Condition report

H 5 - Dia.: 7,5 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Overall in good condition, the stone with typical natural inclusions.

Provenance:

- Ex-collection Baron Beyens (Napoléon Eugène Louis Joseph Marie Auguste, 1855-1934), a famous Belgian diplomat and minister, son of Eugène Beyens (1816-1894) and Maria de las Merce des Alcala Galiano y Valencia (1828-1917), husband of Marguerite Oppenheim whom he married on the 1st of June 1899 in Paris. The origins of the Beyens family, a family of lawyers and diplomats, lie in Nazareth, the municipality where the auction house is also located (link).

H 38,5 cm

 

Provenance:

- Private collection, Belgium.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The vase in very good condition, with minor baking flaws, where the belly and the foot ring of the vase meet (see also the additional pictures).

 

H 53,5 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- Generally in excellent condition and of fantastic appearance. The glaze very well preserved and standing up nice and straight.
- A hairline of ca. 3 cm on the rim, invisible to the naked eye but showing up under UV-light.
- A vertical hairline of ca. 8 cm to the body of the vase, with a related star-shaped hairline on the inside, invisible to the naked eye but showing up under UV-light.

Ref.:
- Wannenes, Genova, March 3, 2016, lot 26, for a closely related example, sold € 161.200. (link)
- Christie's, London, May 16, 2014, lot 1238, for a related example, sold GBP 116.500. (link)

Provenance:

- Private collection, Belgium.

H 45 cm

A slender vase with a design with six penguins in different poses.
A vase of similar design is used on the cover of the book Art Deco Ceramics - Charles Catteau, by Marc Pairon for the Fondation Charles Catteau. On p. 281 and p. 669 it is described as rare.

Our current example, however, is an anomaly to the known examples. Instead of black glaze, the painter has applied a very dark cobalt blue, which makes this a stand-out example versus other vases of this type.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- Excellent, with typical minor baking flaws.

Dia.: 34,5 cm

Condition (UV-checked):
- Generally in very good to excellent condition.
- A tight short hairline to the rim at ca. 4:30 o'clock.
- Typical minor superficial wear, baking flaws and baking-related losses to the red enamels.

H 205 cm (the whole)

H 120 cm (the stand)

H 85 cm (the sculpture)

 

Ref.:

- P. Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1989, pp. 511-518.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The sculpture in very good to excellent condition, with the usual negligible superficial wear and negligible traces of use.

- The base in very good condition, with some minor negligible chips hardly worth mentioning, especially to the bottom and one of the corners of the platform. Two hardly visible small restorations on one side. See also the additional pictures.

 

H 27 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- In very good condition with two chips on the rim and a few spots of glaze loss along the rim.

Work: 78,5 x 59,5 cm

 

The painter Michel Bouillon (de Bouillon) was born in Ere. Ca. 1638 he became a member of the painters guild of Tournai. Maybe he was in the sixties active in France. He died most probably in 1674. He is best known for still lives (link).

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The work in good and hangable condition.

- Relined.

- Minor damage to the borders, due to a previous framing, with some related restorations and minor flaking paint.

- The UV-light shows the typical colour of the varnish, with small restorations and touch-ups all over (see additional UV-light pcitures).

Work: 52,5 x 38 cm

Frame: 75,5 x 62 cm

Condition: (UV-checked)
- The frame generally in good and stable condition. Typical minor superficial wear. Small losses to the gilded stucco to the lower left and right corner. A stain to the tissue in the lower left corner from viewer's perspective.
- The work in very good condition. Appearing somewhat retouched along the left edge from viewer's perspective, possibly after completion of the work, in order to fit into an existing frame. A small superficial scratch, hardly worth mentioning, in the upper right corner, some ten cm down from the top and ca. five cm towards the center from the right edge. Possibly with a small retouched spot to the lower right corner (see UV-photograph). The work relined.

 

Maud is one of Théo van Rysselberghe's favourite models in the early 20th C. She appears on several of his works in the years running up to 1916, for example:

1914: Modèle au repos (Maud), Sotheby's, New York, 08/05/2008, lot 207. (see images 8 and 9)

1915: 'Maud debout', Rossini, Paris, 09/04/2014, lot 112. (see images 10 and 11)

1916: 'Nu assis' (Maud), Sotheby's, New York, 03/11/2011, lot 380. (see images 12 and 13)

 

Provenance:

- Ex-collection Hilton Luria, New Jersey, USA.

- Ex-collection Redfern Gallery, London, UK.

- Sotheby's, New York, 26 February 1990, lot 63.

- Ex-collection Lewis Townsend, USA.

- Doyle, New York, 21 May 2002, lot 151.

- Ex-collection of Sidney Rothberg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The philanthropist Sidney Rothberg (1924-2008) was a passionate fine art collector, acquiring a diverse and expansive collection. Aside from blue-chip artists such as Renoir, Soutine or Diebenkorn, Mr. Rothberg also championed emerging talents at the time, specifically women artists. He bought a number of their works at a time when such names were not as actively sought after as they are today on the art market. Among them are Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Alice Baber, Dorothea Tanning, Alice Helicka (link). 

- Private collection, Belgium.

Work: 70 x 54 cm

Frame: 84,5 x 68 cm

 

Jos Schippers studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp under the supervision of a.o. Léon de Meuter Brunin (1861-1949) and Pieter Van Havermaet (&834-1897). At the beginning of his career, he mainly painted landscapes and boat scenes. His fame increased enormously when he switched to a more anecdotal genre with monkeys. In these scenes, the monkeys are the substitutes for humans.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting in very good and hangable condition.

- No retouches visible under UV light.

- The varnish is a little thinner at the edges. Some brush hairs visible in the work.

 

Work: 51,5 x 42,5 cm

Frame: 78,5 x 68,5 cm

 

Provenance:

- Ex-collection B. Slijper, Blaricum.

- Part of the exhibition 'Frits Van den Berghe' in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1957, cat. n° 5.

- Campo, Antwerp, April 1968, lot n° 508.

 

Ref.:

- Derom-Marquenie, 98.

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting in very good and hangable condition.

- Relined.

- Some natural craquelures.

- Under UV-light, some small touch-ups visible in the middle at the bottom.

- On the right side a very small hardly visible hole in the canvas.

- See also the additional pictures.

Work: 70,5 x 49 cm

Frame: 89 x 70 cm

 

Condition: (UV-checked)

- The painting in very good and and hangable condition.

- The usual negligible wear to the borders, due to the framing. 

- Under UV-light, hardly any overpainting visible, especially some minor touch-ups along the edges (see additional pictures).

- Frame in very good condition. The right top corner with a small chip.