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R. BETOURNEin Limoges. Profile of a woman. Oval enamel miniature. Gilded wood frame. 17 x 15.5 cm.

Estim. 20 - 30 EUR

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School, circa 1900. Woman with hat. Oval miniature. Brass or bronze frame with knot decoration. 10 x 8 cm (view). 20 x 14.5 cm (frame).

Estim. 80 - 120 EUR

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Solido reissue 1:43 scale 3 racing cars in near-new condition (bleached tires), in complete boxes with traces of handling, pen lettering, beginnings of tears on flaps: - Porsche "Spyder", metal gray, complete with driver and sticker (solarized), traces of rubbing on one side. - Maserati 250, red, muffler extension present, complete with driver and sticker (solarized). - Jaguar "Le Mans", green, complete with driver and stickers (solarized).

Estim. 5 - 10 EUR

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Lot including : - a bronze frame with foliate decoration. 19.5 x 19.5 cm. (minor damage). - a miniature in repoussé copper depicting a seated man. - an oval-shaped miniature of Jesus Christ in profile.

Estim. 40 - 60 EUR

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Lot including: - SOLIDO, GENERAL PATTON green metal tank with remote control. (untested). - two boxes, one with two decks of cards. - a rectangular marble plaque with painted decoration of an alley, monogrammed on the right. 20 x 10 cm. - a carved horn element.

Estim. 30 - 50 EUR

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Two oval miniatures, one depicting La Marquise de Brincourt. Wood frames. 16 x 13.5 cm and 14 x 12 cm.

Estim. 20 - 30 EUR

Wed 24 Jul

After ANDREA DEL VERROCCHIO (Florence, 1435 - Venice, 1488). "The Condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni". Bronze. Ferdinand Barbedienne Fondeur. Measurements: 16 x 43 x 17 cm. Replica in medium format of the equestrian monument in bronze dedicated to the Condottiero Bartolomeo Colleoni, 395 cm high without the pedestal, realized by Andrea del Verrocchio between 1480 and 1488 and located in Venice, in the square of Saints John and Paul. It is the second equestrian statue of the Renaissance, after the monument to Gattamelata by Donatello in Padua, 1446-53. Its history dates back to 1479, when the Republic of Venice decreed the realization of an equestrian monument dedicated to this Condottiero, who died three years earlier, to be placed in the Piazza dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo. In 1480 Verrocchio was commissioned to execute it, and he began the work in his workshop in Florence. In 1481 the wax model was sent to Venice, where the artist went in 1486 to personally direct the casting of the final model, in lost-wax bronze. Andrea Verrocchio died in 1488 with the work unfinished, although the wax model was to remain, and in his will he determined that Lorenzo di Credi should continue the project. However, the Venetian Signoria preferred the local artist Alessandro Leopardi, a painter and sculptor, multidisciplinary in the modern way, as Verrocchio himself had been. The Florentine artist based the creation of the monument on the equestrian statue of Donatello's Gattamelata, the ancient statues of Marcus Aurelius and the horses of St. Mark (13th century) and of the Regisole (a work of late antiquity in Pavia, lost in the 18th century). There were also frescoes by Giovanni Acuto, Paolo Ucello and Andrea del Castagno. There was, on the other hand, the important technical problem of representing the horse with a raised front leg, in a majestic forward position, which Donatello had prudently solved by placing a sphere under the raised leg. Verrocchio will be the first to succeed in erecting an equestrian statue supported only on three legs.

Estim. 4 000 - 5 000 EUR

Wed 24 Jul

Richard MacDonald (American, b. 1946). Large bronze sculpture titled "Red Dress, Half Life," from the "Joie de Vivre" series depicting a half life-size ballerina perched delicately on the tip of her toes. A radiant smile lights up her face and she seems to spin gracefully as the fabric of her dress swishes around her. Signed and dated 2001 along the base. From an edition of 90. With a wooden plinth. Provenance: The collection of Clint & Mary Ann Jurgens, Minnesota. Walt and Vi Jurgens, Clint’s parents, began supporting Sullivan Hills, a Lutheran summer camp near their farm in Gurley, Nebraska, 50 years ago. The camp generously welcomes all children of the area with financial help and love. We are directing the proceeds of this sale to the administrators of the camp, Nebraska Lutheran Outdoor Ministries. Find out more at www.nlom.org. Lot Essay: Richard MacDonald's sculptures celebrate the beauty and physicality of the human form. He was classically trained at Art Center College in Pasanda, California. Following the great sculptural masters such as Auguste Rodin and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, he adds a contemporary element to his figural creations. His ability to focus on how the body can be manipulated has led to his work with Cirque du Soleil, MGM, and the Olympic Games. His process involves making a clay "sketch" or maquette of his work. These quarter-size models are the basis for his half life to life-size works. He then utilizes the famously painstaking Lost Wax method in which his work will become first a wax model and then a bronze sculpture. (Including base) Height: 60 in x width: 30 in x depth: 22 1/2 in. Weight (without wooden base): 198 lbs 6 oz.

Estim. 10 000 - 20 000 USD

Thu 25 Jul

Flemish school; first half of the 17th century. "Gipsy.". Oil on oak panel. It has an opening in the central area of the panel and needs to be consolidated. It has some slight leaps in the painting, repainting and restorations. Measurements: 31 x 26,5 cm. In the flemish 17th century, portraiture was one of the pictorial genres most in demand among the gentry. Here we are before a characteristic example of the technical refinement that the painters used in the individual portraits: skill in the handling of the drawing, detail inherited from the art of the miniatures, excellent glazes, the delicate blond hair and a fine gauze headdress. The folds of the neckline of the dress are perfectly geometrical, but this does not detract from the naturalness of the portrait. The same goes for the jewellery which the sitter wears in the form of a rhythmic fretwork. In this way, no element is left to chance, and everything is integrated into an underlying order of lines and colours. The facial oval, thus framed, is modelled by a filtered light which brings out the right tones of the slightly rosy flesh tones. The black eyes look out of the corner of his eye, revealing insight. It was undoubtedly in the painting of the Dutch school that the consequences of the political emancipation of the region and the economic prosperity of the liberal bourgeoisie were most openly manifested. The combination of the discovery of nature, objective observation, the study of the concrete, the appreciation of the everyday, the taste for the real and the material, the sensitivity to the apparently insignificant, meant that the Dutch artist was at one with the reality of everyday life, without seeking any ideal that was alien to that same reality. The painter did not seek to transcend the present and the materiality of objective nature or to escape from tangible reality, but to envelop himself in it, to become intoxicated by it through the triumph of realism, a realism of pure illusory fiction, achieved thanks to a perfect, masterly technique and a conceptual subtlety in the lyrical treatment of light. As a result of the break with Rome and the iconoclastic tendency of the Reformed Church, paintings with religious themes were eventually eliminated as a decorative complement with a devotional purpose, and mythological stories lost their heroic and sensual tone in accordance with the new society. Portraits, landscapes and animals, still lifes and genre painting were the thematic formulas that became valuable in their own right and, as objects of domestic furniture - hence the small size of the paintings - were acquired by individuals from almost all social classes and classes of society.

Estim. 1 400 - 1 600 EUR

Thu 25 Jul

Cantoral de monasterio; Spanish School; c. 1593. Gouache on vellum. Presents faults. Measurements: 64 x 39 cm. The choir books, also called cantorales, chorales or choral books, are large format musical manuscripts that contain various parts of the mass and the divine office, specific to each liturgical celebration. They were used in Europe during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and their large format allowed the entire choir to read the musical notation from a distance. Although their use began to decline with the invention of the printing press, manuscript cantorales continued to be produced until the 19th century. Especially important was its development in the 15th century; from the beginning of the century a current of enrichment and renovation began in the liturgical celebrations, which led to the fact that in cathedrals, collegiate churches, abbeys and monasteries the old manual books for lecterns were progressively substituted by other larger ones for the lecterns. In this way the temples and religious centers will be endowed with new liturgical books, in the case of the richest centers illuminated books with beautiful miniatures framed within the international Gothic style, first, and already in the XVI century reflecting the new Renaissance taste. For the elaboration of the cantorales the parchment was always used, generally obtained from the skin of the sheep although in occasions, for folios of great size, the one of the deer was used. In fact, in the 16th century the parchment handicraft industry reached a great development in centers such as Granada; the parchment maker sold the folios already prepared, that is to say, polished and cut into sheets of the required size. Writers and miniaturists were involved in the composition of these choir books, and the latter would show in the 16th century the influence of the new quattrocentista style by adopting new decorative forms in the borders, in the exterior elements of the capitular letters and in the architectural backgrounds, conserving however the Flemish influence, key to the development of Spanish painting in the 15th century, in the folding of the clothing, the types and the movement of the figures. Presents faults.

Estim. 3 000 - 3 500 EUR