OMNP previews select lots from Sotheby’s sale of Old Master paintings next week in New York.
Our picks from this sale include works by Lorenzo Monaco, Frans Hals, Guercino, and Lucas Cranach the Elder. The painting by J.M.W Turner is undoubtedly the breadwinner for this sale is an allegorical landscape from the prestigious collection of art world vet Richard Feigen.
While this painting has gotten most of the pre-auction press, OMNP is taking more interest in the understated (and less pricey) beauty of pieces like the Monaco biblical scene, or the portrait of Lucretia by Lucas Cranach the Elder. While both paintings have different stylistic origins and are from different periods, their use of tidy lines, and deep, exotic colouring (particularly the pomegranate-like tones of Monaco’s depiction of Hermogenes, and Cranach the Elder’s florid mixture of flat tones of cream, orange, and green) imbues them with a mystique that is both pious and surreal.
Further coverage:
Lot 8
PROPERTY FROM AN EAST COAST PRIVATE COLLECTION
LORENZO MONACO
ACTIVE 1389 – 1423 OR 1424 FLORENCE(?)
THE MAGUS HERMOGENES CASTING HIS MAGIC BOOKS INTO THE WATER
Estimate: $800,000—1,200,000 USD
Lot 10
PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN COLLECTION
JAN BRUEGHEL THE ELDER
BRUSSELS 1568 – 1625 ANTWERP
A WOODED RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH SPORTSMEN
Estimate: $150,000—200,000 USD
Lot 12
LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER, LUCAS CRANACH THE YOUNGER
LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER, KRONACH 1472 – 1553 WEIMAR; LUCAS CRANACH THE YOUNGER, WITTENBERG 1515 – 1586
LUCRETIA
Estimate: $800,000—1,200,000 USD
Lot 18
SOLD BY THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART TO BENEFIT FUTURE ACQUISITIONS
– LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER
KRONACH 1472 – 1553 WEIMAR
PORTRAIT OF A BEARDED YOUNG MAN
Estimate: $600,000—800,000 USD
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Lot 25
PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE MIDWEST COLLECTOR
JAN HAVICKSZ. STEEN
LEIDEN 1626 – 1679
THE DOCTOR’S VISIT
Estimate: $900,000—1,200,000 USD
Lot 27
PROPERTY OF LUIGI KOELLIKER
CARLO DOLCI
FLORENCE 1616 – 1687
SAINT JEROME IN PRAYER
Estimate: $250,000—350,000 USD
Lot 31
PROPERTY FROM THE LONDON RESIDENCE OF LUIGI KOELLIKER
GERRIT VAN HONTHORST
UTRECHT 1590 – 1656
A LAUGHING VIOLINIST, HALF-LENGTH, WEARING A BLUE AND YELLOW STRIPED DOUBLET AND A PLUMED CAP, WITH A VIOLIN TUCKED UNDER HIS ARM
Lot 40
PROPERTY FROM THE HEIRS OF HERBERT VON KLEMPERER
HENDRICK TER BRUGGHEN
DEVENTER 1588 – 1629 UTRECHT
BAGPIPE PLAYER IN PROFILE
Estimate: $4,000,000—6,000,000 USD
Lot 43
PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN COLLECTOR
PIETER BRUEGHEL THE YOUNGER
BRUSSELS 1564 – 1637/8 ANTWERP
ST. GEORGE’S KERMIS WITH THE DANCE AROUND THE MAYPOLE
Estimate: $1,500,000—2,000,000 USD
Lot 45
PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
FRANS HALS
ANTWERP 1581/5 – 1666 HAARLEM
PORTRAIT OF A MAN HOLDING A PAIR OF GLOVES
Estimate: $8,000,000—12,000,000 US
Lot 46
PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
FRANS HALS
ANTWERP 1581/5 – 1666 HAARLEM
PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN HOLDING A HANDKERCHIEF
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Lot 51
LUDOVICO CARRACCI
BOLOGNA 1555 – 1619
THE MADONNA AND CHILD ENTHRONED WITH ANGELS, SAINT DOMINIC, SAINT FRANCIS, THE MAGDALENE, AND A FEMALE DONOR: THE “BARGELLINI MADONNA”
Estimate: $500,000—700,000 USD
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Lot 56
– TIZIANO VECELLIO, CALLED TITIAN
PIEVE DI CADORE CIRCA 1485/90 (?) – 1576 VENICE
PORTRAIT OF AN ADMIRAL, PROBABLY FRANCESCO DUODO (1518-1592), HALF LENGTH, WEARING ARMOUR
Estimate: $1,500,000—2,000,000 USD
Lot 57
GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI, CALLED IL GUERCINO
CENTO 1591 – 1666 BOLOGNA
SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST IN PRISON VISITED BY SALOME
Estimate: $750,000—950,000 USD
Lot 58
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
GIULIO CESARE PROCACCINI
BOLOGNA 1574 – 1625 MILAN
THE CAPTURE OF CHRIST
Estimate: $600,000—800,000 USD
Lot 63
JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY, A.R.A. 1795
DERBY 1734-1797
A COTTAGE ON FIRE: A MOONLIT LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES BY A BURNING COTTAGE AND THE RUINS OF A CASTLE BEYOND
Estimate: $350,000—550,000 USD
Lot 70
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER
PARIS 1703 – 1770
APOLLO AND THE MUSES
Estimate: $150,000—200,000 USD
Lot 82
PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN COLLECTION
THÉODORE GÉRICAULT
ROUEN 1791 – 1824 PARIS
TWO HORSES IN A STABLE
Estimate: $400,000—600,000 USD
Lot 83
PROPERTY FROM AN ESTATE
STUDIO OF GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO
VENICE 1697 – 1768
VENICE, A VIEW OF PIAZZA SAN MARCO, LOOKING WEST FROM SOUTH OF THE CENTRAL LINE
Estimate: $200,000—300,000 USD
Lot 87
MICHELE MARIESCHI
VENICE 1710 – 1743
VIEW OF THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE, WITH THE FONDACO DEI TEDESCHI
Estimate: $300,000—400,000 USD
Lot 92
PROPERTY FROM THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF RICHARD L. FEIGEN, NEW YORK
JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER R.A.
LONDON 1775 – 1851
THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER PANELLENIUS RESTORED
Estimate: $12,000,000—16,000,000 US
Lot 104
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROGER AND AUDREY TUTEUR
SOUTH NETHERLANDISH SCHOOL, CIRCA 1530
PORTRAIT OF A NOBLEMAN
Estimate: $30,000—50,000 USD
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Lot 116
ATTRIBUTED TO GERRIT DOU
LEIDEN 1613 – 1675
HERMIT AT PRAYER
Estimate: $40,000—60,000 USD
Lot 126
PROPERTY OF A SOUTH AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
EMANUEL DE WITTE
ALKMAAR CIRCA 1617 – 1691/2 AMSTERDAM
INTERIOR OF A PROTESTANT GOTHIC CHURCH
Estimate: $30,000—50,000 USD
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Lot 132
JOACHIM ANTHONISZ. WTEWAEL
UTRECHT 1566 – 1638
VENUS AND ADONIS
Estimate: $60,000—80,000 USD
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Lot 145A
PROPERTY OF A CALIFORNIA PRIVATE COLLECTOR
GUIDO RENI
CALVENZANO DI VERGATO 1575 – 1642 BOLOGNA
THE PENITENT SAINT PETER
Estimate: $150,000—200,000 USD
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Lot 153
CIRCLE OF SIR PETER PAUL RUBENS
JACOB AND ESAU
Estimate: $25,000—35,000 USD
Lot 189
ATTRIBUTED TO GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO
VENICE 1696 – 1770 MADRID
THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Estimate: $50,000—70,000 USD
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