Francisco Residence
Svelati molti dei capolavori della collezione Ann & Gordon Getty, uno dei tesori leggendari d’America all’asta da Christie’s a New York attraverso una serie di vendite a partire da ottobre 2022. In attesa dei cataloghi, ecco tutti gli highlight già rivelati
Un tour-de-force di capolavori selezionati meticolosamente da una delle collezioni più apprezzate della storia. Quasi 1.500 opere tra arti decorative e fine art provenienti dalla residenza della coppia Ann & Gordon Getty a San Francisco saranno offerte all’asta da Christie’s in quattro aste live (20-23 ottobre) e sei vendite online (tra il 10 e il 25 ottobre). I proventi, che si stimano intorno ai $ 180 milioni, andranno a beneficio della Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation for the Arts, dedicata al sostegno di organizzazioni artistiche e scientifiche.
1988
Photographed By Bruce Forrester
Gordon Getty ha commentato: «Sebbene ci abbia lasciati troppo presto, so che Ann sarebbe orgogliosa che il frutto del suo occhio squisito sia condiviso con il mondo e che la pianificazione filantropica attorno alla nostra collezione d’arte si stia realizzando. Queste vendite sono una continuazione degli obiettivi filantropici di lunga data della famiglia Getty, stabiliti per la prima volta da mio padre, J. Paul Getty».
© 2022 Visko Hatfield for Christie’s
La collezione di qualità museale propone i migliori esempi di mobili inglesi ed europei, opere d’arte asiatiche, ceramiche europee, porcellane cinesi, argenti, tessuti e dipinti impressionisti e antichi. Vivida, audace e ricca di storia, la collezione evoca l’età d’oro delle grandi case d’Inghilterra e il mitico Grand Tour, i gusti esotici delle corti europee e le imprese delle donne avventuriere, come Isabella Bird in India e Gertrude Bell in Medio Oriente.
Gli highlight della collezione che sono già stati svelati da Christie’s:
Rue de la Citadelle, Pontoise
signed and dated ‘C. Pissarro 1873’ (lower right) oil on canvas
211⁄8 x 287⁄8 in. (53.6 x 73.2 cm.)
Painted in 1873
$1,500,000-2,500,000 | £1,300,000-2,100,000 | €1,500,000-2,500,000
Bateaux dans le port de Honfleur
signed ‘Claude Monet’ (lower right) oil on canvas
191⁄4 x 251⁄2 in. (49 x 64.8 cm.)
Painted in 1866
$2,000,000-3,000,000 | £1,700,000-2,500,000 | €2,000,000-2,900,000
Moret-sur-Loing au soleil couchant
signed and dated ‘Sisley. 92.’ (lower right) oil on canvas
253⁄8 x 321⁄4 in. (65.6 x 81.6 cm.)
Painted in 1892
$800,000-1,200,000 | £660,000-980,000 | €790,000-1,200,000
Venise, vue prise de San Giorgio
signed, dated and inscribed ‘E. Boudin Venise 95.’ (lower right) oil on canvas
191⁄2 x 287⁄8 in. (49.6 x 73.4 cm.)
Painted in 1895
$500,000-800,000 | £410,000-650,000 | €490,000-780,000
Lavacourt, l’hiver
signed ‘Claude Monet’ (lower left) oil on canvas 20x26in.(50.6x66cm.)
Painted in 1879
$2,500,000-3,500,000 | £2,100,000-2,900,000 | €2,500,000-3,400,000
Bouquet de jardin
signed ‘Fantin’ (lower right) oil on canvas
197⁄8 x 241⁄4 in. (50.6 x 61.4 cm.)
Painted in 1900
$600,000-900,000 | £500,000-740,000 | €590,000-880,000
Pieds d’alouette
signed and dated ‘Fantin. 88’ (lower left) oil on canvas
281⁄2 x 241⁄8 in. (72.5 x 61.3 cm.)
Painted in 1888
$500,000-700,000 | £410,000-570,000 | €490,000-680,000
Le vase bleu sombre
oil on canvas
121⁄4 x 105⁄8 in. (31.1 x 27 cm.)
Painted circa 1880
$500,000-700,000 | £410,000-570,000 | €490,000-680,000
Bouquet, vase chinois
signed ‘H Matisse—’ (lower left)
oil on board laid down on cradled panel 285⁄8 x 211⁄4 in. (72.5 x 53.8 cm.)
Painted in 1901
$3,000,000-5,000,000 | £2,500,000-4,100,000 | €3,000,000-4,900,000
Le pavot noir
signed ‘ODILON REDON’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
283⁄4×211⁄4in.(73x54cm.)
$1,000,000-1,500,000 | £830,000-1,200,000 | €990,000-1,500,000
Fleurs et livres
signed, dated and dedicated ‘p Gauguin 82 a mon ami Bertaux’ (upper left) oil on panel
47⁄8 x 71⁄4 in. (12.4 x 18.4 cm.)
Painted in 1882
$200,000-400,000 | £170,000-330,000 | €200,000-390,000
‘Le Verrou’ (The bolt)
with inscription ‘fragonard’ (lower right)
red chalk, brush and brown ink, touches of pen and brown ink, pen and brown ink framing line, watermark shield with Strasbourg Lily surmounted by a crown and ‘[D] & J. C. BLAUW’
93⁄8×143⁄8in.(24×36.5cm.)
$800,000-1,000,000 | £660,000-820,000 | €790,000-980,000
Three head studies of a girl wearing a hat
black and red chalk, graphite, watermark with letters ‘[…OA…ENE]’
51⁄2 x 93⁄4 in. (14 x 24.7 cm.)
$1,500,000-2,500,000 | £1,300,000-2,100,000 | €1,500,000-2,500,000
Ballerine Spagnole al Moulin Rouge
oil on canvas
381⁄4 x 311⁄2 in. (97.2 x 80 cm.)
Painted circa 1905
$1,500,000-2,000,000 | £1,300,000-1,600,000 | €1,500,000-2,000,000
L’amaca
signed and dated ‘Boldini/1873’ (lower left)
oil on panel
67⁄8 x 113⁄8 in. (17.2 x 28.9 cm.)
$600,000-800,000 | £500,000-650,000 | €590,000-780,000
Deux danseuses sur la scène
signed ‘Degas’ (upper right)
oil on paper laid down on panel 65⁄8 x 85⁄8 in. (17 x 21.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1880
$1,200,000-1,800,000 | £990,000-1,500,000 | €1,200,000-1,800,000
Le Bain (Femme dans sa baignoire)
signed ‘Degas’ (lower center) pastel over monotype on paper
Image size: 15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 28 cm.) Sheet size: 151⁄2 x 115⁄8 in. (39.5 x 29.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1886
$1,500,000-2,500,000 | £1,300,000-2,100,000 | €1,500,000-2,500,000
Attente d’un client
signed ‘Degas’ (lower right)
pastel and charcoal over monotype on paper
image size: 61⁄2 x 43⁄4 in. (16.4 x 12.1 cm.) sheet size: 71⁄2 x 55⁄8 in. (19 x 14.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1879
$700,000-1,000,000 | £580,000-820,000 | €690,000-980,000
Le Lit
signed and dated ‘TLautrec 98’ (upper right) peinture à l’essence on panel
161⁄8 x 121⁄2 in. (41 x 31.6 cm.)
Painted in 1898
$3,000,000-5,000,000 | £2,500,000-4,100,000 | €3,000,000-4,900,000
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Of quatrefoil form, each seat is finely enameled on the rounded sides and flat tops with elegant floral scrolls with polychrome stylized blossoms reserved on a cobalt blue ground, the lobed sides with shaped open panels framed by pairs of pink bats and blue dragons revealing an interior gu-shaped central column further decorated with floral scroll, archaistic dragons, and bats amidst clouds, all raised on four gilt bracket feet.
191⁄4 in. (49 cm.) high
$80,000-120,000 | £66,000-98,000 | €79,000-120,000
INDIA, JAIPUR, 19TH/20TH CENTURY
Supported on a hollow foot-ring, the exterior richly enamelled with four peacocks and flowering plants in red, emerald-green, and blue on a pale lavender ground, interspersed by four diamond-inlaid flowers, the underside also decorated with a similar diamond rosette
11⁄2 in. (3.8 cm.) high; 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) wide $1,000-1,500 | £820-1,200 | €980-1,500
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Each crane is shown standing on a brightly colored grassy mound above a faceted base. The body of each bird is decorated with a dense pattern of gilt wires with separately made wings, and with each clutching a branch of lingzhi in the beak that forms a pricket candlestick
91 and 921⁄2 in. (231 and 235 cm.) high $80,000-120,000 | £66,000-99,000 | €79,000-120,000
Vaslav Nijinsky in ‘Danse Siamoise’
signed ‘J. E. Blanche’ (lower right) oil on canvas 87×475⁄8in.(221x121cm.)
Painted circa 1911
$1,000,000-1,500,000 | £830,000-1,200,000 | €990,000-1,500,000
Venice, the Piazzetta San Marco with the Festival of Giovedì Grasso
signed in monogram ‘F.G.’ (in one of the arches, lower right) oil on canvas
111⁄2x21in(32×53.5cm)
$500,000-700,000 | £410,000-570,000 | €490,000-680,000
Venice, the Grand Canal looking South, from the Ca’ Da Mosto toward the Rialto Bridge
oil on canvas
237⁄8 x 371⁄8 (60.8 x 95.5 cm)
$3,000,000-5,000,000 | £2,500,000-4,100,000 | €3,000,000-4,900,000
$6,000,000-10,000,000
Il calendario delle aste:
20 ottobre, h. 18.00 | LIVE AUCTION 21604
The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 1 | Important Pictures and Decorative Arts, Evening Sale
21 ottobre, h. 10:00 | LIVE AUCTION 21605
The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 2 | Old Master, 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Day Sale
22 ottobre, h. 10:00 | LIVE AUCTION 21606
The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 3 | English and European Furniture, Porcelain and Silver, Day Sale
23 ottobre, h. 10:00 | LIVE AUCTION 21607
The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 4 | Chinese Works of Art, English and European Furniture and Decorative Arts, Day Sale
qui il calendario delle aste online
foto: © Christie’s Images Limited 2022
