Europe, 1960s-1970s

Glazed ceramic sculpture on a wooden base depicting a pair of horses. Anonymous author.

Italy, Late XIX Century

Carved and gilded wooden sofa with wavy and carved backrest, armrests, band under the seat and legs with phytomorphic motifs. Padded seat and backrest. Italy, late 19th century

Central Italy, Late XVIII Century

Neoclassical dresser supported by truncated pyramid legs with brass feet, on the front it has two drawers. Veneered in cherry, it is decorated on the front with baroque-style inlays; poplar interior.

UK Size 14

80s dove gray wool jacket. Size 46 (length 81 cm, shoulders 47 cm, waist 92 cm). The conditions are almost perfect: the inner lining of the sleeves is marked.

Oil painting on canvas. French school of the 18th century. The mythological subject of the goddess Diana bathing was widely spread in 18th century painting and, particularly in the Flemish area, also in the previous century. It was proposed in different variations, with the goddess alone, or accompanied by nymphs, or with Actaeon; in this case the beautiful deity, recognizable by the quiver hanging from the tree branch and the hunting dog that accompanies her. she is about to bathe in a body of water while a mischievous faun spies on her behind her. The scantily clad female body occupies the entire scene, central and of a whiteness that stands out in the midst of the shadows of the leafy forest, with all the other figures and elements that surround it. The small painting was restored and relined at the beginning of the 20th century.

Untitled 1930

Ink on paper. Signature and date below. Accompanied by authentication on photo from Galleria Giò Marconi in Milan and stamp from private archive. It is the drawing of the young artist who soon became one of the most important exponents of world surrealism, who was a poet and painter, but also a filmmaker, art and film critic, photographer and humorous designer. Born in the north of France, in 1927 he settled in Paris, where he came into contact with a group of young poets and philosophers, with whom he founded the '' Grand Jeu '' movement: play is understood as an art of living. Since 1928 he has collaborated with texts, poems and drawings for the movement's magazine and in the meantime he collaborates as an editor and reporter with various Parisian newspapers.In 1932, having exhausted the experience of the `` Grand Jeu '', he passes to the surrealist movement, collaborating on its publications and participating in its exhibitions. His humor turns towards the unusual and cruelty, more and more derisive of the absurdity of everyday life, of the tragic side of common existence, to which the spirit and the unconscious rebel, trying to access the unobservable. Knows Salvador Dalí. In 1939 he also began his activity as a filmmaker. In 1941 his first personal exhibition took place in Paris: the first buyer was Pablo Picasso. Participate in all surrealist exhibitions, including the 1947 international one in Paris. In 1951, for reasons relating to the internal discipline of the group, he abandoned the surrealist movement with others, while continuing to practice its poetics. In 1955 he also became passionate about photography. Since 1968 he has devoted himself almost exclusively to painting, abandoning the activity of humorous draftsman. In the same year he settled permanently in Milan: in Italy he exhibited in various personal exhibitions, those in Milan at the Galleria Marconi. The work presented here, an early drawing, comes from an important Milanese private collection. It is presented in a frame.

Europe, Early XX Century

File cabinet in walnut wood and walnut root. On the front, double door opening and drawer with perforated brass handle. Inside compartments for documents and date display.

Italy, Late XIX Century

Pair of Louis Philippe chairs supported by saber legs at the back and wavy front legs; in walnut carved with characteristic motifs, the seat is padded while the backrest is open. In walnut.

Philosopher

Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right. Coming from a private collection in Pavia. The painting proposes a subject taken up several times by Primo Carena, both with groups of several characters inserted in a landscape, and with a solitary figure as appears in this painting, which belongs to the production of the 1950s. The man on the beach, in the seated pose leaning with his elbow on a marble capital, and in the cloth resting on his legs, recalls the elderly character sitting in a work by De Chirico, the Salute to the Argonauts, and well underlies the reference to painting metaphysics that the painter from Pavia wanted to express in his figure paintings of the 1950s and 1960s. The work is presented in a frame.

Italy, XX Century

5-light chandelier with crystal and cut glass structure featuring crystal necklaces and pendants. Italy late 20th century

Central Italy Mid 18th century

Open desk in red lacquered poplar wood, central Italy, mid-18th century. Three drawers in the undertop band, pair of side doors. Front and sides decorated with ocher frames, some of which lozenge.

Winter white cream cress with bustier and wristbands decorated with gold and silver beads and sequins. 1970s flared model still actual. ( shoulders 40cm, waist 80 cm, lenght 104 cm)

Elliptical shaped ceiling lamp, white opaline glass.

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Sextant with brass frame, vernier with adjusting screw and microscope for reading, three coloured filters for the fixed mirror, four for the mobile mirror. Marked "P. & G. Mattei Cardiff".

Large vintage sofa of Italian manufacture with bamboo structure; available with fabric cushions.

Glass pitcher, silver-plated metal.

Early 20th century

Liberty chandelier in metal and sheet worked with leaf and floral motifs.

Sculpture made of chiseled glass with bas-relief ornament depicting a moose. Manufactured in Sweden, 1950s-1960s

Size S

Haute couture cocktail dress 1950s. Probably a never worn sartorial prototype. Pencil dress with zipper on the back enriched by draping on the neckline, on the short-sleeve; ribbon on the back. Silk with floral pattern.

Bench; jacaranda veneer wood, brass foil, foam cushion, fabric cover.