Jean Baptiste Clèsinger, Cléopâtre Mourante (The Dying Cleopatara).
Estimate £100,000 –150,000
Directly inspired by the Parthenon Pedimental sculptures,
this sculpture
was part of an emerging craze for Egyptology in the mid-19th century.
Satyr with the Infant Dionysus, Italian, Circa 1900 (After the Antique).
Estimate £70,000-100,000
This sculpture
is based on an ancient model in the national archaeological museum in Naples; it is a well-executed piece with very good quality of carving in excellent condition.
Ambrogio Borghi, Chioma di Berenice (Berenice’s Tresses).
Estimate £70,000 –100,000
This is a key iconic masterpiece
of Italian 19th-century sculpture. It was a seminal model for the artist and is both sumptuous and erotic.
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier, La Juive D’Alger (The Jewess of Algiers).
Estimate £60,000 –80,000
This bust
stands out from the decorative Orientalist oeuvre as an unusually fine study of physiognomy and culture. It is a technical masterpiece, combining enamel, bronze, silvering and marble carving.
Giovanni Battista Lombardi, Najade O Ninfa (Naiad or Nymph).
£60,000 –80,000
This work
merges classical simplicity with Romantic sentiment; it shows an idealized beauty in the act of stepping into water.
Pasquale Romanelli, Odalisque (Sulamitide).
Estimate £40,000 –60,000
This is an important work
by a highly prized neoclassical sculptor. It represents odalisque, a figure of orientalist fantasy.
Luca Madrassi, Clytie Turning into a Sunflower.
Estimate £30,000 –£50,000
This work
shows the Nymph Clytie in the act of metamorphosis, having been mourning the death of her lover, the sun god Helios.
Louis-Ernest Barrias, La Nature se Dévoilant Devant la Science (Nature Revealing Herself to Science).
Estimate £30,000 –50,000
Part of a late 19th-century fashion for chryselephantine sculptures and relates itself to the breakneck technological progress taking place at the time.
Vittorio Caradossi, Nymph and Chimera.
Estimate £35,000 –50,000
Based on renaissance and classical precedent,
this work
shows a scene from ancient mythology.
Cecil de Blaquiere Howard, Baigneuse (Bather), 1920.
Estimate £15,000—25,000
This Bather is part of an important collection of works from Cecil Howard’s studio, which has come from his descendants. This particular work is shows his more classicising aesthetic, and is based on an ancient Roman relief of dancing Maenads.
Our market-leading sale of 19th & 20th Century Sculpture is headed by an important group of marbles, including a rediscovered Nymph by Giovanni Battista Lombardi, a monumental Dying Cleopatra by Clésinger, and a magnificent bronze and coloured marble Juive d’Alger by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier. These are complemented by sumptuous bronzes, led by Ambrogio Borghi’s Berenice’s Tresses. The sale further includes an important private collection of works from Cecil Howard’s studio.
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19th & 20th Century Sculpture, including works from Cecil Howard’s Studio
London | 12 July 2017