AUCTION 116 | Modern and contemporary art
NAPLES, May 29th 2025 6.30pm (LIVE AND IN PRESENCE)
ONLINE CATALOGUE
EXHIBITION FROM MAY 2OTH TO DATE OF AUCTION
EVERY DAY (INCLUDING WEEKEND) FROM 11am TO 7pm
BLINDARTE MILANO - VIA PALERMO 11
La Blindarte presents the new auction of Modern and Contemporary Art (number 116), scheduled for May 29th 2025 at 6.30pm, with a selection of works of great quality and variety. The collection, coming from important collections national and international private, includes relevant works of artists active in different countries from the early twentieth century to the present day. To name a few: Giorgio de Chirico, Marino Marini, Mimmo Paladino, Domenico Gnoli, Léger, Pablo Picasso, Roberto Crippa, Wifredo Lam, Dadamaino, Salvo, Renato Mambor, but also Mario Schifano, Giulio Turcato, Accardi, Sandro Chia, Bertozzi & Casoni, Jan Fabre and Stephan Balkenhol.
As usual, with several exceptions, the catalogue (already online on www.blindarte.com) follows a temporal order and embraces from painting to drawing, from sculpture to photography, installations and digital works, proposing lots of extraordinary interest, rarity and curiosity. An intense journey in some of the artistic movements that have best represented modern art and contemporary, offering the market good investment opportunities economic and cultural.
Among the works to be noted of this auction: the "Nude" of 1930 by Giorgio de Chirico, an oil on canvas belonging to a period that represented for the the artist’s story a season full of insights rendered with an extraordinary expressive capacity. Since the 1930s, the artist’s production phase in great reassessment on the international market, in fact PICTOR OPTIMUS begins to to paint nudes, especially female subjects. In the work, published on "General Catalogue of works from 1908 to 1930" by Claudio Bruni Sakraischik and estimated 280.000/350.000€, de Chirico portrays a female nude from the Perfectly defined and sculpted forms within a landscape on which find several classical elements from the mythological references. The scenario is that of a Beach characterized by the presence of fragments of classical white columns and
where, behind a small hill in the background, you can see the profile of a temple. The work is of undoubted pictorial quality, so much to have been in many important collections from the year following its creation and displayed in several exhibitions held at historical galleries such as the Galleria Milano, the Genoa, the La Bussola Gallery, the Medusa Gallery and also in the recent exhibition of the Doge’s Palace in Genoa in 2019, boasting also a rich and prestigious Bibliographical curriculum.
Included in the first part of the catalogue is also the colorful mixed media "Quinta di teatro" of 1942 by Marino Marini (estimated 60,000/80,000€), belonging to the famous series of the "Pomone", but also "Le barbu", a terracotta jug partially engraved with Pablo Picasso dated 1953 (estimated 12.000/18.000€) and the "Project d'illustration" of Fernand Léger (estimated 12,000/16,000€), a successful gouache on paper from 1950 ca. representing the features of a female face on the colors of the French flag.
"Eggs Basket" is instead the title of tempera e sabbia su tela from 1960 by Domenico Gnoli depicting a basket of eggs in a blue landscape and Oranges (estimated 200,000/300,000€). The important work, exhibited in the recent retrospective of the 2021 Prada Foundation curated by Germano Celant, sees a Daily object elevated to an icon, as is the case for the most famous works of the artist.
After the successful sale in the last auction of another impressive work by Sol LeWitt, another great gouache on paper is also presented in this auction of the artist entitled "Irregular form", painted in 1997. The work, typical of the search for "Wall Drawings" that made famous the father of conceptual and minimal art American, is included in the auction with an estimate of euro 60.000/80.000. Always by LeWitt is included in the catalogue "Horizontal Brushstrokes", coloured gouache cm 28,5x76, of 2003 (estimated € 14,000/€ 20,000).
The 1984 work of the great Master of the Transavanguardia Mimmo Paladino (estimated 60,000/ 80,000 €). The oil, gouache and collages of cardboard on canvas applied on board in solid wood frame belongs to the period considered among the most important of his artistic production. In this work we follow abstract and dreamlike signs with strong timbre values. The the shapes with elegant and simplified signs and color are recovered in their expressive recovery. Even in their apparent simplicity expressed by icons represented, the works of Paladino always retain a dense ambiguity of Allusions, whose signs like an unknown alphabet are still waiting to be all deciphered and understood. To note also the works of two other important representatives of the Transavanguardia: Sandro Chia, present with a successful coloured mixed technique (estimated 7.000/10.000€) and Enzo Cucchi, with refined design of 1986 (estimated 3,000/4,000€).
To represent the School of Piazza del Popolo there are works by artists such as Mario Schifano, Renato Mambor, Giosetta Fioroni, Tano Festa and others. Schifano is proposed a "Window" from 1982 (estimated 26,000/32,000€), belonging to the famous series of "windows", which consists of paintings made by the artist over the years Seventies and eighties, characterized by a personal and original pictorial language. These works are distinguished by the use of bright colors, figurative and abstract elements, and attention to the representation of light and space. Schifano uses the window as a tool to explore concepts such as the encounter between interior and external, the perception of space and the relationship between reality and illusion. By Renato Mambor instead are included in the catalogue two mixed techniques on highly representative of his artistic research entitled respectively "Rebus", 1998 (estimated 13.000/16.000€) and "Anch'io", 2008 (estimated 16.000/22.000€).
To be noted for the most refined international collectors is the work of Jan Fabre "Love is the Power Supreme (The Silver Surfer)" from 1982 (estimated 12,000/16,000€). The installation consists of a structure made of wood, fabric, artificial grass and plastic is presented on an iron frame, with a projector also placed on an iron base, according to the artist’s practice of those years. In the work are some recurring themes in the production of the great Belgian artist. Fabre’s work Love and beauty are primordial forces, as powerful as ephemeral, capable of To transport the spectator into a dimension suspended between the sacred and the profane. The central element of the work is an eagle, which in the symbolism of the artist represents strength, power and vision, but also the risk of excessive ambition and possible fall. Its nature of predation animal and flight at great heights, makes it a symbol of domination and ability to see beyond the horizon, but also of the potential dangers associated with achieving ambitious goals. The shoes with heels instead, symbolically, represent the connection with the earth, stability and elegance and can be associated with a desire to elevation, to fascinate or to be noticed. Always for collectors who seek
On the international market, the works of Günhter Förg, George Segal, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, James Brown and others. The large sculpture by Stephan Balkenhol entitled "Männlicher Akt" of 2008 (estimated 18,000/25,000€), which reintroduces one of the most representative of the artist. The work, made in patinated and painted bronze, It depicts a naked male body, symbol of the common man, placed on a iron pedestal that, as for other works of the artist, is an integral part of the installation.
Included in the catalogue are relevant works by Carlo Carrà, a drawing of 1914, "Lady Hamilton" by George Grosz in 1923 and a painting by Ottone Rosai. A colorful and intense "Spiral" by Roberto Crippa of 1957, the same one mixed technique of Achille Perilli of 1957, a large, colorful and rare oil Emblem of 1950, a pencil, china and tempera on woven paper dated 1956 by Fortunato Depero (estimated 11.000/15.000€), the "Birds" of 1960 by the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam (estimated 18.000/25.000€), "Planet n. 7" beautiful work on wood of 1987 by Pietro Consagra, the oil on panel of 1979 entitled "In the room" by Fabrizio
Clerici (estimated 5,000/7,000€), relevant author of the Italian surrealism, strongly linked artistically and emotionally to the great artist of Argentine origin Leonor Fini. Also "The rational unconscious" works on 1976 canvas by Dadamaino (estimated 10.000/15.000€) , works by Aldo Mondino, Salvo, Giulio Turcato, Piero Dorazio and Carla Accardi, Giuseppe Spagnulo, and the beautiful works of Mario Persico,
Armando De Stefano, Alberto Sughi. Among the sculptures: Carmelo Cappello ("Restituiteci alla dignità del lavoro", 1959), Salvador Dalí ("Hommage à Terpsichore (The dance)", 1977), Arman, present even with a painting.
In the more contemporary section, there are works by: Lorenzo Scotto by Luzio, his installation "Cheese" composed of six mannequins in papier-mâché, dresses and accessories (estimated 4,000/6,000 €). A similar work, made on the model of this in 2016, is currently exhibited in the exhibition "Easy Irony. Irony in Italian art between XX and XXI century" in progress at the Mambo of Bologna between 6 February and 7 September 2025. But also the 2023 "Orange Cover" of the duo Bertozzi&Casoni (estimated 13.000/17.000€), a work that represents an important summary of the artists' work, in fact it encloses an orange shaped canvas, with an explicit quotation of the famous cuts by Lucio Fontana, placed in a case with a clear symbol of invitation to the protection of art and its history. Also works by Italian artists Andrea Di Marco, Vedova Mazzei, Vanessa Beecroft, Pierluigi Pusole, Gianni Asdrubali, Bernardo Siciliano, Luca Pancrazzi, Gabriele Arruzzo, Maurizio Cannavacciuolo, but also Pedro Cabrita Reis, Navid Nuur, Sebastian Black, Feng Zhengjie, Shi Xinning. Interesting photography section with Kudzanai Chiurai, Sterling Ruby, Nan Goldin, Vanessa Beecroft, Carlos Garaicoa.
The catalogue is closed for lots from a well-known Neapolitan collection, Please note: three c-prints by Anne Olofsson, a work entitled "Copan Building, Sao Paulo", composed of 9 lightjet prints mounted on forex by Salvino Campos, and the multimedia installations by Raffaela Mariniello, Lucia Romualdi, Eulalia Valldosera, as the significant works of Gregorio Botta, Federico Del Vecchio and Rosy Rox. Included in the auction also a precious limited edition Jewellery Box made in 2003 for Louis Vuitton by Takashi Murakami (estimated 8,000/12,000€).
The works, with some exceptions, will be on display from 20 May to of the auction every day from 11.00 to 19.00 at the Milan office in via Palermo 11. The auction will take place live and in-person in Naples from 18.30 of Thursday 29 May. To participate in the auction, it is recommended to register on the site www.blindarte.com (by logging in).
NAPLES, May 29th 2025 6.30pm (LIVE AND IN PRESENCE)
ONLINE CATALOGUE
EXHIBITION FROM MAY 2OTH TO DATE OF AUCTION
EVERY DAY (INCLUDING WEEKEND) FROM 11am TO 7pm
BLINDARTE MILANO - VIA PALERMO 11
La Blindarte presents the new auction of Modern and Contemporary Art (number 116), scheduled for May 29th 2025 at 6.30pm, with a selection of works of great quality and variety. The collection, coming from important collections national and international private, includes relevant works of artists active in different countries from the early twentieth century to the present day. To name a few: Giorgio de Chirico, Marino Marini, Mimmo Paladino, Domenico Gnoli, Léger, Pablo Picasso, Roberto Crippa, Wifredo Lam, Dadamaino, Salvo, Renato Mambor, but also Mario Schifano, Giulio Turcato, Accardi, Sandro Chia, Bertozzi & Casoni, Jan Fabre and Stephan Balkenhol.
As usual, with several exceptions, the catalogue (already online on www.blindarte.com) follows a temporal order and embraces from painting to drawing, from sculpture to photography, installations and digital works, proposing lots of extraordinary interest, rarity and curiosity. An intense journey in some of the artistic movements that have best represented modern art and contemporary, offering the market good investment opportunities economic and cultural.
Among the works to be noted of this auction: the "Nude" of 1930 by Giorgio de Chirico, an oil on canvas belonging to a period that represented for the the artist’s story a season full of insights rendered with an extraordinary expressive capacity. Since the 1930s, the artist’s production phase in great reassessment on the international market, in fact PICTOR OPTIMUS begins to to paint nudes, especially female subjects. In the work, published on "General Catalogue of works from 1908 to 1930" by Claudio Bruni Sakraischik and estimated 280.000/350.000€, de Chirico portrays a female nude from the Perfectly defined and sculpted forms within a landscape on which find several classical elements from the mythological references. The scenario is that of a Beach characterized by the presence of fragments of classical white columns and
where, behind a small hill in the background, you can see the profile of a temple. The work is of undoubted pictorial quality, so much to have been in many important collections from the year following its creation and displayed in several exhibitions held at historical galleries such as the Galleria Milano, the Genoa, the La Bussola Gallery, the Medusa Gallery and also in the recent exhibition of the Doge’s Palace in Genoa in 2019, boasting also a rich and prestigious Bibliographical curriculum.
Included in the first part of the catalogue is also the colorful mixed media "Quinta di teatro" of 1942 by Marino Marini (estimated 60,000/80,000€), belonging to the famous series of the "Pomone", but also "Le barbu", a terracotta jug partially engraved with Pablo Picasso dated 1953 (estimated 12.000/18.000€) and the "Project d'illustration" of Fernand Léger (estimated 12,000/16,000€), a successful gouache on paper from 1950 ca. representing the features of a female face on the colors of the French flag.
"Eggs Basket" is instead the title of tempera e sabbia su tela from 1960 by Domenico Gnoli depicting a basket of eggs in a blue landscape and Oranges (estimated 200,000/300,000€). The important work, exhibited in the recent retrospective of the 2021 Prada Foundation curated by Germano Celant, sees a Daily object elevated to an icon, as is the case for the most famous works of the artist.
After the successful sale in the last auction of another impressive work by Sol LeWitt, another great gouache on paper is also presented in this auction of the artist entitled "Irregular form", painted in 1997. The work, typical of the search for "Wall Drawings" that made famous the father of conceptual and minimal art American, is included in the auction with an estimate of euro 60.000/80.000. Always by LeWitt is included in the catalogue "Horizontal Brushstrokes", coloured gouache cm 28,5x76, of 2003 (estimated € 14,000/€ 20,000).
The 1984 work of the great Master of the Transavanguardia Mimmo Paladino (estimated 60,000/ 80,000 €). The oil, gouache and collages of cardboard on canvas applied on board in solid wood frame belongs to the period considered among the most important of his artistic production. In this work we follow abstract and dreamlike signs with strong timbre values. The the shapes with elegant and simplified signs and color are recovered in their expressive recovery. Even in their apparent simplicity expressed by icons represented, the works of Paladino always retain a dense ambiguity of Allusions, whose signs like an unknown alphabet are still waiting to be all deciphered and understood. To note also the works of two other important representatives of the Transavanguardia: Sandro Chia, present with a successful coloured mixed technique (estimated 7.000/10.000€) and Enzo Cucchi, with refined design of 1986 (estimated 3,000/4,000€).
To represent the School of Piazza del Popolo there are works by artists such as Mario Schifano, Renato Mambor, Giosetta Fioroni, Tano Festa and others. Schifano is proposed a "Window" from 1982 (estimated 26,000/32,000€), belonging to the famous series of "windows", which consists of paintings made by the artist over the years Seventies and eighties, characterized by a personal and original pictorial language. These works are distinguished by the use of bright colors, figurative and abstract elements, and attention to the representation of light and space. Schifano uses the window as a tool to explore concepts such as the encounter between interior and external, the perception of space and the relationship between reality and illusion. By Renato Mambor instead are included in the catalogue two mixed techniques on highly representative of his artistic research entitled respectively "Rebus", 1998 (estimated 13.000/16.000€) and "Anch'io", 2008 (estimated 16.000/22.000€).
To be noted for the most refined international collectors is the work of Jan Fabre "Love is the Power Supreme (The Silver Surfer)" from 1982 (estimated 12,000/16,000€). The installation consists of a structure made of wood, fabric, artificial grass and plastic is presented on an iron frame, with a projector also placed on an iron base, according to the artist’s practice of those years. In the work are some recurring themes in the production of the great Belgian artist. Fabre’s work Love and beauty are primordial forces, as powerful as ephemeral, capable of To transport the spectator into a dimension suspended between the sacred and the profane. The central element of the work is an eagle, which in the symbolism of the artist represents strength, power and vision, but also the risk of excessive ambition and possible fall. Its nature of predation animal and flight at great heights, makes it a symbol of domination and ability to see beyond the horizon, but also of the potential dangers associated with achieving ambitious goals. The shoes with heels instead, symbolically, represent the connection with the earth, stability and elegance and can be associated with a desire to elevation, to fascinate or to be noticed. Always for collectors who seek
On the international market, the works of Günhter Förg, George Segal, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, James Brown and others. The large sculpture by Stephan Balkenhol entitled "Männlicher Akt" of 2008 (estimated 18,000/25,000€), which reintroduces one of the most representative of the artist. The work, made in patinated and painted bronze, It depicts a naked male body, symbol of the common man, placed on a iron pedestal that, as for other works of the artist, is an integral part of the installation.
Included in the catalogue are relevant works by Carlo Carrà, a drawing of 1914, "Lady Hamilton" by George Grosz in 1923 and a painting by Ottone Rosai. A colorful and intense "Spiral" by Roberto Crippa of 1957, the same one mixed technique of Achille Perilli of 1957, a large, colorful and rare oil Emblem of 1950, a pencil, china and tempera on woven paper dated 1956 by Fortunato Depero (estimated 11.000/15.000€), the "Birds" of 1960 by the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam (estimated 18.000/25.000€), "Planet n. 7" beautiful work on wood of 1987 by Pietro Consagra, the oil on panel of 1979 entitled "In the room" by Fabrizio
Clerici (estimated 5,000/7,000€), relevant author of the Italian surrealism, strongly linked artistically and emotionally to the great artist of Argentine origin Leonor Fini. Also "The rational unconscious" works on 1976 canvas by Dadamaino (estimated 10.000/15.000€) , works by Aldo Mondino, Salvo, Giulio Turcato, Piero Dorazio and Carla Accardi, Giuseppe Spagnulo, and the beautiful works of Mario Persico,
Armando De Stefano, Alberto Sughi. Among the sculptures: Carmelo Cappello ("Restituiteci alla dignità del lavoro", 1959), Salvador Dalí ("Hommage à Terpsichore (The dance)", 1977), Arman, present even with a painting.
In the more contemporary section, there are works by: Lorenzo Scotto by Luzio, his installation "Cheese" composed of six mannequins in papier-mâché, dresses and accessories (estimated 4,000/6,000 €). A similar work, made on the model of this in 2016, is currently exhibited in the exhibition "Easy Irony. Irony in Italian art between XX and XXI century" in progress at the Mambo of Bologna between 6 February and 7 September 2025. But also the 2023 "Orange Cover" of the duo Bertozzi&Casoni (estimated 13.000/17.000€), a work that represents an important summary of the artists' work, in fact it encloses an orange shaped canvas, with an explicit quotation of the famous cuts by Lucio Fontana, placed in a case with a clear symbol of invitation to the protection of art and its history. Also works by Italian artists Andrea Di Marco, Vedova Mazzei, Vanessa Beecroft, Pierluigi Pusole, Gianni Asdrubali, Bernardo Siciliano, Luca Pancrazzi, Gabriele Arruzzo, Maurizio Cannavacciuolo, but also Pedro Cabrita Reis, Navid Nuur, Sebastian Black, Feng Zhengjie, Shi Xinning. Interesting photography section with Kudzanai Chiurai, Sterling Ruby, Nan Goldin, Vanessa Beecroft, Carlos Garaicoa.
The catalogue is closed for lots from a well-known Neapolitan collection, Please note: three c-prints by Anne Olofsson, a work entitled "Copan Building, Sao Paulo", composed of 9 lightjet prints mounted on forex by Salvino Campos, and the multimedia installations by Raffaela Mariniello, Lucia Romualdi, Eulalia Valldosera, as the significant works of Gregorio Botta, Federico Del Vecchio and Rosy Rox. Included in the auction also a precious limited edition Jewellery Box made in 2003 for Louis Vuitton by Takashi Murakami (estimated 8,000/12,000€).
The works, with some exceptions, will be on display from 20 May to of the auction every day from 11.00 to 19.00 at the Milan office in via Palermo 11. The auction will take place live and in-person in Naples from 18.30 of Thursday 29 May. To participate in the auction, it is recommended to register on the site www.blindarte.com (by logging in).