Maggy Clarysse. Portrait of a White Dog, Maltese Terrier?, on a blue sofa, Oil on canvas, signed lower right. 46 x 55cm.PROVENANCE; The residual studio collection of the artist. Maggy Clarysse (1931-2011), hidden away for the past decade, will come to auction in this sale.Consigned by her family, the art displays an extraordinary range, from pointillist studies of ponds, via Cézanne-inspired landscapes to Impressionist and post-Impressionist still lifes. In all, the auction will offer over 450 works by a woman who was obsessed with art and would rise early each day to get to her easel, completing 12 hours of painting, sketching, sculpting and drawing before turning her hand to crafts in the evening.BIOGRAPHY; The art came before and after a successful career as a model from the 1940s to 60s with the glamour that it brought with it.Born in Belgium, Maggy studied at art college in Brussels with the aim of becoming a Paris fashion designer. To that end, she eventually approached a leading couture house to show them her designs.To her delight, they agreed to take her on immediately. However, they did not want her as a designer, but as a model!This led to work in Paris, London and around Europe, with Maggy basing herself first in Germany and then in Paris as a couture house model and then a model for Vogue.She was photographed by Terence Donovan and David Bailey, with one shoot ending up with her pushing the then leading film star, Norman Wisdom, into a swimming pool her reasons for doing so remain shrouded in mystery!It was while on holiday in the south of France in the late 1950s that she met her future husband, an English businessman, and they then married and moved to Barnes in south-west London.She gave up modelling when her son was born, and the glamour days of chic long dresses were over, and she then turned her exceptional work ethic towards art.Maggy painted from dusk to dawn for many decades up until her death in 2011 and enjoyed considerable success commercially.She would divide her time between London and their apartment in the South of France, and she hosted several exhibitions a year between the early 1970s and the late 2000s in both London and Antibes. Works sold for up to £6,000-8,000 but are much more reasonably estimated here. Few of her works come on to the market and this sale provides a unique opportunity for collectors. In all, the auction will offer over 450 works by the artist.
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Maggy Clarysse. Mademoiselle, a Yorkshire Terrier on a Sofa. Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Signed and titled verso. 46 x 55cm. PROVENANCE; The residual studio collection of the artist. Maggy Clarysse (1931-2011), hidden away for the past decade, will come to auction in this sale.Consigned by her family, the art displays an extraordinary range, from pointillist studies of ponds, via Cézanne-inspired landscapes to Impressionist and post-Impressionist still lifes. In all, the auction will offer over 450 works by a woman who was obsessed with art and would rise early each day to get to her easel, completing 12 hours of painting, sketching, sculpting and drawing before turning her hand to crafts in the evening.BIOGRAPHY; The art came before and after a successful career as a model from the 1940s to 60s with the glamour that it brought with it.Born in Belgium, Maggy studied at art college in Brussels with the aim of becoming a Paris fashion designer. To that end, she eventually approached a leading couture house to show them her designs.To her delight, they agreed to take her on immediately. However, they did not want her as a designer, but as a model!This led to work in Paris, London and around Europe, with Maggy basing herself first in Germany and then in Paris as a couture house model and then a model for Vogue.She was photographed by Terence Donovan and David Bailey, with one shoot ending up with her pushing the then leading film star, Norman Wisdom, into a swimming pool her reasons for doing so remain shrouded in mystery!It was while on holiday in the south of France in the late 1950s that she met her future husband, an English businessman, and they then married and moved to Barnes in south-west London.She gave up modelling when her son was born, and the glamour days of chic long dresses were over, and she then turned her exceptional work ethic towards art.Maggy painted from dusk to dawn for many decades up until her death in 2011 and enjoyed considerable success commercially.She would divide her time between London and their apartment in the South of France, and she hosted several exhibitions a year between the early 1970s and the late 2000s in both London and Antibes. Works sold for up to £6,000-8,000 but are much more reasonably estimated here. Few of her works come on to the market and this sale provides a unique opportunity for collectors. In all, the auction will offer over 450 works by the artist.
Illum Wikkelso for Niels Eilersen, a Danish teak Capella sofa and matching armchair, 1960s, both with their original blue wool cushionsthe sofa 70 x 190 x 70cmStructurally sound, a few scuffs and marks commensurate with age and use, the upholstery rather faded and tired, the foam has rather deteriorated and webbing is perishing.
An unusually small George IV mahogany two flap sofa table with single frieze drawer on end stile supports each side fitted with out swept sabre legs with plain box toe brass castors. 64 cm wide (closed) 120 cm (open) 61 cm deep x 61 cm overall height , 49 cm knee height.Structurally good some marks to the finish.
A Victorian sofa, the upholstered floral tapestry back rest within a carved walnut frame, extending to the two conforming drop in arms, above the sprung seat and tasselled apron, raised upon turned legs and castors, 104cm H x 151cm W x 80cm DCondition reportBoth arms and back rest can be detached, see further images, due to the construction of the joints there is some play in both the arms and the back rest although no visible damage.Some corrosion to the front castors with some general scuffs and wear to the legs, although there is little or no play in the leg joints and no visible damage.The sofa appears to be later constructed.
Mahmoud Said (Egypt, 1897-1964)Nu couché au divan blue (Nude Reclining on a Blue Couch) oil on panel, framedsigned 'Mahmoud Bey Said' and dated '1938' and further inscribed 'Alexandria' on the verso, executed in 193869 x 98cm (27 3/16 x 38 9/16in).Footnotes:Provenance:Ahmed Osman, Alexandria, gift from the artistDr Mohammed Said Farsi, Alexandria and Jeddahsale Christies Paris, 9 November 2010 lot 64 (titled: Nu sur sofa vert)Exhibited:Possibly Guezireh 1951 no. 114Literature:Dawastashy, 1997, no. 208 icon in colour page 306'Said's breath-taking nudes are unfathomable for a fils de famille and decidedly incompatible with the local traditions and Islamic religion. The modern yet timid Said seeks to exhibit a conscious play between stricture and desire for uninhibited freedom, in search for the 'essence of womanhood'. At a time when controversial polemics between progressives and traditionalists were on the rise, he managed to stop short of crossing the line into an impermissible eroticism and brought out a hungry fusion of inhibition and desire to shock our morality.A crisis of orientation loomed in Egypt, tearing it apart between calls for separation of religion and state against calls for a revival of Egypt's Islamic and Arab roots. At the same time, Said painted the naked female body and undertook to shock a conservative nation that has just accused Taha Hussein, the Dean of Contemporary Arabic literature and pioneer of the enlightenment, of blasphemy.Acting as a loud cry from the inner depth of an artist with conflicting desires, his intense nudes show a brutal determination to liberate the native woman and glorify her as a love goddess'- Fatenn Mostafa Kanafani - A Legacy of Dichotomies: When the International Art Market Met the 'Oriental Lord'Mahmoud Said was profoundly inspired by the female form, facilitated by his social standing, his celebration of the female nude was a brave move that broke absolutely with Egyptian artistic traditions. To him and his artistic milieu the Egyptian peasant represented the liberal future of Egypt, but Said's nudes are the continuation of an earlier tradition drawing on nineteenth century European paintings romanticising the Orient.Said presents his interpretation of the Odalisque, the mysterious female of the Arab world hidden behind veils, that so inspired European painters of the nineteenth century. This painting is part of a body of work steeped in an earlier, foreign style, but unlike its predecessors draws not on fantasy but on fact. These nudes are a type of romantic realism entirely unique to Mahmoud Said, a bold and remarkable celebration of the female form for his time and place.Said reveres his sitter by focusing on her form, her pose, her skin and face. He paints her as she is, an Egyptian woman with characteristic full lips, high cheekbones and dusky skin. Unlike his European predecessors who would place milk-white European models in an Oriental context by draping them in exotic silks and surrounding them with Islamic carpets in a thrilling, almost scandalous, interpretation of the everyday, here the artist chooses to highlight the Odalisque's command of her own sensuality without sacrificing the romance of her character.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
Knole type settee, rectangular back and wings, drop-ends, ball and claw feet, tapestry banded upholstery, length 202cm, depth 88cm, height 95cm.Condition report:The sofa is in generally good condition, the only are for minor work is the right back corner finials are a bit loose in the holes and can therefore come out easily with the side folding down, otherwise the hinges and joints are all good, the seat is reasonably well strung and th current upholstery is good, minor scuffs to the feet.
A Victoria furniture two-seat sofa, with carved scroll ends on turned feet, 163cm wide/see illustration/Provenance: Purchased from Harrods//Provenance: Tidenham Manor CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
A wicker two-seater sofa, an armchair, two side tables and a low box stool/Provenance: Tidenham Manor CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
A mid 18th Century saddleback sofa with scroll arms, upholstered in Jacobean style crewel work with a needlework oval to the back, on square legs and stretchers with leather barrel castors, 230cm wide CONDITION REPORT: Condition information is not usually provided in the description of the lot but is available upon request; the absence of a condition report does not imply that a lot is without imperfection
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