AUCTIONS

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

AUCTION 111 - MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART
NAPLES, 29 MAY 2024 17.30 (LIVE AND IN PRESENCE)

ONLINE CATALOGUE
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EXHIBITION FROM 20 MAY TO THE AUCTION DATE EVERY DAY FROM 11 TO 19
BLINDARTE MILANO - VIA PALERMO 11

Blindarte presents the new Modern and Contemporary Art auction, number 111, with a catalogue of great quality and variety: a collection of artworks selected from well-known Italian and international collections of great artists of the twentieth century and of equally influential contemporary authors: from Sironi to Christo, from Filippo De Pisis to Nicola De Maria, from Afro to Kabakov, from Salvo to Vasarely, from Guttuso to Jan Fabre. These are some of the prestigious names of the artists in the catalog that, as usual, with different licenses, follows a temporal order and embraces from painting to drawing, from sculpture to photography, installations, offering lots of extraordinary interest and variety from the early twentieth century to the present day. An intense journey into some of the artistic movements that best represented us, offering on the contemporary market valuable opportunities for economic and cultural investment.

Among the artworks to be noted of this auction round: a rare painting by Salvo, among the first executed in 1979 according to his unmistakable style that has passionate collectors around the world and with ever-increasing quotations. The painting depicts a successful snowy landscape with 3 trees and 2 bright street lamps. The painting of the 32-year-old Salvo is presented at auction with an estimated €40,000/60,000.

Well represented is the Transavanguardia, artistic movement theorized since the mid-70s by Achille Bonito Oliva in great revival, with some of the most important works in the catalog: monumental is the painting honorific and lyric at the same time by Nicola De Maria entitled Nell’occhio del bambino. Made in 1981 and exhibited in several prestigious exhibition spaces, the artwork looks like a large fresco on canvas and, as you can guess from the title, it perfectly tells the poetics of the artist and the fairy-tale universe to which he is inspired. The beautiful painting is presented at auction with an estimate of €170,000/230,000.

Also from the 1980s, more precisely from 1984, is the great painting by Mimmo Paladino. Undisputed master of the Transavanguardia, with unmistakable and now famous traits, Paladino has an increasingly solid and internationally rooted market. His impressive and intense painting is offered at auction with an estimated 70,000/100,000 euros.

Also noteworthy is the work of Christo, Over the river, Project for Arkansas River, State of Colorado 2006 (estimated at 60,000/80,000 euros), the successful work of Land Art designed and studied in detail, but never realized by the great master of packaging.

In 1977, Atome, the canvas painting by Victor Vasarely, father of Op (Optical) Art, became one of the most interesting artistic and aesthetic movements that still inspires many artists and designers in the 1970s. The artwork, which will be included in the next catalogue raisonné by Pierre Vasarely, is estimated at 60,000/80,000 euros.

Among the great artists of Nouveau Réalisme, besides Arman (of which there are 3 beautiful works in the catalogue), it is necessary to mention the colorful compression of metals (cans) by César from Jean Ferrero and estimated 14,000/18,000 euros.
The beautiful work Cross with snake II by Jan Fabre comes from the Klüser gallery in Munich. With an interesting exhibition and bibliographical curriculum, the artwork, with strong meanings and made with many wings of scarab jewel, is presented at auction with an estimated € 50,000/70,000. Among other works by the great Belgian artist at auction: Battlefield 1998, an important "battle table" made with colorful scarabs and that builds a modern metaphor of war, already exhibited in 2008 at the Louvre in Paris, presents with an estimate of 20,000/25,000 euros.

Particularly interesting is also the 1994 opera Dance Festival by Kazuo Shiraga, a bright and colorful acrylic by one of the greatest representatives of the group Gutai, estimated 20,000/25,000 euros. Also by the Gutai group, the work of Shozo Shimamoto, ITAMI 2000. This intense watercolor and ink on fabric of about 92x177 cm is estimated 14,000/18,000 euros.

Worthy of note is also the wall installation by Ilya Kabakov entitled To fly or not to fly, performed in 2002 and exhibited at the French Academy in Rome during the exhibition of Graziella Lonardi Buontempo’s collection in 2003, the work is estimated at 25,000/30,000 euros

The first part of the catalogue includes works by Mario Sironi, Renato Guttuso, and a beautiful and rare painting on canvas of the landscape of Londra of 1933 by Filippo De Pisis  (estimated 16,000/22,000 euros) where you can see in the center what seems to be the famous column with the sculpture of Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Interesting section of the catalog dedicated to the late '40s and '50s with works by Afro, very successful his mixed technique on paper of 1947 (estimated 6,000/8,000 euros) and the painting by Gianni Dova on oval table of 1956 (estimated 7,000/10,000 euros)as well as the works of Roberto Crippa and Achille Perilli from the 1950s.

As of 1951 is the first work (by Roberto Sebastian Matta) from the Gustel Schuldes Collection: a rich collection of works by artists, among which stand out examples Kurt Absolon, Kurt Moldovan, Hermann Nitsch, of the Austrian area or influence formed between Vienna and Stromboli where the well-known Austrian collector spent much of his life in close contact with many artists such as Kappa, Walter Pichler, Marco Vallazza, Arnulf Rainer, Martin Disler, Josef Mikl and many others.

Interesting also the works of the great Italian artists such as Carla Accardi, his 2 works on paper: Nero su carta bianca 54/59 (estimated 15,000/20,000 euros) and Rosa Oro 1969 (estimated 10,000/15,000 euros), Mario Schifano, Alfredo Chighine, Alighieri Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Carlo Alfano, Pino Pascali, Gianfranco Baruchello (beautiful his Rumori dal piano di sopra of 1967, 100x100 cm and coming from the Schwarz Gallery (estimated 12,000/16,000 euros) and others.

Also noteworthy is the work NOVEL.LA of 1965 by Antoni Tapies (maqueta for the lithography of the book of the same name and estimated 15,000/20,000 euros), a colorful work made with pastels on paper of 1960 by Wifredo Lam (estimated 20,000/30,000 euros) and a painting and collage on masonite of the Face Series by Karel Appel of 1975, estimates 20,000/25,000 euros.

The catalogue also includes a very interesting section of works from an important collection of contemporary art, among which we mention: Aldo Mondino, Pizzi Cannella, Omar Galliani, Kim Dorland, Luca Pignatelli, Valerio Berruti, Bertozzi and Casoni, Flavio Favelli, Agostino Arrivabene.

The catalogue also includes valuable works by Vedovamazzei, Mario Airò, Giuseppe Stampone, Marcello Lo Giudice, Alfredo Pirri, Fritz Panzer, Meschac Gaba, Diango Hernandez, Charles Avery, Carlos Garaicoa, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio and Andrea Salvino.

The artworks will be on display from 20 May to the date of the auction every day from 11 to 19 at the headquarters in Milan in via Palermo 11.
The auction will take place Live and in presence in Naples from 17.30 on Wednesday, May 29.
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