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Lot 131
dating: circa 1900 provenance: Kingdom of Italy, Stick with silver grip, enameled with a dog and a dedication at the back: 'To Laurentina, my maiden of the Wst'; also provided with a brass plaque featuring the monogram 'GP' (Giacomo Puccini). Wooden haft. Together with a copy of 'La Metà del Mondo vista da un'automobile' ('The half of the world seen from an automobile') by the Prince Scipione Borghese (ed. Hoepli, Milano 1908) featuring a handwritten dedication before the title page:'Dear Laurentina,I give you this present to ask you to run away with me in a dream, the roaring of my riding [...] still comes out from these pages.I've permeated my feelings...corporations [...] with several feminine fruits... I've experienced love sometimes, but I'm far away from the previous relationships now... only one did not wear out yet - the sweetest, gentlest, deepest woman and lover...with a faithful mind...Heart, blood, smiling skin, play and life - you are persuasive, you enjoy your beauty with this musician man that will never see you colorless. I give you the 'when' and the 'now'.Giacomo Puccini' Laurentina Castracane of Antelminelli, an Italian charming noblewoman, was closed to Puccini when he was at hospital after a car accident in 1902. The love story with Laurentina was Puccini's most important one.Provenance: Countess Laurentina Castracane of Antelminelli's heirs. height cane 86 cm.
Lot 250
Irene Brierton (British, 20th Century), four ornithology studies, one a mouse and still life of mushrooms, six, signed, watercolour, largest 14 by 10cm, framed, with John Straw, two studies of ornithology, signed, watercolour, largest 41 by 25cm, framed (8)Provenance: Over Burrows House, Derbyshire
Lot 169
Andreas Gyula Bubarnik (b 1936) Hungarianpair of still life paintings, 'Peaches and Bavarian glass'; 'Peaches and pewter'. signed lower right, oil on canvas, within gilt frames, 39 cm x 29 cmCondition report: overall good, no damage to the canvas on either, both have minor cracking to the paint, some wear to frames but no losses
Lot 51
Lydia Corbett (French b1934), still life with rabbit and guitar, pen and ink with watercolour, signed in pencil Sylvette David and dated (19)82 lower left, 49cm x 39cm, framed and glazed 66cm x 57cm. Lydia Corbett, also known as Sylvette David, is a French artist and former artist's model known for being "the girl with the ponytail" in Pablo Picasso's Sylvette series of paintings.
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