Null Set of curtain tiebacks

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Set of curtain tiebacks

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Set of curtain tiebacks

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Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Louis ARAGON (1897-1982). L.A.S. "L.", Monday evening December 4 [1939], to Elsa Triolet; 4pages in-4. Long, loving letter from Aragon, a soldier, to Elsa. At night, by an open fire, Aragon writes to Elsa... "Oh I'd still like to have you against me, already I miss you terribly, already your little smile is lost, I can't hear you anymore, I can't say Monku to you anymore, I can't touch the little nude anymore. My beloved, my beloved, when will we be together again? And yet I must tell you that I have taken leave of you, close to you, against you, from you, a great, enormous supply of courage. I'm much better, physically and morally, than when I arrived in Paris the other day. As you say, I'm almost normal"... He asks for various items... "The atmosphere here is better than before I left. Quite relaxed. I'm just talking about the kitchen staff and the closest officers. We were congratulated by the general for our work, he distributed money to the best workers etc." There are rumors of departure... Aragon recounts daily life, playing dominoes and chatting after dinner... He talks about the socks his mother sent him... "The manuscript of the last part of the novel [Les voyageurs de l'impériale] lies before me, on my right, on my table, and tomorrow I'm going to get down to work. You're either a writer or you're not, aren't you? He writes to Paulhan and his mother... His letter is "interminable"... "I continue to be like this with you for a while longer. You say, I can hear you now, that I talk to you more when I'm not with you. Don't make fun of me, my wicked beloved, of me and my great worries. You know very well that 9 out of 10 of my worries are about you. Everything revolves around you in this head and heart of yours. Everything in the world, and everything in heaven. Which reminds me, I've promised you three poems. You see what I've got to do! [...] I'm going to try and fall asleep looking for new and extraordinary rhymes like tales by Edgar Allan Poe. Somewhere, Paul Valéry said: You can fall asleep on any word... I'll see if he's right. But I do know that if the word was Monku, I could never, ever fall asleep on my own. My love that I haven't kissed enough, my love that I miss so much, my love that worries me, my little one who may be hurting tonight... [...] I love you, I love you, and I start counting the days and nights again, listening to the noises in the shadows, thinking of rue de la Sourdière, of everything around you, and gnawing at myself. Oh, my love, quickly, quickly I'll have you in my arms"...

Estim. 10 000 - 15 000 EUR

JAMINI ROY (1887-1972) KRISHNA BALRAM & COWS, SIGNED BOTTOM RIGHT, OIL ON CANVAS

Estim. 15 000 - 20 000 EUR

Pham Quang Hau (1903-1994) (atelier de), large polychrome and gold lacquered wooden box decorated with deer, circa 1950 The lid, skilfully lacquered by the artist, reveals a vivid picture of a mysterious jungle. Deer and hinds flourish, grazing among century-old trees and flowering bushes. The color palette, orchestrated by the master lacquerer, is dominated by shades of red, ochre and gold, giving the whole a warm aura. Shades of red evoke the fiery twilight of the jungle, while ochre reveals the richness of the land that shelters the wildlife. Delicately applied touches of gold catch the light and create a magical, refined atmosphere. The sides of the box are lacquered a deep black, the underside adorned with the gold leaf seal of the artist's workshop, with the indication "PHAM HAU MAÎTRE LAQUEUR" . Red lacquered interior. 8 x 17 x 50 cm Provenance : René Gilles, representative of Maison Denis Frères in Haïphong. By descent. Comparison: For an illustrated folding screen with the same decoration, see Le Floc'h sale of 02/17/2019, lot N°59.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Dutch school; 19th century. "The painter and the model". Oil on canvas (x2). They have craquelure and one of the pieces has visible restorations on the back. Measurements: 33 x 24 cm (x2); 45 x 37 cm (frames, x2). Pair of canvases in which the artist's studio is represented in both cases, dominated by the presence of a large unfinished painting, a young woman and the artist himself. Although in both cases the protagonists of the scene are the same, the images seem to correspond to a set that conveys the idea of love, reciprocated and rejected. In one of the cases the young lady, dressed in the classical manner, embraces the painter, while in the other scene the girl, anachronistically dressed, rejects the artist. It is the clothes of the protagonists that inscribe both images in the current of historicism. The historical theme of the same, is set in a glorious past related to the history of the painter's country, it can be related, as commented, with the pictorial Historicism of the nineteenth century, the main current at the time, linked to the Academies of Fine Arts. The term "historicism" (Historismus) was coined by the German philosopher Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel. Over time, what historicism is and how it is practiced has taken on different and divergent meanings. Elements of historicism appear in the writings of French essayist Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) and Italian philosopher GB Vico (1668-1744), and were more fully developed with the dialectics of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), influential in 19th-century Europe. They have craquelure and one of the pieces has visible restorations on the back.

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