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New Bond Street, London New Bond Street, I 11 October 2018 Impressionist & Modern Art Modern & Impressionist Impressionist & Modern Art I New Bond Street, London I 11 October 2018 Impressionist & Modern Art New Bond Street, London I Thursday 11 October 2018, 5pm BONHAMS ENQUIRIES PHYSICAL CONDITION IMPORTANT INFORMATION 101 New Bond Street London OF LOTS IN THIS AUCTION The United States Government London W1S 1SR India Phillips PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO has banned the import of ivory into bonhams.com Head of Department REFERENCE IN THIS CATALOGUE the USA. Lots containing ivory are +44 (0) 20 7468 8328 TO THE PHYSICAL CONDITION OF indicated by the symbol Ф printed VIEWING [email protected] ANY LOT. INTENDING BIDDERS beside the lot number in this Saturday 6 October, 11am - 4pm MUST SATISFY THEMSELVES AS catalogue. Sunday 7 October, 11am - 4pm Hannah Foster TO THE CONDITION OF ANY LOT Monday 8 October, 10am - 5pm Department Director AS SPECIFIED IN CLAUSE 14 PRESS ENQUIRIES Tuesday 9 October, 10am - 5pm +44 (0) 20 7468 5814 OF THE NOTICE TO BIDDERS [email protected] Wednesday 10 October, 10am - 5pm [email protected] CONTAINED AT THE END OF THIS Thursday 11 October, 10am - 3pm CATALOGUE. CUSTOMER SERVICES Ruth Woodbridge Monday to Friday SALE NUMBER Specialist As a courtesy to intending bidders, 8.30am to 6pm 24840 +44 (0) 20 7468 5816 Bonhams will provide a written +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 [email protected] Indication of the physical condition +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 Fax CATALOGUE of lots in this sale if a request is £22.00 Aimée Honig received up to 24 hours before the Please see back of catalogue Junior Specialist auction starts. This written for important notice to bidders. ILLUSTRATIONS +44 (0) 20 7468 8276 Indication is issued subject to Front cover: Lot 18 [email protected] Clause 3 of the Notice to Bidders. REGISTRATION Inside front cover: Lot 15 IMPORTANT NOTICE Inside back cover: Lot 35 Frederick Millar Please note that all customers, Back cover: Lot 16 Junior Cataloguer irrespective of any previous activity +44 (0) 20 7468 8251 with Bonhams, are required to BIDS [email protected] complete the Bidder Registration +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Form in advance of the sale. The +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax Condition Reports form can be found at the back To bid via the internet please [email protected] of every catalogue and on our visit www.bonhams.com website at www.bonhams.com and should be returned by email or post Telephone bidding to the specialist department or to Please note that bids should be the bids department at bids@ submitted no later than 4pm on the bonhams.com day prior to the sale. 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Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams International Board Bonhams UK Ltd Directors Registered No. 4326560 Robert Brooks Co-Chairman, Colin Sheaf Chairman, Gordon McFarlan, Andrew McKenzie, Registered Office: Montpelier Galleries Malcolm Barber Co-Chairman, Harvey Cammell Deputy Chairman, Simon Mitchell, Jeff Muse, Mike Neill, Montpelier Street, London SW7 1HH Colin Sheaf Deputy Chairman, Emily Barber, Antony Bennett, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, India Phillips, Matthew Girling CEO, Matthew Bradbury, Lucinda Bredin, Simon Cottle, Peter Rees, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Andrew Currie, Jean Ghika, Charles Graham- Veronique Scorer, Robert Smith, James Stratton, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Asaph Hyman, Caroline Oliphant, Campbell, Matthew Haley, Richard Harvey, Robin Ralph Taylor, Charlie Thomas, David Williams, Edward Wilkinson, Geoffrey Davies, James Knight, Hereford, Charles Lanning, Grant MacDougall, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Jon Baddeley, Jonathan Fairhurst, Leslie Wright, Rupert Banner, Shahin Virani, Simon Cottle. Sale Information BIDS BUYERS COLLECTION & +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 STORAGE AFTER SALE +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax LOTS MARKED TP To bid via the internet please visit www.bonhams.com All sold lots will remain in the collections room at New Bond PAYMENTS Street without charge until 5.30pm Buyers Wednesday 24 October 2018. +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Lots not collected by this time +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax will be returned to the department where storage charges may apply. Sellers Payment of sale proceeds VAT +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Will be applied at the current +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax rate on all above charges VALUATIONS, The following symbol is TAXATION & HERITAGE used to denote that VAT +44 (0) 20 7468 8340 is due on the hammer price +44 (0) 20 7468 5860 fax and buyer’s premium [email protected] † VAT 20% on hammer price CATALOGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS and buyer’s premium To obtain any Bonhams catalogue or to take out * VAT on imported items an annual subscription: at a preferential rate of 5% Subscriptions Department on hammer price and the +44 (0) 1666 502200 prevailing rate on buyer’s premium +44 (0) 1666 505107 fax [email protected] Y These lots are subject to CITES regulations, please SHIPPING read the information in the For information and estimates back of the catalogue. on domestic and international shipping as well as export licenses please contact Alban Shipping on +44 (0) 1582 493 099 [email protected] Specialists for this auction Europe India Phillips Head of Department, London Hannah Foster Department Director, London Ruth Woodbridge Specialist, London Aimée Honig Junior Specialist, London Frederick Millar Junior Cataloguer, London Christine de Schaetzen Specialist, Brussels Benedetta Alpini Specialist, Milan Emilie Millon Junior Specialist, Paris North America Caitlyn Pickens Director, New York Emily Wilson Junior Cataloguer, New York Kathy Wong Specialist, Los Angeles Asia Ryo Wakabayashi Senior Specialist, Tokyo Dorothy Lin Specialist, Hong Kong 1 HENRI MARTIN (1860-1943) Barques à Collioure signed ‘Henri Martin’ (lower right) oil on panel 26.5 x 35cm (10 7/16 x 13 3/4in). Painted circa 1925 £20,000 - 30,000 €22,000 - 33,000 US$26,000 - 39,000 The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Madame Marie-Anne Destrebecq-Martin. This work will be included in the forthcoming Henri Martin catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared. Provenance Private collection, France. Private collection, Belgium (acquired from the above). For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot 8 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART | 9 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE UK COLLECTION 2 HENRI MARTIN (1860-1943) L’église de Labastide du Vert signed ‘Henri Martin.’ (lower right) oil on canvas 107.7 x 79cm (42 3/8 x 31 1/8in). £70,000 - 100,000 €78,000 - 110,000 US$90,000 - 130,000 The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Madame Marie-Anne Destrebecq-Martin. This work will be included in the forthcoming Henri Martin catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared. Provenance Private collection, Dublin (acquired in London circa 1920s - 1930s). Thence by descent to the present owners. Exhibited Dublin, Friends of the National Collections of Ireland, Modern Continental Paintings, August 1944, no. 90 (titled ‘Le village de St. Denis’). Literature ‘French Painters’ Work Exhibited’, in Times Pictorial: The Weekly Irish Henri Martin’s L’église de Labastide du Vert illustrated Times, 12 August 1944 (illustrated; titled ‘Le village de St. Denis’). on the cover of the Times Pictorial, 12th August 1944. Capturing the church and neighbouring bridge over the river Vert, breaking up of tone’ (Henri Martin quoted in Eden Close at Hand: the present work was painted in Labastide-du-Vert, a small village The Paintings of Henri Martin, exh. cat., Beverly Hills, 2005, p. 26). which was to provide the inspiration for many of Henri Martin’s most notable compositions. The artist’s purchase in 1900 of the large 17th The Post-Impressionist Pointillist style with which we most century farmhouse of Marquayrol, perched above the valley, ushered associate Martin was inspired by his new surroundings. In L’église in a change in his painting style and focus to date. Retreating from de Labastide du Vert bold strokes of thickly applied pure pigment busy Parisian life each summer, Martin quickly moved away from his jostle for space, creating a dense, shimmering surface which glows earlier classical influences and mythological scenes, seeking instead and resonates with the light of Southern France. The expressive to capture the ever-shifting light and colours of the countryside: paint surface animates the architectural view which yet retains its classical structure and integrity, perhaps looking back to the artist’s ‘My preoccupation with rendering atmospheric effects increased... tour of Italy as a student. The joyous lemon hues, mints and fern after three months in the country, face to face with nature. Trying to greens which capture the lush summer foliage are characteristic of capture its diverse effects, I was compelled to paint it differently. The the artist’s vibrant palette, as admired by his son Jacques Martin- natural light, now brilliant, then diffuse, which softened the contours of Ferrières: ‘If I look at a fragment of Henri Martin’s canvas..