which form the focal point of the facade of the Cafe Riche in Paris. Commissioned by the architect Albert Ballu (1849-1939) they are now in Rouen Museum. The Cafe Riche, which was completed in 1894 and dismantled only four years later, was aptly named for its ornate decoration also included elaborate polychrome mosaics and it became a popular haunt of the Impressionists, including Monet, Renoir and Degas. ++One panel with small triangular shaped piece of the lower left corner broken off and glued back into position also with minor edge and corner knocks. Both with odd spot of flaking of the enamel where most thickly applied or highest relief. No professional restoration.
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DUTTON, Geoffrey. White on Black, the Australian Aborigine Portrayed in Art, MacMillan 1974, dust wrapper; ADHEMAR, J and FRANCOISE CACHIN, Degas, Thames and Hudson 1974, dust wrapper; LEVY, Mervin. The Paintings of L.S.Lowry, 1978, and The Drawings of L.S.Lowry, 1976, both in dust wrappers (4)
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Edgar Degas, 1834-1917 CHEVAUX stamped with the Atelier mark pencil on paper 22.7 by 36cm., 8.875. by 14.125in. Provenance Sale: Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4eme Vente Atelier Edgar Degas, 2nd-4th July 1919 lot 235c . Galerie Bing, Paris Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1929) Thence by descent to the present owner The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Galerie Brame et Lorenceau.
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Adhemar (Jean and Cachin, Francoise). Degas. The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes, Thames & Hudson, reprinted, 1986, num. col. and b & w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, plus other misc. books, incl. art and antiques reference, crafts, natural history, literature and history, etc., many in d.j.s. (3 shelves)
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DEGAS (EDGAR) LES DESSINS...REPRODUITS EN FAC-SIMILE [SERIES I ET II], 2 vol. in 1, 100 plates, some colour, loose as issued in original buckram portfolio with ties, Paris and New York, 1922-23 ~ Dodgson (Campbell, editor) Durer's Drawings in Colour, Line and Wash, 56 mounted plates, some colour, occasional light dust-soiling, loose as issued in original cloth portfolio with ties, 1928, ex-library copies with stamps, bookplates and classmarks; and 2 others, Fine Arts Drawings, folio (4).
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LIVINGSTONE (MARCO) R.B. KITAJ, 1985 ~ Kandinsky (Vasily) Watercolors and Drawings, 1992 ~ Cogniat (Raymond) Apel les Fenosa, presentation copy signed by the author, dust-jacket chipped at lower edge, Barcelona, [c.1970] ~ Roberts (Keith) Degas, 1976, coloured plates, illustrations, original cloth, dust-jackets; and a quantity of others, Art Reference, v.s. (qty).
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