Thursday, November 30, starting at 16, at the Neapolitan headquarters of Blindarte - in connection with the headquarters in Milan - will be held the auction n.108 Antiques, Ancient Paintings and the nineteenth century.
The catalog offers in the first part a refined selection of paintings and sculptures of the nineteenth century, including the famous bronze by Vincenzo Gemito depicting Narcissus (Estimate € 4,500 / 6,000), stamped and numbered; a small collection of watercolors from a collection of Salerno including a delicious watercolor of Giacinto Gigante (Estimate € 3,000 / 4,000), very interesting because it depicts an ancient market of Salerno that today no longer exists, and, to conclude, from a prestigious residence caprese an unpublished masterpiece of Alceste Campriani (Estimate € 10,000/12,000).
The pride of the section dedicated to Furniture and Art Objects, an important Sicilian Chest of Drawers of the eighteenth century, all in bois de violette with inlay in mother of pearl, (Estimate € 10,000 / 12,000 ) and an imposing and rare pair of two-figure bronze candlesticks with six lights (Estimate € 25,000 / 30,000), of French or Milanese manufacture of 1815, of which currently only one other specimen is known at Hampton Court-National Trust Queen Elizabeth in England. The section then proposes vases of different eras and manufactures and among these, to dominate the scene, the exceptional Pair of celebratory vases depicting the Royal of Spain, the Real Fabbrica del Buen Ritiro, dating back to the early nineteenth century (Estimate € 6,000 / 8,000).
The catalog offers in the first part a refined selection of paintings and sculptures of the nineteenth century, including the famous bronze by Vincenzo Gemito depicting Narcissus (Estimate € 4,500 / 6,000), stamped and numbered; a small collection of watercolors from a collection of Salerno including a delicious watercolor of Giacinto Gigante (Estimate € 3,000 / 4,000), very interesting because it depicts an ancient market of Salerno that today no longer exists, and, to conclude, from a prestigious residence caprese an unpublished masterpiece of Alceste Campriani (Estimate € 10,000/12,000).
The pride of the section dedicated to Furniture and Art Objects, an important Sicilian Chest of Drawers of the eighteenth century, all in bois de violette with inlay in mother of pearl, (Estimate € 10,000 / 12,000 ) and an imposing and rare pair of two-figure bronze candlesticks with six lights (Estimate € 25,000 / 30,000), of French or Milanese manufacture of 1815, of which currently only one other specimen is known at Hampton Court-National Trust Queen Elizabeth in England. The section then proposes vases of different eras and manufactures and among these, to dominate the scene, the exceptional Pair of celebratory vases depicting the Royal of Spain, the Real Fabbrica del Buen Ritiro, dating back to the early nineteenth century (Estimate € 6,000 / 8,000).
At the end of the catalogue, the ancient paintings. Among these, of absolute uniqueness, the beautiful pair of oils on canvas by Giuseppe Bonito depicting the Allegories of Clemence and Force (Estimate € 50,000 / 60,000). A well represented sector is that of still lifes, of particular interest the couple signed and dated of the Unknown monogram "FDG", active at the end of the seventeenth century (Estimate € 25,000 / 35,000), personalities still to be discovered, which probably plays an important role in the history of Neapolitan still lifes; of great interest the Triumph of flowers and fruit with animals, signed by Giacomo Nani (Estimate € 6,000 / 8,000) coming from an ancient and unprecedented Neapolitan collection and the scenographic composition Watermelon, melon, figs and other fruits on an en plein air plan probably attributed to the painter still everything to study Alberto Lionelli or to other important master of the Neapolitan School of the late seventeenth-early eighteenth century (Estimate € 30,000 / 40,000). The session ends with the refined Madonna with Child of Padovanino (Estimate € 50,000 / 60,000) accompanied by a prestigious bibliography and an oil on canvas from the elegant and precious chromatic agreements of Micco Spadaro (Loth and his daughters, estimate € 20,000/30,000) coming from a prestigious Sorrento picture gallery, inserted both in the catalogue raisonné of the works of the Neapolitan painter, and in the famous exhibition dedicated to him that was held in Naples in 2002.
The exhibition will be open every day, from 20 November to the date of the auction from 10 to 18 at the historic Neapolitan headquarters of Blindarte, in Via Caio Duilio, 10.
The exhibition will be open every day, from 20 November to the date of the auction from 10 to 18 at the historic Neapolitan headquarters of Blindarte, in Via Caio Duilio, 10.