A collection of 36 works, belonging to the Charlemagne Foundation, will be auctioned on Oct. 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the halls of the Arcadia Auction House in Rome. The entire proceeds (estimated at around one million euros) will go to fund the Periferiacapitale program, an initiative aimed at upgrading Rome’s suburbs through social inclusion and cultural enhancement projects. The sale represents an encounter between collecting and solidarity, in which art becomes a concrete tool for urban regeneration. The sale’s catalog includes works by internationally prominent artists and old masters. Among the most anticipated lots are two paintings by Auguste Renoir, Jeune Femme au Corsage Rouge et au Chapeau Jaune with an auction base of 50,000 euros and Tête de Femme with an auction base of 20,000 euros. These will be joined by Pierre Bonnard’s color composition La Seine à Vernon with auction base 50,000 euros.
The top lot of the auction will be Chaïm Soutine’s La Femme du Cordonnier, an oil of intense expressive force with an exhibition itinerary that includes Zurich, Turin, and Paris, and supported by extensive bibliographic documentation. The auction base of 200,000 euros makes it one of the most anticipated pieces of the season. The catalog also includes works by Maurice Utrillo, with Rue Norvis à Montmartre (auction base 20,000 euros), Max Ernst(Tableau Ivre, 1960, auction base 50,000 euros), Paul Signac, Pablo Picasso, Édouard Vuillard, Kees van Dongen, Eugène-Louis Boudin, Pierre-Albert Marquet, and Katsushika Hokusai. For those who love ancient art, the collection features works by Francesco Fieravino known as the Maltese, Peter Hardimé, Cornelis van Poelenburgh and a view of Venice attributed to Francesco Guardi.
“This will be an event,” says Massimo Tagliatesta, director of Arcadia, “in which collecting meets solidarity, and beauty becomes an opportunity for rebirth for the suburbs.”
“The collaboration with Arcadia will allow us to transform a legacy of beauty into living energy for the city,” saysStefaniaMancini, president of Charlemagne Foundation, “the proceeds will support paths of urban and social regeneration that arise from the suburbs and tell the vision of a more supportive, cohesive and inclusive Rome.”
The works will be on public display at Arcadia’s headquarters Oct. 16-19, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Oct. 20 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. A preview will be reserved on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 6 p.m. for collectors, institutions, press and a selected clientele, with the participation of Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri. The Periferiacapitale program aims to enhance urban communities in the capital, supporting processes of participation and mutualism, and promoting social inclusion and justice in neighborhoods. The project has worked with more than one hundred territorial realities in all of Rome’s municipalities, flanking cultural, educational and social initiatives with the aim of building lasting and shared changes. The Charlemagne Foundation has identified seven main areas of intervention: Philanthropy, Social Economy, Civic Poles, Decentralization, Public Heritage, Shared Culture and Sustainable Development.
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