The Martin Cohen Collection: Final Chapter New York | October 6 & 7, 2020 The Martin Cohen Collection: Final Chapter New York Tuesday October 6, 2020 at 11am | Lots 1 to 213 Wednesday October 7, 2020 at 11am | Lots 216 to 426 BONHAMS BIDS INQUIRIES ILLUSTRATIONS 580 Madison Avenue +1 (212) 644 9001 New York Front cover: Interior New York, New York 10022 +1 (212) 644 9009 fax Benjamin Walker Inside front cover: Lot 22 bonhams.com Global Head of Department Opposite page: Lot 420 To bid via the internet please visit +1 (212) 710 1306 Inside back cover: Lot 89 Back cover: Mixed lots AUCTIONEER www.bonhams.com/26575 [email protected] Jacqueline Towers-Perkins - 2068426-DCA Please note that telephone bids Dan Tolson REGISTRATION must be submitted no later than International Director IMPORTANT NOTICE Bonhams & Butterfields 4pm on the day prior to the +1 (917) 206 1611 Please note that all customers, Auctioneers Corp. auction. 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Jason Stein should be returned by email or Friday October 2 Director post to the specialist department 10am to 5pm Please see pages 327 to 331 [email protected] or to the bids department at Saturday October 3 for bidder information including +1 (323) 436 5466 12pm to 5pm Conditions of Sale, after-sale [email protected] Sunday October 4 collection and shipment. David Trujillo To bid live online and / or 12pm to 5pm Specialist leave internet bids please Monday October 5 +1 (323) 436 5405 go to www.bonhams.com/ 10am to 5pm [email protected] auctions/26575 and click on the Register to bid link 26575 SALE NUMBER: Katherine Miller at the top left of the page. Lots 1 - 426 Administrator +1 (323) 436 5445 CATALOG: $50 [email protected] LOT SYMBOLS W - Oversized lots Y - CITES Bonhams © 2020 Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp. All rights reserved. Specialists for this auction New York Benjamin Walker Global Head of Department Dan Tolson International Director Misha Sylver Administrator Los Angeles Jason Stein Director David Trujillo Specialist Katherine Miller Business Administrator London Marcus McDonald Department Director Gemma Sanders Head of Department Milan Paris Benedetta Alpini Specialist Catherine Yaiche Director Session One - Historical Art & Design Tuesday October 6, 2020 at 11am | Lots 1 to 213 1 FRATELLI TOSO (1902-1980) Three Murrine Vases circa 1920 blown murrine glass (3) heights 2 3/4in (7cm); 2 1/2in (6cm); 1 1/2in (4cm) $300 - 500 1 (group of three) 4 | BONHAMS 2 FRATELLI TOSO (1902-1980) Murrine Vase circa 1920 murrine glass height 6 3/4in (17cm); diameter 3in (7.5cm) $300 - 500 2 3 FRATELLI TOSO (1902-1980) Small Murrine Floreali Vase circa 1900 blown murrine glass height 3in (8cm); diameter 1 1/4in (3.3cm) $500 - 800 3 MODERN DECORATIVE ART + DESIGN | 5 4 FRATELLI TOSO (1902-1980) Murrine Floreali Vase circa 1900 blown murrine glass with applied handles height 4 1/4in (11cm); diameter 3in (7.5cm) $500 - 700 4 5 FRATELLI TOSO (1902-1980) Murrine Floreali Vase circa 1900 blown murrine glass with applied handles height 6 3/4in (17cm); diameter 4 3/4in (12cm) $500 - 700 5 6 | BONHAMS 6 FRATELLI TOSO (1902-1980) Murrine Pitcher circa 1910 blown murine glass height 7in (18cm); width 4 1/2in (11.5cm) $500 - 700 6 7 FRATELLI TOSO (1902-1980) Twin-Handled Murrine Vase circa 1910 blown and applied murrine glass internally decorated with aventurine height 5in (12.5cm); diameter 2 3/4in (7cm) $600 - 800 8 MODERN DECORATIVE ART + DESIGN | 7 8 ARTISTI BAROVIER (1890-1919) Murrine Floreali Vase circa 1910 applied blown glass height 2 1/2in (6cm); diameter 1 3/4in (4.5cm) $1,000 - 1,500 8 9 GIUSEPPE BAROVIER (1853-1942) Vase circa 1920 internally decorated blown glass height 2in (5cm); diameter 1 1/2 (4cm) $1,200 - 1,800 10 No lot. 9 8 | BONHAMS 11 ARTISTI BAROVIER (1890-1919) Twin-Handled Macchie a Fili Floreali Vase circa 1920 blown and applied glass height 14in (35cm); diameter 6 1/2in (16.5cm) $2,000 - 3,000 MODERN DECORATIVE ART + DESIGN | 9 12 ARTISTI BAROVIER (1890-1919); ATTRIBUTED TO Murrine Vase circa 1910 glass applied with murrines height 4in (10cm); diameter 2in (5cm) $300 - 500 13 No lot. 12 14 FRATELLI TOSO (1902-1980) Murrine Flower Bowl and Cover circa 1920 blown and applied glass height 3in (8cm); diameter 4 1/2in (11.5cm) $300 - 500 14 10 | BONHAMS 15 FRATELLI TOSO (1902-1980) Murrine Vase circa 1920 murrine glass height 4 1/2in (11cm); diameter 2 1/2in (6.5cm) $3,000 - 5,000 Provenance Marina Barovier, Venice Rossella Junck, Venice Acquired from the above by the present owner 15 16 FRATELLI TOSO (1902-1980); ATTRIBUTED TO Murrine Floreali Vase circa 1920 deep indigo glass applied with flowers murrines height 9in (23cm); diameter 4in (10cm) $1,500 - 2,000 16 MODERN DECORATIVE ART + DESIGN | 11 17 FRATELLI TOSO (1902-1980) Twin-Handled Murrine Vase circa 1920 blown glass applied with murrines height 6 1/4in (16cm); width 3 1/2in (9cm) $1,000 - 1,500 Provenance Private Collection, Buenos Aires Acquired from the above by the present owner 17 18 ARTISTI BAROVIER (1890-1919) Murrine Floreali Vase circa 1920 blown glass applied with murrines height 4in (10cm); diameter 3in (8cm) $4,000 - 6,000 18 12 | BONHAMS 19 VINCENZO MORETTI (1835-1901) Murrine Dish circa 1880 for Compagnia Venezia Murano, within fitted case, murrine glass height 1 1/4in (3cm); diameter 6 3/4in (17cm) $15,000 - 20,000 Provenance Private Collection, Buenos Aires Acquired from the above by the present owner MODERN DECORATIVE ART + DESIGN | 13 20 20 21 MASRIERA Y CARRERAS (FOUNDED 1917) PAUL GRANDHOMME (1851-1944) Box Allegory of Fable, after Gustav Moreau circa 1930 circa 1890 silver, silver-gilt, enamel, stamped ‘MASRIERA Y CARRERAS 916’ enamel on copper, silver gilt, pearls, signed ‘Grandhomme E’ lower height 3/4in (2cm); width 5 1/4in (13.5cm); depth 2 3/4in (7cm) left, and ‘-Gustave Moreau’ lower right, French hallmark stamped to frame $1,000 - 1,500 height of plaque 2 ½in (6.5cm); width 2in (5cm); height of frame 3 1/4in (8cm); width 2 ½in (6.5cm) $15,000 - 25,000 Paul Grandhomme initially trained as an apprentice jeweler but developed a strong interest in enamels after reading Claudius Popelin’s history of enameling while working as a librarian during the Franco-Prussian war. His enamel creations were at first unsuccessful, though he later found an audience and supplied Parisian jeweler Boucheron small enamel plaques to be inserted into exquisite jewelry. Grandhomme also collaborated with jeweler Lucien Falize, and silversmith Jules Brateau with whom he made the celebrated gold and enamel ‘Secret’ casket now in the Musee des art decoratifs, Paris (inv. 17461). 14 | BONHAMS 21 From 1877, Grandhomme worked with his ex-pupil Alfred Garnier, and mask, carried by a hippogriff, symbols that might allude to Moreau’s together they produced enamels, winning a gold medal at the 1889 attitude towards fables - the didactic function disguised by comedy. Universal Exhibition in Paris. They created approximately fourteen The use of nude females and mythological creatures is not uncommon works after paintings by symbolist Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), two in Moreau’s work, and this particular subject would have been pleasing of these, Sapho, 1895, and Hélène, 1893, are in the Musee d’Orsay, to Grandhomme who is known to have drawn inspiration from the Paris (OAO 1169 and OAO 192); another, Hercules and the Twelve female nude. Labors, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2011.257). Roux’s edition of Fontaine’s Fables was never published, and Moreau’s The present work is after Moreau’s watercolor Allegory of Fable, paintings were subsequently acquired by Miriam Alexandrine de painted between 1879-1885 as part of a series commissioned by Rothschild (1884-1965), though almost half of them were lost during art collector Antony Roux to illustrate a new edition of Jean de la the Nazi era. The remaining paintings are featured as the exhibition, Fontaine’s fables. Roux originally commissioned several fashionable Gustave Moreau: The Fables, displayed at Waddesdon Manor, and at artists of the period, including Doré, Lami, Baudry, Derôme, Ziem, the Musee National de Gustave Moreau, Paris, both in 2020. and Moreau, and exhibited over 150 watercolors at the Cercle des Aquarellistes, held at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1881. When Moreau’s Literature paintings were the most admired, Roux decided to commission a For a discussion on Moreau and his watercolors for the Fables, see further thirty-nine illustrations, thus assigning Moreau the task of Carey, Juliet Gustave Moreau: The Fables, Paul Holberton, 2020 illustrating the entire work. Allegory of Fable was intended as the frontispiece to the publication. It shows a partially-draped nude female personification of Fable, a whisk in her hand, and holding a comedy MODERN DECORATIVE ART + DESIGN | 15 22 22 ITALIAN SCHOOL Carved Plaque depicting Franz Josef I of Austria beasts in various contortions.