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Category :Art Market |
Written by: Silvia Bosi
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Pananti’S Spring Proposals
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Thursday 26 March 2009
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Appointment with antiques scheduled for Saturday 4th April 2009 at the auction house Galleria Pananti at 4.00 pm. In the Florentine venue of Palazzo Ridolfi there will be in a single session an auction of 221 lots, that will be presented at the exhibition open from Friday 27th March to Friday 3rd April, which can be visited from 10 am to 7 pm. Pananti auction house, which has 41 years’ experience as a gallery, has already inaugurated the year 2009 with an auction of authors from the nineteenth and twentieth century and contemporary artists, held on 14th February. The event achieved good results with a high sale percentage: almost all the lots were sold for reasonable figures, but there were also pieces that stood out for their prestige and hammer price – first of all “Paesaggio di Forte dei Marmi” by Carlo Carrà, let go for 45,000€ (net price after purchasing commission).
After this lucky baptism of the 2009 auction season Pananti finds fertile land to now commit to Antiques which, as pointed out several times by the trend of the market in this period, is a sector that is managing to avoid more ably the strikes of the crisis. The type of lots proposed is variegated: contending for the audience’s attention there will be paintings, furniture, marbles, glasses and porcelains.
Top price of this auction is lot 210, a 70×100cm tempera on panel which illustrates the “Vocation of Peter and Andrew”, proposed with an estimate of 180,000-200,000€. It is a unique and precious apograph of the left lunette of the Brancacci Chapel (Santa Maria del Carmine Church in Florence), frescoed in 1424 by Masolino and compromised by a series of interventions executed between 1746 and 1748, then also damaged by a fire in 1871. The author of the apograph – identified by experts in a foreign artist from the late sixteenth century – diligently restored Masolino’s characters and even his fourteenth-century origins. The extended perspective in Masolino style, the specific care in the representation of animals and landscapes, the description of the city according to fourteenth-century taste and the dictates of Lorenzetti, the references to Masaccio and Giotto, recognisable in the robust figures of the two men in the background on the left and in the fisherman low down on the left. The painting in all its golden brightness, also given its documentary nature, was displayed in 1990 at Palazzo Vecchio on the occasion of the exhibition “L’età di Masaccio: il primo Quattrocento a Firenze”. (The age of Masaccio: the early Fifteenth century in Florence).
An interesting lot is represented by a rare series of six paintings, “Architectonic landscapes with figures”, of eighteenth-century Roman school. They are elegant oils on canvas, provided with frames from the same period, in which a neoclassical sense of order stands out, with a sky positioned and framed in a rigorous compositional system. The estimated value proposed ranges between 60,000 and 70,000€.
People passionate about antique furniture and rare pieces will be struck by two chests of drawers, with fine wooden and ivory decorations, probably realised by a Ligurian workshop in the first half of the eighteenth century, conquerable with 50,000-70,000€.
Those who love matching pieces will find interesting two pairs of consoles from the late eighteenth century, in white polish with golden decorations and marble surface, estimated between 20,000 and 30,000€ per couple.
Among the most relevant pieces there is also a canvas depicting “Saint Francis” (estimate 18,000-20,000€), attributed to the artist Girolamo Genga (Urbino, 1476 – 1551) in the opinion of the expert Giuseppe Fiocco, and a tempera on panel of “Virgin with Baby and Saint Giovannino” (estimate 8,000-10,000€), realised by the school of Andrea del Sarto.
Of great impact two particular objects by Galileo Chini (Florence, 1873-1956) polyhedral artist and one of the main interpreters of the Liberty stile in Italy: a bust of nymph in polychromous porcelain is offered for an estimate of 7,000-9,000€, while a red majolica bubble vase, with polychromous stylized decorative motifs, is at auction with an estimate of 9,000-11,000€. An unusual lot is the nativity composed of pieces from different periods (between the eighteenth and the nineteenth century), with an indicated estimate between 20,000 and 25,000€.
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