AUCTION
Tuesday 7 November, 5:00 p.m.
lot 1-33 Prints, Multiples, Editions
lot 34-50 Photography
lot 51-96 Works of Art
lot 97-174 Works on Paper
Wednesday 8 November, 3:30 pm
lot 175-264 Autographed posters and postcards
lot 265-486 Modern and Contemporary Art
Via Cavour 17, Turin
VIEWING
From Thursday 2 to Tuesday 7 November at the following time:
Thursday from 2 pm to 7 pm
Friday - Monday, from 10 am to 7 pm
Saturday from 10 am to 12 pm
Tuesday from 10 am to 2 pm
CÉSAR 1921-1998
Untitled 1959
Ink on paper.
29.53 x 21.65 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto.
This work is registered at n° 7803 by Denyse Durand-Ruel Archive, Paris.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
FERNANDEZ ARMAN 1928-2005
Government owned property 1957
Ink and stamps on canvas paper.
29.33 x 20.28 in.
Signed, dated and inscribed on the reverse on the canvas, on the stretcher not in the artist's hand:
"Authenticated by the artist on 12-7-1970 in Galleria Martano".
Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.000 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 1.700
CAROL RAMA 1918-2015
Untitled 1995
Marker and enamels on map.
7.28 x 10.24 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto.
Work authenticated by the artist on photograph.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 4.000
CAROL RAMA 1918-2015
Untitled 1995
Marker and enamels on map.
7.40 x 10.16 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto.
Work authenticated by the artist on photograph.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 4.000
WIFREDO LAM 1902-1982
Untitled 1970
Ballpoint pen on paper.
18.11 x 25.20 in.
Signed, dedicated and dated on the lower right recto. Work archived by Wilfredo Lam Archive, Paris.
Starting price: € 600 | Estimate : € 800 - 1.500 | Sold for : € 850
EMILIO SCANAVINO 1922-1986
Folder with ten works on paper 1952-1961
Designed folder containing ten drawings of different sizes.
20.87 x 15.75 in.
Drawing 1, 1952, ink on paper, 7.87 x 10.63 in, signed and dated lower right recto.
Drawing 2, 1957, pastels on paper, 13.39 x 9.45 in., signed lower right and dated at the top.
Drawing 3,
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Starting price: € 2.500 | Estimate : € 3.000 - 5.000
ARSHILE GORKY 1904-1948
Agony, Motif 1946
Ink, pen and wax crayon on paper.
10.08 x 9.06 in.
Starting price: € 6.000 | Estimate : € 8.000 - 15.000
NORMAN BLUHM 1921-1999
Untitled 1961
Mixed media on paper.
12.01 x 8.66 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto, gallery stamp with illegible signature and inscription "ex Collezione E. Leumann", Turin, on the reverse.
Provenienza/Provenance
Collezione E. Leumann, Torino
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Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 3.000 | Sold for : € 1.700
FRITZ WOTRUBA 1907-1975
Figures 1955
China on paper.
17.32 x 12.20 in.
Signed and dated lower left recto, on the reverse label/card with stamps and signature Galleria Blu, Milan.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.000 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 1.600
HISAO DOMOTO 1928-2013
Untitled 50's
Watercolor and ink on cardboard
19.29 x 25.39 in.
Signed upper right recto.
Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 3.000 | Sold for : € 9.000
PIERRE ALECHINSKY 1927
Dans le cirage 1961
Ink on paper.
14.76 x 9.76 in.
Signed and dated upper left recto, titled lower right.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 3.000 - 6.000 | Sold for : € 2.200
PIERRE KLOSSOWSKI 1905-2001
Diane et Actéon 1955/1973
Mixed media on paper
59.84 x 42.40 in.
Signed, dated lower right recto: Pierre Klossowski fevrier MCMLV Septembre LXXIII, centre: Nunc tibi me posito visam velamine narres, si potentis narrare, licet Ovid, Metamorphosis III Monsieur de Max et Mademoiselle Glissant dans
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Starting price: € 20.000 | Estimate : € 25.000 - 35.000 | Sold for : € 62.000
CORNEILLE 1922-2010
Untitled 1959
Pen, crayons and ink on paper.
8.15 x 9.25 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto. Tear on the paper.
The Guillaume Corneille Foundation has confirmed the authenticity of the work.
Starting price: € 1.500 | Estimate : € 2.000 - 4.000 | Sold for : € 1.900
ROBERT SEBASTIAN MATTA 1911-2002
Untitled
Pencil and crayon on Fabriano paper.
17.72 x 25.59 in.
On the reverse label/card and stamp of Galleria Galatea, Turin.
Starting price: € 2.500 | Estimate : € 3.000 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 2.500
KENNETH ARMITAGE 1916-2002
Standing women 1955
Charcoal and ink on paper.
15.16 x 22.13 in.
Signed with initials and dated lower right recto, signed and inscribed on the reverse.
Mostre/Exhibits
Milano, Galleria Blu, Moore, Sutherland, Chadwick, Armitage, Maggio - Giugno
Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 3.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
KENNETH ARMITAGE 1916-2002
Study for ‘Standing group 1952
Pencil and watercolor on paper.
15.00 x 22.13 in.
Signed with initials and dated lower right recto, signed and inscribed on the reverse: "Kenneth Armitage/Corsham/Wilts".
Starting price: € 1.000 | Estimate : € 1.500 - 3.000 | Sold for : € 1.000
LUCIO FONTANA 1899-1968
La serva (female nudes) 1946
Ink on canvas paper.
11.81 x 8.27 in.
Signed, titled lower center recto.
Work archived by Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan 1973.
Starting price: € 2.500 | Estimate : € 3.000 - 5.000
LUCIO FONTANA 1899-1968
Concepto espacial 1946
Ink on paper.
8.58 x 11.18 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto, titled on the left.
Work that constitutes the first indications of the theory of Spatialism by Fontana (who published his Manifesto Blanco in the same year) and which marks the birth of the 'spatial
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Starting price: € 5.000 | Estimate : € 6.000 - 10.000 | Sold for : € 5.000
LUCIO FONTANA 1899-1968
Lot of two works on paper: Study for 'Spatial Concept' 1957
Pen on paper.
12.80 x 10.12 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto.
With: 'Spatial concept, anti-sculpture, anti-painting' 1949, pen on paper, 11.65 x 8.35 in. is titled lower right recto.(2)
Starting price: € 5.000 | Estimate : € 6.000 - 8.000 | Sold for : € 5.500
LUCIO FONTANA 1899-1968
Lot of three ink on paper works: Ambiente Spaziale 1949
Ink on paper.
11.02 x 8.78 in.
Signed lower left recto, signed and dated on the right.
Together with: 'Forma' 1946, 10.24x12.80 in., signed and dated lower right recto, titled on the left.
Lot completed by: 'Ambiente spaziale' 1954, 8,74x11,18 in., signed lower left
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Starting price: € 7.000 | Estimate : € 8.000 - 12.000 | Sold for : € 7.000
VICTOR VASARELY 1906-1997
Lot of two works on paper: Imbituba and Kettoe
Wax crayon on paper.
3.35 x 3.15 in.
On the reverse of each, in the artist's hand, title and inscriptions, in the passpartout of both label/card from the Galleria Notizie, Turin. On the back of the frame, the artist's handwritten inscription in Hungarian: "this is the
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Starting price: € 2.500 | Estimate : € 3.000 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 5.000
MARK TOBEY 1890-1976
Composition 1954
Gouache and ink on paper.
7.09 x 10.63 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto, gallery and exhibition labels and stamps on the reverse.
The work is registered in the Mark Tobey Archive (n° MT 218-5-30-17).
Glued on passepartout.
Starting price: € 6.000 | Estimate : € 8.000 - 15.000
ASGER JORN 1914-1973
Untitled 1954
China on paper.
4.88 x 3.54 in.
Signed and dated lower right recto.
The work is registered in the archive of Museum Jorn, Silkeborg.
Starting price: € 3.000 | Estimate : € 3.500 - 6.000
JEAN FAUTRIER 1898-1964
Untitled
Wax crayons on paper.
11.81 x 19.68 in.
Signed with initials lower right recto, stamps Galleria Blu, Milan on the reverse.
Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 2.000
AUTORI VARI
Folder 'Cinque disegni' Collana di Notizie 1958
Folder containing five original mixed media drawings on paper.
19.68 x 11.81 in.
Folder 'edited' by the Galleria Notizie Arti figurative, Turin in ten copies (this is number 8) each with five original drawings bearing the publisher's stamp on the reverse.
Antonio
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Starting price: € 2.000 | Estimate : € 2.500 - 5.000 | Sold for : € 2.000