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Click here to subscribeMONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) French Impressionist Painter. An excellent A.L.S., Claude Monet, two pages, 8vo, Giverny, 4th March 1890, to [Suzanne Manet] (‘Chere Madame’) in French. Monet, writing in his characteristic bold, purple fountain pen ink, apologises for a setback caused by his correspondent having been asked to hand over Olympia without his permission and continues to explain ‘Messrs. Boussod and Valadon had written to me to ask for my permission to reproduce Olympia in the magazine Figaro Illustre’, adding that he had advised them to make haste and warned them ‘that the painting could be required by the Museums administration at any time, and I had written to you the same day to notify you and ask you to hand it over’. The artist concludes ‘I trust that you will kindly hand it over this time. I will write to the Boussod house at once’ and in a postscript, signed with his initials C. M., adds ‘The painting will be returned to you as soon as a photograph has been taken’. A desirable letter not only for the fine association, being written to the widow of Monet’s friend and fellow Impressionist painter, Edouard Manet, but also for the interesting content relating to one of Manet’s most important and early masterpieces. Some very light, extremely minor age wear and a few very small insignificant tears to the edges of a couple of folds, otherwise VG Suzanne Leenhoff (1829-1906) Dutch-born Pianist, the wife of Edouard Manet for whom she frequently modelled. Edouard Manet (1832-1883) French Impressionist Painter. The oil painting Olympia was completed by Manet in 1863 and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1865. Contemporary audiences viewed the masterpiece with a certain amount of shock, not because of the subject’s nudity, but as a result of Olympia’s confrontational gaze and a number of other details which Manet had included in the painting which identified her as a demi-mondaine. In 1884 Suzanne Manet acquired the painting at an auction of her late husband’s works and, in 1889, Claude Monet expressed a desire to purchase the painting from her with a view to donating it to the Louvre Museum. In the following year, the same in which the present letter was written by Monet, the French Government acquired the painting after a public subscription organized by Monet secured the 20,000 francs asking price made by Suzanne Manet. Today Olympia can be seen at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.
MANET EDOUARD: (1832-1883) French Painter. A.N.S, `E. Manet´, one page, 12mo, Paris, 27th [1865], to an unidentified correspondent, in French. Manet pays a debt and states `Monsieur, in the next few days I will make a deposit at the land credit office for 272,50 which I owe you..´ With blank integral leaf. Folded. VG £1000-1500
NO RESERVE French Art.- Johnson (Lee) The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, 6 vol., vol.1 & 2 reprint, Oxford, 1987-86-89 § Schnapper (A.) & others. Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825, Paris, 1989 § Eitner (L.E.) Géricault: His Life and Work, 1982 § Cachin (F.) & others. Manet 1832-1883, New York, 1983, illustrations, original cloth, all but vol.5 & 6 of the first with dust-jackets; and c.15 others on 19th century French art, v.s. (c.20)
•WILLIAM SEMPLE (SCOTTISH 1896 - 1964) HOUSES, COTE D'AZUR Oil on board, signed, 24.5 x 29cm (9 1/2 x 11 1/2") William Semple's studies at Glasgow School of Art were interrupted by the First World War when he was conscripted to serve at the Western front, recommencing his studies thereafter, before commencing his own successful business as a commercial artist based in Glasgow city centre. Living in the West end of Glasgow he was a close neighbour of J. D. Fergusson and the two artist's often discussed compositions and individual styles. The influences of Cezanne and Manet played a part in his knowledge and development and after the Second World War, and following in the footsteps of the four Scottish Colourists and Maclauchlan Milne, he made painting trips to the South of France as well as the West and North of Scotland, and at one stage the Semple family resided on the Island of Arran Condition Report: On inspection there are small amounts of staining/discolouration and a few, what appear to be loose particles on the surface, in the upper section in the area of the hills. This apart the oil and board are in good overall condition.
French & Flemish artists, a collection of correspondence, mostly autographed and signedincluding Manet, Edouard to an unidentified correspondent, expressing his wish for him to come to his studio, 1 page, no date; Sisley, Alfred concerning some painting, 1 page, 22 December 1896; Stevens, Alfred 2 letters, and an envelope in Stevens's hand, one letter about a painting by his brother Joseph, 1 page, 16 November 1892; Pissaro, Lucien to Théodore Duret, providing information about his father, 2 pages; Dali, Salvador on a postcard, to Monsieur and Madame Jouvenel; Ziem, Déveria about his painting of the port of Venice, 1 page, 2 April 1896; Willette, Arthur Szyk photograph of one of his works, signed and inscribed; Raffaëlli 2 letters; and a collection of others (26)
MANET EDOUARD: (1832-1883) French Painter. A.N.S, `E. Manet´, one page, 12mo, Paris, 27th [1865], to an unidentified correspondent, in French. Manet pays a debt and states `Monsieur, in the next few days I will make a deposit at the land credit office for 272,50 which I owe you..´ With blank integral leaf. Folded. VG £1000-1500
Programme for a Paris 1924 Olympic Games Costume Ball organised by the Union of Russian Artists in Paris,held at La Taverne de l'Olympia, 28 Bd des Capucines, Paris, 11th July 1924, the main programme features illustrations by Chatzman, Manet, Picasso, Mme. Vassilieff, Fotinsky & Granovsky; accompanied by four coloured broadsheet programmes all featuring a costume design by Gontcharova, main programme very good, sheets good (5)
Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)BAUDELAIRE EN PROFIL EN CHAPEAU II (CHARLES BAUDELAIRE IN PROFILE WEARING A HAT II) Etching, 1869, monogrammed upper left, text within print reads 'Peint et Gravé par Manet 1862' and 'Imp. A. Salmon', on laid paper, with full marginsplate 10.5 x 9cm, unframed
Andre Gide - Corydon, Gallimard; Retour de l'U.R.S.S., Gallimard; Les Caves du Vatican, Gallimard; Literature Engagee, Gallimard; Claude Mauriac Conversations avec Andre Gide, Editions Albin Michel; Lucien Combelle - Je Dois a Andre Gide, Frederic Chambriand; La Table Ronde sommaire Souvenir D'Andre Gide No 40 Avril 1951; Le Jeunesse D'Andre Gide, Jean Delay, Gallimard; Romans Recits et Soties Oeuvre Lyriques, Libraire Gallimard; Oscar Wilde In Memorian (Souvenirs) Le "De Profundis", Mercure de France, 1948; Les Nourritures Terrestres, Les Nouvelles Nourritures, Gallimard; Et Nunc Manet in te Suivi de Journal Intime, Ides et Calendes, 1947; R-M Alberes - L'Odyssee D'Andre Gide, La Nouvelle Edition Feuillets D'Automne, Mercure de France, 1949; Notes sur Chopin, L'Arche, 1949; Henri Massis - D'Andre Gide a Marcel Proust; together with the following titles which have been re-bound with tooled initials to the spines: Le Retour de L'Enfant Prodigue, Gallimard; Ainsi Soit-il, Gallimard; R-G Nobecourt - Les Nourritures Normandes D'Andre Gide, Editions Medicis; Les Nourritures Normandes, numbered 1451; La Nouvelle Revue Francaise Hommage a Andre Gide, Leon Pierre-Quint, Andre Gide; Francis Jammes et Andre Gide Correspondance 1893-1938, Gallimard; Paul Claudel et Andre Gide Correspondance 1899-1926, Gallimard; Andre Gide Paul Valery Correspondance 1890-1942, Gallimard
Ten Halcyon Days limited edition enamel bonbonnieres depicting famous paintings; Lady in a Garden by Monet, 136/500, Boulevard Montmartre by Pissarro, 102/500, Birth of Cesanne 39/100, Le Lac d'Annecy by Cesanne 27/100, Mandolin and Flowers by Gaugain 58/250, Flowers in a Vase by Rousseau 63/250, Pink Peonies by Pissarro 77/250, Whistlejacket by Stubbs 131/250, Peonies in a Vase by Manet 38/250 and Roses and Nasturtiums in a Vase by Fasntin-Latour 89/500.
Lot of 16 Art volumesThe lot contains: Hoegler Rudolf G. Grecia. Introduzione di Carlo Kerény. Traduzione italiana di Aldo Neppi Modona. Firenze: Barbera, 1956. Editorial blu cloth, illustrated dust jacket. Italian translation of this work which contains the photographs showed in Greece by the German painter Rudolf G. Hoegler. Introduction by the Hungarian philologist and religions historian, one of the founder of the modern studies of the greek mythology, Károly Kerényi (1897 - 1973), La mostra del Tintoretto. Catalogo delle opere. Venezia, Ca' Pesaro 1937. Venezia: Officine grafiche Carlo Ferrari, 1937. Third edition. Catalog of the exhibition made by the city of Venice. Carrieri Raffaele. Leonor Fini. Due tavole a colori e 36 tavole in nero. Epi, 1951. "Galleria" Collection of modern italian art monographs directed by Orio Vergani. With artist autograph. Impressionisti da Manet a Monet. Rome: Interbook Spa, s.d. Marchiori Giuseppe. Delacroix alla Biennale. Venezia: Alfieri editore, 1956. Consigli Patrizia - Consigli Igino. Paesaggi e marine dal Cinquecento all'Ottocento. Introduzione di Federico Zeri. Parma: 1990. Volume n. 6 of the collection Le collezioni private parmensi. Cardboard box. 4 volumes - 1 in italian and 3 in spanish - belonging to editorial series Forma e Colore/Forma y Color: El Greco: l'Entierro del conte di Orgaz di José Camon Aznar; La Alhambra: Alcazaba y Medina por Jesùs Bermùdez Pareja; La Mezquita de Corboda por Fernando Chueca Goitia; La Alhambra: la Casa Real por Emilio Garcia Gomez y Jesùs Bermùdez Pareja. Lassaigne Jacques. La peinture espagnole de Velasquez a Picasso. Geneve: Skira, 1952. (Collana Peinture. Couleur. Histoire. Collection établie et dirigée par Albert Skira, 8). With illustrated dust jacket and cardboard box, Fregnac Claude. Merveilles des chateaux du Val de Loire. Préface du duc de Brissac président des Amis des Chateaux de la Loire vice-président de la Demeure historique. Paris: Hachette, 1964. Azure editorial cloth, illustrated dust jacket. Collection Collection Réalités. Belloni Guido - Volpe Carlo - Carli Enzo. Atlante della pittura. Preistoria, Egitto, Grecia, Etruria, Roma, Primitivi, Rinascimento fiorentino. Novara: De Agostini, 1963. Mallé Luigi Ulrich Gerhard - Valsecchi Marco. Atlante della pittura. Maestri olandesi, Maestri tedeschi, Impressionisti e postimpressionisti. Novara: De Agostini, 1967. Calvesi Maurizio - Gonzales Roblers Luis - Fezzi Elda. Atlante della pittura. Pittori moderni, Pittori americani, Indici. Novara: De Agostini, 1967. Mandach Conrad De (Introduction). Chefs d'oeuvre de la peinture européenne du XVe au XIXe siècle. Collection Oscar Reinhardt. Lausanne: Librairie Payot, 1941. Cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Volume dedicated to the art collection of the Swiss patron Oscar Reinhardt (1885-1965). In Winterthur, his birth city, his collection is divided between the Oscar Reinhardt museum and the Oskar Reinhart Collection Am Römerholz. Lotto di 16 libri d'arte Il lotto comprende: Hoegler Rudolf G. Grecia. Introduzione di Carlo Kerény. Traduzione italiana di Aldo Neppi Modona. Firenze: Barbera, 1956. Legatura editoriale in tela blu, sovraccoperta illustrata. Traduzione italiana di quest'opera che raccoglie le fotografie scattate in Grecia dal pittore tedesco Rudolf G. Hoegler. Introduzione dell'ungherese Károly Kerényi (1897 - 1973), filologo e storico delle religioni fra i fondatori degli studi moderni della mitologia greca. La mostra del Tintoretto. Catalogo delle opere. Venezia, Ca' Pesaro 1937. Venezia: Officine grafiche Carlo Ferrari, 1937. Terza edizione. Catalogo della mostra indetta dalla città di Venezia. Carrieri Raffaele. Leonor Fini. Due tavole a colori e 36 tavole in nero. Epi, 1951. "Galleria" Collane di monografie d'arte italiana moderna diretta da Orio Vergani. Con invio autografo dell'Artista. Impressionisti da Manet a Monet. Rome: Interbook Spa, s.d. Marchiori Giuseppe. Delacroix alla Biennale. Venezia: Alfieri editore, 1956. Consigli Patrizia - Consigli Igino. Paesaggi e marine dal Cinquecento all'Ottocento. Introduzione di Federico Zeri. Parma: 1990. Volume 6 della Collana Le collezioni private parmensi. In cofanetto in cartoncino. 4 volumi - 1 in italiano e 3 in spagnolo - della collana Forma e Colore/Forma y Color: El Greco: l'Entierro del conte di Orgaz di José Camon Aznar; La Alhambra: Alcazaba y Medina por Jesùs Bermùdez Pareja; La Mezquita de Corboda por Fernando Chueca Goitia; La Alhambra: la Casa Real por Emilio Garcia Gomez y Jesùs Bermùdez Pareja. Lassaigne Jacques. La peinture espagnole de Velasquez a Picasso. Geneve: Skira, 1952. (Collana Peinture. Couleur. Histoire. Collection établie et dirigée par Albert Skira, 8). Con sovraccoperta illustrata e cofanetto in cartone. Fregnac Claude. Merveilles des chateaux du Val de Loire. Préface du duc de Brissac président des Amis des Chateaux de la Loire vice-président de la Demeure historique. Paris: Hachette, 1964. Legatura editoriale in tela azzurra, sovraccoperta illustrata. Collana Collection Réalités. Belloni Guido - Volpe Carlo - Carli Enzo. Atlante della pittura. Preistoria, Egitto, Grecia, Etruria, Roma, Primitivi, Rinascimento fiorentino. Novara: De Agostini, 1963. Mallé Luigi Ulrich Gerhard - Valsecchi Marco. Atlante della pittura. Maestri olandesi, Maestri tedeschi, Impressionisti e postimpressionisti. Novara: De Agostini, 1967. Calvesi Maurizio - Gonzales Roblers Luis - Fezzi Elda. Atlante della pittura. Pittori moderni, Pittori americani, Indici. Novara: De Agostini, 1967. Mandach Conrad De (Prefazione). Chefs d'oeuvre de la peinture européenne du XVe au XIXe siècle. Collection Oscar Reinhardt. Lausanne: Librairie Payot, 1941. Legatura in tela grezza con sovraccoperta illustrata. Volume dedicato alla collezione d'arte del mecenate svizzero Oscar Reinhardt (1885-1965). A Winterthur, sua città natale, la sua collezione è divisa tra il Museo Oscar Reinhardt e la Oskar Reinhart Collection Am Römerholz.
Twenty Six Mid-20th Century Coloured Prints of Great and Old Master Paintings, including works by Monet, Cezanne, Manet, Terborsh, Seurat, Turner, Picasso, Corot, Holbein, Bucher, Chagall, various European publishers, unframed together with a small number of U.N.E.S.C.O World Art Series Prints incl. Iran Persian Miniatures, India Paintings from the Ajanta Caves, Egypt Paintings from Tombs and Temples x 2, Norway Paintings from the Stave Churches published by New York Graphics Publishing House.
Manet, Edouard. Rouart, Denis and Daniel Wildenstein. Edouard Manet, Catalogue Raisonne, 2 volumes, plates, original cloth, dust-jackets, folio, Paris; La Bibliotheque des Arts, 1975; Wilson-Bareau, Juliet and David Degener. Manet and the Sea, plates, cloth, dust-jacket, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2003; Manet, Edouard. Lettres de Jeunesse, original wrappers, Paris: Louis Rouart, 1928; and 65 others approx., on the artist, v.s. (70 approx.)
Printers: Pattison (Mme Mark) Claude Lorrain sa Vie et ses Oeuvres d'Apres des documents inedits, Folio Paris 1884. Profusely illustrated with etched plts. etc., cont. hf. mor.; Moreau-Vaulthier (C.) Les Portraits de l'Enfant, folio Paris n.d. c. 1900. Profusely illustrated, a.e.g., in fine attractive tooled gilt decor. full green mor. in Art Nouveau style; Duret (Th.) Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre, 4to Paris 1901. Fine plts. unopened, decor. wrappers; Bazin (Germain) L'Epoque Impressioniste, lg. 4to Paris 1947, cold. & bl. & white plts., cloth faded. (4)
Louis le Brocquy HRHA (1916-2012) PEONY, 1991 oil on canvas signed, titled, dated and with artist's archival number [588] on reverse Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, where purchased by the present owner, circa1997 10 by 12in. (25.4 by 30.5cm) Presented in the original frame chosen by the artist's wife, Anne Madden. A letter from the artist to the present owner accompanies this lot. "…I feel very humble on receiving your wonderful letter…, for it is rare for an artist to be given to feel that his occasional glimpses of spiritual insight have somehow managed to move another person. Thank you. In fact your painting was inspired by a small work by Édouard Manet [French Realist and Impressionist painter, 1832-1883] which I believe I first saw at The Orangerie in the Paris of 1938! Yes, the frame was something of a challenge in itself and in painting your Peony I certainly had it in mind. A second related painting I gave my wife, Anne Madden in memory of her peony which had last bloomed during the previous summer…" Louis le Brocquy Les Combes, Carros, France 23 January 2000 Most le Brocquy paintings are palimpsests, one layer folds over another and provide different vantage points from which to view. As the title suggests this is a peony. Such flowers thrive around the Mediterranean in springtime or early summer, ranging in colour from deep purple to pure white. Mythologically, they are named for Paeon, student of Asclepius, Greek God of healing. The master became jealous of his protégé, who, for his own safety, was turned by Zeus into a flower. In Asia the Peony is valued more for the healing properties of its seeds than the beauty of its appearance. Everything depends upon the eye of the beholder. le Brocquy's wife, Anne, an illustrious painter in her own right, had grown this peony in her garden. It was the last of them. He painted it in homage to her. And so, at another level again, this peony is transfused with love. A delicate eroticism pervades its fragrance comparable to his later 1998 series of watercolours titled 'Being,' where the human body is an organism in flower. At the painterly level, Peony was sparked by a viewing, half a century previously, of Édouard Manet, who supposedly invented 'Modernity,' at the Orangerie in Paris in 1938. Manet grew peonies in his garden at Gennevilliers. It was his favourite flower. Those deep lobes and varied hues corresponded to his subtle harmonics. But Manet was his own man where convention and tradition were concerned. Modernity for him was as much a question of choosing as resisting influences from the past: he painted as things were and without much concern for established practice of brushstroke or perspective. In his wake, this is a le Brocquy as much as it is a Peony. Finally, the painting reveals a world through the petals of a flower. As Empress Michiko of Japan would say to the artist in January of the year after the painting was completed: 'I think you are trying to reach something behind and beyond, which goes to the essence.' This Peony brings in its train a swarming teeming underground metropolis. Dom Mark Patrick Hederman, OSB October 2017 Former Abbot of Glenstal Abbey, Co. Limerick, Hederman was among those Louis le Brocquy choose to speak at his funeral service at St. Patrick's Catherdral in 2012.
Group of five art exhibition posters: 1. Original vintage advertising poster for TH. A. Steinlen Exhibition held in Ernst Barlach Haus Hamburg. Good condition, creases and small tears on margins. Country: Germany. Year: 1978. Designer: Th. A. Steinlen. Size: 84 x 59.5. 2. Original vintage advertising poster for Impressionism A Centenary Exhibition held in The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Excellent condition. Country: France. Year: 1975. Designer: Eduard Manet. Size: 60 x 40. 3. Original vintage advertising poster for Peter Blake Kunstverein Hamburg. Good condition, small tear on the left margin, creases on the image. Country: Germany. Year: 1973. Designer: Peter Blake. Size: 84 x 59.5. 4. Original vintage advertising poster for Costa Petit Palais Geneva. Good condition, creases on margins, spots on bottom. Country: Switzerland. Yea: 1978. Designer: Costa. Size: 70 x 50. 5. Original vintage advertising poster for The Metaphysical Painting Palazzo Grassi Venice. Good condition, small tears and creases on margins. Country: Italy. Year: 1979. Designer: Unknown. Size: 100 x 69.
13th-14th century AD. A flat-section bronze annular brooch with flat pin coiled through a slot, ropework borders, the text reads VEVMBRDONV a garbled version of WERbVM dO[ϕ]NI MAN, an abbreviated form of what would later become the motto of the Lutheran Reformation (when it is frequently reduced to the initials VDMA), Isaiah 40viii: 'Verbum Domini manet in Aeternum' which translates to 'the Word of the Lord endures for eternity'. Cf. Egan, G. & Pritchard, F. Dress Accessories 1150-1450 London, 2002 item 1337 for type. 11 grams, 49mm (2"). Property of a European collector; formerly in a 1970s collection. [No Reserve] Fine condition.
MANET EDOUARD: (1832-1883) French Painter. A.N., on his personal printed visiting card, bearing his name "Edouard Manet", and his Parisian address at "4, Rue St. Petersbourg", Paris, n.d., to an unidentified correspondent, in French. Manet states `All the best and my compliments for yesterday´s article.´ Written in pencil, one word has been overwritten at some stage. A very small stain to the right edge, not affecting the text. G £250-350
λ A Victorian carved ivory bust of Thomas Dyer-Edwardes (Senior 1807-1885), signed 'RICHARDS SCULPT Sept 1858' on a turned ebony plinth inset, with a bronze oval plaque engraved with the Dyer-Edwardes crest / monogram and 'SPES MANET', 14.2cm high. Thomas Dyer-Edwardes was the grandfather of the famous Titanic heroine Noel, Countess of Rothes, known in the press as 'the plucky little Countess'.
Elias (Julius). Die Skizzenmappe, Zeichungen franzosischer Meister des neunzehnten Jahrunderts, Munich, Verlag der Marees-Gesellschaft 1918, with an introduction, contents and 70 colour facsimile plates depicting works of the finest impressionist artists including Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edgar Degas and Auguste Renoir (plates 26 / 28 missing), some light spotting and browning, folio 48 x 32.5cm (18.75 x 12.75ins) Limited Edition No.33/100. (1)
*Artists and Models. A ground of 8 original drawings by an unidentified artist, circa 1960s, pen and ink on white board, showing Sir Peter Lely, Francois Boucher, Renoir, Titian, Manet, Delacroix and Hogarth with their respective models, plus one titled 'Night of the Third Temptation' from Arabian Nights, all titled by the artist to lower margin, four with typed or handwritten text intended to accompany the book or magazine illustrations, boards 38 x 32 cm (15 x 12.5 ins) (8)
*Manet (Edouard, 1832-1883). Cat with Flowers (Le chat aux fleurs), 1869, etching and aquatint on Rives paper, 6th (and final) state, a posthumous impression, pale mount stain, the full sheet hinged to left margin verso, plate size 195 x 150 mm (7.7 x 6 ins), sheet size 330 x 250 mm (13 x 9.8 ins), framed and glazed Guerin 53. Harris 65. (1)