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Official Olympic badges/ Lausanne/ Executive Board/Session/Secretariat/1983-1984. Three exceptional pieces on the Olympic capital:a) Badge-medal of the June 1983 IOC-FI Executive Session in Lausanne (10,4x4), yellow ribbon, round silver-plated medal (view of the city, diam : 4cm); all attached to IOC-FI badge with rings (brooch on back); b) 89th IOC Session gold badge, Lausanne 1989 (stylized view of the city), IOC Secretariat claw, with white ribbon and two red stripes (with brooch and blue cord, 11cmx3.7)); c) superb and rare round cloth crest worn on the uniform jacket of IOC secretariat members (ent all gold letters) with Olympic motto, rings, palms (embroidered gold letters) diam : 7,5). TBE.

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Official Olympic badges/ Lausanne/ Executive Board/Session/Secretariat/1983-1984. Three exceptional pieces on the Olympic capital:a) Badge-medal of the June 1983 IOC-FI Executive Session in Lausanne (10,4x4), yellow ribbon, round silver-plated medal (view of the city, diam : 4cm); all attached to IOC-FI badge with rings (brooch on back); b) 89th IOC Session gold badge, Lausanne 1989 (stylized view of the city), IOC Secretariat claw, with white ribbon and two red stripes (with brooch and blue cord, 11cmx3.7)); c) superb and rare round cloth crest worn on the uniform jacket of IOC secretariat members (ent all gold letters) with Olympic motto, rings, palms (embroidered gold letters) diam : 7,5). TBE.

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John Williams Signed Los Angeles 1984 Summer Olympics Official Music Album The Official Music Of The XXIIIrd Olympiad Los Angeles 1984 album, signed on the front cover in black felt tip by John Williams. In fine condition, with a PSA/DNA label affixed to the lower right corner. The record is included. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from PSA/DNA.

Estim. 80 000 - 100 000 EUR

Apple Lisa Computer with 'Twiggy' Drives, ProFile Hard Drive, Software, Manuals, and Printer Rare Apple Lisa desktop computer (Model A6SB100P, Memory Option A6SB108), representing an innovative step in the transition between the Apple I and II and the Macintosh. It was one of the first personal computers to present a graphical user interface (GUI), and is remembered for its high price and lack of sales. This example, with Apple label reading "Serial No: B08B831950122, Applenet No: 00102755, Manufactured: 8315," features the rare original-configuration 'Twiggy' floppy drives. The concept of a GUI-based system was initially developed by Xerox in 1973, but it was Apple that brought it to market with the release of the Lisa in January 1983. The Lisa introduced revolutionary features such as overlapping windows, pull-down menus, and drag-and-drop functionality. Despite its groundbreaking design, the Lisa was expensive, and its specially designed 'Twiggy' drives were notoriously unreliable. These 'Twiggy' drives were prone to frequent failures, which significantly hindered the commercial success of the Lisa. To address these issues, Apple quickly introduced the Lisa-2 with a modified front panel and standard floppy disk drive. Apple offered Lisa-1 owners a free upgrade to Lisa-2, requiring the return of the original front panel and Twiggy drives, which were then destroyed. As a result, a complete Lisa-1, like the one offered here, is extremely rare. It is estimated that only 30 to 100 Lisa-1 machines still exist today. This Apple Lisa-1 is in exceptional condition, both visually and technically: it is fully functional except for one of the Twiggy drives. This Lisa-1 and its external Apple Profile hard disk run on EURO 220 volts, but can be changed with little effort to US 110 volts. The system also includes original peripherals, software, and manuals required for operation: the Apple Lisa mouse, Apple Lisa keyboard, Apple ProFile 5MB hard drive (Model A9M1005, Serial No. 145361), Apple parallel interface, Apple Dot Matrix Printer, and Twiggy (or in Apple terminology, 'File Ware') diskettes with the following programs and German manuals: LisaDraw, LisaCalc, LisaList, LisaWrite, LisaGraph, and seven further diskettes. The mouse is particularly desirable as Apple's first mouse—representing a major transition to point-and-click personal computing with Lisa's revolutionary graphical user interface. Development of the Lisa project began in 1978, aimed at individual business users. Officially, "Lisa" stood for 'Local Integrated Software Architecture,' but it was also the name of Steve Jobs' daughter. The Lisa was first introduced in January 1983 at a cost of $9,995, as one of the first commercial personal computers to have a GUI and a mouse. This initial, original model of Lisa computer features the dual, custom, 5 1/4" 'Twiggy' drives. These floppy drives, designed in-house at Apple, were innovative—featuring a high capacity, variable spindle speed, and were double-sided. The Lisa had initially been designed with the idea of running its operating system entirely from these disks. But due to the lack of speed, and the increasing needs of the operating system, the Lisa shipped with an external 5MB ProFile hard drive. The Twiggy drives, with their unique custom diskettes, high manufacture cost, and field unreliability, were soon replaced by Apple with a free upgrade to the later "Lisa 2" machine, which replaced disk drives with a single 3 1/2" Sony drive, and a new faceplate to accommodate it. As this was offered to customers at no charge, and Apple required the return of the original disk drives and faceplate, it is incredibly rare to find a surviving machine with the original Twiggy drives. The Lisa did not do well in the marketplace. A large part of this was its hefty price tag, another the relative lack of available software. The machine was also perhaps too much of a radical change in computing environments, offering the graphical interface and the mouse to consumers for the first time. The Lisa was also fairly slow, and this was reflected in the user experience with the operating system. The Lisa did offer a vast array of advanced features, from multitasking to soft power, that took years to make it into other platforms. The Macintosh, released just a year later in 1984 inherited much of the graphical functionality, and the mouse from the Lisa—but did so at a far lower cost, and it was faster as well. Apple attempted to market and sell the Lisa alongside the Macintosh—eventually releasing a modification kit to allow the Lisa hardware to run Macintosh software, and sold a so-modified machine as the Macintosh XL. This had the distinct advantage of having a larger screen and a lot more memory, but was somewhat slower than an actual Macintosh due to the lower processor clock speed. Ultimately, Lisa didn't find commercial success, and sold only 10,000 units before being discontinued i

Estim. 8 000 - 9 000 EUR

JAUME PLENSA (Barcelona, 1955). "Freud's children" 2002. Mixed media on paper. Signed and dated in the lower left corner. Provenance: -galerie Alice Pauli (Lausanne) - Christie's. Measurements: 58 x 41 cm; 66 x 50 cm (frame). "Freud's Children" was the title under whose umbrella Jaume Plensa placed several works (a sculpture and drawings) in which he alludes metaphorically and allegorically to the child psyche in relation to psychoanalysis, trauma, introspection and culture. Through bodily fragmentation and concepts that evoke the complexity and fragility of the human mind, Plensa explores in a subtle and not very evident way the nature of the subconscious and its relationship with the development of language. Jaume Plensa studied at the Escuela de La Llotja and the Superior de Bellas Artes de Sant Jordi, both in Barcelona. He excelled in sculpture, drawing and engraving. His work focuses on the relationship between man and his environment, often questioning the role of art in society and the position of the artist. He currently lives in Paris, and has recently been awarded an honorary doctorate degree by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Plensa began his career working with wrought iron mixed with polyester. Between 1983 and 1984 he began to mold iron with the casting technique, and developed a sculptural concept based on zoomorphic elements. His work evolved gradually, and he is now considered a precursor of Spanish neo-expressionism. In the nineties he introduced modifications in his work, both materially and formally, and began to use different materials such as scrap metal, polyester and resins. During these years he elaborated series of walls, doors and architectural constructions, seeking to give space an absolute protagonism. Between 1999 and 2003 Plensa became one of the pillars of world scenography, reinterpreting with "La Fura dels Baus" four classical operas by Falla, Debussy, Berlioz and Mozart, and alone a contemporary theatrical production, "La pareti della solitudine", by Ben Jelloun. He has had solo and group exhibitions all over the world, including a retrospective at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 2000. In June 2008 he inaugurated in London, at the BBC headquarters, his work "Breathing", a monument dedicated to journalists killed in the exercise of their profession. Throughout his career he has received numerous distinctions, such as the Medal of the Knights of Arts and Letters in 1993, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture, or the National Prize for Plastic Arts in 1997, from the Generalitat of Catalonia. Considered one of the leading representatives of the new Spanish art of expressionist tendency, his work is present in the best national and international galleries and art fairs, as well as in the main museums of Europe and the United States, such as the MOMA in New York, the Kemper in Kansas, the Museo Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, the Palazzo Forti in Verona, the MACBA or the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 400 EUR

MONTSERRAT GUDIOL COROMINA (Barcelona, 1933 - 2015). "Young man on blue background". Oil on panel. Signed in the lower left corner. Measurements: 81 x 61 cm; 101 x 81 cm (frame). Montserrat Gudiol began in the art world in the family studio of medieval painting restoration, and since 1950 she has been dedicated to painting on panel and on paper. That same year she had her first individual exhibition at the Casino of Ripoll (Girona). In 1953 he took part in the collective exhibition "Current Portrait", at the Artistic Circle of Barcelona, and the following year he made his debut abroad with a solo exhibition of drawings held at the Museum of Miami (United States). That same year she takes part in the collective exhibition "Pintura femenina" (C.I.C.F. of Barcelona), she obtains the First Prize of the Diputación de Barcelona and the Second Prize San Jorge of the same entity. In 1960 she participates in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts held in Barcelona, where she wins a third medal, and also takes part in the International Drawing Exhibition of the Ynglada Guillot Foundation (Barcelona), being awarded the First Prize. In 1962 she held an important individual exhibition at the Sala Gaspar in Barcelona (a gallery where she would repeat her presence from then on), and that same year she took part in a collective exhibition held at the Casón del Buen Retiro, in Madrid. Since then he has continued to hold individual exhibitions and to participate in group shows, both in Spain and in Germany, South Africa, the Czech Republic, China, France, Japan, the United States, Russia and Canada. Among his personal exhibitions are those held at the Pieter Wenning Gallery in Johannesburg (1967), Tamenaga Gallery in Tokyo (1974), Au Molin de Vauboyen in Paris (1978), the Exhibition Hall of the Union of Painters of the USSR in Moscow (1979), the Dreiseitel Gallery in Cologne (1981) and the Walton-Gilbert Gallery in San Francisco (1984). In 1980 she made an important monumental work for the Abbey of Montserrat, a representation of St. Benedict. In 1981 she was the first woman to join the Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi, and in 1998 the Generalitat de Catalunya awarded her the Cross of Sant Jordi. She is currently represented at the MACBA, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, the Museums of Modern Art in Johannesburg, San Diego, Miami and Flint (USA), the Joseph Cantor Foundation in Indianapolis (USA), the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne (Switzerland), the Monastery of Montserrat and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi.

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