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A famille rose 'scraffiato'-yellow-ground porcelain flower bowl, underglaze blue Qianlong seal mark and possibly of the period

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A famille rose 'scraffiato'-yellow-ground porcelain flower bowl, underglaze blue Qianlong seal mark and possibly of the period

Lot 980. A famille rose 'scraffiato'-yellow-ground porcelain flower bowl, underglaze blue Qianlong seal mark and possibly of the period. Estimate 2000/3000 €. Lot sold 3.000 €. Photo Nagel.

D. 18,2 cm. Very minor restoration to rim.

Property from an European private collection 

Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  08/12/2015


Bonne Année! Happy New Year!

A Jizhou 'tortoiseshell'-glazed bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)

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A Jizhou 'tortoiseshell'-glazed bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)

Lot 815. A Jizhou 'tortoiseshell'-glazed bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Estimate 1 000/1 500 €. Lot sold 1.700 €. Photo Nagel.

the bowl has conical sides rising from the knife-pared foot to the finger-grooved rim, and is covered inside and out with a dark brown glaze liberally splashed with a translucent yellow-brown glaze in imitation of mottled tortoiseshell, the glaze stopping just short of the foot to expose the light grey stoneware. D. 10,8 cm. Good condition

Provenance: Former South German private collection

Compare a similar bowl: Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partidge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, 1996, p. 248, 239, no. 100 

Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  07/12/2015

A Jizhou 'tortoiseshell'-glazed bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)

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A Jizhou 'tortoiseshell'-glazed bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)

Lot 817. A Jizhou 'tortoiseshell'-glazed bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Estimate 900/1.200 €. Lot sold 900 €. Photo Nagel.

 the bowl has conical sides rising from the knife-pared foot to the finger-grooved rim, and is covered inside and out with a dark brown glaze liberally splashed with a translucent yellow-brown glaze in imitation of mottled tortoiseshell, the glaze stopping just short of the foot to expose the light grey stoneware. D. 11 cm. Glaze slightly corroded and with craquelure

Provenance: Former South German private collection 

Compare a similar bowl: Robert D. Mowry, Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partidge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, 1996, p. 248, 239, no. 100 

Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  07/12/2015

 

Men's Vest with sleeves, 1760, France

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Men's Vest with sleeves, 1760, France. Cream-colored silk rep, Lisere, launches and paperback, polychrome silk, silver-colored metal threads, smooth and Frise umd silk soul. Lining: cream-colored silk, twill weave. Ident.Nr. 2003 KR 146 © Photo: Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. Photo: Stephan Klonk

The Art of French Seidenwebereien demonstrates this collarless vest with its "à disposition" woven decor. The pattern shows inflorescences in colorful silk and leaves of silver wire, which are held by a likewise woven out of silver wire band. In addition, stand in rows offset small blue flower buds before the tone on tone patterned background. ChrW

Striped skirt with faux fur lining men's vest, about 1780, France

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Striped skirt with faux fur lining men's vest, about 1780, France. Longitudinal Striped silk velvet, Warp, red-brown, mint green. Ident.Nr. 2003 KR 152. © Photo: Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. Photo: Stephan Klonk

The Lord of striped velvet skirt is fully lined with natural colored faux fur. He has a small stand-up collar and long sleeves that end in high cuffs. Decorative on all edges, the collar, the pocket flaps and the laps flashes forth the pile lining. The large decorative buttons are covered with the face fabric and filled with Perlmutterscheiben. ChrW

Exhibition at the Frans Hals Museum zooms in on the details, the hidden to the eye

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Maerten van Heemskerck – The Triumphal Procession of Bacchus, 1536/37, 50 × 91 cm, oil on panel, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem. Photo Arend Velsink

HAARLEM.- The Frans Hals Museum zooms in on the details, the hidden to the eye and even the invisible! The museum is home to a treasure trove of small things that are usually overlooked but deserve our attention. As in the game I Spy With My Little Eye... visitors are challenged to discover little secrets through others’ eyes. Art critic Wieteke van Zeil, novelist Niña Weijers and the museum’s conservators teach visitors to look in a different way and spin wonderful stories from what they see. 

At a time when everything has to be big, bigger or biggest in the museum world, the Frans Hals Museum, a museum on a human scale, has chosen to do the opposite. The museum focuses attention on its beautifully worked tiles, ornaments, tiny silver objects and, of course, all those unnoticed details in paintings. Visitors go on a journey of discovery, like a Gulliver on the island of Lilliput and are being challenged to look at the museum building and the collection with a ‘different eye’. It is a journey for young and old on which visitors will learn to look more closely and develop an eye for the detail, the hidden and the imaginary, and so be given the key to a world of stories. 

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Maerten van Heemskerck – The Triumphal Procession of Bacchus, detail, 1536/37, 50 × 91 cm, oil on panel, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem. Photo Arend Velsink

Wieteke van Zeil and Niña Weijers 
I Spy With My Little Eye… begins with the permanent collection and offers a multi-faceted programme encompassing the entire museum so that visitors can go in search of what is seemingly hidden in a variety of different ways. 

• Spread over the museum’s rooms, visitors will find clues and short stories about details that can be found in paintings, in the interior and on objects. For really keen visitors there is an app with more details in different categories. 

• Wieteke van Zeil, known for her column in the newspaper Volkskrant Je gaat het pas zien als je het doorhebt (You’re only going to see it if you get it), describes details in the paintings she chose from the collection in her own associative way. 

• Niña Weijers recently wrote the universally praised novel De consequenties and now lets visitors enjoy an apparently invisible artwork made especially for the museum. 

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Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem – The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis, 1592/93, 246 × 419 cm, oil on canvas, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, long-term loan from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague. Photo René Gerritsen

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Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem – The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis, detail, 1592/93, 246 × 419 cm, oil on canvas, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, long-term loan from the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague. Photo René Gerritsen

Jan van Scorel – A Divine Discovery

From 14 November 2015 to 13 March 2016 the Frans Hals Museum will be focusing on the period when the painter Jan van Scorel (1495 – 1562) was working in Haarlem. Jan van Scorel – A Divine Discovery has been prompted by the restoration of and research into The Baptism of Christ, one of Van Scorel’s most important paintings from his Haarlem period. A wealth of new information about the painting will be revealed in the small exhibition, since various elements, including the face of God the Father, emerged from under old overpaintings. 

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Jan van Scorel – The Baptism of Christ, c. 1527-30, panel,120,5 × 156,5 cm, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem The painting after the removal of layers of varnish, overpaintings and retouchesPhotography ©René Gerritsen

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Restorers Jorinde Koenen and Jessica Roeders at workPhotography ©René Gerritsen

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Jan van Scorel – The Baptism of Christ, c. 1527-30, panel, 120,5 × 156,5 cm, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem after restaurationPhotography ©René Gerritsen

Dolls’ House in the Spotlight

From 6 July onwards, children and grown-ups alike will find enchantment in a gallery full of dolls’ house rooms in the Frans Hals Museum. A magical collage of seventy little rooms, some in 3D, has been created from real seventeenth- and eighteenth-century dolls’ houses. Visitors can get close enough to discover details that often remain hidden. The display was inspired by one of the highlights of the Frans Hals Museum—the monumental dolls’ house put together by the Amsterdam merchant’s wife Sara Rothé.

 

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Photography ©Margareta Svensson

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Photography ©Margareta Svensson 

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Photography ©Margareta Svensson 

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Photography ©Margareta Svensson

Visual Literacy With the permanent collection as the basis, the museum introduces an innovative and multifaceted approach aimed at broadening visitors’ understanding of art through active involvement. It is important that not everything is immediately visible so visitors have to search for significant details. As in the game I Spy With My Little Eye … it is about discovering what is not immediately obvious at first glance. It is only through the clues, the explanations and the stories that museum visitors will be able to find the hidden treasures. 

They are being challenged to look closely, to act as ‘researchers’ and to switch from passively ‘seeing’ to actively ‘looking’. Learning to look keenly is a form of visual literacy and can help people derive more pleasure from what they see.

 

A pair of Qingbai moulded saucer dishes, Yuan dynasty

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A pair of Qingbai moulded saucer dishes, Yuan dynasty

Lot 820. A pair of Qingbai moulded saucer dishes, Yuan dynasty. Estimate 1.200/1.800 €. Unsold. Photo Nagel

decorated with two fish swimming amongst waves in a lotus pond bordered by a band of scrolling flowers and squared scrolls, all but the rim covered in a pale blue glaze. D. 10,8 cm. Few tiny chips

Property from an European private collection

Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  08/12/2015


A small pear-shaped Qingbai ewer, Song dynasty

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A small pear-shaped Qingbai ewer, Song dynasty

Lot 821. A small pear-shaped Qingbai ewer, Song dynasty. Estimate 600/1.000 €. Lot sold 600 €. Photo Nagel

H. 7,5 cm. Spout slightly chipped 

Property from an European private collection 

Note Cf. 'Song Ceramics from the Kwan collection', no. 120 

Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  08/12/2015

 

A Qingbai porcelain bowl with incised decoration, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)

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A Qingbai porcelain bowl with incised decoration, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)

Lot 823. A Qingbai porcelain bowl with incised decoration, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Estimate 1.500/2.000 €. Unsold. Photo Nagel

the thinly potted conical bowl with slightly rounded sides and lightly greenish, translucent glaze over the whitish body is on the interior incised with a décor of water or cloud motifs, partly enhanced with combed details, the outside left plain and the unglazed rim had probably been covered with a metal ring, the relatively high, slightly tapered foot-ring is on the outside glazed, but the inside and the recessed base are only partly thinly glazed and with an unread character in ink, apart one glaze defect on the outside, happened during the firing process. D. 17,5 cm, good condition

Property from an European private collection 

Compare: Christie's, New York, Part I, 18.+19.9.2014, lot 752, a bowl of similar size, form and décor with dense, carved cloud scroll with combed details, dated to Southern Song dynasty, 12th-13th century 

Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  08/12/2015

A group of three Qingbai boxes and covers, Song-Yuan dynasty

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A group of three Qingbai boxes and covers, Song-Yuan dynasty

Lot 824. A group of three Qingbai boxes and covers, Song-Yuan dynasty. Estimate 1.000/1.500 €. Lot sold 1.100  €. Photo Nagel

D. 7-8,4 cm. One box with short crack 

Property from an European private collection 

Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  08/12/2015

A group of three Qingbai-glazed water droppers, Yuan-Ming dynasty

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A group of three Qingbai-glazed water droppers, Yuan-Ming dynasty

Lot 829. A group of three Qingbai-glazed water droppers, Yuan-Ming dynasty. Estimate 1.000/1.500 €. Unsold. Photo Nagel

L. 5,8-8,6 cm. Few small chips

Property from an old European private collection 

Nagel Auktionen, "Asian Art",  08/12/2015

MANDARIN & MENAGERIE: The James E. Sowell Collection, Part III, Chinese porcelain

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Over a period of twenty years James Sowell slowly assembled the best collection of Chinese porcelain birds, animals and figures in the country. Not only comprehensive, the Sowell Collection features jewels of top quality in each category it encompasses, from important, large pairs of majestic birds, courtiers and exotic animals to charming and colorful figures of laughing boys and courting couples.

The collection resided happily in the Sowells’ Dallas home surrounded by classic English furniture of the Georgian period. In 2008 the export collection was published by Sowell’s dealers and advisors Cohen and Cohen in a lavishly illustrated and researched book, Mandarin and Menagerie.

A thread running through all of the Sowell Collection is stellar provenance. With acquisitions from landmark London and Paris auctions as well as from top European dealers, the Sowell Collection represents the enduring pleasures of the finest works of art.

A famille rose seated courtesan, circa 1785

Lot 43. A famille rose seated courtesan, circa 1785. Estimate $4,000 – $6,000. Photo Christie's Image 2016.

The seated lady holding a gilt vase, her robes floral over iron-red trousers - 8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high

Literature: M. Cohen and W. Motley, Mandarin and Menagerie, Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures, Reigate, 2008, p.110, no. 5.12.

A famille rose crane, 18th century

Lot 44. famille rose crane, 18th century. Estimate $4,000 – $6,000. Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Modeled standing beside a flowering tree on an oval base, blue legs and red beak, the plumage of neck and tail feathers enameled in black - 9 in. (23 cm.) high

Provenance: With Luis Alegria, Portugal.

Literatureop. cit., pp. 252, no. 17.5

A pair of rose-verte Buddhist lions, 19th century, possibly Samson

Lot 45. A pair of rose-verte Buddhist lions, 19th century, possibly Samson. Estimate $12,000 – $18,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Finely modeled, the female with a pup, the male with a brocade ball, with later fitted ormolu bases - 16 ¼ in. (41 cm.) high

Literatureop. cit., p. 210, no. 15.7

A small pair of famille rose pheasants, circa 1760

Lot 46. A small pair of famille rose pheasants, circa 1760. Estimate $12,000 – $18,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Each with shaded iron-red breast and polychrome plumage, perched on a pierced rock base - 8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) high

Provenance: With A&J Speelman, London.

Literatureop. cit., p. 238, 16.12

A large pair of famille rose pheasants, 18th century, on later ormolu bases

Lot 47. A large pair of famille rose pheasants, 18th century, on later ormolu bases. Estimate $30,000 – $50,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Each standing on a pierced rock, brightly enameled with orange crest and polychrome plumage, resting on ormolu scrollwork base - 12 ¼ in. (31 cm.) high 

Provenance: With Cohen & Cohen, London. 
Beaussant Lefebre, Paris. 
Sotheby's Monaco, June 1988.

Literatureop. cit., p. 240, 16.14

A pair of famille rose court lady candleholders, circa 1780

Lot 48. A pair of famille rosecourt lady candleholders, circa 1780. Estimate $8,000 – $12,000. Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Each modeled in mirror image of the other and holding a lotus blossom form candle-nozzle, the robes decorated with vivid famille rose enamels - 8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high

ProvenanceWith Peter Kemp, London.

Literatureop. cit., p. 104, no. 5.5

An elephant sauce tureen and cover and two stands, circa 1785

An elephant sauce tureen and cover, circa 1785

Lot 49. An elephant sauce tureen and cover and two stands, circa 1785. Estimate $50,000 – $70,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

The sleepy beast with a black and white puppy as knop, the stands depicting a seated elephant with a mahout, their undersides molded as leaves - 9 in. (23 cm.) long (the stands)

Literatureop. cit., p. 192, no.13.1

NotesSauce tureens modeled in amusing animal or bird forms were a recurring conceit on 18th century European dining tables. Elephants were rare in this group. Symbols of the exotic East Indies to Westerners, elephants had been seen in Europe as early as the 17th century in the form of blue and white kendis. Western ships brought the actual animals back on rare occasions, including the Derby family's America, which carried the first elephant seen in the States to Salem in 1795. As sauce containers this recumbent form was obviously practical, but whatever European print (perhaps from a series depicting life in the Indies?) inspired the scene on the stands and the modeling of the tureens remains unidentified. A pair was sold Christie's New York, 14 October 1999, lot 35.

A rare massive seated hound, 18th century

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Lot 50. A rare massive seated hound, 18th century. Estimate $50,000 – $80,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

His coat in grey, his breast white, his collar with tassels and bell - 21 1/4 in. (54 cm.) high

Provenance: Phillips London, June 2001.

Literatureop. cit., p. 165, no. 11.5

NotesPacks of hounds for foxhunting or coursing had been trained and kept in England from as early as about 1600, and English hunting hounds were famous as hunting dogs within Europe. As the English East India companies began to trade in the Far East English hounds became an important commodity for them too. In 1614 Captain Saris wrote recommending a "...fine greyhound..." as tribute for the Daimyo of Hirado and the same year the Governor of Surat requested from the East India Company "...looking glasses, figures of beasts or birds made of glass, mastiffs, greyhounds, spaniels and little dogs..." (See W. Heinemann, Dogs of China and Japan in Nature and Art, London 1921.) 

A large pair of famille rose court lady candleholders, 18th century

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Lot 51. A large pair of famille rose court lady candleholders, 18th century. Estimate $40,000 – $60,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Each modeled in mirror image of the other and holding a gu-form candle-nozzle, the robes decorated in famille rose enamels, with an outer garnment in green and a polychrome underskirt - 16 in. (41 cm.) high

Provenance: With Cohen & Cohen.

Literatureop. cit., p. 102, no. 5.3

A pair of famille rose roosters, late 18th-early 19th century

Lot 52. A pair of famille rose roosters, late 18th-early 19th century. Estimate $20,000 – $30,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Modeled in mirror image, standing on pierced rockwork bases, the heads turned, the plumage picked out in bright enamel colors - 7 ¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high

Literatureop. cit., p. 229, no. 16.5

A monkey group, 18th century

Lot 53. A monkey group, 18th century. Estimate $12,000 – $18,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

The monkey carrying her young on her shoulders, on a base with a peach sprig - 10 1/2 in. (27 cm.) high

Provenance: Phillips, London, June 2001.
Christie's, London, April 1997

Literatureop. cit., p. 102, no. 5.3

An incised biscuit rabbit, 18th century

Lot 54. An incised biscuit rabbit, 18th century. Estimate $10,000 – $15,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Its grey beige fur finely incised, the eyes detailed in black - 9 in. (23 cm.) long

ProvenanceThe Collection of Rafi & Mildred Mottahedeh; Sotheby's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 381.
With Luis Alegria

Literatureop. cit., p. 146-147, no. 9.3

A rare small pair of owls, early 19th century

Lot 55. A rare small pair of owls, early 19th century. Estimate $30,000 – $50,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Each perched on a pierced rockwork, his wings folded over his long tail - 6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

Literatureop. cit, pp. 276, no. 19.6

A pair of glazed-biscuit oxen, 18th-19th century

Lot 56. A pair of glazed-biscuit oxen, 18th-19th century. Estimate $4,000 – $6,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Both in a recumbent position, with lacquered wood stands - 9 1/4 in. long

A pair of hound puppies, circa 1770

Lot 57. A pair of hound puppies, circa 1770. Estimate $12,000 – $18,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Modeled seated, painted with brown fur, a red collar with a gilt bell and the eyes, nose and claw detailed in black - 7 in. (18 cm.) high

ProvenanceWith Cohen & Cohen.  

Literatureop. cit., p. 172, no. 11.11

A pair of cranes, 18th century

Lot 58. A pair of cranes, 18th century. Estimate $10,000 – $15,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Each modeled in mirror image of the other, standing on a pierced rock, enameled with black legs and primary feathers - 11 1/2 in. (29.5 cm.) high

Provenance: With Jorge Welsh, London.   

Literatureop. cit., p. 251, no. 17.3

Two grisaille pug dogs, 18th century

Lot 59. Two grisaille pug dogs, 18th century. Estimate $10,000 – $15,000Photo Christie's Image 2016.

Each with flattened snout, the fur painted in grey enamel, the collar, lips and tongue in iron-red - 7 in. (17.5 cm.) high

Provenance: With Jorge Welsh, London.   

Literatureop. cit., p. 251, no. 17.3 

Christie's. CHINESE EXPORT ART, 21 January 2016, New York, Rockefeller Plaza

Installation of rarely seen work by Italian Modern master Giorgio Morandi on view in New York

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Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1931, Oil on Canvas, 54 x 64 cm @2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome. Reproduction, including downloading of Giorgio Morandi works, is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

NEW YORK, NY.- The Center for Italian Modern Art is presenting a major installation of Giorgio Morandi’s (1890–1964) rarely seen paintings from the 1930s—a seminal and yet relatively unexplored decade for the acclaimed Italian modernist during which he reached full artistic maturity and developed his distinct pictorial language. Featuring nearly 40 paintings, etchings, and drawings, the presentation marks the first time in decades that the majority of these works—gathered from important public and private holdings across Europe—are on view in the U.S. The installation also includes select works from the very beginning and end of the artist’s career, in the 1910s and 1960s respectively, to demonstrate the thematic continuities in his practice. 

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Giorgio Morandi, Natura morta a grandi segni, 1931, Etching, 24.5 x 34 cm @2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome. Reproduction, including downloading of Giorgio Morandi works, is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

On view through June 25, 2016, Giorgio Morandi is the third presentation mounted by the nonprofit, which promotes public appreciation and new scholarship of Italian 20th-century art through its annual installations and research fellowships. In conjunction with the installation, CIMA presents work by four contemporary artists—Tacita Dean, Wolfgang Laib, Joel Meyerowitz, and Matthias Schaller—relating to Morandi’s practice thematically or conceptually. CIMA will also host a full roster of public programs, including lectures, artist talks, film screenings, and other special events relating to the exhibition, throughout the year.  

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Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1960, Oil on Canvas, 25 x 35 cm @2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome. Reproduction, including downloading of Giorgio Morandi works, is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

While Morandi is one of the more well-known Italian modern artists internationally, there’s been very little attention paid to his work during the critical decade of the 1930s. It was during these years, when Morandi experimented with dark colors and thick, dramatic brushstrokes, that he truly discovered his most persona; approach to painting, focusing on landscapes and still life objects and emphasizing the material over the representational characteristics of painting,” said CIMA Founder and President Laura Mattioli. “The period of the 1930s was vital to Morandi’s development, but the artist produced comparatively far fewer works during this decade than at the end of his career; this makes our show a unique chance for our visitors to explore these seminal works and gain new insight into Morandi’s creative development and artistic approach.” 

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Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1955, Oil on canvas, 40 x 35 cm, Private collection, @2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome. Reproduction, including downloading of Giorgio Morandi works, is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Added Executive Director Heather Ewing, “We’re very excited to be presenting a new perspective on this celebrated Italian artist for our third season at CIMA. Our installations are unique because they act as a springboard for careful and extended re-examinations of modern Italian art, and, as with our previous installations of works by Fortunato Depero and Medardo Rosso, we look forward to the new discoveries and scholarship that the Morandi installation and the dedicated work of our fellows will generate.” 

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View of the Giorgio Morandi installation at the Center for Italian Modern Art. Photo by Walter Smalling Jr., 2015.

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View of the Giorgio Morandi installation at the Center for Italian Modern Art. Photo by Walter Smalling Jr., 2015. 

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View of Joel Meyerowitz's photographs from his Morandi's Objects series on view as part of the Giorgio Morandi installation at the Center for Italian Modern Art. Photo by Walter Smalling Jr., 2015.

Pendant with David and Goliath, 16th century. Gold, enamel. Dresden

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Pendant with David and Goliath, 16th century. Gold, enamel. The Green Vault, Dresden. Photo arthistory390 


Pendant with St. George, 16th century

A rare red silk embroidered formal robe, jifu, late 19th century

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Lot 93. A rare red silk embroidered formal robe, jifu, late 19th century. Photo Kerry Taylor Auctions

 worked in bright silks and couched gold threads with coiling dragons, auspicious symbols, edged in black silk, turquoise and lattice gold brocade, lined in blue silk, small brown stain on braid of one cuff. Staining to inner closure panel, neck panel needs re-stitching to ground in places, very fresh colours, has been shortened by folding over fabric at chest front and back, fabric is folded over inside and concealed by the lining, the lining at the bottom is soiled and discoloured, a few small spotted stains on the lining. Estimate £800 – £1,200. Sold £3,600.

Kerry Taylor AuctionsPassion For Fashion & Fine Textiles, Jun 26, 2006 

A good embroidered formal robe, jifu, second half 19th century

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Lot 94. A good embroidered formal robe, jifu, second half 19th century. Photo Kerry Taylor Auctions

the blue silk ground densely worked with couched gold thread dragons amid blue scrolling clouds and coloured auspicious symbols, black silk edging bands. Good condition, fine embroidery, robe has been shortened by making a pleat across the centre chest and back, fabric is intact and could be easily upicked, not lined, two small holes to front chest

Kerry Taylor AuctionsPassion For Fashion & Fine Textiles, Jun 26, 2006 

Important Chinese Imperial yellow Kesi silk robe embroidered with nine dragons, Qing Dynasty

Burgundy Red Silk Robe ‘Pao’ with Dragons, 19th-20th century

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Lot 122. Burgundy Red Silk Robe ‘Pao’ with Dragons, 19th-20th century. Estimate €1,500 – €1,950. Photo Auctionata AG 

Silk. Garment with exquisite embroidery. With depiction of dragons with magical pearl, Buddhist symbols of good fortune, cloud formations and cranes over a banner of waves. Intense colors on a burgundy background. he hems of the sleeves in black color with colored embroidery. Light blue inner lining. With a silk cord. Length of neck to the hem: c. 134 cm. Sleeve end to sleeve end: c. 171 cm.

The garment is in good condition with usual signs of age and wear. Loose threads here and there and faded color inside can be seen. The collar is slightly thinned. The length measures c. 134 cm. 

Auctionata AGTreasures of Asian Art, 9:00 AM - Jan 25 

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