The Fine Art Christmas Sale at Lot-Art

Lot-Art is delighted to present The Fine Art Christmas Sale on December 28th. A great selection of artworks, from Old Masters to Modern and Contemporary art.

The Fine Art Christmas Sale presents a curated selection of distinguished works of art across different styles, artists and mediums. The sale is led by important works by Sam Francis, Helmut Newton and Francis Picabia, along with internationally renowned artists as Piranesi, Christo, Doisneau, Sherman, Cartier-Bresson, Picasso and Domergue. Lovers of the most prominent Italian artists of the 20th Century will find: Carlo Carrà, Mimmo Paladino, Piero Dorazio, Mario Schifano, Pistoletto and many more.

Bidding is open from December 6th to 28th on LiveAuctioneers.

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SELECTED LOTS

Left: Carlo Carrà - Maternità (Maternity), 1950; Right: Jean G. Domergue - Mademoiselle avec cheveux brune

Carlo Carrà - Maternità (Maternity), 1950
Oil on canvas. Size 57x41 cm. Signature and date lower left. Label of the exhibition "De Chirico 900. Bellezza e Realtà" from 10/30/2009 to 04/18/2010, Villa Ponti, Arona on the reverse. Label of Galleria Annunciata, Milan on the reverse. See Price...

Jean G. Domergue - Mademoiselle avec cheveux brune
First half 20th century; Oil on canvas, signed JEAN GABRIEL DOMERGUE on the lower-left corner; with Original frame - Size of canvas 55x46 cm. See Price...

Left: Sam Francis - Untitled, 1986; Right: Yasuo Sumi, Untitled, 1954

Sam Francis - Untitled, 1986
Acrylic on paper. Size 56x77 cm. Signed and stamped by Sam Francis Estate on the reverse. The artwork is framed. Provenance: Tornabuoni Gallery, Milan/Florence; Ikon Ltd Fine Art, Los Angeles; Private Collection, Lesmo; Certificate: Certificate of authenticity released by Sam Francis Foundation, California. See Price...

Yasuo Sumi - Untitled, 1954
Ink on paper. Size 25 x 35 cm. Signed lower left. Certificate: The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Yasuo Sumi Archive. Provenance: ABC-ARTE Gallery, Genoa, Italy. See Price...

Left: Shirin Neshat - I am its Secret, 1993; Right: William Klein - Smoke+Veil (Vogue, Paris), 1958

Shirin Neshat - I am its Secret, 1993
Fujicolor Crystal Archive print. Image: 47.9x31.7 cm. Sheet: 49.5x13.1 cm. Signed, titled and dated in ink on the reverse. This work is from an edition of 250. Provenance: Private collection, Rome, Italy. See Price...

William Klein - Smoke+Veil (Vogue, Paris), 1958
Gelatin silver print. Year 1958 - printed later. Image: 47.6 x 34.2 cm. Sheet: 60 x 50 cm. Signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Provenance: Private collection, Rome, Italy. See Price...

Left: Robert Doisneau - Le baiser de l' Hotel de Ville, 1950; Right: Helmut Newton, Rue Aubriot (Paris), 1975

Robert Doisneau - Le baiser de l' Hotel de Ville, 1950
Gelatin silver print. Year 1950 - printed later. Image: 34.6x40.6 cm. Sheet: 40.5x50.5 cm. Signed in ink lower right. Initialed, titled and dated in ink on the reverse. Provenance: Private collection, Rome, Italy. See Price...

Helmut Newton, Rue Aubriot (Paris), 1975
Gelatin silver print. Image: 57.5x37.7 cm. Sheet: 60.8 x 50.5 cm. Signed, titled, dated and variously inscribed in pencil, with Helmut Newton Monte-Carlo copyright credit stamp on the reverse. Provenance: Private collection, Rome, Italy. See Price...

Left: Cindy Sherman - Untitled (Lucilla Ball), 1975; Right: Terry O’ Neill - Audrey Hepburn

Cindy Sherman - Untitled (Lucilla Ball), 1975
Fujicolor Crystal Archive Print printed 2001. Size 25.8x20.7 cm. Signed and dated on the reverse. Provenance: Metro Pictures, New York. Sauro Bocchi Collection, Rome. See Price...

Terry O’ Neill - Audrey Hepburn
Gelatin silver print. Ed. AP/50. Image: 50.4x33.5 cm. Sheet: 61x50.3 cm. Signed in ink lower right. A/P inscription lower left. Provenance: Private collection, Rome, Italy. See Price...

Left: Christo - Wrapped Woman; Right: Christo - Wrapped woman, 1973

Christo (1935 - 2020) - Wrapped Woman, 1997
Project for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 1997. Colour lithograph collaged, graphite with foil and thread. 56 x 71 cm. Framed under Plexiglas. Signed and numbered. Proof HC 26/30 (ed. 125 + 30 A.P.) Edition La Poligrafa, Barcelona.Literature: "Christo and Jeanne-Claude: prints and objects. See Price...

Christo (1935 - 2020) - Wrapped woman, 1973
Project for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 1973. Screenprint in colors on wove paper 28 x 22 inches (71 x 55.5 cm) (sheet). Signed in pencil upper left Published by Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart Reserve: signed in pencil and numbered 90/120. See Price...

Wolfgang Stiller - Jellyfish Triptych, 2020

Wolfgang Stiller (German, b. 1961) - Jellyfish Triptych, 2020
Size: 100 x 180x 5 cm. Blackboard paint, chalk on wooden panel. Signed on the back. Wolfgang Stiller is based in Berlin. His artworks encompass sculpture, drawing and installation, displaying a complicated but subtle interest in bodies and organisms, human and otherwise, via scale, subject and materiality. See Price...


Left: Henry Cartier-Bresson - Rue Mouffetard, Paris, 1952; Right: Henri Cartier-Bresson - Dessau, Germany, 1945

Henry Cartier-Bresson - Rue Mouffetard, Paris, 1952
Gelatin silver print,1952 – printed later. Size 34x23 cm. Signed and blind stamp in the margin. Gernsheim Collection stamp on the reverse. Provenance: Gernsheim Collection, Private Collection, Bruxelles. Private collection, Italy. See Price...

Henri Cartier-Bresson - Dessau, Germany, 1945
Gelatin silver print. Year 1945 - Printed later. Image: 24.1x35.5 cm. Sheet: 30.4x40.6 cm. Signed in ink lower right. Embossed photographer's copyright credit in the margin lower left. Provenance: Private collection, Rome, Italy. See Price...

Luciano Ventrone - Natura morta (Still life), 1998

Luciano Ventrone - Natura morta (Still life), 1998
Oil on canvas. Size 40x80 cm. Signed lower left. Signed, titled and “For authenticity Luciano Ventrone” inscription on the reverse. The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Luciano Ventrone Archive, Rome. The artwork is framed. Provenance: Private collection, Lecco. See Price...

Left: Antonio Corpora - Il campo di grano (Cornfield), 1977; Right: Shozo Shimamoto - Bottle Crash 454, 1999

Antonio Corpora - Il campo di grano (Cornfield), 1977
Oil on canvas. Size 100x81 cm. Signed lower right, Signed, dated, titled and described on the reverse. Provenance: Private collection, Milan. Certificate: The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity on a photograph issued by Giovanni Di Summa, dated Rome 10/06/2006. See Price...

Shozo Shimamoto - Bottle Crash 454, 1999
Acrylic and enamel on canvas. Size 32x65 cm. Signed lower left. Certificate: This work is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity issued by the Shozo Shimamoto Association, Naples under n. 454 and signed by the artist (dated 2013). Provenance: ABC-ARTE Gallery, Genoa, Italy. See Price...

Left: Renato Birolli - Natura morta (Still life), 1949; Right: Mimmo Paladino - Untitled, 1990

Renato Birolli - Natura morta (Still life), 1949
Mixed media on paper on canvas. Size 13.5x17cm. Signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Provenance: Private collection, Milan, Italy. See Price...

Mimmo Paladino - Untitled, 1990
Mixed media on cardboard on panel. Size: 72x86 cm. Nai Arte Contemporanea Gallery (Naples) label on the reverse. Provenance: Giuseppe Avallone Collection, Naples. Nai Arte Contemporanea Gallery, Naples. Private collection, Italy. See Price...

Left: Carlo Nangeroni - Interferenze (Intereferences), 1971; Right: Matteo Negri - L’Ego Mondrian (Whi mango?), 2018

Carlo Nangeroni - Interferenze (Intereferences), 1971
Acrylic on canvas. Size 80x80 cm. Signed, titled and dated on the reverse. The authenticity of this artwork has been confirmed by Nangeroni Archive, Milan. Provenance: ABC-ARTE Gallery, Genoa, Italy. See Price...

Matteo Negri - L’Ego Mondrian (Whi mango?), 2018
Chromed and lacquered iron. Size 55x55x18 cm. Signed on the reverse. Certificate: The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity released by the artistProvenance: ABC-ARTE Gallery, Genoa, Italy. See Price...

Left: Sorrenti - The King in Yellow, gold ring; Right: Marcello Lo Giudice - Dalla Primavera di Botticelli (multicolor), 2010

Sorrenti - The King in Yellow, gold ring
“The King in Yellow”, a ring made in Italy in 18K gold with rhodium patina. On request the company mounts 1 diamond 0,10 (5.700,00). It takes 40 to 50 days to create a new piece of jewelry by hand. Jewel of Italian goldsmith excellence. Drawing and wax created by the female sensitivity of the artist of the Brera Academy in Milan. See Price...

Marcello Lo Giudice - Dalla Primavera di Botticelli (multicolor), 2010
(From the Spring of Botticelli). Ceramic and spring mattress and plexiglass. Size 50x30x13cm. Signed and dated on the front. Certificate: The work is accompanied by the certificate of authenticity released by the artist. Provenance: ABC-ARTE Gallery, Genoa, Italy. See Price...

Left: Horst P. Horst - Round the clock I, New York, 1987; Right: Horst P. Horst - Mainbocher corset, Paris, 1939

Horst P. Horst - Round the clock I, New York, 1987
Gelatin silver print. Year 1987 - printed later. Image: 36.5x29 cm. Sheet: 50.5 x 40.5cm. Blindstamp in the margin. Signed, title, dated and “S.G.P” inscription on the verso. Provenance: Private collection, Rome, Italy. See Price...

Horst P. Horst - Mainbocher corset, Paris, 1939
Gelatin silver print -printed later. Image: 55.5 x 40.8cm. Sheet: 60.7 x 50.5cm. Blindstamp in the margin lower right. Signed, titled, dated on the reverse. Provenance: Private collection, Rome, Italy. See Price...

Left: Francis Picabia - Rèunion, 1938; Right: 17th-century landscape painting

Francis Picabia - Rèunion, 1938
Pencil, charcoal on paper. Size 20x30 cm. Signed lower right. Titled lower left. The artwork is framed. Certificate: Under reserve of obtaining the certificate of the Comité Picabia, Paris. Provenance: Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo Bandera, Busto Arsizio (VA) Private collection, Piacenza, Italy. See Price...

17th-century landscape painting
Oil on panel. Unsigned. In later frame. Sizes with frame: 100 x 80 cm. See Price...

Flemish School 18th century - Iced Landscape with people working and playing

Flemish School 18th century - Iced Landscape with people working and playing
Antique Painting. Oil on wooden board. Size 62 x 32 cm. See Price...

Giuseppe Vasi - Prospetto dell'Alma Città di Roma visto dal Monte Gianicolo, 1765

Giuseppe Vasi - Prospetto dell'Alma Città di Roma visto dal Monte Gianicolo, 1765
Prospect of the city of Rome from the Monte Gianicolo. Etching on laid paper, with margins, the complete, monumental panorama of the city of Rome printed on 12 sheets, originally published in the year 1765. The 12 sheets are assembled and framed in 3 parts of 4 sheets each but they can be reunited in a single piece. Total size: 41½ x 103inch (105.5 x 261.5cm). See Price...

Left: Braun & Hogenberg, Bird's-Eye View of Moscow; Right: Giuseppe Vasi - Prospetto Pricipale del Tempio e Piazza S. Pietro in Vaticano, 1774

Braun & Hogenberg - Moscovia Urbs Metropolis Totius Russiae Albae, 1617 (circa)
Bird's-Eye View of Moscow. Publication: Civitatus Orbis Theatrum, Vol.VI Old Hand Coloring, Size: 18.1 x 13.7 inches (46 x 35 cm) Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum or "Cities of the World" was published between 1572 and 1617. See Price...

Giuseppe Vasi - Prospetto Pricipale del Tempio e Piazza S. Pietro in Vaticano, 1774
Etching on paper on two joined sheets, very good impression with strong contrasts. Size 710x970 mm (28x38 1/4 in.). See Price...


Left: Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The Trevi Fountain, 1751; Right: Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The Temple of Saturn, 1774

Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The Trevi Fountain, 1751
Veduta della vasta Fontana de Trevi anticamente detta l'Acqua Vergine. Etching on laid paper, from the series “Vedute di Roma”. Wide margins. A very good impression with strong contrasts. Roman edition with the address and price. Hind 19 (iii/vii), mounted and framed. Size: 403x554 mm; (16x22 in.). See Price...

Giovanni Battista Piranesi - The Temple of Saturn, 1774
The Temple of Saturn and the Arch of Septimius Severus in the background. Etching on laid paper, from the series “Vedute di Roma”, an excellent rich and detailed impression. Title on cartouche: "Altra veduta degli avanzi del Pronao del Tempio detta Concordia". Size: 47 x 71 cm (18 X 27.5 in.). See Price...

Left: Poland. Seutter (Matthaus) - Wratislavia Antiquissima et Celeberrima Ducat. Silesiaci Metropolis, circa 1740 ; Right: Pieter Schenk - America Septentrionalis Novissima, America Meridionalis Accuratissima, 17th century colored map

Poland. Seutter (Matthaus) - Wratislavia Antiquissima et Celeberrima Ducat. Silesiaci Metropolis, circa 1740
Engraved city plan of Wroclaw with contemporary hand colouring, panorama and two allegorical vignettes below the map, laid on card, Size: 500 x 580 mm, mounted and framed. See Price...

Pieter Schenk, America Septentrionalis Novissima, America Meridionalis Accuratissima, 17th century colored map
A fine and decorative map of the Americas. North America is based on the Sanson-Jaillot model with California as an island. An unusual feature of the map is the pair of large cartouches, one for each continent, each surrounded by figures including natives, animals, explorers, and a river god. Plate size: 23 1/4 x 18 inches. Nicely framed and glazed. See Price...

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