{"title":"Auction catalogues","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCatalogues of auction sales: a primary source for provenance and the history of collecting\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"collection-monsieur-x-drouot-1977","title":"Collection de Monsieur X…: Estampes, Dessins, Pochoirs du Japon","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eParis, C. Boisgirard, A. de Heeckeren, 1977.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8vo. [120] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne anonymous collection of Japanese prints, sold over four days at Drouot Rive Gauche in December 1977.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis catalogue records an anonymous French collection of Japanese prints — the \"Monsieur X…\" of the title being the customary formula for a vendor who preferred not to be named. Among the illustrated books offered was a copy from the library of Edmond de Goncourt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sale covered surimono (摺物; privately commissioned prints, finely printed and often issued for poetry circles), e-goyomi (\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e盲暦; picture calendars), hashira-e (柱絵; the tall, narrow pillar prints, called nagaye in the catalogue), ōban (\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e大判; large-format sheets), drawings, illustrated books and stencils.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtists represented include Keisai Eisen, Yashima Gakutei, Totoya Hokkei, Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Ryūryūkyo Shinsai, Kubo Shunman, Kitagawa Utamaro and Utagawa Hiroshige, among many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExtensively illustrated throughout, chiefly in black and white, with four plates in colour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal pictorial wrappers. Good: lightly rubbed and soiled, some creasing to the front cover.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syrovatskaya Books \u0026 Curiosities","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58770879086940,"sku":"SYR-011","price":45.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/0654\/7804\/files\/DSC00376.jpg?v=1789480795"},{"product_id":"the-hatvany-collection-highly-important-old-master-drawings","title":"The Hatvany Collection: Highly important old master drawings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLondon, Christie, Manson \u0026amp; Woods Ltd., 1980.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8vo, 99, [5] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn auction catalogue from the Christie's sales of the collection of \u003cstrong\u003eBaron Paul Hatvany\u003c\/strong\u003e (1899–1977), a descendant of one of Hungary's wealthiest Jewish families, who settled in England at the outbreak of the Second World War. Hatvany assembled a distinguished collection of Old Master drawings, paintings and bronzes; on his death several of his most important pictures were presented to the British nation as a token of his affection for his adopted country. The collection was dispersed in two sales: drawings on 24 June 1980 and bronzes and works of art on 25 June 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis catalogue covers the drawings sale: 81 lots, including works by Mantegna, Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt, Tintoretto, Parmigianino, Tiepolo, Watteau, Fragonard and Ingres, each described in detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike all auction catalogues, it is an essential source for provenance research: many of these sheets are now in major museum collections, and the 1980 sale is an important link in their ownership history. Among them: the J. Paul Getty Museum (lot 2, a cutting from a gradual; lot 8, \u003cem\u003eThree Studies of Trees\u003c\/em\u003e by Fra Bartolommeo; lot 10, \u003cem\u003ePortrait of a Young Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, attributed to Andrea Previtali); the Metropolitan Museum of Art (lot 75, \u003cem\u003eUriah before King David\u003c\/em\u003e by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout); the Art Gallery of South Australia (lot 17, \u003cem\u003eHead of Giuliano de' Medici\u003c\/em\u003e by Jacopo Tintoretto; lot 35, \u003cem\u003eCupid Extracting a Thorn from Venus' Foot\u003c\/em\u003e by Carlo Maratti); the National Gallery of Art, Washington (lot 74, \u003cem\u003eJoseph Recounting His Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e by Rembrandt); and the Morgan Library \u0026amp; Museum (lot 3, \u003cem\u003eThree Standing Saints\u003c\/em\u003e by Andrea Mantegna). Other drawings later reappeared at Christie's, among them lot 37, \u003cem\u003eStudies of Heads of Orientals\u003c\/em\u003e by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (28 January 1999); lot 9, \u003cem\u003eStudy of a Tree\u003c\/em\u003e by Fra Bartolommeo (7 July 2010); and lot 38, \u003cem\u003eA Venetian Capriccio\u003c\/em\u003e by Francesco Guardi (26 January 2012).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal boards. Illustrated endpapers. Near very good: very light rubbing, a light scratch to the fore-edge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syrovatskaya Books \u0026 Curiosities","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59252765360476,"sku":"SYR-016","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/0654\/7804\/files\/DSC00628.jpg?v=1791301472"},{"product_id":"loudmer-1997-importants-tableaux-modernes-arts-primitifs","title":"Importants Tableaux Modernes et Contemporains. Arts Primitifs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eParis, Loudmer, 1997.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4to, [72] pp., ill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of the final sales of Guy Loudmer's legendary Paris auction house.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCatalogue of the auction \"\u003cem\u003eImportant Modern and Contemporary Paintings; Primitive Arts\u003c\/em\u003e,\" held in Paris on 15 December 1997 by the auction house of \u003cstrong\u003eGuy Loudmer\u003c\/strong\u003e (1933–2019), one of the leading Paris commissaires-priseurs of the 1980s and 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLots 1–182 comprise paintings and sculpture by Modern Masters (Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, Salvador Dalí, Le Corbusier, Max Ernst, Man Ray, André Derain, Giorgio Morandi, Nicolas de Staël, Victor Brauner, Constant Permeke); Post-War artists (Andy Warhol, Lucio Fontana, Jean Fautrier, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Asger Jorn, Henri Michaux, Fernando Botero, Alighiero Boetti); Nouveau Réalisme and its circle (Christo, Jean Tinguely, Arman, César, Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse); as well as Russian-born artists in Paris (Serge Charchoune, André Lanskoy, Chana Orloff) and the Japanese painter Tsuguharu Foujita. Lots 190–269 are devoted to African and Oceanic art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBotero's \u003cem\u003eNiño\u003c\/em\u003e, offered in this sale, reappeared at Christie's on 30 September 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sale took place at a dramatic moment for the auction house. In late October 1997, less than two months earlier, Guy Loudmer had been charged with aggravated breach of trust and taken into custody in connection with the Bourdon affair: he was accused of misappropriating tens of millions of francs from the proceeds of the 1990 sale of the Bourdon collection, dubbed the \"sale of the century.\" His son and partner, Philippe Loudmer, fled to Israel in December 1997. Guy Loudmer spent six months in pre-trial detention and in September 2001 received an eighteen-month suspended sentence and a fine of 500,000 francs. The scandal ended his career as a commissaire-priseur; his firm went into judicial liquidation in 1998, and he continued to work in the art market as a consultant and dealer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBinding \u0026amp; condition\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal pictorial wrappers. Good: lightly rubbed, dogears.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syrovatskaya Books \u0026 Curiosities","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59278745895260,"sku":"SYR-017","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1048\/0654\/7804\/files\/DSC00452.jpg?v=1791302188"}],"url":"https:\/\/syrovatskaya.com\/collections\/auction-catalogues.oembed","provider":"Syrovatskaya Books \u0026 Curiosities","version":"1.0","type":"link"}