The Art of Lebanon Part Ii & Modern and Contemporary
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MIDDLE EASTERN ART Wednesday 12 October 2016 12 Wednesday MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY THE ART OF LEBANON PART II & PART LEBANON ART OF THE THE ART OF LEBANON II AND MODERN MIDDLE EASTERN ART Ӏ New Bond Street, London Ӏ Wednesday 12 October 2016 THE ART OF LEBANON PART II Wednesday 12 October 2016, at 14.00 AND MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART Wednesday 12 October 2016, at 14.30 101 New Bond Street, London VIEWING BIDS ENQUIRIES CUSTOMER SERVICES Sunday 9 October 2016 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Nima Sagharchi Monday to Friday 08:30 to 18:00 11:00 - 15:00 +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax +44 (0) 20 7468 8342 +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 Monday 10 October 2016 To bid via the internet please [email protected] 9:00 - 16:30 visit bonhams.com As a courtesy to intending Tuesday 11 October 2016 Ralph Taylor bidders, Bonhams will provide a 9:00 - 16:30 Please note that bids should be +44 (0) 20 7447 7403 written Indication of the physical Wednesday 12 October 2016 submitted no later than 16:00 [email protected] condition of lots in this sale if 9:00 - 12:00 on the day prior to the sale. a request is received up to 24 New bidders must also provide Patrick Meade hours before the auction starts. 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Bonhams 1793 Limited Bonhams 1793 Ltd Directors 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, Jonathan Baddeley, Antony Bennett, Charlie O’Brien, Giles Peppiatt, Peter Rees, Matthew Girling CEO, Matthew Bradbury, Lucinda Bredin, Simon Cottle, John Sandon, Tim Schofield, Veronique Scorer, +44 (0) 20 7393 3900 Patrick Meade Group Vice Chairman, Andrew Currie, Paul Davidson, Jean Ghika, James Stratton, Ralph Taylor, Charlie Thomas, +44 (0) 20 7393 3905 fax Geoffrey Davies, James Knight, Charles Graham-Campbell, Miranda Leslie, Shahin Virani, David Williams, Caroline Oliphant. Matthew Haley, Richard Harvey, Robin Hereford, Michael Wynell-Mayow, Suzannah Yip. Asaph Hyman, David Johnson, Charles Lanning, entra SALE ddese cton Ln osta ar oya INFORMATION cton Ln Cadogan Tate oronaton oad W e d s P a te a o r r n R k A v e R e s A o 40 a y h a ar l C oya Western e 0 R o Staton a 0 d 0 cton 0 North 4 eetery A Acton d Station a o R a i r o t c i V West Acton orn Lane Station BIDS BUYERS COLLECTION & STORAGE AND HANDLING The following symbol is used +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 STORAGE AFTER SALE CHARGES ON SOLD LOTS to denote that VAT is due on +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax LOTS MARKED TP RETURNED TO CADOGAN TATE the hammer price and buyer’s To bid via the internet please visit All sold lots marked TP will be premium www.bonhams.com removed to Cadogan Tate, 241 Storage Acton Lane, London, NW10 7NP Storage will be free of charge for † VAT 20% on hammer price PAYMENTS from 9am Thursday 13 October the first 14 calendar days following and buyer’s premium Buyers 2016. the sale. +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 VAT on imported items at a +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax COLLECTION Charges will apply from 9am preferential* rate of 5% on hammer Sold TP lots will be available for Tuesday 25 October 2016. price and the prevailing rate on Sellers collection from Cadogan Tate from Pictures and small objects: buyer’s premium Payment of sale proceeds 2pm Friday 14 October 2016 and £2.85 per day + VAT +44 (0) 20 7447 7447 then every working day between Furniture, large pictures and large Y These lots are subject to CITES +44 (0) 20 7447 7401 fax 9am and 4.30pm on production objects: £5.70 per day+ VAT regulations, please read the of photographic identification and (Note: Charges apply every day information in the back of VALUATIONS, TAXATION written authorisation for third-party including weekends and Public the catalogue. & HERITAGE collections. 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[email protected] Payment in Advance (Telephone to ascertain amount due) by: cash, cheque with banker’s card, credit, or debit card. Payment at time of collection by: cash, cheque with banker’s card, credit, or debit card. “Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but 1 KAHLIL GIBRAN (LEBANON, 1883-1931) make not a bond of love: let it Unfinished Portrait of a Lady (documented as Fredericka Haskell) oil on canvas rather be a moving sea between executed circa 1912 72 x 94cm (28 3/8 x 37in). the shores of your souls” £20,000 - 30,000 US$26,000 - 40,000 - Kahlil Gibran €23,000 - 35,000 Provenance des Beaux-Arts and studied under Pierre Marcel Béronneau, a well- Property from the collection of Mrs Alexander Morten, Boston known painter and disciple of Gustave Moreau, It is here where he Purchased from the estate of the above by the present owner was schooled in symbolist and aestheticisim, prominent 19th century art movements that would have a marked influence on much of his Literature subsequent work. In a letter to Kahlil dated October 2, 1912, Mary Haskell refers to the artist’s “unfinished portrait” of Fredericka Walling (nee Haskell), Kahlil In Paris as in later life, Gibrain, Gibran mixed with the intellectual Gibran: Man and Poet, Suheil Bushruei elites of his time, including figures such as WB Yeats, Carl Jung and August Rodin, all of whom he also painted. His artistic work drew Bonhams have the rare privilege of presenting the second and last many accolades and in Paris, Gibran succeeded in being invited to work by Kahlil Gibran from the estate of Mr and Mrs Alexander Morten; participate in one of the most prestigious annual exhibitions, the Salon depicting Federicka Haskell, the sister of Gibran’s mentor, patron and d’automne, which counted Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Paul closest friend, Mary Haskell, the unfinished portrait exhibits all the Gauguin among its alumni. grace, finesse and technical excellence that characterized Gibran’s ouevre GIBRAN AND THE HASKELL FAMILY Best known for literary works including The Prophet and The Madman, Gibran held his first art exhibition of his drawings in 1904 in Boston, at Kahlil Gibrain was born in Besharri, Lebanon before immigrating with Day’s studio. During this exhibition, Gibran met Mary Elizabeth Haskell, his family to Boston’s South End in 1895. After completing his literary a respected headmistress ten years his senior. The two formed an and artistic education in Beirut and Paris he returned permanently to important friendship that lasted the rest of Gibran’s life.