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Modern, Contemporary and European Art
Title: Femme Nue Assise, Se Coiffant
Artist: Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917)
Stamped Degas (ll) (Lugt 658), stamped on the backboard ATELIER ED. DEGAS (Lugt 657)
Medium: Charcoal and green chalk on paper laid down on board
Dimensions: 43 1/4 x 38 1/8 inches (109.8 x 97.0 cm.)
Provenance: Atelier Degas, Third Sale
Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 7-9, 1919, no.314, p.226
Galerien Flechtheim, Berlin and Dusseldorf, no.11046
The Lefevre Gallery (Alex, Reid & Lefevre, Ltd.) London
Otto Preminger, acquired in 1959 from Lefevre Gallery
Estimate: $500,000-700,000
Image Courtesy of: Doyle New York
Doyle New York
December 1, 2004
Pablo Picasso, Edgar Degas, Alexander Calder and Marsden Hartley headline the exciting December Auctions of Modern and Contemporary Art and European Art to be held jointly on December 1, 2004 by Doyle New York.
European Art
Title: Homme et Femme, 1926
Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)
Signed: Picasso (lr)
Medium: Pencil on paper
Dimensions: 9 1/16 x 11 5/16 inches (23 x 30.4 cm.)
Provenance: M. Knoedler & Co., New York, acquired in the 1960s
Estimate: $60,000-80,000
Image Courtesy of: Doyle New York
Picasso, like many artists, often produced series or returned to the same theme in his work. Among his many favored subjects was the image of a bearded man leaning on a Shepard's staff. One of these sketches makes its appearance in the European Art Auction.
After the death of Edgar Degas, sketches were discovered in his atelier and sold at auction. One of those works, Femme Nue Assise, Se Coiffant, has returned to the market and is included in this auction. Degas had an extraordinary talent of depicting the motion of the human form, as in this example, of a female combing her hair after her bath.
Venice is one of the most breathtaking cities in the world and several artists renditions form part of the auction. The Doge's Palace and other landmarks make their appearance in works by Antonietta Brandeis, Rubens Santoro, Henry Courtney Selous, Antoine Bouvard and Raphael (Perez) Senet.
Title: Ducal Palace with a Religious Procession, Venice
Artist: After Richard Parkes Bonington
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 45 1/4 x 64 1/4 inches (115.0 x 163.0 cm.)
Provenance: Malden Public Library, Malden, Massachusetts
Property of a Lady Sale, Sotheby's, New York, February 16, 1994, lot 20, illustrated
Estimate: $40,000-60,000
Image Courtesy of: Doyle New York
Modern and Contemporary Art
Americans too have an incredible list of talent when it comes to artistic expression. There are three works by Alexander Calder in the Modern and Contemporary Art portion of the Auction, including The Serpent.
Title: The Faenza Jar, c. 1912
Artist: Marsden Hartley (American, 1877-1943)
Signed Marsden Hartley (ll)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 16 inches
Provenance: John Quinn, New York, sale,
American Art Association, New York, Feb. 9-12, 1927, no. 482
Estimate $200,000-300,000
Image Courtesy of: Doyle New York
Marsden Hartley's works are perceived as a response to
European Modernism. He traveled extensively throughout
his life which certainly would have influenced his
genre. Stieglitz, art patron and husband of Georgia O'Keeffe, gave Hartley a one-man exhibition in 1909, helping his career. However Hartley's prominence was for the most part posthumously achieved.
Fitz Hugh Lane was a member of the Hudson River School community of artists. A Massachusetts native, his eventual move to Boston brought him into contact with marine artist Robert Salmon who deeply influenced Lane. Maritime paintings became the exclusive subject of the artist, rare in a time when versatility was the key to success among his fellow American painters.
Title: Ships Passing In Rough Seas, 1856
Artist: Fitz Hugh Lane (American 1804-1865)
Signed F.H. Lane and dated 1856 (lr)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24 1/2 x 36 3/8 inches
Provenance: Private Collection, purchased circa 1900 from a New England gallery, thence by decent to the present owner
Estimate: $200,000-300,000
Image Courtesy of: Doyle New York
December 1, 2004 the art appreciators eyes will focus on the exciting auctions of Modern and Contemporary Art and European Art organized by the staff at Doyle New York.
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