Auction on
28 May 2021 - 14:00 (CEST) -
Salle 5-6 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
If there is a collection that must not be missed under any circumstances, it is the one put together decades ago by James Bismuth, an agricultural commodities broker, who died last December at the age of 89.
Lucas Carlevarijs (1663-1730), View of Saint Mark's Square and the Piazzetta, oil on canvas, 84 x 146 cm/33.07 x 57.48 in. Estimate: €250,000/350,000
Lucas Carlevarijs (1663-1730), View of Saint Mark's Square and the Piazzetta, oil on canvas, 84 x 146 cm/33.07 x 57.48 in. Estimate: €250,000/350,000
The collection’s diversity—old, modern and postwar paintings, design, 18 th -century furniture and objets d’art, African and pre-Colombian art—is almost mind-boggling. James Bismuth was a man of taste and culture. In his Parisian apartment in the seventh arrondissement, works by Jean Dubuffet ( Petit paysage baroque, couleur de hareng grillé, 1952 ; Small b aroque l andscape, c olor of g rilled h erring, €180,000/200,000), Asger Jorn ( Hanky-Panky, 1966 , €100,000/150,000),…
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