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TEFAF New York Fall 2017 Sales Report

October 29, 2017 by Marion Maneker

 

TEFAF released its final report here:

Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, LLC

  • sold a bronze Female Head by Polish-American sculptor Elie Nadelman (1882-1946), modeled c.1910-11, cast before 1915 in the range of $200,000

Charles Ede

  • sold several works for over six figures, including a steatite Naophoros statue, Egyptian, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
    (c. 1400 BCE), with an asking price of $350,000 to a young collector within the first few hours
  • four Greek vessels to an established collector, two of which are destined for a museum
  • a Roman bronze Statuette of Mercury, almost certainly from Gaul, 1st century CE, for $120,000
  • an Egyptian limestone relief for $125,000 to a young couple
  • an exceptional Greek bronze Griffin protome, Archaic Period, c. 625-600 BCE, for $225,000

Didier Aaron

  • sold Soldier Holding Back a Horse and a Small Sketch of the Same Subject, a pen and ink work by François Hippolyte Lalaisse (1810-84)
  • Le jeune garçon effrayé by Louis Léopold Boilly (1761-1845) 

Galerie Delalande

  • sold a standing mechanical universal equinoctial ring dial, c. 1760, to an international European
    museum

Galerie Perrin

  • sold a pair of armchairs from the Louis XVI period (1774-92) by the menuisier, Jean-Baptiste Boulard (c. 1725-
    89), which include the stamp ‘J.B. BOULARD’.

Haboldt & Co.

  • sold An Idealized Female Figure, Bust-Length, probably an Allegory of Beauty by Italian Renaissance painter Michele Tosini, known as Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (1503-77

Kunstkammer Georg Laue

  • sold an exceptional Fortuna cabinet, ca. 1620, made of ebonised pearwood and fire- gilt copper to a private European collector for over $100,000
  • An oil painting on limewood, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, Upper Rhine, c. 1470-80, was also sold

Les Enluminures

  • sold Saint Gregory the Great in an initial ‘G’, from a Choir Book, from Prague, Bohemia, c. 1410, by the workshop of
    the Master of the Antwerp Bible (active Prague, c. 1400-20)
  • The Triumph of Saint Thomas Aquinas in an initial ‘I’, from a Choir Book, from Castile, Spain, c. 1480-92 by the Castilian Painter

Rob Smeets Gallery

  • sold Portrait of a Young Lady by Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614), one of the most important women painters of the Italian Renaissance, to a private American collector

Robert Simon Fine Art

  • The Archangel Michael by Alessandro Varotari, called Il Padovanino (1588-1649), who was heavily influenced by Titian and other
    Mannerist masters
  • Portrait of Don Antonio de’ Medici by Alessandro Allori (1535-1607), one of three pictures that the artist painted of this subject, one of
    which resides in the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA
  • Antonio Tempesta‘s (1555-1630) Battle Scene (Alexander the Great Battling the Persians?), painted on copper, from a private collection in Boston.

Talabardon & Gautier

  • Hubert Robert‘s (1733-1808) painting Capriccio of Antique Monuments of Provence, 1788, signed and dated, was also sold.

Taylor | Graham

  • sold Le Printemps, c. 1870s, a rare bust by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-75), and one of the artist’s finest female
    busts in its beauty of form, energy, and life

Architectural Digest had these sales:

Lillian Nassau

  • A Tiffany Studios table lamp with a dragonfly shade and an inverted mushroom base, circa 1906

Ariadne Galleries

  • A Greek Chaldician bronze helmet, made in the fifth or fourth century B.C

Elle Shushan

  • Two circa-1785 French dioramas featuring wax sculptures of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette set into shellwork grottos
  • An 1809 miniature portrait of opera diva Johanna Wattler by Louis-Marie Autissier

Haboldt & Co.

  • Beneficentia, or the Mirror of Virtues, a circa-1600 Netherlandish or Prague School allegorical painting after Cornelius Ketel

Quénetain

  • Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey’s 1813 marble bust of Lady Gertrude Sloane-Stanley, an earl’s daughter and politician’s wife

Lillian Nassau

  • Three Art Nouveau ceramic vessels

Tomassi

  • A pair of Giuseppe Boschi recumbent bronze lions made sometime after 1794

Galerie Sanct Lucas

  • Marie Laurencin’s May-en-Multien, a boldly executed 1904 Cubist landscape

Amells

  • Michelangelo’s Hand by Swedish artist Axel Fridell, an oil-on-wood-panel work painted around 1926

Didier Aaron

  • Chapel of Villaviciosa, Cathedral of Córdoba, a watercolor (41.5 x 27.5 cm) by French artist Adrien Dauzats (1804-1868)

Galleria Carlo Virgilio & Co.

  • Italian painter and architect Marco Palmezzano’s Christ Carrying the Cross, painted around 1520
  • Conversation Piece, a circa-1598 oil on copper work (11.6 inches by 15.3 inches) depicting a group of women talking and painted by Italian artist and printmaker Ottavio Leoni

Talabardon & Gautier

  • A majestic perspective view of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, an original pen, India ink, and grey wash drawing by Jean-Baptiste Lepère for his 1817 book Description de l’Égypte
  • Hero and Leander, a work on paper by Anne-Louis Girodet (1767–1824)

Daxer & Marschall

  • Mount Stetind, Swathed in Fog, a mysterious landscape that Norwegian artist Peder Balke painted in the 1860s.

Shapero

  • A pair of circa-1750 floral still lifes, watercolors attributed to Flemish master Jacob Rysbrack.

 

The TEFAF New York fair released these sales over the weekend:

Mullany

  • A tapestry depicting the Ball Game from the story of Gombaut and Macée (Flemish, Bruges, ca. 1600-35) to the Musea Brugge, for an undisclosed sum

Agnews

  • George Minne’s (1866-1941) Head of a Man (Flemish, Ghent, ca. 1910-13)

Jack Kilgore & Co., Inc.

  • Svend Hammershøi’s (1873-1948) View of Nørregade, Copenhagen (Danish, 1926) $95,000

Taylor | Graham

  • Edwin Lord Weeks’s (1849-1903) Across the Pool to the Golden Temple of Amritsar (American, ca. 1882-3) (see above) for $32,000

Maria Kiang Chinese Art

  • A Burlwood ‘Grandfather-Grandson’ Sculpture, from China’s Ming-Qing Dynasty (ruled 1644-1912),

A La Vieille Russie

  • An English Victorian brooch (1870), with diamonds set in silver and gold

Artsy’s Anna Louie Sussman had these sales:

Peter Finer

  • sold a set of 12 steel Japanese arrowheads from the Edo period
  • a Spanish cup-hilt rapier, or sword, from the late 17th century for $40,000
  • a 14th-century Italian basinet, a type of helmet, for $195,000

Otto Naumann

  • a sculpture Summer Bruschetta by David Esterly for $25,000
  • a small painting, Still Life with Goldsmiths’ Pieces by Antoine Vollon, sold for $15,000

Jack Kilgore

  • Torse de Blonde (Blond Nude)(1919) by Théo van Rysselberghe at $180,000

Rupert Wace Ancient Art

  •  A 12-centimeter long Greek terracotta vase in the form of a phallus from around 550–500 B.C. for about $40,000

Jaime Eguiguren

  • marble mid-16th century fountain, The Fountain of the Four Elements, that came from the Alhambra palace in Granada, Spain, for an undisclosed sum
  • a pair of decorative marble lions for about $25,000
  • a rare dark lacquered wood impasto box from Colombia for between $30,000 and $35,000

 

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