AUCTION
Tuesday 6 November 2018
2.30 pm (CET)
Turin – Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17
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MARIO SIRONI 1885-1961
Interno con figura
Pencil on paper, on the reverse label of the 'Galleria La Scaletta', S. Polo di Reggio Emilia. Artwork accompanied by photo certificate.
4.92 x 6.69 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 750
MARIO SIRONI 1885-1961
Composizione a temi
Greasy tempera on paper applied on canvas. Accompanied by certificate from the 'Galleria Gissi', Turin.
11.81 x 18.11 in.
Starting price: € 4.000 | Estimate : € 5.000 - 7.000 | Sold for : € 4.000
Tempera on canvas, signed lower right recto. On the reverse label and stamp of 'Galleria Gissi', Turin and stamp of 'Galleria d'Arte Sianesi', Milan.
6.89 x 7.68 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
Galleria d'Arte Sianesi, Milano.
Galleria Gissi, Torino.
Collezione privata,
Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.000 - 3.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
Mixed media on paper, signed lower right recto. On the reverse stamp of the 'Galleria del Milione', Milan.
13.39 x 10.43 in.
Bibliografia/Literature
AA.VV., Arte all'incanto 1988/89, Longanesi & C., Milano, 1989, ill. p. 291.
Provenienza/Provenance
Galleria del Milione,
Starting price: € 20.000 | Estimate : € 25.000 - 30.000
Mixed media on paper, signed lower left recto. Inscribed on the reverse 'La maitresse, già nella mia collezione, Giulia Viani'.
13.50 x 9.65 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Estimate : € 300 - 400 | Sold for : € 200
Mixed media on cardboard signed at the recto. On the verso 'Ritratto virile' in pencil, signed, and a label of the 'Galleria Leonardiana', Alassio. Artwork accompanied by photo certificate.
39.37 x 27.56 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
Galleria Leonardiana, Alassio.
Collezi
Starting price: € 3.000 | Estimate : € 3.000 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 3.000
LORENZO VIANI 1882-1936
Paesaggio di Versilia. Veduta dall'alto di Seravezza
Oil on board, signed 'Viani' lower right recto, on the reverse labels of the Gallery Il Sileno, Palermo and the Gallery L'approdo, Bari and stamp of the Pratesi Collection, Florence.
42.13 x 30.71 in.
Starting price: € 10.000 | Estimate : € 12.000 - 15.000 | Sold for : € 24.000
MARIO DINON 1914-1967
Piccolo Porto
Oil on canvas with contemporary frame. In the lot also another painting entitled "Marina". On the reverse labels of the artist and of 'Italian Gallery' of Cortina d'Ampezzo.
9.84 x 13.78 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 1.300
Oil on board, signed lower right. In the lot also two other views of the artist.
7.09 x 10.24 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500
MARIO DINON 1914-1967
Case a Burano
Oil on canvas with contemporary frame. In the lot also another painting entitled "Porticciolo di Vernazza". On the reverse labels of the artist and of 'Italian Gallery' of Cortina d'Ampezzo.
9.84 x 13.78 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 700
Bas-relief in gilded metal, made in different examples, but different from each other and therefore not numbered.
22.44 x 11.02 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.000 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 2.600
Lithograph on paper hightened in pastel, signed lower recto.
15.35 x 18.11 in.
Bibliografia/Literature
Catalogo n. 124, Libreria Antiquaria Prandi, Reggio Emilia, ripr. tav. 31.
Provenienza/Provenance
Libreria Antiquaria Prandi, Reggio Emilia.
Collezione privata,
Starting price: € 700 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 700
DARIO FO 1926-2016
Johan Padan
Tempera and felt-tip pens on cardboard, signed twice, dedicated and dated to the front.
15.75 x 12.60 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Estimate : € 300 - 500 | Sold for : € 300
MARIO POMPEI 1903-1958
Scenografia per il Teatro dei Piccoli
Tempera on cardboard, dated and signed with monogram on the front, inscription with title on the reverse.
7.68 x 6.50 in.
Scenographer and illustrator, Pompeii was one of the most refined interpreters of the Deco in Italy. This beautiful youthful sketch was produced for
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Starting price: € 450 | Estimate : € 500 - 700
Color silkscreen print, signed and numbered 5/100 in pencil along the lower margin, light browning. With authentication by ArtCenter of Rome dated June 1987.
15.16 x 19.68 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 400
SILVIO LOFFREDO 1920-2013
Gatto
Oil on cardboard, signed in the upper right corner of the recto. In the lot also a smaller oil dated 1990 depicting another cat.
12.60 x 16.54 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Estimate : € 250 - 350 | Sold for : € 250
MINO MACCARI 1898-1989
Bozzetto di un costume
Watercolor and charcoal on cardboard applied to another cardboard. With photo certificate by the author and blind stamp by Nemo Galleni.
8.66 x 5.51 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Estimate : € 300 - 500
EUGENIO MONTALE 1896-1981
Il cacciatore
Tempera on cardboard, signed and dated lower right recto.
12.80 x 9.25 in.
Starting price: € 450 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 550
EUGENIO MONTALE 1896-1981
Vaso di fiori
Pastel on cardboard. In the lot also another still life with flowers, both drawings are on the reverse of English menus.
8.46 x 11.81 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500 | Sold for : € 300
EUGENIO MONTALE 1896-1981
Lago con cigni
Pastels on cardboard. In the lot two other smaller drawings.
8.46 x 11.81 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500 | Sold for : € 375
GIACOMO MANZÙ 1908-1991
Volto di donna di fronte chiuso in un ovale
Lithograph on paper, artist's proof, signed and dated.
20.87 x 14.76 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700
GIACOMO MANZÙ 1908-1991
Auschwitz (1)
Lithograph on paper, artist's proof, signed and dated.
20.87 x 14.76 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 500 - 700
JEAN-LOUIS FORAIN 1852-1931
Portrait d'Ambroise Vollard
Lithograph on paper. In the lot also other works by twentieth century artists, with engravings by Pablo Picasso, Orfeo Tamburi, Ardengo Soffici, two plates by Pietro Ricca, three works by Bernard Cathelin and others.
24.02 x 17.32 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500 | Sold for : € 300
Pochoir signed in lasta, rear edition, small tears in the margins, browning.
19.68 x 12.80 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Estimate : € 250 - 300 | Sold for : € 325
Pochoir signed PM and dated 1925 on the plate, later edition, ruined margins, tears and losses.
25.59 x 19.68 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 500
Pair of etchings and acquatint, signed and numbered 74/100 and 77/100. Lot accompanied by export licence.
9.06 x 6.30 in.
Starting price: € 200 | Estimate : € 200 - 400 | Sold for : € 300
MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985
La nuage aux amoureux
Etching on paper, signed and numbered 14/50.
25.98 x 20.08 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
Libreria Antiquaria Prandi, Reggio Emilia.
Starting price: € 800 | Estimate : € 1.000 - 1.500 | Sold for : € 800
JOSÉ GARCÍA ORTEGA 1921-1990
Adán y Eva
Etching and aquatint with blind stamping, signed and numbered 76/150 at the lower margin.
34.65 x 24.80 in.
Starting price: € 100 | Estimate : € 150 - 200 | Sold for : € 175
HANS HARTUNG 1904-1989
Senza titolo
Color lithograph on paper, signed and numbered 32/75.
22.05 x 17.72 in.
Provenienza/Provenance
Libreria Antiquaria Prandi, Reggio Emilia.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500 | Sold for : € 300
LUCIANO MINGUZZI 1911-2004
Bozzetto per una porta del Duomo di Milano
Bronze with patina, signed along the lower margin.
8.46 x 13.19 in.
Starting price: € 2.500 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 3.000
UMBERTO MASTROIANNI 1910-1998
Senza titolo
Bronze partially polished, signed.
9.06 x 9.84 x 3.15 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 1.200
Self portrait
First English edition of the autobiography of the artist with his corrections and two autograph dedications, one "Pour Juliette" and the other "For Luciano Love Man".
9.25 x 6.30 in.
Starting price: € 700 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.200 | Sold for : € 1.300
MAN RAY 1890-1976
La Fortune
One page typescript with autograph corrections, date and signature. Unpublished text for the English language that describes a Man Ray's project for a landscape 'The title of this landscape is "La Fortune" in the French sense of the word, which, in addition to its
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Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 400 - 600 | Sold for : € 950
MAN RAY 1890-1976
The end of painting
Two pages autograph manuscript in blue ink on paper, with some autograph corrections. Unpublished text for the English language, which deals with the inevitability of modern art.
10.43 x 8.07 in.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 1.800 - 2.200 | Sold for : € 1.500
MAN RAY 1890-1976
Thoughts from a secret notebook of Man Ray
Six pages typescript with autograph pen corrections. Unpublished text for the English language.
10.43 x 8.27 in.
Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 500 - 700 | Sold for : € 500
MAN RAY 1890-1976
La Vierge
Color lithograph, signed and numbered 'Essai', recto.
14.96 x 11.22 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500 | Sold for : € 500
MAN RAY 1890-1976
Promenade
Colored lithograph on Vélin d'Arches paper, signed and numbered in pencil, E.A. Small marginal tears, slight browning.
19.68 x 14.37 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 500 | Sold for : € 2.500
MAN RAY 1890-1976
Figura femminile
Aquatint on paper with full margins, dedicated "A Janus" and signed recto.
13.78 x 9.45 in.
Starting price: € 400 | Estimate : € 400 - 600 | Sold for : € 600
MAN RAY 1890-1976
Observations
Paper notebook with texts, corrections and some autograph drawings by Man Ray. The work is still unpublished in English.
8.86 x 6.69 in.
Magnificent notebook with important autograph texts ranging from short notes to long and elaborate interventions by the artist on the
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Starting price: € 15.000 | Estimate : € 15.000 - 20.000
MAN RAY 1890-1976
Paris, Rue de la Chaise
Vintage gelatin silver print depicting an address dear to the author in the Seventies. On the reverse, signed, dated and autograph inscription in French.
3.35 x 4.92 in.
Starting price: € 8.000 | Estimate : € 8.000 - 10.000
MERET OPPENHEIM 1913-1985
Volto femminile
Color lithograph on cardboard monogrammed on the plate, long autograph note signed by the artist addressed to Janus on the reverse.
8.19 x 3.94 in.
Starting price: € 250 | Estimate : € 250 - 350 | Sold for : € 325
Notes II
Paper notebook with numerous annotations and manuscript corrections as well as few small drawings. The text is still unpublished in English.
5.51 x 3.54 in.
Very personal notes written in French and English on art, on crafts, on censorship, on theater and writing but
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Starting price: € 6.000 | Estimate : € 6.000 - 8.000
Notes I
Paper notebook with numerous annotations and manuscript corrections of Man Ray. Unpublished text for the English language.
5.51 x 4.33 in.
Full of notes on Surrealism in which he talks about friends Duchamp, Breton, Éluard, Tzara but also Gertrude Stein or Dadaist films.
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Starting price: € 6.000 | Estimate : € 6.000 - 8.000
Combat de boxe
Colored etching contained within bifolio with title and explanatory text, produced by Larcos Editions from an original drawing by Marcel Duchamp of 1913, signed in pencil with monogram "MR pour MD" and numbered E.A. Browning and some signs of aging.
20.87 x 14.76 in.
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Starting price: € 500 | Estimate : € 500 - 700
MAN RAY 1890-1976
Obstruction
Rare lithograph, signed in pencil with MR monogram and numbered E.A.
17.72 x 22.05 in.
In the Twenties Man Ray created a surrealist sculpture composed of crutches mounted according to a mathematical progression that came to obstruct the space in which it was mounted, one
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Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 600 - 800 | Sold for : € 850
MAN RAY 1890-1976
Dragonfly
Pochoir on paper from the "Revolving Doors" series, signed with monogram and numbered 'Essai' on verso, in a metal frame. Browning.
24.80 x 17.32 in.
Starting price: € 300 | Estimate : € 300 - 400 | Sold for : € 650
MAN RAY 1890-1976
L'escalier
Original blue and black ink drawing on notebook paper, signed in monogram lower right depicting an high scale that, in the surrealist style, ends up in a painting.
8.27 x 5.71 in.
Starting price: € 6.000 | Estimate : € 6.000 - 8.000
Art is not photography
Eight pages autograph manuscript on paper, written in green ink with some pencil corrections. Unpublished text for the English language, which examines photographic art in its past and future developments.
10.63 x 8.27 in.
“The development of photography in the past
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Starting price: € 3.000 | Estimate : € 3.000 - 5.000
MAN RAY 1890-1976
Inspiralation
Gelatin silver print on Kodak paper that illustrates a 1942 photograph by Man Ray within its vintage frame. On the reverse signed autograph inscription: 'Dear Janus, It's not very clear but its funny. Man Ray. Juliet. California'.
4.92 x 3.35 in.
Starting price: € 8.000 | Estimate : € 8.000 - 10.000
Cartolina da Hammamet
Autograph postcard signed and addressed to 'Mr. Janus', dated '24 -7-72'. The artist writes to his friend from Turin that the Grand Hotel de France depicted on the back of the postcard 'ce n'est pas notre hotel - c'est pour les antiquaires'.
3.35 x 5.51 in.
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Starting price: € 100 | Estimate : € 150 - 200