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A red-ground silk jacket with dragon motif & An embroidered red-ground satin silk robe with blue flower design, China, late Qing

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A red-ground silk jacket with dragon motif, China, late Qing dynasty, Guangxu periodPhoto Nagel.

Shoulder worn, stained. L. 105 cm. Estimate 1800 €

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An embroidered red-ground satin silk robe with blue flower design, China, late Qing dynasty, Guangxu periodPhoto Nagel.

Silk partly discoloured, wear due to age. L. 110 cm. Estimate 600 €

Nagel. "Asiatische Kunst". 9.5.2014 - http://www.auction.de/


Christie's announces online-only sale of Impressions in Clay: Pablo Picasso Ceramics

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Photo Christie’s Images LTD 2014.

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s will offer an exceptional ceramics collection in Impressions in Clay: Pablo Picasso Ceramics featuring Property from the Estate of Edgar M. Bronfman from May 2nd to May 16th. Following the overwhelming success of previous dedicated Picasso ceramics sales at Christie’s, the sale will be offered exclusively as an online-only auction and features 47 superb works with prices beginning at $1,200. Top lots include Picasso’s Tripod (A.R. 125) (estimate: $50,000-70,000) and a complete 8-piece Service Corrida set (A.R. 416-423) (estimate: $70,000-90,000). The entirety of the Bronfman ceramics collection will be on view in New York during the Prints & Multiples exhibition (April 18-22), and highlights will be presented during the Impressionist & Modern view (May 2-6). 

Highlighting the sale are 35 Picasso ceramics from the Estate of Edgar M. Bronfman. Mr. Bronfman’s thoughtfully acquired collection was formed over the course of several decades and spans the categories of Impressionist & Modern Art, American Art, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Prints & Multiples, and Decorative Arts. In addition to the impressive group of Picasso ceramics, a rare set of 19 silver Picasso plates will also be offered from the Bronfman estate in the May 6th Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale. The collection boasts a further selection of works by such blue-chip artists as Picasso, Monet, Degas, and Avery, among others. The collection will be sold in New York, London, and Hong Kong, as well as in this online-only sale. 

ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

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Pablo Picasso Wood-Owl (A.R. 542) Partially glazed white earthenware pitcher painted in colors, 1968 Estimate: $6,000-8,000© 2014 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo Christie’s Images LTD 2014.

Pablo Picasso Tripod (A.R. 125) Glazed white earthenware vase painted in colors, 1951 Estimate: $50,000-70,000 © 2014 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Pablo Picasso Corrida (A.R. 182) White earthenware dish painted in brown and green with white enamel, 1953 Estimate: $6,000-8,000© 2014 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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Pablo Picasso Grey Face (A.R. 206) Partially glazed white earthenware dish painted in colors, 1953 Estimate: $7,000-10,000© 2014 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.Photo Christie’s Images LTD 2014.

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Pablo Picasso Service Corrida (A.R. 416-423) The complete set of eight partially glazed white earthenware dishes painted in colors Estimate: $70,000-90,000 © 2014 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo Christie’s Images LTD 2014.

The largest flawless vivid blue diamond in the world leads Christie's Geneva Magnificent Jewels Sale

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THE BLUE is estimated to fetch US$21,000,000 – 25,000,000 / SFr.19,000,000 – 23,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2014.

GENEVA.- Christie’s announces the sale of THE BLUE, the largest flawless vivid blue diamond in the world. Weighing 13.22 carats this sensational stone will lead Christie’s auction of Magnificent Jewels to be held in Geneva on 14 May 2014 at the Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues. Just six months earlier, Christie’s Geneva sold THE ORANGE, the largest fancy vivid orange diamond in the world for US$35.5 million, a world record for an orange diamond and a world auction record price per carat for any diamond at US$2.4 million. THE BLUE is estimated to fetch US$21,000,000 – 25,000,000 / SFr.19,000,000 – 23,000,000 and is the leading gem of the 250 lot strong sale which is estimated to fetch a total in the region of US$80 million / SFr.73 million. 

The sale will also feature many important coloured and colourless diamonds such as THE OCEAN DREAM, at 5.50 carats the largest fancy vivid blue-green diamond in the world to come to auction, with an estimate of US$7,500,00 – 9,500,000 / SFr.6,300,000 – 9,000,000. The combination of its size, natural origin, hue, and saturated color makes it an extremely unusual occurrence.

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THE OCEAN DREAM is estimated to fetch US$7,500,00 – 9,500,000 / SFr.6,300,000 – 9,000,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2014. 

The Light Pink cut-corned square-cut diamond of 76.51 carats set as necklace center piece by Leviev (estimate: US$7,000,000-10,000,000 / SFr.6,300,000 – 9,000,000), is another rare coloured diamond in the sale. A pear-shaped D-colour Flawless diamond of 75.97 carats, estimated at US$13,500,000 – 15,500,000 / SFr. 12,300,000 – 14,000,000, will lead the large offering of perfect diamonds on 14 May. 

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A magnificent coloured diamond necklace, by Leviev is estimated to fetch US$13,500,000 – 15,500,000 / SFr. 12,300,000 – 14,000,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014

A PASSION FOR JEWELS ‘A PASSION FOR JEWELS:

The Collection of a European Gentleman’ comprises a total of 14 jewels including The Rajah diamond, an old-mine brilliant-cut diamond of 26.14 carats (estimate: US$3,000,00 – 5,000,000 / SFr.2,600,000 –4,400,000). It belonged to Mrs. Mary J. Morgan (d. 1885), second wife of Charles Morgan (1798-1878). Little was known about Mrs. Morgan’s collection of works of art and jewellery until it was auctioned in March 1886.

Tiffany & Co. bought two important diamonds from the collection, including The Rajah and sold them within a month to another Bostonian socialite, Mrs. Isabella Stewart Gardner, the collector and philanthropist who founded a museum of the same name. In 1924, the diamonds changed hands again and went into a private collection until 1997, when Christie’s Geneva sold The Rajah for the first time above its pre-sale estimate of SFr.1.8-2.2 million. 

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The Rajah diamond is estimated to fetch US$3,000,00 – 5,000,000 / SFr.2,600,000 –4,400,000Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2014.

The highlight of ‘A PASSION FOR JEWELS’ and the iconic piece of the sale is a sensational Belle Époque Devant-de-Corsage brooch, crafted in 1912 by Cartier (estimate: US$7,000,000-12,000,000 / SFr.6,500,000-11,000,000). Salomon Barnato Joel (1865-1931), a director of De Beers Consolidated Diamond Mines from 1901 to 1931 in South Africa, took four of his most beautiful diamonds to Cartier in 1912, asking for a brooch to be designed around them. This great example of a Belle Époque jewel, centered upon a pear-shaped diamond of 34.08 carats, alongside a heart-shaped diamond of 3.54 carats and two navette-shaped diamonds of 23.55 and 6.51 carats, set in the delicate, so called Lily-of-the-Valley setting, used by Cartier at the time and mastered by their famous workshop “Atelier Henri Picq”, is very rare to appear at auction. This unique jewel which combines magnificent diamonds, a delicate design, a remarkable make and a famous provenance will be offered for the second time at Christie’s in 23 years. 

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A Belle Époque diamond devant-de-corsage brooch, by Cartier is estimated to fetch US$7,000,000-12,000,000 / SFr.6,500,000-11,000,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014

NOBLE JEWELS 

Twenty pieces from the Estate of Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kaszon will be another highpoint of the auction. This section is led by a natural pearl and diamond necklace estimated at US$550,000-700,000 / SFR.500,000-700,000 with Royal provenance. The impressive pearl was in the personal jewellery casket of Queen Elizabeth of Prussia (1801-1873). Upon her death her jewels were given to the Crown Treasury. When Empress Augusta Victoria and her husband William II had to leave Germany to take exile in the Netherlands in 1919, the pearl and other jewels accompanied them. After the Empress’ death in 1923, William II sold the jewels, including the pearl, via the Swiss gem dealer Alphonse de Sondheimer, who listed the impressive pearl in his inventory made in Doorn. How the pearl entered the Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza’s collection is not recorded but her husband, Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza was also living in exile in the Netherlands, escaping Hungary, at the time of the private sale of the Royal Prussian jewels and presumably purchased it during the time.

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An impressive natural pearl and diamond necklace, with Royal provenance, is estimated to fetch US$550,000-700,000 / SFR.500,000-700,000. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014

RARE AND UNIQUE GEMS

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The cushion-shaped Alexandrite of approximately 21.41 carats (illustrated right) is accompanied by a report of the Swiss Gemological Institute stating that the Alexandrite is of Russian origin, with no indications of treatment and a distinct colour-change from green to purple, and an appendix letter indicating that “a natural Alexandrite from Russia of this size and quality is very rare and exceptional and thus can be considered a very exceptional treasure of nature.” (Estimate: US$500,000 – 700,000 / SFr.450,000 – 650,000).

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A rare and important spinel bead necklace is another unique jewel Christie’s Geneva will offer this season (estimate: US$1,500,00 – 2,000,000 / SFr.1,350,000 –1,800,000). The seven Mughal engraved spinel beads date back to the 17th century. Mughal emperors have had, for centuries, a particular love for precious stones. The Timurids, ancestors of the Mughals, had begun the tradition of engraving titles and names on stones of outstanding quality and, along with diamonds and emeralds, large spinel beads were certainly their favourite. As much as these gems were a symbol of the opulence and dignity of the empire, they were also treasured as protective talismans. Important engraved spinel beads are scarce. A very fine collection can be seen in Qatar where the Museum of Islamic Art exhibits an important necklace with eleven Mughal spinel beads, for a total weight of 877.23 carats, three of them engraved with the names of Emperor Jahangir and one with that of Emperor Shah Jahan. The present necklace, engraved mainly with the names of Emperor Akbar Shah and his successor Emperor Jahangir Shah, is an exceptionally rare opportunity for any collector to own a museum quality Mughal jewel. 

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Natural pearls are very much in demand and Christie’s Geneva is pleased to offer a five-strand necklace composed of eighty-seven, eighty-one, seventy-six, seventy-one and sixty-five natural pearls, coming to a total of 380 natural pearls of exceptional quality stated by the appendix report from the SSEF, Swiss Gemological Institute, issued on 17 November 2013 (estimate: US$2,000,000 – 3,000,000 / SFr.1,800,000 – 2,700,000). 

CONTEMPORARY JEWELS
Considered as the greatest contemporary jeweller, Joel Arthur Rosenthal, JAR is synonymous of exceptional craftsmanship. Passion for perfectionism are terms freely used in a world that revolves around exaggerated sensation, but these two words seem to perfectly sum up the extraordinary creativity and drive of this unique creator. JAR jewels are extremely rare and whenever they come up for auction they attract the interest of the world’s most demanding collectors. The spring sale in Geneva will offer an elegant three rectangular-cut diamond ring estimated at US$330,000 – 460,000 / SFr.300,000 – 420,000 with proceeds to benefit ‘Ospendale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu’ in Roma and the Pediatric department of the ‘Ospedale San Paolo’ in Milan.

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A three-stone diamond ring, by JAR is estimated to fetch US$330,000 – 460,000 / SFr.300,000 – 420,000Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014

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In 2006, to celebrate their centenary, Van Cleef & Arpels has launched 'Une journée à Paris', an homage collection to the Maison's birthplace: Paris. Each of the unique creations was inspired by one of the six selected iconic sights of the City of Light: Jardin des Tuileries, Ile de la Cité, Avenue Montaigne, Eiffel Tower, Opera Garnier and Place Vendôme. Evoking the rich burgundy velvet grand drapes of the Opéra Garnier, lot 170 a pair of mystery-set ruby and diamond ear pendants, entitled Entrée en scène form part of this exceptional collection estimate: US$ 200,000 – 310,000 / SFr.180,000 – 280,000

Milwaukee Art Museum partners with Centre Pompidou for original Kandinsky restrospective

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Wassily Kandinsky, Painting with a Red Mark, 1914. Oil on canvas, 51 3/16 × 51 3/16 in.© Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Adam Rzepka / Dist.RMN-GP© 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.

MILWAUKEE, WIS.- Renowned as a painter, printmaker, watercolorist, theoretician, and Bauhaus teacher, Wassily Kandinsky’s prodigious accomplishments span almost all the major artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century, a time of experimentation and innovation in art, conducted against the upheavals of a society entering the modern world. Beginning Thursday, June 5, 2014, the Milwaukee Art Museum will present a major retrospective of this modern master, side by side with his contemporaries in the Blaue Reiter movement. 

Kandinsky: A Retrospective is conceived by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, one of the major repositories of Kandinsky’s works, and organized together with the Milwaukee Art Museum. It is co-curated by Angela Lampe, the Curator of Modern Art at the Centre Pompidou, and Brady Roberts, Chief Curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum. 

The centerpiece of the exhibition will be the reconstruction of an extraordinary lounge Kandinsky created for the 1922 Juryfreie exhibition in Berlin. Made of large scale mural panels, the lounge was meant as a total environment to immerse the viewer in a complete aesthetic experience. It thus predates and anticipates the development of artistic installations and environments later in the century. These murals, reconstructed in 1977 under the supervision of his widow Nina Kandinsky for the opening of the Centre Pompidou, will be presented in the United States for the first time at the Milwaukee Art Museum. 

The exhibition follows the artist through several decades to reveal in five chapters every one of Kandinsky’s creative periods, moving from his native Russia to turn-of-the-century Munich and Murnau, Germany, awash with bold ideas. From there the exhibition returns to revolutionary Russia, before exploring the heady intellectual world of the German Bauhaus, and finally, the dynamic art world of Paris before and during World War II. 

From Art Nouveau’s sinuous, organic forms, to Fauvism and Blaue Reiter’s shocking colors, to Kandinsky’s signature, deeply spiritual abstraction, to the mysteries of Surrealism to the constructivism of the Bauhaus period and the biomorphic forms of the thirties —Kandinsky experienced it all led the way to the invention of radical new forms of modern art. 

The exhibition features over eighty works and documents drawn from the world famous Kandinsky collection of the Centre Pompidou which has one outstanding particularity: nearly all of these works belonged to the artist himself and have been given by his widow Nina Kandinsky to the French State. It allows the visitor the unique opportunity to discover an exhibition made with Kandinsky’s favorite works, those he kept with him all his life. 

The selection is enriched by the exceptional German Expressionist holdings at the Milwaukee Art Museum. A number of paintings from the Bradley Collection will add a complementary art historical dimension to the narrative. The works of Kandinsky’s Munich peers from Milwaukee’s collections will provide rich artistic visual dialogues for visitors. Dazzling works by Alex Jawlensky, August Macke, and Marianne Werefkin, in addition to the Museum’s world-renowned holdings by Kandinsky’s lover and colleague, Gabriele Münter, will gain a new depth from their proximity to her one-time teacher. Two major loans from the Guggenheim Museum and the Walker Art Center will complete this stunning journey through Kandinsky’s career. 

The Milwaukee Art Museum is the premier venue for Kandinsky: A Retrospective. This exhibition celebrates one of the key figures in Modern art by showcasing two extraordinary institutions: the exhaustive collections of works by the artist in the Centre Pompidou; and the superb work of the related Blaue Reiter artists in the Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley Collection at the Milwaukee Art Museum,” said Daniel Keegan, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. “This international collaboration tells the story of some of the most dynamic and influential modern art created in the first half of the twentieth century.” 

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Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866 – 1944), Achtyrka—A Neighboring Dacha on the Pond (Achtyrka—Eine Nachbar-Datscha am Teich), 1917. Oil on canvas board, 8 1/4 × 11 5/16 in. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris. Bequest of Mrs. Nina Kandinsky in 1981 AM 81-65-39© Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/ Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM / Dist.RMN-GP© 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944), Fragment I for Composition VII (Center), 1913. Oil on canvas, stretchers, 34 15/16 x 39 7/16 in. (88.74 x 100.17 cm). Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley M1958.12Photo credit Larry Sanders © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 

Triptyques: Jean Nouvel's latest design of a series of limited edition mirrors on view at Gagosian London

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Jean Nouvel was born in Fumel in 1945 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Photo: Dave J Hogan / Getty Images for Gagosian Gallery.

I want colored mirrors; they are the key to this story. Some are fixed, others shift, others are angled…sometimes two or three models are in different scales, their meaning is established by the interior. —Jean Nouvel

LONDON - Following Jean Nouvel's exhibition of exclusive designs Table au KM and Boite à outils at Gagosian Paris Project Space in 2011, Gagosian London, once again in collaboration with Galerie Patrick Seguin, is pleased to present Triptyques, his latest design of a series of limited edition mirrors.

Like many of his Modernist predecessors who worked across related disciplines, Nouvel describes himself as an architect who also makes design. His non-architectural products derive from his architectural commissions, or from alternative visions that correspond to his building design, but which are linked to specific use. Regardless of the scale of the object or the architecture, Nouvel employs the same rigorous approach, imbuing the objects and accoutrements of everyday life with a lyricism that is striking and emotive yet austere and utilitarian.

As the title suggests, Triptyques are three-paneled colored mirrors, each in an edition of six. The central panel is fixed to the wall, while flanking and cantilevered panels are engineered to be movable. Four mirrors will be presented, each different in color and orientation. As Nouvel says, "The mirror is a piece that you want to live with, in which you reflect intimate images—images from your home; you can capture a piece of a window in it somewhere." The available colors range from dark orange and light orange, to blood orange to red, Nouvel’s signature color.

The mirror finds its essence whether open or closed. When opened these mirrors bring out the importance of color in their surroundings; when closed, they preserve a certain austere elegance.

Jean Nouvel was born in Fumel in 1945 and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. A key protagonist of intellectual debate in France regarding architecture, he was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l’Architecture. Nouvel’s buildings include Musée du Quai Branly, Paris; Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris; Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre, Switzerland; Torre Agbar, Barcelona; and Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis. The Louvre Abu Dhabi, the National Museum of China (NAMOC), and the Philharmonie de Paris at La Villette are among the projects currently in planning. Nouvel’s distinctions include the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Institut du Monde Arabe (1989); the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2001); the Wolf Prize in Arts (2005); and the Pritzker Prize (2008). Exhibitions of his work—including “Jean Nouvel,” a retrospective at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2001)—have been held throughout the world, from New York to Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.

In 1995 Nouvel created the Jean Nouvel Design Agency (JND) to develop design and interior architecture projects in parallel with the architectural practice Ateliers Jean Nouvel. Several series of furniture and industrial objects have been developed and commercialized, from the Less collection (Unifor), coffee service (Alessi), lighting (Artemide & Troll), partitioning systems (Methis), seating (Roset), and tables (Cassina & Molteni).

Nouvel recently collaborated with Gagosian in the design of a 1850 square meter gallery at Le Bourget, Paris, which opened in October 2012. He will also design a limited edition mirrored shoe in collaboration with Ruco Line, Italy, to accompany the London exhibition.

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Jean Nouvel, Miroir A, 2014. Walnut and colored mirrors. Dimensions variable. Ed. of 6. (View 1). Photo by Mike Bruce

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Jean Nouvel, Miroir A, 2014. Walnut and colored mirrors. Dimensions variable. Ed. of 6. (View 2). Photo by Mike Bruce

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Jean Nouvel, Miroir B, 2014. Walnut and colored mirrors. Dimensions variable. Ed. of 6. (View 1). Photo by Mike Bruce

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Jean Nouvel, Miroir B, 2014. Walnut and colored mirrors. Dimensions variable. Ed. of 6. (View 2). Photo by Mike Bruce

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Jean Nouvel, Miroir B, 2014. Walnut and colored mirrors. Dimensions variable. Ed. of 6. (View 3). Photo by Mike Bruce

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Jean Nouvel, Miroir B, 2014. Walnut and colored mirrors. Dimensions variable. Ed. of 6. (View 4). Photo by Mike Bruce

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Jean Nouvel, Miroir C, 2014. Walnut and colored mirrors. Dimensions variable. Ed. of 6. (View 1). Photo by Mike Bruce

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Jean Nouvel, Miroir C, 2014. Walnut and colored mirrors. Dimensions variable. Ed. of 6. (View 2). Photo by Mike Bruce

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Jean Nouvel, Miroir D, 2014. Walnut and colored mirrors. Dimensions variable. Ed. of 6. (View 1). Photo by Mike Bruce

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"JEAN NOUVEL: Triptyques". Installation view. Photo by Mike Bruce

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"JEAN NOUVEL: Triptyques". Installation view. Photo by Mike Bruce

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"JEAN NOUVEL: Triptyques". Installation view.Photo by Mike Bruce

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"JEAN NOUVEL: Triptyques". Installation view. Photo by Mike Bruce

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg to spotlight the innovative work of emerging Chinese artists

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Lu Yang (Chinese, born 1984), Wrathful King Kong Core (2011). HD video, color. Courtesy of Beijing Commune

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.- My Generation: Young Chinese Artists is one of the most compelling exhibitions of contemporary art ever presented at the MFA. It looks at the new generation of artists who have emerged in mainland China since 2000, a period marked by increased openness to the West and greater experimentation. The Chinese art scene has exploded with more than 400 galleries and 700 new museums opening in the last four years alone. 

Installations, video, photographs, paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works by 27 artists will be on view from Saturday, June 7, through Sunday, September 28. The curator, New York-based art critic Barbara Pollack, interviewed more than 100 young artists from every region of China in preparing the exhibition. The works will be divided between the MFA and the Tampa Museum of Art, creating a cultural corridor across the bay. 

My Generation brings a brilliant group of young artists to Tampa Bay for the first time,” said MFA Director Kent Lydecker. “Their astonishing work shows us that Chinese art is at the very cutting edge of creativity.” 

All the artists represented were born after 1976, the year Mao died, and the end of the Cultural Revolution, which began in 1966. Almost all are products of the One-Child Policy and have grown up in a country with a high-powered market economy. Some of the artists, while also working individually, have formed partnerships and collectives. 

Ms. Pollack has divided My Generation into four overriding themes: politics, the environment, intimate relationships, and family. The MFA will display works that explore the first two concepts. 

Liu Di is one of the youngest artists with work in the show and created his Animal Regulation series in 2010 when he was just 23. Using Photoshop, he places enormous animals in the midst of Beijing construction sites and projects, conveying a sense of desolation and absurdity. In his video Flying Blue Flag (2004-2005), Hu Xiangqian plays a candidate for mayor in his hometown, even buying votes, in what is ultimately an impossible race. Shi Zhiying’s stunning paintings combine Eastern and Western influences and display her spiritual journey, influenced by Buddhism. Lu Yang pushes the boundaries of technology, combining 3-D animation, medical illustrations, and techno music. Sun Xun has devised a new installation especially for the MFA. Primarily using animation and drawing, he conjures up fantastical nations and worlds. 

Political activism and censorship remain complicated in China. Unlike the previous generation who developed during the Cultural Revolution and lived through Tiananmen Square, younger artists tend to be more subtle in their work, avoiding direct opposition to the government. Ms. Pollack points out in the catalogue that “sexuality and depictions of nudity are forbidden according to censorship regulations, but galleries have easily circumvented these rules. Museums are more strictly controlled.” Artists are examining gender issues and gay identity, but they face intense family pressure to marry and have children. Gays and lesbians are only beginning to step out of the closet and young women artists are reluctant to call themselves “feminists.” 

Ms. Pollack writes “that China, going back to the Silk Road, has always been the site of cross-cultural influences, both appropriating and disseminating imagery and techniques to enrich its own aesthetic development. As such, the influx of everything from McDonald’s to Warhol, instantly synthesized by Chinese artists, is as genuinely Chinese as any Imperial ceramic or scroll painting.” 

In fact, many of these young artists have studied traditional Chinese art forms in the demanding academies they have attended and have reacted to them in their work. The MFA’s significant collection of Asian art, including Chinese ceramics, a magnificent Han Dynasty-horse, and Tibetan bronze Buddhas, encourages visitors to place this new work in a longer stream of history and culture. 

The striking catalogue will feature insightful essays by Ms. Pollack and multimedia artist and curator Li Zhenhua, based in Shanghai and Zurich; a foreword by Tampa Museum of Art Executive Director Todd D. Smith and MFA Director Kent Lydecker; reproductions of all the works in the show; and artist biographies. Katherine Pill, Assistant Curator of Art after 1950, is coordinating the project at the MFA. My Generation will travel to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art later this year. A free application about the exhibition for iPhone, iPad, and other devices will be available. 

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Di Liu, animal regulation no. 4, 2010. C-print, 80 x 60 cm. edition of 10. © Di Liu / pekin fine arts

NDB: Others Di Liu: animal regulation series:

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Di Liu, animal regulation no. 2, 2010. C-print, 80 x 60 cm. edition of 10. © Di Liu / pekin fine arts

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Di Liu, animal regulation no. 5, 2010. C-print, 80 x 60 cm. edition of 10. © Di Liu / pekin fine arts

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Di Liu, animal regulation no. 6, 2010. C-print, 80 x 60 cm. edition of 10. © Di Liu / pekin fine arts

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Di Liu, animal regulation no. 7, 2010. C-print, 80 x 60 cm. edition of 10. © Di Liu / pekin fine arts

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Di Liu, animal regulation no. 8, 2010. C-print, 80 x 60 cm. edition of 10. © Di Liu / pekin fine arts

 

Mug with decor 'Yellow Lion', Meissen, ca 1740

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Mug with decor 'Yellow Lion', Meissen, ca 1740. Photo courtesy Van Ham

porcelain, colored and minimally decorated gold, brown border line. Height 7 cm. swords, KCPC in manganrot for the Royal Churfürstliche Pillnitzer confectionery. Condition A. Estimate: 700-900 €

Van Ham. Europäisches Kunstgewerbe. 17/05/2014 - http://www.van-ham.com/

Plate with bird tree decor, Meissen, around 1730-35

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Plate with bird tree decor, Meissen, around 1730-35Photo courtesy Van Ham

Porcelain, colored and gold sparingly decorated. On Branch Bird sitting between peony flowers in the style of Chinese Famille-verte porcelain. Ø 21.5 cm. swords mark, marked 16. Condition B / C. Estimate: 2000-2200 €

Van Ham. Europäisches Kunstgewerbe. 17/05/2014 - http://www.van-ham.com/


Bottle vase with bird motives, Meissen. 1735-40

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Bottle vase with bird motives, Meissen. 1735-40. Photo courtesy Van Ham

Porcelain, colored and gold sparingly decorated. The ball-shaped body three large wreaths of Indian flowers with ribbon. In the first, a bird with green and violet plumage sitting on a fence, a large butterfly on him. The second Garland holds a seated on short grass bird with large wheel-like eyes, brown head and purple-pink plumage.Pursuing Above him a little bird, just an insect. In the last flowers cartridge a leggy big bird is shown on a patch of grass with pludrigen red head and tail feathers. Above him a little owl with purple and brown feathers flying. Individual Indian flowers scattered between the wreaths and a few small butterflies. The profiled neck with gold edge sold. Height 29 cm.swords mark, marked 21. Condition A / B. Estimate:3000-4000 €

Provenance: - Collection Paul-EISENBEISS. . Riehen - Private Collection North Rhine-Westphalia. 

Literature: Dr. Erika Pauls-EISENBEISS: German Porcelain of the 18th Century, London 1972, Bd.I. 

The present vase described and mapped S.404 ff As can be seen from the catalog text from 1972, there were originally two bottles vases same decoration in the collection of Paul's EISENBEISS. Both with large wreaths Indian flowers and seated therein or flying birds with slightly bizarre, fantastic appearance. During the counterpart of the present vase bears the Albertus-Rex brand and is dated from Paul EISENBEISS in 1725, it presumes that the second piece with swords was made about 10 years later. It derives this from the technically better version and suspects that the present vase was working here to order as a pendant.

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Dish with butterfly decor, Meissen. 18th century

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Dish with butterfly decor, Meissen. 18th century. Photo courtesy Van Ham

Porcelain, colored decorated. In the mirror large butterfly on flower branch. Scattered Indian Blumenn with rice straw bundles. Ø 24 cm. swords mark, incised 16. Condition B. Estimate: 600-800 €

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Pair of "koppchen" and bowls with Kauffahrtei scenes, Meissen, ca 1735

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Pair of "koppchen" and bowls with Kauffahrtei scenes, Meissen, ca 1735. Photo courtesy Van Ham

Porcelain, colored and gold decorated. Dishes with two red lines above ring encircling Dutch countryside, as well as on the level of the lower shell. In between, Indian flowers scattered. Height 5 cm / Ø 13 cm. swords, "koppchen" and a lower shell with Dreher characters in star shape, all with D. Gold Letter Condition A / B or B / C. Estimate: 1500-1800 €

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Sugar bowl with landscape and reserves & Mustard vessel with hunting scene, Meissen, ca 1735-40 and 1750

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Sugar bowl with landscape and reserves & Mustard vessel with hunting scene, Meissen, ca 1735-40 and 1750. Photo courtesy Van Ham

Porcelain, colored and gold decorated. Height 9,5 cm / 10.5 cm. swords or without recognizable brand. Condition A / B. Lid of the sugar bowl possibly later. Estimate: 1000-1200 €
Attachment:
a) pair Koppchen with purple decor, Meissen. 18th century
b) Mug and dish with floral decoration, Meissen. 18th century
c) Small cup with saucer bouquet, Meissen.
d) cup with saucer and dish flower decor, Vienna.
e) Small cup with lid plate. Punch marks.
f) 2 bowls with flowers. Fürstenberg.

Provenance: Private Collection North Rhine Wesphalia.

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Natural pearl, enamel and diamond devant de corsage, Lalique, 1890s

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Natural pearl, enamel and diamond devant de corsage, Lalique, 1890s. Photo Sotheby's

Of spray design, the lanceolated leaves decorated with iridescent enamel, set with glass berry clusters and circular-, single-cut and rose diamonds, suspending a baroque-shaped natural pearl, signed Lalique, French assay and maker's marks. Estimation 105,000 — 135,000 CHF

Accompanied by SSEF report no. 72357, stating that the pearl was found to be natural, freshwater.

Litterature: Cf: Sigrid Barten, René Lalique, 1890-1910, Bonn, 1989, pgs. 378 and 412-413 for illustrations of similar designs by René Lalique.

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Gold ad enamel pendent necklace, Lalique, circa 1900

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Gold ad enamel pendent necklace, Lalique, circa 1900. Photo Sotheby's

The pendant designed as two swans in a pond, decorated with iridescent enamel, suspended from a fine link chain, length approximately 610mm, signed Lalique, French assay and maker's marks. Estimation 60,000 — 80,000 CHF

Litterature :Cf: Sigrid Barten, René Lalique, 1890-1910, Bonn, 1989, pgs. 298-300 for similar designs by René Lalique.

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Enamel, glass and diamond brooch, Lalique, circa 1900

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Enamel, glass and diamond brooch, Lalique, circa 1900. Photo Sotheby's

Designed as glass flowers spiralling out from a hexagonal diamond, the branches applied with translucent enamel, signed Lalique, French assay mark; together with a similarly set baton link necklace, length approximately 535mm, French assay marks. Estimation 60,000 — 90,000 CHF

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Enamel, glass and diamond jewel, Lalique, circa 1900

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Enamel, glass and diamond jewel, Lalique, circa 1900. Photo Sotheby's

Designed as stylised white bryony, the leaves decorated with plique-à-jour enamel, circular-, single-cut and rose diamonds, the berries in glass, signed Lalique, later brooch fitting. Estimation 45,000 — 75,000 CHF

Litterature: Cf: Sigrid Barten, René Lalique, 1890-1910, Bonn, 1989, pg. 389 for a similar design by René Lalique.

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A rare green and yellow-enamelled 'Boys' bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the

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A rare green and yellow-enamelled 'Boys' bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1723-1735). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014.

The bowl is finely potted supported on a short-cut foot rim and with gently rounded sides. The exterior is incised with boys at play in a fenced garden, beneath pine trees and picked out in green against a yellow ground. 5 ? in. (15 cm.) diam., wood stand. Estimate£25,000 – £35,000 ($41,975 - $58,765)

Provenance: Purchased from Yamanaka & Company, Ltd., Beijing, 17 November 1925.
THE PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH LADY

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A green and aubergine enamelled 'Dragon' bowl, Kangxi six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the pe

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A green and aubergine enamelled 'Dragon' bowl, Kangxi six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1662-1722). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014.

The exterior of the bowl is incised with two dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst flames and two cruciform clouds above rocks and waves, all under a dark aubergine enamel reserved on a green ground. 4 ? in. (11.3 cm.) diam. Estimate£20,000 – £30,000 ($33,580 - $50,370)

Provenance: Formerly in a private Hong Kong collection, amassed in the early 20th century.

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Two large famille verte 'Phoenix Tail' vases, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

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Two large famille verte 'Phoenix Tail' vases, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014.

Each vase is brightly decorated to the baluster body and tall flared neck with large peony blooms borne on leafy stems, amidst clusters of prunus blooms borne on thick gnarled branches, all growing amidst rocks detailed around the foot, with moulded leaf-shaped supports to the base. 27½ in. (70 cm.) high, wood stands. Estimate£20,000 – £30,000 ($33,580 - $50,370)

Provenance: James A. Garland (1870-1906), no. 952.
John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), no. 1204.
Nelson A. Rockefeller; Sotheby's, London, 18 March 1980, lot 95.

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A doucai 'Lotus' Bowl, Daoguang six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period

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A doucai'Lotus' Bowl, Daoguang six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2014.

The bowl is potted with tall rounded sides, raised on a short foot. The sides are painted in underglaze-blue and enamelled in the doucai palette to depict three groups of lotus sprays with leafy scrolls. The interior is similarly decorated with a single lotus spray. 4 ? in. (12.4 cm.) diam. Estimate£20,000 – £30,000 ($33,580 - $50,370)

Provenance: Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2296.

Notes: A similarly decorated bowl dated to the Qianlong period (1736-1795) was included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, illustrated in the Catalogue, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, no. 105. Another example from the Simon Kwan Collection was included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1983, pl. 25. This was also included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain of Late Ch'ing from the Kwan Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1985, pl. 25.

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