Art Of The Day Weekly
#384 - from 16 April 2015 to 22 April 2015
Lot 43, four paper souvenirs, 1st half of 20th century. Estimate: €100-200.
The life of things
PARIS –Our popular objects of the past are at times as mysterious and strange to us as those of foreign civilizations. We see this once again in this sale. Among the most important lots it presents an articulated model that is the counterpart of the subject of the current exhibition at the musée Bourdelle. It measures 1.70 m, dates back to the beginning of the XIXth century and according to a legend transmitted by the generations of owners, and therefore impossible to check, it belonged to Delacroix (lot 24, estimated at €1500). The main lot (136, estimated €7000) is a pair of pewter vases of holy oils which in the XVIIth century belonged to the bishop Roquette d’Autun. Impressive tobacco graters in engraved boxwood, which are totally out of use, should go for more than €1000 each. For much less one can walk away with a child’s tricycle from the beginning of the XXth century, pine baskets, nut-crackers, mortars, seals for blessed bread, mud clogs, red cotton thread alphabet books and even a key in the shape of a gun …
• Collection Maigne, art populaire et curiosités on 17 April 2015 at the hôtel Drouot (Ferri SVV).