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® WEDNESDAY AUCTION FEBRUARY 8, 2017 DENNING& FOURCADE ® AUCTION Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 10am SPECIALISTS EXHIBITION Saturday, February 4, 10am – 5pm Sunday, February 5, Noon – 5pm Monday, February 6, 10am – 6pm LOCATION Doyle 175 East 87th Street New York City 212-427-2730 www.Doyle.com A special section of the February 8 Doyle at Home auction showcases Denning and Fourcade redefined luxurious interiors with their furniture, decorations and art from a Fifth Avenue home decorated unique interpretation of Belle Epoque opulence. Extravagance in by Denning & Fourcade. For forty-five years, from 1960 until 2005, color, pattern and texture informed every design decision, from the design partnership of Denning & Fourcade created luxurious furniture and decorations to wallcoverings and upholstery. Chairs interiors for such influential tastemakers as Oscar de la Renta and and sofas weren’t simply upholstered, they were couture creations Carolyne Roehm. The pair’s signature style, an extravagant marriage of billowing tufts and pleats executed in richly patterned fabrics of le goût Rothschild with its rich brocades and lavish passementerie fastened with decorative tacks in elaborate patterns or trimmed in and English floral chintz in a dizzying color palette, was uniquely deep bullion fringe. The rich passementerie of the draperies CATALOGUE their own. recalled the flamboyant costumes of a grand demimondaine of the fin de siècle. Every room glowed with flattering rosy light emanating $10 Denning & Fourcade’s clients included Lazard Frères chairman from the pair’s trademark lamp shades, fantasies in silk pleats, elaborate Michel David-Weill and his wife Hélène, Lillian and Ogden Phipps, braiding and multicolor fringe. No detail was deemed too small, no View the free, fully illustrated Internet catalogue Francoise and Oscar de la Renta, Bolivian tin magnate Antenor Patiño, decision deemed too minor; the whole was a marvelous sum of myriad Fiat heiress Susanna Agnelli, Henry Kissinger, Diana Ross, Jean Vanderbilt unique parts, each skillfully selected by two remarkable designers. and leave bids online at Doyle.com and Jayne Wrightsman. In 1985, Denning and Fourcade completed their best known project, the Park Avenue duplex of fashion designer Property from a Fifth Avenue home decorated by Carolyne Roehm and her then-husband, financier Henry Kravis. Denning & Fourcade comprises lots 150 through 218. The interiors of this luxurious residence served as inspiration for the film version of Tom Wolfe’s novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities. 7 13 PAINTINGS Emile Bernard David Burliuk French, 1868-1941 Man with Pipe (Self Portrait) 1 Harvesting, circa 1890 Signed Burliuk (lr) Early 20th Century School Signed Emile Bernard (ll) Oil on canvasboard INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATES OF CONTENTS Portrait of a Spanish Maiden Watercolor and crayon on brown paper 8 x 10 inches Oil on canvas 7 x 8 inches While this work traditionally has been Donald Brenwasser Paintings 1 - 124 28 x 24 inches Provenance: identified as a self-portrait, and while Roberta K. Cohn & Richard A. Cohn, Ltd Prints 125 - 149 C Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York the subject does bear a resemblance to $500-700 Patricia M. De Bary Property from a Fifth Avenue Home C the artist, it has been suggested that it may $700-1,000 represent Larry Hastings, a neighbor George C. Dillon Living Trust Decorated by Denning & Fourcade 150 - 218 2 of the Burliuks in Hampton Bays. Julian C. Eisenstein, Washington, DC Property from Various Owners 219 - 511 Maud Earl 8 The interior depicted may possibly be British/American, 1864-1943 Frederick James Boston The Mr. & Mrs. James R. Foster Collection Furniture & Decorations 219 - 368 his living room. Golden Pheasant in Expansive Landscapes American, 1855-1932 C Property from a Private New York State Collector Dorothy J. Henry Silver & Silver Plate 369 - 386 and Ducks in an Inslet: Three Girl at a Window $2,500-3,500 Mary Kettaneh Furniture & Decorations 387 - 402 One signed Maud (lr); Signed F.J. Boston (ll) two signed MAUD EARL Jan Adriaan Laan of Bloemendal, the Netherlands Books & Bindings 403 - 414 Oil on canvas 14 Each oil on board 18 x 12 inches Attributed to Giuseppe Canella Anne Murray Furniture & Decorations 415 - 425 37 1/2 x 65 1/2; C Landscape with a Mother and Child A New York Estate Chandeliers & Lighting 426 - 432 37 1/2 x 65 and 51 x 41 7/8 inches $800-1,200 Near a Lake C Estate of Anne Murray A New York and Connecticut Estate Furniture & Decorations 433 - 488 Oil on canvas $2,000-4,000 9 13 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches (33.7 x 46.3 cm) Susanne Schnitzer Carpets & Rugs 489 - 511 Jacques Bouyssou C The Thurston Collection The Collection of Cecilia and Willem Schupf 3 French, 1926-1997 $400-600 American School Elizabeth Stoerk Honfleur, Le Port 19th Century Signed Jacques Bouyssou (ll), 15 The Thurston Collection Girl in Red inscribed as titled on the reverse Professor Andrea Marchioso Lorenzo Villasenor Oil on canvas Oil on canvas Italian, 1850-1927 29 3/4 x 25 inches Dorothy Wassyng 25 3/4 x 32 inches Old Songs, 1903 Glossary I C Property from a New Jersey Collector C Signed A. Marchisio and dated 03 (ll) Eunice Johnson Winslow $700-900 $1,000-1,500 Oil on board laid to panel Conditions of Sale II 20 1/8 x 14 5/8 inches Terms of Guarantee IV 4 10 Exhibited: Information on Sales & Use Tax V Berndt Anderson British School Italian Exhibition, May-Oct., 1904, Swedish, 19th Century 19th Century Earl’s Court, London Buying at Doyle VI INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM Shore View, 1895 Gibraltar C Selling at Doyle VIII Signed Berndt Anderson and dated 95 (ll) The Art Students League, New York, to be sold for the benefit Inscribed Through Calpe’s Straits survey $800-1,200 Auction Schedule IX Oil on canvas the steepy shore;/Europe and Africa of the Institution 37 x 54 1/2 inches on each other’s gaze!/Lands of dark-eyed 16 Company Directory X An English Lady C maid and dusky Moor/Alike beheld beneath John Mulcaster Carrick Absentee Bid Form XII $800-1,200 A Fifth Avenue Home Decorated by Denning & Fourcade pale Hecate’s blaze on the reverse British, 1833-1896 Oil on board The Coast of Guernsey The Metropolitan Museum of Art 5 9 3/8 x 18 1/4 inches Monogrammed (ll) A Mid-Atlantic Museum to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund J. Andhree-Petit C Oil on canvas French, 19th/20th Century A New England Collection $700-1,000 41 x 32 inches La Rosererie Bagatelle, 1922 Provenance: A New Jersey Collector Signed J. Andhree Petit and dated 11 John Hamilton Trist, Vernon Terrace, A New York State Collection Juin 1922 (lr); signed and inscribed as titled British School Brighton (possibly; partial label on on reverse A Pennsylvania Collector 19th/20th Century the frame) Oil on canvas Ezra’s Return from Babylon C A Private New Jersey Collector 45 x 57 1/2 inches Initialed E.B. (ll) $2,000-4,000 Collection of Sheldon and Marcia Sacks Provenance: Oil on canvas Christie’s East, N.Y., 1997, lot 250, 30 x 20 inches 17 November 25, Sale 8039 C Cecile Chenneviere C $700-1,000 French, b. 1851 $1,000-1,500 (i) Pruning 12 Signed C. Chenneviere (lr) 6 British School, 19th Century Watercolor on paper Yolande Ardissone Spaniel in a Landscape 17 5/8 x 13 1/8 inches French, b. 1927 Oil on canvas (ii) Watering La Portes Bleues 10 x 13 3/4 inches Signed C. Chenneviere (lr) Signed Ardissone (lr), inscribed as titled on • Watercolor on paper the stretcher $500-700 18 1/8 x 13 5/8 inches Oil on canvas C 29 x 36 inches $1,200-1,800 Provenance: Wally Findlay Galleries, New York C $2,000-4,000 VISIT DOYLE.COM FOR UPDATED INFORMATION AND IMAGES 5 18 25 31 36 42 47 Pierre de Clausade Dietz Edzard European School Agnes de Frumerie Arthur Clifton Goodwin Andre Hambourg French, 1910-1976 German/French, 1893-1963 18th Century French/Swedish, 1869-1937 American, 1864-1929 French, 1909-1999 Clouds Over a Bend in the River The Ballerina The Good Samaritan Mother and Child, 1901 Early Morn, Winthrop A Versailles, 1972 Signed P. de Clausade (ll) Signed D Edzard (lr) Inscribed indistinctly and dated 1741 (ll) Signed Agnes de Frumiere, inscribed Signed AC Goodwin (ll), Signed a. hambourg (lr); initialed a. h. and Oil on canvas Oil on canvas Red chalk on laid paper Paris, dated 1901 and stamped Debose inscribed as titled on the reverse inscribed with title and date on the reverse; 25 1/2 x 36 1/4 inches 19 1/2 x 24 inches 11 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (29.2 x 24.8 cm); Bronze with dark brown patina Pastel on cardboard inscribed indistinctly on the stretcher C C Together with French School, 19th Century, Height 9 inches 18 7/8 x 23 3/4 inches avec...livre de L. XIV/maniere de mont... $1,200-1,800 $3,000-5,000 Middle Eastern Army On the Move, signed with C Estate of Mary Kettaneh C Estate of Donald Brenwasser les jardins de Versailles initials MB (ll), inscribed on the verso in graphite $800-1,200 $700-900 Oil on canvas 19 26 pencil David’s life (?), brown and gray ink 7 1/8 x 16 1/4 inches Attributed to Edith Corbet William Columbus Ehrig wash on paper laid down to a second sheet 37 43 Provenance: Hound in a Landscape American, 1892-1973 7 1/2 x 11 inches (19 x 28 cm); European School, Francois Gall Luis Graner y Aruffi Wally Findlay Galleries, Chicago Inscribed E.