Press release : Press release - Sales from December 27th till 31st, 2023
Press release - Sales from December 27th till 31st, 2023
T 1980-E 26 made in 1980
From December 27th to 31st, Maître Jean-Pierre Besch will be holding five prestige sales at his traditional end-of-year event, which promises to be particularly attractive, with 3 days of high-quality sales devoted to the sale of several magnificent French and foreign private wine collections on December 27, 28 and 29. On December 30th, some of the undisputed masters of the major artistic movements of the 20th century will also be on show at the Hôtel Martinez in Cannes.
And among the major works, Hans HARTUNG (1904 - 1989), a major representative of abstract art of international renown. His compositions, streaked with black and sometimes with one or more other colours, evoke the speed of the movement that gave rise to them. Rapid, nervous gestures, like the lines left in his school notebooks by the child who defied lightning. "I'm sure that my childhood flashes of lightning had an influence on my artistic development and on the way I painted. So many testimonies from this immense artist, author of a unique method described as "calculated spontaneity" and which would make him the precursor of Action painting, as shown by "T1980-E 26 (1980)", an acrylic on canvas for which a certificate from the Hartung-Bergman Foundation will be given to the buyer. This work was acquired directly by the current owner, a close friend of the artist, from the Estate of Hans Hartung, as evidenced by a letter from the legal administrator of the Hartung estate dated 8 June 1990.
Another major artist of the 20th century, Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973), left his mark on many disciplines. Painting, drawing, sculpture and engraving were all fields in which the master - who was also the originator of Cubism - excelled. It was a talent that he also exploited in the art of ceramics from 1947 onwards. A year earlier, he and Françoise Gillot had visited the Madura pottery in Vallauris run by Suzanne and Georges Ramié, and were seduced by this multi-faceted art. He joined the Ramié team in July 1947 and experimented with new processes in all areas of ceramics. The white earthenware turned jug "Femme du Barbu" was created on 10 July 1953 and bears the stamps "D'après Picasso" and "Madoura plein feu", with the inscription "Edition Picasso".
In a decidedly different style, an oil on canvas, "Ferme aux environs de Quimper" by Eugène BOUDIN (1824-1898) will also be on show. Considered one of Normandy's greatest painters and a precursor of Impressionism, Boudin's interpretation of nature is always admirably balanced, as illustrated by this canvas dated 1880.
Bright colours and sharp lines, subjects seemingly drawn from ancient or mythological scenes, cartoons or dreamlike worlds : this is the world of Robert COMBAS (born 1957), co-founder and European leader of figuration libre, an artistic movement in which creative freedom is paramount. Using every inch of his canvas, he fills it with characters whose movements seem to bring the canvas to life. Creatures whose gaze occupies a central place in his work, so much so that they seem to take the viewer as witness, and for this canvas Combas honours Cannes and its festival through this mixed technique on canvas "And what if Luis had replaced Walt Disney? Luis Buñuel would have been a big hit if he'd made disconnected cartoons. Miké Nické, Tome (from Savoie) and Jary (Alfréda). Titin le jeune Belge... all surrealist cartoons, 2007". This work was acquired from Guy Pieters Gallery by its current owner.
Works by Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), Joseph Csaky (1888-1971) André Lanskoy (1902-1976), Line Vautrin (1913-1997), Bram Bogart (1921-2012), Jean Miotte (born 1926) and a 19th-century Russian icon depicting the Archangel Michael bearing the sword of the Last Judgement will join the other artists.
This sale will be followed on December 31st at 1.30pm by a sale of important diamonds, signed jewellery, Haute Joaillerie and collector's watches, including an exceptional BOUCHERON ring in platinum holding an emerald-cut diamond weighing 5.13 carats in D colour and Internally Flawless clarity, set with 2 trapeze diamonds. The emerald cut is the emblematic symbol of the famous jeweller, the first to set up shop on Place Vendôme, but it is above all the exceptional nature of this diamond that makes it one of the rarest in the world. The GIA laboratory in New York appended a letter to its certificate stating that this diamond is ultra-rare and has a Type IIa chemical composition.
Important to mention such famous names as Graff, Cartier, Suzanne Belperron, René Boivin, Fonseque & Olive, Harry Winston, Georges Lenfant, Vacheron Constantin, Rolex and many others.
Contact press : Isabelle de Puysegur - Tel/Fax : 33(0) 1 45 49 17 97 - i.puysegur@wanadoo.fr
