On Tuesday, Oct. 28, Spazio Bolaffi in Turin (Corso Verona 34/D) is hosting anauction of furniture, paintings and objets d’art by Aste Bolaffi. The sale’s extensive and varied catalog includes a total of 716 lots ranging from the 16th to the 20th century and covering numerous areas of antiquarian collecting. The selection includes paintings of great historical and artistic interest, ceramics, silverware, furniture, carpets and decorative objects, offering a comprehensive panorama of European and Oriental art and craft production, with a focus on the19th and early 20th centuries. Among the top lots in the catalog is an important painting by Giacomo Antonio Ceruti, known as il Pitocchetto, a preparatory sketch for the altarpiece of theOratory of San Rocco in Rivergaro, in the lower Trebbia Valley (Piacenza), now preserved in the Parish Church of Sant’Agata in the same locality. Lot (164) has a base of 40,000 euros and represents a unique opportunity for collectors to acquire a major work directly related to the sacred production of the Milanese master.
Other notable lots include a mirror attributed to the manufacture of Michelangelo Guggenheim (lot 335, base 20,000 euros) and an impressive historicist canvas by Lorenzo Delleani (lot 342, base 6,500 euros), which testifies to the narrative power and chromatic elegance of late 19th-century painting. Also notable is the presence of a nucleus of four works by Emilio Longoni (lots 393, 394, 395, 399), all historicized and published, with bases between 6,500 and 35,000 euros. The paintings were acquired around 1920 by Milanese industrialist Remigio Cusini directly from the artist’s studio and are now offered on the market for the first time, representing a singular opportunity for collectors and museums interested in Italian Divisionist and Symbolist painting.
The proposal is enriched by a rare watercolor scroll by Edgar George Papworth depicting a view of Naples (lot 443, base €16,000), evidence of the English artist’s romantic sensibility and his ability to reinterpret urban landscapes with refined elegance. The section devoted to nineteenth-century painting features works of great interest: these include Alberto Pasini with a lot with a base of 8,000 euros (lot 538), Filippo Palizzi with two works in the catalog (lots 568 and 586, bases of 7,000 and 4,000 euros, respectively) and Angelo Morbelli, whose Veduta del lago d’Iseo (lot 646) has a base of 7,000 euros. Morbelli’s work, an oil on panel signed and dedicated “al Dott. Sig. Rossenda,” is a valuable example of the luministic sensibility of the master of Lombard social painting.
Sculptures include a bronze by Vincenzo Gemito (lot 639, base €3,000), a testament to the refined Neapolitan sculptural production of the late 19th and early decades of the 20th century. The sale also includes a jewel box attributed to Cesare Roccheggiani, decorated with micromosaics depicting famous Roman monuments (lot 493, base 5,000 euros), and a group of 16th-17th-century bronzes depicting prancing horses, made on models by Virgilio Fanelli (lot 157, base 6,000 euros).
The auction also features several lots of great interest in silverware and tableware. These include a Christofle silver-plated metal tea and coffee service (lot 647, base €200) and an elegant Saracchi silver and wood service (lot 681, base €700), consisting of teapot, coffee pot, milk jug and sugar bowl with en suite tray, a typical example of early 20th-century Milanese high production. Also of note is the Fabergé vodka and caviar set (lot 707, base 500 euros), made of cobalt crystal and gilded bronze, and the Fabergé Limoges porcelain jewelry box sets (lots 708 and 709, bases 125 and 50 euros), part of the famous Imperial Collection.
The section devoted to carpets and textile artifacts offers fine examples, such as Persian Qashqai carpets (lot 696, base 300 euros), 20th-century Anatolian carpets (lot 658, base 200 euros), Indian kilims (lot 704, base 100 euros) and 20th-century Persian prayer rugs, Semnan (lot 705, base 400 euros).
The sale also includes several lots of fine furnishings. These include a 19th-century walnut desk with fillet inlays and five drawers (lot 657, base €300), a small coeval desk with pull-out shelf and four drawers (lot 650, base €200), a pair of red veined marble columns with Corinthian capitals (lot 666, base €175), and an impressive set of furniture and mirrors, including period mirrors and frames (lots 668, 679 and 700, bases between €100 and €300).
The decorative arts section is rounded out with lamps and collectibles, including a fine purple acid-etched glass lamp by Émile Gallé (lot 667, base 1,500 euros) and an imposing, electrified, lamp-mounted flask by Pilgrim Minton’s Art Pottery (lot 686, base 350 euros). The presence of fine porcelain, such as the Limoges and Hermès services (lots 660, 710-716, bases from 100 to 500 euros), testifies to the quality and variety of the artifacts selected by Aste Bolaffi.
Notable paintings include works by Felice Carena(Paesaggio presso Cumiana, lot 651, base 600 euros;Bassano, lot 653, base 600 euros), Giuseppe Gheduzzi(Casolari a Champoluc, lot 652, base 400 euros), Paolo Serra(Natura morta con mele e arance, lot 655, base 200 euros; I papaveri, lot 665, base 300 euros), Carlo Follini(La spiaggia 1920, lot 671, base 250 euros), Henri M. Charousset(On the Beach, lot 673, base 100 euros), Andrea Marchisio(La bella al bagno 1917, lot 674, base 600 euros), Alessandro Lupo(Mountain Landscape, lot 675, base 1,500 euros), Italo Mus(Damilan Bridge 1940, lot 676, base 1.500 euros), Giuseppe Sobrile(Cascatella 1955, lot 677, base 250 euros), Carlo Musso(Paesaggio innevato, lot 701, base 2,500 euros), Cesare Maggi(Paesaggio con pascolo 1924, lot 702, base 1,500 euros; Alpeggio 1923, lot 703, base 2,500 euros), Nicola Arduino(Ritratto femminile 1944, lot 680, base 200 euros) and others.
The auction also includes works of graphic art and engraving: Pierre-Auguste Renoir with Le chapeau épinglé (lot 688, base €150), Female Figures (lot 690, base €400), Sur la Plage à Berneval 1892 (lot 689, base €150); Francesco Mennyey(Torino in Borgo Dora, lot 692, base 100 euros); Nicola Rossini(Guardando dalla Pilotta 1982, lot 691, base 100 euros); and Adolfo Rolla(Coppia di paesaggi invernali 1956-1957, lot 693, base 500 euros). Notable sculptures include Virgilio Audagna’s busts of children, in bronze from 1927 (lot 694, base 150 euros) and in terracotta from 1921 (lot 695, base 100 euros).
Collectors will also be able to appreciate unique decorative objects, including a 20th-century truffle set (lot 715, base €75), pairs of Hermès and 20th-century porcelain coffee cups (lots 710-711, bases €50-250), Hermès ashtrays (lots 712-713, bases €120 each), and a Hermès square tray in Limoges (lot 716, base €200).
The auction at Spazio Bolaffi represents a unique opportunity to acquire high-quality historical works, furniture and decorative objects, with a careful and curated selection spanning different styles, eras and provenances. The variety of lots, from paintings to silverware, porcelain to textiles, furniture to collectibles, testifies to the richness of the Italian and European artistic heritage and offers collectors, enthusiasts and museums the opportunity to come into possession of pieces of great aesthetic and historical value.
The auction thus includes a wide range of works from 19th-century masters such as Morbelli, Palizzi and Delleani, to early 20th-century protagonists such as Carena, Maggi and Longoni, to objects of great refinement made by the most famous manufacturers, such as Christofle, Fabergé, Limoges and Hermès. On Oct. 28, Spazio Bolaffi is confirmed as a point of reference for the antiques market in Turin and nationwide, with a catalog to meet the needs of the most demanding collectors.
Check out the auction on the Bolaffi Auctions website to discover all the lots: https: //astebolaffi.it/it/auction/827
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