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Alfred Eisenstaedt (German/American, 1898-1995): Corps de Ballet rehearses Swanlake at the Opera de Paris (1931), gelatin silver print, hand signed by the photographer to margin recto, stamped & inscribed verso, H 23 x W 33cm, unframed.
Provenance: The Eisenstaedt Family Estate. £1500-2500
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Alfred Eisenstaedt (German/American, 1898-1995): Two photographs of naval interest to include Naval Cadets: Annapolis (1937), gelatin silver print, signed to margin recto, inscribed & stamped verso, H 20 x W 26cm, & A view from the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth, gelatin silver print, signed to margin recto, H 31.5 x W 21.5cm, both unframed (2).
Provenance: The Eisenstaedt Family Estate. £1500-2500
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Güngör Taner (Turkish, b. 1941): Untitled abstract, 1997, oil on canvas, signed & dated lower right, H 100 x W 130cm.
Provenance: Previously owned by the Turkish ambassador to New Zealand.
Note: Born in Istanbul, Taner graduated from Nurullah Berk workshop of the Painting Faculty of Istanbul State Academy of Fine Arts. He continued his studies in Salzburg in 1971 where he worked with the Dutch artist Corneille. He had his first exhibition in Istanbul in 1981, with a retrospective at the Ataturk Cultural Centre in 1990. Taner is interested in rhythm and music while creating his paintings, using contrasts and searching for abstract aspects and a sustainable form in pursuit of harmony. The artist has won several important awards including the Achievement Award of the 2nd Istanbul Biennial, 1981. £4000-6000
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Sayed Haider Raza (Indian, 1922-2016): 'Srakiti', acrylic on canvas, 1997, signed & dated lower centre, additionally signed, titled, & dated verso, H 120 x W 120, with certificate of authenticity signed by the artist & Armand Israel.
Provenance: Art Moderne Et Contemporain, Marc-Arthur Kohn, Paris, 27th May 2014,
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Note: Emerging from the emancipatory individualism of the post-Independence era, Sayed Haider Raza's remarkably long career came to be defined by the quest for an Indian expression of modernism. A founding member of the celebrated Progressive Artists' Group alongside F. N. Souza, Raza left India on a government scholarship to Paris in 1950. Living in France until 2010, Raza was one of the few artists of his generation to find success abroad while maintaining a place of significance among the art community back home. Raza is best remembered for the series of Bindu paintings he began in the late '70s, which he continued to make for the rest of his life. These canvases featured a dot or a circle as a centre of energy, the seed of life & creation. In the 1990s, the date of the present picture, Raza extended his Bindu series, pairing triangles, squares & rectangles in red, blue, orange, yellow & green with deep black circles. In 2010, Raza became one of India's priciest modern artist when a seminal work, 'Saurashtra', 1983, sold for over £2million at a Christie's auction in London. He received the highest French civilian honour, the Commandeur de la Legion d'honneur (Legion of Honour) in July 2015. £80000-120000
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An early 1960s original Mao Tse-tung Zedong Cultural Revolution propaganda poster: H 69 x W 49cm £80-120
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An original 1967 Russian poster: featuring a famous warship, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution in Russia, H 64 x W 54cm £70-90
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An original 1940s Russian poster: published during WWII, exhorting Russians to take up arms, H 69 x W 49cm £80-120
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Russian School (20th century): Impressionist river landscape, oil on board, H 40 x W 50cm £100-200
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Emmanuel Mbanefo (Nigerian, b. 1960): 'Journalist', oil on paper, 1999, labelled verso, H 49 x W 35cm £100-200
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Attributed to Yves Brayer (French, 1907-1990): A French olive grove, possibly Provence, gouache, inscribed verso, H 27 x W 42cm £60-80
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Spanish School (early 20th century): Portrait of a lady, oil on canvas, signed indistinctly upper left, possibly 'Colpon R' & dated 1927, H 90 x W 80cm, unframed £80-120
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Salvatore Colacicco (Italian, b. 1935): Two oils on panel, one depicting a ortrait of an American ship off the coast, signed lower left, H 40 x W 50cm, the other a British ship, signed lower left, H 40 x W 60cm (2) £700-1000
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Mirian (Brazilian, 1939-1996): 'Maracatu', oil on panel, signed lower right & dated '83, H 29 x W 80cm, unframed £500-800
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Peter Max (American, b. 1937): Ali & Max, Muhammad Ali VII, 2007, mixed media painting with acrylic & colour lithography on paper, hand signed by both Muhammad Ali & Peter Max, H 80 x W 70cm, with Park West Gallery Certificate of Authenticity & documentation £8000-12000
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Italian School (17th century): An angel appearing to Christ, oil on canvas laid on panel, H 22 x W 27cm.
Note: The present picture is likely to depict Christ being visited by an angel in the Garden of Gethsemane: 'Then an angel from heaven appeared to Him and gave Him strength' (Luke 22:43). £300-500
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Italian School (16/17th century): Study of an angel, a fragment, oil on canvas, H 28 x W 27cm £400-600
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Follower of Meindert Hobbema (Dutch, 1638-1709): A wooded river landscape, oil on cradled panel, H 62 x W 80cm £700-1000
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English School (17th/18th century): Portrait of a smoking gentleman seated at a desk, oil on panel, the reverse bearing a wax collector's seal depicting a stag's head above a crown & stamped with stencil numbers, H 54 x W 39cm £300-500
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After Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642): Self portrait of the artist, oil on panel, H 21 x W 17cm, set within an elaborate, hand-carved giltwood frame £200-400
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After Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1617-1682): Madonna & child, oil on canvas, H 68 x W 54cm £400-600
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Attributed to Jan van Huchtenburg (Dutch, 1647-1733): A pair of oil on canvas depicting extensive battle scenes between Christians & Ottomans, each H 47 x W 74cm.
Provenance: By descent to the present vendor. £4000-6000
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Circle of Egbert van Heemskerck (Dutch, 1634-1704): Boors revelling in a tavern, oil on panel, wax collector's seal verso, H 31 x W 30cm £200-300
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Follower of Jan Van Goyen (Dutch, 1596-1656): Figures in a wooded river landscape, oil on panel, H 24 x W 29cm £300-400
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Circle of Leandro Bassano (Italian, 1557-1622): The Mocking of Christ, oil on panel, inscribed verso, H 42 x W 32cm, in good quality carved giltwood frame.
Provenance: Christie's, London, Old Master & British Paintings, 30th April 2015,
483. £3000-5000
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A Russian Icon (19th century): Depicting St. Simeon of Verkhoturye, oil on panel, H 34.5 x W 24cm £500-700
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Flemish School (17th century): Saint Sebastian, oil on panel, inscribed & labelled verso, H 29 x W 20cm.
Provenance: Presented to the vendor's family by Colonel Withers, circa 1970, thence by descent. £600-800
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After Andrew Geddes (Scottish, 1783-1844): 'Summer', portait of a lady, said to be Charlotte Nasmyth, oil on canvas, oil on canvas, H 75 x W 62cm.
Note: A slightly later copy of Geddes' original 1826 picture, now in the Scottish National Gallery. The work was inspired by Rubens' celebrated portrait of Susanna Lunden, 'Le Chapeau de Paille', which had been shown in London a few years earlier. Charlotte Nasmyth (1804-1884) was the sixth daughter of the landscape painter Alexander Nasmyth & herself became an artist. £200-400
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Sophie Anderson (British, 1823-1903): Still life with strawberries, ferns & flowers, oil on canvas, signed lower centre, H 25 x W 30cm.
Note: Born Sophie Gengembre in Paris, the artist left France for the United States to escape the 1848 revolution. There she met her husband, the British genre artist Walter Anderson, & the couple moved to London in 1854. She subsequently exhibited widely at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, & the British Institution before moving to Capri, eventually returning to England to Falmouth, Cornwall, where she died. A significant Victorian female painter, her work, 'Elaine', was the first public collection purchase of a woman artist. In 2008, the world record price for her work of more than £1 million was achieved by 'No Walk Today' at Sotheby's, London. £600-800
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Annie Feray Mutrie (British, 1826-1893): Floral still life, oil on board, signed with initials 'AFM' in ligature lower right, H 32 x W 40cm.
Provenance: With Thomas Agnew & Sons, their label verso. £400-600
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Jennens & Bettridge (Birmingham, active 1815-1864): An important painted papier-mâché panel of Royal interest depicting Edward, Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, as a boy, the painted panel signed in gold lower right, set within original papier-mâché frame, elaborately decorated with gold foliate designs, surmounted by the heraldic badge of the Prince of Wales, the reverse of the framed stamp 'JENNENS & BETTRIDGE', the panel H 30 x W 23cm, the whole H 41 x W 33cm.
Note: The present portrait derives from Franz Xavier Winterhalter's large portrait in oil of the Prince, executed personally for Queen Victoria in 1843. The Queen recorded in her Journal on 24 August 1843: 'Winterhalter has made, in only 2 sittings, the most spirited & beautiful likeness of the Boy, imaginable'. Prince Albert Edward was the first son and second child of the nine children of Queen Victoria & Prince Albert, & the first heir born to a reigning sovereign since 1762. He was usually known by both names, except in the family, where he was called Bertie. When he ascended the throne in 1901, he declared himself Edward VII. He was made Prince of Wales aged one month. £800-1200
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Fernand Cormon (French, 1845-1924): Mythological scene, possibly a study for a mural, oil on canvas, signed lower right & dated 1907, H 40 x W 91cm, unframed.
Note: From 1868, Cormon exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon with great success. His 1880 painting of Cain Fleeing with his Family, now in the Musée d'Orsay, was awarded the medal of honour at the Salon & was purchased by the State for the Musée du Luxembourg. He received several important public commissions, notably a series of ten large mural paintings for the amphitheatre of the Museum Nationale D'histoire Naturelle in the 1890s, & the decoration of the Petit Palais in 1911. It is likely that the present picture, dating to the same period, is a design for a similar commission. A popular teacher, he established an art school & taught, amongst others, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh & Matisse. £600-800
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Circle of Gustave Moreau (French, 1826-1898): Study of a lady in white surrounded by figures, oil on canvas, signed upper left, a preparatory sketch, H 39 x W 32cm, the canvas stamped verso 'M. Chabod, Md de couleurs, Colles à Tableaux, Rue Jacob...' £800-1200
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Fritz von Wille (German, 1860-1941): A panoramic lakeside landscape, oil on canvas, signed lower left, H 60 x W 80cm.
Note: The son of the artist couple August & Clara von Wille, Fritz von Wille was a key landscape painter of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. From 1911 he was the owner of owner of Kerpen Castle & was buried there upon his death in 1941. £800-1200
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Godfrey Douglas Giles (British, 1857-1923): Study of a racehorse, 'Glare', in a landscape, oil on canvas, titled lower left, signed lower right & dated 1904, H 30 x W 35cm.
Note: Glare (b. 1891), the second dam of Prince Palatine (from the last crop of the King's Derby hero, Persimmon), was bred by Sir Daniel Cooper & sold as a yearling to Col. Walker. As a racer, her best win came in the Fern Hill Stakes at Ascot as a juvenile. Col. Walker prized her as a broodmare prospect, and she gave him tremendous service, with Flair and her stakes-winning sister, Lesbia. £800-1200
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Godfrey Douglas Giles (British, 1857-1923): Study of a racehorse, 'Float', in a landscape, oil on canvas, titled lower left, signed lower right & dated 1904, H 30 x W 35cm.
Note: Float was the half-sister of Glare, portrayed in the previous lot, out of Footlight. £800-1200
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Godfrey Douglas Giles (British, 1857-1923): Study of a racehorse, 'Edmee', in a landscape, oil on canvas, titled lower left, signed lower right & dated 1904, H 30 x W 35cm £800-1200
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Circle of Richard Parkes Bonington (British, 1802-1828): A figure with goats in an interior before an impressive fireplace, oil on canvas, H 42 x W 72cm £400-600
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Continental School (19th century): A hand-painted miniature papier-mâché panel depicting a reclining nude, set within a silver frame with foliate decoration, the whole H 15 x W 15cm £80-120
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William Etty, R.A. (1787-1849): Study of an Indian man in a turban, probably Mendoo, the artist's model, with landscape beyond, oil on canvas, H 60 x W 50cm, contained within its original gilt frame with strap-work decoration.
Provenance: Bonhams, London, 31st October 1991,
177; the reverse also bearing a Christie's stencil number,
Note: Though best known for his nudes, Etty regularly painted studies of non-European or exotic models, clothed, as here - but in London, not on his foreign travels which were limited to France, Italy & the Low Countries. In fact, the man depicted in the present painting is almost certainly the Indian Mendoo, who was a favourite model of Etty's over many years: according to the artist's biographer Alexander Gilchrist, Mendoo posed for Pluto in Pluto carrying off Proserpine, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1835, & for The Indian Alarmed, shown there in 1845. It is possible that the present study is connected with the latter, painted for the artist's brother Charles & referred to by Gilchrist also as the Indian Alarmed & Listening. We are grateful to the art historian Richard Green, curator of the York Art Gallery, 1977-2003, for his assistance in the cataloguing of this work. £1500-2500
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Frederick Goodall, R.A. (British, 1822-1904): Orientalist portrait study of a gentleman, oil on canvas, signed with monogram lower left, H 36 x W 30cm £300-500
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Circle of Henry Bright (Norwich School, 1810-1873): Landscape with charcoal burners, No. 20', oil on canvas, H 62 x W 75cm, titled on original handwritten label to the reverse of elaborate gilt frame £800-1200
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English School (19th century): Lake District landscape, oil on canvas, H 48.5 x W 86.5cm £300-500
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Attributed to Benjamin Williams Leader, R.A. (British, 1831-1923): Landscape study, oil on board, H 6 x W 10.5cm, labelled verso 'B W Leader'.
Provenance: With Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, their label verso. £80-120
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Coninental School (19th century): A monk reading in an interior, watercolour, indistinctly signed lower left, H 45 x W 33cm £80-120
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Follower of Sir David Wilkie, R.A. (British, 1785-1841): Figures in a street with a one man band, oil on canvas, H 90 x W 60cm £80-120
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George Vertue (British, 1684-1756): A set of eight engravings of after famous British Royal portraits after various artists including Holbein, Van Dyck, Van Honthorst, Van Somer, Mor etc, each H 30 x W 20cm (8) £80-120
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After Lemuel Francis Abbott (British, 1760-1803): Horatio Nelson, colour mezzotint, made & published by W. Barnard, 1798, H 63 x W 42cm £60-80
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John Raphael Smith (1752-1812) after George Morland (1763-1804): The Laetitia Series, the complete set of six colour stipple engravings, each H 34 x W 28cm, to include Domestic Happyness, Laetitia with her Parents; The Elopement, Laetita seduced from her friends under a promise of marriage; The Virtuous Parent, Laetitia endeavours in vain by presents to reconcile her parents; Dressing for the Masquerade, Laetitia flies from reflection to public entertainments; The Tavern Door, Laetitia deserted by her seducer is thrown on the town; and The Fair Penitent, Laetitia in penitence finds relief & protection from her parents (6) £80-120
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After Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, R.A. (1802-1873): Alpine Mastiffs Reanimating a Distressed Traveller, colour engraving, H 46 x W 58cm £60-80
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After Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828-1882): 'Ecce Ancilla Domini!', The Annunciation, chromolithograph, published by the Medici Society Ltd, 1913, H 47 x W 27cm.
Provenance: With Frost & Reed Ltd, their label verso; Presented to F. J. Broadbent by the Students of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, 1916, labelled verso. £60-80
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