Cesc Abad

Amor en Tiempos de Colera (after Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Oil, gold leaf, silver leaf and mica powder on canvas

200 x 240 cm  

2024

Joan Miró

(1893 –1983)

Trazos

March 15, 1978, Madrid

Colored wax crayons and pencil on cardboard

56.2 x 76.4 cm (22 1/8 x 30 1/8 in)

Rafael CANOGAR

(b. 1935, Toledo, Spain)

‘P22’

1976

Oil on canvas

81.5 x 100 cm

Titled, dated, and signed on the reverse: “P-22-76” / “CanogaR”

Provenance

           •          The artist

           •          Private collection, Madrid (acquired directly from the artist)

Roberto Matta

(Chile, 1911 - 2002)

Untitled

1974

Pastel on paper

64 x 49.5 cm

Signed, lower left corner

Provenance

           •          Private collection, Spain

           •          Sala Castellana 150 Auction House, Madrid, April 20, 1999, lot no. 139, reproduced in the catalog, p. 101

           •          Private collection, Madrid (acquired from the above)

Certified by Germana Ferrari-Matta, Archives de l’Oeuvre de Matta, Tarquinia/Paris, March 9, 2002, General Catalogue no. P74/41

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

(Mogliano, 1720 – 1778 Roma)

Veduta interna del Panteon (Interior View of the Pantheon), 1768

Etching on laid paper

478 x 559 mm (plate), 514 x 748 mm (sheet)

State I/IV

References:

           •          Focillon 1918, 763

           •          Hind 1922, 86.I

           •          Wilton-Ely 1994, 219

Provenance:

           •          Collection of economist Prof. Dr. Coenraad Alexander Verrijn Stuart (1865–1948), Zeist; subsequently by descent.

Commentary:

An iconic print belonging to the series Le Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome), begun in 1747.

This is a high-quality example, with a strong impression of the first state (of four).



Willem van Mieris

(Leiden, 1662 – 1747)

Callisto Seduced by Jupiter Disguised as Diana

Oil on copper

16.8 x 21.7 cm

Signed and dated in the lower right corner: W. van Mieris 1722

Provenance:

           •          Collection of Johannes van Zurendaal (d. 1784), Leiden; posthumous sale, Leiden (Delfos), June 25, 1785 [Lugt 3911], lot 64:

“Jupiter in the guise of Diana, with Callisto, in a landscape with trees; wonderfully detailed. On copper, height 6 1/2, width 8 1/2 inches.”

Sold for 34 florins to Spruyt.

           •          With Philippe Lambert Joseph Spruyt, Ghent; not included in his posthumous sale, Ghent (Fernand), July 25, 1801 [Lugt 6299].

           •          Sale of A Gentleman of Refined Taste, London (Christie), May 4, 1805 [Lugt 6944], lot 67:

“Diana and Venus – finely composed and drawn, and elaborately finished.”

Listed as sold for £147 to Churchill but actually purchased under his name.

           •          Collection of jeweler Robert Hamilton (1772–1848), Bloomfield Hall, Norwood, Surrey; his sale, London (Foster), March 15–17, 1832 [Lugt 12905], second day, lot 196:

“Diana and Endymion” [in the RKD catalog copy, the word Endymion was crossed out and corrected by hand to Callisto]. Sold for £31:10 to P. Norton.

           •          Collection of Edward William Lake (d. 1847), London; his sale, London (Christie), July 11–12, 1845 [Lugt 17853], second day, lot 86:

“Jupiter and Callisto. The nymph is depicted sitting on a bank, and the deity, in the form of Diana, stands to her left, bending affectionately toward her. The subject is set in a wooded landscape. Exquisitely finished. Signed, and dated 1720 [sic]. 7 in. by 8 1/2 in. Copper. From the collection of Robert Hamilton, Esq., 1832. Supplement to Smith’s Catalogue Raisonné, page 68. Signed and dated 1720.” Sold for £42 to Farrer.

           •          Collection of Alphonse Charles Marie Marquis d’Aoust (1819–1909), Paris; subsequently by descent.

Literature:

           •          John Smith, Supplement, Vol. IX (1842), p. 68, no. 48.

           •          HdG, Vol. X (1928), pp. 123–124, catalog no. 74.

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