20th CENTURY ART
AUCTION
Tuesday 6 November 2018
2.30 pm (CET)
Turin – Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17
VIEWING
From Friday 2 to Tuesday 6 November (Sunday included) from 10 am to 6 pm.
Saturday 3 from 10 am to Midnight
Turin – Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17
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Lot 491
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
Lot 492
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 The text is still unpublished in English.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
Lot 493
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 Unpublished text for the English language.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
Lot 494
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
Lot 495
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
Lot 496
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
Lot 497
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
Lot 498
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
Lot 499
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
Lot 500
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