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Lot 530
MARIE VOROBIEFF MAREVNA (RUSSIAN 1892 - 1984), REVOLUTION oil on board, signed and dated 1970 67cm x 90cm Framed. Provenance: This painting was gifted to Mrs Nina Barnes of Ainsdale Road, Ealing, London by the artist. Mrs Barnes used the professional name of Nina Walker and was Chorus Master, Royal Choral Society, Repetiteuse and Chorus Master at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Recitalist with Caballe. Nina Barnes and Morevna became friends through their attendance at Ealing Abbey which they both lived close to. Nina Barnes passed away in November 2018 and this painting is being sold by her family. Notes: Born Marie Bronislava Vorobyeva-Stebelska (????? ????????????? ?????????-???????????) in Cheboksary, Russia. Marevna is internationally known for convincingly combining elements of cubism (called by her "Dimensionalism") with pointillism and – through the use of the Golden Ratio for laying out paintings – structure. She has been accredited with being the first female cubist painter. Though she lived the greater part of her life abroad – her formative years as a cubist painter in France and her mature years in England – she is usually referred to as a "Russian painter". In 1910 she went to Moscow to study at the Stroganov Art Academy, but in the following year left for Italy. On the island of Capri she was introduced to Maxim Gorki who nicknamed her "Marevna" (after a Russian fairy sea princess). She adopted the nickname and was widely known as Marevna for the rest of her life. A petite blue-eyed blonde, she was said not to have been a conventional beauty; but an outgoing nature paired with the proverbial depth of the Russian soul seems to have given her a charm which made her "special" to all who knew her. She moved to Paris in 1912 as an aspiring twenty year old. It was there that she became friends with some of the greatest artists and writers of the early twentieth century then resident in Montparnasse and especially at La Ruche, among them were Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Marc Chagall , Jean Cocteau, Ilya Ehrenburg, Max Jacob, Moise Kisling, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani and Chaim Soutine. It was while a resident of La Ruche that Marevna met the gifted Mexican cubist and later muralist artist Diego Rivera. Diego Rivera was nearly 30 at the time and at the zenith of his phase, having already exhibited his works at three exhibitions. Marevna herself discovered cubism as an eminently suited vehicle for her own talent. Rivera was a known womanizer of fiery temper and began a relationship with Marevna while he was still in a common-law marriage with the Russian artist Angelina Beloff who was pregnant with Rivera's son. Despite Diego Rivera's assurances of his love for Marevna, their relationship ended soon after the birth on 13 November 1919 in Paris of their daughter Marika. It's probable that Marevna never fully recovered from the break up of her relationship with Rivera and it's reported that after her death her ashes were laid in the Rivera mausoleum in Mexico. Marevna exhibited widely in France and Europe throughout her career, as well as at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1968; and more recently a major retrospective was held at the Russian State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, in 2004. A small collection of her work is held at Athelhampton House in Dorset where she lived with her daughter during the 1950’s. Her work is also in several museums including a substantial collection at the Musée Petits Palais in Geneva. When her daughter's marriage ended Marevna moved to the London suburb of Ealing with her daughter and two grandsons. Her work was unfashionable for a period and a substantial number of her paintings were bought by international collector Oscar Ghez in 1967. Marevna died in London on 4th May 1984. Her work can command high prices at auction including Nu allongé (1930), at Aguttes, Paris lot 34 19/6/2009 sold for 266,966 EUR (premium) and Hasidic Dance During Chanukah Celebration (1970), at Sotheby's, New York lot 125 26/4/2006 sold for 228,000 USD (premium).
Lot 156
‡Alfred Aaron Wolmark (1877-1961)The Garden Walk Signed with initials, also signed and inscribed Claremont Studio St. Mary~s Terrace on a label verso (under overlap)Oil on canvas52 x 31.5cm++Some rippling to the canvas at the top, quite a bit of paint separation in many areas, otherwise good condition
Lot 241
‡Howard J. Morgan (b. 1949)Playa; Cornwall; Our GardenThree, one signed, dated VIII 93 and titled indistinctly All watercolour32 x 24.5cm; 31 x 53.5cm; 31.5 x 55.5cm (3)++Playa: small stain to middle of right margin, one or two minor blemishes, otherwise good conditionCornwall: one or two minor blemishes, otherwise good condition. Our Garden: one or two minor blemishes, loose in mount, otherwise good condition.
Lot 91
Decorative ceramics - a Royal Crown Derby paperweight Robin (second); a Royal Crown Derby paperweight Finch (second); Old Foley Garden Rose fruit bowl and dishes; collector's plates; nodding figure group; cut glass decanter; brandy balloon; whiskey tumblers; other; a cased set of fruit knives etc.
Lot 453
A large collection of Portmeirion Botanic Garden tableware, predominantly consisting of dinner and side plates in assorted sizes, together with large oval serving dishes or bowls, a shallow tureen and cover, a taller circular tureen and cover, a pair of napkin rings and assorted other items (four trays) (approximately 105 pieces)
Lot 82
A Chinese porcelain famille rose design baluster shaped vase in Qing style, painted with figures in attendance on a lakeside garden. Stamped 6 character Tongzhi seal mark to the base. 46cm high approx. Together with a modern Oriental vase decorated with relief figural panels on cracked ice ground. Modern. (2)(B.P. 24% incl. VAT)
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