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Richard Pettibone, affiche publicitaire reprsentant Roy et Trigger.
Vente, Christie's, New York, 14-15 juillet 2010, lot 319.
sign et dat calder 72
(en bas droite)
encre de Chine et gouache sur papier
109.9 x 74.8 cm.
Excut en 1972
signed and dated calder 72
(lower right)
India ink and gouache on paper
43 x 29 in.
Executed in 1972
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ALEXANDER CALDER
(1898-1976)
Cowboy
18,000-25,000
US$23,000-30,000
14,000-20,000
PROVENANCE
Perls Galleries, New York.
Vente, Sothebys, New York,
12 septembre 2007, lot 424.
Acquis au cours de cette vente
par le propritaire actuel.
Cette uvre est repertorie dans
les archives de la fondation Calder,
New York, sous le numro A06928.
PROVENANT DUNE COLLECTION EUROPENNE
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JEAN LURAT
(1892-1966)
Le jour et la nuit
30,000-50,000
US$40,000-65,000
24,000-40,000
sign et dat Lurat 26
(en bas droite)
huile sur toile
100.3 x 170.1 cm.
Peint en 1926
signed and dated Lurat 26
(lower right)
oil on canvas
39 x 67 in.
Painted in 1926
PROVENANCE
Atelier de lartiste.
Puis par descendance au propritaire
actuel.
EXPOSI TI ON
Saint-Denis, Muse dArt et dHistoire,
Jean Lurat, mai-juin 1966, no. 11.
Arras, Muse de lancienne abbaye
de Saint-Vaast, Hommage Jean Lurat,
juin-septembre 1968, p. 35, no. 60.
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
G. Denizeau et S. Lurat, Luvre peint
de Jean Lurat, catalogue raisonn
1910-1965, Lausanne, 1998, p. 300,
no. 1926.24 (illustr).
une attitude lascive, entre soleil et toiles. La composi-
tion, monumentale, se dmarque des uvres de la mme
priode, qui se partagent entre portraits de femmes en
buste et paysages minimalistes. Lurat aborde ici le
portrait allong ml au paysage, dans un onirisme et
une sensualit proches des contes des Milles et Une
Nuits. Suivant lexemple de Matisse, Lurat multiplie les
variations de textures et de motifs dcoratifs pour ren-
forcer lexotisme du sujet. Il sagit sans doute de lune
des uvres les plus ambitieuses de la priode, qui la
fois par sa taille et son sujet, prfigure les cartons de
tapisseries raliss partir de la fin des annes 1930.
For English version, please refer to p. 168-173
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orm auprs de Victor Prouv, chef de file de
lcole de Nancy, Jean Lurat fut lun des artistes
modernes avoir su rconcilier les beaux-arts
avec les arts dcoratifs, une priode o ces disciplines
taient scindes en deux. Artiste polyvalent, Lurat est
aussi connu comme peintre, que comme concepteur
de tapisserie, fresquiste, cramiste et crateur de cos-
tumes et dcors de thtre.
Marquant les dbuts de la maturit de lartiste, Le jour
et la nuit fut cr au cours de la priode orientaliste de
Lurat, la suite de son voyage de 1924 en Espagne et
en Afrique du nord. Traite par allgorie, luvre pr-
sente deux femmes allonges lune contre lautre dans
ANCIENNE COLLECTION JEAN LURAT
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PROVENANCE
Acquis auprs de lartiste
par le propritaire actuel.
Franoise Gilot a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
sign F. Gilot (en bas droite)
et dat 1952 (en bas gauche)
huile sur panneau
46 x 55 cm.
Peint en 1952
signed F. Gilot (lower right)
and dated 1952 (lower left)
oil on panel
18 x 21 in.
Painted in 1952
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FRANOISE GILOT
(NE EN 1921)
Nature morte au scateur
20,000-30,000
US$25,000-40,000
16,000-24,000
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PROVENANCE
Monsieur Bertet, Marseille
(don de lartiste).
Rose Saporte-Bertet, Marseille
(don de celui-ci).
Don de celle-ci la famille
du propritaire actuel, en 1953.
sign J. Metzinger. (en bas droite)
huile sur toile
65 x 92 cm.
Peint en 1905
signed J. Metzinger. (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 x 36 in.
Painted in 1905
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JEAN METZINGER
(1883-1956)
Port du Croisic
350,000-450,000
US$450,000-580,000
280,000-360,000
EXPOSI TI ON
Paris, Grande Serre de lAlma, Cours-
la-Reine, 21
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Salon des Indpendants,
mars-avril 1905, no. 2902.
Paris, LAdresse, Muse de la Poste
et Muse de Lodve, Gleizes, Metzinger,
du Cubisme et aprs, mai 2012-novembre
2013, p. 57 (illustr en couleurs).
Bozena Nikiel a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
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JEAN
METZINGER
PORT DU
CROISIC
atteindre un contraste maximum.
Nombreux sont les artistes lui
emboiter le pas commencer par
Henri-Edmond Cross, son ami
intime. Le jeune Henri Matisse
exprimente ce nouveau style
durant lt 1904 Saint-Tropez.
Nous pourrions encore citer
les noms de Robert Delaunay,
Auguste Herbin, Andr Derain,
Maurice de Vlaminck en France.
Emil Nolde, Piet Mondrian, Erich
Heckel, Kasimir Malevitch dans le
reste de lEurope.
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Paris, au dbut du XX
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sicle,
pour trouver sa place
dans les rangs de lAvant-
Garde, un passage ou plutt le rite
initiatique dans le divisionnisme
simpose. Aprs la mort de
Georges Seurat en 1891, Paul
Signac devient le chef de file du
No-impressionnisme et donne une
direction nouvelle au mouvement
en modifiant la technique.
Ressemblant des tesselles dune
mosaque byzantine, le point sest
considrablement agrandi pour
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Fig. 2 Georges Seurat, Le chenal de Gravelines, direction de la mer, 1890
Rijksmuseum Krller-Mller, Otterlo.
Fig. 1 Paul Signac, Concarneau. Calme du Matin. Opus 219 (Larghetto), 1891
Vente, Christies, New York, 18 novembre 1998, lot 28, $4,402,500
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doit beaucoup lexemple de
Signac et de Cross. Reprenant ces
larges touches carres, le tableau
est trs construit, trahissant un
got trs vif de Metzinger pour la
gomtrie et les mathmatiques.
Bien que latmosphre du tableau
soit calme, traduisant au mieux la
plnitude de la mer et de laube,
la palette retenue compte des
tonalits plutt vives et contrastes,
en particulier dans le traitement des
embarcations du premier plan et de
larmature de la jete sur la droite
de la composition. Le thme retenu
est lui aussi un hommage appuy
aux matres du Divisionnisme et
voque les clbres Opus de Signac
(fig. 1) ou les vues de Gravelines de
Seurat (fig. 2), que le jeune artiste
a certainement eu loccasion de
voir. Pour Metzinger, cette uvre a
valeur de manifeste et est prsente
au Salon des Indpendants de
1905. Trahissant luvre dun
grand artiste en devenir, ce tableau
est sans doute le plus abouti de
cette courte priode qui noccupe
lartiste que trois ans. Par la suite,
Metzinger explore brivement
luvre de Gauguin, puis, partir
de 1910, se lance dans laventure
cubiste et simpose comme lune des
figures majeures de ce mouvement
(voir lot 118).
For English version, please refer to
p. 168-173
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PROVENANCE
Collection particulire, Etats-Unis
(dans les annes 1960).
Coleman Bancroft LLC, New York.
Acquis auprs de celui-ci
par le propritaire actuel.
Wanda de Gubriant a confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
sign et dat H Matisse 2/44
(en bas droite)
plume et encre de Chine sur papier
36.5 x 49.1 cm.
Excut en fvrier 1944
signed and dated H Matisse 2/44
(lower right)
pen and India ink on paper
14 x 19 in.
Executed in February 1944
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HENRI MATISSE
(1869-1954)
Femme au boa
100,000-150,000
US$130,000-190,000
80,000-120,000
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1974 au Grand Palais: Mir na
pas renouvel un style, il la
approfondi et dpouill avec
parfois une insolente conomie de
moyens. [...] La palette restreinte,
la thmatique immuable ont
favoris, semble-t-il, la diversit
des uvres dans leurs dimensions,
leur proportion, leurs rythmes et
sonorits, leur criture. Elles ont en
commun une note de gravit dans
lexubrance, et cette
concentration dnergie est toute
aussi sensible dans les sries de
toiles minuscules que dans un
immense tableau (Joan Mir,
catalogue dexposition, Paris,
Grand Palais, 1974, p. 21). Sur la
verte prairie au lever du soleil,
expos la Fondation Maeght
Saint-Paul et lAntiguo Hospital
de la Santa Cruz Barcelone, au
sein de la rtrospective organise
loccasion des soixante-quinze
ans du peintre, possde toute la
puissance, la simplicit et la magie
qui nous sont contes par Dupin.
For English version, please refer to
p. 168-173
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PROVENANCE
Douglas Cooper, New York
(don de lartiste).
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Paul Haim, Paris.
Galerie Malingue, Paris.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci
par le propritaire actuel, en 2005.
sign, sign de nouveau, dat et
ddicac a Douglas avec notre vieille
et bonne Amiti Fleger F.LEGER 53
(en bas droite)
encre de Chine, lavis dencre,
gouache et huile sur papier
75.5 x 105.3 cm.
Excut en 1953
signed, signed again, dated and
dedicated a Douglas avec notre vieille
et bonne Amiti Fleger F.LEGER 53
(lower right)
India ink, ink wash, gouache
and oil on paper
29 x 41 in.
Executed in 1953
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FERNAND LGER
(1881-1955)
Etude pour La grande parade
300,000-500,000
US$390,000-650,000
240,000-400,000
EXPOSI TI ON
Ble, Fondation Beyeler, Fernand Lger,
Paris-New York, juin-septembre 2008,
no. 103 (illustr).
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
Y. Brunhammer, Fernand Lger, luvre
monumental, Milan, 2005, p. 211, no. 115
(illustr, p. 110).
parade ne dpeint pas les numros
qui sont prsents sur la piste
lintrieur du grand chapiteau, mais
le spectacle habituellement donn
par les artistes lextrieur, afin
dattirer les spectateurs depuis la
rue. Lger dcrit cette scne dans
le texte accompagnant les
lithographies du Cirque de Triade:
Une musique violente clate
brutalement et domine les bruits de
la foule. Cette foule inconsistante
et floue tout coup prend sens, une
direction; un courant stablit,
prend de la vitesse et rejette les
indcis sur le trottoir. Cette marche
collective va vers un but qui est la
parade du cirque. a commence.
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partir de 1947, Fernand
Lger revient sur lun de ses
sujets de prdilection, le
cirque, pour crer une srie de
lithographies en couleurs que les
ditions Verve de Triade publient
en 1950. Lartiste ralise ensuite
des tudes pour deux grandes
compositions intitules La grande
parade, dont il finalise la seconde
version en 1954, lanne prcdant
sa mort (fig.1). Il souhaite explorer
dans ces uvres monumentales le
thme des hommes et des femmes
leurs loisirs, dans un tat heureux
de libert et de jeux, qui loccupe
depuis la srie Les plongeurs du
dbut des annes 1940. La grande
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aussi est-elle puissante et
dynamique. Les instruments sont au
maximum de rendement. [...] Cela
vous arrive en pleine figure, en
pleine poitrine, cest comme un
envotement. Derrire, ct,
devant, apparaissent et
disparaissent des figures, des
membres, des danseuses, des
clowns, des gueules carlates, des
jambes roses [...] et cette musique
lie la lumire dure des
projecteurs qui balaient tout un
ensemble agressif, qui fait que
toutes ces figures blanches, ces
yeux fixes savancent, sont pris,
montent les marches qui les
conduisent la caisse et en avant
la musique! [...] Passons la
monnaie. a entre encore et
toujours. a se bouscule, cest plein
craquer. On refuse du monde, la
parade a gagn (cit in F. Lger,
Fonctions de la peinture, Paris,
1996, pp. 272-273).
Lger ralise plus de soixante-dix
huiles, gouaches et dessins lencre
pour les deux versions de La grande
parade. Il excute notre tude en
1953. Dans les deux versions
finales, le mot Cirque est rduit
la lettre C; dans la prsente
uvre on peut encore lire la moiti
du mot, CIR. Plus important
encore, Lger retire ici toutes les
couleurs initialement attribues aux
diffrents lments de la
composition, sorientant vers la
version finale o elles sont
remplaces par de grands aplats
de pigments purs, non-descriptifs. Il
finira par bannir mme les nuages
que lon voit encore ici. Les
personnages du cirque de Lger
prennent ds lors vie sur les murs
mmes de la pice quils ornent, en
accord avec la vision des uvres
monumentales quil dveloppe
alors, comme conues
conjointement avec larchitecture.
Il crit dans un article publi en
1952 dans le magazine de la
Galerie Maeght Derrire
Fig. 1 Fernand Lger, La grande parade (tat dfinitif), 1954, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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imaginons des intrieurs de
couleurs libres afin dviter le mot
abstrait, qui est faux. La couleur est
vraie, raliste, mouvante en elle-
mme, sans avoir besoin dtre lie
un ciel, un arbre, une fleur. Elle a
une valeur intrinsque, comme une
symphonie. Je crois quaccepter ces
grandes peintures murales en
couleur libre, ce qui sera bientt
possible, pourrait dtruire la triste
sobrit de certains btiments: les
gares, les grands espaces publics et
les usines. Pourquoi pas ? (cit in
ibid., pp. 179-180).
For English version, please refer to
p. 168-173
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couches successives de peinture de diffrentes cou-
leurs sur la toile pose sur une surface dure en relief,
Ernst prlve la matire sche au couteau, rvlant un
kalidoscope de couleur dont laspect doit autant aux
choix de lartiste quau hasard des effets produits par la
superposition des pigments. Pour accentuer la prsence
des lments gratts et mettre en valeur le grain de leur
surface, ceux-ci sont gnralement, comme dans la pr-
sente uvre, apposs sur de larges aplats de couleur.
Evoquant les tranges structures organiques ainsi rv-
les, tout la fois eur, coquillage et formation golo-
gique, Ludger Derenthal crit: Les eurs-coquillages
apparaissent dabord par deux et en petits groupes; plus
tard, des jardins nocturnes entiers en seront plants. Il
convient de se remettre en mmoire ici les peintures de
planches dtudes botaniques lpoque Dada, o les
plantes taient elles aussi isoles et places sur un horizon
bas. [...] Les Fleurs-coquillages sont dun attrait coloriste
dlicat. Le peintre remplace le collagiste. Max Ernst se
situe ainsi dans la tradition de James Ensor et dOdilon
Redon, artistes chez qui des coquillages se transforment
occasionnellement en eurs. Cest l une technique
brillante qui permet de mettre prot la valeur picturale
des deux sujets (Max Ernst, Paris, 1992, p. 124).
For English version, please refer to p. 168-173
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eint en 1928, Fleurs sur fond vert appartient
une srie ralise par Max Ernst dans la conti-
nuit des collages et frottages excuts sur le
mme thme au dbut de la dcennie. La dcouverte
dune nouvelle technique baptise grattage permet
lartiste dadapter lhuile leffet de frottage
initialement explor sur papier, pour des nouveaux
dveloppements sur toile. Aprs avoir appliqu des
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MAX ERNST
(1891-1976)
Fleurs sur fond vert
200,000-300,000
US$260,000-390,000
160,000-240,000
sign et dat max ernst 28
(en bas droite)
huile sur toile
53.6 x 65.1 cm.
Peint en 1928
signed and dated max ernst 28
(lower right)
oil on canvas
21 x 25 in.
Painted in 1928
PROVENANCE
Jeanne Fouque, Paris.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci par la famille
du propritaire actuel, en 1956.
Jurgen Pech a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
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Collection particulire.
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Nos. I XVIII:
D. Cooper, Picasso, 19 plats en argent
par Franois et Pierre Hugo, Paris, 1977
(autres exemplaires illustrs).
Nos. I XXI:
C. Siaud et P. Hugo, Bijoux dartistes,
Hommage Franois Hugo, orfvre,
Aix-en-Provence, 2001, pp. 148-149,
151-154 et 168-182, refs. 1398, 1403,
1406-1409, 1411-1413, 1424-1428
et 1434-1440 (autres exemplaires en
argent et en or illustrs en couleurs).
Pierre Hugo a confirm lauthenticit
de ces vingt-trois plats.
PROVENANCE
Atelier Franois et Pierre Hugo,
Aix-en-Provence.
Acquis auprs de celui-ci
par le propritaire actuel.
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
Nos. I XXIII:
G. Bloch, Pablo Picasso, Catalogue
de luvre grav cramique, 1949-1971,
Berne, 1972, vol. III, pp. 59, 62, 69,
76-90, 93-97, 102-104 et 106-108,
nos. 63, 68, 82, 90-104, 107-111,
116-118 et 120-122 (versions
en faence illustres).
A. Rami, Picasso, Catalogue of the
Edited Ceramic Works, 1947-1971,
Vallauris, 1988, pp. 145, 158, 164-173,
176-179, 181 et 184-188, nos. 282-283,
308-309, 321-339, 343-344, 346-350,
353-354 et 358-366 (versions
en faence illustres en couleurs).
Chaque plat: avec le cachet de la
signature, numrot Picasso 1/ 20
(au revers) et avec le poinon dorfvre
(sur le bord au revers)
argent repouss
Conu en 1955-56 et excut
en argent dans une dition
de 20 exemplaires plus 2 exemplaires
dartiste et 2 exemplaires dauteur
Each plate: stamped with the
signature, numbered Picasso 1/20
(on the reverse) and stamped with the
silversmiths mark (on the reverse rim)
repouss silver
Conceived in 1955-56 and executed
in silver in an edition of 20 plus
2 exemplaires dartiste and
2 exemplaires dauteur
XVIII. Visage aux taches
diamtre: 41.1 cm. (16 in.)
XIX. Visage dans un carr
diamtre: 41.8 cm. (16q in.)
XX. Tte en forme dhorloge
diamtre: 43.2 cm. (17 in.)
XXI. Vallauris
dat 1956 (en bas au centre) et
titr VALLAURIS (en haut au centre);
diamtre: 41.4 cm. (16 in.)
XXII. Joie de vivre
diamtre: 42.7 cm. (16 in.)
XXIII. Visage gomtrique
diamtre: 36 cm. (14 in.)
(23)
IX. Tte de taureau
diamtre: 42.2 cm. (16 in.)
X. Visage larv
diamtre: 42 cm. (16q in.)
XI. Visage en forme dhorloge
diamtre: 42.5 cm. (16 in.)
XII. Visage gomtrique aux traits
diamtre: 41.6 cm. (16 in.)
XIII. Horloge la langue
diamtre: 42.4 cm. (16 in.)
XIV. Jacqueline au chevalet
diamtre: 43 cm. (17 in.)
XV. Tte au masque
diamtre: 31.4 cm. (12 in.)
XVI. Visage au carton ondul
diamtre: 42.7 cm. (16 in.)
XVII. Centaure
diamtre: 41.7 cm. (16 in.)
I. Dormeur
diamtre: 41.7 cm. (16 in.)
II. Visage aux feuilles
diamtre: 42.7 cm. (16 in.)
III. Faune cavalier
diamtre: 42.6 cm. (16 in.)
IV. Visage aux mains
diamtre: 41.7 cm. (16 in.)
V. Visage tourment
diamtre: 41.6 cm. (16 in.)
VI. Visage de faune
dat 28.6.55. (en haut droite);
diamtre: 25.8 cm. (10 in.)
VII. Un poisson
dat 19.5.56. (en bas droite);
diamtre: 44 cm. (17 in.)
VIII. Profil de Jacqueline
dat 22.1.56. (au revers);
diamtre: 42 cm. (16q in.)
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PABLO PICASSO
(1881-1973)
Vingt-trois plats en argent
800,000-1,200,000
US$1,000,000-1,500,000
640,000-955,000
PROVENANT DUNE PRESTIGIEUSE COLLECTION PARTICULIRE EUROPENNE
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XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII
VII VIII IX X XI XII
I II III IV V VI
XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII
XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII
VII VIII IX X XI XII
I II III IV V VI
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Franois Hugo soudant le Compotier rond.
PIERRE MARTIN-VIVIER
PABLO
PICASSO
VINGT-TROIS
PLATS EN
ARGENT
argent (Picasso, 19 plats en
argent, Paris, 1977, n.p.). Douglas
Cooper pensa demble Franois
Hugo que Picasso avait connu
avant-guerre. Lorfvre stait
rcemment fait remarquer par la
ralisation de plusieurs objets
religieux en argent travaill selon
la technique du repouss. Picasso
fut immdiatement intress et
chargea Douglas Cooper de
prendre contact avec lorfvre. La
rencontre entre les deux artistes
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est grce lillustre
historien d'art Douglas
Cooper que les plats en
argent de Pablo Picasso ont vu le
jour. Amis de longue date, et
installs tous les deux dans le sud
de la France, les deux hommes
avaient pris lhabitude de disserter
sur les uvres du peintre lors de
longs aprs-midi ensoleills La
Californie. Cooper se souvient:
Ctait donc un nouveau groupe
de ces plats, tout juste arriv de
Vallauris que Picasso et moi tions
en train de regarder La Californie
en ce jour de la fin mai 1956. Ces
objets orientrent peu peu nos
penses et notre conversation vers
ces plats dor et dargent
somptueusement repousss,
excuts au XVI
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et au XVII
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sicle,
soit en France, soit Augsbourg ou
Venise, et dont beaucoup furent
dessins par des artistes clbres.
[...] Et cest alors, quelques instants
plus tard, que Picasso me dit
brle pourpoint quil avait lui-mme
pens que ses plats seraient
splendides sils taient excuts en
Picasso, dune curiosit
desprit sans limite, nous
surprend une fois de plus
en jouant sur les
conventions de la hirarchie
des genres. De la toile
lorfvrerie, en passant par
la sculpture ou la gravure,
lartiste sessaye tout pour
mieux transcender son art.
Picasso, possessed of an
unlimited inquisitive spirit,
surprises us once again with
his disruption of the
hierarchy of genres. From
canvas to silver, via
sculpture or printing, the
artist experimented with
every media in his effort to
better challenge his art.
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eut lieu le 25 septembre 1956.
Ils abordrent les nombreuses
questions techniques que le
projet posait et Picasso, sduit
par le charme et le talent de
lartisan, confia le plat Le dormeur
comme modle pour son premier
essai. La premire tentative fut
russie et Picasso commanda
quatre autres exemplaires du
Dormeur. Les commandes se
poursuivirent pendant une
dizaine dannes. Outre des
assiettes, Picasso chargea Hugo
de confectionner un compotier et
plusieurs objets en or. Chaque
fois, ces projets taient un dfi
constant la facult dinvention,
la souplesse desprit et
lhabilet de lartisan (ibid.). Ils
travaillrent galement la
conception dun vase mais les
rsultats ne furent jamais
satisfaisants. Initialement,
Picasso destinait ces objets son
usage personnel et navait pas
song autoriser lexcution
dexemplaires destins tre
vendus au public (ibid.). Picasso
Pablo Picasso et Franois Hugo, Cannes, 1960.
se refusa les prter pour des
expositions et les garda
jalousement pendant de
nombreuses annes. Il fallut
attendre 1967 pour que le public
dcouvre ces trsors cachs la
Galerie Le Point Cardinal,
Paris. Par la suite, Picasso
autorisa leur dition et Franois,
aid de son fils Pierre, excuta
ces pices qui, par lesprit,
semblaient ramener la
Renaissance (ibid.).
For English version, please refer
to p. 168-173
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PROVENANCE
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris.
Collection particulire, Paris.
Puis par descendance au propritaire
actuel.
EXPOSI TI ON
Pully, Maison Pullirane, Dessins
de sculpteurs franais de Rodin
nos jours, septembre-octobre 1968,
no. 20 (illustr).
Margit Rowell a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
sign C Brancusi (en bas droite)
graphite sur papier
62 x 47 cm.
Excut vers 1912
signed C Brancusi (lower right)
pencil on paper
24 x 18 in.
Executed circa 1912
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CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI
(1867-1957)
Etude de femme
150,000-250,000
US$190,000-320,000
120,000-200,000
E
tude de femme fait partie dune srie de dessins
que Margit Rowell appelle Dessins Sculpts: la
technique voque prcisment les mouvements
du sculpteur au travail et la nature tactile de sa vision.
Certaines de ces uvres sont des images autonomes;
dautres prfigurent ou rappellent des sculptures exis-
tantes. Brancusi utilise des crayons noirs ou de couleur
aux mines larges et plates; il creuse et rehausse, aplatit et
arrondit son motif, sculptant ses volumes en juxtaposant
de faon fluide de larges aplats. [] Si on les compare
la plupart des dessins de Brancusi, ceux-ci rvlent
une aisance et une confiance en soi remarquables. Et
quy-a-t-il de plus naturel pour la vision du sculpteur que
dviter la ligne et dadoucir les contours ? Voil la main
du sculpteur luvre, traant, coupant ou polissant
sa matire pour faire ressortir ses volumes et piger la
lumire (Constantin Brancusi, catalogue dexposition,
Philadelphia, Museum of Art, 1995, pp. 287-288).
Notre dessin est une tude pour le marbre aujourdhui
disparu, Femme se regardant dans un miroir (fig. 1; Teja
Bach 92), dont on retrouve nettement ici le nez fin,
les longs cheveux onduls et la main droite. En 1915
Brancusi revient ce sujet, et les versions en marbre
et en bronze sont simplifies lextrme pour ntre
plus quune surface minimaliste et sensuelle. Brancusi a
envoy ces versions plus tardives New York pour une
exposition avec Marius de Zayas la Modern Gallery,
o elles sintitulent Portrait de Madame P.D.K. Cest
cette occasion que Zayas a indiqu John Quinn, le
mcne de Brancusi New York, quil sagissait de la
Princesse Bonaparte. Marie Bonaparte, descendante
de Napolon, tait lpouse du Prince Georges I
er
de Grce et un personnage de premier rang dans la
socit parisienne de lpoque.
Nous remercions Margit Rowell pour son aide pour les recherches sur cette uvre.
For English version, please refer to p. 168-173
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Fig. 1 Constantin Brancusi , Femme se regardant dans
un miroir, vers 1909 (localisation inconnue).
Photographie de Bertrand Prevost: Paris, muse
national d'Art moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou.
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GINO SEVERINI
(1883-1966)
Danseuse
1,000,000-1,500,000
US$1,300,000-1,950,000
795,000-1,200,000
sign et titr Gino Severini
Danseuse (au revers)
huile sur toile
55 x 45.7 cm.
Peint durant lhiver 1914-15
signed and titled Gino Severini
Danseuse (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 x 18 in.
Painted during Winter 1914-15
PROVENANCE
Gabriel Viaud-Bruant, Poitiers (acquis
auprs de lartiste, vers 1916).
Puis par descendance au propritaire
actuel.
Romana Severini Brunori a confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
Daniela Fonti a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
Revers du prsent lot.
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GINO
SEVERINI
DANSEUSE
au Monico (perdue durant la
guerre, et dont la rplique de 1959
se trouve aujourd'hui au Centre
Pompidou, Paris), qui rsume
dans un style avant-gardiste toute
la frnsie des nuits parisiennes, les
tablissements nocturnes toujours
bonds, clairs de lumires
artificielles et o se dverse une
foule danonymes sadonnant la
dernire danse la mode jusqu'aux
premires lueurs du jour. Cette
exprience collective dpasse
aussi les clivages sociaux, faisant
de la vie parisienne une mtaphore
joyeuse de l'avenir radieux qui
attend lhumanit tout entire
laube du nouveau sicle. La danse,
donc, est perue comme lallgorie
nocturne du modernisme, de la joie
collective et de la force vitale qui, le
jour, se transfigure dans l'agitation
des passants, des carrosses et
des premires automobiles qui
arpentent gaiement les boulevards.
Entre 1912 et 1913, Severini
consacre de nombreuses toiles
la danse et la clbration de ces
rendez-vous nocturnes, dont les
noms pour le moins vocateurs (le
Monico, le Moulin Rouge, les Folies
A
u cours de l'automne-
hiver 1914-15, tandis
que pse sur lEurope la
menace de la premire guerre
mondiale, Gino Severini peut-
tre pour allger quelque peu
le climat tragique qui touffe
les dernires lueurs de la Belle
poque retrouve le thme majeur
de sa longue priode futuriste, la
danse (voir D. Fonti, Gino Severini.
La danse. 1909-1916, catalogue
dexposition, Venise, Collection
Peggy Guggenheim, 2001). Parmi
tous les sujets clbrs par les
peintres futuristes leurs dbuts
et prsents lors de la clbre
exposition parisienne de 1912
la galerie Bernheim-Jeune, cest
lexaltation de la danse moderne,
associe la frnsie nocturne
des cafs chantants qui distingue
les uvres de Severini de celles
des autres artistes, davantage
sduits par la clbration du mythe
de l'automobile et du dynamisme
mcanique. De toutes les toiles
des signataires du manifeste de
1910
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franais retiennent une uvre
monumentale, la Danse du Pan-Pan
LA DANSEUSE EST UNE MTAPHORE
Texte de Daniela Fonti, auteur de Gino Severini:
Catalogo ragionato, Milan, 1988.
Septembre 2014
L
e premier
propritaire de
Danseuse fut
Jean dit Gabriel Viaud-
Bruant (1865-1948), un
collectionneur franais
passionn dart et par son
mtier dhorticulteur. Il
tait entre autres connu
pour avoir frquemment
chang des fleurs et des
plantes rares contre des
uvres dart. Il conut
des jardins pour un grand
nombre dartistes, parmi
lesquels Henri Le Sidaner
et Armand Guillaumin,
pour les plus connus. De
nombreux crits, dont
Jardins dartistes (1905)
et Peintres et Jardiniers
(1916), tmoignent des
relations troites quil
entretenut avec de
nombreux artistes au
tournant du sicle. Viaud-
Bruant runit ainsi une
importante collection de
peintures et de dessins, un
fusain de Severini, Etude
pour Le train de la Croix-
Rouge (fig. 3) comptant
parmi ses pices majeures.
Cette uvre fut prsente
Drouot en 1975 dans la
vente de la succession de
son fils Jean Viaud. Une
autre uvre importante
qui entra rapidement dans
la collection de Gabriel
Viaud fut un Paul Gauguin,
Portrait de Suzanne
Bambridge (fig. 4). Gabriel
Viaud-Bruant la vendit
un marchand parisien,
qui son tour la cda au
muse des Beaux-arts
de Bruxelles, o elle
est aujourdhui expose
au sein de la collection
permanente.
Fig. 1 Gino Severini, Danseuse dans un restaurant - caf
amricain -caf anglais, 1915
Collection particulire.
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avec une de ses publications en main.
Bergres, le Bal Tabarin, le Grelot)
restent, grce notamment ses
uvres, gravs dans la mmoire
collective, mme aprs la fin de
leur phmre existence. Cette
immersion dans la vie nocturne
tait synesthsique, l'instar de
l'image que voulaient donner les
protagonistes de cette priode la
peinture futuriste, vocatrice des
sons, bruits et odeurs (comme on
peut le lire dans le manifeste de
1913 de Carlo Carr). Ceux-ci sont
restitus travers un jeu de formes
aux couleurs intenses, dcomposes
puis recomposes selon un rythme
dynamique bien diffrent du jeu de
composition parfaitement tudi
des toiles cubistes. Le peintre italien
adopte une approche varie de la
reprsentation des lieux nocturnes
et des danseuses sous le feu des
projecteurs: sur certaines toiles
comme la Danse du Pan-Pan au
Monico (1911), le Hiroglyphe
dynamique du Bal Tabarin, (1912,
New York, Museum of Modern
Art) ou Danseuses espagnoles au
Monico (1913, collection prive),
le thme du caf chantant comme
lieu privilgi de l'exaltation et
de lmotion collective se traduit
par des compositions au rythme
complexe et dcoup. Les figures
fminines des danseuses y sont la
fois mises en avant et englouties par
leur environnement, cr par un jeu
omniprsent de formes oscillantes
et colores, tantt transparentes,
tantt fermement ancres dans
lespace. Dans cette fluctuation
tumultueuse de corps anonymes
apparaissent parfois non sans
humour et dots d'une vraie
personnalit certains personnages
rcurrents: la danseuse aux boucles
manires, les gentlemen en frac et
haut-de-forme, les musiciens et les
clients assis tout autour de la piste
de danse
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Ds 1912, avec le diptyque
Danseuse bleue (collection
particulire, en dpt au sein de
la Collection Peggy Guggenheim,
Venise) et La Chahuteuse ou
Danseuse de chahut (Milan, Museo
del Novecento), la figure de la
danseuse simpose comme le
protagoniste central et ce jusquen
1915. Les jeunes danseuses
apparaissent dornavant au
premier plan, sur scne et sous la
lumire des projecteurs, comme
chaque soir dans les innombrables
cabarets parisiens. Elles incarnent
diffrents tempraments,
diffrentes psychologies, certes
non dcrits mais interprts grce
aux outils formels du tableau: la
ligne et la couleur. Ainsi cette
dernire, dans Danseuse bleue,
voque-t-elle symboliquement (mais
dun symbolisme qui transparat
totalement dans le tableau) un
rythme de danse la fois lent et
cadenc, une valse ou un tango,
associ un dploiement des
formes plus lche que dans la
Chahuteuse; sur cette dernire,
en corset bleu et jupe d'un
blanc clatant, le lien plastique-
dynamique originel se situe dans
le bassin. Le chahut effrn
est quant lui suggr par la
rptition et la dislocation spatiale
des bras et des jambes, pour un
rendu parfait de latmosphre
o rsonnent les claquements
rythms des talons de la danseuse
sur l'estrade. Le tout donne l'effet
d'une parfaite harmonie entre parti
pris thmatique et rendu formel.
Je ne me refuse pas me laisser
entraner instinctivement vers des
ensembles plastiques o un rythme
musical dirige larabesque de
lignes et de plans, crit Severini en
1913; la ncessit d'aller vers des
formes de plus en plus abstraites
explique toutefois lartiste est
impose par la complexit des
processus psychologiques et
visuels qui donnent vie limage et
en font un espace conu comme un
environnement (avec ses sons et
ses bruits), revcu dans la mmoire
(car comme le dit Bergson,
percevoir n'est qu'une occasion
de rappeler) et transfigur par
lmotion individuelle (qu'il appelle
justement motion plastique).
C'est la Marlborough Gallery
de Londres, en avril 1913, que
Severini expose trente uvres
presque entirement ddies
aux lieux nocturnes parisiens
et leurs protagonistes, si l'on
Fig. 2 Gino Severini , Danseuse et violoniste, 1915
Collection particulire
Gino Severini, Danseuse, 1915
Vente, Sotheby's, Londres, 25 juin 2008, lot 21,
15,050,000.
Le prsent lot
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fait abstraction des cinq toiles
inspires du nouveau thme
mcanique des Chemins de fer
Nord-Sud
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danseuse fait cho certaines
uvres littraires, notamment
celles de Stphane Mallarm
comme le souligne la critique
amricaine
4
- sur lorigine de
lexpression humaine, auxquelles
Severini fait lui-mme rfrence
dans l'un de ses textes thoriques.
On citera la clbre affirmation du
pote franais (la danseuse n'est
pas une femme qui danse mais
une mtaphore), dcoulant de
ses rflexions sur la capacit de la
danseuse gnrer une musicalit
sans musique et se transformer
en lien abstrait gnrateur
d'espace (espace qui se contracte
et se dilate)
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Vers la fin 1913, il s'inspire
indirectement de Marinetti pour
repousser les limites de lexpression
potique vers linfiniment petit
qui nous entoure, limperceptible,
linvisible, lagitation des atomes,
le mouvement Brownien; non pas
comme document scientifique,
mais comme lment intuitif.
Moi, je veux introduire dans la
posie la vie molculaire infinie
(F. T. Marinetti, Destruction de
la syntaxe Imagination sans fils
Mots en libert, 11 mai 2013).
Severini se tourne prsent
vers une abstraction plus
marque; le thme de la danse
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stylistiquement trs compact de
toiles et dessins au fusain, auxquels
s'ajoute prsent la nouvelle figure
de notre Danseuse la robe bleue.
La femme, aux formes douces
soulignes par le dcollet et la
rondeur des hanches, les bras levs,
pivote sur le ct, probablement
dans un pas de tango, enlace
par son partenaire au second
plan, vtu d'un costume noir, d'un
haut-de-forme et d'une chemise
immacule; derrire les faux plis
de la jupe, on entrevoit le pantalon
noir de lhomme, jambes cartes;
sur la gauche se distingue le
personnage tir quatre pingles
du violoniste celui-l mme que
l'on retrouve dans d'autres toiles
et dessins de la mme poque la
tte penche sur son instrument, les
mains serres dans une stylisation
cubiste tout fait cohrente, la
coiffure ironiquement exagre
avec la raie au centre et les sourcils
touffus. Tout le tableau repose sur
l'opposition entre lignes droites (les
triangles clairs, formant comme
des coins ou des faisceaux de
lumire, gnrs en haut par la
ligne tendue de larchet du violon)
et obliques (les pans ondulants
de la robe bleue) qui s'opposent
et se succdent selon le principe
thorique affirm par le peintre
dans diffrents crits de 1913-14,
et par lequel les lignes portent en
elles une psychologie bien prcise,
tout comme chaque couleur se voit
associer une sensation ou un son.
Il tablit presque, la manire
symboliste, des tableaux de
correspondances entre lunivers
des sensations (visuelles, olfactives,
auditives) et celui des formes,
lignes et couleurs. Il y aura ainsi des
formes-lumire, des formes-bruit,
etc., distinctes des formes-son et
des formes-vitesse; tout comme
les couleurs-lumire (celles du
prisme) seront diffrentes des
couleurs-son, des couleurs-vitesse,
des couleurs-odeurs, et ainsi de
suite
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repose toute la composition est
celle qui domine dans la figure la
plus importante du tango, auquel
tout le tableau fait probablement
rfrence, et le bleu, couleur de
lintriorit, y rgne en matre. La
datation lhiver 1914-15 est
suggre par la similarit en termes
d'iconographie et de composition,
avec un nombre restreint d'uvres
peintes pendant cette priode,
dont certaines sont rapparues
rcemment (voir D. Fonti, Gino
Severini. Catalogue raisonn de
luvre peint, Milan, 1988, n 248-
257). Dans le superbe dessin
au fusain Danseuse et violoniste
(fig. 2; 56,5 x 46 cm, anciennement
Collection A. Schneerberger,
Paris, aujourd'hui Collection
particulire), dont la finesse des
formes est incomparable, la figure
de la danseuse est oriente dans
le sens inverse, tandis que celle
du violoniste derrire est presque
identique, tout comme lexagration
du bas du dos et lvolution des
pans de la jupe qui crent un
tourbillon autour du personnage.
Signalons enfin la prsence des
triangles pouvant reprsenter des
faisceaux de lumire, les coulisses,
ou encore des tables renverses,
et qui vident la partie basse de
la toile, comme si, sa priphrie,
s'teignaient les chos de la
frnsie dynamique voque plus
haut (voir Gino Severini. La danse
op.cit., pp. 160-161). Notons que
la taille du dessin est presque la
mme que celle de la prsente
Danseuse, de mme que celle dune
autre uvre de la mme priode,
Danseuse dans un restaurant
(fig. 1; huile sur toile, 54 x 46 cm,
Catalogue Raisonn, n 249,
p. 204, collection particulire).
Plus qu'une nime variation sur
le mme thme, cette dernire
semble par de nombreux dtails
tre presque le pendant de notre
Danseuse: la dcoupe cubiste du
visage, lgrement hagard (comme
celui dun automate dansant),
les accroches tournoyantes de
la robe, la courbe du dcollet,
lair lgrement ironique et peu
avenant qui caractrise les figures
masculines tout autour, mais surtout
la composition conue autour
dun enchevtrement de formes
aigus, triangulaires et courbes.
Seule la structure chromatique
s'assimile celui du tourbillon
des particules cosmiques dans le
vide; la toile veut communiquer au
spectateur limpulsion dynamique
pure, libre de sa dimension
environnementale et rendue
travers la variation constante
des touches de couleur-lumire
qui dcomposent et recomposent
en permanence des volumes
gomtriques abstraits. C'est ainsi
que naissent des uvres capitales
d'un futurisme mature, comme Mer
= Danseuse (1913-1914, Venise,
Collection Peggy Guggenheim) qui
montrent la nouvelle ligne d'tude,
que Severini rsumera ainsi dans
l'un de ses crits thoriques: seul
persiste le souvenir de lmotion,
pas celui de la cause qui la
produite.
De retour Paris fin 1914, Severini
se lance dans un cycle mmorable
de tableaux et dessins sur lesquels
linfluence du climat dramatique
de la guerre est palpable: de
vritables pictographies futuristes
o lurgence des vnements se
traduit par une peinture rapide,
d'un grand impact figuratif. Mais
une fois encore, au cours de sa
dernire priode avant-gardiste, la
danseuse est, plus que tout autre
sujet, clbre dans ses uvres.
Brivement voques dans ses
mmoires (voir G. Severini, Toute
la vie d'un peintre, Milan, 1946,
p. 238), les uvres de 1915
forment un noyau restreint mais
Gino Severini, Danseurs et tziganes, 1913
Collection particulire.
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est radicalement oppose:
chaude dans la Danseuse dans un
restaurant, tincelante de rouges
et de jaunes, froide dans la prsente
Danseuse, entirement dcline en
bleu, gris et noir.
Au-del de lmotion visuelle
quelles provoquent, ces danseuses
ont en commun de clturer la
priode futuriste du peintre. Images
rmanentes dun souvenir de
jeunesse empreintes d'un voile de
mlancolie, elles signent ladieu
du peintre une fivreuse priode
d'avant-gardisme, intensment
vcue en tant que protagoniste
averti et passionn.
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For English version, please refer to
p. 168-173
1. Boccioni, Carr, Russolo, Balla,
Severini, Manifeste des peintres futuristes,
11 fvrier 1910, par la suite repris
et largi dans La peinture futuriste.
Manifeste technique, 11 avril 1910.
2. Pour la reproduction et le commentaire
de toutes les uvres cites, cf. D. Fonti,
Gino Severini. Catalogue raisonn de
luvre peint, Milan 1988, Arnoldo
Mondadori diteur-ditions Philippe
Daverio.
3. cf. lintroduction, publie en anglais sur
le Catalogue de la Galerie Marlborough
(London 1913) reprise ensuite en
franais (probablement dans le texte crit
l'origine par Severini) dans le catalogue
de l'exposition la Galerie Der Sturm,
Berlin, 1913.
4. cf. M. H. Martin, Futurism Art and Theory,
Oxford 1968 ; M. H. Martin, Futurism,
Unanimism and Apollinaire, dans Art
Journal, XXVIII, hiver 1968-69, pages 258-
268. Severini futuriste: 1912-1917,
catalogue de l'exposition par A. Coffin
Hanson (Yale University Art Gallery,
New Haven 1995. P. Pacini, Gino
Severini, lUnanimisme de Jules Romains
et les danses chromatiques de Loie
Fuller, 1, dans Antiquit vivante n 6,
1990, pages 44-53.
5. S. Mallarm, uvres Compltes, Paris
1945, p. 304. Le thme a t analys par
S. Carandini, La grenade coupe, Lart
du thtre en France du naturalisme aux
avant-gardes historiques, Rome 1988.
6. Ainsi crit-il dans l'une des nombreuses
versions du manifeste thorique auquel
il se consacre de l'automne 1913
l't 1914. Une bauche, intitule LArt
plastique no-futuriste. Premier manifeste,
est conserve dactylographie aux
Archives de Romana Severini, Rome.
Elle fut publie pour la premire fois
par M. Seuphor, Dictionnaire de la
peinture abstraite, Paris, 1959 puis dans
S. Faucherau, Severini. Ecrits sur lart,
Paris 1987. Cf. D. Fonti, Gino Severini:
un nouveau bilan, dans Gino Severini.
uvres indites et chefs-d'uvre
retrouvs, Catalogue de l'exposition par
D. Fonti, Galerie Amedeo Porro, Vicence,
1999, Milan, Skira 1999, pages 13-21.
7. Un lment indirect qui confirme la
datation indique ici est galement
la signature en italique appose par
lauteur au dos de la toile, au-dessus
du titre, trs similaire aux signatures
apposes au dos de deux uvres de
1915, Train de la Croix Rouge traversant
un village, et Danseuse, dj dans la
collection historique de l'amricain
John Quinn. Les photos des dos des
deux toiles sont publies dans les fiches
230 et 231 par A. Zander Rudenstine,
The Guggenheim Museum Collection.
Paintings 1880-1943, volume II, p. 649
et 656, New York 1976.
Fig. 4 Paul Gauguin, Portrait de Suzanne
Bambridge, 1891, Muses royaux des
Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles.
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BI BLI OGRAPHI E
Nowa Gazeta, Varsovie, 15 mars 1914
(illustr; titr Die Negerin Madama).
U. Fleckner, Carl Einstein und sein
Jahrhundert: Fragmente einer
Intellektuellen Biographie, Berlin, 2006,
p. 105, no. 61 (illustr).
Cette uvre sera incluse au Tome IV du
catalogue raisonn de luvre de Mose
Kisling actuellement en prparation par
Jean Kisling et Marc Ottavi.
PROVENANCE
Collection Mhly, Zurich.
Galerie Rmer, Zurich.
Collection particulire, Suisse
(acquis auprs de celle-ci).
EXPOSI TI ON
Paris, Baraquements du Champs de Mars,
30
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Salon des Indpendants, mars-avril
1914, no. 1759.
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MOSE KISLING
(1891-1953)
Majama
250,000-350,000
US$320,000-450,000
200,000-280,000
sign, dat Kisling 914 (en bas
gauche) et titr majama (en haut
droite); sign et titr de nouveau
L. Kisling M. majama (au revers)
huile sur toile
92 x 73 cm.
Peint en 1914
signed, dated Kisling 914 (lower left)
and titled majama (upper right); signed
and titled again L. Kisling M. majama
(on the reverse)
oil canvas
36 x 28 in.
Painted in 1914
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TATIANA RUIZ-SANZ
Au premier regard, nous
sommes frapps par le tour
de force technique ralis
par Mose Kisling. Nous
sommes en effet devant
une uvre exceptionnelle
de la production de lartiste.
Il nous invite partager son
voyage, et nous devenons
les tmoins privilgis
dun instant intime et
sensuel entre le peintre
et son modle.
At first glance we are
immediately struck by the
strength of Mose Kisling's
technical achievement. We
are in fact in the presence of
an exceptional work within
the artist's production. The
artist invites us to share in
his journey, and we become
privileged witnesses to the
intimate and sensual
moment shared between
the artist and his model.
Peintre complet, Kisling aborde tous
les genres. Toutefois, ce sont les
portraits qui restent lun des thmes
les plus attachants de son uvre.
Cest avec sincrit quil sintresse
la vie du modle, dont il cherche
retranscrire linstant motionnel et
ltat desprit de manire plastique.
Sa prfrence se porte sur le travail
du nu - il dira lui-mme: une belle
fille nue me donne de la joie, le dsir
daimer, dtre heureux et je
voudrais que le morceau dtoffe
sur lequel je la pose soit une
expression de ma joie (cit in G.
Charensol, Moise Kisling, Paris,
1948, p. 6).
Luvre Majama revt une
importance historique et stylistique
dans la production du jeune artiste
polonais. Dune part, cette
composition sinscrit dans une
priode de cration faste et de
russite: ce tableau fait partie de la
slection prsente lors du Salon
des Indpendants de 1914, qui
recevra un excellent accueil et sera
salue par la critique. Soulignons
notamment le soutien du critique
dart Andr Salmon qui
C
e sont les hasards du destin
qui guident les pas de
Mose Kisling vers la
peinture. En ralit, depuis son
enfance il est passionn par la
sculpture et les volumes. Quand il
postule lEcole des Beaux-Arts de
Cracovie, il est finalement retenu
pour un apprentissage dans la
classe de peinture de Josef
Pankievicz , ami de Pierre-Auguste
Renoir. Son ducation artistique se
fait donc travers les uvres
classiques de Thodore Gricault,
Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres,
Paul Czanne et surtout Renoir.
Cest en 1910 que Kisling arrive
Paris, o il sinstalle rue des Beaux-
Arts. Le jeune homme se laisse
rapidement emporter dans le
tourbillon de la vie diurne et
nocturne de Montparnasse et se lie
damiti avec un cercle de jeunes
artistes trangers et dintellectuels,
notamment Pablo Picasso, Juan
Gris, Manolo, Andr Salmon, Max
Jacob et Amedeo Modigliani. Ils
changent des ides, collaborent
sur des projets et stimulent
mutuellement leur crativit.
MOISE KISLING
MAJAMA
Le prsent lot illustr dans Nowa Gazetta dat du 15 mars 1914.
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Lhomme fait peintre, admirable de
demeurer un homme. Le peintre de
la vie moderne en possession de la
plus rigoureuse tradition, sans tre
possd delle (Kisling, Paris,
1928, p. 9). Dautre part, dun point
de vue esthtique, ce nu retranscrit
toutes les rflexions stylistiques
que Kisling porte en lui: lempreinte
du pass, sa production au prsent
et le questionnement de sa
cration future. Aprs les
rvolutions du Fauvisme et du
Cubisme, Kisling sera lun des
premiers de la jeune gnration
revenir la tradition classique tout
en cherchant sa propre modernit.
Tout au long de sa vie, il recherche
la perfection et une construction
robuste dans ces uvres de nus.
Comme les autres peintres de
lEcole de Paris, Kisling soriente
techniquement vers une conomie
de couleurs, le travail du
monochrome, des plans sommaires
et des formes simplifies. Dans le
cas du prsent tableau, il sagit
bien dune uvre pense et
construite selon le modle
classique: on retrouve ici les leons
de Renoir, ceci travers un certain
ralisme, le traitement des volumes
et une subtile partition des
couleurs. Le corps et la description
de latelier en arrire-plan sont une
suite de somptueuses
simplifications, de luttes dombres
et de lumires, dont la palette
chaude ne fait quaugmenter la
sensualit volontaire de ce nu. Par
ailleurs, il est intressant de noter
que Kisling assimile les nouveaux
principes esthtiques dfendus par
Pablo Picasso, mais ceci tout en
gardant sa propre personnalit
artistique. Ceci amne la
question suivante: quelle a t
linfluence de la rvolution
picturale de lartiste andalou sur le
jeune Kisling? Pour suivre une
rflexion sur ce sujet, gardons en
mmoire deux lments
dargumentaire: dune part, la
particularit des nus fminins de
Pablo Picasso des annes 1907 et
1908, dont le sublime Trois femmes
(fig. 1); et limpact du sjour au
Cret de Kisling en 1912-13
auprs de Pablo Picasso.
Fig. 2 Amedeo Modigliani, Nu au drap, 1917
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Anvers.
Fig. 1 Pablo Picasso, Trois femmes, 1908
Muse de l'Hermitage, Saint Petersbourg.
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La prise de position de Kisling vers
une nouvelle modernit trouvera
ses dfenseurs et ses suiveurs, en
particulier en la personne
dAmedeo Modigliani. Le jeune
artiste de Livourne est fortement
attach la peinture des grands
matres anciens, en particulier
ceux de la Renaissance italienne.
Modigliani se rend
quotidiennement au 3 rue Joseph
Bara, latelier de Kiki, pour
peindre dans une atmosphre de
srnit et dchange en
compagnie de son ami polonais.
Comme Kisling dans Majama,
Modigliani retranscrit dans ses plus
belles uvres de nus fminins,
telles que Nu assis, Nu assis sur le
divan (la Belle Romaine), ou encore
Nu au drap (fig. 2), son
attachement aux leons du pass
en y faisant natre sa propre
rvolution stylistique.
For English version, please refer to
p. 168-173
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ALBERT GLEIZES
(1881-1953)
Sans titre
80,000-120,000
US$100,000-160,000
65,000-95,000
sign et dat Alb Gleizes 20
(en bas gauche)
huile sur panneau
86 x 59.7 cm.
Peint en 1920
signed and dated Alb Gleizes 20
(lower left)
oil on panel
33 x 23 in.
Painted in 1920
PROVENANCE
Galerie Simone Heller, Paris
(avant 1961).
Vente, Artcurial, Paris, 9 avril 2008,
lot 52.
Acquis au cours de cette vente
par le propritaire actuel.
Anne Varichon a confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
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Muse Picasso, Paris
ANCIENNE COLLECTION JEAN LURAT
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BI BLI OGRAPHI E
J. A. Gaya-Nuo, Juan Gris, Paris,
1974, p. 244, no. 400 (illustr, p. 220;
erronment dcrit comme huile sur toile).
D. Cooper, Juan Gris, Catalogue raisonn
de luvre peint, Paris, 1977, vol. II,
p. 224, no. 402 (illustr, p. 225).
PROVENANCE
Galerie Simon, Paris (avant 1923).
Gustav Kahnweiler, Londres.
Galera Artur Ramn, Barcelone.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci par
le propritaire actuel, en 1995.
EXPOSI TI ON
Paris, Galerie Simon, Juan Gris, mars-avril
1923, no. 42.
Berne, Kunstmuseum, Juan Gris, octobre
1955-janvier 1956, no. 97.
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JUAN GRIS
(1887-1927)
Verre et bouteille
100,000-150,000
US$130,000-190,000
80,000-120,000
sign et dat Juan Gris. 22
(en bas droite)
huile sur panneau parquet
27 x 16.1 cm.
Peint en 1922
signed and dated Juan Gris. 22
(lower right)
oil on cradled panel
10 x 6 in.
Painted in 1922
J
uan Gris arrive Paris en 1906, et comme
dautres artistes et intellectuels, trouve rsi-
dence Montmartre. Trs rapidement, il tisse
des liens avec les personnalits de la vie nocturne du
quartier: Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque et les cri-
vains Guillaume Apollinaire, Andr Salmon et Max
Jacob. Ses recherches et son approche du cubisme
analytique et synthtique rencontrent rapidement un
vif succs. Ce sont dailleurs les deux marchands his-
toriques du mouvement, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler et
Lonce Rosenberg, qui viennent soutenir son parcours.
Bien que lapothose de luvre de Gris soit commu-
nment situe dans les annes 1916-19, la priode
1920-26 constitue un des moments cls de sa pro-
duction en raison de lexcution plus libre, et donc
plus personnelle, quil fait alors du Cubisme.
Date de 1922, Verre et bouteille tmoigne d une
abstraction complexe et de la recherche dune esth-
tique pure. Lartiste ralise ici une prouesse tech-
nique dans la conceptualisation et la juxtaposition
de couleurs qui produisent un lyrisme et une lumire
puissante. Cette uvre souligne parfaitement la dfi-
nition que le peintre donnait de sa propre approche,
ddie crer une peinture plate et colore. A
lpoque laquelle le prsent tableau est ralis,
Juan Gris traverse une priode de convalescence et
un souffle nouveau de vie et de cration sempare de
lui, transparaissant dans Verre et bouteille.
For English version, please refer to p. 168-173
56 57
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
D. Sylvester et S. Whitfield, Ren
Magritte, Catalogue raisonn, Londres,
1992, vol. I, p. 139, no. 29 (illustr).
PROVENANCE
Edouard-Lon-Thodore Mesens,
Bruxelles (avant 1965).
Vente, Sothebys, Londres,
26 mars 1980, lot 59.
Collection particulire, Bruxelles.
Galleria Marescalchi, Bologne.
Collection particulire, Paris (au dbut
des annes 1980.
huile sur toile
65.5 x 54.2 cm.
Peint en 1921-22
oil on canvas
25 x 21 in.
Painted in 1921-22
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REN MAGRITTE
(1898-1937)
Deux nus dans un paysage
250,000-350,000
US$320,000-450,000
200,000-280,000
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cours de cette priode: le rejet
de labstraction dune part, et la
prdilection pour le nu fminin
dautre part. Ainsi, si deux ou trois
toiles de jeunesse empruntent
aux courants abstraits venus
de Hollande, dAllemagne ou
de Russie, passe cette brve
priode dexprimentation
lartiste se dvoue entirement
la figuration, laquelle son
approche du surralisme sera
par la suite une ode. Comme il le
confie dailleurs au journaliste Jan
Walravens en 1962: Ma peinture
doit ressembler au monde pour
pouvoir en voquer le mystre
(cit in R.-M. Jongen, Ren
Magritte ou la pense image de
linvisible: rflexions et recherches,
Bruxelles, 1994, p. 142). Le nu
fminin acquiert quant lui une
place prpondrante. Comme le
souligne Pierre Bourgeois dans
un article publi dans 7 arts en
1923: Le cas de Ren Magritte
est curieux. [...] Imprgn dart
moderne, il fait toujours leffet dun
irrgulier parmi les tentatives
modernistes. [...] Le voici curieux de
lternel nu fminin et exprimant,
avec un insistant amour, sa
passion fivreuse: pour intensifier
la signification rythmique des
corps, des triangles et des nappes
colores constituent un dcor
simple et chantant derrire eux.
A
ux prmices de sa carrire
de peintre, dbute
lAcadmie Royale des
Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles en
1916, Ren Magritte ttonne
la recherche dune personnalit
artistique propre, alors que les
avant-gardes, la fois sources
dinspiration et astreintes
esthtiques, bouillonnent en
Europe. Son uvre semble alors
tiraill entre les influences des
touts jeunes courants Dada, Puriste
et Constructiviste mais aussi des
mouvements dj plus tablis tels
que le Fauvisme, lExpressionnisme,
le Futurisme ou encore le Cubisme.
Se procurant un exemplaire de
louvrage tout juste publi dAlbert
Gleizes, Le Cubisme et les moyens
de le comprendre, et ayant reu
en cadeau le catalogue dune
exposition futuriste, le peintre
oriente son style plus nettement
dans ces deux dernires directions
au dbut des annes 1920. Alors
quil ne parvient ni trancher
en faveur de lune de ces deux
esthtiques, ni concilier leurs
divergences au sein dun nouveau
style distinct, Magritte conserve
dans les premires annes de la
dcennie une facture alternant
de lune lautre au gr des
uvres. Deux caractristiques
fondamentales pour le reste de
sa carrire mergent toutefois au
REN
MAGRITTE
DEUX NUS DANS
UN PAYSAGE
Ren Magritte et sa ance, Georgette Berger en 1922.
color et rythm dlments
gomtriques. Les bras tendus
et carts des deux femmes,
voquant des ailes dployes
comme un cho aux oiseaux nichs
en haut droite, sopposent aux
formes exagrment courbes de
la silhouette centrale, et ajoutent
au dynamisme de la composition.
Selon toute vraisemblance,
lartiste a dabord travaill le fond,
ensuite ajout les personnages
puis, comme le suggrent les
craquelures intrinsques
la technique employe et la
signature recouverte en bas
droite, retravaill lensemble sur
une peinture encore frache. Ceci
pourrait expliquer limpression
dapesanteur qui se dgage de
la composition, renforce par le
traitement en clair-obscur des
corps, qui allge les silhouettes
aux rondeurs pourtant fortement
prononces. Laccentuation
tonnante des contours pourrait
selon le catalogue raisonn
de David Sylvester et Sarah
Whitfield suggrer la possible
participation dun autre peintre
cette uvre, linstar du
Rcital, excut conjointement
la mme poque avec lartiste
Karel Maes. Nanmoins, alors que
dans le cas de ce dernier tableau,
linhabituelle collaboration est
clairement dtaille dans deux
Une vie passionne et crbrale,
grce lui, affirme son inquitude
hardie (cit in D. Sylvester,
Magritte, Bruxelles, 1992, p. 64).
Avec Jeune fille, peint en 1922,
Magritte franchit une tape
dcisive, alors que la volupt
atteint son paroxysme grce
lemploi dune stylisation
extrme du corps fminin et des
compositions gomtriques sur
lesquelles il est appos. Lartiste
lvoque avec motion dans une
lettre adresse son camarade
Charles Alexandre: Je tiens
te faire remarquer que, depuis la
Jeune fille que tes yeux virent avec
plaisir chez moi la dernire fois
que nous nous vmes, la conscience
avec laquelle jai excut cette
uvre (ma premire uvre) ne
sest pas teinte et je crois grce
elle tre en possession du mtier
personnel qui peut exprimer
mon individu - or je tiens te
faire remarquer que les individus
qui sexpriment dune faon
personnelle sont des gnies...?!?
(cit in ibid., p. 62). Deux nus dans
un paysage est rapprocher de
Jeune fille et sinscrit nettement
dans cette priode au cours de
laquelle le peintre fait merger
une premire version de son
propre style. Ici les deux corps
semblent comme en lvitation
dans le paysage hautement
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Ren Magritte, Les jours gigantesques, 1928
Vente, Christie's, Londres, 20 juin 2012,
lot 56, 7,209,250.
Ren Magritte, La lectrice soumise, 1928
Collection particulire.
Le prsent lot
lettres de lartiste ses amis
Pierre Flouquet et Edouard-Lon-
Thodore Mesens, aucun courrier
ou document ne corrobore la thse
de la participation dun artiste tiers
lexcution de la prsente uvre,
en dpit de la correspondance
abondante entretenue par
Magritte avec son entourage. Par
ailleurs, aucune preuve n'est venue
tayer cette supposition depuis la
parution du catalogue raisonn,
en 1992. Catalogu comme Ren
Magritte: Femmes Nues (trs tt)
dans un inventaire des uvres du
peintre surraliste dtenues par
Edouard-Lon-Thodore Mesens
- son ami proche et marchand,
comptant parmi ses plus grands
collectionneurs - Deux nus dans
un paysage constitue lun des
rares tmoignages de la premire
poque, fondamentale, du matre.
For English version, please refer to
p. 168-173
60 61
PROVENANCE
Atelier de lartiste.
Marina Picasso, Paris.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci par le
propritaire actuel.
inscrit 2-21 (au-dessous)
cramique peinte, incise et
partiellement maille
52 x 33.5 x 34 cm.
Excut en 1957; cette uvre est unique
inscribed 2-21 (underneath)
painted, incised and partially glazed ceramic
20 x 13 x 13 in.
Executed in 1957; this work is unique
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PABLO PICASSO
(1881-1973)
Vase
350,000-450,000
US$450,000-580,000
280,000-360,000
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
Picasso, Peintre dobjets / Objets de
peintre, catalogue dexposition, Cret,
Muse dart moderne et Roubaix, La
Piscine, Muse dart et dindustrie Andr
Diligent, 2004, p. 187, fig. 75 (illustr in
situ dans latelier de lartiste).
Claude Ruiz-Picasso a confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
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PICASSO
VASE
exprimentations comme en
tmoignent les photographies de
David Douglas Duncan o les uvres
sentassent littralement sur les
tagres de la maison.
Conserv par lartiste jusqu sa
mort, notre vase fut model puis peint
par Picasso. Avec ses deux grandes
anses latrales voquant les ailes
dun oiseau et sa panse oblongue,
cette cramique appartient aux
formes les plus originales imagines
par lartiste. Les premiers vases de ce
type apparaissent ds 1951 et
donnent lieu des variations
dcoratives. La plupart dentre eux
font lobjet ddition plus ou moins
grand tirage.
Unique et indit, notre exemplaire a
t peint directement par Picasso et
na fait lobjet daucune dition. Son
dcor voque clairement celui dun
hibou et dun faune. Sous le bec du
vase apparaissent les deux gros yeux
de lanimal. Sur chaque ct de la
panse, sont reprsentes deux larges
ailes, les pattes tant gures de part
et dautres du vase par des
badigeons de peinture noire. De face,
apparat le visage dun faune peint
laide de larges traits de pinceaux
noir et ocre. Quant aux narines, aux
yeux et la bouche, ils sont gurs
laide dincisions et de trous dans la
pte. Donnant lillusion dtre peint
de chic par Picasso, luvre a fait
lobjet dun important travail
prparatoire. Comme le soulignaient
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n aot 1946, au cours de
ses vacances estivales
Golfe-Juan en compagnie
de Franoise Gilot, Picasso
visite une exposition artisanale
Vallauris, une petite ville ouvrire
spcialise dans la cramique.
Lartiste est sduit par les cruches et
les vases de Madoura, une petite
fabrique dirige par Georges et
Suzanne Rami. Les deux couples
sympathisent et Picasso demande
sessayer la poterie. Ainsi
commence, par le plus grand des
hasards, une collaboration qui dura
plus de deux dcennies et donna un
nouvel essor luvre de Picasso.
Lartiste excute ses premires
cramiques ds lt 1946 mais ce
nest quen 1947 que ses recherches
deviennent intensives. En mai 1948, il
sinstalle avec Franoise et leur ls
dans une modeste maison de
Vallauris appele La galloise. Le
printemps suivant, La galloise ne
sufsant plus accueillir son
importante production, Picasso fait
lacquisition du Fournas, une
ancienne usine de parfum, quil
transforme en atelier et lieu de
stockage. En 1954, lusine ne
rpondant plus la boulimie de
lartiste, Picasso sinstalle avec
Jacqueline Roque, une employe de
Madoura avec qui il partage
dsormais sa vie, La Californie, une
villa du XIX
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sicle situe sur les
hauteurs de Cannes. Il y poursuit ses
Picasso dans les ateliers Madoura en 1954
Muse dArt et dHistoire, Belfort.
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transgressions. Mme si la cramique
constitue un divertissement (au sens
pascalien), elle sinscrit intgralement
dans son uvre. Elle sonne comme un
tonnant hymne la vie, sorte de
prolongement cramique La joie de
vivre du muse dAntibes. Une factie
et une vitalit tonnantes transpirent
de tous cts: les faunes ricanent, les
eurs se soudent dans leur pot, la
palette du peintre se ge, les trompe-
lil font un pied de nez aux assiettes
du XVIII
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sicle, tout comme ses
gures noires font la nique
lAntiquit. Face cette uvre
jubilatoire, abondante et
transgressive, Picasso avance des
propositions rationnelles: Dans la
cramique lartiste peut dmontrer sa
crativit et la force de son invention
comme dans un tableau mais avec en
plus la sauvegarde des qualits
spontanes dun rsultat qui est n
concrtement, matriellement de ses
mains (cit in F. Mathey, La
cramique des peintres, in Mtiers
dart, Paris, octobre 1981, p. 110).
For English version, please refer to
p. 168-173
les poux Rami: les moyens
employs ne sont pas trs orthodoxes.
Un apprenti qui travaillerait comme
Picasso ne trouverait pas demploi
(cits in J. Sabarts, Picasso
Vallauris, in Cahiers dart, Paris,
1948, p. 83). Mais Picasso,
totalement libr des usages du
potier, ose et exprimente toutes les
techniques sa porte. Dans notre
vase, Picasso a dabord dessin les
rserves qui tracent un rseau blanc
sur la pice, badigeonnant ensuite la
terre dun engobe noir. Les motifs des
oiseaux et du satyre sont peints
laide dune peinture noire et ocre,
puis recouvert dun mail. Luvre t
lobjet de plusieurs cuissons qui
provoqurent quelques pertes de
matire sans que lartiste y trouve
quelque inconvnient. Il faut dire que
la cramique est essentiellement un
mdium utilis pour des recherches
formelles, picturales et techniques.
Picasso sempare dun vocabulaire
nouveau, fondant, alquifoux, engobes,
oxydes, plein feu, couverte sur silicate,
amme libre, colorant sur biscuit et
bouleverse lart ancestral de lartisan
potier par de nombreuses
Le prsent lot in situ dans l'atelier de cramique de Picasso
Muse dArt et dHistoire, Belfort.
64 65
sign, dat et numrot 26.10.65.
Picasso II (en haut gauche)
huile sur toile
65 x 54 cm.
Peint le 26 octobre 1965
signed, dated and numbered 26.10.65.
Picasso II (upper left)
oil on canvas
Painted on the 26
th
of October 1965
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PABLO PICASSO
(1881-1973)
Mre et enfant
1,200,000-1,800,000
US$1,550,000-2,300,000
960,000-1,450,000
PROVENANCE
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci par la famille
du propritaire actuel, en 1969.
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1972,
vol. XXV, no. 186 (illustr, pl. 96).
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's
Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and
Sculpture, The Sixties II, 1964-1967,
San Francisco, 2002, p. 226, no. 65-190
(illustr).
PROVENANT DUNE COLLECTION PARTICULIRE EUROPENNE
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Fig. 1 Pablo Picasso, Baladins (Mre
et enfant), 1905.
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.
Fig. 2 Pablo Picasso, Femme et enfant
au bord de la mer, 1921.
Art Institute, Chicago.
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Il est difficile de trouver
dans luvre de Picasso un
sujet l'attrait plus universel
que celui des images de
maternit. A travers les
cultures et les gnrations,
limage dune mre et son
enfant illustre la capacit de
lart reflter les moments
les plus significatifs de la vie,
et ce tableau de 1965 nous
offre un Picasso dhumeur
joyeuse et pensive.
It would be hard to nd
within Picassos art a subject
of more universal appeal
than that of his Maternity
paintings. Across cultures
and generations the image of
a mother and child illustrates
arts ability to interpret the
meaningful moments in life,
and this painting from 1965
shows Picasso in a joyful
mood of reection.
PABLO
PICASSO
MRE
ET ENFANT
sens aigu de la famille tout au long
de sa vie, sans aucun doute model
au cours de sa propre ducation,
alors que sa mre lui inculque trs
tt une ide prcise de sa propre
valeur: Quand jtais enfant, ma
mre me disait: si tu deviens soldat,
tu seras Gnral. Si tu deviens
moine, tu niras pape. Jai voulu tre
peintre, et je suis devenu Picasso
(cit in catalogue dexposition, Pablo
Picasso, Voyage au bout du trac,
Paris, Galerie Boulakia, 2011, p. 32).
La collection personnelle de
Picasso elle-mme illustre son
intrt pour le mythe de la figure
maternelle, comprenant par
exemple des statuettes orantes
ibriques des IIIe et IVe sicles
avant notre re. Cette figure
porteuse de vie revient ainsi tout
au long du dbut de sa carrire.
Au cours des premires annes
parisiennes elle apparat comme
un lment emprunt aux prcur-
seurs que sont Raphal et Ingres.
En 1904-05, la madone de Picasso
est quant elle une reprsenta-
tion lancinante de la pauvret et
de la mlancolie, souvent associe
la maladie et la souffrance et
dont la nature sacre est remise
en cause (fig. 1).
M
re et enfant fait partie
dun groupe duvres exu-
brantes excutes la n
de la carrire du matre espagnol,
en hommage la maternit. Peint
avec six autres huiles ddies ce
thme et excutes en trois jours,
notre tableau illustre lardeur avec
laquelle Picasso traite ce sujet,
aprs une vie ddie la reprsen-
tation de portraits trahissant une
ralit motionnelle souvent crue.
Le thme de la mre et lenfant
revient rgulirement dans luvre
de Picasso, faisant cho certains
moments prcis de sa vie. Si lartiste
ny consacre pas au cours de sa car-
rire autant de temps et dnergie
qu dautres thmes plus fonda-
teurs, les reprsentations des liens
damour et daffection unissant la
mre et son enfant sont nanmoins
rcurrentes, apparaissant lorsque
limpulsion autobiographique prend
le dessus sur son travail. On peut
toutefois observer deux traitements
distincts du thme au cours de ces
priodes: lun plus traditionnel,
inscrit dans lhistoire de lart et la
ligne des grands matres du pass,
et lautre plus intime et personnel,
trs empreint des motions que lui
inspire la paternit. Picasso garde un
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PROVENANCE
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Galleria La Bussola, Turin.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci par la famille
du propritaire actuel.
sign, dat et numrot Picasso
16.3.69. IV (en bas droite);
dat et numrot de nouveau
Dimanche 16.3.69. IV (au revers)
crayon gras sur papier
27 x 15.4 cm.
Excut le 16 mars 1969
signed, dated and numbered Picasso
16.3.69. IV (lower right); dated and
numbered again Dimanche 16.3.69. IV
(on the reverse)
wax crayon on paper
10 x 6 in.
Executed on the 16
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of March 1969
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PABLO PICASSO
(1881-1973)
Tte dhomme
200,000-300,000
US$260,000-390,000
160,000-240,000
PROVENANT DUNE COLLECTION PARTICULIRE, EUROPE
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1976,
vol. XXXI, no. 100 (illustr, pl. 30).
The Picasso Project, ed., Picassos
Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings
and Sculpture, The Sixties III, 1968-1969,
San Francisco, 2003, p. 122, no. 69-101
(illustr).
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environnement artistique des annes 1960 est une
scne o tourbillonnent les mouvements tels que le
Pop art, le Nouveau ralisme ou lArt Cintique. Pablo
Picasso se positionne, une fois encore, avec une personnalit
artistique part. En effet, il revient son amour pour la pein-
ture classique - notamment les peintres espagnols et hollan-
dais du Sicle dor - en y projetant toute son originalit. Ces
thmes de prdilection restent les mmes (le peintre et son
modle, les portraits, les nus), avec toutefois lapparition
dun nouveau personnage: le gentilhomme ou le mousque-
taire. Lhomme costum sera un des sujets phares de lanne
1969, alors que sont organises toutes les commmorations
pour lanniversaire de Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.
Quelques jours avant lexcution du portrait dhomme
aujourdhui prsent, Picasso ralise une srie de quatre
peintures sur le thme du mousquetaire la pipe (fvrier
1969, Zervos XXXI, nos. 85 ou 90), dont linspiration nest
autre que luvre de Rembrandt, Portrait de Jan Pellicorne
et son ls Gaspar. Picasso va sinspirer de cette toile ainsi
que des autoportraits de Rembrandt, pour faire triom-
pher un personnage haut en couleur et hors du temps: mi-
espagnol, mi-hollandais, en costume dpoque, avec une
perruque, portant la moustache, ce singulier petit homme
amusera plus dun visiteur lors de lexposition de Picasso
la chapelle gothique du Palais des Papes dAvignon en
1970. Guy Scarpetta dira de sa visite de cette exposi-
tion: Comme si, au fond, laudace de 1907 rpondait,
plus de soixante ans aprs, une autre audace, insolente
et acharne, peut-tre plus bouleversante encore dans sa
force dbranlement (Le dernier Picasso, 1953-1973, cata-
logue de lexposition, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou,
1988, p. 110).
Dans le prsent Portrait dhomme dat Dimanche 16.3.69,
Picasso procde avec un trac simple mais trs efcace.
Notons que durant cette mme journe, lartiste excute
deux autres dessins et une huile sur toile sur le mme sujet.
Dans notre dessin, numrot IV, lintensit expressive
est palpable, ceci grce une technique rchie: une
facture nergique, la juxtaposition de lignes et de cercles
plus ou moins ns ou pais et un surprenant dialogue des
couleurs (froides, pastel, acidules). Par ailleurs, le choix
dune excution primitive ou enfantine confre une per-
sonnalit trs forte au personnage. Cet homme qui nous
regarde en face, ne peut-il pas tre abord comme une
sorte dautoportrait ? Comme son habitude, le matre
espagnol interpelle et surprend. Le travail de reproduction
dans la srie des mousquetaires ou les portraits dhomme
(avec ou sans variantes) dnit le concept de cration dans
la dernire priode de Picasso. En effet, ce dernier dtruit la
notion duvre et donne toute sa noblesse lide de repro-
duction, ce qui nest pas sans laisser songeur par rapport au
travail dAndy Warhol.
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huile sur toile
38 x 53.7 cm.
Peint en 1906
oil on canvas
15 x 21 in.
Painted in 1906
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AUGUSTE HERBIN
(1882-1960)
Perron entour darbres
120,000-180,000
US$160,000-230,000
95,000-145,000
PROVENANCE
Acquis par le propritaire actuel
vers 2006.
Genevive Claisse a confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
L
implication dAuguste Herbin dans le mouvement
fauve dans les annes 1906-07 fut aussi court
quil fut intense. Soutenu cette poque par le col-
lectionneur dorigine allemande Wilhelm Uhde, Herbin
volua au gr des expositions dans les cercles des
fauves les plus radicaux, parmi lesquels Andr Derain,
Raoul Dufy et Georges Braque. Dans Perron entour
darbres, il rvle dj un individualisme prononc, o
lenchevtrement des lignes et limportance du reflet
donnent la scne une atmosphre irrelle, annonant
par certains aspects limportance grandissante du mys-
ticisme dans son uvre future.
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ascin par les sculptures archaques khmres
et grecques dcouvertes aux Expositions uni-
verselles de 1889 et de 1900, Aristide Maillol
dveloppa une esthtique base sur la synthse et
llgance formelle, dont Lda est lexpression. La
femme est ici reprsente avant la visite de son amant
Zeus. Sa tte baisse et lgrement tourne exprime
la tristesse, tandis que son bras gauche est relev en
signe de pudeur.
Premier grand succs de Maillol, le critique et collectionneur
Gustave Mirbeau en t lloge et acquit une version quand
elle fut pour la premire fois expose Paris, en 1902. Il la
montra Rodin, pour qui Lda constitua un choc. Comme il le
pressent alors, luvre pose les bases esthtiques de Maillol.
Fondue par Alexis Rudier du vivant de lartiste, qui en
supervisa personnellement la patine et la ciselure, cette
rare preuve, uvre originale de Maillol, fut dite
seulement six exemplaires non numrots.
For English version, please refer to p. 168-173
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ARISTIDE MAILLOL
(1861-1944)
Lda, socle mobile
120,000-180,000
US$160,000-230,000
95,000-145,000
sign de linitiale M ( droite de
la base) et avec le cachet du fondeur
.Alexis Rudier. . Fondeur. Paris.
( larrire de la base)
bronze patine brune
Hauteur: 29 cm.
Conu entre 1900 et 1905; cette
preuve fondue dans les annes 1920
dans une dition de 6 exemplaires
signed with the initial M (on the right
of the base) and with the foundry mark
.Alexis Rudier. . Fondeur. Paris.
(on the back of the base)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 11 in.
Conceived between 1900 and 1905;
this bronze cast in the 1920s
in an edition of 6
PROVENANCE
Collection particulire, Paris (vers 1960).
Puis par descendance au propritaire
actuel.
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
J. Rewald, Aristide Maillol, Paris, 1939,
p. 166 (une autre preuve illustre, pls.
110-111).
W. George, Aristide Maillol, Londres,
1971, p. 56 (une autre preuve illustre).
W. George, Maillol et lme de la
sculpture, Neuchtel, 1977, p. 128
(une autre preuve et une version en terre
cuite illustres, p. 139).
B. Lorquin, Aristide Maillol, Genve,
1994, p. 52 (une autre preuve illustre,
p. 53).
D. Vierny, B. Lorquin, D. Daval Bran
et J.-L. Daval, Fondation Dina Vierny,
Muse Maillol, Paris, 1995, pp. 32-33
(une autre preuve illustre en couleurs,
p. 33).
Olivier Lorquin a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
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The Menil Collection, Houston.
toujours jou un rle essentiel dans
limaginaire dErnst. Il finit lui-mme
en vieillissant par ressembler de
plus en plus un volatile, avec son
nez voquant un bec et sa chevelure
blanche pareille un plumage;
la mort trange dun perroquet
familier, alors quil tait enfant,
au moment mme de la naissance
de sa sur eut un impact profond
et durable sur lui. Il rappelle cet
vnement trange dans ses
notes autobiographiques: Un ami
du nom de Horneborn, un fidle
oiseau bicolore meurt pendant la
nuit; la mme nuit un bb, numro
six, sveille la vie. Confusion de
lesprit pour ce garon en bonne
sant (Ernst jeune)- une sorte de
manie de linterprtation, comme
si linnocent nouveau-n, sa sur
Loni, avait dans sa soif de vivre,
pris possession des fluides vitaux
de son oiseau favori. La crise est
vite surmonte. Mais dans lesprit
du garon demeure une confusion
volontaire et irrationnelle entre les
images des tres humains et les
oiseaux et autre cratures, ce qui
se reflte dans les symboles de son
art (Biographische Notizen, in
Max Ernst, catalogue dexposition,
Zurich, Kunsthaus, 1962, p. 23).
Loplop devient pour Ernst une
sorte de personnage chamanique,
de talisman. Comme dans notre
tableau, le personnage de Loplop
joue bientt le rle dintermdiaire
dans lart dErnst et est souvent
dpeint en train de prsenter une
toile ou une uvre dart au sein
du tableau lui-mme (fig. 2). Dans
ces uvres, se joue un jeu entre
ralit et illusion, rappelant les
autoportraits de Picasso de la fin
des annes 1920, le reprsentant
dans son studio en train de peindre
lun de ses modles. Dans beaucoup
des tableaux o figure Loplop,
lartiste le peint comme si ctait lui
qui tait le crateur, le dcouvreur
des surprenantes images rvles,
et qui attirait gnreusement
lattention dErnst sur son art.
Ces uvres reprsentant Loplop
comme la fois oiseau-artiste,
palette et matre de crmonie
apparassent de faon rcurrente
dans le travail du peintre partir
de 1930.
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Vente, Christies, Londres, 7 fvrier 2012, lot 134, 769,250
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Collection particulire.
80 81
sign des initiales et dat V,B,II,1958,
(en bas droite)
huile, cire et encre sur carton maroufl
sur panneau
64.8 x 50.1 cm.
Peint en fvrier 1958
signed with the initials and dated
V,B,II,1958, (lower right)
oil, wax and ink on card laid down
on board
25 x 19 in.
Painted in February 1958
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VICTOR BRAUNER
(1903-1966)
Eclosion rogne III
80,000-120,000
US$100,000-160,000
65,000-95,000
PROVENANCE
Vassilakis Takis, Athnes
(don de lartiste).
Puis par descendance
au propritaire actuel.
Samy Kinge a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
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82 83
Darmstadt, Institut Mathildenhhe, Andr
Masson - Bilder aus dem Labyrinth der
Seele, mars-avril 2003, p. 109, no. 42
(illustr en couleurs; titr Le viol).
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte
Reina Sofa, Andr Masson, janvier-avril 2004,
p. 177 (illustr en couleurs; titr Le viol).
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
M. Leiris et G. Limbour, Andr Masson et
son univers, Genve- Paris, 1947, p. 129
(illustr, p. 139; titr Le viol).
J.-P. Clbert, Mythologie dAndr Masson,
Genve, 1971, p. 56, no. 119 (illustr;
titr Le viol).
A. Masson, La mmoire du monde,
Genve, 1974, p. 168 (illustr, p. 30;
titr Le viol).
A. Matthes et H. Klewan, Andr Masson
Gesammelte Schriften I, Munich, 1990,
p. 178 (illustr; titr Die Vergewaltigung).
G. Masson, M. Masson et C. Lwer,
Andr Masson. Catalogue raisonn de
luvre peint 1919-1941, Paris, 2010,
vol. II, p. 354, no. 1939*2 (illustr en
couleurs, p. 355).
EXPOSI TI ON
Paris, Artcurial, Laventure surraliste autour
dAndr Breton, mai-aot 1986,
p. 74 (illustr en couleurs; titr La chute et
dat 1938).
Genve, Muse Rath et Paris, Muse dart
moderne, Regards sur Minotaure, la revue
tte de bte, octobre 1987-mai 1988,
p. 269, no. 181 (illustr en couleurs,
p. 160; titr La chute et dat 1938).
Milan, Palazzo Reale, I Surrealisti, juin-
septembre 1989, p. 320 (illustr en
couleurs; titr La chute et dat 1938).
Berne, Kunstmuseum, Masson - Massaker -
Metamorphosen - Mythologien, septembre-
novembre 1996, p. 38, no. 31 (illustr;
titr La chute ou le viol et dat 1938).
Koblenz, Ludwig Museums, Andr Masson.
Rebell des Surrealismus, juillet-octobre 1998,
p. 48 (illustr en couleurs; titr Der Fall
(oder die Verwaltigung) et dat 1938).
Saint Petersburg, Floride, Salvador Dal
Museum, Andr Masson: the 1930s, octobre
1999-janvier 2000, p. 153, no. 38 (illustr
en couleurs, p. 102; titr La chute ou le viol
et dat 1938).
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ANDR MASSON
(1896-1987)
La chute
(le viol ou lamour de la vitesse)
250,000-350,000
US$320,000-450,000
200,000-280,000
sign andr Masson (en bas droite)
huile sur toile
33 x 41 cm.
Peint en 1939
signed andr Masson (lower right)
oil on canvas
13 x 16 in.
Painted in 1939
PROVENANCE
Galerie Simon, Paris.
Vente, Christies, Londres, 3 juillet 1981,
lot 386.
Galerie de Seine, Paris (acquis au cours
de cette vente).
Galerie Cazeau-Braudire, Paris (acquis
auprs de celle-ci, en 1994).
Collection particulire, Paris (acquis
auprs de celle-ci); vente, Sothebys,
Londres, 8 fvrier 2005, lot 70.
Collection particulire, Paris (acquis au
cours de cette vente); vente, Sothebys,
Paris, 1
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juin 2011, lot 10.
Acquis au cours de cette vente par
le propritaire actuel.
84 85
ANDRE
MASSON
LA CHUTE
(LE VIOL
ou LAMOUR
DE LA VITESSE)
catalogue dexposition, New York,
Museum of Modern Art, 1976, p.
142). Pour Masson, la mort ritua-
lise dans larne au cours de la
corrida porte de nombreuses ramifi-
cations. Fascin, il tablit aisment
le lien avec le mythe du minotaure.
Comme Sigmund Freud, les sur-
ralistes croient dceler dans les
mythes anciens les cls des vrits
ancestrales de la vie et de la nature
humaine. Le minotaure est donc,
pour des artistes comme Masson
qui ont survcu la Grande Guerre,
un puissant symbole de violence et
une incarnation de la bte qui se
cache en chacun de nous. Il devient
bientt la mascotte des surralistes,
alors que Masson, avec laide de
Georges Bataille, convainc Skira et
Triade de baptiser leur nouvelle
revue de son nom.
Au dbut de lanne 1937,
Masson (par lentremise de
Georges Bataille) se rconcilie
avec le groupe dAndr Breton
et entame sa deuxime priode
surraliste (1938-1941). Beau-
coup des plus beaux tableaux de
lartiste, comme Gradiva (fig. 3)
et La mtamorphose des amants,
datent de cette priode (1937-
39) au cours de laquelle il dve-
loppe galement le thme majeur
du mobilier anthropomorphique
(fig. 2). Dans La Chute (Le Viol ou
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eint en 1939, La Chute (Le
Viol ou Lamour de la vitesse)
date dune priode agite,
la fois dans la vie personnelle de
lartiste et dans le monde qui len-
toure. Lorsquil achve le tableau, la
Guerre civile dEspagne touche tout
juste sa fin et la seconde guerre
mondiale est sur le point dclater.
Cette uvre offre ainsi un brulant
tmoignage de son poque, un
baromtre surraliste de la violence
de la priode qui la engendre.
Ancien combattant de la premire
guerre, Masson est particulirement
sensible la tension omniprsente,
renforce par les ravages de la
Guerre civile espagnole de la fin
des annes 1930. Amoureux de
lEspagne depuis un voyage entre-
pris en 1934, il sinstalle Tossa
de Mar ds le mois de juin de la
mme anne. Son art est lpoque
centr sur le thme de la corrida,
et ses compositions figurent sou-
vent des cadavres viscrs ou un
minotaure majestueux (fig. 1). En
dpit du destin funeste du taureau,
la corrida et la mort invitable
quelle entraine ont pour Masson
une dimension esthtique et musi-
cale: Laspect visuel, le spectacle
est magnifique; lorsque homme et
bte semblent unis. Ce sont des
moments sublimes (cit in W. Rubin
et C. Lanchner, Andr Masson,
Fig. 1 Andr Masson, Rve tauromachique, 1937
Collection particulire.
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La cruaut se noue et la douceur agile se dnoue.
Lamant des ailes prend des visages bien clos,
les flammes de la terre svadent par les seins
et le jasmin des mains souvre sur une toile.
Le ciel tout engourdi, le ciel qui se dvoue nest plus sur nous.
Loubli, mieux que le soir, lefface.
Prive de sang et de reflets,
la cadence des tempes et des colonnes subsiste.
Les lignes de la main, autant de branches dans le vent tourbillonnant.
Rampe des mois dhiver, jour ple dinsomnie,
mais aussi, dans les chambres les plus secrtes de lombre,
la guirlande dun corps autour de sa splendeur.
Paul Eluard
Capitale de la douleur, Paris, 1926.
Fig. 3 Andr Masson, Gradiva , 1939
Muse national d'art moderne, Paris.
Fig. 2 Andr Masson, Le fauteuil Louis XVI, 1938
Collection particulire.
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Lamour de la vitesse), on distingue
clairement deux corps partageant
un unique abdomen bless, dans
un enchevtrement de bras, de
jambes et de pices de mobilier.
Le surralisme de Masson voit en
chaque tre fminin lincarnation
dune force sductrice et fatale.
De cette vision sans concession
naissent de nombreuses reprsen-
tations de ce pige mortel: larges
membres voquant une vulve dans
Pige dans la prairie, ou mchoires
acres du vagin de la mante
mcanique dans Paysage la
mante religieuse, par exemple.
En 1939, anne dexcution de
La Chute (Le Viol ou Lamour de
la vitesse), Andr Breton dclare
que le problme nest plus
comme nagure, de savoir si le
tableau tient par exemple dans
un champ de bl, mais bien sil
tient ct du journal de chaque
jour, ouvert ou ferm, qui est
une junglebien peu duvres
contemporaines sont de force
surmonter pareille preuve, et
les y soumettre entrane un bou-
leversement radical des valeurs.
[] Cette preuve, nul tant
quAndr Masson na t dsireux
et capable de sy assujettir: nul
nen sort plus grandi (Prestige
d' Andr Masson, in Minotaure,
Paris, mai 1939).
For English version, please refer to
p. 168-173
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Fig. 1 Marcel Duchamp, Belle haleine - Eau de voilette, 1921
Vente, Christie's, Paris, 23 fvrier 2009, lot 37.
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REN MAGRITTE
(1898-1967)
Lheure dt
250,000-350,000
US$320,000-450,000
200,000-280,000
sign, numrot magritte no 4
(en bas droite), dat et inscrit
BERGER 1946 (en bas gauche)
gouache et graphite sur papier
36 x 26.1 cm.
Excut en 1946
signed, numbered magritte no 4
(lower right), dated and inscribed
BERGER 1946 (lower left)
gouache and pencil on paper
14 x 10 in.
Executed in 1946
PROVENANCE
Collection particulire, Italie.
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
D. Sylvester, S. Whitfield et M. Raeburn,
Ren Magritte, Catalogue raisonn,
supplment, Bruxelles, 1997, vol. V, p. 97,
no. X41 (illustr).
A
la n de sa priode parisienne (1927-1930), en
grandes difcults nancires, Ren Magritte
retourne Bruxelles et sinstalle Jette o il fonde
une petite socit avec son frre Paul, produisant des afches
publicitaires et des catalogues. Lheure dt est excut en
1946 alors que lartiste explore de nouvelles voies picturales,
la recherche dun surralisme en plein soleil (manuscrit
autographe d'un tract de Ren Magritte dat d'octobre 1946
et sign par Jo Bousquet, Marcel Marin, Jacques Michel,
Paul Noug, Louis Scutenaire et Wergifosse), utilisant des
tons vifs et chauds et usant dun traitement chromatique
proche de celui des peintres impressionnistes.
Lheure dt est lune des quatre gouaches excutes
pour la compagnie new yorkaise de fabricant de savon
pour homme, MEM (ou MUM). Ralises sous limpulsion
dAlex Salkin (proche ami du peintre), ces quatre projets
sont aujourdhui les seules traces dune collaboration avec
la rme, aucun nayant vu le jour. Cette collaboration avec
une compagnie amricaine nest pas un hasard, lartiste
commenant justement cette poque exposer aux
Etats-Unis avec laide, entre autres, dAlexandre Iolas, alors
jeune directeur de la Hugo Gallery sur la 55
e
rue New York.
Chacune des gouaches de cette srie porte linscription et
lanne BERGER 1946 dans la marge inferieure gauche: clin
dil au nom de jeune lle de Georgette, pouse du peintre. Les
motifs employs renvoient directement au lexique iconogra-
phique des peintures ralises dans les annes 1930: Exciting
perfumes reprend le thme de Larbre savant de 1935 (tronc
darbre souvrant sur une fentre et un grelot); Classic Simpli-
city, Pedigreed Mens Toiletries by MEM est directement ins-
pir de la composition de La clef des songes de 1930 (six cases
associes un objet et un mot); Soir dOrages-Strange perfume
by MEM est construit autour dun des motifs les plus populaires
de lartiste, le bilboquet (jeu dadresse compos dune tige relie
par un ls une boule perce); enn, notre uvre, projet no. 4,
gure un drapeau-nuage, tir de la toile Lt, peinte en 1931.
Magritte fuit une approche purement commerciale. En appor-
tant sa propre esthtique, base sur la transgression, son but
est dinterpeller, de contredire la logique visuelle. Des principes
chers DADA et aux surralistes. Cette mthode nest videm- DADA et aux surralistes. Cette mthode nest videm- DADA et aux surralistes. Cette mthode nest videm-
ment pas sans nous rappeler La Belle Haleine, ready-made ra-
lis par Marcel Duchamp avec le concours de Man Ray en 1921
(g. 1), qui dtourne lidentit visuelle dune fameuse marque
de parfum. Lapproche de Magritte convient parfaitement la
teneur anticonformiste du discours publicitaire, et la marge de
libert qui lui est laisse dans la cration de ces gouaches est
importante. Il semblerait que les slogans et les titres eux-mmes
aient t invents par lartiste, inspirs par lactualit: le titre
Lheure dt fait ainsi sans aucun doute rfrence la suppres-
sion de lheure dt dcide par le gouvernement royal de Bel-
gique en 1946. Lide mme de supprimer une heure est en
effet un concept surraliste qui a certainement plu lartiste
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SALVADOR DAL
(1904-1989)
Figure fminine
200,000-300,000
US$260,000-390,000
160,000-240,000
avec le cachet du fondeur FITA
( lintrieur)
fer fondu peint
Hauteur: 183 cm.
Conu et fondu en 1977
with the foundry mark FITA
(on the inside)
painted cast iron
Height: 72 in.
Conceived and cast in 1977
PROVENANCE
Collection particulire, Espagne (don de
lartiste).
Puis par descendance au propritaire
actuel.
Robert Descharnes et Nicolas
Descharnes ont confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
L
e 23 septembre 1974, Salvador Dal inaugure, aprs
plus de dix ans de travaux, le Teatro-Museo Dal
Figueras, sa ville natale. Cet ancien thtre municipal,
quun terrible incendie en 1939 a rendu pour partie ciel
ouvert, offre lartiste catalan le cadre idal pour raliser lun
de ses rves les plus chers: possder son propre muse. Y ayant
expos ses premiers tableaux lge de quinze ans, cest donc
la fois tout naturellement et dans une heureuse continuit que
le thtre est adopt pour ce projet. Comme Dal lexplique :
O donc, sinon dans ma propre ville, ce qui est le plus extra-
vagant et le plus solide de mon uvre doit-il tre conserv, o
sinon? Le Thtre municipal, ce qui en restait, ma sembl trs
appropri et pour trois raisons: la premire, parce que je suis un
peintre minemment thtral; la seconde, parce que le thtre
se trouve juste devant lglise o jai t baptis; et la troisime,
parce que cest prcisment dans la salle du vestibule du
thtre que jai fait ma premire exposition de peinture.
A la fois muse et lieu de spectacle, le thtre est donc investi
et entirement repens par Dal. Ce dernier sentoure de nom-
breux amis artistes tels que le sculpteur Horia Damian, qui ra-
lise partir de plusieurs centaines de milliers de billes de verre
bleu les portes du muse. Il fait galement appel aux conseils
aviss de compatriotes architectes: ainsi Joaquim Ros de
Ramis et Bonaterra Matra, ayant dj leur actif la ralisation
du muse Picasso de Barcelone, ou encore Emilio Pinero, que
Dal appelle le gnie de larchitecture, participent activement
au chantier. Les innombrables uvres de lartiste de Figueras
conues tout spcialement pour loccasion vaste plafond du
foyer orn du Palais des vents, sculptures Art-dco couron-
nant la coupole centrale, ufs gant surplombant la faade,
uvres holographiques et tant dautres ctoient certains de
ses tableaux majeurs, tel que Autoportrait avec LHumanit
(1923) ou Port Alguer (1924). Ils sexposent galement aux
cts de tableaux, dessins, aquarelles et sculptures, parfois de
grands matres tels que Goya, le Greco ou Fragonard, que Dal
lgue lui-mme au muse. Tout est prsent ple-mle, et le
parcours, que le spectateur explore comme il pntrerait le cer-
veau tortueux du maitre des lieux, est dle son esprit excen-
trique et exubrant. Son ambition semble pourtant modeste au
regard de la grandeur du projet, puisquil dclare: Je ne sais si
ce sera un des muses les plus importants du monde, mais ce
sera le muse le plus important de Figueras.
Figure fminine, fer fondu fabriqu par lartiste auprs de
Industrias Fita, est rapprocher des sculptures qui ornent
la faade principale du muse (g. 1). Portant des pains sur
leur tte et brandissant des lances dores, elles ont pour
abdomen un trou bant quun clairage illumine le soir de
lintrieur. Des six sculptures initialement prvues pour la
faade, quatre seulement ont nalement t installes. Les
deux exemplaires restants furent offerts par lartiste, lun
Industrias Fita, lautre Monsieur Luis Fita Estrada, alors
directeur. Le premier ayant depuis t dtruit, seul le prsent
exemplaire est parvenu jusqu nous, demeurant jusqu ce
jour dans la famille de son premier propritaire.
Le drap enveloppant et couvrant la tte du personnage
voque Vesta, desse du foyer et du feu. Il nest sans doute
pas anodin que Dal ait choisi cette gure pour accueillir le
visiteur lentre du muse, sa demeure spirituelle ravage
par les ammes durant la guerre dEspagne. Mais si Vesta
symbolise galement la dlit, la prsente Figure fminine
se fait aussi tentatrice, avec sa poitrine dcouverte, ses
traits sensuels et son dhanch prononc. Elle semble par
sa main tendue vouloir attirer le spectateur vers des profon-
deurs inconnues, que laisse deviner son ventre grand ouvert.
For English version, please refer to p. 168-173
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MATTA
(1911-2002)
Breadfast received
80,000-120,000
US$100,000-160,000
65,000-95,000
huile sur toile
86.6 x 76.5 cm.
Peint en 1948
oil on canvas
34 x 30 in.
Painted in 1948
PROVENANCE
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.
Acquavella Gallery, New York.
Germana Matta-Ferrari a confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
L
e dfunt William Rubin, qui fut longtemps direc-
teur du dpartement des peintures et sculptures
au Museum of Modern Art de New York, crivit
propos de Matta quil faisait partie dun petit nombre
de peintres dont le travail a chang ma vie. Rubin,
qui fut le commissaire de lexposition Matta en 1957,
avant mme qu il ne rejoigne l quipe du MoMA,
semblait avoir compris que regarder une peinture
de Matta peut, comme lcrivit Ouspensky, librer le
carcan de la vision, et donner une conscience plus
veille du monde intrieur et extrieur. La seule chose
requise est de laisser toute prconception artistique
de ct, et dautoriser son esprit errer librement
tandis que lil parcourt ces espaces surnaturels. Et
se rappeler pour saider de ces mots de Matta: La
reprsentation de lhomme ne peut plus tre ce quelle
a t nous en savons trop. Nous sommes devenus
conscients que nous avons une rserve de potentiel,
et que ceci est notre ralit sociale (M. Sawin, Five
decades of painting, catalogue d exposition, New
York, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, 2009, p. 13).
For English version, please refer to p. 168-173
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SALVADOR DAL
(1904-1989)
Trajano a caballo
350,000-550,000
US$450,000-710,000
280,000-440,000
sign, numrot et avec le cachet
du fondeur partiellement illisible Dal
2/8 FONDERIA ART FILI BONVICINI
(sur la cape)
bronze patine brun clair
200 x 162 x 130 cm.
Conu vers 1974; cette preuve fondue
dans une dition de 8 exemplaires plus
4 exemplaires dartiste
signed, numbered and with the partially
illegible foundry mark Dal 2/8
FONDERIA ART FILI BONVICINI (on
the cape)
bronze with light brown patina
Conceived circa 1974; this bronze cast
in an edition of 8 plus 4 exemplaires dartiste
L
a gure du cavalier incarne une thmatique centrale
dans luvre de Salvador Dal. Alors quelle est un
symbole rcurrent dans ses travaux ds les annes
1930, elle est dcline tout au long de sa carrire artistique.
Cest entre 1933 et 1936 que le cheval apparat dans la
srie des Chevaliers de la mort touchant aux thmes oni-
riques et bibliques.
Plus tard dans la dcennie, lartiste met en scne lanimal
dans des paysages dsertiques rappelant les plaines
entourant sa demeure Port Lligat dans le nord de lEs-
pagne. Il laisse son imaginaire se dvelopper dans ces toiles
et se fondre avec le courant surraliste.
La littrature joue aussi un rle important dans ces
inuences questres et la gure emblmatique de Don Qui-
chotte de la Manche, hro invent en 1605 par Cervants,
lintresse particulirement. La dualit entre satyre politico-
sociale et rverie absurde omniprsente dans le roman de
chevalerie trouve un pendant pictural dans lexpression
artistique de Dal. Quatre lithographies sur Don Quichotte
ont par ailleurs t ralises par lartiste pour une dition
franaise du roman en 1964.
Durant son exil aux Etats-Unis qui dbute au printemps
1940, Dal se rapproche du chorgraphe des ballets
russes, Lonide Massine pour lequel il ralise des costumes,
des livrets et des dcors. En 1942, le ballet Mysteria se situe
dans lEspagne de la Renaissance et Dal peint alors une
huile reprsentant aussi un cavalier casqu dress sur sa
monture, brandissant une lance.
1950 marque un nouveau tournant dans la carrire de
lartiste lorsquil expose La Tentation de Saint Antoine au
Carnegie Institute de Pittsburg. Ce tableau met en scne
les visions dmoniaques du Saint incarnes entre autres
par un immense cheval qui se cabre dans sa direction. Ce
tableau introduit alors dans lunivers du peintre une dimen-
sion intermdiaire: lentre ciel et terre et la lvitation qui
spanouiront dans sa peinture mystique. Lextase devient
le concept-cl de linspiration et de la reprsentation de son
art quil dnit comme moule incorruptible en opposition
lacadmisme qui est le moule corruptible. De l, naissent
La Madone de Port Lligat et le Christ de Saint Jean de la
Croix. Et en 1957, Santiago el Grande met en scne Saint
Jean triomphant, montant un cheval imposant la muscula-
ture somptueusement raliste. Cette gure animale, nou-
veau prsente, traverse ainsi les poques et les inuences
de Salvador Dal.
En 1974 Dal se tourne encore vers son thme de prdi-
lection, puisant son inspiration dans la statuaire questre
de lAntiquit. Dans la culture occidentale, cette tradition
remonte la Grce antique, et fut abondamment exploite
par les artistes de la Renais-
sance pour rendre hom-
mage aux chefs militaires.
Daprs certains historiens
dart, la position des sabots
dtient une signication
symbolique. Dans la pr-
sente uvre, la jambe avant
gauche releve indique que
le cavalier fut bless, peut-
tre mortellement, sur le
champ de bataille.
For English version, please
refer to p. 168-173
Agostino Cornacchini, Statue
questre de Charlemagne
Basilique St Pierre, Vatican
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Collection particulire, Italie.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci par
le propritaire actuel
Robert Descharnes, Nicolas Descharnes
et Olivier Descharnes ont confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
94 95
PROVENANCE
Hilla von Rebay, Westport, Connecticut
(acquis auprs de l'artiste).
Collection particulire, Allemagne (don
de celle-ci, vers 1960); vente, Christie's,
Londres, 27 juin 2002, lot 358.
Acquis au cours de cette vente par
le propritaire actuel.
EXPOSI TI ON
New York, Helly Nahmad Gallery,
Kandinsky. Sounds of Colours, mai 2004,
p. 99 (illustr en couleurs).
Milan, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta,
Wassily Kandinsky e larte astratta tra
Italia e Francia, mai-octobre 2012,
pp. 80-81, no. 23 (illustr en couleurs).
monogramm et dat ' 38' (en bas
gauche); avec le cachet, dat de
nouveau, titr et numrot ' Kandinsky
No 608 "L' ouverture" 1938' (au revers
sur le montage de l' artiste)
gouache sur papier noir maroufl
sur le montage de lartiste
36.4 x 49.6 cm.
Excut en novembre 1938
signed with the monogram and dated
' 38' (lower left); stamped, dated again,
titled and numbered ' Kandinsky No 608
"L' ouverture" 1938' (on the reverse
of the artist' s mount)
gouache on black paper laid down
on the artist' s mount
14 x 19 in.
Executed in November 1938
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WASSILY KANDINSKY
(1866-1944)
L'ouverture
250,000-350,000
US$320,000-450,000
200,000-280,000
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
Inventaire manuscrit de l'artiste,
Aquarelles, no. 608 (dat xi 1938
et titr L'ouverture (gouache)).
V. Endicott Barnett, Kandinsky,
Aquarelles, Catalogue Raisonn, 1922-
1944, Londres, 1994, vol. II, p. 451,
no. 1242 (le croquis de linventaire
manuscrit illustr).
La localisation de luvre tant inconnue
en 1994, date de parution de Kandinsky,
Aquarelles, Catalogue Raisonn, 1922-
1944, celle-ci sera incluse au second
volume du Catalogue raisonn des dessins
de Wassily Kandinsky, actuellement en
prparation par Vivian Endicott-Barnett.
L
ouverture est excut en 1938, alors que Kan-
dinsky vit Neuilly-sur-Seine, prs de Paris.
Exclu du Bauhaus, et forc quitter sa terre
adoptive dAllemagne en exil, aprs laccession au
pouvoir dHitler, Kandinsky lit domicile Paris. Ce
changement s accompagne d un dveloppement
important dans son art, loin de la stricte gomtrie
des annes Bauhaus, alors que des formes plus natu-
relles et organiques prennent le dessus.
Les annes parisiennes inaugurent ainsi un nouveau
dpart pour lartiste, qui sengage dans une re dexp-
rimentations indites. Il commence notamment consi-
drer les huiles et les gouaches importance gale,
vernissant ses gouaches afin que la matire opaque
devienne semi-transparente pour imiter la tempera. Il
utilise aussi de lencre dans ses uvres sur toile. Autour
de 1935, il commence galement utiliser du papier
fonc et du papier noir dans un grand nombre de ses
gouaches. Ces uvres connaissent un plus grand
succs, et aident Kandinsky soulager sa situation
financire dlicate. Luvre de Kandinsky puise ses
formes organiques dans diffrents rpertoires. Ayant
longtemps t intress par les similitudes entre les
structures de lart et de la nature, il crit en 1935 sur
lexprience du drisoire et du grandiose, et la coh-
rence du micro et du macroscopique, se rfrant
lme cache en toute chose, visible soit par lil non
format, ou travers un microscope ou des jumelles.
Cet il interne [] pntre la carapace solide, la
forme externe, va profondment dans lobjet et nous
laisse ressentir avec tous nos sens cette pulsation
interne (cit in F. Whitford, Kandinsky: watercolours
and other works on paper, Londres, 1999, p. 82).
For English version, please refer to p. 168-173
96 97
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
J. Rich, The Material and Methods of
Sculpture, New York, 1947, pl. 54B
(la version en bois illustre).
H. Frank, Ossip Zadkine, in Schner
Wohnen, Hambourg, Septembre 1961,
p. 42 (la version en bois illustre).
C. Lichtenstern, Ossip Zadkine, der bildhauer
und seine ikonographie, Berlin, 1980, p. 42,
no. 91 (la version en bois illustre).
S. Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine, luvre
sculpt, Paris, 1994, p. 417, no. 383B (la
version en bois illustre).
PROVENANCE
Vente, Christies, Londres, 2 juillet 1998,
lot 159.
Acquis au cours de cette vente
par le propritaire actuel.
sign, numrot O. Zadkine 6/8 (sur
le ct de la jambe gauche) et avec le
cachet du fondeur Susse Frres Paris
( larrire de la jambe droite)
bronze patine noire
Hauteur: 109 cm.
Conu en 1944; cette preuve fondue
en 1987 dans une dition
de 8 exemplaires
signed, numbered O. Zadkine 6/8
(on the side of the left leg) and with
the foundry mark Susse Frres Paris
(on the back of the right leg)
bronze with black patina
Height: 43 in.
Conceived in 1944; this bronze cast
in 1987 in an edition of 8
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OSSIP ZADKINE
(1890-1967)
Torse de femme
120,000-180,000
US$160,000-230,000
95,000-145,000
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EXPOSI TI ON
Lausanne, Galerie Bonnier, Fernand Lger,
mai-juin 1961, no. 6.
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Fernand
Lger, octobre-novembre 1964, no. 76b.
Genve, Galerie Bonnier, Comparaisons.
uvres de Degas Arman, mai-juillet 1972.
Genve, Galerie Motte et Paris, Galerie 22,
F. Lger, septembre-novembre 1974, p. 9,
no. 3 (illustr en couleurs).
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
G. Bauquier, Fernand Lger, Catalogue
Raisonn de l'uvre Peint 1944-1948,
Paris, 2000, p. 118, no. 1225 (illustr en
couleurs, p. 119).
PROVENANCE
Galerie Louis Carr, Paris.
Galerie Blanche, Stockholm.
Galerie Bonnier, Genve.
Vente, Christie's, Londres, 5 dcembre
1978, lot 57.
Acquis au cours de cette vente
par le propritaire actuel.
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FERNAND LGER
(1881-1955)
Composition
200,000-300,000
US$260,000-390,000
160,000-240,000
sign ' F. LEGER' (au centre droite);
sign de nouveau, dat et titr
Composition F. LEGER 46 (au revers)
huile sur toile
25.5 x 42 cm.
Peint en 1946
signed 'F. LEGER' (center right);
signed again, dated and titled Composition
F. LEGER 46 (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
10 x 16 in.
Painted in 1946
C
ette Composition illustre parfaitement la pro-
duction colore et trs dcorative de Fernand
Lger au cours des annes daprs-guerre.
Aprs un exil de cinq ans aux Etats-Unis, lartiste
revient en France avec les paysages amricains en
tte et un optimisme dbordant. Il recherche avant tout
lquilibre et lharmonie travers un travail centr sur
la couleur et la forme. En 1946, il ralise des uvres
joyeuses, facilement lisibles, et ceci, afin de rendre la
beaut accessible tous.
Pour Lger, lorsque le spectateur pose son regard sur
lune de ses uvres (peinture ou fresque murale), la
joie de vivre doit tre instantane. Lartiste explique
ainsi sa dmarche: jai voulu marquer un retour la
simplicit par un art direct, comprhensible pour tous,
sans subtilit. Je crois que cest lavenir, et jaimerai voir
les jeunes sengager dans cette voie (cit in Fernand
Lger, catalogue dexposition, Paris, Centre national
dart et de culture Georges-Pompidou, 1997, p. 234).
For English version, please refer to p. 168-173
104 105
PROVENANCE
E. David et M. Garnier, Paris.
Collection particulire, Moyen-Orient
(dans les annes 1980); vente, Christies,
New York, 4 novembre 2009, lot 352.
Acquis au cours de cette vente
par le propritaire actuel.
Cette uvre est rpertorie
dans les archives Bernard Buffet
de la Galerie Maurice Garnier.
sign et dat 67 Bernard Buffet
(en bas gauche)
huile sur toile
73.3 x 50.2 cm.
Peint en 1967
signed and dated 67 Bernard Buffet
(lower left)
oil on canvas
28 x 19 in.
Painted in 1967
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BERNARD BUFFET
(1928-1999)
Tte de torero
80,000-120,000
US$100,000-160,000
65,000-95,000
PROVENANT DUNE COLLECTION EUROPENNE
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depte du travail par thmatiques, Bernard
Buffet ralise tout au long de sa carrire des
sries duvres sur des thmes varis, quil
peint de faon groupe. Tte de torero ne droge
pas la rgle, et sintgre dans un ensemble ddi
la corrida que lartiste ralisa au cours des annes
1966-67. Buffet y alterne des scnes de corrida
monumentales, ainsi que des portraits de torero en
pied, en buste et de face. Dans Tte de torero, Buffet
capture linstant o le torero sapprte slancer
dans l affrontement. Il parvient retranscrire la
tension et la concentration en exagrant limportance
des grands yeux carquills et des dents resserres,
par dpaisses lignes noires, et par une superposition
de fines lignes droites sur le visage, voquant des
cicatrices. Au mme titre que le clown, autre thme
rcurrent chez Buffet, la corrida exprime pour lartiste
le tragique et labsurde de la condition humaine, alors
que lhomme simpose un combat mort dans le but
de divertir.
For English version, please refer to p. 168-173
106 107
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FERNANDO BOTERO
(N EN 1932)
The Dead Tree
100,000-150,000
US$130,000-190,000
80,000-120,000
sign et dat Botero99
(en bas droite)
huile sur toile
49.1 x 36 cm.
Peint en 1999
signed and dated Botero99
(lower right)
oil on canvas
19 x 14 in.
Painted in 1999
PROVENANCE
Collection particulire, New York.
Acquis par le propritaire actuel la fin
des annes 2000.
Fernando Botero a confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
PROVENANT DUNE COLLECTION EUROPENNE
F
ernando Botero est un artiste atypique. Il fait
partie des rares figures du XX
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sicle qui ont su,
lpoque o triomphaient partout la verve de
Picasso et labstraction, se dtourner des courants domi-
nants et suivre son instinct. Botero choisit de se tourner
vers les matres anciens et daller explorer en Europe
luvre de Giotto, Velzquez ou Piero della Francesca
pour y trouver son propre langage formel, un langage
ptri de rfrences stylistiques nombreuses, et iden-
tiable entre tous. uvre de maturit, The Dead Tree
est un tableau caractristique de son travail tant par la
palette chromatique avec des couleurs pures, que par le
dessin o lon retrouve dans la silhouette des oiseaux les
clbres rondeurs qui font sa signature. Luvre par sa
facture nave nest pas sans voquer le travail du Douanier
Rousseau ou dAndr Bauchant.
La prsence de couleurs trs vives et la perspective
de la cour rappellent galement la srie visionnaire
de David Hockney, Hotel Acatlan (fig. 1), excute en
Mexique en 1985.
For English version, please refer to p. 168-173
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PROVENANCE
Galerie Beyeler, Ble.
Galleria Falchi Arte Moderna, Milan.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci par la famille
du propritaire actuel.
Samy Kinge a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
sign et dat VICTOR BRAUNER
1936. (en bas droite)
aquarelle, gouache, encre et graphite
sur papier
65.2 x 49.7 cm.
Excut en 1936
signed and dated VICTOR BRAUNER
1936. (lower right)
watercolour, gouache, ink and pencil
on paper
25 x 19 in.
Executed in 1936
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VICTOR BRAUNER
(1903-1966)
Tte et oiseau
18,000-25,000
US$23,000-30,000
14,000-20,000
PROVENANT DUNE COLLECTIONNEUSE EUROPENNE
102
ROLAND PENROSE
(1900-1984)
Sans titre
2,000-3,000
US$2,600-3,900
1,600-2,400
graphite et frottage sur papier
sign, dat et ddicac
to my angel my Diane Roland
1929-83 (en bas droite)
32 x 24 cm.
Excut en 1929
signed, dated and dedicated
to my angel my Diane Roland
1929-83 (lower right)
pencil and frottage on paper
12 x 9 in.
Executed in 1929
PROVENANCE
Diane Deriaz, Saint-Leu-la-Fort
(don de lartiste, en 1983).
Acquis auprs de la succession
de celle-ci par le propritaire actuel.
112 113
103
ALBERT GLEIZES
(1881-1953)
Danseuse espagnole
15,000-20,000
US$20,000-25,000
12,000-16,000
sign AlbGleizes (en bas droite);
sign de nouveau et inscrit Alb Gleizes
IV.2 (au revers)
encre et gouache sur papier verg
23.7 x 16.6 cm.
Excut en 1916
signed AlbGleizes (lower right);
signed again and inscribed Alb Gleizes
IV.2 (on the reverse)
ink and gouache on laid paper
9 x 6 in.
Executed in 1916
PROVENANCE
Michael Witmer, New York.
Acquis auprs de celui-ci
par le propritaire actuel.
Anne Varichon a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
PROVENANT DUNE COLLECTION
NEW YORKAISE
PROVENANCE
Collection Legrand-Kapferer, Paris.
Genevive Claisse a confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
sign herbin (en bas gauche)
et dat juin 1920 (en bas droite)
gouache sur papier
38.7 x 28.6 cm.
Excut en juin 1920
signed herbin (lower left) and dated
juin 1920 (lower right)
gouache on paper
15 x 11 in.
Executed in June 1920
104
AUGUSTE HERBIN
(1882-1960)
Composition symtrique
8,000-12,000
US$10,000-15,000
6,500-9,600
PROVENANT DUNE COLLECTION PARISIENNE
114 115
PROVENANCE
Atelier de lartiste.
Puis par descendance au propritaire
actuel.
sign des initiales
et dat F.L 29 (en bas gauche)
encre de Chine, lavis dencre
et graphite sur papier
63.8 x 49.2 cm.
Excut en 1929
signed with initials and dated F.L 29
(lower left)
India ink, ink wash and pencil on paper
25 x 19 in.
Executed in 1929
105
FERNAND LGER
(1881-1955)
Scne de plage
70,000-100,000
US$90,000-130,000
56,000-80,000
PROVENANT DE LA FAMILLE DE L'ARTISTE
116 117
PROVENANCE
David Mac Neil, Paris (par descendance
de lartiste).
Vente, Christies, Londres, 8 fvrier 2007,
lot 614.
Acquis au cours de cette vente
par le propritaire actuel.
sign MArc ChAgAll (en bas gauche)
encre de Chine sur papier fort
20.1 x 24.8 cm.
Excut vers 1940
signed MArc ChAgAll (lower left)
India ink on card
7 x 9 in.
Executed circa 1940
106
MARC CHAGALL
(1887-1985)
Autoportrait
30,000-50,000
US$40,000-65,000
24,000-40,000
PROVENANCE
Collection particulire, Milan.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci
par le propritaire actuel.
Claude Ruiz-Picasso a confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
dat 7 octobre 43 (en haut droite)
encre et lavis dencre sur papier
37 x 30.7 cm.
Excut le 7 octobre 1943
dated 7 octobre 43 (upper right)
ink and ink wash on paper
14 x 12 in.
Executed on the 7
th
of October 1943
107
PABLO PICASSO
(1881-1973)
Mre et enfant
70,000-100,000
US$90,000-130,000
56,000-80,000
PROVENANT DUNE IMPORTANTE COLLECTION PARTICULIRE EUROPENNE
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PROVENANCE
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris (acquis
auprs de lartiste).
Collection particulire, Paris.
Puis par descendance au propritaire
actuel.
Germana Matta-Ferrari a confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
huile sur toile
84.7 x 104 cm.
Peint en 1967
oil on canvas
33 x 41 in.
Painted in 1967
108
MATTA
(1911-2002)
Sans titre
35,000-45,000
US$45,000-60,000
28,000-36,000
EXPOSI TI ON
Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, Andr
Masson, Peintures rcentes et anciennes,
mai 1957, no. 8 (illustr).
New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Andr
Masson, fvrier-mars 1961.
Londres, Waddington Galleries, Andr
Masson, Paintings, janvier-fvrier 1972.
New York, Blue Moon Gallery, Andr Masson,
novembre 1973, p. 34, no. 33 (illustr).
Cret, Muse d'art moderne, Andr Masson,
juillet-septembre 1981, no. 20 (illustr).
PROVENANCE
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Blue Moon Gallery & Lerner-Heller
Gallery, New York.
Vente, Christies, Londres, 25 mars 1980,
lot 48.
Collection particulire, Paris (au dbut
des annes 1980).
sign andr Masson (en bas droite)
et titr Voracit (en bas gauche)
huile sur toile
100 x 81 cm.
Peint en 1947
signed andr Masson (lower right)
and titled Voracit (lower left)
oil on canvas
39 x 31 in.
Painted in 1947
109
ANDR MASSON
(1896-1987)
Voracit
70,000-100,000
US$90,000-130,000
56,000-80,000
120 121
PROVENANCE
Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Collection particulire, Paris (acquis
auprs de celle-ci, en 1983).
Don de celle-ci au propritaire actuel.
sign Mir (en bas droite); dat
et titr 23/V.81. Couple damoureux
aveugls par le noir (au revers)
crayon gras, encre de Chine, gouache
et graphite sur papier fort
75.6 x 57.5 cm.
Excut le 23 mai 1981
signed Mir (lower right); dated
and titled 23/V.81. Couple damoureux
aveugls par le noir (on the reverse)
wax crayon, India ink, gouache
and pencil on card
29 x 22 in.
Executed on the 23
rd
of May 1981
110
JOAN MIR
(1893-1983)
Couple damoureux
aveugls par le noir
80,000-120,000
US$100,000-160,000
65,000-95,000
122 123
PROVENANCE
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris
(acquis auprs de lartiste).
Collection particulire, Paris.
Puis par descendance au propritaire actuel.
Germana Matta-Ferrari a confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
huile sur toile
95.8 x 102.7 cm.
Peint en 1967-68
oil on canvas
37 x 40 in.
Painted in 1967-68
111
MATTA
(1911-2002)
Sans titre
40,000-60,000
US$50,000-80,000
32,000-48,000
ANCIENNE COLLECTION JANINE ET RAYMOND QUENEAU
PROVENANCE
Janine et Raymond Queneau, Paris
(don de lartiste, en 1950).
Puis par descendance au propritaire
actuel.
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
D. Charnay, Raymond Queneau, dessins,
gouaches et aquarelles, Paris, 2003, p. 23
(illustr en couleurs).
LADOM a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
sign, dat et ddicac pour JANINE
ET RAYMOND MIRO 1950 (au revers)
encre et traces de graphite
sur bois pyrograv
25 x 33.1 cm.
Excut en 1950
signed, dated and dedicated pour
JANINE ET RAYMOND MIRO 1950
(on the reverse)
ink and traces of pencil
on pyrographied wood
9 x 13 in.
Executed in 1950
112
JOAN MIR
(1893-1983)
Sans titre
50,000-70,000
US$65,000-90,000
40,000-56,000
124 125 PROVENANT DUNE IMPORTANTE COLLECTION PARTICULIRE EUROPENNE
Signature et date au revers du prsent lot.
sign et dat 19.11.930. Joan
Mir. (au revers)
graphite sur papier verg
46.7 x 63 cm.
Excut le 19 novembre 1930
signed and dated 19.11.930.
Joan Mir. (on the reverse)
pencil on laid paper
24 x 18 in.
Executed on the 19
th
of
November 1930
113
JOAN MIR
(1893-1983)
Sans titre
100,000-150,000
US$130,000-190,000
80,000-120,000
PROVENANCE
Paul Hendrickx, Bruxelles.
Galerie Beyeler, Ble.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci par le
propritaire actuel, au milieu des annes
1980.
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
J. Dupin et A. Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Mir,
Catalogue raisonn. Drawings, Paris,
2008, vol. I, p. 172, no. 351 (illustr).
126 127
PROVENANCE
Galerie Maurice Garnier, Paris.
Cette uvre est rpertorie
dans les archives Bernard Buffet
de la Galerie Maurice Garnier.
signed Bernard Buffet (upper left)
and dated 1990 (upper right)
oil on canvas
32 x 45 in.
Painted in 1990
sign Bernard Buffet
(en haut gauche) et dat 1990
(en haut droite)
huile sur toile
116 x 81.2 cm.
Peint en 1990
114
BERNARD BUFFET
(1928-1999)
Dalhias dans un vase de Gall
80,000-120,000
US$100,000-160,000
65,000-95,000
Cette uvre est rpertorie
dans les archives Bernard Buffet
de la Galerie Maurice Garnier.
PROVENANCE
Galerie Maurice Garnier, Paris.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci
par le propritaire actuel, en 1999.
EXPOSI TI ON
Spa, Casino, Bernard Buffet, avril-mai
1999.
sign Bernard Buffet (en haut au
centre) et dat 1998 (en bas droite)
huile sur toile
55.2 x 38.2 cm.
Peint en 1998
signed Bernard Buffet (upper center)
and dated 1998 (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 x 15 in.
Painted in 1998
115
BERNARD BUFFET
(1928-1999)
Chouette
50,000-70,000
US$65,000-90,000
40,000-56,000
128 129
PROVENANCE
Collection Bernheim-Jeune, Paris.
Puis par descendance au propritaire
actuel.
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
P. Ptrids, Luvre complet de Maurice
Utrillo, Paris, 1969, vol. III, p. 314,
no. 2272 (illustr, p. 315).
signed Maurice, Utrillo, V, (lower right);
signed again and titled - Eglise
de Saint Hilarion (Seine-et-Oise)
- Maurice, Utrillo, V, (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 in.
Painted circa 1947
sign Maurice, Utrillo, V, (en bas
droite); sign de nouveau et titr
- Eglise de Saint Hilarion (Seine-et-Oise)
- Maurice, Utrillo, V, (sur le chssis)
huile sur toile
38.1 x 46.1 cm.
Peint vers 1947
116
MAURICE UTRILLO
(1883-1955)
Eglise de Saint-Hilarion
(Seine-et-Oise)
50,000-70,000
US$65,000-90,000
40,000-56,000
Cette uvre sera incluse au catalogue
critique de luvre de Maurice de
Vlaminck actuellement en prparation
par Mat Valls-Bled et Godelive
de Vlaminck sous lgide de lInstitut
Wildenstein.
PROVENANCE
Galerie Choiseul, Paris.
Collection particulire, France.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci
par le propritaire actuel.
sign Vlaminck (en bas droite)
huile sur toile
65 x 54 cm.
Peint vers 1912-13
signed Vlaminck (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 x 21 in.
Painted circa 1912-13
117
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK
(1876-1958)
Bouquet de pivoines
dans un vase bleu
80,000-120,000
US$100,000-160,000
65,000-95,000
130 131
118
JEAN METZINGER
(1883-1956)
Femme nue la lettre
120,000-180,000
US$160,000-230,000
95,000-145,000
sign et dat JMetzinger 46
(en bas gauche)
huile sur toile
91.5 x 64.5 cm.
Peint en 1946
signed and dated JMetzinger 46
(lower left)
oil on canvas
36 x 25 in.
Painted in 1946
PROVENANCE
Vente, Christies, New York, 18 mai 1983,
lot 403.
Collection particulire, Munich
(acquis au cours de cette vente).
EXPOSI TI ON
Paris, LAdresse, Muse de la Poste
et Muse de Lodve, Gleizes, Metzinger,
du Cubisme et aprs, mai 2012-novembre
2013, p. 123 (illustr en couleurs).
Bozena Nikiel a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
119
ROGER DE LA FRESNAYE
(1885-1925)
Le prestidigitateur
80,000-120,000
US$100,000-160,000
65,000-95,000
huile sur toile
46.4 x 38 cm.
Peint vers 1921
oil on canvas
18 x 15 in.
Painted circa 1921
PROVENANCE
Andr Schoeller, Paris.
Acquis auprs de celui-ci par le
propritaire actuel, en 2006.
Andr Schoeller a confirm l'authenticit
de cette uvre.
132 133
PROVENANT DUNE COLLECTION PARISIENNE
PROVENANCE
Vente, M
e
Blache, Versailles, 12 juin
1985, lot 96.
Acquis au cours de cette vente
par le propritaire actuel.
Cette uvre sera incluse au prochain
catalogue raisonn dAndr Lhote
actuellement en prparation par
Dominique Bermann-Martin.
sign A.LHOTE. (en haut droite);
dat et titr Nu aux coussins 1946
(sur une tiquette sur le chssis)
huile sur toile
38 x 46 cm.
Peint en 1946
signed A.LHOTE. (upper right);
dated and titled Nu aux coussins 1946
(on a label on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 in.
Painted in 1946
120
ANDR LHOTE
(1885-1962)
Nu aux coussins
20,000-30,000
US$25,000-40,000
16,000-24,000
sign A. LHOTE. (en bas droite);
dat et titr Mirmande jaune 1959
(sur le chssis)
huile sur toile
65 x 81 cm
Peint en 1959
signed A. LHOTE. (lower right);
dated and titled Mirmande jaune 1959
(on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
25 x 31 in.
Painted in 1959
121
ANDR LHOTE
(1885-1962)
Mirmande jaune
20,000-30,000
US$25,000-40,000
16,000-24,000
PROVENANCE
Karel van Stuijvenberg , Etats-Unis.
Bernhard Brenner, Salzbourg.
Acquis auprs de celui-ci
par le propritaire actuel, en 1997.
EXPOSI TI ON
Paris, Salon d'automne, Hommage
Andr Lhote, octobre-novembre 1963.
Chartres, Chambre de Commerce,
Andr Lhote, juin-septembre 1966, no. 35.
Lyon, Muse des Beaux-arts, Andr Lhote,
mars-avril 1966, no. 47.
Montral, Theo Waddington Gallery,
Andr Lhote, 1968, no. 12.
San Francisco, Hoover Galleries,
Andr Lhote, 1969.
Londres, Victor Waddington Gallery,
Andr Lhote, mai-juin 1971, no. 31
(illustr).
Cette uvre sera incluse au prochain
catalogue raisonn dAndr Lhote
actuellement en prparation par
Dominique Bermann-Martin.
134 135
122
FERNAND LGER
(1881-1955)
Le cirque
25,000-35,000
US$30,000-45,000
20,000-28,000
encre de Chine et graphite sur papier
39.6 x 31.3 cm.
Excut vers 1938
India ink and pencil on paper
15 x 12 in.
Executed circa 1938
PROVENANCE
Galerie Maeght, Paris.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci par le
propritaire actuel, le 19 mars 2005.
D
ans la dernire partie de sa carrire, Fernand
Lger introduit de faon rcurrente des rfrences
au monde du cirque, jusqu devenir un thme de
prdilection lorigine de ses ultimes chefs-duvre tels
que La grande parade (voir lot 8). Le cirque a en effet tout
pour plaire lartiste: il voque avec nostalgie son enfance
passe comme spectateur rgulier du cirque Medrano, il
constitue un divertissement populaire o les classes sociales
seffacent, et formellement il permet de riches tudes sur les
contrastes de mouvements de formes, qui lui sont si chers.
Alors que la plupart des uvres inspires du cirque surgissent
dans les annes 1940, le prsent travail constitue un exemple
prcoce, prgurant les compositions monumentales repr-
sentant des cyclistes, des plongeurs, des acrobates et des
musiciens. Dans notre uvre, le trait ample et assoupli
contraste avec les compositions plus rigides des annes
puristes. Cirque reste cependant une uvre de contrastes de
formes et de mouvements, o le statisme de lchelle contre-
balance le dynamisme de la spirale, et o lhorizontalit de
la femme allonge vient complter la verticalit du guita-
riste. Fort de ce vibrant quilibre, Cirque parvient exprimer
lnergie du monde moderne, tel que Lger le conoit.
For English version, please refer to p. 168-173
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PROVENANCE
Maurice Lefebvre-Foinet, Paris.
Collection particulire, Paris.
Puis par descendance au propritaire
actuel.
Cette uvre sera incluse au catalogue
raisonn dHenri-Edmond Cross
actuellement en prparation par
Patrick Offenstadt.
avec le cachet H.E.C (en bas droite;
Lugt 1305a)
huile et graphite sur panneau parquet
23.8 x 32.3 cm.
stamped H.E.C (lower right;
Lugt 1305a)
oil and pencil on cradled panel
9 x 12 in.
147
HENRI EDMOND CROSS
(1856-1910)
Paysage du Midi
20,000-30,000
US$25,000-40,000
16,000-24,000
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
J. Valtat, Louis Valtat, catalogue de
luvre peint, Paris, 1977, vol. I, p. 103,
no. 924 (illustr).
Cette uvre sera incluse au catalogue
raisonn de luvre de Louis Valtat
actuellement en prparation par
les Amis de Louis Valtat.
PROVENANCE
Vente, M
e
Maignan, Paris, 20 dcembre
1973, lot 39.
Vente, M
es
Couturier et Nicolay, Paris,
7 dcembre 1987, lot 186.
Vente, M
es
Boscher et Studer, Paris,
9 mai 1988, lot 75.
Acquis au cours de cette vente
par le propritaire actuel.
avec le cachet L.V
(en bas droite; Lugt 1771bis)
huile sur toile
46 x 55.2 cm.
Peint vers 1911
stamped L.V (lower right;
Lugt 1771bis)
oil on canvas
18 x 21 in.
Painted circa 1911
148
LOUIS VALTAT
(1869-1952)
Bord de quai, la Seine
devant le Louvre
40,000-60,000
US$50,000-80,000
32,000-48,000
158 159
PROVENANT DUNE COLLECTION PARTICULIRE
149
MAURICE UTRILLO
(1883-1955)
La tour
35,000-55,000
US$45,000-70,000
28,000-44,000
sign Maurice, Utrillo, V,
(en bas droite) et situ Tour de
Jeanne dArc, Rouen, (en bas)
huile sur panneau
94 x 52.2 cm.
Peint vers 1927
signed Maurice, Utrillo, V,
(lower right) and located Tour
de Jeanne dArc, Rouen, (below)
oil on panel
37 x 20 in.
Painted circa 1927
PROVENANCE
Maurice Malingue, Paris.
Galleria Tega, Milan.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci
par le propritaire actuel.
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
P. Ptrids, Luvre complet de Maurice
Utrillo, Paris, 1974, vol. V, p. 242,
no. 2727 (illustr, p. 243; erronment
dcrit comme 'huile sur toile'
et dimensions errones).
PROVENANCE
Collection particulire, France.
Cyrille Martin a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
sign Henri Martin. (en bas gauche)
huile sur toile
108 x 78 cm.
Peint entre 1920 et 1930
signed Henri Martin. (lower left)
oil on canvas
42 x 30 in.
Painted between 1920 and 1930
150
HENRI MARTIN
(1860-1943)
Cour de ferme dans le Lot
70,000-100,000
US$90,000-130,000
56,000-80,000
160 161
PROVENANCE
Dina Vierny, Paris.
Acquis auprs de celle-ci par
le propritaire actuel, en 2007.
Olivier Lorquin a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
signed with the monogram, with
the foundry mark and numbered
6/6 AM .Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris.
(at the back of the base)
bronze with green patina
Height: 10 in.
Conceived in 1896; this bronze cast in
an edition of 6 plus 2 preuves dartiste
monogramm, avec le cachet du fondeur
et numrot 6/6 AM .Alexis Rudier
Fondeur Paris. ( larrire de la base)
bronze patine verte
Hauteur: 25.7 cm.
Conu en 1896; cette preuve fondue
dans une dition de 6 exemplaires
plus 2 preuves dartiste
151
ARISTIDE MAILLOL
(1861-1944)
Femme assise
30,000-50,000
US$40,000-65,000
24,000-40,000
PROVENANT DUNE COLLECTION PARTICULIRE SUISSE
PROVENANCE
Acquis par la famille du propritaire
actuel, dans les annes 1960.
Le Comit Andr Derain a confirm
lauthenticit de cette uvre.
sign a Derain (en bas droite)
huile sur toile
65.1 x 54.5 cm.
Peint vers 1936
signed a Derain (lower right)
oil on canvas
25 x 21 in.
Painted circa 1936
152
ANDR DERAIN
(1880-1954)
Femme nue
la draperie verte
30,000-50,000
US$40,000-65,000
24,000-40,000
162 163
PROVENANCE
Collection particulire, France
(don de lartiste).
Acquis par le propritaire actuel
en 2013.
Eric Mouchet a confirm lauthenticit
de cette uvre.
sign, dat et ddicac indistinctement
a ... Le Corbusier 1942 (en bas
gauche)
encre, gouache et pastel sur papier
48.1 x 63.8 cm.
Excut en 1942
illegibly signed, dated and dedicated
a ... Le Corbusier 1942 (lower left)
ink, gouache and pastel on paper
19 x 25 in.
Executed in 1942
153
LE CORBUSIER
(1887-1965)
Femmes table
7,000-10,000
US$9,100-13,000
5,600-8,000
PROVENANCE
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Sala Gaspar, Barcelone.
Collection particulire, Allemagne
(acquis auprs de celle-ci, en 1975); vente,
Christies, Londres, 5 fvrier 2009, lot 474.
Acquis au cours de cette vente
par le propritaire actuel.
Quentin Laurens, dtenteur du Droit
Moral de Georges Braque, a confirm
que cette uvre tait bien rpertorie
dans ses archives.
huile sur toile
29.3 x 46 cm.
Peint vers 1960
oil on canvas
11 x 18 in.
Painted circa 1960
154
GEORGES BRAQUE
(1882-1963)
La thire
40,000-60,000
US$50,000-80,000
32,000-48,000
164 165
155
MAURICE UTRILLO
(1883-1955)
Le chteau de Luynes
50,000-70,000
US$65,000-90,000
40,000-56,000
sign Maurice. Utrillo. V.
(en bas droite)
huile sur toile
73 x 100 cm.
Peint vers 1920
signed Maurice. Utrillo. V. (lower right)
oil on canvas
28 x 39 in.
Painted circa 1920
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
P. Ptrids, Luvre complet de Maurice
Utrillo, Paris, 1962, vol. II, p. 310, no. 881
(illustr, p. 311).
156
JULES PASCIN
(1885-1930)
Le chasseur
15,000-20,000
US$20,000-25,000
12,000-16,000
sign pascin (en haut droite)
huile sur toile
81 x 65 cm.
signed pascin (upper right)
oil on canvas
31 x 25 in.
Rosemarie Napolitano et Tom Krohg ont
confirm lauthenticit de cette uvre.
PROVENANT DE LA SUCCESSION ELIE ET INNA NAHMIAS
157
BERNARD BUFFET
(1928-1999)
Champy, La Marinire,
bords de lOise
50,000-70,000
US$65,000-90,000
40,000-56,000
sign Bernard Buffet (en haut
gauche) et dat 1975 (en haut
droite); titr Champy la Marinire
Bords de lOise (au revers)
huile sur toile
89.5 x 130.5 cm.
Peint en 1975
signed Bernard Buffet (upper left)
and dated 1975 (upper right);
titled Champy la Marinire Bords
de lOise (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
35 x 51 in.
Painted in 1975
PROVENANCE
Galerie Paul Ptrids, Paris;
vente, Sothebys, Londres, 27 juin
1984, lot 233.
Vente, Sothebys, Londres,
8 fvrier 2006, lot 479.
Acquis au cours de cette vente
par le propritaire actuel.
Cette uvre est rpertorie
dans les archives Bernard Buffet
de la Galerie Maurice Garnier.
PROVENANT DUNE COLLECTION EUROPENNE
166 167
158
ANDR LHOTE
(1885-1962)
Village de Normandie,
environs dOrgeville
18,000-25,000
US$23,000-30,000
14,000-20,000
sign A.LHOTE. (en bas droite) et
numrot no. 19 (au centre droite)
huile sur papier maroufl sur toile
47.5 x 62.8 cm.
Peint vers 1910
signed A.LHOTE. (lower right)
and numbered no. 19 (center right)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
18 x 24 in.
Painted circa 1910
Cette uvre sera incluse au prochain
catalogue raisonn dAndr Lhote
actuellement en prparation par
Dominique Bermann-Martin.
159
MAURICE DE VLAMINCK
(1876-1958)
Maison au bord du chemin
40,000-60,000
US$50,000-80,000
32,000-48,000
sign Vlaminck (en bas gauche)
huile sur toile
54 x 64.8 cm.
signed Vlaminck (lower left)
oil on canvas
21 x 25 in.
PROVENANCE
Collection particulire, Paris
(don de lartiste, dans les annes 1950).
Puis par descendance au propritaire
actuel.
Cette uvre sera incluse au catalogue
critique de luvre de Maurice de
Vlaminck en prparation par Mat
Valls-Bled et Godelive de Vlaminck
sous lgide de lInstitut Wildenstein.
BI BLI OGRAPHI E
Bulletin de LEffort Moderne, no. 26, Paris,
juin 1926.
G. Claisse, Herbin, Catalogue raisonn
de luvre peint, Paris, 1993, p. 378,
no. 560 (illustr).
PROVENANCE
Galerie LEffort Moderne (Lonce
Rosenberg), Paris.
Jaap Nieuwenhuizen Segaar, La Haye.
Puis par descendance au propritaire
actuel.
sign Herbin (en bas droite)
huile sur toile
81 x 65 cm.
Peint en 1925
signed Herbin (lower right)
oil on canvas
31 x 25 in.
Painted in 1925
160
AUGUSTE HERBIN
(1882-1960)
Les anmones
40,000-60,000
US$50,000-80,000
32,000-48,000
168 169
Lot 2 Jean Lurat Le jour et la nuit
A student of Victor Prouv, the leader of the
School of Nancy, Jean Lurat was one the few
modern artists to combine Fine and Decorative
Arts, at a time when the two disciplines were
quite separate. A versatile creator, Lurat is
equally recognized as a painter, tapestry designer,
muralist, ceramist, costume and stage designer.
Marking the beginning of the artists mature
years, Le jour et la nuit was created during Lur-
ats Orientalist period, after a sojourn in Spain
and North Africa in 1924. Adopting an alle-
gorical approach, the work shows two women
lying side by side in a laviscious posture, sur-
rounded by the sun and the stars at each corner.
The monumental composition differs from
other works of the same period, which depict
either female busts or minimalist landscapes.
Lurat here tackles the reclining portrait within
a landscape, creating a sensuous and oneiric
atmosphere reminiscent of the Thousand and
One Nights. Following in Matisses footsteps,
Lurat multiplies the variations in textures and
designs to reinforce the exoticism of the subject.
It is without a doubt one of the most ambitious
works from the period, which by its size and sub-
ject, anticipates the tapestry cartoons conceived
from the end of the 1930s.
Lot 3 Franoise Gilot Nature morte au
scateur
Each time we open our eyes, we experience a
new birth. Whenever all the sensations from the
external world rush towards us, tones, shapes
and textures seem to ght for presence, but
in my earliest childhood remembrances color
always prevailscolor is there to accentuate
cardiac rhythm, to elicit a tear, to set teeth on
edge, and to beguile. It is the result of a con-
densed sensation, as Henri Matisse used to say,
therefore it is intuitive and passionate. It is an
inborn knowledge that can become rened with
time, but which cannot be taught nor learned
(Franoise Gilot, Monograph, 1940-2000, Laus-
anne, 2000, pp.13 and 27).
Lot 4 Pablo Picasso Dessinateur et modle
The present ink drawing belongs to what Pierre
Daix has called the staggering suite of draw-
ings (P. Daix, Pablo Picasso, 2007, p. 470)
the artist executed between November 1953
and February 1954. Known collectively as the
Comedie Humaine, the suite tackles the deni-
tive theme for Picasso, that of the relationship
between a painter and his model. Picasso
examines, through a wonderfully free-owing
progression from one drawing to the next, the
intimacies of the interactions between the two
characters. As with any moment of evolution in
Picassos art, his objective reection was stimu-
lated by changes in his personal life. With her
distinct Greek prole and long hair swept back
behind her head, the model we see in Dessi-
nateur et modle is a new arrival in Picassos
imagery, and her appearance coincides with
Picassos rst meeting with Jacqueline Roque
in December 1953. Jacqueline, who would
later become the artists wife and last muse,
possessed what Picasso celebrated as a sphinx-
like presence and physique. The strength of
the rapport between Picasso and Jacqueline
was immediately tangible, and is translated by
the artist in these drawings with a tenderness
which is at the same time chaste and seductive.
In his introductory essay to the volume of Verve
published to celebrate the drawings in 1954,
Michel Leiris noted: Painter and model, man
and womanin the eld of art as in that of love,
there is always a duel going on between the sub-
ject and the object, adversaries forever facing
each other and separated by a gap that no one,
however great his genius, can hope to bridge.
('Picasso et la comdie humaine ou les avatars
de Gros Pied', Verve, op. cit.).
Lot 5 Jean Metzinger Port du Croisic
To nd a place among the ranks of the Avant-
Garde in Paris at the beginning of the 20th
century, a passage through divisionism was
an obligation, or rather a rite of passage. After
Seurats death in 1891, Paul Signac took the
lead of the Neo-Impressionist movement and
gave it a new direction by modifying the tech-
nique. The point or dot, used in a way which
echoed the tesserae of Byzantine mosaics,
grew considerably larger in an effort to obtain
maximum contrast. Many artists followed him
on this path, starting with Henri-Edmond Cross,
his close friend. The young Matisse experi-
mented with this new style in Saint-Tropez in
the summer of 1904. Other names who joined
the trend include Robert Delaunay, Auguste
Herbin, Andr Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck
in France. Emil Nolde, Piet Mondrian, Erich
Heckel and Kasimir Malevitch spread the style
through the the rest of Europe.
Port du Croisic by Jean Metzinger owes much
to Signac and Cross. Painted with wide square
strokes, this painting displays a distinct construc-
tion, a demonstration of Metzingers strong
interest in geometry and mathematics. The per-
vading atmosphere is one of calm, expressing the
plenitude of dawn on the sea, and yet the palette
chosen has rather vivid and contrasted tones,
particularly for the boats on the foreground and
the armature of the pier at the right of the com-
position. The theme is also a strong tribute to
the masters of Divisionism and evokes Signacs
famous Opuses or the views of Gravelines by
Seurat, which the young artist certainly had the
opportunity of seeing. For Metzinger, the pre-
sent work was intended as a manifesto and was
shown at the Salon des Indpendants in 1905.
This painting, which heralds the future great
artist, is certainly one of the most evolved from
this short period which would only occupy him
for three years. Later, Metzinger briey explored
the inuence of Gauguins work, and then from
1910 he fully engaged in the cubist adventure to
become one of its leading gures (see lot 118).
Lot 6 Henri Matisse Femme au boa
As soon as my geste has modeled the light on
my white page, whilst not taking anything away
from the quailty of the whiteness itself which sof-
tens, I am unable to either add anything, nor take
anything away. The page is written; no correction
is possible. (H. Matisse, 'Notes dun peintre sur
son dessin', Le Point, n21, juillet 1939)
Lot 7 Joan Mir Sur la verte prairie au
lever du soleil
For me it was the utmost freedom. Something
more aerial, clearer, lighter than anything I had
seen before. In one way, it was absolutely per-
fect. Mir could not place a point without it being
right. He was so truly a painter that he had only
to leave three strokes of colour on the canvas to
make it exist, to make it be a painting (Alberto
Giacometti quoted in P. Schneider, Mir,
Horizon, Paris, vol. I, no. 4, March 1959, p. 72.
In September 1966, Joan Mir made his rst trip
to Japan. He was fascinated by Japanese cal-
ligraphy techniques, which deeply and lastingly
inuenced his working methods. Sur la verte
prairie au lever du soleil (On the green meadow
at sunrise) is clearly steeped in this experience,
both with its vertical format reminiscent of Japa-
nese scrolls and the intense black lines evoking
the gracious harmony of Far East ideograms. In
this work, the strokes of pure pigments respond
to the vibrant and diluted application of the
medium in the lower section, while the ne lines
contrast with the solid colours dividing the com-
position. These solid colours evoke the abstract
expressionists large canvases painted at the
same period, by artists such as Mark Rothko or
Robert Motherwell, which Mir had discovered
during his rst trip to the United States in 1947.
The discovery of the American schools aes-
thetic approach was a revelation for the Catalan
painter. It should be noted that this admiration
was reciprocal, as many young American artists,
among them Jackson Pollock, acknowledge
Mirs inuence on their own work.
From 1950 onwards, Mirs painting undoubt-
edly echoes the new, vibrant and fascinating
trends of abstraction. However, the works of
the 1960s and 1970s, as in the case of the pre-
sent work, testify to the condence of a painter
aware of his command of his art and convinced
of the relevance of his artistic approach. His
work, with its multiple inspirations, as those
mentioned above, which contributed to its evo-
lution, still remains true to his consistent vision
and the aesthetic approach which he ceaselessly
perfected. As the artists celebrated biographer
Jacques Dupin wrote for the groundbreaking
retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris: Mir
hasnt renewed a style, he has explored it in
depth and simplied it with a sometimes inso-
lent economy of means [] The limited palette,
the unchanging themes have apparently favored
the diversity of the works in their dimensions,
their proportions, their rhythms and tones, their
style. They all have a note of gravity in their exu-
berance, and this concentration of energy is as
perceptible in the series of tiny canvases as in
an enormous painting (Joan Mir, exhibition
catalogue, Paris, Grand Palais, 1974, p. 21). Sur
la verte prairie au lever du soleil, exhibited at the
Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul de Vence and
at the Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu in Barce-
lona, during the retrospective organised for the
artists seventy-fth birthday, has all the power,
the simplicity and the magic described by Dupin.
Lot 8 Fernand Lger
tude pour La grande parade
In 1947-1950 Lger returned to one of his
favorite subjects, the circus, to execute a series
of color lithographs, which Triades Les Editions
Verve published as the folio Cirque in 1950. The
artist then began to make studies in prepara-
tion for two large compositions titled La grande
parade, the second, denitive version of which
he completed in 1954, the year before his death.
He intended his circus mural to summarize the
themes of men and women at leisure, existing
in a joyous state of freedom and play that had
preoccupied him since his Les plongeurs series in
the early 1940s. La grande parade refers not to
events in the ring under the big top, but to the
customary show put on by the performers outside
that was intended to draw in customers from the
street. Lger described such a scene in his text
accompanying the Cirque lithographs: Furious
music suddenly erupts and overwhelms the
noises of the crowd. The collective march moves
toward a goal: the circus parade. It begins. The
gate money is tied to this parade, so it is persua-
sive and dynamic. The instruments are making
as much noise as they can. All this hullabaloo is
projected from a raised platform. It hits you right
in the face, right in the chest. Its like a magic
spell. Behind, beside, in front, appearing and dis-
appearingfaces, limbs, dancers, clowns, scarlet
throats, pink legs and that music associated with
the glare of the spotlights that sweeps over the
whole, aggressive bunch, that makes all those
white faces with staring eyes approach, become
caught, and climb the steps that lead them to
the ticket booth. Hand us the cash! They keep
coming in and always will. They scramble in until
the tent is ready to burst. People are turned away.
The parade has won (cited in The Functions of
Painting, New York, pp. 175-176).
Lger made over seventy paintings, gouaches
and ink drawings for the two versions of La
grande parade. The artist rendered the present
study in 1953. In the nal versions of the work,
all that remains of the word Cirque is the C,
and in the present study CIR still remains. Most
importantly, here Lger removed all local color,
moving toward the nal version where local
color is substituted by broad swatches of pure,
non-descriptive color. He eventually even ban-
ished the clouds still present here; Lgers circus
people now existed on the wall of the room
itself. This was in keeping with his latest ideas
of mural painting as conceived in conjunction
with architecture. He wrote in an article pub-
lished in Galerie Maeghts magazine Derrire la
Miroir in 1952: Let us leave the colored walls,
let us imagine interiors in free colors in order to
avoid the word abstract, which is wrong. Color
is true, realistic, emotional in itself without having
to tie itself closely to a sky, a tree, a ower. It has
intrinsic value, like a musical symphony. I believe
that the acceptance of these large mural decora-
tions in free color, which is possible very soon,
could destroy the cheerless soberness of certain
buildings: stations, large public spaces and facto-
ries. Why not? (ibid., pp. 179-180).
Lot 9 Max Ernst Fleurs sur fond vert
Painted in 1928, Fleurs sur fond vert is part of a
series realised by Max Ernst as an extension of
the collages and frottages (rubbings) on the same
theme made at the beginning of the decade. The
discovery of a new technique called grattage
(scraping) enabled the artist to apply to painting
the effect of the frottage initially explored on
paper, and consequently to create new develop-
ments on canvas. After having applied succes-
sive layers of different colours of paint to the
canvas laid on to a hard-textured surface, Ernst
removed the dry medium with a knife, revealing
a kaleidoscope of colours beneath, the aspect
of which owes as much to the artists choice as
to the effects produced by the superposition of
pigments. To accentuate the presence of scraped
elements and highlight the grain of their surface,
they are generally, as in the present work, shown
against large coloured areas. With reference to
the strange organic structures revealed in this
manner, simultaneously ower, shell and geo-
logical form, Ludger Derenthal writes The shell-
owers rst appear in twos and in small groups;
later entire nocturnal gardens would be planted.
At this point, one should remember the paintings
of botanical studies of the Dada period, where
plants were also isolated and placed over a low
horizon. [] The Shell-owers are delicately and
attractively coloured. The painter replaces the col-
lagist. Max Ernst follows the traditions of James
Ensor and Odilon Redon, who also occasionally
transformed shells into owers. It is a brilliant
technique which explores the painterly value of
both subjects (Max Ernst, Paris, 1992, p. 124).
Lot 10 Pablo Picasso 23 plats en argent
It is thanks to the famous historian Douglas
Cooper that Pablo Picassos silver platters came
into existence. Long-time friends, both living in
the south of France, the two men had got into
the habit of spending long sunny afternoons at La
Californie, discussing the painters works. Cooper
recalls: There was a new group of these plates,
just arrived from Vallauris, which Picasso and I
were looking at one day at the end of May 1956
in La Californie. Little by little, these objects led
our conversation to the magnicently repouss
gold and silver platters made in the 16th and 17th
century in France, in Augsburg or in Venice, many
with designs by famous artists [] This is when, a
few minutes later, Picasso suddenly said that he
had himself thought that his own plates would
be splendid if executed in silver (D. Cooper,
Picasso, 19 plats en argent, Paris, 1977, n.p).
Cooper immediately thought of Franois Hugo
whom Picasso had met before the war. The sil-
versmith had recently come to notice with the
creation of several religious objects in silver using
the repouss technique. Picasso was immediately
interested and asked Douglas Cooper to contact
the silversmith. The two artists met on 25 Sep-
tember 1956. They discussed the projects many
technical aspects and Picasso, won over by the
artists talent and his charm, gave him the dish
Le Dormeur as a model for a rst trial. This rst
attempt was a success and Picasso ordered four
further Dormeur platters. The orders continued
for the next ten years; in addition to the platters,
Picasso also asked Hugo to make a fruit dish and
several objects in gold. Each time, these projects
constantly challenged the inventiveness, the
intellectual capacity and the dexterity of the
artist (ibid.). Together they also worked on the
conception of a vase, but the results were never
satisfactory for Picasso. Initially, Picasso intended
these objects for his personal use only and had
not considered authorizing the execution of
other editions to be sold to the public (ibid.).
Picasso refused to lend them for exhibitions and
jealously kept them for himself for many years.
It was only in 1967 that the public discovered
these hidden treasures at Galerie Le Point Car-
dinal in Paris. Later, Picasso authorized editions
and Franois Hugo, helped by his son Pierre,
executed these pieces which, in spirit, seemed
to take one back to the Renaissance (ibid.).
Lot 11 Constantin Brancusi tude de femme
Etude de femme belongs to a series of drawings that
Margit Rowell terms the Sculpted Drawings: the
technique precisely echoes the sculptors working
gestures and the tactile nature of his vision. Some
of these works are autonomous images; others
pregure or are reminiscent of existing sculptures.
Using graphite or coloured pencils with wide, at
leads, Brancusi hollowed and heightened, attened
and rounded out his motif, sculpting his volumes
through a uid juxtaposition of broad planes. [] In
comparison with most of Brancusis drawings, these
works show an uncommon ease and self-assurance.
And precisely what could be more natural to the
sculptors vision than to shun the line and soften the
contours? This is the hand of the sculptor at work,
squaring, cutting, or polishing his material to bring
out its volumes and ensnare the light (Constantin
Brancusi, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia, 1995,
pp. 287-288).
The present drawing is a study for the lost marble,
Femme se regardant dans un miroir (Teja Bach
92), where the ne nose, the long draping hair,
and the right hand are clearly distinguishable here
as well. In 1915 Brancusi returned to this subject,
and the resulting marble and bronze versions are
highly pared-down to a minimalist, sensual surface.
Brancusi sent these later versions to New York for
an exhibition with Marius de Zayas at the Modern
Gallery, where they were titled Portrait of Madame
P.D.K. It was on this occasion that Zayas informed
John Quinn that the subject was Princess Bona-
parte. Marie Bonaparte, a descendant of Napoleon,
was the wife of Prince Georges I of Greece and was
a prominent gure in Parisian society at that time.
We thank Margit Rowell for her assistance in the
research of this work.
Lot 12 Gino Severini Danseuse
The rst owner of Danseuse was Jean dit Gabriel
Viaud-Bruant (1865-1948), a French collector
passionate about art and his mtier as a horti-
culturalist. He was known to have oftentimes
exchanged with artists works of art for rare plants
and owers. He designed gardens for many art-
ists, including Henri Le Sidaner and Armand
Guillaumin, amongst the most well-known. His
close-knit relationship with many artists at the
turn of the century is witnessed by his numerous
writings on the subject, including Jardins
dArtistes (1905) et Peintres et Jardiniers (1916).
Viaud-Bruant eventually amassed a large collec-
tion of paintings and drawings, most notably he
had owned a charcoal drawing by Severini, Etude
pour Le train de la Croix-Rouge. This drawing
was sold in the Estate sale of his son, Jean Viaud,
at Drouot in 1975. Another important work that
entered Gabriel Viauds collection early on was
a work by Paul Gauguin, Portrait de Suzanne
Bambridge. Gabriel Viaud-Bruant sold it to a
Paris dealer, who in turn sold it to the Muse des
Beaux-Arts in Brussels, where it hangs today as
part of the permanent collection.
Text by Daniela Fonti, author of Gino Severini:
Catalogo ragionato, Milan, 1988
During the autumn and winter of 1914-1915,
while Europe was battered by the sombre storm of
the First World War, Severiniperhaps to lighten
the climate of tragedy that was extinguishing the
nal ickering embers of the belle poqueonce
again began to celebrate the subject that had
characterised his lengthy futurist period: dance.
Among all the subjects celebrated by the futurist
artists since their debut in 1912, at the famous
Parisian Bernheim-Jeune gallery, the glorica-
tion of modern dance, together with the frenetic
nocturnal existence of the cafs chantants, was
what distinguished Severinis canvases from those
of other futurists, who were instead seduced by
the celebration of the myth of the machine and
mechanical dynamism. From all the paintings cre-
ated by those who signed the manifesto in 1910,
the harsh French critics appreciated the latters
monumental work, The Dance of the Pan-Pan
at the Monicolost, the 1959 replica is now at
the Centre Pompidou in Parisin which he sum-
marised, in avant-garde terms, the theme of the
vitalistic frenzy that fuelled the Parisian nights with
their eternally crowded nightspots under ickering
articial lights, where an anonymous crowd would
pour in until the light of dawn, showing unbridled
enthusiasm for the fashionable dances of the era.
A collective experience, which overcame even
social divisions and almost transformed life in the
French metropolis into the joyous metaphor for
the radiant future that all of humanity was antici-
pating with the dawn of the new century. Dance
therefore, as a nocturnal allegory for modernity,
for the collective joy and the life force that, by
day, transformed the crowd of passers-by, car-
riages and the rst cars that joyfully swarmed the
boulevard into restless agitation.
Between 1912 and 1913 Severini dedicated count-
less paintings to the theme of dance and the cel-
ebration of nightspots, the evocative names of
which (the Monico, the Moulin Rouge, the Folies
Bergres, the Bal Tabarin, the Grelot), remain
unaltered in the collective memory even after the
decline of their short-lived heyday, also thanks
to Severinis work. The experience of immersion
into the unanimous life of the nightspots was
synaesthetic, as the leading gures of this
period wanted futurist art to be, i.e. evocative of
the suoni, rumori, odori [sounds, noises, smells]
(according to Carlo Carrs 1913 manifesto), rec-
reated through the effect of intensely colourful
forms, decomposed and recomposed in time with
a dynamic rhythm, completely different from the
considered compositional effect of planes in cubist
paintings. The approach that the Italian artist
dedicates to the nightspots and dancers under
the articial lights is varied: in some canvases, in
The Dance of the Pan-Pan at the Monico, 1911,
in Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, 1912
(New York, Museum of Modern Art,) or Spanish
Dancers at the Monico, 1913 (private collection),
the theme of the caf chantant as a privileged
place of enthusiasm and collective emotion, pro-
duces compositions with extremely complex and
irregular rhythm in which the gures of the female
dancers are continuously brought into focus and
then reabsorbed by the overall perception of the
surroundings, expressed through the persistent
effect of oscillating and colourful forms, either
transparent or attributed with full spatiality. In this
tumultuous rise and fall of anonymous bodies,
several recurring characters emerge occasionally,
with humour and personality: the dancer with the
styled curls, the gentlemen in top hats and tails,
the musicians, the patrons sitting around the edge
of the dance oor.
Yet in a diptych painted in 1912 (Blue Dancer,
Mattioli collection, Venice, Peggy Guggenheim
Collection) and The disruptiveDynamism of
a dancerDancer in black and white, (Milan,
Museum of the Twentieth Century) the gure of
the dancer stands out from the crowd to take on
the role of the protagonist; a role she does not
relinquish until 1915. The dancing girls now take
pride of place, on the stage and under the spot-
lights, as was the case every evening in countless
Parisian cabaret bars. They portray various char-
acters, various psychological types; however
these are not described but construed through
the formal tools of the painting: form and colour.
The blue of the homonymous Dancer symbolically
evokes (but with a symbolism which is completely
instilled in the painting) a slow and cadenced
dance rhythm, a waltz or a tango, together with
a more relaxed use of form than in The disrup-
tiveDynamism of a dancerDancer in black
and white; in the latter, in the blue bodice and
dazzlingly white skirt, the dynamic plastic hub
from which the image originates is located in the
pelvis and the unrestrained cancan is suggested
by the repetition and the spatial dislocation of
the perfectly functional arms and legs from
the expression of the atmosphere and setting,
saturated with the rhythmic beat of the dancers
heels on the wooden oor, with the effect of
an extraordinary connection between thematic
assumption and formal expression. Non mi
riuto di sentirmi trascinato istintivamente verso
insiemi plastici nei quali un ritmo musicale con-
duce larabesco di linee e piani [I do not refuse
to feel instinctively drawn towards plastic ensem-
bles in which a musical rhythm conducts the ara-
besque of lines and planes], he writes in 1913;
the irresistible pull towards increasingly abstract
forms, the artist explains however, is imposed by
the complexity of the psychological and visual
processes that inspire the image and translate
it into a space designed as ambient (lled
with sounds and noises), relived in the memory
(because, as Bergson says, percepire non che
unoccasione per ricordare [perception is only
an opportunity for recollection]), transformed
by individual emotion (that he indeed denes as
plastic emotion). In April 1913, at Londons
Marlborough Gallery, Severini exhibited 30
pieces which were almost entirely dedicated to
Parisian nightclubs and their protagonists, with
the exception of the ve inspired by the new
mechanical theme of the North-South railway.
Re-surfacing in the centrality of the dancing
female gure are literary inuences, particularly
from Stephane Mallarmas highlighted by US
art criticsand his research around the origin of
human expression, which Severini eetingly refer-
ences in one of his theoretical texts. It is enough
to cite the French poets famous statement (la
danzatrice non una donna che danza ma
una metafora [the dancer is not a woman who
dances but a metaphor]), recalling his reec-
tions on the dancers ability to generate musi-
cality without music and transform herself into
an abstract space-generating hub (space that
expands and contracts).
Towards the end of 1913 Severini was indirectly
invited by Marinetti to expand the barriers of
poetic expression verso linnitamente pic-
colo che ci circonda, limpercettibile, linvisibile,
lagitazione degli atomi, il movimento Brown-
iano; non gi come documento scientico, ma
come elemento intuitivo, io voglio introdurre
nella poesia linnita vita molecolare [towards
the innitely small that surrounds us, the imper-
ceptible, the invisible, the agitation of atoms,
Brownian motion; not as a scientic document
but as an intuitive element, I want to introduce
the innite molecular life into poetry]. Sever-
inis work was now focused on a more marked
abstraction; the theme of dance integrated with
that of swirling cosmic particles in empty space;
he wanted the painting to convey to the spectator
the pure dynamic impulse, released from its envi-
ronmental dimension and expressed through
the continuous variation of the light-colour brush
strokes that continuously disassemble and reas-
semble abstract geometric volumes. Major works
of the mature futurist season were thus created,
such as Sea = Dancer, 1913-1914 (Venice, Peggy
Guggenheim Collection), which demonstrated
the new line of research, summarised by Severini
in one of his theoretical writings: soltanto il
ricordo dellemozione persiste e non quello della
causa che lha prodotta [only the memory of
the emotion endures and not that of the cause
that produced it].
After returning to Paris at the end of 1914, Sev-
erini became involved in a memorable cycle of
paintings and drawings inspired by the theme of
the war that was under way, authentic futurist
pictograms, in which the urgency of the events
resulted in a fast painting, with great symbolic
impact. But the swan song of his most suc-
cessful avant-garde period is once again linked
to the celebration of the dancing female gure.
Mentioned eetingly in his memoirs, these works
created in 1915 form a restrained but stylistically
compact nucleus of charcoal canvases and draw-
ings, to which the new gure of Dancer in the
blue dress is now added. The woman, from the
soft shapes emphasised by the neckline and the
abundance of the hips, turns to the side with her
arms raised, probably in a tango step, encircled by
the arms of her partner who is visible in the back-
ground wearing a black suit, top hat and white
dicky; behind the folds of her skirt, we can make
out the black trousers of the man with his legs
stretched apart; on the left is the distinctive and
smartly dressed gure of the violinistthe same
one we see in other contemporaneous paintings
and drawingshis head resting on his instrument,
hands clasped in a style consistent with cubism, his
hairstyle humorously exaggerated with a centre-
parting and thick eyebrows. The whole painting is
based on the juxtaposition between straight lines
(the bright, almost wedge-shaped, triangles or
beams of light, generated higher up by the taut
line of the violin bow) and curves (the undulating
layers of the blue dress) that contrast and persist
according to the theoretical principal established
by the artist in various writings between 1913-
1914, for whom the lines are inherent bearers
of a precise psychology, much like each colour is
associated with a sensation or a sound. He almost
establishes, in the symbolist manner, tables of
correspondence between the universe of sen-
sations (visual, olfactory, auditory), and that of
forms, lines and colours. As a result there will
be light forms, noise forms, etc. and these
will be different from sound forms and speed
forms; much like the light-colours (naturally those
of the prism) will be different from sound-colours,
speed-colours, smell-colours and so on. The diag-
onal on which the entire composition is based is
that which dominates the highly signicant tango
170 171
step, which the entire painting presumably makes
reference to and blue, the colour of the inner
being, prevails. The date of winter 1914-1915 is
suggested by the iconographic and compositional
afnity with a limited number of works all painted
during this period, some of which have recently
resurfaced. In the magnicent charcoal drawing
(Dancer and violinist, 56.5 x 46 cm, formerly Paris,
A. Schneerberger collection, now Private Collec-
tion), which demonstrates extreme formal skill,
the gure of the dancer is positioned as if in a
mirror-image, but other elements are almost iden-
tical: the violinist behind her, the exaggeration of
the buttocks, the style of the layers of the skirt
that create swirling waves around the gure and
nally, but signicantly, the presence of triangles
(which can be interpreted as beams of light, wings,
or even small tables overturned on their surfaces)
that clear the lower part of the canvas, as if the
edges of the painting depict the departure of the
fading echoes of the dynamic excitement evoked
above. It should be noted that the size of the
drawing is almost the same as Dancer, and that
this is the case for another piece from the same
period, Dancer in a Restaurant, (oil on canvas, 54
x 46 cm, Fonti, Catalogo Ragionato, no. 249, p.
204, private collection). The latter, rather than
another variation on the theme, seems almost as
if it is a pendant to Dancer, so numerous are the
small details that connect one to the other: the
decidedly cubist style of the face, with a slightly
shocked expression (almost like a dancing man-
nequin), the twirling straps of the dress, the curve
of the dcolletage, the slightly ironic tone and full
antigrazioso style that characterises the accompa-
nying male gures, but particularly the composi-
tion which is devised on the persistent reciprocal
of acute, triangular forms and curved forms. Only
the colour is radically antithetical: hot in Dancer
in a Restaurant, sparkling with reds and yellows,
cold in Dancer, all based on a background of blue,
greys and blacks.
Now, rather than embodying a denitively shared
visual emotion, these Dancers who mark the end
of the artists futurist period seem to re-emerge
from the memory of youth, saturated by a layer of
underlying sadness; it is the farewell to a feverish
avant-garde period, always experienced by pas-
sionate and informed protagonists.
Lot 13 Mose Kisling Majama
In the end it was a twist of fate which led Mose
Kisling to painting. Despite having been fascinated
by sculpture and three dimensionality since child-
hood, when it came to his apprenticeship at the
Krakow academy of ne arts he was placed in the
class of Josef Pankievicz, a friend of Pierre-Auguste
Renoir. His artistic education was wrought by the
classic works of Thodore Gricault, Jean-Auguste
Dominique Ingres, Paul Czanne and above all
Renoir. Kisling arrived in Paris in 1910 and took
up lodgings in Rue des Beaux-Arts. The young
man was soon caught up in the whirl of the day
and night life of Montparnasse. He befriended a
group of young foreign artists and intellectuals,
notably Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Manolo, Andr
Salmon, Max Jacob and Amedeo Modigliani. They
exchanged ideas, worked together on projects and
stimulated one anothers creativity.
An accomplished artist, Kisling would try his hand
at all artistic genres. Portraiture, however, soon
distinguished itself as one of the most successful
themes in his work. He took a real interest in the
life of the model and was intent on capturing their
emotional state of mind in his depiction. His pref-
erence was for nudes, as revealed by his remark
a beautiful naked girl gives me joy, the desire to
love, to be happy and I would like the canvas on
which I display her to express my joy (quoted in
Charensol, Mose Kisling, Paris, 1948, p. 6).
Majama is an important work from an historical
and stylistic point of view in the young polish art-
ists production. On one hand, this composition
belongs to a highly creative and successful period:
it was part of a selection for the 1914 Salon des
Indpendants, which met with an excellent crit-
ical reception. The support of the art critic Andr
Salmon was notable: Kisling? Theres a painter.
Theres a man, who remains a man. The painter
of modern life in full possession of the most rig-
orous tradition, without being possessed by it
(Kisling, Paris, 1928, page 9). On the other hand,
from an esthetic point of view, this nude retraces
all of the stylistic reections Kisling carried within
him: the imprint of the past, its application in the
present and the question of his future direction.
After the revolutions of Fauvism and Cubism, Kis-
ling would be one of the rst in the young gen-
eration to go back to the classical tradition whilst
looking for his own modernity. As with the other
painters of the cole de Paris, Kisling turned to
an economy of colour, working largely in mono-
chrome, with simplied perspective and congu-
rations. In the case of the present painting, it is
a work conceived and built on a classic model:
Renoirs teachings can be perceived in the pres-
ence of realism, the treatment of volumes and a
subtle distribution of colour. The models body
and the description of the studio in the back-
ground are a series of sumptuous simplications,
of shadows and light wrought in a warm palette
which can serves to enhance the sensuousness
of this nude. It is additionally of interest to note
that Kisling assimilated the new esthetic princi-
ples defended by Pablo Picasso, while retaining
his own artistic personality. With regards to the
inuence of the Andalusian artist on the young
Kisling, two elements should be kept in mind:
the distinctive aspect of Pablo Picassos female
nudes from years 1907 and 1908, among which
the magnicent Trois Femmes; and the impact of
Kislings stay with Pablo Picasso in Cret in 1911.
Mose Kislings role in forging a new moder-
nity would nd him partisans and followers,
especially Amedeo Modigliani. The young artist
from Livorno was also strongly attached to the
painting of the great masters, especially those
of the Italian Renaissance. Each day Modigliani
would visit Kikis studio, 3 rue Joseph Bara, to
paint in the serene atmosphere and exchange
ideas with his Polish friend. As with Kisling in
Majama, Modigliani transcribed via his most
beautiful nude paintings, Nu assis, Nu assis sur
le divan (la Belle Romaine), or still Nu au drape,
his recognition of the lessons of the past, while
cementing his own stylistic revolution.
Lot 14 Albert Gleizes Sans titre
Majesty, that above all is what characterizes
Albert Gleizes art. [] This is vigorous art.
Albert Gleizess paintings are made with an
energy similar to that which built the pyramids
and the cathedrals, and which now builds metal
constructions, bridges and tunnels. Guillaume
Apollinaire, cited in Correspondance avec les
artistes, Paris, 2009, p. 286.
Lot 15 Pablo Picasso Nature Morte
la bouteille
When in 1972 William Rubin, Director emeritus of
the New York Museum of Modern Art, questioned
Picasso on the identication of objects in one of
his major 1912 canvases, he received the reply:
All its forms cant be rationalized. At the time
everyone talked about how much reality there was
in Cubism. But they didnt understand. Its not a
reality you can take in your hand. Its more like
a perfume - in front of you, behind you, to the
side. The scent is everywhere, but you dont quite
know where it comes from (cited in J. Sutherland
Boggs, Picasso & Things, Cleveland, 1992, p. 97).
Nature Morte la bouteille is constructed
through Picassos idiosyncratic use of Cubist lan-
guage. The composition is achieved via a series
of forms which are broken down through the
systematic disruption of contours set within an
arrangement of dissolved slanting and vertical
lines. A blending of object and surrounding space
provides a sense of pictorial unity. Through this
abstract armature, fragments of a bottle and a
wineglass can be seen, offering up to the viewer
vestiges of reality on to which they can grasp.
This large-scale ink drawing most closely resem-
bles Picassos works executed in the spring of
1911 in Paris (see Still life: Bottle and Wineglass,
Daix no. 403) and in the summer of the same
year in Cret in the Eastern Pyrenees (see Table
with Bottle and Wineglass, Daix no. 404). In
the Cret works in particular, Picasso evolved
an approach which revived a sense of gurative
coherence, previously abandoned in the quest
for visual unity. This sense of reality was notably
anchored through the inclusion of habitual clue-
objects, including, as in this case, the bottle and
the wineglass. As such, the Cret drawings of
1911 represent a key stage in the artists devel-
opment, not only in terms of the evolution of
Cubism, but with respect to Picassos entire
future career. Having brought his art, through
Cubism, to the brink of abstraction, he then
deliberately chose the path which took him back
to the depiction of reality, based upon his belief
that his art should be as real as real life.
Lot 16 Juan Gris Verre et bouteille
Juan Gris arrived in Paris in 1906 and, as with
other fellow artists and intellectuals, took up
residence in Montmartre. He quickly fell in with
the personalities of the neighborhoods nightlife:
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the writers
Guillaume Apollinaire, Andr Salmon and Max
Jacob. His experiments and research into ana-
lytical and synthetic cubism met with signicant
success, and both of the leading dealers for the
cubist school, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and
Lonce Rosenberg, undertook to support his
work. Although his artistic maturity is considered
to have formed between 1916-1919, the period
1920-1926 nevertheless remains one of the key
moments in the evolution of his cubism thanks
to the adoption of a freer, and therefore more
personal, approach. Executed in 1922, Verre et
bouteille displays a complex abstraction within
a quest for a pure aesthetic. The artist demon-
strates a technical prowess in creating his compo-
sition through the juxtaposition of colours which
produce both a lyricism and a strongly contrasted
image. This work underscores perfectly the de-
nition which Juan Gris himself used for his art as
a at and colorful painting. It is noteworthy
that, at the time of production of the present
work (1921-1922), Juan Gris was convalescing
whilst simultaneously experiencing a new breath
of life and creation.
Lot 17 Ren Magritte Deux nus dans
un paysage
In 1906, at the start of his career as a painter
which had begun at the Acadmie Royale des
Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Ren Magritte was
experimenting to nd his own artistic identity.
Meanwhile, the avant-gardes, both a source
of inspiration and of esthetic constraints, were
gaining momentum accross Europe. Magrittes
work seemed torn between the inuences of
the young dada, purist and constructivist move-
ments but also of the more established ones
such as fauvism, expressionism or cubism. At
the beginning of the 1920s, having acquired a
copy of the recently published Le Cubisme et les
moyens de le comprendre by Albert Gleizes, and
received the catalogue of a futurist exhibition
the artist turned his style more clearly in those
two directions. Unable to decide clearly between
these two aesthetic approaches or to reconcile
their differences in a new distinct style, during
the rst year of that decade Magritte main-
tained a style which would go from one to the
other, depending on a specic work. However,
two fundamental elements emerged during
this period: the rejection of abstraction on one
hand and a predilection for female nudes on the
other. Thus, if two or three of his earliest can-
vases borrow from abstract trends happening in
Holland, Germany or Russia, following this brief
period of experimentation the artist dedicated
himself to guration. His subsequent approach
to surrealism was an elegy to this decision; as
he reected to the journalist Jan Walrvens in
1962: My painting must resemble the world
in order to evoke its mystery (quoted in R.-M.
Jongen, Ren Magritte ou la pense image de
linvisible: rexions et recherches, Brussels,
1994, p. 142). The female nude became central
to his work. Pierre Bourgeois underlined in an
article published in 7 arts in 1923: The case
of Ren Magritte is curious [] Immersed in
modern art, he always seems somehow like an
outsider among modernist experiments []
Here he is curious of the female nude expressing
his fevered passion with insistent love: to inten-
sify the rhythmic meaning of bodies, coloured
triangles and tablecloths create a simple and
musical background behind them. With him,
a passionate and mental world comes to life,
daringly expressing its anxiety (quoted in D.
Sylvester, Magritte, Brussels, 1992, p. 64).
With Jeune Fille, painted in 1922, Magritte made
a critical move, reaching a summit of voluptuous-
ness through extreme stylization of the female
body and of the geometric compositions which
form its background. The artist mentioned this
movingly in a letter to his friend Charles Alex-
andre I want you to note that since La jeune
lle which you saw with pleasure the last time
we met, the conscience with which I executed
this work (my rst work) has not died down
and I think that thanks to this, I am in posses-
sion of a personal skill which can express what
I am and I want you to note that those who
express themselves in a personal manner are
geniuses.?!? (quoted in ibid., p. 62). Deux nus
dans un paysage should be considered in light
of Jeune lle as clearly belonging to this period
where the painter is generating a rst version of
his personal style. Here, the two bodies seem to
be levitating in a highly coloured landscape with
rhythmical geometrical elements. The extended
and outspread arms of the two women, evoking
spread wings and echoing the birds nested in the
top right hand corner, contrast with the exag-
geratedly curvaceous forms of the central gure,
and add to the dynamism of the composition.
In all likelihood, the artist worked rst on the
background and then added the gures, then,
as suggested by the cracks inherent to his tech-
nique and the covered-over signature lower right,
reworked the whole work while the initial paint
was still fresh. This could explain the feeling of
weightlessness emerging from the composition,
accented by the chiaroscuro treatment of the
bodies, which lightens the gures in spite of their
strong curves. According to David Sylvesters and
Sarah Whitelds catalogue raisonn, the sur-
prising emphasis on the contours could suggest
the participation of another painter in this work,
as for Rcital, jointly executed with Karel Maes
at the same time. However, whereas for Rcital
this unusual collaboration is clearly mentioned in
two letters from the artist to his friends Pierre
Flouquet and Edouard-Lon-Thodore Mesens,
no letter or document corroborates the theory of
another artist participating in the present work,
in spite of Magrittes abundant correspondence
with his entourage. Furthermore, no new con-
crete elements have come to light to substan-
tiate this hypothesis since the publication of the
catalogue raisonn in 1992. Catalogued as Ren
Magritte: Femmes Nues (very early) in an inven-
tory of works by the surrealist painter belonging
to Edouard-Lon-Thodore Mesens - his close
friend and dealer, and one of his main collectors
- Deux nus dans un paysage is a rare testimony of
the rst and fundamental period of the master.
Lot 18 Pablo Picasso Vase
In August 1946, during his summer holiday in
Golfe-Juan with Franoise Gilot, Picasso visited
a crafts exhibition in Vallauris, a small working-
class town specialized in ceramics. The artist
was attracted to the pots, jugs and vases from
Madoura, a small factory managed by Georges
and Suzanne Rami. The two couples became
friends and Picasso asked to try his hand at pottery.
This moment therefore initiated, by pure chance,
a collaboration which was to last more than two
decades and give a new impetus to Picassos work.
The artist executed his rst ceramic works in
summer 1946, but it is only in 1947 that Picas-
sos pottery research became truly intense. In
May 1948, he moved to La Galloise, a modest
house in Vallauris, with Franoise and their
son. The following spring as La Galloise was
proving too small to house his abundant pro-
duction, Picasso acquired Fournas, a former
perfume factory, which he transformed into a
studio and storage place. In 1954, as the factory
again turned out to be too small for his crea-
tive energies, Picasso moved to La Californie, a
19th century villa located above Cannes, with
Jacqueline Roque, a Madoura employee, who by
then had become his life companion. He went
on experimenting there, as testament by David
Douglas Duncans photographs, with works lit-
erally piling up on the houses shelves.
Retained by the artist until his death, our vase
was modelled then painted by Picasso in 1957.
With its two large handles reminiscent of a birds
wings and its oblong belly, the shape of this vase
is one of the most original created by the artist.
The rst vases of this type appeared as early as
1951, with varying decorations. Most of them
were edited in either small or large editions.
Unique and unpublished, our vase was directly
painted by Picasso and no edition of this subject
was ever produced. Its dcor clearly evokes both
an owl and a faun. The two large eyes of the bird
peek out from under the beak of the vase. On
each side of the belly, two large wings appear;
the legs are drawn in wide strokes of black and
ochre. The nostrils of the faun, his eyes and
mouth are represented by incisions and holes in
the clay. Although it seems to have been painted
freely, this work was the result of an intense pro-
cess of preparation. As the Ramis emphasized:
the means used are not very orthodox. An
apprentice working like Picasso wouldnt nd
a job (quoted in J. Sabarts, Picasso Val-
lauris, in Cahier dart, p. 83). Picasso, however,
felt utterly free from the potters conventions
and dared to experiment with all the techniques
within his reach. For the present vase, Picasso
rst outlined the areas to be left in reserve,
tracing a white network on the surface, over
which he drew with a black slip. The bird and
satyr motives are painted in black and ochre
pigments and then covered with enamel. The
vase was baked several times, which inevitably
caused some loss of medium but which was not
of concern to the artist. For Picasso, ceramic is
essentially a medium used for formal, picto-
rial and technical research. Picasso adopted a
new technical vocabulary, underglazing, lead
sulde glazing, engobes, slips, oxides, open
ame, silicate cover, colorant on bisqueand
generally sought to disrupt the ancestral art of
the potter with his many contraventions. while
ceramics may have represented a diversion for
him, it nevertheless fully formed part of his
oeuvre. Picassos ceramic work is a surprising
hymn to life, a sort of extension in another
medium of La joie de vivre seen in the Antibes
museum. A surprising sense of fun and vitality
breathe throughout this work: the fauns smirk,
the owers mingle in their vase, the painters
palette freezes, trompe-loeil thumb their noses
at 18th century plates, as his black gures poke
fun at antique archetypes. Amid this abundant,
transgressive, exhilarating creation, Picasso
makes rational propositions: With ceramics
the artist can demonstrate his creativity and the
strength of his invention like in a painting, while
additionally saving the spontaneous result born
physically, materially from his hands (quoted
in F. Mathey, La cramique des peintres, in
Mtiers dart, October 1981, p. 110).
Lot 19 Pablo Picasso Mre et enfant
Perhaps no greater contrast can be found in
Picassos oeuvre than that between the sense of
imminent demise conveyed by the later works and
the expression of burgeoning life evoked by his
pictures of children (W. Spies, Picassos World of
Children, exhibition catalogue, Dsseldorf, Kunst-
sammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1995, p. 9)
Mre et enfant belongs to an exuberant group of
late works which sees the Spanish master glori-
fying the subject of Motherhood. Painted as part
of a group of seven works on the theme executed
over a three day period, the present picture illus-
trates the vivacity which Picasso brought to the
subject after a lifetime portraying an often raw
emotional reality.
The Mother and Child was a theme to which
Picasso would return at certain specic moments
throughout his life. Although not ranked among
the major themes to which he devoted signicant
periods of time and energy, Picassos images of
affection or attachment between mother and child
emerged when his autobiographical impulse came
to the fore. A distinction can be drawn, however,
between his use of the subject Mother and Child
as part of an objective purpose, as distinct from
subjects of maternity where we see the artist
expressing a much more personal viewpoint.
Picasso retained a strong sense of family
throughout his life, the bond having been no
doubt modeled by his own upbringing where his
mother had apparently given him a solid indication
of his own worth:
When I was a child, my mother told me if you
become a soldier, you will be a General. If you
become a monk, you will end up as Pope. I wanted
to be a painter, and so I became Picasso(cited in
Pablo Picasso, Voyage au bout du trac, exhibition
catalogue, Paris, Galerie Boulakia, 2011, p. 32).
Picassos personal collection illustrated his interest
in the myth of the Mother Figure, including for
example ancient Iberian Orant gurines of the third
and fourth century BCE. The life-giving Mother
Figure made frequent appearances throughout
Picassos early career. In the rst Parisian years she
appears as a device Picasso used to emulate pre-
cursors such as Raphael and Ingres. In 1904-05,
Picassos Madonna however is a haunting gure
of poverty and melancholy, often placed within a
context of illness and suffering and whose preter-
natural status is in doubt.
The moment when motherhood in Picassos art
transitioned from a symbolic device to a tangible
interaction of intimacy arose when he himself
became a father. On 4th February 1921 Picassos
rst child, Paulo, was born and over the next three
years Picasso would portray intimate scenes of
Olga and Paulo from a distinctly personal vantage
point. The works on paper and prints dating from
1921-23 in particular reveal a fascination with the
eeting moments of maternal interaction which he
observed. Meanwhile the mother gure depicted
in his major paintings of the same period had
become a powerful and majestic force. Conse-
quently, when Picassos marriage with Olga began
to break down his images of family groups portray
a mother and child bond which dominates the
conguration, visibly excluding the father gure.
In the late 1930s the Mother and Child device
returns in his work on Guernica. Subsequent to
numerous preparatory works on paper, the nal
painting features a grief-stricken mother clutching
her dead child in a heart-wrenching depiction of
human suffering. The Mother Figure is stripped
of her sovereignty and now takes her place as a
powerless pawn lost within the scope of a conict
which is indifferent to human existence.
Picasso was to become a father again in 1935,
heralding several maternity masterpieces depicting
Marie-Thrse with their child Maya. In the late
1940s Claude and Paloma we born to Franoise
Gilot, giving rise to a number of family portraits
as well as more whimsical works depicting the
children at play.
It was in the mid-1960s that Picasso would revisit
the subject of the Mother and Child, but this
time bringing his most uplifting and life-afrming
approach to the subject. The present picture
was the second work in the series, executed on
the 26th October 1965. As with six of the seven
paintings, the subject is the Mother and Child (the
fourth in the series being the only painting where
a father gure features). The series as a whole is
characterized by the use of a cool palette of earth
tones punctuated by ashes of blues and green.
This color harmony allows a boisterous use of the
brush to come to the fore, a device the artist often
employed when he considered the importance of
form as paramount. The present painting, Mre
et enfant contrasts to the immediately preceding
work (Zervos 185) and the immediately following
work (Zervos 187) most notably by the size given
to the mothers head. In our work her prole occu-
pies fully the right-hand side of the painting, and
her mouth is placed at the height of the babys
head, enhancing the sensation of intimacy. The
mothers right hand cradles her child, protecting
and drawing it against her.
A matter of weeks after the present work was
painted Picasso was hospitalized for an operation
which would incapacitate him for some time. It
was perhaps with a certain sense of his own mor-
tality that he brought to Mre et enfant a degree
of tenderness hitherto unknown in his treatment
of the subject.
Lot 20 Pablo Picasso Tte dhomme
The art world of the 1960s consisted of a swirl
of movements such Pop art, New Realism or Op
Art. Pablo Picasso positioned himself, once again,
as an outsider to these different currents. He
preferred rather to rekindled his love for classical
painting in particular the works of the Spanish
and Dutch artists of the Golden Age - projecting
all of his originality into his re-interpretations
of their work. His preferred themes remained
the same (the artist and his model, portraits,
nudes), but a new character also appeared:
the gentleman or musketeer. The costumed
character would feature as one of his key sub-
jects in 1969, coinciding with the celebrations of
the birth of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.
Several days prior to the execution of Tte
dhomme, Picasso produced a series of four
paintings on the subject of the smoking Mus-
keteer (February 1969), taking his inspiration
from Rembrandts Portrait of Jan Pellicorne and
his son Gaspar. Both this source, together with
Rembrandts self-portraits, would provide Picasso
with the necessary material to bring to life a highly
colorful character who spanned the centuries:
semi-Spanish, semi-Dutch, in period costume,
sporting a wig and moustache, this amusing gure
would prove one of the highlights for visitors to
the Picasso exhibition held in the gothic chapel at
the Palais des Papes in Avignon in 1970.
Dated Dimanche 16.3.69 IV, Picassos Tte
dHomme is executed using an economy of
drawing which is both simple and effective.
During the same day, Picasso would complete
two further drawings and an oil of the same sub-
ject. In our drawing, numbered IV, the expres-
sive intensity is palpable thanks to the technique
which combines an energetic execution, the jux-
taposition of lines and circles of varying thick-
ness and the contrast of cold, pastel and acidic
colours. The choice of a seemingly primitive or
childlike execution lends the subject a strong
sense of personality. Could this man who looks
us straight in the eyes not be considered a form
of self-portrait ? Typically, the Spanish master
intrigues and surprises us. The progression
through this series of musketeers or portraits
denes the artists creative approach in his later
years. Hereby, Picasso destroys the classic notion
of a single opus, giving rather the pride of place
to the idea of repetition, and thereby allowing
similarities to be drawn between his work and
that of his contemporary, Andy Warhol.
Lot 21 Auguste Herbin Perron entour
d'arbres
The involvement of Auguste Herbin in the Fauve
movement between 1906-07 remained as short
as it was intense. Supported during this period
by the German collector Wilhelm Uhde, Herbin
exhibited amongst the most radical Fauve
painters, such as Derain, Dufy and Braque. In
Perron entour darbres, Herbin already reveals
a strong individuality, where entangled lines and
the importance of reection give the scene a sur-
real atmosphere, already anticipating by certain
aspects the growing importance of mysticism in
the artists later work.
Lot 22 Aristide Maillol Lda
I do not know, in all of modern sculpture a
piece that is so absolutely beautiful as the Leda,
such an absolute masterpiece
Auguste Rodin (cited in J. Rewald, Maillol, Paris,
1939, p.161).
Fascinated by the archaic Greek and Khmer
sculptures that he discovered during the Expo-
sitions universelles of 1889 and 1900, Maillol
developed an aesthetic based on formal syn-
thesis and elegance, of which Lda is the expres-
sion. The woman is represented just prior to the
visit of her lover Zeus. Her reclined and slightly
turned head conveys sadness, while her left arm
is raised as a sign of modesty.
Maillols rst great success, the critic and collector
Gustave Mirbeau praised the work and acquired a
version when it was rst shown in Paris in 1902.
He showed it to Rodin, for whom Lda was a rev-
elation. As he sensed it, the work laid the founda-
tions of Maillols future aesthetics. Cast by Alexis
Rudier during the artists lifetime, with the patina
and chiseling made under his control, this rare
version is an original work by Maillol, only made
in an unnumbered edition of six.
Lot 23 Francis Picabia Espagnole
During the span of a career marked by an inde-
pendence of spirit and a permanent aesthetic
innovation, the Spanish woman is the only theme
to which Picabia returned systematically. Born in
France to a Spanish father and a French mother,
as one who renewed his ideas like changing his
shirt, as Picabia himself put it, he showed his rst
portraits of Spanish woman at the Danthon gal-
lery in May 1923, only a few months after the
ofcial end of the Dada movement. Picabia, who
was one of its most radical members, experi-
menting endlessly, seems to return to a certain
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pictorial tradition with his portraits of Spanish
ladies, which extends from Vlasquez to Matisse,
not forgetting Goya and Manet. This return to
order, which takes a caustic turn in Picabias
case, is misunderstood by critics. With his typical
humour, Picabia answered: I think its important
to satisfy all sorts of tastes. Some people do not
like machines: I propose Spanish ladies. If they
didnt like Spanish ladies, I would paint them
French onesYes, I make art that is meant to be
sold. And I am amazed that it is what I like the
most that sells the least (quoted in O. Revault
dAllonnes and D. Bouissou, Picabia: Ecrit, 1921-
1953, Paris, 1978, vol. II).
In Espagnole or Femme la mantille bleue, the
viewer faces a woman elegantly dressed with a
blue mantilla. Her eyes slightly dimed, her right
hand reaching to her shoulder, she seems to be
captured in a moment of dreamy thoughts. The
sober background is subtly vitalized by the darker
vertical stripe along the right border. Apparently
unoffensive, the work reveals Picabias complete
freedom, and doesnt hesitate to use popular
and almost dated imagery, aesthetically at the
opposite end of the avant-garde scale. Picabia
here engages in a new challenge: provocation
by returning to formal academism. In that sense,
portraits of Spanish ladies also anticipate the
realist gurative works of the 1940s, painted
after magazine illustrations. Our work, painted
at the beginning of that period, reinforces Pica-
bias great personal attachment to this subject,
while he is entering the nal chapter of his life.
Espagnole or Femme la mantille bleue expresses
the artists intimacy, as well as his refusal to be
categorized in a single movement.
Lot 24 Max Ernst La palette
In 1953 Ernst settled once again in Paris after
having been living in exile from Europe for over
thirteen years. La palette is one of the great paint-
ings in the grand tradition of European painting
that Ernst made at this time as if by way of cel-
ebrating his return. Taking as its subject the painter
and his art, La palette, like his great earlier painting
of 1942, Surrealism and Painting, depicts the artist
in the mysterious and noble act of making his art.
1953 was indeed a vintage year for the artist, as
he had won the prestigious Grand Prix of the
Venice Biennale, making La palette even more self-
reective than could be imagined.
This subject, the act of painting itself, has prec-
edents in the history of European painting running
back to at least the sixteenth century, is, like much
of Ernsts art, a statement of identity. Here, in La
palette, Ernst depicts the painter as a mystic being.
The central gure with snake-like attributes recalls
Loplop, Ernsts spiritual alter ego and muse-like
guide to the underworld of his imagination.
Usually male though sometimes androgynous,
Loplop was what Ernst later described simply as
the Bird Superior, a private phantom very much
attached and devoted to me (cited in Cahiers
dArt, Paris, 1937, p. 24). Loplop made his rst
appearances in Ernsts work in his collages of
the late 1920s, and was soon recognised by the
artist as a kind of alter-ego or mystic guide to
the netherworld of his unconscious imagina-
tion. Birds had always played a profound part
in Ernsts imagination. Throughout his life,
he grew increasingly to look like one, and as
a child, the bizarre death of his pet parrot at
precisely the same moment his sister was born
had a profound and long-lasting impact on him.
As he recalled in his autobiographical notes of
this strange event: A friend by the name of
Horneborn, an intelligent piebald, faithful bird
dies during the night; the same night a baby,
number six, enters life. Confusion in the brain
of this otherwise quite healthy boy (the young
Ernst) - a kind of interpretation mania, as if the
newborn innocent, sister Loni, had in her lust
for life, taken possession of the vital uids of
his favourite bird. The crisis is soon overcome.
Yet in the boys mind there remains a volun-
tary if irrational confounding of the images of
human beings with birds and other creatures,
and this is reected in the emblems of his art
(Biographische Notizen, in Max Ernst, exhibi-
tion catalogue, Zurich, 1962, p. 23).
The bird gure of Loplop became for Ernst a
kind of shamanic gure and talisman. As repre-
sented in this work, the gure of Loplop soon
took on the role of intermediary in Ernsts art,
and is often depicted presenting a canvas or work
of art within the picture itself. In these works a
game between reality and illusion is played similar
to that of Picassos late 1920s self-portraits of
himself painting a model in his studio. In many of
Ernsts Loplop paintings Ernst presents Loplop as
if it were Loplop that was the creator and discov-
erer of the surprising images on show and is gen-
erously bringing his art to Ernsts attention. These
works which depict Loplop as part bird-artist, part
easel, part master of ceremonies, are a recurring
format in Ernsts work from the 1930s onward.
Lot 25 Victor Brauner closion rogne III
The painting, emerges from the deepest corners
of instinct, calls out to instinct, communication
without bias. The subject of the work is totemic;
the work is therefore magic, it establishes super-
natural and direct connexions with great primitive
dreams, material dreams. (Victor Brauner, quoted
in D. Semin, Victor Brauner, Paris, 1990, p. 292.)
Lot 26 Andr Masson La chute
Painted in 1939, La Chute (Le Viol ou Lamour
de la vitesse) dates from a turbulent period
both in the artists life and in the world
around him. By the time this painting was
completed in 1939, the Spanish Civil War was
still raging, and the world was at the dawn of
World War II. As such, this painting serves as a
searing document of its own times; a Surreal
barometer of the violent age that created it.
A veteran of the First World War, Masson was
particularly sensitive to the tension around him,
and this had increased with the Civil War that had
ravaged Spain in the late 1930s. Masson himself
had fallen in love with Spain while travelling there
in 1934, and this relationship was to last some
time. He settled in June 1934 in Tossa de Mar.
His art at this time focused on the bullght as a
rousing theme, oftentimes depicting eviscerated
corpses and majestic Minotaur in these com-
positions. Regardless of the status of the bull,
though, the corrida and even the almost inevi-
table death it involved represented something
musical and beautiful to Masson, a dance of art
within life: The visual aspect, the spectacle... is
magnicent; when man and beast seem wedded.
There are sublime moments (the artist, cited
in W. Rubin and C. Lanchner, Andr Masson,
exhibition catalogue, New York, 1976, p. 142).
To the Surrealist in him, the presence of ritual-
ized death in the arena at the corrida held strong
ramications. Masson was fascinated by this, and
in his mind it linked easily with his interest in the
myth of the Minotaur. Like Freud, the Surrealists
saw ancient myths as clues to eternal truths about
life and human nature. The Minotaur was there-
fore a potent symbol of violence, of the beast
within, for the artists like Masson who had sur-
vived the Great War. It became an explicit mascot
for the Surrealists, for it was Masson who, with
Georges Bataille, convinced Skira and Triade to
call their new review Minotaure.
By early 1937, Masson had (curiously enough
through Georges Bataille) reconciled with
Andr Bretons Surrealist group, and entered
what is considered his second Surrealist phase
(1938-1941). Many of Massons nest pictures
date from this period, including the Animated
Furniture pictures (1937-39), Gradiva and La
mtamorphose des amants. In La Chute, two
bodies are distinctly united around a commu-
nally-wounded abdomen, in what amounts to a
higgledy-piggledy of arms, legs and furniture. In
Massons brand of Surrealism, each female is a
prototype of a seductive but deadly force. From
this uncompromising vision follow Massons
many images of the trap, whether it is the great
vulva-like limbs of a Le pige dans la prairie, or
the brutal jaws of the vagina of the mechanized
mantis in Paysage la mante religieuse.
Writing about Massons painting in 1939, the
year that La Chute was completed, Andr Breton
stated that for art, the problem is no longer, as
it once was, to know if a painting stands up
in a wheat eld for instance, but if it stands up
alongside the daily newspaper very few con-
temporary works are strong enough to meet such
a test, and applying it entails a radical upheaval of
values No one has been as willing and able to
submit to the test as has Andr Masson; no one
comes out of it more credibly (Surrealism and
Painting, London, 1972, p. 151).
Lot 27 Ren Magritte L'heure dt
At the end of his Parisian period (1927-1930),
Ren Magritte returned to Brussels due to
nancial difculties, and moved to Jette where
he founded a small company with his brother
Paul, producing adverstising posters and cata-
logues. Lheure dt was painted in 1946, while
Magritte was exploring new leads, in his search
for a sundrenched Surrealism (autograph man-
uscript of a tract dated October 1946, signed by
Jo Bousquet, Marcel Marin, Jacques Michel,
Paul Noug, Louis Scutenaire and Wergifosse)
, using warm bright colours and brushstrokes
similar to those of impressionists.
Lheure dt, is one of the four gouaches
executed for the New York mens soap maker,
MEM (or MUM). Completed under the aegis of
Alex Salkin (a close friend of Magrittes), these
four advertising projects are the only traces
remaining today of a collaboration with the
rm, as none of them were actually published.
Choosing to work with an American company
was not a coincidence, as precisely at that time
the artist started to exhibit his work in the
United States, with among others, Alexandre
Iolas, the young director of the Hugo Gallery on
55th street in New York.
Each of the gouaches in the series features the
inscription and the year BERGER 1946 in the
lower left margin: a reference to his wife Geor-
gettes maiden name. The motifs used in this series
refer directly to the iconography of Magrittes
paintings from the 1930s: Exciting Perfumes
recalls the theme for Larbre savant from 1935
(a tree trunk opening to show a window and a
bell). Classic Simplicity, Pedigreed Mens Toiletries
by MEM is directly inspired by the composition of
La clef des songes from 1930 (six boxes connected
to an object and a word). Soir dOrages-Strange
perfume by MEM is built around one of the artists
most popular motifs, the cup and ball (a game of
skill with a handle and a ball with a hole held by
a string). Finally, the fourth project in the series,
the present work, shows a cloud ag from the
painting Lt executed in 1931.
Rather than adopting a purely commercial
approach, Magritte brings his own esthetic vision,
based on transgression, to surprise and contradict
visual logic. These were the beliefs which were
championed by DADA and the Surrealists. We are
reminded of La Belle Haleine, made by Marcel
Duchamp with Man Ray in 1921, a ready-made
which distorts the brand and the visual identity
of a famous make of perfume. Magrittes work
perfectly corresponds to the nonconformist con-
tent of the advertising approach; the intervention
of the artist in this series of gouaches is highly
present. Apparently the slogans and titles were
invented by the artist himself and inspired by cur-
rent events: the title Lheure dt likely referring
to the cancellation of summer time by the Belgian
government in 1946. The idea itself of cancel-
ling an hour is a surrealist concept which would
certainly have pleased the artist
Lot 28 Salvador Dal Figure fminine
On 23 September 1974, Salvador Dal inaugurated
the Teatro Museo Dal in Figueras, his birth city,
after more than ten years of construction work.
This former municipal theatre, had been partly
gutted by a terrible re in 1939, offered the Catalan
artist the ideal setting for one of his most cherished
dreams: founding his own museum. Indeed, he
had shown his rst paintings in this space aged
fteen, and continuity therefore made the theatre
naturally adapted to his museum project. As Dal
said: Where other than in my own city, should
what is the most extravagant and the most solid in
my work be kept? The Municipal Theatre or what
remained of it seemed completely appropriate for
three reasons: rst because Im a supremely theat-
rical painter; second, because the theatre is just in
front of the church where I was baptized and third
because I had my rst exhibition in its lobby.
Both a museum and a venue for shows, the
theatre was completely taken over and rede-
signed by Dal. He sought amongst his many
artist friends collaboration on the project; for
example the sculptor Horia Damian made the
museums doors with hundreds of thousands of
blue glass marbles. He also asked fellow Catalan
architects for their advice: Joaquim Ros de Ramis
and Bonaterra Matra, who had already created
the Picasso museum in Barcelona, or Emilio
Pinero, whom Dal called the genius among
architects, took an active part in the construc-
tion. The innumerable works by the Figueras artist
specially created for the occasion- the vast ceiling
of the foyer adorned with the Palace of the Wind,
Art Deco sculptures crowning the central cupola,
giant eggs dominating the faade, holographic
works and so many others- mix with some of
his major paintings, such as the Self-Portrait
with LHumanit (1923) or Port Alguer (1924).
They are also shown next to paintings, drawings,
watercolours and sculptures, sometimes by past
masters such as Goya, El Greco or Fragonard, that
Dal bequeathed to the museum. Everything is
presented arbitrarily, and the viewer tours the
museum as if exploring the meanders of the mas-
ters mind, reecting his eccentric and exuberant
imagination. His ambition seems modest when
compared to the vast size of the project, he said:
I dont know if its going to be one of the most
important museums in the world, but it will be
the most important museum in Figueras.
Figure fminine, a cast iron collaboration by the
artist and Industrias Fita, is related to the sculptures
which decorate the main faade of the museum.
Carrying bread on their heads and brandishing
golden lances, they are illuminated at night by
lights placed inside their open abdomens. Of
the six sculptures initially planned for the faade,
only four were nally positioned there. The two
remaining gures were offered by the artist, one
to Industrias Fita, the other to Mr. Luis Fita Estrada,
the director at the time. The rst has since been
destroyed, so the only remaining Figure fminine
stayed until today in the family of its rst owner.
The drapery enveloping and covering the head
of the gure recalls the goddess of hearth and
home, Vesta. It is not for nothing that Dal chose
this gure to welcome the visitor at the entrance
of the museum, his spiritual home ravaged by
ames during the Spanish War. But if Vesta
symbolizes delity, this gure fminine is also a
temptress, with her bared breasts, her sensuous
features and the sway of her hips. With her out-
stretched hand, she appears to be beconning
the viewer to unknown depths, glimpsed within
her wide open torso.
Lot 29 Matta Breadfast Received
The late William Rubin, longtime director of
painting and sculpture at the Museum of
Modern Art, wrote that Matta was one of the
small number of painters whose art changed
my life. Rubin, who curated the 1957 Matta
show even before he joined the staff at MoMA,
seems to have understood that looking at a
Matta painting can, as Ouspensky wrote, break
through the prison house of sight, and expand
the consciousness of both inner and outer
worlds. All that is required is to leave aside
artistic preconceptions and allow the mind to
follow freely as the eye traverses those unearthly
spaces. And it helps to remember Mattas words:
The representation of man cannot be what it
was we know too much. We have become
conscious that we are a reserve of potential and
this is our social reality (M. Sawin, Five decades
of painting, exhibition catalogue, New York,
Pace Wildenstein Gallery, 2009, p. 13).
Lot 30 Salvador Dal Trajano a caballo
The Horse Rider gure is a recurrent theme in Sal-
vador Dals work. It was the symbol of his work
beginning in the 1930s, which the artist continued
to adapt in the different phases of his artistic career.
Initially, the horse appeared between 1933 and
1936 and was featured in the series the Riders of
Death touching on dreamlike and biblical themes.
The religious theme of the rider of death echoed the
four riders of the Apocalypse immortalised in the
eponymous engraving by Albrecht Drer in 1513.
In that same decade, the artist staged this
animal in desert landscapes inspired by
the plains next to his home in Port Lligat,
northern Spain. He left his imagination to
develop and mingle with the surrealist trend.
Literature also played a major role in his eques-
trian inuences and the emblematic gure of
Don Quixote of the Mancha, a hero invented
in 1605 by Cervantes, was of particular interest
to him. The omnipresent duality between
socio-political satire and absurd reverie in this
novel of chivalry found a pictorial symbolism
in Dals artistic expression. Four lithographs
on Don Quixote were in fact produced by the
artist for a French edition of the book in 1964.
During his exile in the USA, which started in the
spring of 1940, Dal befriended close to the ballets
russes choreographer, Leonid Massine, for whom
he designed costumes, librettos and stage sets. In
1942, the Mysteria ballet was set in Renaissance
Spain and Dal painted the stage set representing
a knight on horse back, brandishing a lance.
1950 marked a new turning point in the career of
Dal when he exhibited The Temptation of Saint
Anthony at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh.
This painting presents the demoniac visions of
the Saint embodied, among other things, by
an immense horse that rears up in his direction.
This painting introduces the intermediary dimen-
sion into the world of Dal: between heaven
and earth and levitation which ourishes in
his mystical painting. Ecstasy becomes the key
concept of inspiration and the representation
of his art which he denes as an incorrupt-
ible mould in opposition to academicism which
is the corruptible mould. From this were born
The Madonna of Port Lligat and Christ of Saint
John of the Cross. And in 1957, Santiago el
Grande staged a triumphant Saint John riding an
imposing horse with sumptuously realistic mus-
cles. This animal gure once more present thus
crossed the eras and inuences of Salvador Dal.
In 1974, Dal again returned to this preferred
theme, this time taking as his inspiration historical
examples of equestrian statues. In western cul-
ture, this tradition dates back to Archaic Greek,
and was famously exploited by Renaissance art-
ists to commemorate military leaders. Some art
historians believe that the position of the hoofs
have symbolic importance, and in this case, with
one front left up, it means that the rider was
wounded in battle or died of battle wounds.
Lot 31 Wassily Kandinsky L'ouverture
Louverture was executed in 1938 while Kan-
dinsky was living in Neuilly near Paris. Thrown
out of the Bauhaus and forced to live in exile
from his adopted homeland of Germany after
Hitlers access to power, Kandinsky moved
to Paris - a move which marked an important
development in his art, away from the strict
geometry of the Bauhaus years, in favour of
the use of more natural and organic form.
The Paris years marked an era of new experi-
mentation and departure for the artist. Notably,
he began to regard oils and gouaches as on
an equal footing, varnishing his gouaches so
that the opaque body colour became semi-
transparent and imitated the appearance of
tempera. He also used ink drawing in his oils.
Around 1935 he began to use dark and black
paper for many of his gouaches. These works
proved easier to sell and helped to ease his dif-
cult nancial situation. There were various
sources for the organic shapes in Kandinskys
work. Having been interested in the similarities
between structures in nature and art for some
time, in 1935 Kandinsky wrote of the experi-
ence of the small and great, the micro- and mac-
rocosmic, coherence, referring to the hidden
soul in all things, seen either by the unaided
eye or through microscopes or binoculars. This
internal eye [...] penetrates the hard shell, the
external form, goes deep into the object and
lets us feel with all our senses its internal pulse
(cited in F. Whitford, Kandinsky: watercolours
and other works on paper, London, 1999, p. 82).
Kandinsky believed art and the creative process
to be a medium between these various spheres.
Louverture, through an organised harmony of
colour and form, attempts to explore and express
the innate correlations between the macrocosm
and the microcosm.
Lot 32 Ossip Zadkine Torse de femme
Zadkine discovered that the drama of crea-
tion played out between just three elements:
his emotions, the material and his hands.
Before any ideas or influences, he would
add, there was [with him] the underlying ele-
mental fact of emotion (M. Raynal, cited in
S. Lecombre, Ossip Zadkine, Luvre sculpt,
Paris, 1994, p. 14).
Lot 33 Marc Chagall Bouquet jaune
et orange
Flowers also have their language based on love
and heavenly anthems: I was just opening my
bedroom window, said Chagall at the time of
his engagement, and blue air, love and ower
were lling it. At anytime and anywhere, since
his Russian beginnings, he has painted owers,
incarnation of colour and messengers of love.
[] At rst intermediaries of landscape, laying
on the edge of the window another recurring
motif between the foreground and the back-
ground, they start to dene the landscape, and,
uniting to the ying gures, they outline the
entire space with their luminous fragrance and
the soft emotions that they create. [] Chagalls
work visually lays on what he calls the chemistry
of colour, the unique gift of animating matter
and transform it into light. (Jean Leymarie,
Marc Chagall, exhibition catalog, Paris, Grand
Palais, 1969-70, page 10.)
Lot 34 Pablo Picasso Le djeuner sur lherbe
When I see Manets Djeuner sur lherbe, I tell
myself: grief for later.
When Picasso wrote this enigmatic note on the
back of an envelope in 1932 he began his own
chapter in the revision and re-interpretation of
one of the most widely referenced gurative
compositions in the western pictorial canon.
Marcantonio Raimondis engraved image of the
pastoral idyll in his Judgment of Pris (1510-20) is
credited with rst depicting the specic arrange-
ment of reclining gures within an outdoor set-
ting. Manets own interpretation, -the rst to be
titled Djeuner sur lherbe and unquestionably
the most celebrated version, itself closely resem-
bles a painting by Titian (previously attributed to
Giorgione), Le concert champtre.
What undoubtedly attracted Picasso to the
image, as much as its power to inspire dialog
between the great masters of the past, was
the succs de scandale surrounding the public
display in 1863 of Manets painting. Picassos
approach to the subject was characteristically
intimate and personal. Working on painted,
drawn and sculpted variations for a period of
almost three years between 1959-1962 Picasso
freely adapted the composition to bring to the
fore elements of sensuality and the dramatic
interplay between the characters.
Lot 35 Fernand Lger Composition
This composition perfectly illustrates the col-
oured and very decorative works Lger produced
in the Post-War years. After a ve year exile in
the United States, the artist returned to France
with American landscapes in mind, and bound-
less optimism. Lger is primarily interested in bal-
ance and harmony, through a production that
centers on colour and form. In 1946, the artist
painted cheerful works, easily recognizable, in
order to make beauty accessible to all. For Lger,
as soon as a viewer lays his gaze on one of his
works (whether painting or mural), he cannot fail
to feel uplifted. The artist explained his process
as follows: I wanted to return to a simple and
direct form of art, that everyone can understand,
without subtleties. I think it is the future, and I
would like to see the new generation follow that
direction. (quoted in Fernand Lger, exhibition
catalogue, Paris, Centre national d'art et de cul-
ture Georges-Pompidou, 1997, p. 234)
Lot 36 Bernard Buffet Tte de torero
Always interested in developing a theme, Bernard
Buffet created during his career several series
focusing on specic subjects, which he painted as
groups. Tte de torero is no exception to this rule,
and is part of a series dedicated to bullghting,
which the artist painted between 1966-67. Buffet
alternates between monumental bullght scenes,
as well as full, half-length and facial portraits of
bullghters. In Tte de torero, Buffet captures
the moment when the bullghter is about to
start his confrontation. The artist manages to
express the tension and concentration thanks
to the importance of the wide opened eyes, the
clenched teeth, the thick black outlines, and the
series of ne straight lines on the face, which
suggest scars. Alongside clowns, which is one of
Buffets favorite themes, the bullghter expresses
for Buffet the tragic and the absurd of the human
condition, where one imposes on oneself a
deadly ght in the sole purpose of entertainment.
Lot 37 Fernando Botero The dead tree
Fernando Botero is an unusual artist. He is one of
the few 20th century gures who were able to
stay detached from the mainstream and follow
his instinct, at a time where Picassos imagina-
tion or the currents of abstraction prevailed else-
where. Botero chose to turn to earlier masters
and to explore the works of Giotto, Velasquez
or Piero della Francesca to nd his own formal
language, a language which is steeped in a
wealth of stylistic references and uniquely iden-
tiable. The Dead Tree dates from his mature
years, and is typical of his work with its palette
of pure colours and its drawing of the birds, in
the rounded shapes which are his signature.
The nave treatment of this painting brings to
mind the work of Douanier Rousseau, Andr
Bauchant or Camille Bombois. The use of stark
colors and the courtyard perspective also recalls
David Hockneys visionary Hotel Acatlan series
executed in Mexico in 1985.
Lot 122 Fernand Lger Le cirque
I need to tell you about the importance of circuses
in provincial townsits live performance [...] really,
circus was the event of my childhood, and here it is
coming back in my paintings Fernand Lger, cited
in Cahiers dArt, Paris, 1954, no. 2, p. 157.
In the later part of his career, Fernand Lger
recurrently introduced references to the world
of circus, until it became a central theme at the
origin of some of his last masterpieces such as
La grande parade (see lot 8). Circus indeed has
everything the artiste could want: it recalls the
nostalgia of his childhood as a regular spectator
of the Medrano circus, it is a popular enter-
tainment where social classes disappear, and
formally it allows rich studies on contrasts of
movement and form, which are so dear to him.
While most of the works inspired by circus emerge
in the 1940s, the present work is an early example
of this trend preguring later monumental compo-
sitions showing cyclists, divers, acrobats and musi-
cians. In our work, the generous and soft strokes
contrast with the more rigid compositions of the
Purist years. Le Cirque nonetheless remains a work
where contrasts of form and movement prevail.
The stillness of the ladder offsets the dynamism
of the spiral, and the horizontality of the reclining
woman completes the verticality of the standing
guitar player. With this vibrant balance, Cirque
manages to express the energy of the modern
world, as Lger conceived it.
Lot 128 Man Ray Portrait of Juliet
Painted in Hollywood in 1950, this portrait of
the artists wife Juliet wearing a wig hung in
the couples bedroom in the rue Frou studio
in Paris.
Lot 146 - Henri Edmond Cross - Etude pour
Baigneuses ou La joyeuse baignade
The present work is a study for the eponymous
painting which was exhibited at the Galerie
Durand-Ruel in 1899. Henri-Edmond Cross exhib-
ited the painting in its rst state, in which there
were actually four bathers, instead of three that
gure in painting now. For at the end of 1902,
the artist returned to this composition, executing
a number of studies, in which our work gures,
and eventually eliminated the fourth bather at the
center of the composition in oil.
In a letter to Charles Angrand written on the
15th of November the same year, Cross wrote
regarding this composition: I better understand
now what is missing, but also the departure point
the whole point of the picture - is now more
clear, or more in relation to, I would say, an art
based on optical sensations, and it is this aspect
that we should continue to focus on, because this
is where we come from (cited in I. Compin,
H.E. Cross, Paris, 1964, p. 163).
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Tudor Davies, Grgoire Debuire,
Isabelle Degut, Edmond Francey,
Sonja Ganne, Lionel Gosset,
Ketty Gottardo, Anika Guntrum,
Matthieu Humery, Herv de La Verrie,
Elvire de Maintenant, Simon de Monicault,
Marie-Laurence Tixier
Directeurs
Christophe Durand-Ruel,
Patricia de Fougerolle,
Olivier Lefeuvre
Spcialistes Senior
Latitia Bauduin,
Frdrique Darricarrre-Delmas,
Hippolyte de la Fronnire,
Flavien Gaillard, Michael Ganne,
Charles-Wesley Hourd,
Nicolas Kaenzig, Emmanuelle Karsenti,
Pierre-Emmanuel Martin-Vivier,
lodie Morel, Tiphaine Nicoul,
Hlne Rihal, Tatiana Ruiz Sanz, Philippine de Sailly,
Pauline De Smedt, Jonas Tebib,
Spcialistes
Paul Nyzam, Fanny Saulay
Associate Specialists
Mathilde de Backer,
Stphanie Joachim, Etienne Sallon
Spcialistes Junior
CHRISTIES
INDEX
B
Botero, F., 37
Brancusi, C., 11
Braque, G., 154
Brasilier, A., 140
Brauner, V., 25, 101, 132, 133
Buffet, B., 36, 114, 115, 136,
141, 157
C
Calder, A., 1
Chagall, M., 33, 106
Cross, H., 146, 147
D
Dal, S., 28, 30
Derain, A., 152
Dufy, R., 139
E
Ernst, M., 9, 24
G
Gilot, F., 3, 137
Gleizes, A., 14, 103
Gris, J., 16
Gromaire, M., 138, 143
H
Herbin, A., 21, 104, 144, 160
Hugo, V., 125
K
Kandinsky, W., 31
Kisling, M., 13
L
de La Fresnaye, R., 119
Le Corbusier, 153
Lger, F., 8, 35, 105, 122
Lger, F. daprs, 123
Lhote, A., 120, 121, 158
Lurat, J., 2
M
Magritte, R., 17, 27
Maillol, A., 22, 145, 151
Man Ray, 128
Martin, H., 150
Masson, A., 26, 109, 129, 142
Matisse, H., 6
Matta, 29, 108, 111
Metzinger, J., 5, 118
Mir, J., 7, 110, 112, 113
P
Pascin, J., 156
Penrose, R., 102
Picabia, F., 23, 130
Picasso, P., 4, 10, 15, 18, 19, 20,
34, 107
R
Rahon Paalen, A., 126
S
Sage, K., 127
Seligmann, K., 134
Severini, G., 12
Survage, L., 131
U
Utrillo, M., 116, 149, 155
V
Valtat, L., 148
de Vlaminck, M., 117, 159
Z
Zadkine, O., 32, 124, 135