What: Day 1: Ancient & Modern Prints & DrawingsWhere: Gonnelli Casa D' Aste; Piazza Massimo D'Azeglio 13, Florence, 50121, ItalyWhen: February 4; 09.00 am GMTTop lots of the sale:- Giovanni Fattori, Lady with fan. 1860 ca. Oil painting on canvas. 90x63 cm. The painting, an authentic incunabulum of the Fattorian portraiture, is published in Il ritratto nell'Ottocento, edited by MP Gonnelli, Florence, Saletta Gonnelli, 1978, pp. 60-62. Estimate: € 48,000 - € 88,000 ($ 54,738 - $ 100,354)- Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Los Proverbios. 1875. Etching, aquatinte, burnished aquatinte, burin and drypoint. 240 / 244x350 / 354 mm. Sheet: 309x440 mm. Harris, 248-265. Goya probably began working on Proverbs shortly after the publication of Tauromachia in 1816, and the plates were completed before they left for Bordeaux in 1824. Estimate: € 14,000 - € 28,000 ($ 15,965 - $ 31,930)- Antonio Canova [from], Le Muse with their poets and philosophers Minerva and Apollo / Jokes of Nymphs Thanks dancing / Dancers. Thoughts of Antonio Canova 1809-1814. Etching with burin finishes. Sheet: 440x620 mm. Canova and the engraving, pp. 264-317. Exceptional collection in 30 sheets of the three complete series identified in the catalog of prints of Canova's works sold in the shop of Pier Luigi Scheri in Rome. Estimate: € 11,000 - € 22,000 ($ 12,544 - $ 25,088)- Gerald Leslie Brockhurst, Adolescence. 1932. Etching. 370x265 mm. Sheet: 435x335 mm. Fletcher 75.vi. Signed in pencil at the bottom right. Annotations not dissolved in the lower left corner. Tirata in a total of 91 specimens. Estimate: € 8,000 - € 16,000 ($ 9,123 - $ 18,246)- Francisco Goya and Lucientes, Los desastres de la guerra. 1923. Etching, burin, drypoint, burnisher, lavis. mm 140 / 175x205 / 250. Sheet: 248x335 / 340. Harris, 121-200. Complete and homogeneous series in 80 tables to which Goya dedicated himself from 1810 to 1820, but which was published for the first time only in 1863. Estimate: € 8,000 - € 16,000 ($ 9,123 - $ 18,246)- Giovanni Battista Piranesi , The Campo Marzio of ancient Rome. 1762. Etching. Large in-folio (555x430 mm). Sheet: 550x420 mm. Focillon, 428-479. Wilton-Ely, 559-612. Complete work including: 2 figured frontdesks etched; 4 dedication cards (8 pages) in Italian and Latin to Robert Adams with, on the first 2 pages, 2 engraved headlines; 69 pages numbered in Arabic text numbers with 2 incised caps and the last 2 pages 2 incisions in the text; 12 index pages numbered in Roman uppercase numbers; 17 catalog pages in Italian and Latin numbered with tiny Roman numerals; 48 tables including Index monument / index reliquiarum. Estimate: € 8,000 - € 16,000 ($ 9,123 - $ 18,246)- Francisco Goya y Lucientes , Los Proverbios. 1904. Etching, aquatinte, burnished aquatinte, burin and drypoint. 240 / 244x350 / 354 mm. Sheet: 300x420 mm. Harris, 248-265. Complete and homogeneous series in 18 tables in the 5th edition on 9, printed in the Calcografia for the Real Academia in 1904. Estimate: € 7,500 - € 15,000 ($ 8,552 - $ 17,105)For details, visit: https://www.liveauctioneers.com/Click on the slideshow for the highlights of the sale.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/Founder: Louise Blouin
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