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Portrait of a child. Pencil drawing

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Portrait of a child. Pencil drawing

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Estim. 180 - 350 EUR

VOLTAIRE (François Marie Arouet de): Zadig, ou la Destinée, Histoire Orientale by Mr. de Voltaire. London, G. Sidney for Polidori, 1799. One volume. 7 by 11.1 cm. Portrait-204 pages and 13 engraved plates hors-texte (complete). Full contemporary red long-grained morocco, smooth spine decorated with fillets, boards framed with a gilt chain, fillet on cups, inner lace, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Slight black marks on the binding, some foxing in the text, mainly on the engravings. A fine copy nonetheless. First Polidori edition. Rare illustrated edition of Voltaire's philosophical novel, printed in London for Gaetano Polidori (1764-1853), father of John William Polidori and grandfather of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. He translated a number of works into Italian, including Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and John Milton's Paradise Lost. He published numerous works, including those of his grandchildren, and set up a private press in his London home. The text is accompanied by an attractive suite of thirteen plates and two vignettes drawn and engraved by Le Coeur. Also included: VOLTAIRE (François Marie Arouet de): Poëmes, épitres et autres poésies. Genève, s.n., 1777. One volume. 6 by 11 cm. (4)-engraved portrait-200 pages. Contemporary full red morocco, ornate smooth spine, black title-piece, boards with triple gilt framing, fillet on cups, inner lace, all edges gilt. Minor rubbing to boards, one corner dulled. Very good condition inside. A fine set of two works by VOLTAIRE in contemporary red morocco, and small format.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

Koloman Moser, "Allegorie der Malkunst" sitting female nude drawing on a canvas and in the background portrait of a helmeted young man in profile, lower left ligated monogram "FVKG", colour lithograph on green paper, 1900, ligatured monogram "KM" lower right, published as the title vignette of the cover of the annual portfolio of the Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst in Vienna, typographic text on the reverse, matted and framed behind glass, dimensions approx. 14 x 15 cm. Artist info: also Kolo Moser, important Austrian painter. Graphic artist, illustrator and applied artist (1868 Vienna - 1918 Vienna), studied at the Academy in Vienna from 1886-89 under Franz Rumpler, Christian Griepenkerl and Matthias von Trenkwald, at the same time temporarily working as an illustrator for the magazines "Wiener Mode" and "Meggendorfer-Blätter", 1892-93 drawing teacher for the children of Archduke Karl Ludwig at Wartholz Castle in Reichenau an der Rax, 1892-97 member of the "Siebener-Club", 1893-95 studied at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts under Franz Matsch, 1896 admitted to the Vienna House of Artists, 1897 co-founder of the Vienna Secession and worked for its magazine "Ver Sacrum", from 1899 teacher at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, undertook numerous study trips, including to Abbazia, Lovakia and Vienna. including to Abbazia, Lovran, Trieste, Venice and Padua, 1903 founding member of the Wiener Werkstätte, 1907 left the Wiener Werkstätte and turned to painting, active in Vienna, source: Thieme-Becker, Wikipedia and Internet.

Estim. 2 800 - 3 000 EUR

SANTIAGO MONTES LUENGAS (Villa de Laredo, Cantabria, 1911 - 1954). "Composition". Oil on canvas. Signed Measurements: 81 x 65 cm.; 103 x 86 cm.(frame). Santiago Montes Luengas was a Spanish painter recognized for his original works and as a copyist of the Prado Museum. During the Spanish Civil War, he faced the challenge of remaining in hiding for eight years, followed by subsequent imprisonment. In Yeserías prison in Madrid, he painted portraits of several of his fellow prisoners, including Cipriano Rivas Cherif, Manuel Azaña's brother-in-law. Coming from a family of fishermen with seven brothers, Santiago experienced the pain of losing his brother Ángel, shot in the Dueso prison as a result of the same conflict. With the arrival of the Civil War, Montes, who fought on the side of the Republican Government, and just before the capture of Santander by the rebels in 1936, tried unsuccessfully to flee to France by boat. Failing all attempts at voluntary exile, he decided to hide, according to common practice, in his own house, in a camouflaged hiding place in the attic, which only he and his wife knew about, and which they kept hidden from their four children to prevent them from unwittingly betraying him. During the forced confinement Montes painted and drew obsessively. At the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with an amnesty of the Franco regime, Montes decided to come out of hiding and surrender to the authorities, who kept him in prison for almost a year while waiting for the application of the amnesty. During his stay in the prison for political prisoners of Yeserías in Madrid, as well as in Santander, he made numerous portraits of his fellow prisoners, such as that of Cipriano Rivas Cherif, brother-in-law of Manuel Azaña, President of the Second Spanish Republic. In 1946, having gathered enough evidence to clear him of serious crimes, he was released and began a new professional and creative stage that led him to become the official copyist of the Prado Museum, making copies of Mantegna, Van Der Weyden, or Murillo so good that even experts find it difficult to differentiate them from the originals. Parallel to the numerous commissions for copies, almost all of them from foreign tourists visiting the museum, Montes produced his own personal pictorial work in an artistic career that was abruptly interrupted in 1954 by his premature death at the age of forty-three.

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