Null GIORGIO ARMANI - 1990'S
PANTALON
JACQUARD, MIXED SILK
CEMENT, SAND
T. 44 IT…

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GIORGIO ARMANI - 1990'S PANTALON JACQUARD, MIXED SILK CEMENT, SAND T. 44 IT PETITE TACHE

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GIORGIO ARMANI - 1990'S PANTALON JACQUARD, MIXED SILK CEMENT, SAND T. 44 IT PETITE TACHE

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Estim. 24 000 - 36 000 EUR

Fritz Behn, Black Panther Design from the creative period after the 2nd World War. The bozzetto for this sculpture was given to the Heinz Mocnik foundry by the artist's family for casting and was made in the same year by the foundry manager as a gift for his wife and placed in the private driveway of his house in Salzburg, Behn was dismissed from his post at the Vienna Art Academy after the Second World War due to his prominent position under National Socialism. The now more precarious financial situation forced Behn to cast his designs in plaster or cement rather than bronze, as was the case with this sculpture, a stylistically typical, minimally abstracted work with a smooth surface design and dynamic lines, still without the cubist influences of his late creative phase. World War II, rectangular plinth, tiny traces of weathering and dots of verdigris, a small abrasion on the edge of the plinth, dimensions L 143 cm, W 31 cm, H 44 cm. Sources: Hugo Schmidt, Fritz Behn als Tierplastiker, Hugo Schmidts Kunstbreviere, vol. 1, Munich 1922; J. Zeller, Wilde Moderne - Der Bildhauer Fritz Behn (1878-1970), Nicolai Verlag, Berlin 2016; Salzburgwiki website. We would like to thank Mrs Thaler-Klein (the former partner of the art foundry Heinz Mocnik) and the Kunstgießerei München (formerly Mocnik) for kind information, images of the work will be included in the holdings of the art archive of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg as a compendium of Fritz Behn's estate, artist information: German sculptor (1878 Klein Graben). Sculptor (1878 Klein Grabow to 1970 Munich), 1898-1900 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich as a pupil of Adolf von Hildebrand and Wilhelm von Rümann, Prince Regent Luitpold acted as Behn's patron, 1907-09 travelled to Africa and South America to make anatomical drawing studies of large game and to produce plaster casts of hunted game, 1905, 1907 and 1909 took part in the Venice Biennale, from 1910 member of the Munich Secession, 1910 awarded the title of "Royal Bavarian Professor", worked at the universities of Munich and Stuttgart and at the Weimar Academy of Art, 1911-12 stay in Paris and visit to Auguste Rodin, travelled to Italy and London, won the tender for the erection of the German colonial war memorial in 1913 - the memorial was not executed, 1913 exhibition together with Franz Marc at the Tannhäuser Gallery in Munich, Publication of the essay "Für Fritz Behn" by Thomas Mann, enlisted as a war volunteer in 1914, contact with Adolf Hitler from 1921, lived in Buenos Aires/Argentina from 1923 to 1925, elected President of the Munich Artists' Association in 1927, contributor to the feature section of the Völkischer Beobachter from 1927, initiator of the National Socialist Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur in 1928, travelled to Africa again from 1931 to 1932, 1940 appointed director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, a position he held until the end of National Socialism, 1943 awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science by Adolf Hitler, included in the list of those honoured by the Nazis, presented himself as an opponent of the regime after the end of the Nazi dictatorship, received a pension from the Federal Republic of Germany, 1968 awarded the Senate Plaque of the City of Lübeck, source: Thieme-Becker and Wikipedia.

Estim. 60 - 80 EUR

GIORGIO ARMANI Icy brown suit set including blazer jacket, flat lapel collar, gray double breasted and double welt pocket, straight pants. Good condition for the jacket, holes on the pants. Size: 54 approx.

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

GIORGIO ARMANI Fir green suit set comprising a blazer jacket, flat notched lapel collar, single breasted with three black buttons and three pockets, two of which are piped and one on the left chest, and straight pants. Good condition. One button missing. Size: 54 approx.

Starting price 18000 EUR

Brussels tapestry, mid-16th century. Technical characteristics : Wool and silk. Dimensions: Height: 280cm; Width: 430cm. Probably part of a 12-panel tapestry, "Fabulous Animals", after cartoons by Pieter Coecke van Aelst le Jeune. Brussels tapestry from 1550-1560, part of an exceptional hanging of "Fabulous Animals" probably woven from cartoons by Pieter Coecke van Aelst le Jeune; to be compared with the 8 panels (by Jean Tons II) of the hanging in the collections of the Château de Serrant (France); the panel (by Jean Tons II), bearing the mark of the merchant Catherine van den Eynde, in the Palazzo Savelli Orsini, seat of the Sovereign Order of Malta, in Rome (Italy); and the 3 Jagellonian hangings, totaling 44 panels (by William Tons), in the Wawel Castle in Krakow (Poland). Woven in Brussels in the second half of the 16th century, the tapestry is more like a bestiary, combining local animals with fantastical and exotic ones in an exuberant, wild composition. The 16th century was a time of religious wars and great discoveries. Artists (English, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Flemish) set off for Italy, returning with new ideas and techniques. Charles V and Francis I alternated periods when they fought each other with periods when they peaceful rivalry through their shared passions: hunting and tapestries. In this century of turbulence, when religious schisms were tearing Europe apart, people were trying to find new explanations for the world and for myths, in often symbolic descriptions of nature. Thus, beyond the simple representation of marvelous landscapes, inspired by the zoology plates in vogue, Flemish weavers wanted to illustrate moral stories. Sometimes, these animals are engaged in a battle that has to do with Christ or the human soul. Thus : Good and Evil, God and Devil, weak and strong, are incarnated in the guise of real, exotic, mythological or sometimes monstrous animals. Here, the tapestry is more fabulous than the 8 panels of the Serrant Castle hanging or even the 44 panels of the 3 Jagiellonian hangings at the Wawel. The luxuriantly vegetated landscape, where tree ferns grow alongside palms and other plants, features a dragon fighting a phoenix in the foreground on the left, suggesting the devil's battle against Christ, who will rise from the dead (coinciding with Easter and the astrological sign of Aries, March 21-April 20). This fight takes place under the gaze of an elephant bird (Aepyornis Maximus, actually measuring 2.50m in height), a fabulous animal, now extinct, that lived in Madagascar and whose discovery by the Portuguese in 1500 undoubtedly impressed the European populations of the time. Just to his right, a red ibis, a firebird par excellence, seeks its pittance in a marsh on the edge of which a moorhens defends its nest against a varan. On the far right, a ram appears to represent the astrological sign to which this panel is attributed. In the background, in the undergrowth, we see a marsupial - a strange animal for the inhabitants of Flanders at the time - and across the entire width to the left, a number of more "common" animals: ducks, deer, unicorn, owl, squirrel, wild boar, lynx, deer, lion, heron, wolf, rabbit and even an aurochs to signify that this is the world we live in. Just to be sure, a horseman can be seen a little above the dragon, looking like a prince, to confirm that man is indeed evolving among all these creatures. In the rich borders, which cleverly spill over onto the main panel, grotesques, birds and other animals and characters, fruits and flowers, each more extraordinary than the last, and astrological signs appear. No doubt the author of these cartoons, probably William Tons, wanted to blend old pagan symbols with Christian values, omnipresent at the time, inspired by the cruelty of the world here below and the hope to which David's hymn calls ("The lion and the lamb will live together"), in order to deliver different messages about creation and the future of mankind. Sources: Les tapisseries Flamandes au château du Wawel à Cracovie, Fonds Mercator, Anvers/Belgium-1972. Les routes de la Tapisserie en Val de Loire, Edwige Six and Thierry Malty, Hermé, Paris/France-1996. Flemish Tapestry, Iannoo,

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