73.  HENRI LE SIDANER (1862-1939)

La Rue de l’Eglise à Villefranche-sur-Mer, 1928

 

Huile sur toile, 61 x 50,3 cm, signée « Le Sidaner » en bas à droite. Sur le châssis au dos, une étiquette ancienne avecinscription dactylographiée « Musée Galliéra / Rétrospective / Henri Le Sidaner ».

Une version de la Rue de l’Eglise, également de 1928 mais postérieure et avec quelques différences, se trouve exposée au Musée Thyssen-Bornemisza à Madrid. (Voir note de Yann Farinaux-Le-Sidaner)

Provenance :
– Galerie Georges Petit, acquis directement auprès de l’artiste,
– Christie’s Londres, 27 juin 1995,
– Collection Dr. Gustav Rau, Suttgart,
– Lempertz Cologne 25 mai 2013, Collection Rau pour l’Unicef.

Exposition :
– Musée Galliera Paris, rétrospective Le Sidaner, avril 1948,
– Singer Musem Laren, Le Sidaner, Les Paysages Intimes, Septembre 2013.

Littérature :
– Farinaux- Le Sidaner, Yann, Henri Le Sidaner, l’œuvre peinte, l’œuvre gravée, Ed. Sauret 1989, p. 240, no. 646 (avec photo avant d’être retravaillée par l’artiste),
– Farinaux- Le Sidaner, Yann, Henri Le Sidaner, Les Paysages Intimes, Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau, 2013, p. 188 avec illustration couleur.

Certificat :
L’authenticité de cette oeuvre a été confirmée par Yann Farinaux-Le Sidaner, Paris le 18 avril 2013, n° LS 459. et d’après une aimable note de sa part, le tableau éponyme qui est présenté au catalogue raisonné (n° 646) est identique à l’œuvre actuelle. Elle a été retravaillée par l’artiste – comme il le faisait assez souvent – puis signée en bas à droite, contrairement à la première version qui était signée en bas à gauche. Une photographie en noir et blanc documentant l’état antérieur du tableau a été publiée dans le catalogue raisonné. Elle provenait de la galerie Georges Petit, où l’artiste était sous contrat de son vivant. Il existe aussi deux petites études préparatoires du motif à l’huile (Farinaux-Le-Sidaner 1207, 24 x 16 cm, et 1209, 40,7 x 25,4 cm).
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La Rue de l’Eglise à Villefranche-sur-Mer, datable to 1928. Oil on canvas 61 x 50,3 cm, signed lower right.
On stretcher verso with old paper label, thereon typed inscription (faded): Musée Galliéra / Rétrospective / Henri Le Sidaner.

Confirmation of authenticity from Yann Farinaux-le-Sidaner, Paris, dated 18 April 2013 (Nr. LS 459);

According to a kind note from Yann Farinaux-Le-Sidaner the eponymous painting which is presented in the catalogue raisonné (no. 646) is identical with the present work (In Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Madrid). It was reworked by the artist – as he quite often did – and then signed at the lower right, in contrast to the first version, which was signed at the bottom left. A black and white photograph documenting the prior state of the painting was published in the catalogue raisonné. It came from the Galerie Georges Petit, where the artist was under contract during his lifetime. There are two smaller preparatory studies of the motif in oil (Farinaux-Le-Sidaner 1207, 24 x 16 cm, and 1209, 40.7 x 25.4 cm).

Le Sidaner’s career is usually divided into an initial realist period lasting until 1893, followed by a phase linked to Symbolism (1894-1899) and an intimist period in the first years of the 20th century, up until the Great War. In the decade after the conflict, the painter created the most brilliant part of his mature oeuvre.

Throughout the 1920s, Le Sidaner depicted the poetic suggestions of the most varied corners of France; from his own garden in Gerberoy to the park in Versailles, from the scenery of Brittany to that of the south of France. The master of suffused colours was moving away from the hazy and diffused glow which had characterised the largest part of his works. Gradually, in his paintings light became less indeterminate, and the range of colours became brighter, more intense.

 

100 000 – 200000 EUR

74.  ALBERT AUGUST ZIMMERMANN (1808-1888)

Vue de Villefranche-sur-Mer avec la Tête de Chien

 

Huile sur panneau signé Albert Zimmermann en bas à droite.
Dimensions : 36,5 x 58 cm
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View upon Villefranche-sur-Mer with the Tête de Chien, Monaco beyond. Oil on panel 36,5 x 58 cm, signed Albert Zimmerman lower right.

Saxon painter born in Zittau, son of the impressario Karl Friedrich Zimmermann, he started as an autodidact in the representation of landscapes before perfecting his skills at the Academy of Dresden, then from 1831, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

A landscape painter with an heroic-historical character, Zimmermann has a preference for mountain views with powerful light effects. There are sometimes mythological figures, probably inspired by his travel in Italy.

He opens his own painting school which will be attended in particular by Ludwig von Hagn, Adalbert Waagen, Eugen Jettel, Emile Jakob Schindler as well as his brothers Max, Robert and Richard.

 

12 000 – 16000 EUR

75.  NIKOLAÏ IVANOVITCH YOURASSOV (1833-1906)

Vue de Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 1879

 

Huile sur sa toile d’origine signée et datée « Nizza, N.Jourassoff 1879 » en bas à droite. Dans un encadrement en bois doré d’époque.
Dimensions : 43 x 61 cm
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A view of Saint Jean-Cap-Ferrat, oil on unlined canvas 43 x 61 cm in a period gilded frame.

A landscape painter from a Russian aristocratic family linked to the Romanovs, born in Saint-Petersburg and deceased in Nice where he is buried, he also leads a diplomatic career and will be Vice Consul of Russia in Menton. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in his hometown and several stays in Italy, he emigrated to Nice in 1877, amazed by the beauty of the maritime landscapes which he appreciated but also attracted by the presence of a large colony Russian.

 

18 000 – 24000 EUR

76.  GEORG GERLACH (1874-1962)

Monte-Carlo, 1926

 

Gouache sur papier signé et daté en bas à gauche.
Provenance : Collection privée Belgique
Dimensions: 35 x 50 cm à vue
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Gouache on paper 35 x 50 cm, signed and datet lowr left. Provenance : Private collection, Belgium.

Austrian impressionist painter of portraits, landscapes and still lifes, born in Berlin, he studied at the Institute for Graphic Education and Research in Vienna. After private painting lessons, Gerlach then perfected his skills at the Academies of Fine Arts in Vienna and Munich.

Gerlach undertakes several study trips to Germany, Italy and France from where he brings back impressionist landscapes. During the First World War, he worked as a war painter, mainly on the Italian front.

 

1 000 – 2000 EUR

77.  ROLAND MERTENS (1952)

Monte-Carlo, vue du Rocher

 

Huile sur panneau, signé en bas à gauche, contresigné et daté au dos avec un dessin.
Dimensions : 57,5 x 67 cm
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A view of Monte-Carlo, oil on panel 57,5 x 67 cm, signed and dated « R.Mertens 2013 » lower left. Inscriptions with a drawing on reverse.

Roland Mertens studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, in 1969-1973, where he attended the master class of Professor Joseph Beuys. He lives and works in Aachen.

 

2 800 – 3400 EUR

78.  THANOS TSINGOS (1914-1965)

Port de plaisance Nice, avec le quai Amiral Infernet, 1959

 

Huile sur toile signée et datée en bas à gauche
Dimensions : 92 x 73 cm

Nous signalons qu’une vue du port d’Antibes s’est vendue à Londres aux enchères chez Bonhams au prix de 72.000 pounds.

Cette oeuvre sera inclus au prochain catalogue raisonné en cours de préparation par l’expert Marc Ottavi, Paris
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Antibes harbour, 1959. Oil on canvas signed and dated lower left. This work will be included in the next catalog raisonné being prepared by the expert Marc Ottavi, Paris.

We report a view of the port of Antibes painted by the artist and sold in London at Bonhams auctioneer for the price of 72,000 pounds.

Thanos Tsingos was born in 1914 in Elefsina. He studied architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (1931-1936) and worked as an architect until 1939. His intense and adventurous life begins with the Second World War; he served in the Middle East front, got involved in the Middle East coup and was sentenced to death at first, then to life imprisonment, etc. Once he was pardoned and released (1946) he became one of the architects working on the city plan of Brasília, on Le Corbusier’s recommendation.

After the end of the Brazilian project (1948), he settled in Paris, where he initially worked with the avant-garde theatre and eventualy he devoted himself to painting. He had already adopted the wild lifestyle of the bohemian artists of the era, which favoured bouts of creativity, but also self-destructive tendencies.

His painting style, in history of art terms, belongs to the European trend of informal. His gestural writing and the rich colour texture create surfaces full of emotional tension. Nevertheless, his works are rarely entirely abstract. Usually there are figurative subjects (landscapes, animals or flowers), which are depicted in an abstract manner, as images of a fantasy world.

 

15 000 – 20000 EUR

79.  GIUSEPPE I CANELLA (1788-1847), Entourage

Arche de la Paix avec personnages, Milan

 

Tempera sur papier.
Dimensions : 62,5 x 49 cm

Provenance :
– Collection privée, Milan
– Collection privée Londres, par succession du précédent
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Arch of Peace with figures, Milan, tempera on paper 62,5 x 49 cm

Provenance:
– Private collection, Milan
– Private collection London, by succession of the above

 

500 – 1000 EUR

80.  GUSTAVO SIMONI (1845-1926)

La conversation

 

Huile sur carton d’artiste, signé en bas à droite.
Dimensions : 19,5 x 10,5 cm
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Two women conversing, oil on artist board 19,5 x 10,5 cm, signed lower right.

Italian painter and teacher born in Rome, Gustavo Simoni traveled a lot from his beginnings and went to France, Spain, Africa and more particularly to Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Orientalist painter attentive to detail, he knows how to capture the thrills of an environment and fix the memory of a moment. He painted genre scenes in Palestrina and Sorrento with a profusion of figures represented with great vivacity and delicate colors.

Also attracted by historical themes, he creates reconstructions of imaginative and improbable scenes, taking place in ancient Rome or the Renaissance. He joined the group of founders of the Association of Roman Watercolourists and exhibited his watercolours. Works in the museums of Rome, Vincenza, Glasgow, Leipzig, Melbourne and New York.

 

2 500 – 3500 EUR

81.  JEAN LOUIS ERNEST MEISSONIER (1815-1891)

Etude de cuirassier de la Garde à la Trompette

 

Huile sur panneau signé et daté 1871 (?)
Provenance : vente de l’atelier Messonier, mai 1893.
Dimensions : 24,8 x 17,2 cm
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Study of Cuirassier de la Garde on trumpet for 1807 Friedland, oil on panel 24,8 x 17,2 cm, signed and dated « Meissonier 187(1) ?

Provenance : sold Meissonier Atelier, May 1893

French painter of historical military subjects, also a sculptor, Meissonnier is part of the movement of historical realism which appears in the plastic arts during the Second Empire. After a short but fruitful stint in Léon Cogniet’s studio and a rather difficult start as a vignette artist, he made his debut at the Salon in 1834. Concerned with authentic detail, he joined the Historical Realism movement which appeared in the Visual Arts under the Second Empire.

 

8 000 – 12000 EUR

82.  ANTON SMINCK PITLOO (1790-1837)

Vue de la côte Napolitaine

 

Huile sur papier marouflé sur panneau, signé en bas à droite.
Dimensions : 14 x 25 cm
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View of the Neapolitan coast

Oil on paper mounted on panel 14 x 25 cm, signed lower right.

 

2 500 – 5000 EUR