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
