Chin San Long (Lang Jingshan) (Chinese, 1892-1995). Photograph titled "Spring Fantasia," executed 1945, depicting a boat floating through mist behind the dramatic silhouette of branches. Silver gelatin print. Signed in ink along the lower right.Chin San Long is known for his innovative art photography, particularly his signature "composite photography" technique. He was the first Chinese photographer to take artistic nude photos, and also specialized in nature photography.Provenance: From the collection of William Atkins.William Atkins (1919-2001) was a pilot for Northwest Airlines, who spent his career flying to Asia. He was an avid photographer who was involved in the Photographic Society of America, through which he developed relationships with photography clubs worldwide. It was through the photographic society in Taiwan that he met Chin San Long, with whom he became close friends. In the 1970s, he arranged an exhibit for Chin San Long's photography in Minnesota.Unframed; height: 15 1/2 in x width: 11 3/4 in. Matted; height: 20 7/8 in x width: 16 3/4 in.
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Chin San Long (Lang Jingshan) (Chinese, 1892-1995). Photograph depicting a woman carrying water along a rocky bank, with tree branches extending up in the foreground. Silver gelatin print. Hand signed along the mat.Chin San Long is known for his innovative art photography, particularly his signature "composite photography" technique. He was the first Chinese photographer to take artistic nude photos, and also specialized in nature photography.Provenance: From the collection of William Atkins.William Atkins (1919-2001) was a pilot for Northwest Airlines, who spent his career flying to Asia. He was an avid photographer who was involved in the Photographic Society of America, through which he developed relationships with photography clubs worldwide. It was through the photographic society in Taiwan that he met Chin San Long, with whom he became close friends. In the 1970s, he arranged an exhibit for Chin San Long's photography in Minnesota.Unframed; height: 14 1/4 in x width: 10 in. Matted; height: 20 in x width: 16 in.
Chin San Long (Lang Jingshan) (Chinese, 1892-1995). Photograph titled "Apprehension," depicting a group of men gathered around a magazine. Silver gelatin print. Hand signed along the lower right.Chin San Long is known for his innovative art photography, particularly his signature "composite photography" technique. He was the first Chinese photographer to take artistic nude photos, and also specialized in nature photography.Provenance: From the collection of William Atkins.William Atkins (1919-2001) was a pilot for Northwest Airlines, who spent his career flying to Asia. He was an avid photographer who was involved in the Photographic Society of America, through which he developed relationships with photography clubs worldwide. It was through the photographic society in Taiwan that he met Chin San Long, with whom he became close friends. In the 1970s, he arranged an exhibit for Chin San Long's photography in Minnesota.Sight; Height: 9 1/2 in x width: 11 1/4 in. Matted; Height: 18 in x width: 14 in.
Chin San Long (Lang Jingshan) (Chinese, 1892-1995). Group of three photogravures, each titled in pen along the verso, including: "Lettre de Mon Moulin Mill" depicting a circular view of a structure along a river, further dated 1938 in pencil along the verso; "Pavilion Fairyland" depicting a structure rising above billow clouds on a mountainside; and "Spring Fantasia" depicting a boat along a river with a willowy tree in the foreground, inscribed in pencil "proof" along the verso.Chin San Long is known for his innovative art photography, particularly his signature "composite photography" technique. He was the first Chinese photographer to take artistic nude photos, and also specialized in nature photography.Provenance: From the collection of William Atkins.William Atkins (1919-2001) was a pilot for Northwest Airlines, who spent his career flying to Asia. He was an avid photographer who was involved in the Photographic Society of America, through which he developed relationships with photography clubs worldwide. It was through the photographic society in Taiwan that he met Chin San Long, with whom he became close friends. In the 1970s, he arranged an exhibit for Chin San Long's photography in Minnesota.Lettre de Mon Moulin Mill; Height: 11 in x width: 11 1/2 in.Pavilion Fairyland; Height: 16 1/4 in x width: 13 in.Spring Fantasia; Height: 15 3/4 in x width: 11 3/4 in.
August Molder (Estonian/American, 1914-1982). Oil on canvas titled "Sitting Woman," depicting a seated nude woman in thick impasto. Signed along the lower right. Further signed and titled along the verso.Unframed; height: 19 3/4 in x width: 15 3/4 in. Framed; height: 21 3/4 in x width: 17 1/2 in.
Alonzo Hauser (American, 1909-1988). Watercolor and pencil on masonite titled "Spring Nap," depicting a nude woman lying on her side. Signed and dated March 1965 along the lower right. Further signed, titled, and inscribed "2810 Dodd Road, St. Paul 18 MN" along the verso.Unframed; height: 30 in x width: 24 in. Framed; height: 34 1/2 in x width: 28 1/2 in.
Paul Cadmus (American, 1904-1999). Crayon on paper drawing depicting a female nude from the back, leaning into her right arm. Signed along the lower right. The verso is inscribed "Dear Sandy," possibly the beginning of a letter.Provenance: Collection of Paul Cadmus; estate of Jon Anderson.Height: 8 1/2 in x width: 5 1/4 in.
Paul Cadmus (American, 1904-1999). Crayon on paper drawing depicting a reclining male nude from the back. He leans back on his elbows, his legs splayed in front of him. Signed and dated 1997 along the upper right.Provenance: Collection of Paul Cadmus; estate of Jon Anderson.Height: 10 1/2 in x width: 12 in.
Magna Graecia red-figure crater, 4th century BC.Polychrome pottery.Provenance: Spanish private collection A.B.Measurements: 31 x 32.5 cm.Ceramic vessel with a circular base, a bell-shaped body with two handles, almost hidden under a pronounced rim at the top, which also opens outwards. The exterior of the piece is decorated on the obverse with the figures of Dionysus and a Menade, a figure from the Bacchic entourage, facing the front. The lady wears a chiton and holds a fiale in her right hand. The nude male figure, wearing only a toga covering his back, offers her a tray and holds a palm branch. The reverse shows two ephebos conversing.The name of this type derives from its inverted bell shape, which opens from the base, a shape adapted to the function of this vessel. Craters such as this one were key utensils in the banqueting culture, as they were used to mix wine with water before drinking it, since the Greeks rarely drank pure wine. Once mixed with water, the wine was drunk directly from the krater using small vessels. The shape of the krater is therefore perfectly designed to facilitate the mixing of liquids and their subsequent extraction.Red-figure pottery was one of the most important figurative styles of Greek pottery. It was developed in Athens around 530 BC, and was used until the 3rd century BC. It replaced the previous predominant style of black-figured pottery within a few decades. The technical basis was the same in both cases, but in the red figures the colouring is inverted, with the figures highlighted against a dark background, as if illuminated by a theatrical light, following a more natural scheme. Painters working with black figures were forced to keep the motifs well separated from each other and to limit the complexity of the illustration. The red-figure technique, on the other hand, allowed greater freedom. Each figure was silhouetted against a black background, allowing the painters to portray anatomical details with greater accuracy and variety. Over time these decorations became more complex, incorporating numerous details in both black and white, which enhanced the narrative and decorative sense of the depictions. The technique consisted of painting the motifs on the piece while it was still wet, using a transparent varnish which, when fired, acquired an intense black hue. The motifs were therefore invisible before firing, which meant that the painters had to work entirely from memory, without being able to see their previous work. Once the piece was fired, the unglazed areas remained with the reddish hue of the clay, while the glazed, "painted" areas took on a dense, glossy black colour.
Torso of Venus. Rome, 1st-3rd century AD.Marble.Provenance: French private collection. Acquired before 1970.In good condition. It has a restored break line in the lower part of the hip.Measurements: 16 cm (height) and 21 cm (height with base).Marble sculpture representing a Venus Pudititia just out of the bath. After Praxiteles created and installed the first plastic representation of a large female nude in Cnidus, other sculptors also made this theme their own. The complete nudity of the torso is due to the lack of arms, which covered some parts of the body. This absence of upper limbs gives the sculpture a different appearance to what it would have originally looked like. As a reference to this important iconography, there is a statue preserved in its entirety in the Medici villa in Rome, which shows that the goddess covered her pubis with her left hand, while her right arm was raised to partially cover her breasts. The head, turned sharply to her left shoulder, was relatively small and the neck was long, with her hair tied back on her head and a bun on top of the nape of her neck.
A Meissen Marcolini period teacup and saucercirca 1774-1814the cup and saucer are individually painted with black monochrome panels, the cup featuring two putti with a nude female beside a goat, the saucer with a woman reaching for a bird in flight, the panels within an interlinked oval gilt border further surrounded with ribbons, pink roses and green foliage and a similar border to the exterior rims, underglaze blue factory marks, saucer 13.4cm diameter and teacup 4.5cm high(2)No damages or restoration. There is some slight rubbing in small patches to the gilded rim of the teacup and a further area of rubbing to one patch of the saucers gilding around the rim, together with loss of gilding to the handle.
Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck (Belgian, 1873-1965)A Mother of Algeria signed 'Van Biesbroeck' (upper right)oil on canvas87.5 x 53cm (34 7/16 x 20 7/8in).Footnotes:ProvenanceThe artist.Gifted to the sculptor Joan Katherine Dummett (British, 1905-2005).By descent.Private collection, UK.Born in Italy in 1873, Jules Pierre Van Biesbroeck was the son of the painter Jules Evarist Van Biesbroeck. The family re-settled in Ghent when Jules was two, and like his father, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, exhibiting his first painting at the age of just 14. On his Salon debut in 1888, Van Biesbroeck created a scandal with his large scale work, Le lancement d'Argos, which depicted nude figures, which had to be covered with drapery in order to be shown. Despite this, the young artist received 'special mention'. Van Biesbroeck was recognised for both his painting and sculpture, receiving awards and recognition throughout his career, as well as regular commissions. He was chosen to represent Belgium at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1900. Fleeing Belgium on the onset of the First World War, the artist settled in Bordighera in Northern Italy.Van Biesbroeck's first exposure to Orientalism came with a visit to North Africa in 1926, followed by a visit to Algeria in 1927, which radically altered the artist's style. The artist lived and worked in Algiers from 1929-1938, establishing a studio, 'La Volière', which became famous throughout the city.In 1938 Van Biesbroeck returned to Ghent where he remained until his death in 1965.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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