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Click here to subscribeA SELECTION OF MODERN (MOSTLY GREEK) SILVER COLOURED METAL JEWELLERY, including; two articulated 'Snake-skin' necklaces, a matching bracelet, ANOTHER SIMILAR, a white metal and amethyst coloured stone set necklace, seven bangles, sixteen various dress rings, chain necklaces, ear pendants and studs, brooches, marcasite set brooches etc....
Elkington & Company, a hallmarked silver circular powder box, having a repoussé detailed hinged cover, inscribed "First Prize, Fancy Dress Ball, presented by The Royal Mail Steam Packet Co." CONDITION REPORT; General surface wear and small dings throughout. Mirror inset is broken. Hallmarks a little rubbed
Robert O. Lenkiewicz [1941-2002]- Woman Walking Away:- Project 8. Jealousy. 1977 oil on board 61 x 122cm * Provenance. The Lenkiewicz Foundation Collection. * Notes. Lenkiewicz was wary of symbolism in his work, instead he sought 'formulae' or metaphors to convey meaning. In the 1977 Jealousy Project he repeatedly used the 'man watching a woman walk away' formula, which was based on the 'to love is to live in fear of loss' notion. Woman Walking Away [1977] shows Myriam Rivera in the garden of 'Death House', Lenkiewicz's cottage in Compton, watched by a male figure whose entrails flail after the retreating woman. The male figure is taken directly from Velazquez's The Forge of Vulcan; even the twisting entrails exactly follow a sinuous line in Velazquez's own composition. Vulcan is the Roman counterpart to the Greek god Hephaestus, who in Greek mythology made the first woman, Pandora, out of clay. In the notebook for the Project - which according to Robert was spirited away by one of its major subjects and never seen again - he wrote: The visceral sensations experienced by the jealous lover torment and isolate with remarkable clarity. The bodily sensations involved in jealous reactions began to strike Lenkiewicz as identical to the sensations reported by alcoholics and addicts undergoing withdrawal symptoms - 'not just similar, identical,' he would emphasize. All the elements of the artist's mature understanding of 'the falling in love scenario' were now in place: that love was an addiction and jealousy the withdrawal symptom; that the process was visceral or physiological in nature and had nothing to do with psychology. As he later elaborated to his friend, Dr Philip Stokes: ...the experience of jealousy is the experience of being withdrawn from one's own addiction, from one's own drug, that one has inflicted on oneself - nothing to do with the other person … and that infliction, that process, that peculiar suicide, is an aesthetic phenomenon entirely But the inevitable conclusion was that intense feeling isolates people rather than bringing them together. However, in Woman Walking Away which of the figures is undergoing the torments of jealousy? Lenkiewicz' diaries from that year record that Myriam was wearing her sister Magdalena's dress, a visual hint to the jealous love triangle playing itself out within the painter's Edenic garden in Compton. * Exhibited. The Painter with Women (Retrospective Section), ICC Birmingham 1994; Plymouth City Museum Retrospective, 1997; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, A Retrospective, 1998; Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, 2009; Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2011; Royal William Yard, Plymouth, 2012; Spinnerei, Leipzig, and Nuremberg, Germany, 2013 (see Introduction for post-2007 exhibition details). Literature R. O. Lenkiewicz (1997) White Lane Press p. 55. Robert Lenkiewicz - Paintings & Projects (2006). White Lane Press. Plate 25 Robert Lenkiewicz - Human All Too Human (2012). Lenkiewicz Archive. p26.
Three 19th Century Sevres porcelain cabinet plates, the centre of each hand painted with figures in 18th Century dress, either dancing, playing musical instruments or courting, after Goebel, Watteau and Guillou, with yellow,red or blue ground borderrs with floral panels, each with Chateau des Tuileries mark, 25cm diameter.
PATTI ADELINA: (1843-1919) Italian Opera Soprano. Signed 7.5 x 12.5 photograph, the image depicting Patti standing, in a full length pose, wearing a beautiful dress with embroidery, pearls and camellias, most probably in her role as Violetta in Verdi´s opera La Traviata. Signed immediately beneath the image (`Adelina Patti, Baronne Cederström´), dated 1905 in her hand. With two very small pin holes to the lower photographer's mount and with one corner crease. VG £200-300 Adelina Patti signs as Baronne Cederström after her third and last marriage in 1899. She married Baron Rolf Cederström (1870-1947), a Swedish aristocrat many years her junior.
JUAN CARLOS I: (1938- ) King of Spain 1975-2014 & SOFIA OF SPAIN (1938- ) Queen of Spain 1975-2014. Vintage signed colour 5 x 6 photograph, the image depicting the future King wearing his uniform and medals and his wife wearing her wedding dress, standing in a full length pose on their wedding day, 14th May 1962 in Athens. Individually signed (´Juan Carlos´) and (´Sofia´) in blue inks to clear areas of the image. The image has been laid down to a slightly larger card bearing at the head an embossed monogrammed crown and the two coats of arms. With some overall age wear and a few heavy creases to the card. G £100-120
PHILIP VI: (1968- ) King of Spain, succeeding to the throne in 2014 following the abdication of his father, King Juan Carlos I, & SOFIA (1938- ) Queen of Spain 1975-2014, mother of Philip VI. Two signed and inscribed 9.5 x 12 cards by Philip VI as Prince of Asturias, and by Queen Sofia of Spain, as Queen. Both with 5 x 7 colour photographs laid down, showing at the head an embossed monogrammed crown. The first depicting the Prince standing in a formal three quarter length pose, the second showing Queen Sofia wearing an official dress, crowned, seated in a smiling full length pose. Signed to the cards underneath the photographs (`Felipe, Principe de Asturias´) and (`Sofia R. 1997´). EX, 2 £100-120
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![Robert O. Lenkiewicz [1941-2002]-
Woman Walking Away:-
Project 8. Jealousy. 1977
oil on board
61 x 122cm
* Provenance. The](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/1420244c-4569-4c10-84f7-a44800de466c/8d811c30-b91b-493c-fd72-367159b8f47c/468x382.jpg)
