Modern and Contemporary Art
AUCTION
Tuesday 13 May 2025
From 3.30 p.m. (lots 1-169)
Sala Bolaffi, via Cavour 17, Torino
Wednesday 13 May 2025
From 3.30 p.m. (lots 170-346)
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Lot 11
PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Hibou mat 1955
White terracotta ceramic dish, partially incised, with coloured engobe and glaze.
14.96 x 12.20 x 1.38 in.
On the reverse stamp ‘Edition Picasso/Madoura Plein Feu/Edition Picasso/Madoura’.
150 copies.
Estimate : € 12.000 - 16.000
Lot 12
GEORGES BRAQUE 1882-1963
Deux fleurs violettes 1963
Color lithograph on Rives paper, ed. II/XV.
14.96 x 11.02 in.
Signed and numbered lower recto, on the reverse label/card from Galleria dell'Incisione, Milan.
Sheet from the edition of René Char's 'Lettera amorosa', printed by Mourlot in 75 copies in Arabic numerals and
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Estimate : € 1.000 - 2.000
Lot 13
GIORGIO DE CHIRICO 1888-1978
Untitled 1948
Etching, ed. 40/89.
12.60 x 9.45 in.
Signed and numbered lower recto.
Lithograph from the rare edition: "La loterie clandestine avec trois lithographies de Giorgio de Chirico, Mino Maccari, Alberto Savinio". Editions de l’Hommage, Rome 1948.
Estimate : € 800 - 1.500
Lot 14
JOAN MIRÓ 1893-1983
L’oiseau dressé 1960
Color lithograph on BFK Rives paper, ed. 63/90.
12.40 x 17.72 in.
Signed and numbered lower recto.
Estimate : € 800 - 1.500
Lot 15
JOAN MIRÓ 1893-1983
L’oiseau destructeur 1969
Etching, aquatint and carborundum on cardboard, ed. 71/75.
28.54 x 37.01 in.
Signed and numbered lower recto.
Publisher Maeght, Paris.
Work accompanied by a certificate of authenticity of PICMA, Arte Grafica d’Autore, Verona.
Estimate : € 8.000 - 14.000
Lot 16
JOAN MIRÓ 1893-1983
Maravillas Con Variaciones Acrósticas En El Jardín de Miró 1975
Nineteen color lithographs on Vélin d'Arches paper, ed. 45/75.
29.53 x 20.87 in.
Signed by the artist and the author on the colophon.
Book of nineteen lithographs + colophon created by Miró to illustrate Rafael Alberti’s book, enclosed in its original case.
Printed by
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Estimate : € 4.000 - 7.000
Lot 17
SALVADOR DALÍ 1904-1989
Madonna di Port Lligat
18K yellow gold, ed. A-284/1000.
23.62 x 1.18 x 1.57 in.
Signature and numbering engraved on the clasp, with the original box.
Long necklace convertible into a choker and bracelet (both signed and numbered on the clasps).
Overall weight gr. 84.46.
Estimate : € 5.000 - 8.000
Lot 18
SALVADOR DALÍ 1904-1989
La corte del Léon 1974
Pochoir colored drypoint, ed. XVI/LXII.
30.71 x 22.83 in.
Signed and numbered lower recto, illegible signature on the reverse.
This engraving is part of the series “Le Bestiaire de La Fontaine” published in 1974 by Robert Mouret, printed by Atelier Rigal, Paris, in an
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Estimate : € 500 - 800
Lot 19
SALVADOR DALÍ 1904-1989
The Curse Conquered (After 50 years of surrealism) 1974
Drypoint etching with stencil on Arches paper, ed. AEA
25.79 x 19.88 in.
Signed lower right recto.
Edizioni Transworld Art, Fribourg Switzerland.
Work accompanied by a certificate of authenticity of PICMA, Arte Grafica d’Autore, Verona.
Estimate : € 500 - 1.000
Lot 20
SERGE POLIAKOFF 1900-1969
Composition brune et rouge XV 1964
Etching aquatint on Arches paper, ed. 1/75.
29.92 x 22.05 in.
Signed and numbered lower recto.
Printed by S. Esmeraldo for the XXe Siécle, Paris.
Estimate : € 2.500 - 4.000