Artur Szyk (1894 – 1951)

Szyk

Lot 14457. ARTHUR SZYK 1894-1951
Lodz, Poland 1894 – 1951 New Canaan, Connecticut (Polish/American)
Columns of Smoke, 1935-1939. Original Signed Tempera on brown laid paper; size: 32 x 48 cm / 12.5 x 18.9 in
This Original tempera is signed by the artist in the belt of the right figure. It is inscribed with the bible verso from Joel 2:30 in Hebrew. This is probably an illustration for Szyk’s famous Haggadah for Passover that was printed in London in 1940 and was illustrated with 48 illustrations in colours by Syzk. The Szyk Haggadah was described by the London Times as “a book worthy to be placed among the most beautiful of books that the hand of man has produced.”

Provenance: The collection of Dr Haim Gamzu (1910-1982). Dr Haim Gamzu was the second director of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, founder of the Beit Zvi School of Acting in Ramat Gan, as well as art and theater critic of the Ha’aretz newspaper.
Boisgirard & Associés Paris, France.

Estimate: $6,500 – $8,500. Gildens. 07/28/16

Franciszek Starowieyski (1930 – 2009)

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Lot 109. Franciszek STAROWIEYSKI (1930-2009) “Etude pour la mort de notre château” (5 compositions fantastiques sur une même feuille). CRAYON et pastel sur papier. Signé et titré en bas au centre.29,5×42 cm. Expert Frédéric CHANOIT, Paris.

Estimate 200-300 euro. Arnaud Yvos – Var Enchères, 83700 Saint Raphaël. 07/22/16 (19:00)

 

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Lot 110. Franciszek STAROWIEYSKI (1930-2009) “Enlèvement triste d’Europe par le Taureau-cheval-fourmi”. CRAYON, pastel et craie blanche sur papier noir signé, titré et daté 1684. Collé sur un papier gris, également signé et titré en français. 47,5x63cm (papier noir). Expert Frédéric CHANOIT, Paris.

Estimate 400-600 euro. Arnaud Yvos – Var Enchères, 83700 Saint Raphaël. 07/22/16 (19:00)

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Lot 111. Franciszek STAROWIEYSKI (1930-2009) “Femme aux pointes”. CRAYON et pastel sur papier, signé en bas à droite, situé NY et daté 1685. 28×22 cm. Expert Frédéric CHANOIT, Paris.

Estimate 250-400 euro. Arnaud Yvos – Var Enchères, 83700 Saint Raphaël. 07/22/16 (19:00)

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Lot 112. Franciszek STAROWIEYSKI (1930-2009) “Deux femmes assises”. CRAYON et pastel sur papier, monogrammé et daté 1685. 28×22 cm. Expert Frédéric CHANOIT, Paris.

Estimate 250-400 euro. Arnaud Yvos – Var Enchères, 83700 Saint Raphaël. 07/22/16 (19:00)

 

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Lot 113. Franciszek STAROWIEYSKI (1930-2009) “Esquisse pour le monument du mendiant devant la cathédrale de Cologne”. CRAIE blanche, crayon sur papier brun, signé et daté 1683. 33×50 cm. Expert Frédéric CHANOIT, Paris.

Estimate 400-600 euro. Arnaud Yvos – Var Enchères, 83700 Saint Raphaël. 07/22/16 (19:00)

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Lot 114. Franciszek STAROWIEYSKI (1930-2009) “Naissance de la terre”. CRAYON et pastel sur papier, signé, daté 1685 et situé NY en bas. 28×22 cm. Expert Frédéric CHANOIT, Paris.

Estimate 200-300 euro. Arnaud Yvos – Var Enchères, 83700 Saint Raphaël. 07/22/16 (19:00)

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Lot 115. Franciszek STAROWIEYSKI (1930-2009) “Trois femmes enlacées”. CRAYON et pastel, titré illisiblement en bas au crayon rouge et daté 1687. 60×41 cm. Expert Frédéric CHANOIT, Paris.

Estimate 500-700 euro. Arnaud Yvos – Var Enchères, 83700 Saint Raphaël. 07/22/16 (19:00)

 

Jerzy Mierzejewski (1917 – 2012)

Mierzejewski

Lot 1243. ”Zielona Bulcowina”, green Cubist trees, indistinctly signed lower right, signed again, inscribed, titled and numbered verso: Mal. Jerzy Mierzejewski / Polska / Olej / C19 9-I, oil on canvas, 23” H x 29” W, est: $3000/5000
Provenance: Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA

Estimation $3,000-5,000. John Moran. 07/30/16

Sign

Mierzejewski-verso

Ignacy Zygmuntowicz (1875 – 1946/7)

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Ocieka świeżą farbą. Malowany AD 2015-16?

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1633/11: Ignacy Zygmuntowicz: Scene with sleigh. Signed I. Zygmuntowicz. Oil on panel. 35 x 55 cm.

Estimate kr 6,000-8,000 (€ 805-1,100). Rasmussen. 08/15/16

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1633/114: Ignacy Zygmuntowicz: Scene with three riders. Signed I. Zygmuntowicz. Oil on canvas. 32 x 43 cm.

Estimate kr 6,000-8,000 (€ 805-1,100). Rasmussen. 08/15/16

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1633/146: Ignacy Zygmuntowicz: Townscape. Signed I. Zygmuntowicz. Oil on canvas. 32 x 43 cm.

Estimate kr 6,000-8,000 (€ 805-1,100). Rasmussen. 08/15/16

 

Piotr Ukłański (1968)

Uklanski
Piotr Ukłański. THE NAZIS, 1998

Egzemparz ósmy z dziesięciu stworzonych.

10x $550,000=$5,500,000. Dobry pomysł na życie od warunkiem, że znajdą się chętni do kupna. Niejedna z prac Andy Warhola jest tańsza.


Lot 39. Piotr Uklański. B. 1969. THE NAZIS; each: numbered 8/10 and variously annotated A-D, 1-41, and 1-164 on a label affixed to the reverse, chromogenic black and white and color photographs, in 164 parts, each: 14 by 10 in. 35.6 by 25.4 cm.
Executed in 1998. This work is number 8 from an edition of 10. Estimate $500,000-700,000. Sothebys. 05/11/16. Sold $550,000

Provenance:

Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Phillips de Pury & Company, London, October 14, 2006, Lot 26
Acquired from the above by the present owner

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London, The Photographers’ Gallery, The Nazis: Piotr Uklański, August – September 1998 (edition no. unknown)
Warsaw, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Piotr Uklański: The Nazis, October – December 2000 (another example)
Tirana, Albania, National Gallery & Chinese Pavilion, Tirana Biennale 1: Escape, September – October 2001, p. 437, illustrated in color (detail) (edition no. unknown)
London, Tate Modern; Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle; and Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Pop Life: Art in a Material World, October 2009 – September 2010, pp. 164-65, illustrated in color (detail) (edition no. unknown) and p. 165, illustrated in color (in installation at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 1998) (edition no. unknown)
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fatal Attraction: Piotr Uklański Photographs, March – August 2015 (edition no. unknown)

Literature:

Peter Lyle, “The Reich Stuff,” The Face, London, July 1998, pp. 60-61, no. 118
Rob Epstein, “Janner’s Fears of Nazi Exhibition,” London Jewish News, July 17, 1998, p. 8
Robin Stringer, “Outrage as London Gallery Highlights ‘Glamour of Nazism,'” Evening Standard, London, July 29, 1998, p. 21
Stuart Shave, “Nice Nazi, Nasty Nazi,” I-D Magazine, London, August 1998, p. 50, no. 178
Amanda Hopkins, “Spiel Mit Dem Nazi-Chic,” Der Spiegel, Hamburg, August 3, 1998, p. 87, no. 32
“Peter Uklański: The Nazis,” The Guide, London, August 3-9, 1998, p. 39
Jonathan Jones, “Faces of Evil,” The Guardian, London, August 18, 1998, p. 12
Neal Ascheron, “It’s Only David Niven Dressed Up: Why Do We Feel a Chill?,” The Observer, London, August 23, 1998, p. 9
John Russel Taylor, “Nazi Movie Shoots are Defended as Art,” Amateur Photographer, London, August 29, 1998
Wojciech Orlínski, “Ci Przystojni Nazisci,” Gazetta Wyborcza, Warsaw, August 31, 1998, p. 2
Malcolm Quinn, “Reopening old wounds,” Blueprint, London, September 1998, p. 74, illustrated (detail)
“Espectros Nazis,” Expresso, Lisbon, September 19, 1998, n.p.
Patrick Frey and Piotr Uklański, Piotr Uklański: The Nazis, Zurich and London, 1999, illustrated in color (edition no. unknown)
Piotr Rypson, “Disco, Nazisci, I Szklankla Herbaty,” Machina, Warsaw, October 1999, pp. 78-81
Thomas Wolff, “Sie Tun’s Alle: The Nazis’ Holywood-Klischees,” Frankfurter Rundschau, October 20, 1999 (text)
Stephan Ramming, “Film-Nazis In Der Pop-Hölle,” Dei Wochenzeitung, Berlin, October 21, 1999, p. 21
Michel Masserey, ‘Sous leur uniforme luster, les Nazis de Hollywood vendent des pailettes,’ Le Temps, Geneva, December 29, 1999, p. 37
‘The Nazis by Piotr Uklański,’ New York Arts Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2000, p. 79 (text)
Dirk Kurbuweit, “Wei Sexy Dürfen Nazis Sein?,” Speigel Reporter, Hamburg, February 2000, pp. 119-125, no. 2
“Austellung Zeigt Filmstars in Nazi Uniformen,” Die Welt, Berlin, February 29, 2000
Javier Leo Fuentes, “Hollywood Y El Nazimo: Vision Critica De Piotr Uklański,” Arts-Zin.Com, Madrid, March – April 2000, n.p.
Susanne Leinemann, “Der Filmische Albtraum Vom Nazi,” Die Welt, Berlin, March 3, 2000
“Eine Wand Voller Film-Nazis,” Berliner Zeitung, Berlin, March 6, 2000 (text)
“Film Nazis,” Neues Deutschland, Berlin, March 10, 2000 (text)
“Heute In Berlin: ‘Die Nazis,'” Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, March 10, 2000
Steven Heller, ‘Snazi Nazis,’ The New York Times Book Review, March 12, 2000, p. 22
“Die Nazis,” Tagesspeigel, Berlin, March 22, 2000
“The Nazis,” Tageszeitung, Berlin, March 22, 2000
“The Nazis,” Taz, Berlin, March 22, 2000
“Piotr Uklański: ‘Die Nazis,'” Art On, Berlin, April 2000
Peter Herstreuth, “‘Die Nazis’ Von Piotr Uklański In Den Kunst-Werken,” Kunst-Bulletin, Zurich, May 2000, pp. 43-44
C. Schneider, “Nazi’s,” Metropolis M, Amsterdam, June – July 2000, pp. 64-65, no. 3
Martina Jungfleisch, “Monster Und Hollywoodstars,” Filmforum, Berlin, July – August 2000, pp. 28-29
M. Margielewski, “Nazi Fiction,” Ckm, Warsaw, September 2000, pp. 66-68, no. 9
A. Markiewicz, “Nazisci Z Kinowych Ekranów,” Machina, Warsaw, September 2000, p. 25
Marcin Fedisz, “Ci Przystojni Nazisci W Swych Przepieknych Mundarach,” Przzekrój, Warsaw, September 3, 2000, pp. 9-10
Wojciech Orlinski, “Ci Przystojni Nazisci!,” Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw, October 27 – November 2, 2000, p. 22
“Druga Strona: Nazisci,” Zycie, Warsaw, October 31 – November 1, 2000, p. 2
Dorota Jarecka, “Wystawa ‘Nazisci’ W Warszawie,” Gazeta Wyborcza, October 31 – November 1, 2000, p. 17
Agnieszka Maria Wasieczko, “The Nazis,” The Warsaw Voice, Warsaw, November 12, 2000 (text)
“Nazi Movie Exhibition Enrages Actor,” The Guardian, London, November 23, 2000 (text)
Jan Raszeja, “Nazista W. Kadre,” Gazeta Pomorska, Warsaw, November 24, 2000
“Exhibit on Nazis Riles Poles: Officials Halt Display of War-Movie Images,” The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, November 25, 2000 (text)
“Poland Closes Show of Stars in Nazi Uniforms,” The Holland Sentinel, Amsterdam, November 26, 2000
“Actor Attacks Exhibition in Poland,” Artnet.com, New York, November 30, 2000 (text)
P. Baler, “Censure Nazis,” Artealdia.com, San Francisco, December 2000
“Galeria ‘Nazisci,'” Przekrój, Warsaw, December 3, 2000, pp. 17-21
The Warsaw Voice, December 3, 2000, illustrated in color on the cover (detail) (edition no. unknown)
“Shortcuts: Taking Up Arms Against the Nazis,” The Warsaw Voice, December 3, 2000, no. 49, illustrated in color (detail)
Iwona A. Czerwinska, “Art Scandal: The Final Cut,” The Warsaw Voice, Warsaw, December 3, 2000, p. 5, no. 49, illustrated in color (detail)
Wojtek Kosc, “Slashing Out: A Leading Polish Actor and the Minister of Culture Fail to Understand ‘The Nazis,'” Central Europe Review, Warsaw, December 4, 2000, n.p., no. 4 (text)
M. Trenkler, “Säbelhiebe Auf Film-Nazis,” Morgen Welt, Berlin, December 8, 2000
“Naziata,” Nie, Warsaw, December 14, 2000, n.p.
“Nasi Czy Nazi?,” Viva, Warsaw, December 18, 2000, p. 14
“Nazis Invade Poland,” Britart.com, London, January 10, 2001
Massimiliano Gioni, ‘Touch Me I’m Sick: Portraits of Power,’ Flash Art, Milan, May – June 2001, pp. 110-11, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 113 (text)
Exh. Cat., New York, The Jewish Museum, Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art, 2002, pl. 5, illustrated in color (detail) (another example) and p. 108, illustrated (in installation at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 1998) (edition no. unknown)
Michael Kimmelman, ‘Jewish Museum Show Looks Nazis in the Face and Creates a Fuss,’ The New York Times, January 29, 2002, pp. E1-2
Sarah Boxer, ‘Man Behind a Museum Tempest; A Curator Defends His Show Explaining Nazi Imagery’, The New York Times, February 24, 2002
Robert Atkins, ‘Bringing Nazi Symbols to the Jewish Museum’, ARTnews, New York, March 2002, p. 48, illustrated in color (detail) (edition no. unknown)
Kim Levin, “Spring Time For Hitler,” The Village Voice, New York, March 5, 2002, illustrated in color
Michael Kimmelman, ‘Evil, the Nazis and Shock Value’, The New York Times, March 15, 2002, pp. E33-35
E. Reverter, “Art Provocador Sobre L’holocaust,” Avui, Lisbon, March 17, 2002, p. 48
Leslie Cahmi, ‘Peering Under the Skin of Monsters’, The New York Times, March 17, 2002, pp. 36-39
Ron Rosenbaum, “Mirroring Evil? No, Mirroring Art Theory,” The New Observer, March 18, 2002, p. 11
Catherine Fox, “Jewish Museum Casts Nazi Evil In New Light,” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Atlanta, March 24, 2002 (text)
“Art Review: Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art,” The Village Voice, New York, March 26, 2002
Howard Halle, “Empty Mirror: The Jewish Museum’s Show of Nazi Imagery in Art Today is No Thing to See,” Time Out, New York, March 28 – April 4, 2002, pp. 8-9
Jay Michaelson, “Mystical Nazi Sex Gods,” Zeek, New York, April 2002, n.p. (text)
Peter Schjeldahl, “The Hitler Show,” The New Yorker, April 1, 2002, p. 87
‘The Banality of Evil’, Flash Art, Milan, May – June 2002, p. 70, illustrated (detail)
Linda Nochlin, ‘Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/ Recent Art’, ArtForum, New York, Summer 2002, pp. 167-68, illustrated in color (detail) and p. 168 (text)
Charles Labelle, ‘Mirroring Evil’, Frieze, London, June – August 2002, p. 108 (text)
Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, et al., ‘Piotr Uklanski, The Nazis’, Charley 02, Dijon, Autumn 2002, n.p.
Kate Bush, ‘Once Upon A Time in the East: The Art of Piotr Uklański’, ArtForum, November 2002, p. 174, illustrated in color (detail) (edition no. unknown) and pp. 173- 175 (text)
Exh. Cat., Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, Piotr Uklański: Earth Wind and Fire, 2004, pp. 122-23, illustrated in color (detail of another example, in installation at Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw, 2000) and p. 124 illustrated in color (detail, on the cover of The Warsaw Voice, December 3, 2000)
Exh. Cat., Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, After Images: Kunst als soziales Gedächtnis, 2004 (another example)
Stephen C. Feinstein, Ed., Absence/Presence: Critical Essays on the Artistic Memory of the Holocaust, Syracuse, 2005, p. 11 (text)
Gene Ray, Terror and the Sublime in Art and Critical Theory From Auschwitz to Hiroshima to September 11, New York, 2005, p. 68 (text)
Adam Lindemann, Collecting Contemporary, Cologne, 2006, p. 132, illustrated in color (another example)
Dagmar Herzog, Ed., Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective, Evanston, Illinois, 2006, p. 409 (text)
Petra Rau, Our Nazis: Representations of Fascism in Contemporary Literature and Film, Edinburgh, 2013, p. 125 (text)
Donna Wingate and Marc Joseph Berg, Eds., Second Languages: Reading Piotr Uklański, Ostfildern, 2014, p. 14, illustrated (detail) (edition no. unknown), p. 15, illustrated in color (detail, on the cover of The Warsaw Voice, December 3, 2000) (edition no. unknown) and p. 105, illustrated in color (detail, in installation at Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, 2000) (another example)
Exh. Cat., Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, ArtLovers: Stories of Art in the Pinault Collection, 2014, p. 123, illustrated in color (another example)
Gisele Regatao, “An Ironic Ode to Photography,” WNYC News (online resource), March 21, 2015, illustrated in color (in installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 2015) (edition no. unknown)

Cyprian Godebski ( 1835 – 1909)

Godebski

Lot 59. Cyprian Godebski 1835-1909. POLISH
LE RÉVEIL (THE AWAKENING)

signed and dated: Cip. Godebski 1866
white marble; 194.5cm., 76 1/2 in.

Provenance. Private collection, Spain

Exhibited. Paris, Salon, 1866 (probably)

Born in France as the son of a Polish writer, Cyprien Godebski made his debut at the Salon of 1857, followed by mentions honorables in 1880, 1884 and 1886. Godebski’s prolific career brought his work to an international audience. He executed monuments for Sebastopol, Warsaw and Cracow, as well as several commissions for public sculpture in Paris, and busts of illustrious personages of his time.

This impressive marble is perhaps the most important work by Godebski to come to the international market. Its dating to 1866 suggests that it can probably be identified with the marble statue of Le Réveil (The Awakening) which he exhibited at the Salon in that year (Lami, op. cit.). The iconography of a partially draped female nude holding up a torch certainly accords with symbolist allegories, and the figure appears to be waking from a slumber (note the half opened eyes). It consequently seems likely that the present marble is the Salon sculpture from 1866. However the flower in the girl’s left hand, combined with the imagery of the torch, could possibly also invite an alternative interpretation of the figure as Persephone, the mythological Queen of the Underworld. Godebski softens the strict classicism of the girl’s pose by adding a sensual voluptuousness to her figure, which is complemented by her seductive, open-mouthed expression.

Estimate 30,000-50,000 GBP. Sothebys. 05/25/16

Cyprian Godebski ( 1835 – 1909)

Godebski

Lot 1135. Cyprien Godebski (Polish 1835-1909) a 19th Century bronze figure group ‘La Force brutale étouffant le Génie’ A bronze figure group after the original, modelled as a muscular scantily clad Zeus hold aloft a winged male nymph, standing on a rocky plinth base, inscribed C. Godebski, 93cm high.

Estimate 3,000-5,000 GBP. Wright Marshall. 07/21/16

Wiktor Mazurowski (1859 – 1944)

Mazurowski

Lot 197. MAZUROWSKI Victor (1859-1944).
Ensemble d’officiers de différents régiments des Cuirassiers de la Garde, à l’époque de l’empereur Nicolas Ier de Russie.
Huile sur toile, signée en bas à droite de son monogramme, datée 1880.
Bon état général.
H. : 65 cm – L. : 96 cm.

Estimate 30-50 euro (!?). Hôtel des Ventes de Monte-Carlo, 98000 Monaco. 07/20/16