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Lot 4 JAN COSSIERS (1600-1671) The Penitent Mary Magdalene holding a skull. Panel. AntwerpSigned.guildbrand marks and Guilliam Gabron's panel makers' mark on the reverse. 64.2 x 49.9 cm Est.: € 15000-20000 With this magazine, we invite you to browse through a selection of the best pieces of the Grand Opening sale organised for the occasion of the reopening of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp (KMSKA). The complete catalogue will be available online by September 23 onSurroundlive.bernaerts.eu.yourselfwith some of these exquisite artworks which are illustrated on large format posters. But do mind, nothing beats the original.
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A comprehensive set of approx. 500 letters between the Antwerp city council and both architects concerning the construction of the KMSKA. Est.: € 3000-4000
Lot 159 (detail) FRANS VAN DIJK (1853-1939) 'Museum van Schoone Kunsten te Antwerpen, voorgevel', 1883. Design for the facade of the KMSKA. Pen in Indian ink, traces of pencil, washed with grey watercolour. Singed by both architects and dated. 640 x 965 mm Est.: € 4000-5000
Lot 166 FRANS VAN DIJK (1853-1939) en JEAN-JACQUES WINDERS (1849-1936)
Lot 284 TAKESADA MATSUTANI (°1937) Untitled, 1979. Polyvinyl acetate adhesive and pencil on Japanese paper on canvas. Signed and dated. 160 x 130 cm Est.: € 50000-55000
Lot 283 TAKESADA MATSUTANI (°1937) Untitled, 1979. Polyvinyl acetate adhesive, rope and pencil on canvas. Signed and dated. 94 x 73 cm Est.: € 25000-30000 Lot 301 HENRI MICHAUX (1899-1984) InkUntitled.onpaper. Monogrammed twice. 625 x 900 mm Est.: € 10000-12000
Alice Frey an artist's artist
Alice Frey on her encounters with James Ensor in Ostend
Signed and dated. 60 x 50 cm Est.: € 2000-3000 'Tous les jours, vers midi et demi, Ensor, en passant sur le trottoir d'en face, saluait de la main mon grand-père. Je m'arrangeais souvent pour être sur le seuil au même instant, car alors Ensor, soulevait son petit feutre noir en mon honneur et j'étais flattée d'attirer l'attention de cet homme étrange et magnifique, à l'allure vive (...).’
Born in Antwerp in 1895, it is Alice Frey’s time in Ostend in 1914 that will be the very beginning of her peculiar and almost forgotten career as an artist. World War I forced her and her family to stay at her grandparent’s house in Ostend for a while where almost every day James Ensor passed by. He encouraged her to pursue her artistic ambitions whereupon she started painting and drawing classes. Her entire life, while living in Antwerp, Brussels and Ostend, she would mingle in avant-garde art circles including Joris Minne, Roger Avermaete, Floris Jespers and the art critic Georges Marlier who she would marry in 1922.
Considering all these friendships, it is striking that they did not push her into a similar avant-garde corner. What she created was a world of fantasy and imagination, conjuring up dream decors full of clowns, harlequins or young partying people.
Lot 259 ALICE FREY (1895-1981) Portraits,Canvas.1936.
The Grand Opening sale contains eleven remarkable paintings by Alice Frey. Her unique style and particular iconology allows us to describe her as a hidden gem, resurfacing as a grande dame of the Belgian mid-century art scene next to James Ensor and Edgard Tytgat.
Lot 262 ALICE FREY (1895-1981) ‘Scène d’Antibes/ à la côte d’Azur’,Canvas.1959. Signed and dated. 54 x 65 cm Est.: € 2000-3000 (source: Mieke Mels, December 2021, vlaamsekunstcollectie.be)
Ensor, as he often did when drawing, returned to this sheet numerous times to cover it with drawings and sketches. Some are free trials and therefore more tentative, others are after old master paintings or statues.
A formerly unknown large sheet containing numerous sketches and preparatory drawings, dating from 1878-80, the period in which Ensor took lessons at the Brussels academy.
James a recent discovery ENSOR (1860-1949)
Ensor
Lot 158 JAMES
Sheet of figure studies and sketches, 1878-80. Pencil and black chalk. Not signed. Two stamps from the Brussels Academy. 860 x 680 mm Est.: € 6000-8000
Lot 241 PAUL DELVAUX (1894-1994) 'L'annonce faite à Marie', 1952. Pen and brush in ink, watercolour, traces of pencil. Four sheets of brown paper. Signed and dated. 735 x 630 mm Est.: € 30000-40000 © Foundation Paul Delvaux, St. Idesbald, Belgium/SABAM, 2022
Lot 342 KATI HECK (°1979) 'Pan Farynx, ohnmachtig', 2011. Canvas. Monogrammed and dated. 100 x 80 cm Est.: € 30000-40000
1981.wings),libel'sfor(StudyUntitled(1940-2019),PANAMARENKO317Lot 25000-35000€Est.: 202211-12OctoberAuctioneers,Bernaertssale,OpeningGrandThe
to the South Lot 106 JAN VAN BEERS (1852-1927) Young woman fishing, 1878. Panel. Signed and dated. 81 x 23.5 cm Est.: € 1500-2000 Lot 77 LUIGI RUBIO (1808-1882) Young woman with a jug at a fountain. Canvas. Signed. 92 x 73 cm Est.: € 3000-4000 Lot 107 PAUL EDWARD RICHARD SOHN (1834-1912) 'Le futur émigrant pour New York', 1874. Panel. Signed and dated. 35 x 26.5 cm Est.: € 4000-6000 (source: kmska.be)
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and the KMSKA share a common history as an important part of the museum's collection once belonged to the academy in the 18th century. By 1810, under imperial decree of Napoleon, the art collection moved to the empty monastery in the Mutsaardstraat where to this day the academy is housed. Throughout the entire 19th century the museum's contemporary collection was supplemented with paintings by artists closely related to the academy such as Hendrik Schaefels and Jan van Beers. The growth of the collection had a predictable result, the academy building became too small. Climate control and fire safety were no longer fit for purpose either. The city longed for a new museum of fine arts and decided in 1875 to build a museum on recently cleared land in the Antwerp South district, where the Spanish fortress had once stood. 19th Century
Lot 206 (detail) HENRI COLEN (active 1890-1920) Pigeons at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Canvas.Antwerp.Signed.110x72cm Est.: € 1500-2000
Lot 322 ADRIAN GHENIE (°1977) 'Study for the Dictators', 2011. Collage and acrylic on paper. 295 x 210 mm (x2) Est.: € 30000-40000 Lot 337 (detail) PIETER VERMEERSCH (°1973) Untitled, 2004. SignedCanvas.and dated. 60.5 x 50 cm Est.: € 3000-4000
Lot 321 (detail) KRIS MARTIN (°1972) 'Danse Macabre', 2020 Pen in East-Indian ink, grey wash. Signed and dated. 570 x 770 mm Est.: € 3500-4000
1885.Antwerp,FairWorld's(1818-1897),BREECROEGAERT-VANJACOBJAN201Lot 2000-3000€Est.: 202211-12OctoberAuctioneers,Bernaertssale,OpeningGrandThe
panther.Roaring(1886-1962),COLLINALBERIC151Lot 40000-50000€Est.: 202211-12OctoberAuctioneers,Bernaertssale,OpeningGrandThe
1959.lunaire’,‘Vision(1909-1987),LINTVANLOUIS274Lot 40000-50000€Est.: 202211-12OctoberAuctioneers,Bernaertssale,OpeningGrandThe
Lot 335 SHIRLEY JAFFE (1923-2016) 'Pile ou Face', 2013. Canvas. Signed and dated. 73 x 60 cm Est.: € 35000-45000
Lot 336 WALTER SWENNEN (°1946) 'Opening',Canvas.1988. Monogrammed and dated. 39 x 48 x 6 cm Est.: € 10000-12000 Lot 271 MARK VERSTOCKT (1930-2014) Untitled, 100SignedChipboard.1957.anddated.x80.5cm Est.: € 4000-5000 Lot 277 BRAM BOGART (1921-2012) ‘DEYELLOW’, 1981. Mixed media on panel. Signed and dated. 90 x 115 x 19 cm Est.: € 20000-30000
Lot 15 Flemish inlaid lacquer table cabinet, according to the Italian 'scagliola' style. Antwerp, second half 17th century.
The 16th and 17th century were tumultuous, yet grand centuries for the city of Antwerp. About 100 000 people live in the city by 1565, which made it a true ‘megalopolis’ that attracted people from all over the known world. Artists too, kept flocking to the town attracted by its manifold economic opportunities. An important aspect of the 16th- and 17th-century art production was printmaking, embodied in this sale by a woodcut of Christoffel Jegher after Rubens' Susanna and the Elders (lot 5). An exquisite ‘Last Supper’ attributed to the rather unknown, yet successful artist at the time, Chrispijn van de Broeck, marks the productive, but troublesome period of the last quarter of the 16th century (lot 3). By 1585 the Calvinist city capitulated and the metropolis lost her role as a commercial centre but not as a centre for the arts.
During the Contrareformation in the early 17th century, the Spanish rule was in need of strong religious images to enforce the catholic beliefs in the city. A beautiful Penitent Maria Magdalene by one of Rubens' best students Jan Cossiers, illustrates their skill in portraing saints in a humane and ever so attractive manner (lot 4). Also artisans continued to make high quality luxury goods throughout the 17th century, such as the 23 precious art cabinets in the Grand Opening sale (lots 12-34). These Flemish cabinets, with lavish tortoiseshell veneer and inlaid lacquer details showcase their skill and refinement which was eagerly sought after throughout Europe and beyond.
Oak, rosewood, inlaid lacquer decoration, red-tinted tortoise shell veneer, gilded bronze fittings. 39.5 x 66 x 31 cm Est.: € 20000-30000
Lot 3 CHRISPIJN VAN DEN BROECK (1530-1590) to be attributed to The Last Supper, ca. 1575-1580. 112Panel.x158 cm Est.: € 15000-20000
Old Masters
Artistic skill throughout centuries
Lot 5 CHRISTOFFEL JEGHER (1596-1652) Susanna and the Elders. Between 1633 and 1636. Woodcut, inscribed below in the middle. 440 x 580 mm Est.: € 3000-4000
Lot 242 FELIX LABISSE (1905-1982) Turkish bath scene, 1926. SignedCanvas.and dated. 61 x 49 cm Est.: € 8000-10000
Lot 280 LUC PEIRE (1916-1994) 'Castille', 1960. SignedCanvas.and dated. 63 x 79 cm Est.: € 5000-6000 Lot 264 LOUIS VAN LINT (1909-1987) Untitled,Canvas.1945. Signed and dated. 27.5 x 36.5 cm Est.: € 1500-2000
Lot 323 ZAHA HADID (1950-2016)/ B & B Moon system sofa. Design from 2007. Three parts, containing a footrest. Sofa-sculpture with curvilinear shapes. Backrest, seat and armrest with ottoman. Polyurethane coated, bronze-green coloured cover. 82 x 270 x 194 cm Est.: € 6000-8000 Lot 748
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Lot 748 RoseEarrings.gold (750/1000, 4.5 g). Set with imitation coral, imitation onyx elements and 64 diamonds in brilliant cut (0.78 ct, GVS1). Est.: € 700-900 Lot 176 Rivière necklace. Gold (750/1000, 24.8 g). Set with 93 diamonds in brilliant cut (approx. 9.90 ct, GVS1), in chute (0.20 > 0.05). Est.: € 3800-4000 Lot 177 YellowNecklace.gold (750/1000, 106.5 g). Est.: € 3700-4000 Lot 722 Entourage ring. White gold (750/1000, 5.6 g). Set with a ruby in oval cut (approx. 1.10 ct) and 36 diamonds in brilliant cut (0.90 ct, GVS1).
Est.: € 300-350 Lot 173 Solitaire ring with pavé setting. White gold (750/1000, 9 g). Set with one diamond (c. 1.02 ct, HSI2) and 66 diamonds in brilliant cut (0.64 ct, GVS1). Est.: € 2000-2500
The reopening of the KMSKA adds to Antwerp’s centuries old identity as a city of arts and trade. The fact that the building has been inaccessible for a long time will quickly be forgotten as visitors will rediscover the pristine collection, displayed in not just one, but two museums as new exhibition rooms have been created within the old structure. Also Bernaerts Auctioneers has renovated. More specifically, the auction room which was a former interbellum cinema, has been upgraded in terms of insulation and air circulation, preparing the space to be used as a assembly hall for individuals and groups interested in enjoying art in both its material shape (auctions, the Bernaerts gallery, exhibitions) and immaterial forms (concerts, events). Located at exactly 299 steps* away from the KMSKA, the auction house can function as an antechamber of the recently reopened museum.
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APPRAISAL DAYS October 7 Works on Paper Modern Art & Design 10 am - 6 pm October 8 2Comicspm-5 pm CATALOGUE The catalogues will be available on live.bernaerts.eu, Invaluable and Drouot Digital as from September 23. Lot 334 (detail cover) KOEN VAN DEN BROEK (°1973) 'Birds #2', 2013. 200Canvas.x140 cm Est.: € 35000-45000 THE *Steps taken by a middle-aged man, 187 cm, from the entrance at Verlatstraat 18 to the Corinthian column, at the top of the KMSKA entrance Lot 160 FRANS VAN DIJK (1853-1939) Est.: € 3000-4000 LIVE
VIEWING DAYS (VERLATSTRAAT 18) September 24 - 25 (during KMSKA opening weekend) 10 am - 5 pm September 26 - 30 + October 3 - 5 10 am - 12 pm/ 1 - 5 pm October 6 - 10 10 am - 6 pm LIVE OctoberAUCTION11 2 pm, lot 1 - 182 October 12 2 pm, lot 200 - 343 TIMED ONLINE SALES
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September 23 - October 17 Arts & Antiques, lot 500 - 649 Jewellery & Wines, lot 700 - 852 Works on Paper, lot 5000 - 5114
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