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Lot 73
Workshop of Jan Brueghel the Younger (Antwerp 1601-1678)An extensive floral still life with lilies, tulips, irises, forget-me-nots and other flowers in a bronze vase oil on panel106 x 68.8cm (41 3/4 x 27 1/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceWith Galerie de Jonckheere, Paris, 1996, where purchased by the present owner's family (as Andries Daniels)It is not clear what prompted Jan Brueghel the Elder to pursue flower painting in the early years of the 17th Century, along with his contemporaries Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder in Middleburg and Roeland Savery in Prague. One of his most long-standing patrons, Cardinal Federico Borromeo in Milan, very likely purchased one of his earliest works, the copper painting dated 1606, now in the Ambrosiana, Milan (inv. no. 66); one of the earliest documented paintings of this type. Correspondence between the two reveals that his artistic ambition was to depict not just the beauty but also the rarity of nature, he notes how we went to Brussels specifically to find flowers that were unavailable in Antwerp and that the flower still life he was working on was notable 'as much for naturalness as for the beauty and rarity of various flowers, some are unknown and little seen in this area; for this, I have been to Brussels in order to depict some few flowers from nature that are not found in Antwerp'1. On completion of the 1606 still life, Brueghel was definitely aware that he was embarking on a brand-new genre when he writes 'I certainly do not think I have ever made a similar painting'2.Brueghel's fascination and delight in the depiction of the natural world also underpinned the Kunst- und Wunderkammern so popular in the late 16th and 17th Centuries. In the richness and beauty depicted, they reflected the glory of God, whether in the natural world or of the intermediary, the artist. Flower still lifes went on to enjoy great popularity throughout Europe in the 17th Century and, having established it as a new genre, Brueghel's son and workshop went on to produce many works of this type to meet the high demand. One other such example of this type can be found in the An extensive bouquet of mixed spring and summer flowers in a wooden tub beside a squirrel offered in these rooms (4 July 2018, lot 62). The unusually large size of the present work is comparable to the most ambitious and monumental productions of Jan Brueghel the Younger's workshop, such as the Still life of flowers in a sculpted vase, on panel, 123.2 x 94 cm., which was offered at Christie's (10 December, 2012, lot 20).Notes1 'tanta per la naturalezza come anco della bellezza et rarita de vario fiori in questa parto alcuni inconita et non piu visto: per quella io son stata a Brussella per ritrare alcuni fiori del natural, che non si trove in Anversa'. See. G. Crivelli, Giovanni Brueghel pittor fiammingo, o Sue lettere e quadretti esistenti presso l'Ambrosiana, Milan, 1868, p. 63.2 'credo per certo che io non habio mai fatto un quadro simili' (op. cit., p. 64)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * TP* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.TP For auctions held in Scotland: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Constantine, Constantine House, North Caldeen Road, Coatbridge ML5 4EF, Scotland, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please refer to the catalogue for further information.For all other auctions: Lots will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 20
Michel Basbous (Lebanon 1921-1981)Le Voilier (The Sailboat) bronzesigned, dated and numbered '5/8', number 5 from an edition of 8, executed in 197718.5 x 32.5 x 7.5cm Footnotes:Provenance:Property from the Artist's EstateThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a reduced rate of 5.5% on the hammer price and the prevailing rate on buyer's premium if the item remains in EU. TVA sur les objets importés à un taux réduit de 5.5% sur le prix d'adjudication et un taux en vigueur sur la prime d'achat dans le cas où l'objet reste dans l'Union Européenne.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 21
Michel Basbous (Lebanon 1921-1981)Tête voilée (Veiled Head) bronze signed, dated and numbered '2/8', number 2 from an edition of 8, executed in 197735.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 cm Footnotes:Provenance:Property from the Artist's EstateBorn in 1921, in Rachana precisely. Michel Basbous, son of a priest of a tiny village in the north of Lebanon was amongst the first students to enroll at the newly founded 'Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts'(ALBA) in 1945 and one of its first graduates. Three years on, and after his first public success in the capital, he left to Paris in 1950 were he joined the atelier of Zadkine. His master there, Gaumont, asked him the purpose of his stay in Paris, and Basbous answered, deadpan, 'To learn sculpture'. Gaumont replied: 'Lebanon, the Mediterranean, Phoenicia, Assyria, Babel, Egypt... You have them all. What are you doing here? Go back to your country.' Ultimately, Basbous would obey this sage stricture. But not before having accomplished much in Paris. Upon his return in 1956, and after a short stay in Beirut, he took the surprising decision to move back to his native village Rachana. Back then, Rachana was not even accessible by asphalted roads. ' It was a new experience for me. As I did not have a workshop in the village, I placed my works on the side of the road and started working in the open air.'Michel spared no efforts to nurture a public interested in the arts, so he created the festival of Rachana in 1960, mixing theatre, music, poetry with sculpture and painting, in the hope of motivating people to interact with different kinds of cultural activities. He invited famous figures like César, Jack Lang, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Hasan Fathi and Adonis just to name a few. He fought fiercely to disseminate sculptures in public spaces, government buildings, municipal gardens... He spared no efforts to export his art to the world, multiplying trips to the USA, Japan, France and elsewhere. He experimented in different genres, styles, sizes, media from the classical marble, stone, wood, bronze, alloys to the more experimental fibre glass, resin, cement. He also believed that the world will discover him one day as a gifted painter as he was known as a talented sculptor. He was a charismatic man, larger than life. Michel Basbous, pioneer of modern sculpture, especially monumental in his country and the Arab world. His artworks are found at Oxford Museum in London, British Museum London, UENO Museum in Japan, the Modern Art Museum in France as well as in many other public places in Lebanon and abroad.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a reduced rate of 5.5% on the hammer price and the prevailing rate on buyer's premium if the item remains in EU. TVA sur les objets importés à un taux réduit de 5.5% sur le prix d'adjudication et un taux en vigueur sur la prime d'achat dans le cas où l'objet reste dans l'Union Européenne.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 22
Anachar Basbous (Lebanon, born 1969)TOTEM corten steel, uniqueexecuted in 2022250 x 50 x 50cm Footnotes:Provenance:Property from a private collection, ParisAcquired directly from the Artist by the aboveAnachar Basbous was born in Rachana (Lebanon) in 1969. His first name is also the anagram of this city. From birth, he was immersed in art. His mother, Thérèse Aouad Basbous, was a poet and novelist; his father, the sculptor Michel Basbous, is one of the major Lebanese artists of the 20th century. His childhood, in the artists' house founded by his parents, was marked by creation, the aesthetic importance given to forms. Precocious, he made his first sculpture at the age of ten. Two years later, the disappearance of his father left him with a deep wound. Perhaps this is why he chose, after his schooling, to study, not sculpture, but architecture at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts. Then he followed, in Paris, the courses of the National School of Arts and Crafts, in another specialty: architectural mosaic. Returning to Lebanon in 1992, he produced many wall decorations. However, he quickly decided to devote himself exclusively to sculpture. Stone, wood, bronze, steel would constitute his universe.If he himself admits to having been influenced in his career by his parents, it is just as much in his father's library that he draws the resources to educate his eyes. If Giacometti and Henry Moore fed him, like Michel Basbous, with figurative forms, no doubt he was also interested in Brancusi, Jean Arp or Max Bill. It is difficult, in the art world, to make a name for yourself; it is even more so, in the case of a dynasty of creators, to make a first name. Anachar Basbous succeeded in doing so, by not seeking to extend or imitate the paternal plastic, but by creating his own aesthetic. His sculptures, sometimes of monumental dimensions, favour refined forms whose complexity appears in the associations he chooses; they sometimes suggest a precarious balance and are imbued with spirituality. Their inscription in space strikes the viewer whose eye must tame before the curves, the edges, a whole geometry offered to the light, whose beauty and harmony are the culmination.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * W* VAT on imported items at a reduced rate of 5.5% on the hammer price and the prevailing rate on buyer's premium if the item remains in EU. TVA sur les objets importés à un taux réduit de 5.5% sur le prix d'adjudication et un taux en vigueur sur la prime d'achat dans le cas où l'objet reste dans l'Union Européenne.W Lot is located in the Bonhams Warehouse and will only be available for collection from this location.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Lot 458
Emile Fuchs (1866-1929), The Arab and odalisque, patinated bronze, raised on a red marble plinth, height 71cm (NB: Condition is NOT noted in catalogue descriptions. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Lot 463
Pair of Japanese bronze vases, late Meiji (1868 - 1912), each cast with scrolling dragons chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds, 18cm (NB: Condition is NOT noted in catalogue descriptions. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
Lot 464
Pair of French bronze Bacchanalian figure groups, each cast as the infant Bacchus and a cherub playing with goats, richly patinated, height 22cm x 15cm (NB: Condition is NOT noted in catalogue descriptions. We strongly advise viewing to satsify yourself as to condition. If you are unable to view please request a condition report, which will be provided in writing).
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