Karel Appel
Smile, 1950
Mixed technique on paper mounted on canvas
100 x 72,7 cm
Signed
Gallery Delaive op TEFAF 2010 stand 511
Karel Appel
Smile, 1950
Mixed technique on paper mounted on canvas
100 x 72,7 cm
Signed
Gallery Delaive at TEFAF 2010 stand 511
Peter Stuyvesant art collection raises record sum at Sotheby’s. TEFAF 2010 opened her doors last Friday on March 12 and hopes to get the same sale results as Sotheby’s.
An auction at Sotheby's of more than 160 works of post-war and contemporary art from the Peter Stuyvesant collection exceeded all expectations raising a record 13.6 million euros. Numerous works by Karel Appel were also on sale, such as Tete Tragique, a 1961 oil on canvas, which sold for almost 493,000 euros. We can hardly speak of an economic crisis in the sale results of the auction house last Monday in Amsterdam. TEFAF has also good hope the recession will not affect her sale results this year.
Appel’s Smile from 1950 is for sale at TEFAF -stand 511 Gallery Delaive- for the amount of 240.000,- euros. This wonderful work, which has a provenance from a very well known Dutch private collector, is freshly presented to the art market at the 2010 edition of TEFAF. Appel, who moved to Paris in 1950 after the bad reviews of the Cobra exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, shows his unique style with this typical Cobra figure smiling his teeth naked at the world’s current economic situation.
The TEFAF, world’s leading art and antiques fair, is open until Sunday, March 21. For more information contact us at info@delaive.com or look at www.tefaf.com
Niki de Saint Phalle
Last Night I Had a Dream, 1968
variable dimensions
painted polyester
Niki de Saint Phalle (Neuilly-sur-Seine,1930 - San Diego, 2002)
Last night I had a dream. Worldwide attention was drawn to the work of Niki de Saint Phalle in 1966, when she collaborated with fellow artist Jean Tinguely and Per Olof Ultvedt on a large-scale installation at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. This installation, titled hon-en katedral (hon is Swedish for she) was as big as a building but shaped as a reclining bright colored women figure. This provocative image of a woman figure with the door opening between her widespread legs, had a shock effect on both visitors and art critics worldwide and was therefore mentioned in every newspaper and magazine. Niki herself referred to these big, voluptuous and imperfect women figures as Nanas. La hon was the first Nana to draw worldwide attention after Niki’s first Nana exhibition at Galerie Alexandre Iolas in Paris in 1965. Niki herself said;” La hon, c’etait une sculpture gigantesque. La plus Grande Femme du Monde!”
Niki’s artistic career began in 1961 when she took part in the Nouveau Réalisme group. She was the only woman in this group of artists that included Arman, Christo, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, and Jacques de la Villeglé, among others. Niki also became friends with American artists Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers and Marcel Duchamp who were staying in Paris in the early sixties.
With the realization of hon-en katedral Niki was driven to create large monumental size sculptures. After a commission from the French government to create an outdoor sculpture garden in collaboration with Jean Tinguely for the expo 1967 held in Montreal, she continued to create monumental size works. Last Night I had a Dream is a monumental wall relief that consists out of a total of 18 sculptures, all figures and symbols who took part in Niki’s dream. Each figurine is an artwork on its own, and has been exhibited as such. Last Night I Had a Dream was first shown to the public in Paris 1968. In 1975 this sculptural tableau was partly installed on the exterior of the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, for an arts festival. In 1994 the work was moved to Japan to The Niki de Saint Phalle Museum in Nasu. Gallery Delaive acquired a large collection of works from the Niki Museum in Nasu.
At The European Fine Art Fair we can admire Last Night I had a Dream - all 18 sculptures - in the stand of Gallery Delaive, stand number 511.
The price is € 950.000,-
Expositions
1968 “Flash Niki de Saint Phalle”, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris, Fr
“Werke 1962-1968”, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, DE (nº 27)
1969 “Werke 1962-1968”, Kunstverein, Künstlerhaus, Hannover, DE (nº 27)
“Niki de Saint Phalle”, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, CH
1993 “Niki de Saint Phalle: Her life and art”, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, GB
“Niki de Saint Phalle: l’ invitation au musée”, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, FR
“Niki de Saint Phalle”, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Fribourg, CH
1994 “Niki de Saint Phalle”, Niki Museum, Nasu, JP
Bibliography
1968 Pluchart, François, “Combat”, 11 novembre, Paris, FR
1969 “Der Spiegel”, 27 Janvier, Hamburg, DE, p.104
1992 Cat. “Niki de Saint Phalle”, Kunstund Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, DE, p.87
1998 “Niki de Saint Phalle”, Niki Museum, Nasu, JP, pp.30-3
