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Click here to subscribeA WW2 medal group, comprising Territorial Efficiency Medal, France and Germany Star, 1939-1945 Star, Defence Medal and War medal, awarded to 3314945 CFN. J. Smith, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, in original packets; together with a Royal Army Service Corps cap badge by Gaunt, London, an unused 1940-dated First Field Dressing, printed cloth first aid diagram etc. Condition Report:Available upon request
A WW2 Defence Medal and War Medal pair, in original packaging addressed to "P. Bannerman, Esq., 401 Maryhill TD, Glasgow, N.W."; together with chip-carved cigarette box, the lid bearing RAF wings over "El Ballah 1945"; and various Boys' Brigade pin badges Condition Report:Available upon request
A cased bronze 1926 General Strike Service in National Emergency medal by E. Gillick, commemorative medals for King George and Queen Mary's Silver Jubilee 1935, Elizabeth II's coronation 1953 and Winston Churchill's 80th birthday 1954, two Glasgow Corporation Tramways plastic tokens, 1799 London & Middlesex halfpenny etc. Condition Report:Available upon request
A Mentmore fountain pen with 14ct gold nib, small Birmingham silver vesta case, Thorens no. 30 music box, assorted boxed and cased commemorative/presentation medals, enamelled Victoria 1894 crown, mounted as a brooch, George V Imperial Service Medal and a doll's house armoire in glazed display case Condition Report:Available upon request
First World War Trench Art button hook formed from bullets, cartridge case and General Service button, together with 5 Norfolk Regiment buttons, a folding eye glass in canvas case, and photographs of a bandsman in India wearing foreign service frock, K.D. Jacket, Wolsley Pattern helmet, information with the items states the soldier is Robert Henry Porcher, born 18.04/1876, died 22/05/1964, records show a man of this name in the Norfolk Regiment with the service number 27985 and entitled to the 1914-1918 British War Medal, (qty)
A Rolco Rolex rolled gold pocket watch. The gold tone watch having a circular cream dial with Arabic numeral indices, subsidiary dial to six, blue tone modern shape hands, gold plated case, engraved monogram & date to verso. Marked to the interior ' R.W.C Ltd - Rolex - Z world's records - gold medal - Geneva-Suisse - rolled gold - guaranteed to wear 10 years - 50510 '. Marked to movement ' Rolco - Swiss made - 15 jewels '. Total weight approx 49.1g. Measures approx 5.7x4.5cm. In Carmichaels Ltd box. Ticking when movement applied, hands wind & set.
An assorted collection of vintage & later costume jewellery together with jewellery box. The lot to include; necklaces, bracelets, bangles, earrings, clip on earrings, rings, jewellery fragments, aurora borealis, millefiori, opaline glass, simulated pearls, gold & silver tone metal, simulated amber, glass beads, medal, 925 silver, simulated jet, shell, fused glass, chatoyant stones, mother of pearl, simulated jade, white stones, titanium, dragon, pendants, charms, elephant, cross / crucifix, sequins, cloisonné, chains, abalone, watches, Rotary, enamel, rolled gold, belt buckle, Jean Renet, prince midget lighter & more together with Japanese interest jewellery box. Various sizes. Total weight approx 1588g not including box.
A hallmarked silver Albert pocket watch chain together with fob medals & pocket watch. The white metal pocket watch having a white circular dial with Roman numeral indies on a silver graduating curb link chain with T bar & shilling, hallmarked with date letter M (possibly 1907), makers marks for B.B.Ld - Borgzinner Brothers Ltd. Together with three white metal fob medals & a silver fob medal, hallmarked for Birmingham 1948, makers mark for B&S - Bach & Smith. Total weight approx 183.8g.
An assorted collection of silver jewellery. The lot to include; a Scottish carnelian thistle brooch pin, filigree wire work, chains, brooch pins, bangle bracelets, necklaces, pendants, charms, ring earrings, simulated turquoise, heart, flowers, orange cabochon brooch, cat, scrolling design bangle (hallmarked for Birmingham 1946, makers marks for K.Ltd - Kenart Ltd), Rotary medal (London 1949, Toye & Co), snake chain, enamel earrings, snake chain, cable link chain, drop earrings & more. Various sizes. Largest filigree brooch 7cm. All hallmarked, marked silver or test as silver. Total marked silver weight approx 74.8g. Total test as silver approx 44.3g.
Silver 100th Anniversary Birth of Albert Schweitzer Proof Commemorative Coin, 1975.- Limited edition proof, inset sterling silver medal, issued by the International Society of Postmasters, Bonn, West Germany, January 15, 1975, to commemorate the Centennial of the birth of Albert Schweitzer, with an accompanying COA from Chaucer Auctions.Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer (19875-1965) was a theologian, organist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher and physician. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for his philosophy of reverence for life, and tireless humanitarian work.Condition Report: light creasing to corners of envelope, overall good condition.
JOSÉ MIRABENT GATELL (Barcelona, 1831 - 1899)."Flowerpots", 1863.Oil on canvas.Signed and dated in the lower right corner.Provenance: private collection conceived since the 1970s between London and Madrid.Measurements: 53 x 38 cm (x2); 61 x 46,5 cm (frames, x2).Pair of vases presenting a similar composition, in type. However, the flowers vary, although in both canvases the same types of flowers are repeated and also the chromatism is similar.José Mirabent studied at the School of La Lonja in Barcelona, where he was a disciple of Pablo Milá Fontanals, Claudio Lorenzale and Segismundo Ribó, from whom he received the influence of the Nazarene aesthetics. In 1855 he joined the aforementioned school as an assistant and in 1872 became a teacher of decorative painting, textiles and prints. In his early years he can be considered a Romantic painter in the Nazarene style of his masters and painted mainly portraits and still lifes with flowers and fruit. He later specialised in interior decoration, an activity in which his works for the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the University of Barcelona, the Balaguer Museum in Vilanova i la Geltrú and the churches of Buen Suceso, the Salesas Reales and the convent of the Madres Reparadoras in Madrid are particularly noteworthy. With his paintings of flowers and fruit he took part in the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts in Madrid and won several prizes: honourable mention in those of 1856 and 1858, third medal in those of 1860 and 1867, and a decoration in 1871. He was also awarded a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in Barcelona in 1888. As a portrait painter he portrayed Pablo Piferrer, Ramón Anglasells and Joaquín Rey Esteve, among others. In 1892 he took part in the First Modernist Festival. He is widely represented in the MNAC, as well as in the Museo del Prado, the Museo de Arte Moderno and the Museo Romántico in Madrid, the Real Academia de Sant Jordi, the Ateneo and the Galería de Catalanes Ilustres in Barcelona, etc.
EMILIO SALA FRANCÉS (Alcoy, Alicante, 1850 - Madrid, 1910)."Discóbolo", 1886.Graphite on paper.With faults.Signed and dated in the lower right-hand corner.Provenance: private collection conceived since the 70's between London and Madrid.Measurements: 67 x 37 cm; 82 x 52,5 cm (frame).Emilio Sala trained at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia, and in the decade of 1870 he began to participate in the National Exhibitions of Fine Arts, obtaining first medal in the editions of 1878 and 1881. In 1885 he travelled to Rome on a scholarship. He later exchanged his scholarship and travelled to Paris, where he took part in the Universal Exhibition of 1889, winning a second medal. In 1891 he won the Gold Medal at the Berlin Exhibition. He took part in the Salon des Beaux-Arts on the Champs-Elysées for several years. On his return to Spain he settled permanently in Madrid, and in 1906 the chair of Theory and Aesthetics of Colour was created for him at the San Fernando School of Fine Arts. He was appointed academician of merit at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, and was awarded the Cross of St Michael (Munich, 1885) and the Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1899). Emilio Sala's work can be found in the Hispanic Society of New York, the Prado Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, the Municipal Fine Arts Museums of Granada, Valencia, l'Empordà, Cáceres, Santander and Málaga, the Lázaro Galdiano, the Camón Aznar Museum, the Theatre Museum in Almagro and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile, among many others.
Collection of medals inc India North West Frontier 1936-37 793923 SGLN. D. TYRIE. R. Signals, S. E. Asia 1945-46 awarded to MAJ D. P. TYRIE ROYAL SIGNALS., Burma / Africa / France + Germany / WW2 star medals and War Medal. Together with dog tag (TYRIE, PRES N. S. R. G. A., 3064) and Indian coins made into a bracelet, ephemera, silver cigarette case(8ozt) engraved EC 339747 TYRIE D.P. PRES A.B.1., photo etc. Along with Maj Tyrie's own handwritten account of his time, dated 13th June 1941 'A Reconnaissance in Force,' six pages, describing his military engagement under his command, against the Germans near Tobruk in the North Africa campaign. With red pen handwritten notes on the back pages by Tyrie's superior officer.
A DISTINGUISED CONDUCT MEDAL GROUP OF SEVEN awarded to J. Hughes, R.F.A/R.A/R.A.S.C; six mounted for wearing: Distinguished conduct in the field George V, (2453 BQM SJT J. Hughes, 80/BTY., r.f.a.); India General Service Medal with clasp: North West Frontier 1908, Edward VII (25438 Gnr. J. Hughes, 80t Bty., R.F.A); 1914 Star (24538 SGT. G. H. Hughes R.F.A); British War Medal (24538 W.O. CL2. J. Hughes R.A.); Victory Medal (24538 W.O. CL2. J. Hughes, R.A.); Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, George V (R41517 W.O. CL11 J. Hughes, R.A.S.C.); & An un-mounted Army Meritorious Service Medal, George VI (5456 W.O. CL2 J. Hughes D.C.M, R.A.S.C.).
World Tokens & Medals. 19th Lot to include an 1881 New Zealand (Christchurch) penny token for Milner & Thompson's Canterbury Music Depot, an 1834 USA (Connecticut) "Hard Times" medal issued by Scovill Mfg Co in response to Andrew Jackson's reforms & an 1831 medal commemorating the 50th anniversary of the founding of Quebec. (3)
Medal: Cased City of London School, New Buildings 1882 bronze medal. OBV busts of Albert Edward & Alexandra facing right/ REV Facade of school building flanked by shields of the Prince of Wales & City of London, above text "By his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales 12 Dec 1882". J.S & A.B Wyon. Diameter 77mm.
(Australia, Royal Tour 1920), Edward Prince of Wales, (1894-1972), later King Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom January-December 1936, later Duke of Windsor, a mounted sepia photograph of Edward Prince of Wales taken during the Royal Tour of Australia, Melbourne, May 1920, the Prince of Wales posing in centre of photograph surrounded by 14 other politicians and members of his staff who accompanied him during the Royal Tour, fully signed to the mount by Edward Prince of Wales and all others, including Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979); Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey (1872-1949); Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar (1860-1934), sixth Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1914 to 1920; Helen Munro Ferguson, Viscountess Novar (1865-1941), wife of the aforementioned, Red Cross leader, political activist; Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham (1879-1955); Haniel Haddon Kilby (1889-1955); plus others including Dudley North, C.R. Duncan, J.G. Duncan Hughes, Piers Legh, etc., the image approx 19 x 31cm, with mount approx size 28 x 43cm, blindstamp of the photographer "Kricheldorff Melbourne" to mount, from the estate of Mr Sidney Orchard, Chief messenger at Admiralty House, Sydney, Australia, personal attendant to John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun (1860-1908), the first governor-general of Australia, in office from 1901 to 1902, and several other governor generals of Australia subsequently upto at least 1928, with some associated ephemera including certificate awarding Sidney Orchard the Royal Victorian Medal (Silver), dated 29th April, 1927, signed by the Secretary of the Royal Victorian Order, on Buckingham Palace headed paper, together with an early 20th Century mounted portrait photograph, believed to be of Sidney Orchard and his wife, the mount blindstamped "Jalma..119 Swanston Street, Melbourne", image approx 19 x 14cm, plus an Australian Daily Guardian Newspaper August 16 1928, front page article on Sidney Orchard (newspaper toned/worn), plus letter of provenance, all housed together in postally used envelope sent from 100 Queen Street, Melbourne, to London, circa 1943
(Asia, Travel, History), a collection of thirty eight titles relating to Arabia, the Middle East, Central Asia, the Silk Road, China, including Bertram Thomas: 'Arabia Felix: Across the Empty Quarter of Arabia', foreword by T.E. Lawrence, London, Jonathan Cape, February 1932, 2nd impression, large folding coloured map of Southern Arabian Desert, + 2 maps and numerous plates, many from photographs, as called for, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper (15s price intact). English diplomat and explorer Bertram Thomas undertook a number of expeditions into the Arabian desert and became the first European to cross the Rub' al Khali from 1930 and 1931, a journey he recounted in Arabia Felix with detailed descriptions of the animals, inhabitants, and culture; Eric Newby: 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush', L, Secker & Warburg, 1958, 1st edition, 1st impression, frontis + 40 illustrations from photographs as called for, original cloth lettered in silver (VGC), dust wrapper (slightly worn/small part loss at top edge, else 25s price intact, generally VGC). A generally very good first edition example of Newby's most celebrated and sought after famous travel book; Freya Stark: 'The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut', London, John Murray, 1936, 1st edition, 1st impression, 2 folding maps plus numerous illustrations from photographs by the author as called for, original cloth gilt. The author's first book to recount her remarkable journey into the Hadhramaut, into which no previous European had ever ventured so far. She would receive the Royal Geographical Society's Founder's Gold Medal in 1942 for her travels in, and accounts of, southern Arabia; Esther Fihl: 'Exploring Central Asia: From the Steppes to the High Pamirs 1896-1899', Seattle WA, University of Washington Press, 2010, 2 volumes, profusely illustrated with photographic and other illustrations throughout, large 4to, original pictorial boards; John Hedley: 'Tramps in Dark Mongolia', L, T. Fisher Unwin, 1910, 1st edition, large folding map at end + 50 illustrations from photographs as called for, original pictorial cloth gilt; Sven Hedin: 'Jehol City of Emperors', L, Kegan Paul, 1932, 1st edition, frontis + 62 illustrations from photos + 4 line ills./maps as called for, orig. cloth gilt; Frederic Villiers: 'Port Arthur: Three Months with the Besiegers', L, Longmans, 1905, 1st edition, maps and ills. as called for, original cloth gilt; Gorm Pedersen: 'Afghan Nomads in Transition, a Century of change among the Zala Khan Khel', Copenhagen, 1994, profusely illustrated from photographs in colour and black & white, 4to, original cloth, dust wrapper; plus Sykes 'Persia and Its People', 1910, Morden 'Across Asia's Snow and Deserts', 1928, Galwan 'Servant of Sahibs', 1924, Forbes 'The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80', 1892, Wendell Phillips 'Unknown Oman' and 'Oman a History', 1st editions in wrappers, 'The Country of the Turcomans', 1977, plus others Opium Wars, Great Game, Silk Road, Syrian Desert, Ondaatje 'Sindh Revisited a Journey in the Footsteps of Captain Sir Richard Burton', etc etc (38)
MANOLO VALDÉS (Valencia, 1942).Rug designed by the artist.Virgin wool. 100% pure. Exemplary 115/125.With traces of label on the back.Needs cleaning.It has a handwritten signature.Provenance: private collection conceived since the 70's between London and Madrid.Measurements: 170 x 240 cm.During his career, Manolo Valdés has made exclusive designs for the production of carpets, even collaborating with the Royal Tapestry Factory. In this particular case, the carpet, which belongs to a series of 125 examples, has the design of the Valencian artist, recreated in virgin wool. The piece has the personal and irreverent style of Valdés, who reinterprets myths, approaching figures such as Picasso and Velázquez, which in this work are evident through the figure of the Menina. Although the composition and aesthetics are close to Paul Klee's "Dances out of fear".Manolo Valdés introduced in Spain a form of artistic expression that combines political and social commitment with humour and irony. He began his training in 1957, when he entered the San Carlos School of Fine Arts in Valencia. However, two years later he abandoned his studies to devote himself fully to painting. In 1964 he founded the artistic group Equipo Crónica, together with Juan Antonio Toledo and Rafael Solbes, in which he remained until the latter's death in 1981, despite the fact that Toledo had left the group two years after its foundation. Since then he has settled in New York, where he currently lives and where he has continued to experiment with new forms of expression, including sculpture. Among the numerous awards Manolo Valdés has won are the Lissone and Biella awards in Milan, the silver medal at the 2nd International Biennial of Engravings in Tokyo, the Bridgestone Art Museum prize in Lisbon, the National Prize for Plastic Arts, the medal of the International Festival of Fine Arts, and the medal of the International Festival of Fine Arts in Paris, among others, the medal of the International Festival of Plastic Artists of Baghdad, the Decoration of the Order of Andrés Bello in Venezuela, the prize of the National Council of Monaco, the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts, the Prize of the Spanish Association of Art Critics and the Prize for the Best Print Artist, among others. Formally, Valdés produces a large-format work in which the lights and colours express tactile values, due to the treatment given to the materials. His work forces the viewer to delve into memory and search for significant images from the history of art. He is represented in some of the world's leading museums, such as the Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Metropolitan, the MoMA and the Guggenheim in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Fons National d'Arts Plastiques in Paris, the Kusnthalle in Hamburg, the Kunstmuseum in Berlin and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao, among many others.
AGUSTÍN REDONDELA (Madrid, 1922)."Montiel".Watercolour on paper.Signed in the lower right corner. Titled in the centre.Provenance: private collection conceived since the 70s between London and Madrid.Measurements: 17 x 24 cm; 52 x 43 cm (frame).Agustín Redondela captures in this canvas a scene of sober chromatism, expressive and contained at the same time, of sketchy and forceful forms, where the volumes are constructed on the basis of planes, defined and almost cézannian profiles and a fluid, changing and very nuanced colour, which determines a cold and clear atmosphere. The space is organised in two planes, with the group of characters in the first, in front of the monolithic houses, and in the background the mountain range that rises like a wall enclosing the space, its rounded peaks outlined against a leaden sky of almost white blue tones.A mainly self-taught painter, considered one of the most original Spanish landscape painters of the 20th century, Agustín González Alonso trained with his father, the painter and scenographer José González "Redondela". After the Civil War he attended classes at the Madrid School of Arts and Crafts with the landscape painter José Ordoñez, and in 1945 he sent a painting to the National Exhibition of Fine Arts for the first time, signed with the pseudonym Redondela. That same year he held his first personal exhibition at the Estilo gallery in Madrid. It was at this time that he came into contact with the Madrid School, and in 1947 he was selected to exhibit at the Salón de los Once de la Academia Breve e Crítica de Arte de Eugenio d'Ors. In the fifties Redondela won a grant from the Catherword Foundation in Philadelphia (1954), the National Painting Prize (1953) and the first medal at the National Exhibition (1957). Throughout his career he combined painting with stage design, working for plays by Jacinto Benavente, Joaquín Calvo Sotelo, Dodie Smith and Peter Ustinov, among others. He also did some work as an illustrator, including a luxurious edition of Cela's "Viaje a la Alcarria" in 1978. In 1996 the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando awarded him the José González de la Peña prize, and two years later the Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid dedicated an important anthological exhibition to him. He is currently represented in the Museum of Fine Arts in La Coruña, the Museum of Contemporary Spanish Landscape in Priego de Córdoba, the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, the Camón Aznar Museum in Zaragoza, the museums of Buenos Aires, Caracas and Havana and the Oswaldo Guayasamín House-Museum in Quito, among other public and private collections.
HERNANDO VIÑES SOTO, (Paris, 1904 - 1993).Untitled, 1931.Watercolour on paper.Signed and dated in the lower left corner.Provenance: private collection conceived since the 1970s between London and Madrid.Size: 31 x 24 cm; 44 x 52 cm (frame).Born into an upper-class bourgeois family, Viñes was introduced into the Parisian artistic circle by his uncle, the pianist and composer Ricardo Viñes. During the First World War he settled in Madrid, returning to Paris in 1918. There Pablo Picasso, a friend of his uncle's, after seeing his first drawings, advised him to continue along the same path and to perfect his knowledge as a self-taught artist. Viñes followed Picasso's advice, first entering the Academy of Sacred Art in Paris, where he was a pupil of Maurice Denis and Georges Desvallieres and then, in 1922, completing his training with André Lothe and Gino Severini. The following year he participated as a decorator in Manuel de Falla's "El retablo de Maese Pedro" and exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne. That same year, 1923, he came into contact, through his friend Manuel Ángeles Ortiz, with the circle of young Spanish artists living in Paris: Francisco Bores, Luis Buñuel, Joaquín Peinado, Francisco García Lorca, Pancho Cossío, Rafael Alberti, Ismael de la Serna, etc. At the age of twenty he decided to devote himself fully to painting, and immediately obtained the support of two important critics, Tériade and Zervos, the latter being the director of "Cahiers d'Art". From then on he exhibited regularly at the Percier and Max Berger galleries in Paris. After the Second World War a very difficult period began for the painter, in which, despite numerous group and solo exhibitions, he did not achieve the notoriety that his brilliant beginnings had promised. It was not until 1965 and the major retrospective devoted to him by the Madrid Museum of Modern Art that he was finally recognised as one of the most brilliant painters of his generation. From that moment on, exhibitions followed one after the other in leading galleries all over Spain, such as Théo (Madrid and Valencia), Dalmau (Barcelona) and Ruiz (Santander). In the early eighties, important retrospective exhibitions were held at the Casa de España in Paris, the Museum of Fine Arts in Santander and the Bonnat Museum in Bayonne. In 1988 he was awarded the Gold Medal of Arts and Letters by King Juan Carlos I. At the same time, his international fame grew as a result of exhibitions held in Germany, Denmark, the United States, Czechoslovakia, England and Japan. Far from schools and any hint of boastfulness, Viñes's work continued its path in France, and museums all over the world began to acquire his works. He is currently represented in the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Museums of Albi, Castres and Saint-Ouen in France, the Fine Arts Museums of Tel-Aviv, Buenos Aires and Prague, the Patio Herreriano Contemporary Art Museum in Valladolid and the ARTIUM in Vitoria, among many others.
MIGUEL ORTIZ BERROCAL (Villanueva de Algaidas, Malaga, 1933 - Antequera, Malaga, 2006)."Loreley", 1981-1986.Polished and patinated bronze. Sample 134/500.A pearl is missing from the interchangeable piece of the mouth.The base and the coupling that form part of the mouth piece are missing.No maker's book.Signed and numbered on the back.Provenance: private collection conceived since the 1970s between London and Madrid.Measurements: 30 x 14 x 20 cm.Round sculpture showing the face of an enigmatic character. The work is made up of pieces that complete a whole, some of them like the rose of the mouth. Miguel Ortiz Berrocal showed a special predilection for articulated and detachable bronze sculptures. Inspired by the main creative forces of the first half of the 1900s, the artist sought his own artistic path. He was inspired by science and created works based on mathematical, physical and scientific principles. He also developed the concept of "dismountability", understood as the process of searching for the inner forms of volumes, which implies that sculptures are composed of elements that have to be assembled and disassembled in order to penetrate their invisible space. Berrocal began his training at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Madrid, where he was a pupil of Ángel Ferrant. He then went on to the San Fernando School of Fine Arts, where he was a pupil of Ramón Stolz. He complemented his training with work as a draughtsman in the studio of the architect Casto Fernández Shaw and as an assistant to several architects in Rome between 1952 and 1954. During his stay in Paris in 1955, he finally decided to devote himself to sculpture. His early works show the influence of Chillida, while at the same time denoting his preference for articulated and detachable forms in bronze. The difficulty involved in making each of his sculptures led him to decide to produce them in series. With this idea in mind, he produced two hundred copies of the sculpture "Maria de la O", for which he received the prize for sculpture at the Paris Biennale and which was later acquired by the MOMA in New York. In 1966 he settled permanently in Verona, and from 1968 he alternated his work between monumental and small-scale works. Together with several gallery owners, he founded the Società Multicettera, the first industry of small sculptures. He has exhibited in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the United States, received the gold medal of the Bronze of Padua, the Grand Prize of Honour at the Brazil Biennial, and was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. He has sculptures in public places in Korea, Bordeaux, Denmark and Switzerland, as well as in various places in Spain. He is represented in the Museums of Modern Art in New York and Paris, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, the Juan March Foundation in Madrid, the National Gallery in Rome and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
VICTOR VASARELY (Pécs, Hungary, 1908 - Paris, 1997)."Multicheyt", 1973Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower margin. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse.Provenance: Theo Gallery, Madrid; Private collection.Exhibitions: Madrid, Galería Theo, "Vasarely", May 1975.Bibliography: Catalogue of the exhibition "Vasarely", Galería Theo, Madrid, 1975, pg. 309.Auctions: at Alcalá Subastas, "Multicheyt" in Madrid fetched an auction price of 95000 euros (08/06/2017).Provenance: private collection conceived since the 1970s between London and Madrid.Size: 120 x 120 cm.The painting "Multicheyt" belongs to the Vega series, one of Victor Vasarely's most emblematic, which the Franco-Hungarian artist, the father of Op Art, produced at the height of his career. Vasarely chose for this series the name of the star Vega, the brightest star on summer nights in the northern hemisphere. It is based on the discovery that the deformation of a two-dimensional grid can generate an abstract three-dimensional landscape, with elevations and depressions, where squares are transformed into rhombuses and circles into ellipses. Thus, the illusionistic effect that combines convexity and concavity with dilation and contraction, contains a meditated cosmic symbolism, evoking the rhythm born of the stars, as well as the formation of galaxies by the expansion of the universe as a whole. Multicheyt's polychrome grid, composed of irregular octagons and rhombuses, manages to simulate a subjugating dynamic three-dimensionality.Considered the father of Op Art, Victor Vasarely began his artistic training at the Muheely school, founded in Budapest by a Bauhaus pupil. He settled in Paris in 1930, where he produced what is now considered the first Op Art work, "Zebra" (1937). In Paris he worked as a graphic designer for advertising agencies. During this period his artistic style shifted from figurative expression to a type of constructive and geometric abstract art, and he became interested in the representation of perspective without vanishing points. Between 1936 and 1948 he participated regularly in the Salon des Surindependants and the Salon des Nouvelles Réalités. From 1948 onwards he exhibited regularly at the Denise René gallery. In the 1950s his work moved towards the use of new materials and supports such as aluminium and glass. He also began to produce works that integrated with space, such as Homage to Malevich. In the 1960s he took part in numerous group exhibitions, such as The Responsive Eye at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as solo exhibitions in Europe and America. Among the numerous awards he received during his lifetime, the Guggenheim Prize (1964), the Brussels Art Critics' Prize and the gold medal at the Milan Triennial are particularly noteworthy. In 1970 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honour. He is represented in the museums dedicated to him in Aix-en-Provence, Pécs and Budapest, but also in the most important contemporary art centres in the world, such as the Tate Gallery in London, the MoMA in New York, the Guggenheim in Venice and the Reina Sofía in Madrid.
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