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RAFAEL ALBERTI (El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, 1902 - 1999).Untitled, 1980s.Four ink drawings on paper.All of them signed, two dated (1983 and 1989).Size: 54 x 38 cm; 63 x 46 cm (frame).In parallel to his brilliant poetic career, Rafael Alberti entered the world of painting and drawing, with an avant-garde vocation, exhibiting already in early times in the Salón de Otoño and the Ateneo de Madrid. He was a writer and poet belonging to the Generation of '27, considered one of the greatest writers of the so-called Silver Age of Spanish literature. He received numerous prizes and awards, including the National Poetry Prize (1925), the Lenin de la Paz (1965), the National Theatre Prize (1980), the Cervantes Prize (1983) and the Roma Prize for Literature (1991). He renounced the other great Spanish literary award, the Prince of Asturias, because of his strong republican convictions. Rafael Alberti's first vocation was painting, but his real discovery of this art came in 1917, when he moved to Madrid with his family and visited the Prado Museum for the first time. He first exhibited his plastic work in 1920 at the Salón de Otoño in Madrid, and two years later he exhibited at the Athenaeum in the same city. His painting was characterised by the fact that it was not his definitive path, since after the death of his father, he began to write his first verses. As a writer, Alberti enjoyed great success from the beginning of his career, but at first his success was linked to artistic prestige, as he was still financially dependent on his family. The new literary magazines accepted and wanted to publish his works. He was also beginning to make friends within the circle known today as the Generation of '27. He began to write in a style that was not only more formally demanding, but also allowed him to be more satirical and dramatic. From then on, his life gradually opened up to what would become the centre of his inspiration, poetry, without ever completely abandoning his vocation as a painter. Among his last works is A la pintura ('On Painting') (1945). These reflect his intellectual activity during his exile, as Alberti returned to painting and began a series of poems to bring together his thoughts on painting. A subject to which he continued to devote himself for many years. Among these poems dedicated to painting he wrote a series of sonnets on the retina, the hand, the canvas, the brush, etc.; a series of short poems in free verse on colours; and finally a series of poems in homage to various painters such as Titian, El Greco and others.
CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI (Pestiani, Romania, 1876 - Paris, 1957)."Anatomy Model", ca.1902.Photograph. Print on gelatin silver.Provenance: Juan Naranjo.Descriptions on the back, written in pencil.Measurements: 16.5 x 5 cm. (photograph); 32,5 x 30,5 cm.(frame).This photograph is part of one of Brancusi's first projects, which he carried out under the guidance of his anatomy teacher, Dimitri Gerota: an "écorché" representation (a statue of a man whose skin has been removed to reveal the muscles underneath) which was exhibited at the Romanian Athenaeum in 1903.Constantin Brancusi began his studies in sculpture at the Bucharest Academy and perfected his skills in Vienna and Munich, before settling in Paris in 1904, where he befriended Amadeo Modigliani and Auguste Rodin and developed most of his career. He had a difficult start, during which he suffered hardship and privation, but after the First World War he established himself as one of the great sculptors of the artistic avant-garde. With the elimination of all accessory attributes, he progressively evolved towards a greater formal essentiality in order to create pure and elemental forms. In his works, Brancusi sought a pure, spiritual beauty, expressed through his favourite figures (the bird, the egg, the female heads) and emphasised by polishing the materials (bronze, marble and occasionally wood). He made several trips to the United States, where he held successful solo exhibitions. In 1937 he returned to Romania to carry out some commissions, such as the Endless Column, almost thirty metres high, for the public park of Tirgu Jiu, near his hometown. That same year he went to India to design the Temple of Meditation, commissioned by the maharaja of Indore. Mademoiselle Pogany, The Newborn and Bird in Space, three of his most appreciated creations, are other examples of Brancusi's quest for pure form that led him to the limits of abstraction, although without completely abandoning figurativism; in any case, his departure from nineteenth-century realist canons paved the way for the abstract sculpture of artists such as Jean Arp and Henry Moore.
GROSSE DECKELDOSE / SCHATULLE MIT DRACHENDEKOR, wohl 20. Jh., unter dem Stand bezeichnet "70 (oder 90) % SILVER ?", 1140 Gramm. Rechteckige Form mit Scharnierdeckel. Asiatisches Dekor auf Deckel und Wandung: Drachen im Hochrelief und sogenanntes Schlangenhaut-Dekor als Füllmotiv. Deckel mit Monogrammkartusche und darin bezeichnet "A.R.B.". H. 8 x L. 23 x B. 16 cm. (Gebrauchsspuren; Partiell bestoßen und berieben).
A good Victorian Bowie knife, by Joseph Rodgers for S.W. Silver & Co, spear point blade 8¼", the ricasso marked with crown "VR" and "Joseph Rodgers & Sons, Cutlers to Her Majesty" and Rodgers star and cross mark, also marked on the blade "S W Silver & Co, Cornhill, London", the hilt with GS crossguard and staghorn grips, in its GS mounted leather sheath, the locket having frog button and Silver & Co. embossed plaque, and with spring securing clip, with its leather belt frog also with Silver & Co stamp. GC £300-500
A 6 shot .44? Colt Model 1860 Army percussion revolver, with Thuer conversion to take the tapered front loading Thuer cartridge, number 177028 on all parts, London proved, with New York address. GWO & clean condition, retaining much original blueing to barrel, colour hardening to the frame, and all silver plating to the trigger guard and backstrap (small patches of rust to the cylinder and rammer); in its purple velvet lined fitted brass bound mahogany case, containing steel double cavity Colt bullet mould, and the original percussion cylinder, both cylinders numbered ?028?. GC £2500-3000
A rare silver mounted 32 bore Ferguson breech loading flintlock holster pistol, by Jover, c 1775, barrel 10¾" with blade foresight, the flat topped breech containing the loading plug and with gold poincons of "Jover & Son, London", and gold touch hole; flat stepped lock with swan neck cock, signed in flowing script and with sparse floral engraving; plain dark walnut fullstock with shell carving around the breech tang, the steel trigger guard having a button on the tail to facilitate opening; the silver mounts comprise long spurred butt cap with mask finial, large oval escsutcheon with engraved border, and baluster ramrod pipes; with horn tipped wooden ramrod. GWO & C (stock refinished, some wear and patches of pitting to steel parts, some dents to buttcap). £2000-3000
A pair of late 18th century brass barrelled and brass framed flintlock boxlock blunderbuss pistols with spring bayonets, by Williams, swamped barrels 5½" with muzzle ring, 5" triangular spring bayonet beneath released by sliding trigger guard, and bayonet pipes on left side; London proved; the frames engraved with trophies and signed in oval wreath; with top safeties, walnut slab butts with shield shaped silver escutcheons, and horn tipped wooden ramrods with ivory worm. GWO & C (lightly age worn, rear ramrod pipes dented and worn). Ex W Keith Neal Collection, with numbered discs attached to the trigger guards). £2500-3000
A 40 bore double barrelled over and under turnover percussion boxlock pistol c 1840, one piece octagonal barrel block 3", with B'ham proofs; the frame engraved with scrolls and signed "Williams & Powell, Liverpool"; bag shaped chequered walnut butt with rectangular silver escutcheon. GWO & clean condition. £250-350
A pair of 48 bore percussion boxlock pocket pistols, by Richards, London, 6" overall, turn off barrels 1½", B'ham proved; the frames engraved with trophies and signed in oval panels, the hammers with drum shaped noses, with top safeties, hidden triggers, and rounded chequered butts with lozenge shaped silver escutcheons. GWO & clean condition, hints of original finish to barrels and triggers (one hammer spur repaired); in their green velvet lined fitted mahogany case with folding brass carrying handle and trade label of "William Bishop, 170 New Bond St, Agent for Westley Richards Guns, Manufacturers, Dealer in every description of Fire Arms", containing a copper powder flask, 48 bore pincer ball mould, and barrel key. Clean condition. £650-850
A 6 shot 48 bore self cocking bar hammer percussion pepperbox revolver, by Parker Field & Sons, 8½" overall, barrels 3¼", London proved; the frame engraved with scrolls and in a panel "Parker Field & Sons, 233 Holborn, London", with top safety, finely chequered walnut butt with oval silver escutcheon, and steel butt cap with trap. GWO & C, retaining some original colour hardened finish; in its green baize lined fitted mahogany case, with circular brass lid escutcheon and Parker Field & Sons trade label, containing a copper powder flask (spring missing), 60 bore pincer ball mould with rammer, cleaning rod, cap tin with Parker Field label, glass oil bottle in turned wood lidded box, and a nipple key/pricker. GC £600-800
EIIR modern issue £5 coins (crown size): 1993 Coronation Anniversary, GEF; 1997 Wedding Anniversary GEF; 1999 Princess of Wales GEF; 2005 Trafalgar/Nelson; 2006 HM birthday issue; 2007 Diamond Wedding; 2008 Eliz I 450th anniversary; 2009 Henry VIII accession anniversary; 2010 Restoration of the Monarchy anniversary; 2013 Dam Busters (Guernsey) Unc in plastic cases. Prince Philip Birthday Unc in Royal Mint packaging; 2012 ; £5 silver in proof condition: 2009 Palace of Westminster; 2010 Churchill proof. B Unc in plastic cases.
EIIR modern coinage: £20 Fine silver coin, 2013, St George type, B Unc in Royal Mint packaging; London 2012 50 pence pieces in Royal Mint packets (issued as a set of 29) 2 of each. All in R Mint packets, many outer covers AF, inner cards sound. All coins B Unc and with "complete medallion" (60) £50-75
A Third Reich first pattern Luftwaffe officer's dagger, by SMF, Solingen, the blade unit marked "/Fl.154.24", preceded by an unfamiliar rectangular mark, the hilt with nickel silver mounts, in its white metal mounted sheath with hanging chains and Assmann marked belt clip. GC. (slight wear to the sheath). £400-450
A scarce WWII ATC plastic economy cap badge; a WM version and 2 chrome. A post 1953 gilt RAF cape hook and chain boss set; a large ATC silver and gilt Maltese cross badge and small ditto; 2 chrome RAF mess servants badges 4½" and 3". 6 other ATC badges, 8 other items. GC £40-50
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