Auction 14 - "Prints and Drawings from XVI t [..]

AUCTION N.14 "PRINTS AND DRAWINGS FROM XVI TO XX CENTURY"
Thursday 12th December, 3 pm.


The auction of 12 December collects 480 lots divided into four sections: Prints and Drawings of the XVI-XVIII century; Giovanni Battista Piranesi; Prints and Drawings of the XIX-XX century; Costume, Fashion, Theatre.

 The Antique section includes about 150 drawings and prints with lots of important old masters from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century. Especially noteworthy section of the sixteenth century with drawings of Francesco Morandini, Alessandro Allori, Girolamo Macchietti, Bernardo Buontalenti - with a beautiful drawing signed and dated 1593 - and a head in red pencil of the narrow circle of Michelangelo Buonarroti.   And then studies of Domenico Passignano, Annibale Carracci, Alessandro Tiarini, Jan Brueghel II, Stefano della Bella, Roymen de Hooge, Juan de Valdes, Pietro Antonio Novelli, Giovan Battista Gaulli, Simon Vouet, Corrado Giaquinto, Francesco Solimena, Elisabetta Sirani Giovanni Antonio Burrini, Chretien Bernhard Rode, François Boitard, Giuseppe Bazzani, Sebastiano Conca, Donato Creti, Antonio Bresciani, etc..
Among the prints, we highlight some rare works by Martino Rota (the Last Judgment by Michelangelo), Marcantonio Raimondi (David and Goliath), Cherubino Alberti (Tobiolo and the Angel), Cornelis Cort, Hendrick Goltzius, Annibale Carracci, Benedetto Castiglione, Gaspare Osello, Jacques Callot, Stefano della Bella, etc..

 We highlight the rich selection of works by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, including thirty prints of Antiquities of Rome and some valuable books, including a wonderful copy of “Colonne Romane” (1772) and a magnificent roman edition of “Carceri” (ed. 1761). 

 The section dedicated to modern graphics of 800’s and 900’s comprises approximately 300 lots with prints and drawings by Italian and foreign artists such as Luigi Bartolini, Felice Casorati, Massimo Campigli, Giacomo Manzu, Giuseppe Viviani, Giovanni Fattori, Vincenzo Gemito, Carlo Chiostri, Pietro D'Achiardi, Francesco Nonni, Lorenzo Viani, Melchiorre Delfico, Bartolomeo Pinelli, Pelagio Palagi, Max Klinger, Käthe Kollwitz, Anto Carte, Mariano Fortuny, Michel Fingesten, Sigmund Lipinsky, Franz von Stuck, Manuel Robbe, etc... Of note, the complete collection of the magazine "Xilografia" and an interesting album of drawings of the first half of the nineteenth century containing unpublished drawings by Luigi Sabatelli and Giuseppe Bezzuoli.

  The catalog ends with a special section dedicated to "Costume, fashion and theater" containing sketches and theatrical sketches of Erté, Umberto Brunelleschi, Alberto Fabio Lorenzi, Maria De Matteis, Paolo Garretto, Umberto Onorato, Gianni Vagnetti, Giovanni Colacicchi, Titina Rota, Emanuele Luzzati, Anna Anni, etc.., including the famous pochoir album of 1908 “Les Robes de Paul Poiret” illustrated by Paul Iribe.