Found in an abandoned Parisian apartment painting sold for 2.1 million euros

[Евгений]

6 October 2010 Mr.
Portrait of Italian painter Giovanni Baldini, discovered in a Paris apartment, the owners left more than seventy years ago, was sold at auction for 2,1 million euro, writes The Daily Telegraph.
The last owner of the apartment, a kind of Madame Florian, left Paris before the Second World War. She died a few months ago in a town in the south of France at age 91 years, but until the last day Florian accurately has contributed rent, hoping that someday she would return to the capital. However, this did not happen. Her apartment, located near Trinity Church, in the same area where the Place de la Concorde, Gare Saint-Lazare, Galeries Lafayette, stood untouched until June 2010, while it did not come appraisers to prepare the property of Madame Florian to trading.

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apartment, furnished with old-fashioned furniture, with high stucco ceilings and wood burning fireplace in the kitchen, reminiscent of "Sleeping Beauty Castle", in which time has stopped, said Olivier Shoppen-Janvry, known in the Paris art experts. But special attention evaluator drew a portrait hanging in the living room, depicting a beautiful woman in an evening dress of pink muslin.
As it turned out it was a portrait of Martha's grandmother Madame Florian, made by Giovanni Baldini, one of the most fashionable Parisian painters of the late XIX century. As established experts, the woman in the portrait artist and was most likely a lady, "the demi-monde," as evidenced by her daring outfit and a bunch of love letters, which Madame Florian kept in an old chest of drawers. Among the addresser "stranger in a pink" was French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and the artist himself Baldini.
"She was sorting letters from his fans, tying them with colorful ribbons," - said one of the appraisers.
The portrait was sold at auction to a private collector, who, according to Shoppena-Janvry, fell in love with him at first sight.
1. BOLDINI Giovanni (one thousand eight hundred and forty-two - one thousand nine hundred thirty-one)

Portait de Madame de Florian
Adjugé 2,108,000 EUR frais inclus
circa 1900-1910
Huile sur toile, signé
147 x 114 cm
http://www.choppindejanvry.com/page/...-encheres.html

[Pavel]

Where was sold to the picture?

[Вивьен]

Сообщение от Pavel

Where was sold to the picture?

CHOPPIN DE JANVRY & ASSOCIES

Société de Ventes Volontaires agrément n ° 2003-454

10 Rue de la Grange Batelière 75009 Paris


Tél.
01 53 34 14 29 - Fax 01 53 34 00 46


mail: svvo.choppindejanvry @ wanadoo.fr

[SAH]

Сообщение от Pavel

Where was sold to the picture?

 
La Société de Ventes Volontaires Choppin de Janvry et Associés sold the painting probably here Drouot-Richelieu

[Вивьен]

Сообщение от SAH

sold the painting probably here Drouot-Richelieu

You're right http://www.choppindejanvry.com/page/...es-ventes.html

[NATA NOVA]

Ah, what a woman!
some apartments!
What kind of life ...
(Information for thought) ...

Interestingly, and relatives chtoli did not exist ...?

[Тютчев]

Boldin Giovanni
(Boldini, Giovanni)

(1842-1931), Italian painter, a portraitist and genre painter. Born in Ferrara, 31 December 1842 in the artist's family. For six years he studied at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts, then in 1869 he worked in London, where he gained fame as a portraitist. In 1872 he settled in Paris and began to exhibit his work at the Salon. In the genre and landscape painting, and later in the portrait Baldini used the experience of masters of plein air painting and the Impressionists. His works are distinguished by the virtuosity of painting technique and a remarkable harmony of color. Portraits of Adolph Menzel (1895, Berlin - Dahlem) and James Whistler (1897, New York, Brooklyn Museum) characterize it as a profound and insightful portrait. Between 1890 and 1910, Baldini has created a series of brilliant portraits of famous public figures and people in the arts and theater. In this area, it was a serious contender John Singer Sargent. Baldini twice won the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in Paris - in 1889 and 1900. In 1932, after the death of the master, took his solo exhibition in the Venice Biennial in 1933 was organized a memorial exhibition dedicated to him in New York. In 1935, the exhibition of Italian art in Paris, was presented eight paintings by Baldini, including six portraits, among which were portraits of the composer Giuseppe Verdi and poet, Count Robert de Montesquieu. Baldini paintings were exhibited along with works of Sargent in a special exhibition at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco in 1959.
Baldini died in Paris on January 12, 1931.

Encyclopedia Collier

Giovanni and his lady:

[Сима]

Сообщение от "NATA NOVA

Ah, what a woman!
some apartments!
What kind of life ...

Only the taste is not present.
Although instructive.
Our something more focused on Zorn.
And rightly so, apparently.

[fabosch]

Well, we just Zorn closer geographically and as a consequence, temperament. And this ...
All did agree that it is in its way beyond perfection (with all my dislike to the salon art). We have close and not anything like that.
Bakst still much art, Makovsky just "crumbs" in front of him, Feshin monotonous, well, whoever ...

[NATA NOVA]

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Only the taste is not present. Although instructive. Our something more focused on Zorn. And rightly so, apparently.

Cima, yes, I am purely practical and democratic ("lavochnoy") in terms of gasp-the same 70 (semdesyat!) years for an unfurnished apartment to pay ..

(The poor, you know, their point of reference ..).. Interesting. where is the money were taken .. (purely academic ...)

And most importantly, like did not even grabonul no ... Do not set fire to the den and did not accept .... Miracles! (Probably a decent house) ..
That I had in mind ..
And the notion of "taste" I'm in a somewhat different vein, see ...
It's there as an eccentric taste to call (70 years-life think) fee for things that are not using it ... and are only asking for money ..

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Сообщение от fabosch

We have a close and not anything like that.

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