The young Léonard Agathon van Weydeveldt, born in Lille, Belgium, in 1841, received his training at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Lille and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris […]
Agathon Léonard – The ‘Jeu de l’Echarpe’
50 Years of the Olympics – When Posters Tell History
A Munich private collection
The year 2022 marks two special anniversaries in connection with the poster collection on offer here. Fifty years ago – in 1972 – the Games of the XX Olympic Games (1972) took place in Munich, and the authoritative graphic designer of the sporting event, Otl Aicher, would have turned 100 this year. Otto, called Otl, […]
The Jacometti Collection
Nesto Jacometti is one of the important publishing personalities of the past century who did pioneering work in the field of artistic prints. In the collection there are numerous prints outside ordinary editions and sheets with dedications to Jacometti. These copies are particularly exciting and exclusive and underline the relationship of the publisher with his artist friends as well as the unique provenance of the prints. […]
Erich Heckel – ‘Am Strand’
Born in the summer of 1883 as the son of a railway engineer, Erich Heckel began his first painting excursions when he was barely twenty years old. He had been friends with the slightly younger Karl Schmidt-Rottluff since 1901, and the two began to combine smaller trips with their passion for creating art. Like his […]
The Dragonfly in Art Nouveau
At the end of the century before last, many artists found their ideals in flora and fauna. A special meaning, also under the influence of Japonism and Symbolism, came to butterflies, which were considered a symbol of beauty and transience of existence. In contrast to this stood the “deceptive and dangerous beauty” of the carnivorous dragonfly. […]
Tiffany Studios – The ‘Apple Blossom’ table light
An article by Alastair Duncan about the extraordinary table light ‘Apple Blossom’, which achieved a record result in our May auctions 2020. […]
Oiva Toikka – Birds
Oiva Kalervo Toikka (1931-2019) is one of Scandinavia’s most important glass artists, and his ‘Birds’ series earned him a prominent place in the history of modern art glass. Oiva Toikka became most famous for his series of glass birds ‘Birds by Toikka’ for Nuutajärvi. Often inspired by real animals, but sometimes born of imagination, […]
‘Les Girls’ by Demètre Chiparus
We are pleased to offer one of the best and most famous works by Demètre H. Chiparus – the group of figures ‘Les Girls’, around 1928. Hardly any other artist has depicted the ‘Années Folles’ in France before the first global economic crisis better than the Romanian Dumitru Haralamb Chiparus. Hailing from a wealthy family, […]
The Marie and David Cooper Collection of Fine Art Deco Sculpture
The First World War had ended. New airs blew across Europe and with those new gusts came a time of renewal, of innovation and of a new freedom in manners, expressions and outlook on life. Germany and France were the main recipients of these changes, there was no going back. Women were the main beneficiaries […]
