{"lots":[{"startPrice":400,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17665/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17665/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17665/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17665/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"raoul edmond marie (1852-1925)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"raoul edmond marie (1852-1925) | french \n \n sunlit towpath on the seine , 1892 \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed and dated \u2018raoul marie 92\u2019 (lower right). \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 50 × 67 cm | 19.7 × 26.4 in \n artwork: 38 × 55 cm | 15 × 21.7 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on what appears to be the original stretcher. the paint layer is stable with a fine network of age craquelure, most visible in the sky; light surface dirt and some rubbing to the edges where the frame sits. presented in a painted wooden frame with wear to the finish. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a quiet reach of the seine on a summer afternoon: the towpath runs along the right bank under a tall plane tree, its shadow broken into pools of sunlight, while poplars and willows close the far bank and a brick wall and gate-pier mark the edge of a riverside property. the water is still, the sky a pale haze. painted in 1892, it is a typical subject for raoul edmond marie, who spent his life at bougival, downstream from paris, and painted the river and its banks between bougival and saint-germain-en-laye for four decades. \n \n marie (1852\u20131925) belongs to the generation that followed sisley and monet to the seine villages, but his manner stays closer to the plein-air realism of the 1880s than to impressionism: an even, careful light, firm drawing of trees and buildings, and a palette of greens and greys enlivened by the flecks of sun on the path. he exhibited in paris, notably at the salon des indépendants."},"estimateMax":800,"lotNumber":"1","title":{"en":"sunlit towpath on the seine, 1892"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17665/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":400,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.384Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac600 - \u20ac800","currency":"EUR","id":17665,"estimateMin":600},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17666/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17666/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17666/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17666/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17666/005/005.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"xavier desparmet fitz-gerald (1861-1941)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"xavier desparmet fitz-gerald (1861-1941) | french \n \n the riverbank at cormont , c. 1900's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed and dated \u2018x. desparmet fitz-gerald 190[.]\u2019 (lower right, the last figure indistinct); inscribed \u2018cormont\u2019 (lower left). \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 70 × 84 cm | 27.6 × 33.1 in \n artwork: 48.5 × 65 cm | 19.1 × 25.6 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined. a cross-shaped tear with associated paint loss in the sky, upper centre, about 8 cm across each way, unrestored and visible from the front; age craquelure across the sky; light surface dirt. presented in a dark moulded frame with wear. offered as a restoration project and priced accordingly. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a still stretch of water on a soft autumn morning: a rowing boat pulled up on the grass bank, a fisherman with his rod at the water\u2019s edge, pollarded willows and a bare tree against a pale sky, and across the river a small town climbing its hill, red roofs and a church tower caught in the haze. the light is silvery, the handling fine and even, in the tradition of the late plein-air landscape of the bordeaux school. \n \n xavier desparmet fitz-gerald (1861\u20131941), a painter from the gironde who worked in bordeaux and algeria, is better remembered today as the author of the first catalogue of goya\u2019s paintings, l\u2019œuvre peint de goya (1928\u20131950), still cited in the goya literature. his own paintings are quiet river views of the garonne and its neighbours, of which this is a characteristic example, signed and dated at the beginning of the century and inscribed with the place."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"2","title":{"en":"the riverbank at cormont, c. 1900's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17666/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.389Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac300 - \u20ac500","currency":"EUR","id":17666,"estimateMin":300},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17667/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17667/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17667/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17667/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"jean-charles millet (1892-1944)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"jean-charles millet (1892-1944) | french \n \n the bridge and the porte de bourgogne, moret-sur-loing , c. 1920's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018j. ch. millet\u2019 (lower right). \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 43.5 × 53.5 cm | 17.1 × 21.1 in \n artwork: 34 × 41.5 cm | 13.4 × 16.3 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined. a small area of abrasion and loss in the sky to the left of the gate-tower, about 1 cm, visible from the front; otherwise the paint layer is stable with light surface dirt. presented in a black and gilt frame with wear. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n the old stone bridge over the loing with its mill-houses on the piers leads to the porte de bourgogne, the medieval gate-tower of moret-sur-loing, with the gabled houses of the town behind under a warm, hazy sky. it is the view sisley painted again and again in the 1880s and 1890s, taken here from the river bank below the bridge, the water glinting under the arches. \n \n jean-charles millet (1892\u20131944), grandson of jean-françois millet, lived and painted in the barbizon country at the edge of the forest of fontainebleau, of which moret is the southern gate. his landscapes keep the barbizon palette of browns, greys and dull greens, laid on broadly, with the architecture drawn in with a few firm strokes. signed with the abbreviated form \u2018j. ch. millet\u2019 he used on his paintings."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"3","title":{"en":"the bridge and the porte de bourgogne, moret-sur-loing, c. 1920's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17667/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.391Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - \u20ac300","currency":"EUR","id":17667,"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":400,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17668/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17668/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17668/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17668/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"alfred swieykowski (1869-1953)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"alfred swieykowski (1869-1953) | french \n \n the harbour at saint-malo , c. 1920's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed and inscribed \u2018swieykowski / st malo\u2019 (lower left). \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 34 × 48 cm | 13.4 × 18.9 in \n artwork: 26 × 40.5 cm | 10.2 × 15.9 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher. the paint layer is stable; scattered small flecks of old loss and rubbing in the thickest impasto of the quay and along the edges, consistent with a plein-air sketch; light surface dirt. presented in a modern gilt frame with a white slip. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n the inner harbour of saint-malo in bright, cold light: a fishing boat with a red deckhouse lies against the quay, two cranes stand on the far side of the basin, and beyond them the granite ramparts and the tall slate-roofed houses of the walled town rise against a turquoise sky. a single figure walks along the quay on the right. the paint is thick and fast, the pale stone of the quays laid on in loaded, ridged strokes, the water scraped in with a few greens and greys. \n \n alfred swieykowski (1869\u20131953), a parisian of polish descent and a pupil of cormon, was a painter of the seine, the alps and the coasts who exhibited at the salon des artistes français for half a century and took a silver medal at the 1937 exposition internationale. this small, vigorous panel-sized canvas, inscribed with the place, is a plein-air sketch of the kind he made on his travels; the town is shown as it stood before the destruction of 1944."},"estimateMax":700,"lotNumber":"4","title":{"en":"the harbour at saint-malo, c. 1920's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17668/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":400,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.393Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac500 - \u20ac700","currency":"EUR","id":17668,"estimateMin":500},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17669/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17669/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17669/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"louis andré mourgues (1886-1962)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"louis andré mourgues (1886-1962) | french \n \n the harbour mole, saint-tropez , c. 1930's \n \n oil on panel \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018l. mourgues\u2019 (lower left). \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 32.5 × 40.5 cm | 12.8 × 15.9 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on a prepared wooden panel with the paris colourman\u2019s stamp of mme merlin-denis on the reverse. the heavy impasto is stable; a few tiny flakes of loss at the thickest ridges and some rubbing at the edges; unframed. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a curving stone mole leads the eye into a mediterranean harbour: red and purple nets are spread to dry along the quay, a fishing boat with an awning is moored to the right, and across the blue water the town rises in a row of ochre houses with red roofs and shuttered windows, a church tower and a hill behind. the sky is a pale mauve, and the whole picture is built up in thick, troweled paint, the white parapet of the mole standing in ridges a centimetre high. \n \n louis andré mourgues (1886\u20131962), born at la crau in the var, settled at sainte-maxime on the gulf of saint-tropez, where he began as a sign-painter and became the painter of the town, its harbour, its fishermen and its chapels; he received the palmes académiques in 1929 and one of his paintings was chosen to decorate the liner france. the view here, a mole, a quay with nets and a town on the far shore, is the harbour he painted all his life, seen from the breakwater."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"5","title":{"en":"the harbour mole, saint-tropez, c. 1930's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17669/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T21:04:05.487Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - \u20ac300","currency":"EUR","id":17669,"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17670/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17670/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17670/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17670/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"louis iselin"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"louis iselin | french \n \n boats on the shore at sunset , 1938 \n \n oil on panel \n \n \n signed: signed and dated \u2018l. iselin 1938\u2019 (lower left). \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 61 × 111 cm | 24 × 43.7 in \n artwork: 50 × 100 cm | 19.7 × 39.4 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on wood panel. the paint layer is stable; light surface dirt and a few small scuffs along the lower edge; some rubbing to the gilding of the carved frame. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a wide, panoramic shore at the end of the day: three boats drawn up on the dark red beach, a breakwater of white buildings running out into the bay, a line of blue hills under a sky that turns from violet to yellow and green where the sun has just gone. the water is laid in with short, broken strokes of turquoise, lilac and lemon that catch the last light, in the divisionist manner that french and mediterranean painters kept alive well into the 1930s. \n \n the format, twice as wide as it is high, and the low horizon make this a painting about sky and water rather than incident; the boats are the only solid things in it. it is dated 1938 and painted on a wooden panel, framed in a carved and gilded frame of the period."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"6","title":{"en":"boats on the shore at sunset, 1938"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17670/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.398Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac300 - \u20ac500","currency":"EUR","id":17670,"estimateMin":300},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17671/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17671/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17671/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17671/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"christian theodor schütz (b. 1915)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"christian theodor schütz (b. 1915) | german \n \n winter sunset in the forest , c. 1950's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed (lower right); the artist\u2019s printed biographical label on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 65 × 55 cm | 25.6 × 21.7 in \n artwork: 50 × 40 cm | 19.7 × 15.7 in \n \n \n provenance: \n historia, berlin, germany, 1 september 2026, lot 7360. \n acquired at the above sale by the present owner. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher. the paint layer is stable and clean, with no losses observed. presented in a pale wooden frame. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a rutted track runs through a birch wood under snow towards a low sun that burns orange through the bare branches; three figures walk away down the road, a woman with a basket comes towards us, and the gable of a cottage shows against the glow. the whole canvas is keyed to the one warm light, the snow taking up the pink of the sky and the trees drawn in fine dark lines against it. \n \n the subject, the winter forest at dusk, is the classic motif of the düsseldorf landscape school of the nineteenth century, and christian theodor schütz, born in düsseldorf in 1915 and trained at its school of applied arts, painted it in that tradition well into the post-war years. the printed label on the reverse, in four languages, records his training and his exhibitions in paris, düsseldorf, berlin, bern and ottawa."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"7","title":{"en":"winter sunset in the forest, c. 1950's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17671/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.400Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - \u20ac300","currency":"EUR","id":17671,"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":10000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17672/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17672/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17672/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17672/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"wolf kahn (1927-2020)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"wolf kahn (1927-2020) | german-american \n \n lilac haze , 1994 \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018w kahn\u2019 (lower right); titled, dated and numbered \u2018#21a. 1994 lilac haze\u2019 on the stretcher bar; dated and numbered \u2018#1994 / 21a\u2019 on the reverse of the canvas. \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 56 × 74.5 cm | 22 × 29.3 in \n \n \n provenance: \n private collection, new york. \n acquired from the above in the 2000s; thence by descent. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on the artist\u2019s stretcher with a central vertical bar. the paint layer is stable; minor rubbing to the pale band along the upper edge, a little fine craquelure in the impasto of the lower right corner around the signature, and light surface dirt. the unpainted tacking margins are frayed, as is usual with the artist\u2019s canvases; unframed. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a wall of tall, thin trunks rises out of a band of bright green meadow and dissolves into a lilac haze; at the top the crowns break into soft patches of yellow, lime and mint against a pale pink sky. the trunks are drawn in quick strokes of white, rose and blue over the violet ground, and across the foot of the canvas a strip of the same lilac lies in the green like the reflection of the wood in standing water. nothing is outlined: the trees exist as vertical rhythm and the light as colour. \n \n this is wolf kahn at the height of his mature manner. a pupil and studio assistant of hans hofmann in new york in the late 1940s, kahn (1927\u20132020) spent the rest of his life painting the woods, barns and meadows around his farm in southern vermont in colours no landscape painter had dared before him, keeping the motif while handling the canvas as a colour-field painter would. stands of trees seen through atmosphere, here in violet, elsewhere in orange or magenta, were his favourite subject of the 1990s. the painting carries on the stretcher and the reverse the inventory number kahn gave each of his canvases, year and sequence, as \u2018#21a. 1994\u2019."},"estimateMax":30000,"lotNumber":"8","title":{"en":"lilac haze, 1994"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17672/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":10000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.402Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac20,000 - \u20ac30,000","currency":"EUR","id":17672,"estimateMin":20000},{"startPrice":300,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17673/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17673/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17673/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17673/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"guy legendre (b. 1946)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"guy legendre (b. 1946) | french \n \n the boatyard at saint-valery , c. 1970's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed (lower right); inscribed \u2018legendre (st valery)\u2019 on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 70 × 80 cm | 27.6 × 31.5 in \n artwork: 50 × 61 cm | 19.7 × 24 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined. the paint layer is stable and clean; a few tiny flecks of loss at the extreme edges under the frame rebate. presented in a gilt frame with wear. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a fishing boat with two masts sits on its launching trailer on the quay, hull freshly painted blue and red, while two men in blue stand beside it; a green and red caravan is parked to the left, a row of brick and slate houses closes the background and, to the right, a lawn runs down to the water where small yachts lie at anchor. the sky is a mass of grey-pink cloud with breaks of blue. \n \n the canvas is inscribed on the reverse with the place, saint-valery, the harbour town of the somme bay on the picardy coast where boats are still hauled out on the quays. guy legendre painted the ports of the channel coast, le tréport and saint-valery among them, in a bright, square-brushed manner that belongs to the post-war french school of harbour painting. the picture is unusually direct for the genre: no picturesque sails, but a working boat out of the water and the people who look after it."},"estimateMax":600,"lotNumber":"9","title":{"en":"the boatyard at saint-valery, c. 1970's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17673/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":300,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.404Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac400 - \u20ac600","currency":"EUR","id":17673,"estimateMin":400},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17674/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17674/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17674/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"marcel cramoysan (1915-2007)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"marcel cramoysan (1915-2007) | french \n \n village with a church tower , c. 1960's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018cramoysan\u2019 (lower left). \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 33 × 41 cm | 13 × 16.1 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher. the paint layer is stable with a fine craquelure in the thinly painted sky; light surface dust; unframed. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a hill village of ochre and rust-red houses climbs towards a church whose square tower and pointed spire stand against a pale turquoise sky; in the foreground a farm building with a dark barn arch, a cart with red wheels and a track of warm earth lead into the picture. the paint is laid on with the knife in dry, scumbled strokes, the colours of the walls, sand, brick and burnt sienna, set off by the cool sky. \n \n marcel cramoysan (1915\u20132007), pupil of pinchon and one of the last painters of the école de rouen, travelled through provence, spain and italy for subjects like this one; the village here, with its southern light and its tall spire, is one of his southern motifs, painted with the warm, earthy palette he kept for them."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"10","title":{"en":"village with a church tower, c. 1960's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17674/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.407Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - \u20ac300","currency":"EUR","id":17674,"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":300,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17675/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17675/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17675/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17675/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"guy benard (b. 1928)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"guy benard (b. 1928) | french \n \n les baux-de-provence , c. 1980's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018benard\u2019 (lower right); titled \u2018les baux\u2019 and signed on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 38.5 × 46.5 cm | 15.2 × 18.3 in \n artwork: 27 × 35 cm | 10.6 × 13.8 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher. the paint layer is stable and clean, with no losses observed. presented in a gilt frame with a dark slip. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n the limestone crag of les baux-de-provence rises blue-grey against a pale sky, the ruined village on its crest, while in the foreground a path winds between banks of yellow broom in flower, pink almond trees and the cream rocks of the alpilles. the picture is painted quickly and thickly, the broom dabbed in with loaded strokes of yellow, the sky scraped thin. \n \n guy benard (born 1928), a painter from rouen who exhibited across france, worked in a bright post-impressionist manner and painted normandy, giverny and provence; this small canvas, titled on the reverse, is one of his southern subjects."},"estimateMax":400,"lotNumber":"11","title":{"en":"les baux-de-provence, c. 1980's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17675/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":300,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.542Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac300 - \u20ac400","currency":"EUR","id":17675,"estimateMin":300},{"startPrice":300,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17676/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17676/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17676/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17676/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"georges simonka (1916-2001)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"georges simonka (1916-2001) | hungarian-french \n \n vers tarragone (village near tarragona) , c. 1960's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018simonka\u2019 (lower right); titled \u2018vers tarragon\u2019 and signed \u2018g. simonka\u2019 on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 72 × 63 cm | 28.3 × 24.8 in \n artwork: 46 × 55 cm | 18.1 × 21.7 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher (french 10f format). the paint layer is stable and clean, with no losses observed. presented in a wide dark frame with a gilt slip. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a horse and cart with its driver crosses a sunlit square below the ochre walls of a romanesque church, a tower with a pointed red roof rising behind it; two women stand in the shade of an arch to the left, and the sky is a deep slate grey that makes the stone glow. the paint is laid on with the knife and the brush in thick, scumbled layers, the yellows and pinks of the walls set against the dark sky and the blue-black shadow of the arch. \n \n georges simonka (1916\u20132001), born in budapest and trained at its school of applied arts, settled in paris after the war and exhibited at the salon d\u2019automne; he painted still lifes and townscapes in a firm, constructed manner with a rich surface. the reverse carries his own title, \u2018vers tarragon\u2019, the road to tarragona, in catalonia."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"12","title":{"en":"vers tarragone (village near tarragona), c. 1960's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17676/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":300,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.544Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac300 - \u20ac500","currency":"EUR","id":17676,"estimateMin":300},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17677/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17677/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17677/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"olga novokhatska (b. 1979)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"olga novokhatska (b. 1979) | ukrainian \n \n boats, balaklava , 2007 \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed in cyrillic (lower right); titled \u2018lodki. balaklava\u2019 (boats. balaklava), dated 2007 and signed on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 40.5 × 55.5 cm | 15.9 × 21.9 in \n artwork: 30 × 45 cm | 11.8 × 17.7 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher. the impasto is stable and clean, with no losses observed. presented in a black painted frame with a pale slip. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n four boats are moored side by side in the narrow bay of balaklava, the old fishing port south of sevastopol: a red hull in the foreground, a green one behind, a blue one with a yellow flag, and the pale rocks of the far shore caught in the sun above a sheet of lilac-blue water. the paint is thick and quick, every plank and reflection a separate loaded stroke, in the russian plein-air manner of the crimean painters. \n \n olga novokhatska, born in ukraine in 1979 and trained at a state academy of design and fine arts, has lived and worked in paris for some years and is known there for her café and street scenes; this early canvas, titled and dated on the reverse, was painted on the crimean coast in 2007, before her move to france."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"13","title":{"en":"boats, balaklava, 2007"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17677/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.553Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - \u20ac300","currency":"EUR","id":17677,"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":15000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17678/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17678/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17678/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"irma stern (1894-1966)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"irma stern (1894-1966) | south african \n \n piazza san marco, venice , 1948 \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed and dated \u2018irma stern 1948\u2019 (lower left). \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 50 × 60 cm | 19.7 × 23.6 in \n \n \n provenance: \n private collection, united kingdom. \n private collection, germany. \n acquired from the above in 2020. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its stretcher. the paint is thinly applied, with the canvas weave visible in places as intended; slight undulation of the canvas in the upper left, minor abrasion at the extreme edges and corners, and light surface dirt. the tacking margins are frayed and the reverse of the canvas shows old staining; unframed. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n the façade of st mark\u2019s rises against a deep blue sky, its domes, mosaics and gothic pinnacles put down in loaded strokes of cream, pink and turquoise. to the right the corner of the doge\u2019s palace fills the foreground with a single great pointed arch in ochre and slate; to the left stand the flagpoles of the piazza and a glimpse of the clock tower, and a handful of figures cross the pavement, each made with two or three touches of the brush. the paint is thin and fast, the weave of the canvas left to show through the square. \n \n irma stern could not travel to europe during the war. in 1948 she went back for the first time, visited the venice biennale, and wrote to her friend freda feldman that she had painted \u2018quite a few pictures\u2019 in the city. these venetian canvases of 1948, canals, the lagoon and the monuments of san marco, are a small and distinct group in her work: the palette of her zanzibar years, turquoise, rose and gold, turned on the architecture of europe, with the speed of a painter working in front of the motif."},"estimateMax":40000,"lotNumber":"14","title":{"en":"piazza san marco, venice, 1948"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17678/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":15000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.567Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac20,000 - \u20ac40,000","currency":"EUR","id":17678,"estimateMin":20000},{"startPrice":400,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17679/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17679/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17679/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17679/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"guy bardone (1927-2015)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"guy bardone (1927-2015) | french \n \n soucis au tissu quadrillé (marigolds on a checked cloth) , 1969 \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018bardone.\u2019 (lower right); titled, dated \u201969\u2019, inscribed with the dimensions and signed again on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 61 × 43.5 cm | 24 × 17.1 in \n artwork: 50 × 33.5 cm | 19.7 × 13.2 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher. the paint layer is stable and clean, with no losses observed. presented in a gilt frame with light wear. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a pot of orange marigolds on a red table against a green and white checked cloth hung behind it, a band of blue to the left and of ochre to the right: four flat fields of colour and, in the middle, the dense, almost woven mass of the flowers, each head a whorl of orange impasto. bardone\u2019s title on the reverse, \u2018soucis au tissu quadrillé\u2019, names the two things that interested him, the flowers and the pattern. \n \n guy bardone (1927\u20132015), pupil of brianchon, cavaillès and desnoyer at the arts décoratifs and winner of the prix fénéon in 1952, was one of the painters of \u2018poetic reality\u2019 who kept the tradition of bonnard and matisse alive in post-war paris, often working alongside his friend rené genis. this 1969 still life, with its simplified planes and saturated colour, is a fully mature example, in its original gilt frame."},"estimateMax":800,"lotNumber":"15","title":{"en":"soucis au tissu quadrillé (marigolds on a checked cloth), 1969"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17679/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":400,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.570Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac600 - \u20ac800","currency":"EUR","id":17679,"estimateMin":600},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17680/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17680/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17680/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"marcel cramoysan (1915-2007)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"marcel cramoysan (1915-2007) | french \n \n le printemps d'amsterdam (tulips before the westerkerk) , c. 1970's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018cramoysan\u2019 (lower right); titled \u2018le printemps d\u2019amsterdam\u2019 and signed again on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 46 × 55 cm | 18.1 × 21.7 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher (french 10f format). the paint layer is stable and clean; unframed, with the tacking margins sound. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a bunch of tulips, yellow, red, white and a deep purple, stands in a tall blue vase on a window sill, and through the open window lies amsterdam in spring: the prinsengracht with its bridge, the gabled houses of the jordaan and the tower of the westerkerk with its crown rising into a soft blue sky. the artist\u2019s own title on the reverse, \u2018le printemps d\u2019amsterdam\u2019, says it all: a still life and a cityscape in one picture, the dutch flower against the dutch city. \n \n marcel cramoysan (1915\u20132007), pupil of robert antoine pinchon and one of the last painters of the école de rouen, travelled widely for his subjects, and this amsterdam view shows his warm palette and loose, confident brush at their best, the flowers worked up thickly against the thinner, airier handling of the canal and the sky."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"16","title":{"en":"le printemps d'amsterdam (tulips before the westerkerk), c. 1970's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17680/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.572Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - \u20ac300","currency":"EUR","id":17680,"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":300,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17681/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17681/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17681/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17681/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"paul flaubert (1928-1994)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"paul flaubert (1928-1994) | french \n \n market day , c. 1960's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018paul flaubert\u2019 (lower left). \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 41 × 48.5 cm | 16.1 × 19.1 in \n artwork: 27 × 35 cm | 10.6 × 13.8 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher. the paint layer is stable and clean, with no losses observed; light surface dust. presented in a gilt moulded frame with minor wear. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a crowded market under grey awnings: in the foreground a young woman in a white blouse and blue skirt walks towards us with a bundle in her hand and a smile on her face, a mother sits with her baby on a chair behind her, and the stalls, shoppers and a man in a bowler hat dissolve into a mosaic of small touches of red, green and ochre against the tall houses of the square. \n \n the picture is a small, lively example of paul flaubert\u2019s figure subjects, where the pointillist touch he used for his harbours and seine views turns the crowd of a market into a shimmer of colour. flaubert (1928\u20131994) kept the neo-impressionist manner alive through the second half of the century, and markets and fairs were among his favourite animated scenes."},"estimateMax":600,"lotNumber":"17","title":{"en":"market day, c. 1960's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17681/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":300,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.574Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac400 - \u20ac600","currency":"EUR","id":17681,"estimateMin":400},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17682/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17682/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17682/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17682/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"martha leonor (20th century)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"martha leonor (20th century) | french \n \n le chignon défait (market women) , c. 1980's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018martha leonor\u2019 (lower right); titled \u2018le chignon défait\u2019 and numbered \u2018no 20\u2019 on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 45 × 45 cm | 17.7 × 17.7 in \n artwork: 40 × 40 cm | 15.7 × 15.7 in \n \n \n provenance: \n marc labarbe, toulouse, auction (label on the reverse). \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher. the paint layer is stable and clean; a few small spots of surface dust in the lower part. presented in a plain white wooden frame. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a market crowd seen through a haze of colour: women in shawls and long skirts sit and stand among their bundles and baskets, their faces turned towards us, while in the foreground a woman in a white dress and a pale headscarf walks away with her hair, the \u2018chignon défait\u2019 of the title, coming loose at the nape. the figures are drawn in loose, scratchy strokes over broad patches of ochre, rose and blue, and the whole square canvas glows like a sunlit textile. \n \n the dress and the bundles suggest a latin american market, andean or mexican, and the handling, oil applied thinly and dryly almost like pastel, gives the scene the look of a memory rather than a report. titled and numbered by the artist on the reverse."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"18","title":{"en":"le chignon défait (market women), c. 1980's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17682/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.576Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - \u20ac300","currency":"EUR","id":17682,"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17683/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17683/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17683/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17683/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"claude phanord"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"claude phanord | haitian \n \n the village well, cap-haïtien , c. 1980's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed and inscribed \u2018claude phanord cap-haïtien\u2019 (lower right). \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 38 × 48 cm | 15 × 18.9 in \n artwork: 31 × 41 cm | 12.2 × 16.1 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher. the paint layer is stable and clean, with no losses observed. presented in a plain wooden frame. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a village morning on the outskirts of cap-haïtien: a woman in green draws water at the stone well, another passes with an enamel basin on her head, a vendor sits by her bowl of fruit, a man carries a basket, and neighbours come and go between the yellow house with green shutters, the pink house up the lane and the blue door of a thatched hut on the right. palms and breadfruit trees close the scene under a clear sky. \n \n the painting belongs to the school of cap-haïtien, the northern haitian town whose painters, following philomé obin, recorded the daily life of the streets and villages with careful drawing, flat clear colour and an even, shadowless light. every figure has its task and every house its colour; the composition is as orderly as the village it shows. signed and inscribed with the town, as the cap-haïtien painters usually did."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"19","title":{"en":"the village well, cap-haïtien, c. 1980's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17683/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.578Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac300 - \u20ac500","currency":"EUR","id":17683,"estimateMin":300},{"startPrice":6000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17684/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17684/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17684/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"tahia halim (1919-2003)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"tahia halim (1919-2003) | egyptian \n \n nubian girl with a jar , 1978 \n \n oil on panel \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018t. halim\u2019 (lower left); signed and inscribed in arabic and dated 1978 on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 70 × 50 cm | 27.6 × 19.7 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired directly from the artist by an egyptian collector, cairo, in the late 1970s. \n acquired from the above in 2002. \n private collection, berlin, germany. \n acquired from the above by the present owner. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on hardboard panel. the impasto is stable and the colours are fresh; minor rubbing at the edges and corners, and some old staining on the reverse of the panel; unframed. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a girl sits cross-legged on the ground, a blue veil over her black hair and an orange dress gathered about her, her hands folded around a large clay jar in her lap. she looks straight out with the wide, almond eyes of a coptic icon. behind her rise the white domes of a nubian village, each topped with a crescent, and three palms lean in from the sides. the figure is built in thick strokes of the knife, blue against orange; the village is scraped back to chalky ochres and greys, so that it reads like a painted wall behind her. \n \n nubia was the great subject of tahia halim\u2019s life. in 1962 she travelled up the nile with the artists sent by the egyptian ministry of culture to record the villages that the high dam was about to drown, and for the next four decades she painted from that memory: women and children, boats, weddings, the domed houses with their painted doors. this panel of 1978 has all the marks of her mature style, the rough, fresco-like surface, the earth colours she made her own and the monumental stillness of a single figure. it is signed on the front in latin letters and on the reverse in arabic with the date, as she marked her paintings of these years."},"estimateMax":12000,"lotNumber":"20","title":{"en":"nubian girl with a jar, 1978"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17684/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esinternational_middleeastern","esart","esinternational","esinternational_all","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":6000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.581Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac8,000 - \u20ac12,000","currency":"EUR","id":17684,"estimateMin":8000},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17685/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17685/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17685/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"raphael adjetey adjei mayne (b. 1983)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"raphael adjetey adjei mayne (b. 1983) | ghanaian \n \n awo , 2017 \n \n mixed media \n \n \n signed: signed and dated \u201917\u2019 (lower right); titled \u2018awo\u2019, dated 2017, inscribed with the dimensions and signed on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 121 × 96.5 cm | 47.6 × 38 in \n \n \n provenance: \n bonhams, london, modern & contemporary african art (online), 30 june \u2013 14 july 2026, lot 39. \n acquired at the above sale by the present owner. \n \n \n condition: \n fabric collage, stitched and painted, on raw canvas. the work is stable; the canvas shows the creases and marks of the artist\u2019s process and a few small stains on the reverse, where the title is written; the stitching and the fabric pieces are secure. unframed. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a woman stands in profile with a hand raised to her head, her whole body cut from african wax-print cottons: a green and blue floral headwrap, a striped sleeve, a blouse of orange paisley with yellow combs and a skirt of rust-red leaves, each piece stitched to the canvas so that the seams show. behind her a lattice of pale blue and turquoise diamonds is filled with rings, rosettes and dots cut from the same printed cloths. \u2018awo\u2019 is the title the artist wrote on the back: in ga, the language of accra, it is the word for mother, or for an older woman addressed with respect. \n \n raphael adjetey adjei mayne (born 1983 in accra) builds his portraits from the printed fabrics of the ghanaian market, the wax prints whose patterns carry names, proverbs and adinkra symbols, stitching and painting them onto canvas; the figure is anonymous, the cloth tells her story. made in 2017, the year after the artist\u2019s first european shows, the work is unframed and unstretched on its stitched canvas, as he exhibits them."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"21","title":{"en":"awo, 2017"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17685/view","tags":["esart_mixedmedia","esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":1000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.430Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,500 - \u20ac2,000","currency":"EUR","id":17685,"estimateMin":1500},{"startPrice":8000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17686/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17686/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17686/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17686/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"bob thompson (1937-1966)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"bob thompson (1937-1966) | american \n \n untitled (figures with a blue bird) , 1962 \n \n gouache on paper laid down on masonite \n \n \n signed: signed and dated \u2018b thompson \u201962\u2019 (lower left); signed three times on the reverse, twice dated \u201962\u2019 and once inscribed \u2018paris\u2019. \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 39 × 30 cm | 15.4 × 11.8 in \n \n \n provenance: \n private collection, paris, france. \n acquired from the above in 2018. \n \n \n condition: \n gouache on a printed page laid down on hardboard. the colours are fresh; the corners of the board are bumped, with small losses to the paper at the lower right and upper left corners and along the edges, a few old creases in the sheet and scattered minor abrasions to the paint, the most visible near the lower right corner; unframed. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a blue nude with a knot of yellow hair strides through a clearing, one arm raised to hold a red fruit, while a red figure clasps her from behind; a small yellow child and two black animals stand in the green foreground, and a great blue bird spreads its wings over the group between a brown trunk and a yellow one. the figures are flat, faceless silhouettes of unmixed colour, and the scene has the air of a half-remembered myth, an abduction or a garden of eden, told in the language of matisse and gauguin. \n \n bob thompson painted it in paris in 1962, the year after a fellowship took him and his wife carol from the lower east side to europe. in the museums of europe he studied poussin, piero and goya, and in small gouaches like this one he recast their bacchanals and allegories with his own cast of coloured figures, birds and beasts, the vocabulary of the large canvases that followed in ibiza and new york. the sheet he took for it is a printed page with an ornamental green border, the imprint of the paris printers manzi, joyant & cie and the name of le figaro still legible at the foot, the kind of found paper he used again in 1963. he signed the board three times on the back, as he did other small works of these years. thompson died in rome in 1966, at twenty-eight; his eight working years are now in the whitney, moma, the metropolitan and the art institute of chicago."},"estimateMax":20000,"lotNumber":"22","title":{"en":"untitled (figures with a blue bird), 1962"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17686/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":8000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.433Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac15,000 - \u20ac20,000","currency":"EUR","id":17686,"estimateMin":15000},{"startPrice":200,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17687/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17687/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17687/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17687/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17687/005/005.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"philip boileau (1864-1917)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"philip boileau (1864-1917) | canadian-american \n \n peggy , 1905 \n \n lithograph on paper \n \n \n signed: signed and dated in the image \u2018copyright 1905 by philip boileau 1903\u2019 (lower left); titled \u2018peggy\u2019 (upper right). \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed, glazed: 62 × 45 cm | 24.4 × 17.7 in \n artwork: 46 × 29 cm | 18.1 × 11.4 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n colour lithograph on grey wove paper. the sheet is lightly toned with scattered pale spots and a small area of surface disturbance at the upper right; mounted and framed under glass, not examined out of the frame. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a young woman with a cloud of auburn hair turns her head over a shoulder wrapped in dark feathers and looks at us with pale blue eyes and the ghost of a smile: \u2018peggy\u2019, one of the best-loved of the \u2018boileau girls\u2019 that made philip boileau\u2019s name in the first years of the century. the image was drawn in pastel in 1903 and published in 1905 as a colour lithograph on grey paper, the printed signature, copyright line and title reproducing the artist\u2019s hand; the model is traditionally identified as his wife, the actress emily gilbert. \n \n boileau (1864\u20131917), canadian-born and trained in europe, settled in new york in 1902 and became one of the most popular illustrators of the edwardian age, with 34 covers for the saturday evening post and countless postcards and prints. \u2018peggy\u2019 is offered here as an early period print of the published edition, framed under glass."},"estimateMax":300,"lotNumber":"23","title":{"en":"peggy, 1905"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17687/view","tags":["esart_graphicworksetchinglithography","esart_printsposterslimitededitions","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":200,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.435Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac200 - \u20ac300","currency":"EUR","id":17687,"estimateMin":200},{"startPrice":300,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17688/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17688/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"christian bérard (1902-1949)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"christian bérard (1902-1949) | french \n \n two caricature sketches , c. 1930's \n \n ink on paper \n \n \n signed: one sheet inscribed \u2018bérard \u2013 caricature d\u2019ami\u2019 in pencil; the other unsigned. \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed, glazed: 15.5 × 15.5 cm (6.1 × 6.1 in) and 20 × 20 cm (7.9 × 7.9 in) (each sketch in its own navy frame, under glass) \n artwork: two sketches, framed 15.5 × 15.5 cm (6.1 × 6.1 in) and 20 × 20 cm (7.9 × 7.9 in) \n \n \n provenance: \n private collection, alicante, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n pencil and ink, and brown ink, on two small sheets of paper with torn edges, mounted and framed under glass in two blue wooden frames; the sheets lightly toned, one with a small spot at the corner; not examined out of the frames. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n two scraps of paper of the kind christian bérard covered wherever he sat, on tablecloths, menus and the backs of letters: on the first, in pencil and ink, two faces in profile, a hanging lamp and a window frame, inscribed by a contemporary hand \u2018bérard, caricature d\u2019ami\u2019; on the second, in brown ink, the profile of a bald man with a long nose and a thin smile, a single unbroken line from forehead to collar. each is set in a grey mount within a blue frame. \n \n bérard (1902\u20131949), \u2018bébé\u2019 to the paris of cocteau, jouvet and dior, was the most gifted draughtsman of his circle, and his caricatures of friends, dashed off at dinner and carried away by waiters and guests, are a genre of their own; these two small sheets, bought together in spain, are examples of that private, affectionate wit."},"estimateMax":600,"lotNumber":"24","title":{"en":"two caricature sketches, c. 1930's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17688/view","tags":["esart_drawings","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":300,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.437Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac350 - \u20ac600","currency":"EUR","id":17688,"estimateMin":350},{"startPrice":300,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17689/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17689/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17689/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17689/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"léon zack (1892-1980)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"léon zack (1892-1980) | russian-french \n \n seated figure with a mirror , c. 1940's \n \n ink on paper \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018léon zack\u2019 in ink (lower right). \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed, glazed: 49 × 31.5 cm | 19.3 × 12.4 in \n artwork: 41 × 24 cm | 16.1 × 9.4 in \n \n \n provenance: \n private collection, alicante, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n pen and ink and grey wash on cream paper. the sheet is lightly toned, with a few small spots of foxing in the margins; framed under glass, not examined out of the frame. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a seated figure, drawn in a nervous, continuous pen line over a wash of grey, holds up a hand mirror and turns from it towards us; the drapery over the knees is scribbled in with the same restless pen, and the grey wash stops short of the edges of the sheet, leaving the figure in a lit cell of its own. it is a study in the pen-and-wash manner of zack\u2019s figurative years, before 1947, when he was illustrating books, designing for the theatre and painting religious subjects in a loose, expressive line descended from rembrandt\u2019s drawings and from rouault. \n \n léon zack (1892\u20131980), born near nizhny novgorod and settled in paris from 1923, became after the war one of the painters of lyrical abstraction; his early drawings, of which this and the following lot are a pair in matching frames, show the hand before the abstraction."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"25","title":{"en":"seated figure with a mirror, c. 1940's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17689/view","tags":["esart_drawings","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":300,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.439Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac300 - \u20ac500","currency":"EUR","id":17689,"estimateMin":300},{"startPrice":300,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17690/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17690/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17690/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17690/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"léon zack (1892-1980)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"léon zack (1892-1980) | russian-french \n \n seated woman with planets , c. 1940's \n \n ink on paper \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018léon zack\u2019 in ink (lower right). \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed, glazed: 49 × 31.5 cm | 19.3 × 12.4 in \n artwork: 41 × 24 cm | 16.1 × 9.4 in \n \n \n provenance: \n private collection, alicante, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n pen and ink and grey wash on cream paper. the sheet is lightly toned with scattered small foxing spots in the margins; framed under glass, not examined out of the frame. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a seated woman, bare to the waist with a cloth over her knees, raises one arm towards a ring of orbits and small planets drawn in the air above her head: an allegory of astronomy, or of the heavens, in the pen-and-wash manner of zack\u2019s figurative years. the pen line is quick and broken, the grey wash laid in around the figure in loose vertical strokes that leave her lit against the dark. \n \n the drawing is the pair of the preceding lot, in a matching frame, and belongs to the same period, the 1930s and 1940s, when léon zack (1892\u20131980) was working as an illustrator and a painter of religious and allegorical subjects in paris, before he turned to the lyrical abstraction for which he is best known."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"26","title":{"en":"seated woman with planets, c. 1940's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17690/view","tags":["esart_drawings","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":300,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.441Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac300 - \u20ac500","currency":"EUR","id":17690,"estimateMin":300},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17691/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17691/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"roger de la fresnaye (1885-1925)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"roger de la fresnaye (1885-1925) | french \n \n six drawings: landscapes and portraits , 1920-1921 \n \n ink on paper \n \n \n signed: each sheet signed \u2018la fresnaye\u2019 and dated \u20181920\u2019, \u201921\u2019, \u20188/21\u2019 or \u20184/21\u2019 in the lower margin; one portrait inscribed with a name. \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed, glazed: 44 × 31.5 cm (17.3 × 12.4 in) (the landscape with cypresses and the church with horses); 46 × 33 cm (18.1 × 13 in) (the four sheets of portrait heads) \n artwork: six drawings in two frames, 44 × 31.5 cm (17.3 × 12.4 in) and 46 × 33 cm (18.1 × 13 in) with frames \n \n \n provenance: \n aletheia subastas, spain, sale 45, lot 327 (label on the reverse). \n private collection, alicante, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n pen and ink and crayon on paper, six sheets mounted and framed under glass in two gilt frames; the sheets lightly toned, the buff sheets with small spots; not examined out of the frames, and the technique is described as it appears through the glass. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n six sheets in two gilt frames from the last years of roger de la fresnaye, when, his lungs ruined by the war, he had retired to grasse with his friend the painter jean-louis gampert and drew more than he painted. in the first frame two pen landscapes: a view over the hills and cypresses of grasse with a couple in the foreground and a man resting on a rock, dated 1920, and a village church with horses at a trough and a farmer, dated 1921. in the second frame four heads: two in soft crayon on buff paper dated august and april 1921, a woman in profile and a young man full-face in an open collar, and two pen studies of pairs of men\u2019s heads, one of them with the cubist faceting of the mouths and collars that la fresnaye kept from his pre-war manner. \n \n the nervous, looping pen line, the heads built from a few curved strokes, the sudden geometry in a cheek or a collar, are the marks of the grasse drawings, of which the centre pompidou and the musée des beaux-arts du mans hold the best-known examples; the portraits of gampert and the sketches of friends and neighbours filled his sketchbooks in these years."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"27","title":{"en":"six drawings: landscapes and portraits, 1920-1921"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17691/view","tags":["esart_drawings","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.444Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,500 - \u20ac4,000","currency":"EUR","id":17691,"estimateMin":2500},{"startPrice":800,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17692/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17692/002/002.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"gilbert poillerat (1902-1988)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"gilbert poillerat (1902-1988) | french \n \n eleven etchings and mezzotints , 1975-1981 \n \n etching on paper \n \n \n signed: each sheet signed \u2018g. poillerat\u2019 in pencil, most dated and inscribed \u2018e.a.\u2019 or \u2018épreuve d\u2019artiste\u2019 with the edition number; one sheet dedicated \u2018à jacques & germaine bonjean, petit témoignage d\u2019une affectueuse amitié, gilbert\u2019. \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed, glazed: 26 × 26.5 cm (10.2 × 10.4 in) and 26.5 × 25 cm (10.4 × 9.8 in) (the two frames with paired plates); 33.5 × 26.5 cm (13.2 × 10.4 in), 33.5 × 26.5 cm (13.2 × 10.4 in) and 33.5 × 26 cm (13.2 × 10.2 in) (the three single plates); 38 × 26 cm (15 × 10.2 in) (the frame with three plates) \n artwork: eleven prints in six frames, from 26.5 × 25 cm (10.4 × 9.8 in) to 38 × 26 cm (15 × 10.2 in) with frames \n \n \n provenance: \n jacques and germaine bonjean, paris (one sheet dedicated to them by the artist). \n private collection, alicante, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n etchings and mezzotints on wove paper, mounted and framed under glass in six modern black frames; the sheets lightly toned, with some foxing and tape stains visible to the mounts and backboards; not examined out of the frames. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n eleven small prints by the great french ironworker in six black frames, the private side of a public artist. two are mezzotints of 1975 in the velvet blacks of the technique, \u2018le verre de venise\u2019, a venetian goblet with a rose and a quince, and \u2018les pinceaux japonais\u2019, a pot of japanese brushes beside a mask; the rest are etchings made as new year\u2019s cards and gifts for friends: a cat asleep on an hourglass for 1977, the hourglass again inside the zodiac, an acrobat juggling a twenty-sided die for 1979, a harlequin on a tightrope for 1976, four cats curled into the figures of 1981, a hand holding a key with the monogram gp, a sprig of lilies in a bottle, and a pair of japanese masks. the sheets are artist\u2019s proofs or numbered impressions from editions of 10 to 100, signed and dated in pencil, and the zodiac sheet is dedicated by hand to the paris dealers jacques and germaine bonjean. \n \n gilbert poillerat (1902\u20131988), trained as an engraver at the école boulle before he became the master of wrought iron of the art deco and neoclassical decades, returned to the burin and the copper plate in his seventies; these cards, witty, precise and affectionate, show the hand that drew the scrolls of his gates and consoles at its most intimate."},"estimateMax":1620,"lotNumber":"28","title":{"en":"eleven etchings and mezzotints, 1975-1981"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17692/view","tags":["esart_graphicworksetchinglithography","esart_printsposterslimitededitions","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":800,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.446Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac950 - \u20ac1,620","currency":"EUR","id":17692,"estimateMin":950},{"startPrice":300,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17693/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17693/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17693/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17693/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"robert lépine (1929-2017)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"robert lépine (1929-2017) | french \n \n figures of stone before the black mountain , 1966 \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed and dated \u2018lépine 66\u2019 (lower left). \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 54.5 × 74 cm | 21.5 × 29.1 in \n artwork: 53.5 × 73 cm | 21.1 × 28.7 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher. the paint layer is stable; light surface dust and a few minor scuffs to the impasto. presented in a narrow wooden strip frame. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n on a plain of yellow sand, under a grey sky in which white clouds hang like torn paper, stand creatures of weathered rock: a long-necked beast on the left, part camel, part eroded cliff, and on the right two hunched forms in pink and grey that might be bears or standing stones. behind them a black pyramid of a mountain rises from a strip of turquoise sea, and two tiny human figures at its foot give the scale. the paint is scraped and dragged, the outlines drawn in black, the sand built up in warm impasto. \n \n dated 1966, the picture belongs to the french post-surrealist vein of the 1960s, where the fantastic landscapes of ernst and tanguy were reworked in a freer, more painterly manner. lépine\u2019s rock-creatures are at once geology and zoology, and the painting reads as a dream of a desert shore, the kind of inner landscape that french painters of the period found between abstraction and figuration."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"29","title":{"en":"figures of stone before the black mountain, 1966"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17693/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":300,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.450Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac300 - \u20ac500","currency":"EUR","id":17693,"estimateMin":300},{"startPrice":300,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17694/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17694/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17694/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17694/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"rosalie ballester (b. 1949)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"rosalie ballester (b. 1949) | french \n \n composition with russian newspaper , c. 1990's \n \n mixed media on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018r. ballester\u2019 (lower right). \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed: 56.5 × 48 cm | 22.2 × 18.9 in \n artwork: 46 × 38 cm | 18.1 × 15 in \n \n \n provenance: \n acquired in france. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n mixed media and newspaper collage on canvas, unlined. the surface is stable, the collage elements well adhered; light surface dust. presented in a plain wooden frame. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n pages of a russian newspaper, the moscow business weekly \u2018ekonomika i zhizn\u2019 with its small advertisements and telephone numbers, are laid into the canvas and half veiled under washes of grey, umber and white; over them ballester draws a scaffold of tilted planes and ruled lines, a dark red disc, a small white target and scattered printed letters, s, e, l, v, that float free of any word. at the foot, bold cut-out words from the headlines, \u2018podpishis\u2019, \u2018nashel\u2019, \u2018magazin\u2019, are pasted at an angle like a constructivist slogan. \n \n rosalie ballester (born 1949), a french painter with roots in the newspaper collage of the nouveaux réalistes and an avowed debt to russian abstraction, here brings the two together: the torn and layered print of villeglé and hains with the geometry of malevich and lissitzky. the cyrillic text dates the picture to the years after 1991, when the russian press and its advertisements suddenly became material for a western artist."},"estimateMax":500,"lotNumber":"30","title":{"en":"composition with russian newspaper, c. 1990's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17694/view","tags":["esart_mixedmedia","esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":300,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:30.452Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac300 - \u20ac500","currency":"EUR","id":17694,"estimateMin":300},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17695/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17695/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17695/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17695/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17695/005/005.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"nejad devrim (1923-1995)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"nejad devrim (1923-1995) | turkish \n \n abstract composition , 1952 \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed and dated \u2018nejad 52\u2019 (lower right); signed and dated again \u2018nejad 52\u2019 on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 74 × 57 cm | 29.1 × 22.4 in \n \n \n provenance: \n private collection, france. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher. the paint layer is stable, with a fine age craquelure in the white and black passages and light surface wear consistent with its age; no losses observed; unframed. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a mosaic of interlocking planes in lilac, violet, grey-blue, pink and white, locked together by a black contour and lit by small windows of red, orange, turquoise and black: an abstract city, or a stained-glass window seen from inside, in which every shape fits its neighbour like a tile. the year, 1952, is the heart of nejad devrim\u2019s paris decade, when the young turkish painter, son of fahrelnissa zeid, exhibited with the lyrical abstractionists of the école de paris and built pictures like this one out of the byzantine mosaics and islamic tilework he had grown up with. \n \n the handling is dry and quick, the planes scraped over a white ground so that the weave shows through, the contours drawn with the brush in one movement. signed and dated on the front and again on the reverse, the canvas is unlined and unframed, as he left it."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"31","title":{"en":"abstract composition, 1952"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17695/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":4000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.015Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac6,000 - \u20ac8,000","currency":"EUR","id":17695,"estimateMin":6000},{"startPrice":10000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17696/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17696/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17696/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17696/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"helen khal (1923-2009)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"helen khal (1923-2009) | lebanese \n \n untitled (yellow) , c. 1970's \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed \u2018h. khal\u2019 (lower left); signed again \u2018h. khal\u2019 on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 80 × 60 cm | 31.5 × 23.6 in \n \n \n provenance: \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on its original stretcher. the paint layer is stable and clean, with no losses observed; the tacking margins sound; unframed. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a field of saturated yellow holds, within a soft green-grey border, two pale rectangles stacked one above the other: the upper one cream with a lighter inner panel, the lower one a cool lavender grey set in a frame of warm ivory, the two divided by a thin band of green and gold. at the foot a small grey tab breaks the yellow margin. the edges of every shape are brushed, not ruled, so that the colours breathe into one another and the picture seems lit from within. \n \n this is helen khal\u2019s signature manner, the meditative colour-field abstraction she arrived at in beirut in the late 1960s and 1970s while teaching at the american university: rectangles that carry no symbol but colour itself, in her words \u2018containers of colour\u2019, and above all her yellow, the colour of the lebanese light. khal (1923\u20132009), co-founder of gallery one in 1963 and the subject of a sursock museum retrospective in 2019\u201320, is today among the most sought-after lebanese modernists; our two previous canvases by her, in december 2024 and july 2025, both sold far above estimate."},"estimateMax":25000,"lotNumber":"32","title":{"en":"untitled (yellow), c. 1970's"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17696/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":10000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.018Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac15,000 - \u20ac25,000","currency":"EUR","id":17696,"estimateMin":15000},{"startPrice":10000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17697/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17697/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17697/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"theodoros stamos (1922-1997)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"theodoros stamos (1922-1997) | greek-american \n \n untitled , c. 1960s \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n signed: signed in greek letters \u2018σταμος\u2019 (lower right). \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 146 × 109 cm | 57.5 × 42.9 in \n \n \n provenance: \n private collection, new york. \n acquired from the above in 1996; thence by descent. \n acquired from the above by the present owner in 2016. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on a keyed stretcher with cross bars. the canvas has been re-stretched; neither the stretcher nor the reverse of the canvas carries inscriptions. the paint layer is stable; a fine network of age craquelure in the pale ground, most visible in the lower right around the signature, and light surface dirt; unframed. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n two torn shapes hang in a field of white: a blaze of red and orange high on the right, a smaller, darker knot of black and slate below it to the left, each brushed outward from its centre so that its edges fray into the ground. the white is not empty. it is worked in broad, overlapping strokes of pearl, grey-blue and cream with a breath of rose, and along the bottom edge runs a single narrow band of ultramarine, a horizon that turns the field above it into sky, snow or sea. \n \n the language is that of theodoros stamos at the turn of the 1960s, when the youngest painter of the first abstract expressionist generation, one of the \u2018irascibles\u2019 photographed for life in 1950, emptied his canvases to luminous fields in which a few dark or burning masses float above a low band, the pictures he called high snow\u2013low sun, before the geometry of the sun-boxes. stamos was born in new york to greek parents, and here, as on a number of canvases of these years, he signed his name in greek letters. at nearly a metre and a half high the painting has the scale he gave his principal works of the period."},"estimateMax":30000,"lotNumber":"33","title":{"en":"untitled, c. 1960s"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17697/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":10000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.019Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac20,000 - \u20ac30,000","currency":"EUR","id":17697,"estimateMin":20000},{"startPrice":3000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17698/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17698/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17698/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17698/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17698/005/005.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17698/006/006.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"rahim el (b. 1984)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"rahim el (b. 1984) | tajik-spanish \n \n abstract composition ii (kairos series) , 2024 \n \n acrylic on wood panel \n \n \n signed: signed in red crayon on the reverse of the panel. \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 154.5 × 153.5 cm | 60.8 × 60.4 in \n \n \n provenance: \n directly from the artist\u2019s studio, barcelona. \n \n \n condition: \n acrylic on a wooden panel in its original strainer. the paint layer is stable and clean, with no losses observed; the panel flat; unframed, ready to hang. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a square metre and a half of gesture: sweeping strokes of ultramarine, cobalt, forest green and chrome yellow driven across a white ground with the whole arm, a dark blue mass at the upper left, a spray of blue drops at the lower right where the brush left the panel. the painting belongs to rahim el\u2019s \u2018kairos\u2019 series of 2024, named for the greek word for the right moment, and is painted as a dancer moves: in one session, without correction, each stroke the record of a movement. \n \n rahim el (born 1984 in dushanbe), trained at the stroganov academy in moscow and the barcelona academy of art and formed by his years at the dushanbe opera and ballet, paints the \u2019emotions of colours\u2019 that music and dance leave behind. the work comes directly from the artist\u2019s barcelona studio; its pair, \u2018abstract composition i\u2019 from the same series, was sold in our july 2026 sale."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"34","title":{"en":"abstract composition ii (kairos series), 2024"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17698/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":3000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.021Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac5,000","currency":"EUR","id":17698,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":10000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17699/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17699/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17699/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17699/004/004.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"vasudeo s. gaitonde (1924-2001)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"vasudeo s. gaitonde (1924-2001) | indian \n \n untitled , c. 1962 \n \n ink on paper \n \n \n signed: signed in devanagari (lower right). \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 37 × 53 cm | 14.6 × 20.9 in \n \n \n provenance: \n gallery 63, new york, acquired in the 1960s; thence by descent. \n acquired from the above in 2018. \n private collection, spain. \n \n \n condition: \n ink and wash on wove paper, the sheet loose and unframed. even light toning of the paper, a short tear at the right edge, minor handling creases and a few small spots of foxing; on the reverse a small remnant of an old mount with adhesive residue. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a drift of black marks crosses the sheet from edge to edge like a line of script that has come loose from its meaning: hooked strokes of the pen, spatters, hair-thin trails and blots of ink that have bled into the wet paper and feathered at their rims. around and beneath them lie pale washes of grey, laid in horizontal bands and left to pool and dry, so that the calligraphy seems to hang over water or mist, with a darker ridge at the upper right from which small plant-like forms rise. \n \n the drawing belongs with the black-and-white ink works that vasudeo s. gaitonde made in the early 1960s, when the painter of the bombay progressives, drawn to zen and to east asian calligraphy, gave up the last traces of the figure for what he called the non-objective. in these sheets he worked with ink, wash and chance much as he would work with the roller and palette knife on canvas, and they were among the pictures that introduced him to america: he showed in new york in 1963, spent 1964\u201365 there on a rockefeller fellowship and had a solo exhibition in the city in 1965. according to its provenance this sheet was bought in new york in those years. it is signed in devanagari, as his works on paper of the period are."},"estimateMax":20000,"lotNumber":"35","title":{"en":"untitled, c. 1962"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17699/view","tags":["esart_drawings","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":10000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.023Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac15,000 - \u20ac20,000","currency":"EUR","id":17699,"estimateMin":15000},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17700/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17700/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17700/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17700/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17700/005/005.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17700/006/006.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17700/007/007.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"after léon bakst (1866-1924)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"after léon bakst (1866-1924) | russian-french \n \n costume design for ida rubinstein as potiphar's wife, 'la légende de joseph' , c. 1914 \n \n watercolor on paper \n \n \n inscription: signed and dated \u2018bakst 1913\u2019 (lower right) and inscribed \u2018(mme ida rubinstein)\u2019 (upper right), both in the manner of the artist. old typed collection label and a bonhams label on the reverse. \n \n \n dimensions: \n framed, glazed: 59.5 × 50 cm | 23.4 × 19.7 in \n artwork: 36 × 27 cm | 14.2 × 10.6 in \n \n \n provenance: \n john carr doughty collection, london (typed label on the reverse, no. 8a). \n bonhams, sale 32181, lot 133 (as \u2018after leon bakst\u2019). \n private collection, europe. \n \n \n exhibited: \n london, burlington galleries, cema exhibition of ballet designs, 1953 (according to the label). \n london, hommage à diaghilev, 1979, no. 3 (according to the label). \n \n \n condition: \n pencil, watercolour and gold paint on paper, laid down. the sheet is evenly toned with scattered foxing throughout, mostly in the margins; the colours strong; framed under glass in a burr-wood frame, not examined out of the frame. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n potiphar\u2019s wife stands in the costume bakst designed for \u2018la légende de joseph\u2019, the ballet by richard strauss and hofmannsthal that opened the 1914 paris season of diaghilev\u2019s ballets russes: a vast crimson skirt scattered with green-stemmed carnations over a gold underskirt, puffed red and white sleeves, ropes of pearls, a tall jewelled headdress with a plume, and the blue wig with gold side-plaits that ida rubinstein had worn in \u2018cléopâtre\u2019. the sheet is inscribed with her name, and the typed label on the reverse, from the collection of the english ballet collector john carr doughty, records its exhibition at the cema \u2018exhibition of ballet designs\u2019 at the burlington galleries, london, in 1953 and at \u2018hommage à diaghilev\u2019 in london in 1979. \n \n the design is offered as after léon bakst: a version of the published potiphar\u2019s wife costume, in pencil, watercolour and gold paint, with the signature and date in the manner of the artist, as it was catalogued when bonhams sold it from the doughty collection. it is a handsome sheet with a documented english exhibition history and the only ballets russes design in this sale."},"estimateMax":1800,"lotNumber":"36","title":{"en":"costume design for ida rubinstein as potiphar's wife, 'la légende de joseph', c. 1914"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17700/view","tags":["esart_drawings","esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":1000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.025Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,200 - \u20ac1,800","currency":"EUR","id":17700,"estimateMin":1200},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17701/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17701/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/auroraathena/cloned-images/17701/003/003.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"attributed to benedict enwonwu (1917-1994)"},"available":true,"description":{"en":"attributed to benedict enwonwu (1917-1994) | nigerian \n \n africa dances , 1991 \n \n oil on canvas \n \n \n inscription: signed and dated \u2018ben enwonwu 1991\u2019 (lower right). \n \n \n dimensions: \n artwork: 80 × 68.5 cm | 31.5 × 27 in \n \n \n provenance: \n private collection, nigeria. \n private collection, spain (2022). \n acquired from the above by the present owner. \n \n \n condition: \n oil on canvas, unlined, on a wooden stretcher with corner keys; a hanging wire is attached to the stretcher. the paint layer is stable overall, with light surface wear and minor rubbing at the edges of the canvas from the stretcher; no losses observed. the reverse of the canvas shows light age staining. unframed. please contact us to request a detailed condition report. \n \n \n conditions of sale: \n all lots are sold as is, in the condition described. the condition summary is given as a courtesy; a full condition report is available on request before the sale. attributions are governed by our terms and conditions. \n all enquiries must be made before bidding; no further information can be provided after the sale. \n \n by placing a bid you confirm that you have read and accept our terms and conditions in full, as set out in the terms of this sale. \n \n \n shipping: \n aurora & athena coordinates professional, insured shipping for every purchase through vetted logistics partners: packing, transport, insurance and the export paperwork are arranged on the buyer's behalf and charged at the provider's cost. buyers are equally welcome to collect in barcelona or to appoint a carrier of their own. lots are released once the total purchase price has been received. \n \n for shipments outside the eu an export licence may be required and spanish export duties may apply to certain higher-value works; these are the buyer's responsibility. no export tax applies within the eu. full shipping and export information is available on request. \n \n -- \n \n a line of women dancers sweeps from right to left across the canvas, arms flung back, bodies leaning into the step, their wrappers of deep blue striped with gold swinging with the movement. the nearest figure, with a gold necklace and a tall coiffure, leads the line; behind her the others repeat the gesture and dissolve into the ultramarine ground, so that the picture reads as one movement seen several times over. the floor is a band of ochre laid on with broad horizontal strokes. \n \n the subject and the treatment follow the dance pictures that ben enwonwu (1917\u20131994), the founding figure of nigerian modernism, painted from the 1950s to the end of his life, among them his best-known series, \u2018africa dances\u2019. the canvas is signed and dated \u2018ben enwonwu 1991\u2019 lower right. we catalogue it as attributed to the artist: in our opinion it is probably his work, but there is less certainty than for a work catalogued under his name alone. it is sold with that qualification."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"37","title":{"en":"africa dances, 1991"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/auroraathena/source/catalog/auction/83401/lot/17701/view","tags":["esart_moderncontemporarypainting","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":2000,"lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T16:09:29.027Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac5,000","currency":"EUR","id":17701,"estimateMin":3000}],"schema":"bidspirit-bots-feed/1","catalog":{"date":"2026-11-28","timedAuction":false,"liveAuctionDisabled":false,"postAuctionSaleEndTime":"2026-12-12T22:59:59Z","type":"auction","catalogOnly":false,"number":"8","buyersPremiumPercent":30,"lotsCount":37,"currency":"EUR","state":"READY","contentType":"ART","key":83401,"feedUrl":"https://ai.bidspirit.com/services/bots/catalogs/auroraathena/83401","address":{"en":"Calle de Aragón, 208-210 / 3o 6a 08011 Barcelona, Spain","es":"Calle de Aragón, 208-210 / 3o 6a 08011 Barcelona, Spain"},"startPricesHidden":false,"aiDescriptionsCount":0,"unknownExactDate":false,"idInApp":226,"version":"2026-11-12_21-04-05","itemsPriceIncludesVat":false,"displayHours":{"en":"23/11/2026 - 27/11/2026 - by appointment only. "},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/catalog/auction/auroraathena/83401","aiDescriptions":"none","lastUpdate":"2026-11-12T21:04:05.799Z","name":{"en":"Modern Masters II: 20th Century Art \u2014 Autumn 2026"},"soldPricesHidden":false,"time":"17:00"},"house":{"country":"ES","feedUrl":"https://ai.bidspirit.com/services/bots/houses/auroraathena","code":"auroraathena","address":{"en":"Calle de Aragón, 208-210 / 3o 6a 08011 Barcelona, Spain","es":"Calle de Aragón, 208-210 / 3o 6a 08011 Barcelona, Spain"},"name":{"en":"Aurora & Athena","es":"Aurora & Athena"},"region":"ES","url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/houses/auroraathena"}}