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Lot 238
Channel Islands and Military interest - A collection of medals / medal bars / pin badges etc to include an Inter Company Football Shield 1920/21 medal, PTE A BREHAUT ~~D. Coy; silver Guernsey Island Schools Sports medal, inscribed 1935; WWI War medal, awarded to Charles O Rousell; Liberation medal; Greek Commemorative medal for the war of 1940-41; British Red Cross Society medal; 1959 Durham Masonic Steward jewel; RAF pins; sweet heart plane brooch; spent bullets; various medal bars; various Coronation medals; various buttons, etc. (large quantity) * Viewing highly recommended.
Lot 263
A small group of military collectables to include a Royal Army Ordnance Corps cloth badge; WWI Victory medal, issued to J.64707 J. MARTIN A.B R.N (Able Seaman Royal Navy); Special Constabulary Long Service medal; collection of miniature dress medals, together with a Karlsruhe Patronen Fabrik 1903 inert One Pounder Pom Pom shell. (quantity)
Lot 34
Guernsey military interest - Victorian Royal Navy Long Service & Good Conduct medal pair awarded to A. W. BOULTON. BOAT n. H. M. COAST GUARD, British War medal, CH. OFFR. A. W. BOULTON. R. N. (Chief Officer), together with photocopies of War Records stating ships sailed with, to include HMS Vincent, Calypso, Duncan, Iron Duke, Victory, Excellent, Collingwood etc.
Lot 39
A Guernsey Mans World War One (WWI) military medal and badge collection to include a WWI medal trio (1914-15 star; British War medal and Victory medal) awarded to 3216 PTE.R.G. FRAMPTON R. IR. REGT.; Various shoulder titles to include Royal Guernsey Light Infantry, Royal Garrison Artillery, Royal Field Artillery, Royal Irish, etc, together with various military buttons; Police whistle; Princess Mary Tin; Brooches. Large quantity.
Lot 43
A German 'Der Deutschen Mutter' (German mothers cross) medal cobalt blue enamel cross with white rim on sunburst roundel, centre with black barbed cruciform German emblem with surrounding text, verso inscribed '16 Dezember 1938' with Hitler's signature also engraved, on part blue and white ribbon.
Lot 218
"The Shire Horse Society 1878-1978" commemorative medal, Victorian "Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland" silver presentation medal, late C19th white metal propelling pencil with faceted hard stone terminal, Mabie Todd & Co, N.Y. "Swan" self filling pen with simulated marble body and cap with brass clip
Lot 240
W.M.Christie Laurencekirk 31177 Fine Quality Sterling Silver Pair Cased Pocket Watch ( Fusee ) with Attached Long Sterling Silver Albert Chain / T-Bar / Medal. Hallmark Birmingham 1875. All Links Stamped with Lion Passant. Signed Movement W. M. Christie. Serial No 31177. Albert Chain Length 16 Inches - 40 cms. Silver Weight of Albert 39.1 grams. Case / Movement / Dial / Chain Excellent Condition.
Lot 1331
Collection of Military Family Group, to include WWI pair awarded to R 442 W Evison ABRNVR, together with a WWII group of three with address box and paperwork, Territorial Efficient Service medal awarded to 3386917 W.O. Cl 2. R Evison East Lancs Regiment. Together with modern commemorative crowns.
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Lot 243
Items related to Corporal Paddy Carey of the Highland Light Infantry to include a silver metal Highland Light Infantry medal for Middleweight boxing winner 1930 'Corporal P Carey' in a Phillips of Aldershot box, a Aldershot Command Athletic Association Javelin runners up medal 1929, a photograph album with title 'E Carey His Book' containing images of soldiers, barracks, dogs etc., a white metal HLI cap badge and a group of HLI buttons including Pitt, Gaunt and Smith and Wright.
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Lot 245
Group of medals including a Bryant and May Limited 25 years' service medal awarded to John Gregson Junior 1944 in fitted Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company Limited box, a Bryant and May Paton Cup silver medal fob 'John Gregson Tennis 1926' and a Bryant and May Mr Paton's Day Security badge 1923.
Lot 246
Group of medals including a silver Royal Artillery Depot PT competition medal awarded to Driver Don 1931, a Women's Own Handicrafts Medal, a Lucas Tooth Boys Training Fund medal, Glasgow Civic and Empire Week 1931 enamel button, a silver GACC 1937-38 silver and enamel medal fob 'Mechans Limited FC', silver and enamel blood donors badge, AA&CCA brass buttons by Phillips of Aldershot, Student's Charities day enamel badges etc.
Lot 3
Usain Bolt signed 10 x 8 inch colour photo holding up his gold medal from 2016 Rio Olympics. Very Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 4
Usain Bolt signed 10 x 8 inch colour photo holding up his gold medal from 2016 Rio Olympics. Slight smudge to U hence low start price. Good condition. All autographs come with a Certificate of Authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £5.99, EU from £7.99, Rest of World from £9.99
Lot 64
GONZALO BILBAO MARTÍNEZ (Seville, 1860- Madrid, 1938)."Landscape".Attached certificate issued by Don Gerardo Pérez Calero.Signed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 90 x 75 cm.This work is certified by the scholar Don Gerardo Pérez Calero, Emeritus Professor of Art History at the University of Seville, who has published numerous articles, the work of Gonzalo Bilbao being one of his main lines of research. Gonzalo Bilbao took up drawing as a child and in 1880 he began his career as a painter. During these years he travelled to Italy and France with Jiménez de Aranda. In Rome he worked with the painter José Villegas Cordero and travelled around the various Italian capitals, painting urban and rural views until his return to Spain in 1884. In the following years he visited Rome again, travelled around Spain and also went to Morocco, Paris and Munich. In Spain he taught painting, initially as a private tutor and, from 1903, as Jiménez de Aranda's successor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville. In 1904 he married and took up residence in Madrid, where he continued his teaching work at the San Fernando Academy. During his career he took part in numerous fine arts exhibitions, both national and foreign, being awarded a third medal at the Universal Exhibition of Paris (1889) and the International Exhibition of Barcelona (1891), a single medal at the Universal Exhibition of Chicago (1893), and a gold medal at the International Exhibitions of Berlin (1899), Munich (1905), Buenos Aires (1910), Santiago de Chile (1910), San Francisco (1915) and Panama (1916). He also took part in the National Fine Arts Nationals, winning second medals in 1887 and 1892, first in 1899 and 1901 and an honourable medal in 1915. A traditional painter, representative of Spanish genre painting, his pictures were colourful depictions of Andalusian life and its most popular figures, and he also painted landscapes, figures and portraits, depicting prominent figures of the time such as King Alfonso XIII and the actress Carmen Díaz. The light and vitality of his compositions bring his language closer to the Impressionist aesthetic, focusing on the essential representation of atmospheres and landscapes. Gonzalo Bilbao is represented in the Museo de Bellas Artes in Seville, where he has a room devoted entirely to his work, the Museo del Prado, the Museo Jaume Morera in Lleida and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Cordoba, among others, as well as in private collections both in Spain and abroad.
Lot 58
JOSEP LLIMONA BRUGUERA (Barcelona, 1864 - 1934)."Modèstia", 1891.Sculpture in polychrome stucco.Signed.With Esteva & Cia. stamp.Work catalogued in "Una passejada per l'obra de Josep Llimona, 150 anys", MEAM, 2015, Barcelona, p. 104.Measurements: 41 x 32 x 21 cm.The sculpture "Modèstia" is evidence of Josep Llimona's most personal characteristics: naturalistic idealism, an inclination towards the gentle side of reality and, above all, a great delicacy and beauty in his female figures, always slender and innocent, enveloped in a veil of mystery.Josep Llimona is remembered as the most important Catalan sculptor of Modernisme. Trained at the Escola de la Llotja in Barcelona, he obtained a pension to go to Rome in 1880. During his stay in Italy he was influenced by Florentine Renaissance sculpture. With the works he sent from there he already won prizes (gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in Barcelona in 1888), as well as a great reputation. With his brother Joan he founded the Círculo Artístico de Sant Lluc, a Catalan artistic association of a religious nature (the two brothers were deep believers). By the mid-1990s his style was already drifting towards full modernism. He received the prize of honour at the International Exhibition of Fine Arts held in 1907 in Barcelona. From 1900 onwards he concentrated on his famous female nudes, and in 1914 he created, in collaboration with Gaudí, his impressive "Risen Christ". His artistic genius also manifested itself in large public monuments such as the equestrian statue of Saint George in Montjuic Park in Barcelona, as well as in works of funerary imagery, such as the pantheons he created for various cemeteries. In addition to exhibiting in Barcelona and other Catalan cities, he exhibited his work in Madrid, Brussels, Paris, Buenos Aires and Rosario (Argentina). He was president of the Barcelona Museum Board from 1918 to 1924, and again from 1931 until his death in 1934. Throughout his life he received numerous decorations, including those awarded by the French and Italian governments. He was also awarded the Gold Medal of the City of Barcelona in 1932, in recognition of his extraordinary work in the development of museum activity. Llimona's work can be found in the Monastery of Montserrat, the National Art Museum of Catalonia and the Reina Sofia Museum, among others.
Lot 16
JOAQUIM MIR TRINXET (Barcelona, 1873 - 1940)."Sunset".Oil on canvas.Relined.Signed in the lower right corner.Attached certificate of Dr. Joan Campana Tubon.It presents a patch in the left inferior zone.Measurements: 75 x 87 cm; 93 x 105 cm (frame).In this painting by Joaquim Mir, the wide sky takes centre stage, opening up in the bluish vault a deep crimson caesura. Likewise, the light at twilight falls on the landscape with its small chapel, unfolding a daring symphony of emerald greens and bright yellows between shady hollows. Joaquim Mir reduces nature to its basic elements through an excellent handling of light and colour, but at the same time he avoids abstraction, always suggesting the pulse that beats beneath the forms.Joaquim Mir studied at the San Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona and in the studio of the painter Luis Graner. He soon felt uncomfortable with the official teaching, which was anchored in a conception of realist painting, and so in 1893 he founded the "Colla del Safrà" (Safrà Group) with other colleagues to explore together the pictorial initiatives of the end of the century. In 1896 they even participated as a group in the 3rd Exhibition of Fine Arts and Artistic Industries, to which Mir submitted two works: "La huerta del rector" ("The Rector's Vegetable Garden") and "El vendedor de naranjas" ("The Orange Seller"). From 1897 he also frequented the artistic environment of "Els Quatre Gats", which helped him to mature in the compositional study of landscapes with figures in different planes of depth. During these years he took part in the Fine Arts Exhibitions in Barcelona in 1894, 1896 and 1898. Winner of a second medal at the Madrid Exhibition of 1899, that same year he moved to the capital with the aim of applying for a scholarship in Rome. When he was unsuccessful, he went with Santiago Rusiñol to Mallorca, a trip that was to be a definitive turning point in his career. Mir was dazzled by the Mallorcan landscape, which was an inexhaustible source of inspiration for him. From then on, the artist deployed a whole combination of impossible colours, the result of his personal interpretation of the island's majestic nature. The brushstrokes grew longer and became stains that almost made objects and spatial references disappear. In 1901 he exhibited the fruit of this first Mallorcan period in a solo exhibition at the Sala Parés in Barcelona, and again won a second medal at the National Exhibition. In 1907 he won the first medal at the International Exhibition of Fine Arts in Barcelona. From then on, settled in Camp de Tarragona, he did not move away from the landscape genre, but now it was the surrounding villages that were the protagonists of his painting. He gained definitive national recognition in 1917, when he was awarded the National Prize for Fine Arts. In 1929 he won the first medal at the International Exhibition in Barcelona. The following year he won the medal of honour at the National Exhibition in Madrid, a prize he had been pursuing since 1922. Although he was mainly a native painter, he held solo and group exhibitions in Washington, Paris, Pittsburgh, New York, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires and Venice. Mir is today considered the foremost representative of Spanish Post-Impressionist landscape painting. His work can be found in the Museo Nacional de Arte de Cataluña, the Museo del Prado, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, among many others.
Lot 54
LAUREANO BARRAU BUÑOL (Barcelona, 1864 - Santa Eulària des Riu, Ibiza, 1957)."Landscape".Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower right-hand corner.It has a patch on the back.Measurements: 90 x 63 cm; 100 x 73 cm (frame).Laureano Barrau was born in the bosom of a bourgeois family, son of an industrial engineer and businessman. He began his training at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, where he was a pupil of Antonio Caba. Shortly afterwards he travelled to Madrid to broaden his training by studying the great masters of the Prado Museum. In 1884 the Barcelona City Council granted him the Fortuny Pension to extend his studies in Rome for three years. However, with the money from the travel grant Barrau moved to Paris, where he entered the Academy of Fine Arts, with Jean-Léon Gérôme as his tutor. In 1885, already in Rome, he studied the Italian masters and began to send to Barcelona the works that corresponded to him as a boarder. From 1887 he exhibited regularly at the Sala Parés in Barcelona, one of the most important Spanish galleries of the time, and the most prominent in Catalonia. That year his painting "The Surrender of Gerona" was a great success with critics and the public, as it represented a totally personal treatment of the genre of history painting, more vibrant and emotive. At the same time, Barrau frequently took part in official exhibitions both nationally and internationally. In 1888 he was awarded a second medal at the International Exhibition in Barcelona and a second prize at the Universal Exhibition in Brussels. Three years later, in 1891, he was awarded the title of member of the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the following year he was awarded a third medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid for his work "Escardadora". In 1904 he won a second medal at the same exhibition for "Taponeras del Ampurdán". Barrau also held numerous individual exhibitions and took part in group exhibitions in Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, New York and Rome. In 1909 he settled in Buenos Aires, where his work enjoyed the same success and recognition as it had in Spain and Europe, and after returning he settled permanently in Ibiza in 1911. From there he continued to show his work both in Spain and abroad, and in 1929 he was appointed "Societarie" of the Paris Salons. Barrau's work is based on an initial language linked to his neoclassical training, and evolves to reach a new concept characterised by luminosity and chromatic transparencies. To this day, the work he produced in Santa Eulària des Riu (Ibiza) at the end of his life is considered to be the best of his output. Laureano Barrau is currently represented in the Prado Museum, the Getty Museum in California, the Museums of Contemporary Art in Madrid and Barcelona, his house-museum in Santa Eulària des Riu and in various museums in Paris, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as in important national and international private collections.
Lot 59
JOSEP MARIA TAMBURINI DALMAU (Barcelona, 1856 - 1932)."Lady with a Flower".Pastel and charcoal on paper.Signed in the lower left corner.Published in the Ilustración Catalana.Size: 60,5 x 45 cm; 80 x 65 cm (frame).In this canvas Josep Maria Tamburini offers us a portrait halfway between the dreamlike and the real, starring a totally physical face, perfectly modelled on the basis of subtle tonal and light gradations, supported by a solid drawing. Around the melancholic face of the lady, the space blurs, as do her clothes, becoming delicate tulles that seem to float around her.A painter and art critic and a leading figure in Catalan modernism, Tamburini began his training at the Escuela de La Lonja in Barcelona, later completing his studies in Paris with L. Bonnat and in Rome. He collaborated as a draughtsman, art critic and poet with the magazine "L'Avenç", one of the most outstanding artistic publications in Catalonia at the turn of the century. He also wrote for "La Vanguardia". As a painter, he began his career in history painting and anecdotal realism, later evolving along the lines of symbolism, strongly influenced by English pre-Raphaelism. He achieved recognition in 1888, when he won a silver medal at the Universal Exhibition in Barcelona. He continued to take part in official exhibitions in Barcelona and Madrid, and was again awarded a prize at the Barcelona Exhibition in 1898, where he won the Queen Regent's Extraordinary Prize. In 1911 he was awarded the Prize of the King and Queen of Spain. As a mature painter, he worked on placidly fantastic, detailed and precious themes, as well as religious subjects and some portraits. He was also a member of the Board of Museums of Barcelona, advisor to the Academy of Fine Arts, teacher at the La Lonja School and co-founder of the Artistic and Literary Society of Catalonia (1911). He is represented in the MACBA, the National Art Museum and Library of Catalonia, the Royal Academy of Sant Jordi, the Casa Lis Museum in Salamanca and the Fine Arts Museums of Valencia and Seville, as well as in numerous private collections.
Lot 8
JOSEP CLARÀ I AYATS (Olot, Girona, 1878 - Barcelona, 1958)."Le coucher".Bronze sculpture with marble base.Signed.With foundry stamp.The base is severely broken on the left side. The sculpture is not anchored to the base.Size: 65 x 20 x 13 cm; 70 x 24 x 18 x 18 cm (base).This work by Josep Clarà falls within the context of Noucentisme, an ideological-aesthetic movement that arose in Catalonia at the beginning of the 20th century as a reaction against modernism, romanticism and, in general and by extension, against all art and the "fin-de-siècle" spirit. Noucentisme was generically opposed to the mentality and spirit of the eighteenth-century with a desire for rigour and a classicism that looked to the classicist past for its ideal models to imitate. Thus, its essential values were order, clarity and moderation. Contrary to the naturalism, psychologism and sentimentalism of the 19th century, he sought the lucid creation of a Mediterranean spirit, in contrast to fin-de-siècle decadentism.Josep Clarà began his training at the Olot School of Drawing with Josep Berga i Boix, and later studied sculpture at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse, France. After completing his studies, he went to Paris in 1890, where he worked in the studio of Louis Barrias and met Maillol, Bourdelle and Rodin. In fact, Rodin's advice helped him to overcome the modernist influences of his early works. In 1907 he presented "Torment" at the Salon des Artistes Français, a work that shows a Rodinian influence which in his marble "Twilight" (1913, Museo de Santiago de Chile), whose plaster model he presented at the Salon de la Société Nationale in 1908, is diluted in favour of greater clarity and serenity. The following year he presented what was to be the first of his goddesses, a work which finally represented the definitive official recognition of his talent. During these years, his friendship with the dancer Isadora Duncan enabled him to produce his most original and spontaneous drawings; the dynamism of dance did not contradict his search for stability, and gave him a serene light and vivacity. A tireless worker, he received several commissions for monuments, such as "Serenity on the Ruins of Life" (San Isidro Cemetery, Madrid) and "Monument to the Catalan Volunteers" (Ciutadella Park, Barcelona). With the model of the latter he won the Grand Prix in Paris in 1925. At the end of the same year he was appointed a member of the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Clarà also produced heads and portraits, in which he displayed a condensed and lively language: "Voluntad" (1911), "Clara Stuart Merrill" (1926), "Adela" (1936), "Señorita Rodríguez Bauzà" (1941). As time went by, the sculptor gave more and more importance to light, and his sculptures became simpler, freeing himself of all sentiment, as can be seen in his first "Static" of 1926. With this new vision, in 1928 he reinterpreted "Diosa" and "Serenidad" (Montjuic garden, Barcelona), and created "Reposo" (MACBA), which won him the medal of honour at the Barcelona International Exhibition (1929). In 1930 Clarà travelled to Greece; two years later he left his Paris residence and settled permanently in Barcelona. In 1934 he won the Damià Campeny Prize for "Desnudo de muchacha" ("Nude of a Girl"). In 1936 he created one of his best works, for its synthesis of simplicity, light and serenity: "Pujanza". He is also the author of "Monument to the Fallen" (1952) in Barcelona.) With the nude "Pomona" (Museum of Havana) he won the Grand Prize at the 1954 Hispano-American Biennial. In 1946 he produced a "Saint Benedict" (Montserrat) which led him towards the study of the seated figure. Thus, his last works were mainly seated maternities and reclining figures. In 1969 the museum that bears his name was inaugurated in Barcelona, where a large part of his work is conserved. He is also present in the Museu Comarcal de la Garrotxa in Olot and in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, among others.
Lot 114
IGNACIO GIL SALA (Barcelona, 1913 - 2003)."Mother and daughter".Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower right corner.Size: 33,5 x 25,5 cm; 55,5 x 47,5 cm (frame).After beginning his artistic training when he was only nine years old, Ignacio Gil Sala entered the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, where his teachers were Félix Mestres and Vicente Borrás. In 1930, while still an apprentice, he was awarded the School's bronze medal, and in 1936 he won a scholarship for a study trip to Spain. Throughout his life Gil Sala devoted himself to travelling both on the Peninsula and in various Islamic and Latin American countries. He exhibited his work in Spain, France, the Philippines, Switzerland, the United States, Canada and Colombia, among many other countries, and his solo exhibitions were held in the galleries Costa (Palma de Mallorca, 1940), Augusta (Barcelona, exhibiting periodically since 1940), Lars Laine (Palm Springs, 1952), Toisón (Madrid, 1956), Cano (Madrid, exhibiting biannually since 1958) and Cézanne (Cannes, 1956 and 1966). From 1997 until his death, he showed his work regularly in the galleries of the Grup d'Art Escolà, which dedicated several tribute exhibitions to him after his death. Artistic and human recognition has been constant, although not as much as he deserved, such as the street dedicated to him by the town of Castelldefels, where he lived, or the fact that the Island Council of the Balearic Islands awarded him a prize for the numerous times he immortalised the lands, people and sea of Ibiza. An extraordinary draughtsman, agile with pencil and charcoal, Gil Sala immortalised landscapes from all over Spain, Mediterranean fishing ports, different European cities, etc., all captured with a resounding brushstroke and studied colouring. His awards include the Silver Medal of the Barcelona School of Fine Arts (1930), the First Medal at the International Exhibition in Palma de Mallorca (1941), the prize at the National Exhibition in Barcelona (1944), and two first prizes and an extraordinary first prize at the Painters of Africa Exhibition (1955, 1960 and 1961). Likewise, after his death, several tributes were paid to him, including the exhibitions held at the Terra Ferma gallery in Lleida in 2004 and the Salduba gallery in Zaragoza in 2007, both belonging to the Escolà Group.
Lot 78
GONZALO BILBAO MARTÍNEZ (Seville, 1860 - Madrid, 1938)"Arab scene".Oil on canvas.Attached certificate issued by Dr. Gerardo Calero.Signed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 90 x 93 cm.Gonzalo Bilbao started drawing as a child and in 1880 he began his pictorial career. During these years he made a trip to Italy and France together with Jiménez de Aranda. In Rome he worked with the painter José Villegas Cordero, and travelled around the various Italian capitals, painting urban and rural views until his return to Spain in 1884. In the following years he visited Rome again, travelled around Spain and also went to Morocco, Paris and Munich. In Spain he taught painting, initially as a private tutor and, from 1903, as Jiménez de Aranda's successor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville. In 1904 he married and took up residence in Madrid, where he continued his teaching work at the San Fernando Academy. During his career he took part in numerous fine arts exhibitions, both national and foreign, being awarded a third medal at the Universal Exhibition of Paris (1889) and the International Exhibition of Barcelona (1891), a single medal at the Universal Exhibition of Chicago (1893), and a gold medal at the International Exhibitions of Berlin (1899), Munich (1905), Buenos Aires (1910), Santiago de Chile (1910), San Francisco (1915) and Panama (1916). He also took part in the National Fine Arts Nationals, winning second medals in 1887 and 1892, first in 1899 and 1901 and an honourable medal in 1915. A traditional painter, representative of Spanish genre painting, his pictures were colourful depictions of Andalusian life and its most popular figures, and he also painted landscapes, figures and portraits, depicting prominent figures of the time such as King Alfonso XIII and the actress Carmen Díaz. The light and vitality of his compositions bring his language closer to the Impressionist aesthetic, focusing on the essential representation of atmospheres and landscapes. Gonzalo Bilbao is represented in the Museo de Bellas Artes in Seville, where he has a room devoted entirely to his work, the Museo del Prado, the Museo Jaume Morera in Lleida and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Cordoba, among others, as well as in private collections both in Spain and abroad.
Lot 70
LAUREANO BARRAU BUÑOL (Barcelona, 1864 - Santa Eulària des Riu, Ibiza, 1957)."Flowerpot with Lemon Tree".Oil on canvas.Signed in the lower right-hand corner.Measurements: 62 x 46 cm; 74 x 58 cm (frame).In this work the author gives prominence to a lemon tree, which in a certain way isolates from the landscape, which is closed by nature. In such a way that the artist focuses his attention on the luminosity of the scene, the bright colours and the play of shadows, thus creating an image of tactile qualities, which in a certain way transport the viewer. Laureano Barrau was born into a bourgeois family, the son of an industrial engineer and businessman. He began his training at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona, where he was a pupil of Antonio Caba. Shortly afterwards he travelled to Madrid to broaden his training by studying the great masters of the Prado Museum. In 1884 the Barcelona City Council granted him the Fortuny Pension to extend his studies in Rome for three years. However, with the money from the travel grant Barrau moved to Paris, where he entered the Academy of Fine Arts, with Jean-Léon Gérôme as his tutor. In 1885, already in Rome, he studied the Italian masters and began to send to Barcelona the works that corresponded to him as a boarder. From 1887 he exhibited regularly at the Sala Parés in Barcelona, one of the most important Spanish galleries of the time, and the most prominent in Catalonia. That year his painting "The Surrender of Gerona" was a great success with critics and the public, as it represented a totally personal treatment of the genre of history painting, more vibrant and emotive. At the same time, Barrau frequently took part in official exhibitions both nationally and internationally. In 1888 he was awarded a second medal at the International Exhibition in Barcelona and a second prize at the Universal Exhibition in Brussels. Three years later, in 1891, he was awarded the title of member of the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the following year he was awarded a third medal at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid for his work "Escardadora". In 1904 he won a second medal at the same exhibition for "Taponeras del Ampurdán". Barrau also held numerous individual exhibitions and took part in group exhibitions in Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, New York and Rome. In 1909 he settled in Buenos Aires, where his work enjoyed the same success and recognition as it had in Spain and Europe, and after returning he settled permanently in Ibiza in 1911. From there he continued to show his work both in Spain and abroad, and in 1929 he was appointed "Societarie" of the Paris Salons. Barrau's work is based on an initial language linked to his neoclassical training, and evolves to reach a new concept characterised by luminosity and chromatic transparencies. To this day, the work he produced in Santa Eulària des Riu (Ibiza) at the end of his life is considered to be the best of his output. Laureano Barrau is currently represented in the Prado Museum, the Getty Museum in California, the Museums of Contemporary Art in Madrid and Barcelona, his house-museum in Santa Eulària des Riu and in various museums in Paris, Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as in important national and international private collections.
Lot 127
ROMAIN DE TIRTOFF ERTÈ (Saint Petersburg, 1892 - Paris, 1990).Vase "Style", 1985.Bronze, example 196/250.Con-Ker foundry.Signed and with foundry details. Measurements: 31 x 12 cm.Colloquially known as Erté, Romain de Tirtoff or Roman Petrovich Tyrtov has been one of the great figures of art, costume design, illustration, jewellery design, interior design, fashion and sculpture, within the Art Decó. When he was barely 18 years old, Erté moved to France, where he developed a large part of his professional career. Soon after moving to Paris, he would see his talent recognised in the world of fashion, beginning his relationship with the famous magazine Harper's Bazaar barely three years after his arrival in Paris in 1915. Erté would begin to illustrate some of the magazine's covers. The relationship would clearly be fruitful for both parties, being a highly visible showcase for Erté's work. This relationship would last over time, and Erté would design a large part of the covers of this important magazine over the next 22 years, producing more than 240 covers. Erté's professional career is strongly interconnected with the Art Deco movement and he was a clear representative of this artistic and socio-cultural movement. In fact, the figure of Erté is recognised as one of the creators of Art Deco and it was undoubtedly an artistic movement with which the artist felt clearly identified. As a designer, one of his first important works was the costume design for the French dancer Gaby Deslys. Erté would soon begin to make costumes for some of the most important artists of the moment such as Joan Crawford, Marion Davis, Norma Shearer, Llillian Gish... as well as costumes for the Paris Opera, the Radio City Music Hall, Folies-Bergères and George White Scandals, The Casino de Pais... It is also important to highlight how Erté would become the designer of Broadway figures such as Iréne Bordoni. At the age of 75 Erté decided to turn his professional career around and began to focus on bronze sculpture and silkscreen printing, achieving great success in this area as well. The elegance and luxury of his creations has given Romaiin de Tirtoff a place in the history of art in museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the County Museum of California and others. Some of the awards he received during his lifetime were in 1976 the title of Officer of Arts and Letters from the French government and in 1982 the Vermeil medal awarded by the City of Paris.
Lot 125
GREAT BRITAIN. George I, 1714-1727. Silver medal, 1714. This medal was distributed during the Coronation ceremony and was issued in gold and silverLaureate draped cuirassed bust of the King facing right. Legend around: "GEORGIVS . D . G . MAG . BR . FR . ET . HIB . REX."/ Depiction of the coronation of George I, crowned by Britannia. In exergue: "INAUGURAT . XX . OCT . MDCCXIIII ". Designed by: John Croker. Mintage: 1,200.Diameter: 34 mm.Weight: 14 g.Composition: Silver.PLEASE NOTE: 6% Buyer Premium + VAT on this lot. No other fees, including live bidding. Delivery cost will be added to your order.
Lot 126
GREAT BRITAIN. George II, 1727-60. Silver medal, 1727. This medal was distributed at public expense during the Coronation ceremony on 22 October, and was issued in gold, silver and copper. Laureate draped cuirassed bust of the King facing left. Legend around: "GEORGIVS . II . D . G . MAG . BR . FR . ET . HIB . REX."/ Depiction of the coronation of George II, seated King on King Edward's chair right, holding the sceptre and orb, being crowned by Britannia holding a cornucopia and leaning on the fasces. Legend around: "VOLENTES . PER . POPULOS". In exergue: "CORON . XI . OCTOB . MDCCXXVII". Designed by: John Croker. In secure plastic holder, graded NGC VF 35, certification number 2129663-002. NGC Census in this grade: 2.NGC Census in higher grade: 13Total NGC Census: 15Diameter: 34 mm.Weight: 18 g.Composition: Silver.PLEASE NOTE: 6% Buyer Premium + VAT on this lot. No other fees, including live bidding. Delivery cost will be added to your order.
Lot 127
GREAT BRITAIN. George II, 1727-60. Silver medal, 1727. This medal was distributed during the Coronation ceremony of George II and CarolineBust of the Queen facing left. Legend around: "CAROLINA . D . G . MAG . BR . FR . ET . HIB . REGINA."/ Caroline standing, flanked by Religion and Britannia. Legend around: "HIC AMOR HAEC PATRIA" In exergue: "CORON . XI . OCTOB . MDCCXXVII ". Designed by: John Croker. Diameter: 34 mm.Weight: 18 g.Composition: Silver.PLEASE NOTE: 6% Buyer Premium + VAT on this lot. No other fees, including live bidding. Delivery cost will be added to your order.
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UNITED KINGDOM. Victoria, 1837-1901. Silver medal, 1887. BHM-3219. Celebratory medal for the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, which was celebrated on 20 June 1887. This is the official Jubilee medal and is one of two commemorative medals for the event, designed by Joseph Edgar Boehm and Frederic Leighton. With little experience in the designing for small surfaces, Boehm's 'Jubilee Head' coin design had been heavily criticised and unpopular with the public. The larger format of the medal gave him greater space and was an improvement on the effigy. Leighton’s late delivery of his design for the reverse led to delays, and the medal was not issued until 18 July 1887, nearly a month after Jubilee day.Crowned and veiled bust left; VICTORIA REGINA ET IMPERATRIX. Design by J E Boehm. / Enthroned figure of the British Empire with Mercury and the Genius of Electricity and Steam at her feet, the female figures of Science, Letters, Art, Industry and Agriculture surrounding, two cherubs above; IN. COMMEMORATION. Design by F Leighton.In secure plastic holder, graded PCGS SP63 , certification number 41060297. PCGS population in this grade: 16.PCGS population in higher grade: 2.Diameter: 77.3 mm.Weight: 495 g.Composition: Silver.PLEASE NOTE: 6% Buyer Premium + VAT on this lot. No other fees, including live bidding. Delivery cost will be added to your order.
Lot 311
Three gentlemen's rings,comprising a 9ct gold diamond set signet ring, Sheffield, a 9ct gold 'St George Medal' ring, Sheffield, and a gold inlaid malachite signet ring, tested as approximately 14ct gold (3)9ct gold - 8.14g total, 14ct gold - 6.34gFinger size W, T, PCondition ReportSurface marks/scratches to all.Losses to the malachite inlay.Dirty.
Lot 314
A Masonic cube charm, with outer gold casing and strapwork, opening to a silver gilt interior engraved with Masonic symbols, marked D&Co, RD592405, tested as approximately sterling silver and 9ct gold, 7.20g,together with a gilt Masonic medal,'Honourable Testimonial of Masonic Charity & Benevolence Instituted by H.R.H. Aug Fred: Duke of Sussex M.W. Grand Master', the medal spectacle set to a 15ct gold frame, engraved 'Bro C Watkinson served as steward to the RMIG 1913 RMBI 1918 RMIB 1919', with ribbon and box by Spencer & Co., Birmingham 1918 (2)Condition ReportSurface marks/scratches.A little dirty.
Lot 315
A collection of gentlemen's jewellery, to include a gold tie tack, with crocodile clip, marked 14k, tested as approximately 14ct gold, 2.60g, a pair of sterling silver cufflinks in the form of rhinoceros heads, with ball back fittings, Edinburgh 1998, by Mercator Manufacturing Ltd, a single sterling silver cufflink, a sterling silver 'The City of London Solicitor's Company' medal, by Toye, Kenning & Spencer, a quantity of meal dress studs and cufflinks, etc. (qty.)
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