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BRUUN RASMUSSEN FINE ART + ANTIQUES FINE ART + ANTIQUES Live auction 884 AUCTION 884 • FEBRUARY 2019 884_antik_omslag.indd 1 31/01/2019 14.44 FINE ART + ANTIQUES Live auction 884 AUCTION 26 - 28 February 2019 PREVIEW Thursday 21 February 3 pm - 6 pm Friday 22 February 11 am - 5 pm Saturday 23 February 11 am - 4 pm Sunday 24 February 11 am - 4 pm Monday 25 February 11 am - 5 pm or by appointment Bredgade 33 · DK-1260 Copenhagen K · Tel +45 8818 1111 [email protected] · bruun-rasmussen.com Lot 17 DAYS OF SALE FINE ART AND ANTIQUES Tuesday 26 February 4 pm Paintings 1 - 103 Books and manuscripts 104 - 124 Wednesday 27 February 2 pm Antiquities, furniture, clocks, bronzes and carpets 125 - 281 Silver, glass and porcelain 282 - 303 6 pm Wristwatches 304 - 356 Thursday 28 February 4 pm Jewellery and handbags 357 - 557 MODERN ART AND DESIGN Tuesday 5 March 4 pm Paintings, sculptures and photos Wednesday 6 March 2 pm Paintings and sculptures Prints Thursday 7 March 2 pm Silver and decorative art Furniture, lamps and carpets DEADLINE FOR CLAIMING ITEMS: WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH Items bought at this auction must be paid no later than eight days from the date of the invoice and claimed on Bredgade 33 by Wednesday 20 March at the latest. Otherwise, they will be moved to Bruun Rasmussen’s storage facility at Baltikavej 10 in Copenhagen at the buyer’s expense and risk. This transportation will cost DKK 150 per item VAT included, and storage will cost DKK 150 per item per week VAT included. MALERIER + ANTIKVITETER Traditionel auktion 884 Lot 37 MALERIER + ANTIKVITETER Traditionel auktion 884 AUKTION 26. - 28. februar 2019 EFTERSYN Torsdag 21. februar kl. 15 - 18 Fredag 22. februar kl. 11 - 17 Lørdag 23. februar kl. 11 - 16 Søndag 24. februar kl. 11 - 16 Mandag 25. februar kl. 11 - 17 eller efter aftale Bredgade 33 · 1260 København K · Tel +45 8818 1111 [email protected] · bruun-rasmussen.dk SPECIALISTS IN FINE ART AND ANTIQUES Paintings Asian art Birte Stokholm Ralph Lexner +45 8818 1122 +45 8818 1161 [email protected] [email protected] Paintings Ceramics Julie Arendse Voss Charlotte Hviid +45 8818 1123 +45 8818 1162 [email protected] [email protected] Paintings Silver and pocket watches Søren K. Holmstrup Heidi Schophuus Jensen +45 8818 1127 +45 8818 1163 [email protected] [email protected] Books and manuscripts Ceramics Lærke Bøgh Alexandra Nilsson +45 8818 1217 +45 8818 1164 [email protected] [email protected] Jewellery Ceramics Katrin Mikkelsen Sørensen Line Hjorth Langkjær +45 8818 1174 +45 8818 1166 [email protected] [email protected] Jewellery and handbags Ceramics Lise Jacobsen Torben Friis Møller +45 8818 1175 +45 8818 1165 [email protected] [email protected] Wristwatches Furniture and carpets Henrik Jørgensen Henrik Schleppegrel +45 8818 1168 +45 8818 1145 [email protected] [email protected] Furniture, bronzes and clocks Anders Fredsted +45 8818 1142 [email protected] Director of sales Representative France + Belgium Kasper Nielsen Ditte Herborg Krogh +45 8818 1121 +33 6 6185 4564 [email protected] [email protected] International relations Representative USA Frederik Bruun Rasmussen Sandra Septimius +45 8818 1003 +1 718 764 7601 [email protected] [email protected] Silver and branding Sales and Shipping Alexa Bruun Rasmussen Kirsten MacDonald +45 8818 1091 +45 8818 1095 [email protected] [email protected] AUKTIONSKALENDER MALERIER OG ANTIKVITETER Tirsdag 26. februar kl. 16 Malerier 1 - 103 Bøger og manuskripter 104 - 124 Onsdag 27. februar kl. 14 Antikker, møbler, bronzer, ure og tæpper 125 - 281 Sølv, glas og porcelæn 282 - 303 kl. 18 Armbåndsure 304 - 356 Torsdag 28. februar kl. 16 Smykker og tasker 357 - 557 MODERNE KUNST OG DESIGN Tirsdag 5. marts kl. 16 Malerier, skulpturer og fotografier Onsdag 6. marts kl. 14 Malerier og skulpturer Grafik Torsdag 7. marts kl. 14 Sølv og kunsthåndværk Møbler, belysning og tæpper SIDSTE FRIST FOR AFHENTNING: ONSDAG DEN 20. MARTS Genstande købt på denne auktion skal være betalt senest 8 dage efter fakturadatoen og afhentet i Bredgade 33 senest onsdag den 20. marts I modsat fald bliver de transporteret til Bruun Rasmussens lager på Baltikavej 10 i Københavns Nordhavn for købers regning og risiko. Transporten koster 150 kr. pr. genstand inkl. moms, og opbevaringen koster 150 kr. pr. genstand pr. påbegyndt uge inkl. moms. Foredrag Bredgade 33, København Torsdag 21. februar kl. 14, auktionssalen “Tendenser på kunstmarkedet” ved vurderings- og salgsdirektør Kasper Nielsen Gallery Talks Fredag 22. februar kl. 14, 1. sal ”Planteværket Flora Danica – et ægte barn af oplysningstiden” ved specialist i bøger og manuskripter Lærke Bøgh Lørdag 23. februar kl. 14, mødested receptionen ”Antikker – En rejse fra Ægypten til Romerriget” ved specialist i ældre kunsthåndværk Alexandra Nilsson Søndag 24. februar kl. 14, 1. sal ”Smykkehuset Tiffany & Co.s historie” ved smykkespecialist Katrin Mikkelsen Sørensen Mandag 25. februar kl. 14, auktionssalen ”To mesterværker: Wegners Delfinstol og Juhls Egypterstole” ved designspecialist Peter Kjelgaard Alle foredrag og Gallery Talks foregår på dansk Lot 26 Children of the Danish Golden Age, The ”Flora Danica” Books and a Cockpit Clock for Airplanes A small boy with his drum, a girl with a green dress about plants. In keeping with the spirit of the En- and plump arms and the big brother in a shirt with lightenment, the work was intended to help spread a ruffled collar, who lovingly holds his sister around the knowledge of Danish flora. It was the botanist the shoulder. Portraits of the bourgeoisie as a genre G.C. Oeder, who in 1753 presented the idea to King were central to the Danish Golden Age artists, and in Frederik V, and the beautiful work was created in a 1827 the painter C.A. Jensen made a very fine pain- collaboration between scientists, copper printers and ting depicting the influential Puggaard family’s three painters. Due to the enormous size of the work, it children, Arnette Marie Bolette, Hans Christopher was first completed over 120 years later. In total, the Wilhelm and Rudolph Christopher. The father, Hans offered example consists of 3240 hand-coloured Puggaard, was an enterprising businessman, while plates with wild-growing plants from the Kingdom of the mother Bolette defied the norms of the time for Denmark (cat. no. 109). women and became an avid landscape painter. The We go even further back in time with a number of Puggaard home also functioned as a cultural meeting antiquities, such as a 2000-year-old female head, place for the democratically oriented artists, intellec- a capital of a column from the Roman Empire and tuals and politicians of the time (cat. no. 14). an Egyptian canopic jar. The jar originates from We stay a little longer in the Danish Golden Age. A 1292–1191 BC and has been used to store the internal few months ago, we sold Martinus Rørbye’s painting organs from embalmed corpses. The lid is designed as from Amalfi to the Nivaagaard Collection, a museum a face depicting Imsety, son of the Egyptian sky god north of Copenhagen. Now we follow up with another Horus (cat. no. 130, 135 and 127). Golden Age treasure by the same artist – this time From antiquities to antiques – the catalogue contains from his honeymoon in Italy in 1840. The setting is an exceptionally fine collection of bronzes. A pair of by the water in Palermo overlooking the Catalfano large late Empire candelabra from the beginning of mountain. Three men are sitting on the pier, while the 19th century by the French bronze caster Pierre the people of the city stroll along the harbour pro- Philippe Thomire are among the highlights together menade. The work’s creation and the experiences on with a mantel clock, which with an alligator and a Sicily are described in Rørbye’s diary, which states, woman dressed in a feather suit is an allegory of the among other things, ”they call my painting una ga- United States. The clock can be seen, like many other lanteria, because they recognize everything they see works of art from around 1800, as a tribute to the in the world in the painting” (cat. no. 11). Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ”Homme Copenhagen as a motif has been favoured throug- Naturel” (cat. no. 152 and 203). hout Danish art history, and this time we can present On the last pages of the catalogue, we find a selection the Golden Age painter Christen Købke’s depiction of of the finest jewellery and most elegant wristwatches. Garnisonspladsen (present-day Sankt Annæ Plads) Most people interested in diamonds will probably be and the later Paul Fischer’s lively depiction of Kon- thrilled by a platinum ring with a 10.00 ct. princess- gens Nytorv with his wife Musse in the foreground. cut diamond or a vintage necklace from Tiffany & Co. Depictions of women can also be found in the work with brilliant- and square-cut diamonds totalling app. of Fischer’s contemporary, the artist Peter Ilsted, with 12.00 ct. Finally, we take to the skies with quite the three works containing women with their back tur- collector’s item – Heuer’s cockpit clock for airplanes ned. The special mood of silence in these works il- in the form of a Rally Master from 1976. The owner lustrates the artistic connection to the colleague and has used it in his private plane for 44 years and over a brother-in-law Vilhelm Hammershøi. The women combined distance of one million kilometres, which is were also a fond motif of L.A.